Ecological analysis of the fish trematode fauna of the Lower Kura by Y.V. Shakaraliyeva

“…This is due to the fact that not far from the point of collecting the material, Lake Sarysu is located, where a large number of fish-eating birds live. …”
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Diphallia with Associated Anomalies: A Case Report and Literature Review by Pande Made Wisnu Tirtayasa, Robertus Bebet Prasetyo, Arry Rodjani

“…It occurs once in every 5.5 million live births. The extent of penile duplication and the number of associated anomalies vary greatly, ranging from a double glans from a penis with no associated anomaly up to complete penile duplication associated with multiple anomalies. …”
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Scimitar syndrome: A case report by Xiang Zhao, Junyang Huang, Junke Yang, Bingkui Cen

“…Most children with childhood/adult forms are asymptomatic or have mild symptoms and can live normally without medical intervention. Here we report a case of a 3 year, 8-month-old girl who was diagnosed with Scimitar syndrome in our hospital. …”
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FREEDOM OF CREATIVITY AND CREATIVE IMAGINATION. MAN AND HIS TIME by A. E. Razumov

“…It should be noted, however, that what we know about ourselves and how we see ourselves are far from being the same thing. We live to a large extent in imaginary worlds, and they appear to us more actual than their real-life prototypes. …”
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Meckel Gruber Syndrome- A Case Report And Review of Literature by Sümeyra Nergiz, Selda Demircan Sezer, Sündüz Özlem Altınkaya, Mert Küçük, Hasan Yüksel

“…The worldwide incidence of MGS varies from 1 in 13 250 to 1 in 140.000 live births. MGS is characterized by three main symptoms: central nervous system (CNS) malformations, tetramelic postaxial polydactyly and cystic renal dysplasia with associated fibrocystic changes of the liver, pancreas and epididymis. …”
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Postmodernity, globalisation, communication and identity by Bert Olivier

“… This article sets out to explore what it is to live in the postmodern age as an 'individual', that is, as someone with a distinct sense of self. …”
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Karakats: the Bricolage of Hybrid Vehicles that Skate and Swim by Patrick Laviolette, Alla Sirotina

“…Technological assemblages from the past therefore continue to live in the present. …”
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Jejunal Ulcer Caused by Schistosoma japonicum by Daniela Jaqueline Rivadeneira, Hesheng Luo

“…Here, we report a case of jejunal ulcer caused by the infection of Schistosoma japonicum. …”
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Les Wayana de Guyane française sur les traces de leur histoire by Marie Fleury, Tasikale Alupki, Aimawale Opoya, Waiso Aloïké

“…It traces the gradual migration of Wayana from Tumuc-Humacs to low-Litani, where they still live today. …”
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Les bonobos se rappellent-ils la voix de leurs anciens partenaires ? by Florence Levréro, Sumir Keenan, Nicolas Mathevon, Jeroen MG Stevens, Jean Pascal Guéry, Klaus Zuberbühler

“…These results have been published in 2016 in the journal Scientific Reports, 6:22046 | https://doi.org/10.1038/srep22046, and with the agreement of the co-authors, we propose here a French version on this study for the Revue de Primatologie. …”
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On the involvement of the second heart field in congenital heart defects by Guijarro, Clara, Kelly, Robert G.

“…Congenital heart defects (CHD) affect 1 in 100 live births and result from defects in cardiac development. …”
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Attraction points: A new sampling design method to quantify common finches’ population by Lorenzo Marazuela Pinela, Ángel Julián Martín Fernández, Pablo-Luis López-Espí

“…Consequently, its applicability is limited to other bird taxa with similar behavioural traits.The “Attraction Points Method” (APM), which uses the songs of live congeners, as described here, has been employed and evaluated in several projects for tracking finch populations in Spain, particularly in the Community of Madrid, where a continuous study of their populations has been conducted since 2018. …”
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A no‐reference blurred colourful image quality assessment method based on dual maximum local information by Jian Chen, Shiyun Li, Li Lin

“…Second, an improved maximum gradient method that leverages information from different channel images is presented to calculate the maximum gradient variation within the ROI for final sharpness score. …”
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New Host Record for Camponotophilus delvarei (Hymenoptera: Eurytomidae), a Parasitoid of Microdontine Larvae (Diptera: Syrphidae), Associated with the Ant Camponotus sp. aff. texto... by Gabriela Pérez-Lachaud, Michael W. Gates, Jean-Paul Lachaud

“…Five adult C. delvarei females were reared from a puparium and 29 female and 2 male pupae were obtained from another one. …”
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The long multiphase trunk–tributary surge history of the high-Arctic Chapman Glacier, 1959–2023 by Wesley Van Wychen, Hester Jiskoot, Kristie Shannon, Carolyn Gorwill

“…Recent high spatiotemporal resolution satellite products enable such studies, allowing for better process-based understanding of surging in this region. Here, we present a multidecadal record (1999–2023) of flow velocities, strain rates, and elevation changes for Chapman Glacier, a 40-km-long land-terminating glacier on Umingmak Nuna (Ellesmere Island), using ITS_LIVE (Inter-mission Time Series of Land Ice Velocity and Elevation), Sentinel-1, and elevation time series data products. …”
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Une nouvelle procédure d’expérimentation comportementale à l’interface entre les approches « Naturalistes » et « Généralistes » de la cognition du primate by Joël Fagot

“…The general idea of this protocol is to present a laboratory nearby an enclosure where monkeys live in a semi-natural context. The test systems installed within the laboratory are opened and freely accessible from the enclosure. …”
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Shifting Musical Imaginaries at the Polynesian Cultural Center by Cynthia L. Van Gilder, Dana R. Herrera

“…These presentations can be read as performative texts and are here subjected to semiotic and discursive analysis. …”
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Intersexual relationships in mandrills: dominance, sexual conflict and the influence of social integration by Nikolaos Smit

“…Yet, smaller female size might allow females to escape from males and female philopatry might promote female-female social support allowing females to resist or retaliate against males. …”
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Nucleotide-Binding Oligomerization Domain-1 and -2 Play No Role in Controlling Brucella abortus Infection in Mice by Fernanda S. Oliveira, Natalia B. Carvalho, Dario S. Zamboni, Sergio C. Oliveira

“…Further, several in vivo studies have demonstrated a role for Nod1 and Nod2 in host defense against bacterial pathogens. Here, we demonstrated that macrophages from NOD1-, NOD2-, and Rip2-deficient mice produced lower levels of TNF-α following infection with live Brucella abortus compared to wild-type mice. …”
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Temperature tolerance of European fish species based on thermal maxima in southern Baltic Sea-basin streams by Grzegorz Radtke, Rafał Bernaś

“…We related the observed thresholds of the realized thermal niches to data from the literature on tolerance and lethal temperatures as boundaries of the fundamental niches of species. …”
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