Anti-GAPDH Autoantibody Is Associated with Increased Disease Activity and Intracranial Pressure in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus by Jingjing Sun, Xue Li, Haotian Zhou, Xiaoyun Liu, Jingjing Jia, Qizhi Xie, Sijia Peng, Xiaolin Sun, Qingwen Wang, Li Yi

“…Serum anti-GAPDH autoantibody was increased in both groups of SLE patients with or without neuropsychiatric symptoms and associated with disease severity. It could become an indicator of tissue damages in the brain for the future clinical practice.…”
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The relationship between oxLDL, sLOX-1, PCSK9 and carotid intima-media thickness in patients with prediabetes and type 2 diabetes by Zeki Dogan, Abdulhalim Senyigit, Sinem Durmus, Canan Duvarcı, Remise Gelişgen, Hafize Uzun, Omur Tabak

“…Subclinical atherosclerosis begins to develop years before both cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases become symptomatic. The aim of this study was to evaluate the relationship between circulating oxidized LDL (oxLDL), soluble lectin-like oxidized LDL (sLOX)-1 and proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9 (PCSK9) levels and carotid intima-media thickness (CIMT) in patients with prediabetes and T2DM. …”
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Bibliotherapy Services in Public Libraries: the Case of Lithuania by Jurgita Girčienė, Miglė Damijonaitytė

“…As one of the ways to solve this problem, long-term institutionalized training in bibliotherapy is mentioned. …”
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Development and Validation of the Self-Stigma Scale for Secondary Vocational Students (SSS-SVS) by Leng J, Cai H, Liu F, Shi X, Fan Z

“…In the second stage, the SSS-SVS, Social Recognition of Secondary Vocational Students (SR-SVS), Intensity of Willingness to Become a Secondary Vocational Student (IWB-SVS), Stigma-Consciousness Scale (SCS), Learning Adjustment Scale (LAS), Professional Identity Scale for Secondary Vocational Students (PIS-SVS), and the Self-Compassion Scale (SCoS) were administered to 1079 vocational secondary school students.Results: The SSS-SVS consisted of 21 items which were divided into three dimensions of negative characteristics, self-deprecation, and opportunity loss, reflecting secondary vocational students’ perception of negative public evaluation, self-feeling under the influence of stigma, and cognition of negative impact on their identity. …”
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Alkali Effect on Alkali-Surfactant-Polymer (ASP) Flooding Enhanced Oil Recovery Performance: Two Large-Scale Field Tests’ Evidence by Chen Sun, Hu Guo, Yiqiang Li, Guipu Jiang, Ruicheng Ma

“…Moreover, as the ASP flooding in Daqing went from field tests to commercial applications since 2014, how to comprehensively consider the benefit and cost of ASP flooding has become a new focus at low oil prices. This paper compares two typical large-scale field tests (B-1-D SASP and B-2-X WASP) completed in Daqing Oilfield and analyzes and discusses the causes of this difference. …”
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Ekspresi dan Makna Identitas Kultural Orang Aceh di Kota Padang dalam Perspektif Interaksionisme Simbolik by Gita Chintia Faramita, Azwar Azwar, Maihasni Maihasni

“…Each ethnic group certainly has different characteristics that have become embedded in their cultural identity, including the Acehnese ethnic group. …”
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Differential Equations to Predict the Number of Students as a Basis for Accreditation Preparation Study Program Policy by Agus Miftakus Surur, Nisvu Nanda Saputra, Ummiy Fauziyah Laili, Hasnah Binti Mohamed, Atika Anggraini, Nourma Yulita

“…This will also support the scientific vision of the study program, whose target is that in 2030 it will become a superior study program in developing information technology-based SCIENCE education and producing science educators with Islamic character by 2030.…”
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INDUSTRIAL POLICY IN ASIAN NEWLY INDUSTRIALIZED COUNTRIES: CONTROVERSIES, REVIEW AND LESSONS by Dejana Gajinov

“…Over the last 10 to 15 years, there has been a revision both at the academic level and in the real world that has made industrial policy more acceptable, and thus the debate about it has become less ideologically colored and more pragmatic and nuanced. …”
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Analysis of Fatigue Crack Propagation of an Orthotropic Bridge Deck Based on the Extended Finite Element Method by Ying Wang, Zhen Wang, Yuqian Zheng

“…Meanwhile, the fatigue crack will become a mixed-mode crack with modes I, II, and III that will be dominated by mode I and extend toward the weld at a slight deflection angle. …”
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Developing a virtual reality application for online arts and psychomotor therapies using action research by Nathalie Jans, Nathalie Jans, Hans Wouters, Joep Kolijn, Suzanne Haeyen, Suzanne Haeyen, Suzanne Haeyen

“…Our participants reported becoming more proficient in using VR than at the start. …”
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Identifying corridors for Asiatic black bear (Ursus thibetanus) in a part of Eastern Himalayas, India by Malyasri Bhattacharya, Debanjan Sarkar, Sneha Pandey, Indranil Mondal, Sambandam Sathyakumar, R. Suresh Kumar, Gautam Talukdar

“…The population of Black bears are restricted to small habitat patches, which over the years have become fragmented by road networks and urban settlements. …”
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Unveiling new therapeutic horizons in rheumatoid arthritis: an In-depth exploration of circular RNAs derived from plasma exosomes by Guoqing Li, Hongyi Chen, Jiacheng Shen, Yimin Ding, Jingqiong Chen, Yongbin Zhang, Mingrui Tang, Nan Xu, Yuxuan Fang

“…The above studies suggested that hsa-circ0002715 and hsa-circ0001946 may become markers for predicting MTX-IR RA patients and TNFi precision treatment.…”
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"INCREASING THE WELFARE OF THE "WORKING POOR" IN THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA", CHALLENGES, CONSEQUENCES, SOLUTIONS by Dorin VACULOVSCHI

“…When the share of wages in the total income of the population becomes extremely small, a shift may occur in the function of reproducing the labor force from wages to other forms of income that are not directly linked to productive activity, such as non-labor-related activities. …”
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Evaluasi SIMRS pada Manajemen Sumber Daya Manusia dengan Framework COBIT 5 by I Nyoman Angga Prabawa, I Made Oka Widyantara, Made Sudarma

“…Additionally, human resources (HR) have the main role in SIMRS's successful implementation. The statements become the RSUD Klungkung targets to improve technology and SIMRS uses, also the quantity and quality of human resources. …”
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Comparison of Pocket Pulse Oximeter and Standard Pulse Oximeter With ABG Analysis in Critically Ill Patients by Jeswanth Reddy N., Kiran H. S., B. J. Subhash Chandra, Basavana Gowdappa H.

“…Few studies have evaluated the accuracy of SpO2 in patients presenting to critical care areas vis-à-vis devices like PPO and standard pulse oximeter (SPO). This study becomes extremely relevant in view of the ongoing crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic wherein SpO2 monitoring is very important in hospitals, quarantine centers, small clinics, or even at home.  …”
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O2O-PLB: A One-to-One-Based Optimizer With Priority and Load Balancing Mechanism for Resource Allocation in Fog-Cloud Environments by V. C. Bharathi, S. Syed Abuthahir, Monelli Ayyavaraiah, G. Arunkumar, Usama Abdurrahman, Sardar Asad Ali Biabani

“…In the era of the Internet of Things (IoT), Fog and Cloud computing have become critical frameworks for managing large-scale, distributed systems. …”
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Pengembangan Sistem Manajemen Pelatihan Kerja di Kota Surakarta by Affriza Brilyan Relo Pambudi Agus Putra, Shelvie Nidya Neyman, Hendra Rahmawan

“…To be able to implement planning that integrates and synchronizes data becomes a means for the Surakarta City Government to manage a job training management system. the results of this study through testing with the black box method for efficiency, accuracy, data validity, and the use of job training management systems to ensure data overlap does not occur again. …”
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Development of a metabolome-based respiratory infection prognostic during COVID-19 arrival by John I. Robinson, Laura R. Marks, Andrew L. Hinton, Jane A. O'Halloran, Charles W. Goss, Peter J. Mucha, Jeffrey P. Henderson

“…ABSTRACT In a new respiratory virus pandemic, optimizing allocation of scarce medical resources becomes an urgent challenge. Infection prognosis takes on particular importance when allocating scarce antiviral antibodies and drugs, which are most effective when administered before the onset of severe disease. …”
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Bacterial interactions underpin worsening lung function in cystic fibrosis-associated infections by Damian W. Rivett, Lauren R. Hatfield, Helen Gavillet, Michelle Hardman, Christopher van der Gast

“…Subsequently, they have become one of the key paradigms for polymicrobial infections. …”
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IŠ KO KYLA ŽMOGAUS TEISĖS? by Evaldas Nekrašas

“…In this case the most important problem becomes delimiting the boundaries of the community, whose members’ human rights are upheld or infringed, and the relation of these boundaries to the borders of the state. …”
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