The army of Alexander the Great and combat stress syndrome (326 BC) by Francois P. Retief, Louise Cilliers

“… In the summer of 326 BC, Alexander the Great’s triumphal seven-year campaign in Asia was unexpectedly halted in the upper reaches of the Indus river — not by enemy action, but by the troops’ refusal to march further eastwards. …”
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The influence of cultural factors on the collapse of the Greenland Norse civilization by Ryszard F. Sadowski

“…The understanding of the collapse of ancient civilizations is important for the understanding of very complex process happening in our civilization. The Earth is put in danger due to many reasons and some of them do not change throughout history. …”
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Partial Ureteropelvic Junction Disruption after Blunt Trauma: Case Report by Jalal Eddine El Ammari, Youness Ahallal, Mohammed Jamal El Fassi, M. Hassan Farih

“…Partial ureteropelvic junction disruption as a result of blunt trauma is rare and frequently missed by the initial trauma evaluation. Delays in diagnosis have also been associated with significant morbidity. …”
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The Anti-Hitler Coalition: From Enmity to Military Alliance — A Formula for Success by A. Yu. Borisov

“…They try to revive certain political myths, which have been debunked long ago, that the Soviet Union and the Nazi Germany bear equal responsibility for the outbreak of World War II, that the Red Army did not liberate Eastern Europe but ‘occupied’ it. …”
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Development of molecular resources for the genetic improvement of noug (Guizotia abyssinica (L.f) Cass): a mini review by Motbaynor Terefe, Dejene Girma

“…The development and application of molecular resources and tools have played a great role in the improvement of oilseed crops worldwide. …”
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The potential of the amaranth collection maintained at VIR in the context of global plant breeding and utilization trends by D. V. Sokolova, A. E. Solovieva, A. M. Zaretsky, T. V. Shelenga

“…Long-standing studies have resulted in the formation of trait-specific groups of accessions, with high yields of seeds and leaf biomass, earliness, cold hardiness, high protein content in seeds and biomass, short stems, and resistance to seed shattering, earmarked for vegetable or ornamental purposes. …”
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Le faune et la sirène : la situation de Cuvier dans l’économie de The Marble Faun, de Nathaniel Hawthorne by Antoine Traisnel

“…On that “point” – that of Donatello’s ears—the author remains obstinately tight-lipped, having “hoped to mystify this anomalous creature between the Real and the Fantastic […] without impelling him to ask how Cuvier would have classified poor Donatello.” …”
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Deep Transfer Learning for Biology Cross-Domain Image Classification by Chunfeng Guo, Bin Wei, Kun Yu

“…Recently, due to the record-shattering performance, deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) have been used more often in biology image classification. …”
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Briquetting of Dry Sugarcane Leaves by Using Press Mud, Cow Dung, and Buffalo Dung as Binders by Rahul A. Patil, Umesh B. Deshannavar, M. Ramasamy, Sampath Emani, Alibek Issakhov, Nima Khalilpoor

“…The dry sugarcane leaf briquettes with the cow dung binder have the highest gross calorific value, net calorific value, split tensile strength, tumbling resistance, shatter resistance, and energy density ratio (16262.31 kJ/kg, 15362.1 kJ/kg, 7.164 kN/m2, 87.84%, 12.75%, and 0.9296, respectively). …”
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Impact of secondary ice production on thunderstorm electrification under different aerosol conditions by S. Huang, J. Yang, J. Yang, J. Li, Q. Chen, Q. Zhang, F. Guo

“…However, aerosol and SIP processes have opposite impacts on the charging reversal, which implies they play different roles in controlling the charge structure. …”
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