Editorial by Vito Cardone

“…The company has been working on the project since 2011, in Florida, in great secrecy and with huge capital-risk financing by some of the major companies in the digital world, among others (more than two billion dollars have been raised to date). …”
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Diffuse Ectopic Deciduosis Imitating Peritoneal Carcinomatosis with Acute Abdomen Presentation: A Case Report and Literature Review by Pavel Sorokin, Andrei Nikiforchin, Aleksandr Panin, Aleksandr Zhukov, Vadim Gushchin, Mark Kurtser

“…However, rarely it can present with acute abdomen syndrome or imitate peritoneal malignancy and, thus, cause diagnostic difficulties and unnecessary interventions. …”
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The Financial Crisis and the Global Shadow Banking System by Maryse Farhi, Marcos Antonio Macedo Cintra

“…A large number of poorly regulated and badly supervised financial institutions – no capital requirements, no access to deposit insurances, rediscount operations, and last resort credit lines by central banks – became the counterparty of the credit risk transfer from the banking system and started to hold increasing risks. …”
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Class, Opportunity and the Lesser Minds Problem by Alex Dunedin

“…It draws upon political economy as a Social Science to examine how resulting culture reinforces relative advantage and disadvantage through finance as a mechanism which dispossesses the most disadvantaged from their inherent human capital as wealth appropriated by the advantaged. …”
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Flexible Crops and Rural Working Youth: From Sugar Cane in Brazil to Palm Oil in Colombia by Robinzon Piñeros Lizarazo

“…Young people are the focus of capital interests because their physical and social conditions make them prone to be exploited in the current territorial expansion of the agro-hydro-business of flexible crops in Latin America (such as sugar cane, palm oil, and soy). …”
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Eltrombopag Improves Refractory Thrombocytopenia in a Patient with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus by Natsuki Shima, Keiichi Sumida, Masahiro Kawada, Akinari Sekine, Masayuki Yamanouchi, Rikako Hiramatsu, Noriko Hayami, Eiko Hasegawa, Tatsuya Suwabe, Junichi Hoshino, Naoki Sawa, Kenmei Takaichi, Kenichi Ohashi, Takeshi Fujii, Yoshifumi Ubara

“…A 42-year-old woman with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) was admitted to our hospital for evaluation of severe thrombocytopenia. …”
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An Unusual Localization of a Pleomorphic Adenoma in the Rhinopharynx by Fabio Pagella, Francesco Chu, Alessandro Pusateri, Elina Matti

“…A 57-year-old woman was admitted at our institution presenting with nasal obstruction. …”
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THE IMPACT OF PROTESTANTISM ON THE ECONOMY OF THE COHO CHIL PEOPLE IN LAM DONG PROVINCE by Minh Nhat Mai, Thi Hien Tran

“…Protestantism creates a social network and social capital that not only influences their economic life, but also provides timely material support for Christians in need. …”
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Ensaio sobre a relação entre Estado, políticas públicas de turismo e desenvolvimento regional no Brasil by Rita de Cássia Ariza da Cruz

“…In addition, these objectives favor economic aspects and the implementation of infrastructures, evidencing the promotion of processes of capital devaluation, promoted by the State, which, in terms of regional development, are carried out in a dialectical relation with the unequal Brazilian geographical development.…”
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La stratégie de la « smart city » au Japon : expérimentations nationales et circulations globales by Raphaël Languillon-Aussel, Nicolas Leprêtre, Benoit Granier

“…If there is somehow a model, the Japanese case teaches us it might be more in the governance of this new object whom experimentations are various and heterogeneous, in particular in the context of the Japanese developmentalist regime, part of the Japanese capitalism. The exportability of the “smart” communities is therefore not the result of the globalization of models, but results from the complex strategy of private companies, such as Toshiba.…”
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An Overview of Status and Development Trend of Aquaculture and Fisheries in Nepal by Alok Dhakal, Meena Pandey, Preeti Kayastha, Gresha Suwal, Binita Suwal

“…Some of the major challenges encountered by farmers are lack of technical knowledge, lack of capital, scarcity of good quality fingerlings, quality feed, diseases, and lack of good market infrastructure. …”
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Resistências de povos e comunidades tradicionais ante o Estado e a colonialidade by Josiane Carine Wedig, João Daniel Dorneles Ramos

“…These collectives resist the overcoding processes of their territories by the State and by capital holders; and fight for access to rights and recognition of their modes of existence. …”
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Presentation of Novel Multiple Regression Model for Accounting Information Quality, Corporate Investment, and Moderating Role of Ownership Structure in Companies by Mahsa Amiran, Abdorreza Asadi, Maryam Oladi

“…At the same time, there is no effect of capital structure on accounting information quality and firms’ investment decisions. …”
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Abdominal Wall Endometrioma. Report of Two Cases by Tahiluma Santana Pedraza, Jorge Luís Estepa Pérez, Juan Carlos Estepa Torres

“…The cases of two patients treated at the General Surgery Department of the María Eugenia González Comprehensive Diagnostic Center in the Capital District, Venezuela, are presented. Wide excision of the tissue and histological examination were performed, confirming the diagnosis. …”
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Denosumab as the Treatment of Recalcitrant Tuberculous Pleural Effusion-Associated Hypercalcemia by Afdhal Afiq Abd Jalil, Sharifah Faradila Wan Muhamad Hatta, Aimi Fadilah Mohamad, Mohammed Fauzi Abdul Rani

“…We report a case of hypercalcemia from tuberculous pleural effusion that was initially admitted with left medium abundance pleural effusion and a serum corrected calcium level of 3.48 mmol/L. …”
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Scrub Typhus Induced Thrombotic Thrombocytopenia: A Rare Case Report by Maharshi Patel, Sourya Acharya, Samarth Shukla, Shubham Nimkar, Sunil Kumar

“…A 50-year-old male patient was admitted with a complaint of fever, cough, breathlessness, and irrelevant talk for five days. …”
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Régulation et marchandisation de l’État par la fiscalité et la finance by Nicolas Pinsard

“…The transformation of offices into patrimonial assets induces wealth accumulation for their owners and growth for royal revenues, during this period of transition between feudality and capitalism.…”
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University of 21st century: contours in the context of modernity crisis by M. V. Tlostanova

“…It either bends more and more in the direction ofthe “Davos culture” and ultimate corporativization, or exists within the frame of the multi-polar world and polycentric capitalism ideology. Finally, the third option is a radical delinking from the previous principles of the university as one of the two main modernity institutes for the production and dissemination of a particular normative knowledge. …”
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Systematic risk variations (beta) convertible debenture brazilian companies by Renata Drumond Pinto Coelho Antonino, Wagner Moura Lamounier, Roberto Kaehler de Albuquerque Maranhão

“…Some applied researches in the U.S. capital market (STEIN, 1992; LEWIS et al, 2002; RAI, 2005) indicate that convertible debentures may be used as an alternative financing source when adverse selection problem makes stock issuing unattractive financing source. …”
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Usages participatifs des technologies et désir d’émancipation : une articulation fragile et paradoxale by Serge Proulx

“…These emerging collaborative practices are aimed at the construction of “informational commons,” which are produced by epistemic communities offering resistance to the process of transforming information into a commodity, a central tenet of informational capitalism.…”
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