Qualitative Phytochemical Profiling and In Vitro Antioxidant Potential Evaluation of South African Momordica Balsamina Linn Fruit Pulp by Buang Matseke, Sipho Mapfumari, Mmamosheledi Mothibe

“…These findings confirmed that <i>M. balsamina</i> is very rich in phytochemical compounds and has strong antioxidant potential; therefore, it could be a potential source of drugs which in the future may serve the production of synthetically improved therapeutic agents.…”
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Patient participation in free cataract surgery: a cross-sectional study of the low-income elderly in urban China by Bo Qu, Hui Chen, Xuhua Tan, Xiaohang Wu, Haotian Lin, Zhenzhen Liu, Lixia Luo, Bo Zhang, Erping Long, Duoru Lin, Weirong Chen, Yizhi Liu, Haofeng Jiang, Jingjing Chen, Zhuoling Lin, Xiaoyan Li, Jinzhu Tang, Yingfen Lin

“…Patients underwent surgery 61.08±60.15 months (95% CI 56.17 to 66.00) after becoming aware of the cataract, although 66.83% of them reported that their daily lives were influenced by cataracts. …”
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« Agriculture, and Commerce as its Handmaid » by Pierre Gervais

“…By carefully analyzing the use and wording of one particular kind of thematic toast, called « economic toast, » it can be shown that, within the discourse of local political actors, there were traces of the same differential view of merchant activity which structured national political discourse.…”
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Erythropoietin, Forkhead Proteins, and Oxidative Injury: Biomarkers and Biology by Kenneth Maiese, Jinling Hou, Zhao Zhong Chong, Yan Chen Shang

“…Oxidative stress significantly impacts multiple cellular pathways that can lead to the initiation and progression of varied disorders throughout the body. It therefore becomes imperative to elucidate the components and function of novel therapeutic strategies against oxidative stress to further clinical diagnosis and care. …”
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Modelling of concepts "purpose", "goal", "task", and "function" in law by Vytautas Čyras

“…Conceptual graphs called ``  `  goal-task graphs'' are proposed to model them. A goal is associated with a predicate, which characterises the goal. …”
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Investigating the research landscape of chlorinated paraffins over the past ten decades by Chinemerem Ruth Ohoro, Chijioke Olisah, Victor Wepener

“…Despite having similar toxicity to short-chain chlorinated paraffin (SCCP), long-chain chlorinated paraffin (LCCP) has received less attention. Therefore, future research should prioritize studying LCCP bioaccumulation and toxicity in diverse food webs, focusing on aquatic species vulnerable to CPs and effective toxicological models. …”
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Population Balance Solution Using Fixed Point Convergence Acceleration for Steady-State Reactor Networks by Vasquez Cristian Camilo Ruiz, Lebaz Noureddine, Ramière Isabelle, Bertrand Murielle, Mangin Denis

“…The evolution of the actinide concentration and the average crystal size follow the theory of the crystallisation mechanisms. Finally, the very satisfactory numerical performances open the way to simulate more complex and demanding reactor network structures.…”
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The Interpretation of Indexicals in Hybrid Quotation: A Pragmatic Account by Philippe De Brabanter

“…Relying on Clark & Gerrig (1990) and Clark (1996), I also show that shifts are selective and can therefore be partial. This further allows me to account for those less common hybrid quotations in which indexicals are indexed to the reporting context. …”
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A four‐stage yield optimization technique for analog integrated circuits using optimal computing budget allocation and evolutionary algorithms by Abbas Yaseri, Mohammad Hossein Maghami, Mehdi Radmehr

“…In the Monte‐Carlo (MC) method, many transistor‐level simulations should be performed to obtain the desired result. Therefore, some methods are needed to be combined with MC simulations to reach high yield with high speed at the same time. …”
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Quantifying Optical Microangiography Images Obtained from a Spectral Domain Optical Coherence Tomography System by Roberto Reif, Jia Qin, Lin An, Zhongwei Zhi, Suzan Dziennis, Ruikang Wang

“…The blood vessel morphology is known to correlate with several diseases, such as cancer, and is important for describing several tissue physiological processes, like angiogenesis. Therefore, a quantitative method for characterizing the angiography obtained from medical images would have several clinical applications. …”
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Level-8 Ph.D. Programs In Medical Sciences: High Time For The Higher Education Commission (HEC) Of Pakistan To Establish A Medical Wing by Wafa Omer

“…It is of utmost importance that the PhD degree obtained by physicians in Medical Sciences must be recognised by both HEC and PMDC for them to practice in their respective fields and to apply for jobs abroad. …”
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Analyzing the impact of entrepreneurial, market, and learning orientations on business performance in batik enterprises: a path analysis study in East Java, Indonesia by Djoko Poernomo, Hari Karyadi, Yuslinda Dwi Handini, Dwi Windradini, Khamdan Rifa’i, Nurul Widyawati Islami Rahayu, Mohammad Sawir

“…Using Resource-Based View (RBV) theory, it highlights how these orientations shape competitive advantage, which mediates their impact on performance. …”
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TRANSFORMATION REFLEXES OF PRE-CHRISTIAN WORLDVIEW IN KIEVAN RUS LITERATURE by Nataliia O. Stratonova

“…Scientific novelty. The work is theological and philosophical reflection analysis of pre-Christian ideas in literary monuments of Kievan Rus. …”
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Life on board ship and cultural intimacy. Notes from the Central Mediterranean by Jasmine Iozzelli

“…I previously outlined the theoretical and epistemological foundations for these thoughts, initially in the context of the project “Ermenautica. …”
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Is Nuclear Anarchy Sustainable? A Temporal Approach by Ye. I. Uchaev, A. A. Kvartalnov

“…Second, international anarchy should ‘eternalize’ nuclear weapons, i.e., reinterpret them as compatible with the eternity of human civilization. …”
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Research on expansion joint for high-speed railway long-span bridges in China by Hui Guo, Jinzhou Jiang, Suoting Hu, Chun Yang, Qiqi Xiang, Kou Luo, Xinxin Zhao, Bing Li, Ziquan Yan, Liubin Niu, Jianye Zhao

“…The performance of the novel BEJ design thus derived was then verified via theoretical analysis under different scenarios, full-scale model testing, and field testing and commissioning. …”
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DEFENSE COOPERATION IN EUROPE: SUBREGIONAL LEVEL by Y. I. Nadtochey

“…These groupings estimated as marginal by pan -European organizations, are extremely important for the grouped countries themselves. For European Union and the North Atlantic Alliance it is not easy to govern these subregional trends of multinational cooperation and synchronize them with European and Euro-Atlantic integration as such.…”
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Impaired Mitochondrial Bioenergetics Function in Pediatric Chronic Overlapping Pain Conditions with Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders by Gisela Chelimsky, Pippa Simpson, Liyun Zhang, Doug Bierer, Steve Komas, Balaraman Kalyanaraman, Thomas Chelimsky

“…The known low-grade inflammation in COPC could, therefore, impact the respiratory chain and theoretically account for the disabling fatigue so often voiced by patients. …”
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The Unignorable Near-ground PM2.5, UFP, PAHs, and BC Levels around a Traffic Prohibited Night Market by Sheng-Lun Lin, Hongjie Zhang, Ming-Yeng Lin, Shih-Wei Huang

“…In the high concentration season, the traffic restriction significantly reduced the NG-UFP and NG-PAH concentration by 27% and 55%, respectively, but NG-BC and NG-PM2.5 was almost unaffected. Therefore, besides the contribution of traffic source, emissions from cooking activities are very important for the increase of NG-PM2.5 levels in the night market area.…”
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Benelux countries’ security strategies: between europeanism and atlanticism by Anastasia A. Posazhennikova

“…As smaller-sized countries, they initially combined Europeanism and «moderate» Atlanticism, which left them some space for foreign policy maneuver. Since the 1990s, the Dutch foreign policy more closely follows the Atlanticist paradigm, while those of Belgium and Luxembourg are characterized more by Europeanism. …”
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