New research findings on 11th-early 13th-century polychrome wood sculpture at the Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage, Brussels by Emmanuelle Mercier

“…11th- to early 13th-century medieval polychrome sculptures can be considered as ancestral testimony of knowledge, practices, and the exchange of carving and painting techniques in the Middle Ages. This paper aims to provide an analysis of 50 years of research in Belgium, including recent case studies. …”
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Diagnostic Musculoskeletal Ultrasound for Medial Collateral Ligament Injuries: Applications in Rehabilitation by Robert C. Manske, Michael Voight, Chris Wolfe, Phil Page

“…We discuss the technical aspects of ultrasound (US) imaging, including the sonographic appearance of MCL injuries across various grades, and compare its diagnostic accuracy with other imaging modalities such as MRI. …”
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Diversité des capitalismes et dispositifs institutionnels environnementaux by Luc Elie

“…In this framework, some degree of correlation appears between our EID based typology of countries and Amable’s typology of capitalism. …”
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Technical Staff Training at the Ural Private Mining Plants in the First Part of the XIX Century by L. A. Dashkevitch

“…The paper discusses the level and quality of employees’ technical training at the private factories in the Ural region in the pre-reform period of the XIX century, which appears to be one of the least explored aspects in the history of education. …”
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Sharpshooters, Leafhoppers, Cicadellidae (Insecta: Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae) by Chris Tipping, Russell F. Mizell, III

“…This damage was caused by the piercing-sucking mouthparts of H. coagulata that appeared to be caused by a 'minute bullet.' They also reported 'rapid and forcible ejection of minute drops of fluid' as another explanation for the use of this term. …”
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IS L. WITTGENSTEIN A PHILOSOPHER OF ANALYTIC OR HERMENEUTIC? by Tomas Kačerauskas

“…The variety of language games dosn't supose epistemic monism. So appears philosophy of speech instead of philosophy of language. …”
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Current and future therapeutic options for chronic hepatitis D virus infection by Mariantonietta Pisaturo, Antonio Russo, Pierantonio Grimaldi, Salvatore Martini, Nicola Coppola

“…PegIFNα, for which there are more data, appears to be an excellent combination regimen, if not contraindicated, both for Bulevirtide (BLV), data supported by important clinical trials and real-world studies, and probably for lonarfanib, although in the latter case the results are not yet definitive as the studies are fewer. …”
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“In the days of my life.” Elite activity and interactions in the Maya lowlands from Classic to Early Postclassic times (the long ninth century, AD 760-920) by Marie Charlotte Arnauld, Chloé Andrieu, Mélanie Forné

“…As work continues on the archaeological and paleoenvironmental evidence relating to the end of the Classic period in the Maya Lowlands (traditionally dated AD 950), it appears that this “end” lasted too long—from 760 to 950-1050—to qualify as a brutal collapse. …”
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Interest of the Algerian diaspora for entrepreneurship in homeland: proposal of a model for its concretisation by A. Haddad, R. Lassoued

“…To do this, a logistic econometric modelling has been implemented to explain the entrepreneurial event (business creation), and the explanatory variables are the following factors: psychological (experience, training), contextual (discrimination, opportunities, and patriotism) sociological (help of relatives and other contacts) and economic (personal resources and those of the state). It appears that the probability of the project in Algeria is stronger as its leader from the Algerian diaspora has a great entrepreneurial potential and financial means, is an opportunist and patriot, benefits from the help of the state and knows how to activate, in case of difficulties, their personal contacts.…”
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From Independence to Involvement: The Case Study of Politeness Strategy in Chinese-English Business Interpreting by Jiaqi Xue

“…More specifically, the interpreter appears to convert the independence politeness strategy employed by the Chinese speaker into the involvement politeness strategy in the English rendering. …”
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Bifurcation Analysis of a Discrete-Time Two-Species Model by A. Q. Khan

“…It is also proved that model undergoes a Neimark–Sacker bifurcation in a small neighborhood of the unique positive equilibrium Brer/er−1,r and meanwhile stable invariant closed curve appears. …”
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Saisir les liens entre trame bleue, paysages de l’eau et projets urbains by Anne Rivière-Honegger, Sylvie Servain, Gilles Armani, Dominique Andrieu, Hervé Parmentier

“…To this end, a method was developed which combined a multidisciplinary field study, the consultation of planning documents, geomatics, and interviews. It appears that urban projects linked to watercourses contribute substantially to the improvement of the living environment in former industrial areas as well as to the development of leisure activities linked to water and amenities which are a part of the river landscape. …”
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Conflict Management and Job Performance in The Banking Industry: A Malaysian Experience by Faridah Maarof, Mohamed Yunus

“…It was found out that obliging and compromising has a significant relationship with job performance while no relationship exists between integrating and job performance. It appears that the reserved and soft-spoken Malaysian would opt to sacrificing their goals (obliging) and can easily agree with the outcomes of the conflict management (compromise). …”
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The laboratory diagnosis of Chlamydia trachomatis infections by Max A Chernesky

“…Serology has not been particularly useful for the diagnosis of acute C trachomatis infections in adults. Presently, it appears that antibiotic-resistant C trachomatis is not a clinical problem. …”
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Nonhematopoietic Variants of Erythropoietin in Ischemic Stroke: Need for Step-Wise Proof-of-Concept Studies by Dirk M. Hermann

“…As such, alternate routes of delivery are required. In their paper that now appears in TheScientificWorldJOURNAL, Rodríguez Cruz and colleagues provide evidence that Neuro-EPO promotes neurological recovery in the ischemic gerbil brain in a way that is similarly potent, if not superior, to systemically administered EPO. …”
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Les emplois du marqueur discursif « di va » en ancien français by Evelyne Oppermann-Marsaux

“…This paper deals with the different uses of the discourse marker “di va” in Old French. …”
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Characterization of Flow Interactions in a One-Stage Shrouded Axial Turbine by Adel Ghenaiet

“…The aim of this paper is to characterize the steady and unsteady flow interactions through a one-stage high-pressure (hp) shrouded axial turbine with a tip cavity. …”
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La possibilité d’une île : la mythologie du Bronx, archipel enchanté, dans trois textes autobiographiques de Jerome Charyn by Sophie Vallas

“…The Bronx appears as an isolated, self-reliant archipelago reconstructed by distance, memory and mythopsychosis.…”
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An Unusual Case of Pinna Squamous Cell Carcinoma Arising Shortly after Resection of Atypical Fibroxanthoma by Eugene Omakobia, Ahmad Orabi, Richard Knights

“…Ten weeks later, an ulcerative lesion appeared at the resection site. This was confirmed to be SCC. …”
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Does Hsp60 Provide a Link between Mitochondrial Stress and Inflammation in Diabetes Mellitus? by Joshua Juwono, Ryan D. Martinus

“…We will examine the links between Hsp60 and cellular anti- and proinflammatory processes and specifically address how Hsp60 appears to affect immune inflammation by at least two different mechanisms: as a ligand for innate immune receptors and as an antigen recognised by adaptive immune receptors. …”
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