The iconography of persuasion by Shepherd Mpofu, Trust Matsilele, Tawanda Nyawasha

“… South Africa’s 2019 elections, like others before, will be remembered for the historical significance around the ANC ruling party’s sharp decline in polls, the surging and re-emergence of the ideologically extreme parties, the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) and the Freedom Front Plus (VF+). …”
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Performance Analysis of Switched Control Systems Under Common-source Digital Upsets Modeled by MDHMM by Rui Wang, Yanxiao Li, Hui Sun, Youmin Zhang, Yigang Sun

“…In this paper, a multidimensional hidden Markov model (MDHMM) is used to characterize the correlated upsets and reveals the relationship between complex environments and stochastic random digital upsets injected into the control systems. …”
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Mobiliser des partenaires pour lutter contre le VIH/sida : les risques de la démobilisation institutionnelle en cas d’épidémie faible et concentrée. Le cas du programme Amali au Ma... by David Goeury

“…Despite the positive effects among beneficiaries, operators specialized in development (NGO and social development agency) are struggling to become involved on a long-term basis with particularly vulnerable and, above all, highly stigmatized people (male and female survival sex workers; men who have sex with men). …”
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Multiple machine learning-based integrations of multi-omics data to identify molecular subtypes and construct a prognostic model for HNSCC by Xiaoqin Luo, Chao Li, Gang Qin

“…., Cisplatin, 5-Fluorouracil), while low-risk patients responded better to immunotherapy and targeted therapies. Conclusion Our study delineates two molecular subtypes of HNSCC and establishes a robust prognostic model using multi-omics data and machine learning. …”
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Potential Usefulness of Streptococcus pneumoniae Extracellular Membrane Vesicles as Antibacterial Vaccines by Chi-Won Choi, Edmond Changkyun Park, Sung Ho Yun, Sang-Yeop Lee, Seung Il Kim, Gun-Hwa Kim

“…Bacterial EMVs have recently become the focus of attention because of their potential as highly effective vaccines that cause few side effects. …”
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Research Progress on Chemical Constituents, Pharmacological Actions and Application of Codonopsis Radix as Both Medicine and Food by ZHANG Huan, LI Chao, JI Chenfeng

“…Codonopsis Radix, the dried roots of the genus Codonopsis of Platycodonaceae, has a very long history of culinary and medicinal use in China and is considered to strengthen the middle warmer and benefit vital energy as well as to benefit the stomach and help produce saliva in Chinese medicine. …”
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The Perceived Usefulness of Patient Narrative Feedback in Primary Care Settings by Sasmira Matta, Yuna Lee, Rachel Grob, Mark Schlesinger, Ingrid Nembhard

“…However, assessments of narratives reported by clinical personnel have been mixed. This is the first study, to our knowledge, to systematically measure how useful personnel in primary care perceive patient narratives to be. …”
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Monkeypox and other orthopoxvirus zoonoses by K. N. Gruzdev

“…Cowpox outbreaks in Europe and camelpox outbreaks in Southwestern and Central Asia have also become more active. In 2011, in India, the camelpox virus overcame the interspecies barrier and caused a clinical pox-like disease in humans. …”
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Nursery subsidy as an instrument of legislative and expenditure independence of a commune self-government by Anna Ostrowska

“…The Act on a care of children up to 3 years of age which has been passed in 2011 introduced revolutionary changes not only regarding foundations and ownership structure of nursery care institutions, but also in a sphere of legislative and subsidy activity of municipal self-governments. …”
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Exploring the role of splicing in TP53 variant pathogenicity through predictions and minigene assays by Cristina Fortuno, Inés Llinares-Burguet, Daffodil M. Canson, Miguel de la Hoya, Elena Bueno-Martínez, Lara Sanoguera-Miralles, Sonsoles Caldes, Paul A. James, Eladio A. Velasco-Sampedro, Amanda B. Spurdle

“…Abstract Background TP53 variant classification benefits from the availability of large-scale functional data for missense variants generated using cDNA-based assays. …”
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Revenge pornography on the internet by Evelyne Wanjiku

“…This article uses discourse analysis to explore the motivations behind non-consensual pornography, reasons and motivations for its prevalence, which include revenge and punishment, entertainment/fun, the sexual objectification of women, “slut shaming”, and denigration of the victim’s character. …”
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The Cardio- and Neuroprotective Effects of Corvitin and 2-Oxoglutarate in Rats with Pituitrin-Isoproterenol-Induced Myocardial Damage by V. Tkachenko, Y. Kovalchuk, N. Bondarenko, О. Bondarenko, G. Ushakova, A. Shevtsova

“…Despite significant advances in the prevention and treatment of ACS, the incidence of the disease and its complications are very serious. The imbalance between pro- and antioxidant systems, the formation of active carbonyl compounds, and the end products of glycation in the blood and tissues are the key moments in the development of heart and neurological disorders leading to a change of behavioral responses. …”
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Sosyal Bilim Araştırmaları Etik Onay Süreci Hakkında Bir Örnek Olay Araştırması by Rıfat Miser

“…Yazarın yaklaşık iki yıl boyunca Türkiye’nin en eski üniversitelerinden birinde etik kurul üyesi olarak başvurular üzerinde yaptığı etik inceleme sonuçlarının veri kaynağı olarak kullanıldığı bu örnek olay araştırması, söz konusu belirsizliğe kendi çapında ışık tutmaktadır. Araştırmanın bulguları; başvuru formlarının yalınlaştırılması ve alana özgülenmesi gerektiğini, etik kurul üyeliğinin öğretim üyeleri için ciddi bir iş yükü artışına neden olduğunu; başvuruların yaklaşık 2/3’ünden etik bakımdan düzeltme istenmesinin bu iş yükü artışına önemli bir katkı yaptığını; düzeltme nedenlerinin başvuru belgelerinin hazırlanmasındaki özensizlik ile ‘yöntemsel yanlışların yanılmaya yol açabileceği’ konusundaki duyarlık eksikliğinden kaynaklandığı göstermektedir.…”
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Decoding cortical folding patterns in marmosets using machine learning and large language model by Yue Wu, Xuesong Gao, Zhengliang Liu, Pengcheng Wang, Zihao Wu, Yiwei Li, Tuo Zhang, Tianming Liu, Tao Liu, Xiao Li

“…Utilizing advanced machine learning algorithm and large language model (LLM), we identified genes with significant transcriptomic differences between concave (sulci) and convex (gyri) cortical patterns. …”
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Density-Based Penalty Parameter Optimization on C-SVM by Yun Liu, Jie Lian, Michael R. Bartolacci, Qing-An Zeng

“…SVM achieves the largest distance between the positive and negative support vectors, which neglects the remote instances away from the SVM interface. …”
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Gait Analysis of Patients Subjected to the Atrophic Mandible Augmentation with Iliac Bone Graft by Erol Cansiz, Derya Karabulut, Suzan Cansel Dogru, Nazif Ekin Akalan, Yener Temelli, Yunus Ziya Arslan

“…Muscle forces calculated in post-op3 showed the best agreement with those in pre-op among the postoperative periods in terms of both magnitude and correlation (p<0.05). …”
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RESEARCH ON STRESS AND DEFORMATION OF WR-CVT DISCONTINUOUS CONTACT STEEL ROPE UNDER TENSILE AND TORSIONAL LOADS by ZHANG Wu, WU JingLiang, LIU YiShan, SUN ShiShan, JIA YanPing

“…The wear test of wire rope was carried out on the discontinuous contact steel wire rope damage test bench, and the distribution of wear marks on the worn steel wire surface was analyzed by optical microscope（OM）. …”
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Composition of outer-sphere cations as a tool for electrochemical synthesis of novel niobium compounds by Grinevitch V.V., Arakcheeva A.V., Kuznetsov S.A.

“…The individual alkali-metal cation influence on the chemical and phase composition of electrosynthesis products has been studied in fluoride solvents with different O/Nb ratios. …”
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BANNMDA: a computational model for predicting potential microbe–drug associations based on bilinear attention networks and nuclear norm minimization by Mingmin Liang, Xianzhi Liu, Juncai Li, Qijia Chen, Bin Zeng, Zhong Wang, Jing Li, Lei Wang

“…IntroductionPredicting potential associations between microbes and drugs is crucial for advancing pharmaceutical research and development. …”
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Updates on the development of vaccines and therapeutic options against rabies by Roshan Arjun Ananda, Hooi-Leng Ser, Vengadesh Letchumanan

“…The current review aims to explore general characteristics of RABV before looking into potential candidates of vaccines that have been studied. …”
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