Minimal Change Disease as a Secondary and Reversible Event of a Renal Transplant Case with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus by Elena Gkrouzman, Kyriakos A. Kirou, Surya V. Seshan, James M. Chevalier

“…Secondary causes of minimal change disease (MCD) account for a minority of cases compared to its primary or idiopathic form and provide ground for consideration of common mechanisms of pathogenesis. In this paper we report a case of a 27-year-old Latina woman, a renal transplant recipient with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), who developed nephrotic range proteinuria 6 months after transplantation. …”
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CHARISMA: RELIGIOUS MEASUREMENT by Olga G. Sladneva

“…The methodology of this work contains informative approaches: comparative, hermeneutical, dialectical and structuralist one. …”
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Les Féministes des marges peuvent-elles parler ? Retour sur un « échec » académique et ses implications épistémologiques et politiques by Marie-Eveline Belinga, Yaël Eched, Rose Ndengue

“…Dialoguing between our different backgrounds, we tried to build common thoughts in order to draw a ridgeline on which the “halfies” (Abu Lughod, 1991) – who like us are present in spaces of power while occupying marginalized positions – could travel.…”
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Les espaces ruraux du Brahmapoutre et les villes d’Assam : des chemins divergents ? by Émilie Cremin, Annick Hollé

“…However, only local elites, rather than common people, have effective access to the Internet in urban areas. …”
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Intelligentsia and government authorities in modern Russia by O.V. Zolotarev

“…Based on the data from the study of open-access published sources, common and peculiar features, achievements and problems of the modern Russian intellectual elite have been shown. …”
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Large Eddy Simulation of Unstably Stratified Turbulent Flow over Urban-Like Building Arrays by Bobin Wang, Guixiang Cui

“…Thermal instability induced by solar radiation is the most common condition of urban atmosphere in daytime. Compared to researches under neutral conditions, only a few numerical works studied the unstable urban boundary layer and the effect of buoyancy force is unclear. …”
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Multivariate Cox regression analysis of prognostic genes and therapeutic mechanisms of gastric cancer by Yangyang Xiao, Zhiru Zhong, Chunli Yang, Zhiying Lin

“…Abstract Gastric cancer (GC) is a common malignant tumor, which originated from the epithelial cells of the stomach. …”
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Dynamics of a Breast Cancer Model for Neutropenia Case due to Chemotherapy Effects by M. Ivan Ariful Fathoni, Fajar Adi-Kusumo, Gunardi Gunardi, Susanna Hilda Hutajulu

“…Chemotherapy-induced neutropenia is one of the most common toxic effects experienced by patients and often threatens chemotherapy to use efficiency. …”
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Rat models of frozen shoulder: Classification and evaluation by Hezirui Gu, Wenqing Xie, Hengzhen Li, Shuguang Liu, Yusheng Li

“…Finally, our paper summarizes the common methods for evaluating FS rat models.…”
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On the Instability Threshold of Journal Bearing Supported Rotors by Ricardo Ugliara Mendes, Katia Lucchesi Cavalca

“…Journal bearing supported rotors present two kinds of self-excited vibrations: oil-whirl and oil-whip. The first one is commonly masked by the rotor unbalance, hence being rarely associated with instability problems. …”
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Splenectomy for Solitary Splenic Metastasis in Recurrent Papillary Thyroid Cancer. A Case Report and Literature Review by Antonio Maffuz-Aziz, Gabriel Garnica, Silvia López-Hernández, Janet Pineda-Diaz, Javier Baquera-Heredia, Patricia López-Jiménez

“…Thyroid cancer is the most common endocrine malignancy, presenting with 23 500 new cases per year in the United States. …”
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Le Mäṣḥafä Seddät et le Futūḥ al-Ḥabaša : un cas de contact entre manuscrits islamiques et manuscrits chrétiens d’Éthiopie au XVIe siècle ? by Amélie Chekroun

“…This possible case of contact between a Muslim text from the Barr Sa‘d ad-Dīn and a Christian author from the highlands provides an opportunity to question the commonly accepted separation between the Islamic and the Christian manuscripts produced in Ethiopia in the sixteenth century.…”
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Using Cell-Based Strategies to Break the Link between Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia and the Development of Chronic Lung Disease in Later Life by Megan O'Reilly, Bernard Thébaud

“…Although advances in perinatal care have changed the course of lung injury and enabled the survival of infants born as early as 23-24 weeks of gestation, BPD still remains a common complication of extreme prematurity, and there is no specific treatment for it. …”
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Walking Training with Foot Drop Stimulator Controlled by a Tilt Sensor to Improve Walking Outcomes: A Randomized Controlled Pilot Study in Patients with Stroke in Subacute Phase by G. Morone, A. Fusco, P. Di Capua, P. Coiro, L. Pratesi

“…Foot drop is a quite common problem in nervous system disorders. Neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES) has showed to be an alternative approach to correct foot drop improving walking ability in patients with stroke. …”
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Nouveaux médias et orthographe. Incompétence ou pluricompétence ? by Lénaïs Maskens, Louise-Amélie Cougnon, Sophie Roekhaut, Cédrick Fairon

“…The analysis of linguistic units common to the three corpora indicates that all the participants use traditional spelling in at least one of the corpora. …”
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Co-Effects of Graphene Oxide and Cement on Geotechnical Properties of Loess by Dongbo Li, Pengbo Lei, Hongchi Zhang, Jiaping Liu, Wei Lu

“…Improvement of geotechnical properties of soil by cementitious additives and nanomaterials is commonly used method. However, few systematic research studies on the co-effects of them on the geotechnical properties of loess have been explored. …”
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A Statistical Image Feature-Based Deep Belief Network for Fire Detection by Dali Sheng, Jinlian Deng, Wei Zhang, Jie Cai, Weisheng Zhao, Jiawei Xiang

“…Experiments using the benchmark data of three groups of fire and fire-like images are classified by the present method, and the classification results are also compared with those commonly used support vector machine (SVM) and convolutional deep belief networks (CDBNs) to manifest the superiority of the classification accuracy.…”
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Document publication. Survey of 1545 Livonia and the Great Duchy of Lithuania borderline audit (Livonian officers report) by Tomas Čelkis, Darius Antanavičius

“…Specifically, iconographic information and the depicted border mark "sculpture" are particularly important to the researchers. The document contains facts about the border marks deranged by the GDL inhabitants (it was common to blame them on damaging the other side), but more important is the fact that the ways of damaging are also mentioned; for instance, marks made on trees were burnt. …”
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Intratumor heterogeneity of EGFR expression mediates targeted therapy resistance and formation of drug tolerant microenvironment by Bassel Alsaed, Linh Lin, Jieun Son, Jiaqi Li, Johannes Smolander, Timothy Lopez, Pinar Ö. Eser, Atsuko Ogino, Chiara Ambrogio, Yoonji Eum, Tran Thai, Haiyun Wang, Eva Sutinen, Hilma Mutanen, Hanna Duàn, Nina Bobik, Kristian Borenius, William W. Feng, Behnam Nabet, Satu Mustjoki, Sanna Laaksonen, Benjamin K. Eschle, Michael J. Poitras, David Barbie, Ilkka Ilonen, Prafulla Gokhale, Pasi A. Jänne, Heidi M. Haikala

“…Abstract Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) tyrosine kinase inhibitors are commonly used to treat non-small cell lung cancers with EGFR mutations, but drug resistance often emerges. …”
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Contribution of In Vivo and Organotypic 3D Models to Understanding the Role of Macrophages and Neutrophils in the Pathogenesis of Psoriasis by Isabelle Lorthois, Daniel Asselineau, Nathalie Seyler, Roxane Pouliot

“…Psoriasis, a common chronic immune-mediated skin disease, is histologically characterized by a rapid keratinocyte turnover and differentiation defects. …”
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