Upstream Flows of Water: from the Lesotho Highlands to Metropolitan South Africa by Yannick Rousselot

“…Coalitions of actors have emerged from these new relations that the transfer has produced, and as such, this project should be analysed as a hydraulic assemblage in which three distinct scales of territorialities are clashing or cooperating with each other: the regional scale, made up of South Africa’s political and economic elites, who seek to direct Southern Africa’s water resources towards the thirsty region in and around Johannesburg; the scale of the Lesotho government, which has a nationalist policy of monopolising any social and spatial stakes for the benefit of the national territory; and the scale of the Maloti communities, which claim their rights as a transnational Basotho nation and autonomy in the face of interventionism from the Lesotho state.…”
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Tejido social de mujeres para la salud de la Comuna 1 Popular de Medellín by Sara María Cano-Bedoya, Eliana Martínez-Herrera, Isabel Cristina Posada-Zapata

“…To understand this, a qualitative research was carried out in contexts of inequality based on the experience of eight professional women, thirty-eight and sixty-two years old, mothers and heads of household, with historical and leadership responsibilities in their neighborhoods and microterritories of the Popular Commune 1. …”
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Psychological Distress Among High School Students in Bangkok Thailand by Chatchai Thanachoksawang, Sara Arphorn, Suchinda Jarupat Maruo, Suwatsa Punneng, Tomohiro Ishimaru, Goontalee Bangkadanara

“…A sample of 8,345 students from thirty-five Bangkok schools voluntarily participated, responding to a questionnaire and undergoing stress assessments. …”
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Music therapy and psychological-clinical impact in surgery: a systematic review by Pasquale Caponnetto, Gaia LaMattina, Maria C Quattropani

“… # Methods The main procedure was to search for studies on various scientific platforms such as PubMed, Medline, PsycINFO and CINAHL.Many studies pertaining to the topic in question were examined and from the variety of articles available, thirty-four were selected that fully reflected the focus of this review…”
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Pharma TARP: A Troubled Asset Relief Program for Novel, Abandoned Projects in the Pharmaceutical Industry by Tamas Bartfai, Graham Vaughan Lees

“…Pfizer alone will close well over a hundred drug development projects that have reached two-thirds of the way to launch. The programs are deemed to be too risky and not lucrative enough for Big Pharma in the current climate. …”
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Replicating the comparison between item-based tests and language samples in Portuguese kindergarteners’ language assessment by Alves Paula C., Vale Ana Paula

“…The current study aimed to examine the relationships between item-based tests and a narrative retelling by analyzing concurrent associations, regression coefficients, language progress, and sex differences. Thirty-one kindergarteners with typical language development were assessed at the beginning (Mage = 64.77 months) and the end of the school year. …”
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Historiology; From Reconstruction to Deconstruction: A Critique on the Book Deconstruction of History by Sayyed Abolfazl Razavi

“…The “history-researcher” lives in the contemporary discourse space and thinks in accordance with the structural and discourse requirements of his time and communicates with history. …”
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Gatekhili Mountains, gatekhili State: Fractured Alpine Forest Governance and Post-Soviet Development in the Republic of Georgia by Jesse Quinn

“…Analyzing a series of thirty-five semi-structured interviews conducted during the summers of 2012 and 2013, I investigate the ways in which state power operates through governance of Georgia’s alpine forests. …”
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The Typology and Corruption Susceptibility in Forestry Sector in Indonesia by Eko Novi Setiawan, Ahmad Maryudi, Gabriel Lele

“…This research aimed to identify the typologies and the potential of occurence of corruption in the forest sector in Indonesia. From 2001 to 2015, thirty nine corruptors have been brought to the courts and eventually sentenced. …”
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Common Barriers to Reporting Medical Errors by Salim Aljabari, Zuhal Kadhim

“…Medical errors are the third leading cause of death in the United States. …”
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Phonetic imitation by young L2 learners: English VOTs for speakers of Polish by Wieczorek Błażej, Rojczyk Arkadiusz

“…The current study was intended to determine the degree to which young native Polish learners of English imitate native English models’ speech, with gender as a potential influencing factor. Thirty-four participants shadowed words with both voiceless /p, t, k/ and voiced /b, d, g/ consonants as onsets, which differ in terms of voice onset time (VOT) in the two languages. …”
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30 years of Journal of Synchrotron Radiation and synchrotron science by S. Samar Hasnain

“…Journal of Synchrotron Radiation (JSR) came into being with the publication of its inaugural issue in October 1994 that contained 15 full articles comprising 100 pages. Thirty years of JSR has coincided with several Nobel Prizes that have arisen from the work undertaken on synchrotron radiation sources, with the first of these awarded to Sir John Walker in 1997, just three years after the launch of JSR, and celebrated on the front cover of the journal's July 1999 issue. …”
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Le féminisme pris aux pièges by Gail Pheterson

“…Those who championed the cause of sexually transgressive women were identified as sex radicals. Over the past thirty years, anti-violence feminists have succeeded in mainstreaming their objectives in national legislative reforms, NGOs, UN conventions and popular media. …”
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Keeping Up Appearances: The Importance of Reputation in State – Group Relations by Kürşad TURAN

“…Over the past thirty years we observed a shift in conflict patterns where asymmetric conflicts increasingly became the norm. …”
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A la recherche du développement socialement durable: concepts fondamentaux et principes de base by Jérôme Ballet, Jean-Luc Dubois, François-Régis Mahieu

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Digital Texts in Practice by Christian Wittern

“…As a student of intellectual, religious, and cultural developments in areas of the Chinese cultural sphere, my initial motivation for engaging with digital texts thirty years ago was to open up the new possibilities that the digital medium offered to researchers, without losing any of the affordances of a traditional printed edition. …”
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Rituximab in Refractory Myasthenia Gravis – Challenges and Lessons Learnt by Karthika A Valaparambil, Soumya Sundaram, Sruthi S Nair

“…In summary, nearly two-thirds (7/11, 63.6%) of autoimmune refractory MG in this cohort showed a good response to rituximab.…”
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In search of Alzheimer’s disease treatment methods: trends of clinical trials by G. Pakulaitė, V. Regelskytė, E. Audronytė, J. Kuzmickienė, G. Kaubrys

“…Their mechanisms of action are targeted mainly to amyloid and tau related pathology. Almost one third (27%) of the agents comprise the group of symptomatic treatment. …”
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Development of cultivars that expand the area of almond cultivation: commemorating the 120th birthday of Prof. Alexander An. Richter by A. A. Richter

“…Richter was second in the world to develop a program of almond cultivation and breeding, thus making a significant contribution to the development of horticulture in the south of Russia. Over thirty new cultivars released in the course of many years made it possible to expand adaptation of cultivated almond to various regions of Southern Russia. …”
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Market Mechanisms as a Social Deadlock for Russian Education by A. M. Osipov

“…InRussia, the preference of the educational policy for market paths has been being formed for nearly thirty years. The mechanisms, consequences and prospects of so called marketization have not been yet studied. …”
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