The healing hand: the role of women in ancient medicine by Francois P. Retief, Louise Cilliers

“… In contrast with the struggle of 19th and 20th century women all over the world to be admitted to medical schools, women in ancient Greece and Rome were apparently increasingly at liberty to practise medicine from the 4th century BC onwards. …”
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Company value: the influence of intellectual capital, growth opportunity, and dividend policy by Leny Suzan, Shenny Syamsudin

“…Upon closer examination (partial analysis), it is evident that only growth opportunities significantly contribute positively to company value. In contrast, intellectual capital does not demonstrate a positive effect, and dividend policy does not exert a significant negative influence on manufacturing companies in the food and beverage sub-sector listed on the indonesia stock exchange from 2018 to 2022.…”
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Design and Evaluation of a New Type of Knee Orthosis to Align the Mediolateral Angle of the Knee Joint with Osteoarthritis by Amir Esrafilian, Mohammad Taghi Karimi, Arezoo Eshraghi

“…Moreover, the force and moments applied on the joint increase in contrast to normal subjects. Various types of knee orthoses have been designed to solve the mentioned problems. …”
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FractalNet-based key generation for authentication in Voice over IP using Blockchain by Vajjala Sreenivasulu, Chinthaginjala Ravikumar

“…The implementation of the proposed methodology is as follows: Here, several entities, such as VoIP users, admin, smart contract, as well as minor nodes are considered. Moreover, the steps that are considered include Blockchain association, Registration, Initialization, Authentication, Key generation, as well as Verification. …”
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Analysis of efforts to encourage employee performance improvement by Rio Putra, Syafwandi Syafwandi, Lusiana Lusiana

“…Findings: The findings of this study show that communication and work environment can affect the improvement of employee performance, but in contrast to the work ethic in this study, it is not able to affect employee performance but is different from the case and place of the study. …”
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A re-examination of information seeking behaviour in the context of activity theory by Wilson T.D.

“…The basic ideas of activity theory are outlined and an attempt is made to harmonize different perspectives. A contrast is made between an activity system perspective and an activity process perspective and a diagrammatic representation of the process perspective is offered. …”
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Pentecostal Churches and Capitalism in a South African Township: Towards a Communism of the Market? by Thibaut Dubarry

“…We show how Pentecostalism, in contrast to traditional forms of Christianity, is par excellence involved in the immanent/horizontal affairs of believers’ lives. …”
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Social observation differentially affects prosocial learning of selfish and prosocial people by Yuri Kim, Kun Il Kim, Hackjin Kim

“…Under social observation, participants who were previously less prosocial exhibited increased prosocial learning. In contrast, those who were already more prosocial showed no significant changes in prosociality, and demonstrated only a numerical—but statistically non-significant—increase in learning for self. …”
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A Violência Filioparental na Adultez Emergente em Portugal by Daniel Alexandre Martins Lobão, Nuno Caetano Lopes de Barros Poiares

“…Foram recolhidos testemunhos de profissionais e investigadores privilegiados que têm conhecimento ou já tiveram contacto com este fenómeno, a par de uma revisão da literatura, concluindo-se que o principal fator sociocultural, que mais influencia a violência filioparental na idade adulta, é a dependência económica, assim como a educação e as experiências na infância. …”
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Tensor weight structures and t-structures on the derived categories of schemes by Dubey, Umesh V., Sahoo, Gopinath

“…We also study some immediate consequences of these classifications in the particular case of the projective line. We show that in contrast to the case of tensor t-structures, there are no non-trivial tensor weight structures on $\mathbf{D}^b (\mathrm{Coh}\, \mathbb{P}^1_k)$.…”
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Modeling Nonusers’ Behavioral Intention towards Mobile Chatbot Adoption: An Extension of the UTAUT2 Model with Mobile Service Quality Determinants by Gatzioufa Paraskevi, Vaggelis Saprikis, Giorgos Avlogiaris

“…Personal data privacy issues also have a negative effect on trust, in contrast to effort expectancy, which positively affects performance expectancy. …”
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Assessing the impact of personal income tax reforms on the income inequality dynamics in Russia in the 21st century by M. L. Dorofeev

“…However, this problem does not have universal solutions due to significant country differences and the peculiarities of the social contract in a particular country. The purpose of this study is to analyse and assess the impact of reforms in the system of taxation of personal income on the dynamics of income inequality of Russian households. …”
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Statistical Modeling of HIV, Tuberculosis, and Hepatitis B Transmission in Ghana by Clement Twumasi, Louis Asiedu, Ezekiel N. N. Nortey

“…Females were more likely to contract HIV, whereas males were prone to contracting TB.…”
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Identification of Gallus Domesticus and Joper Chicken Meat Types Using Glcm Combined With K-NN Method by Mila Jumarlis, Mirfan

“…In this research, 200 training data samples were used to extract color and texture features and perform calculations using five GLCM parameters (energy, entropy, homogeneity, contrast, and correlation) with four texture distribution directions: 0°, 45°, 90°, and 135°. …”
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After visibility: Data as a factor of production in Douyin e-commerce by Shuaishuai Wang

“…Drawing from Douyin walkthroughs and the company's business development presentations, this article analyzes how audience attention and platform traffic are manufactured and integrated with retail in the context of China's recent national policy that positions data as a factor of production equal to labor, land, technology, and capital. In contrast to Instagram, traffic conversion into sales takes precedence over product visibility on Douyin. …”
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A new twist on spinning (A)dS correlators by Daniel Baumann, Grégoire Mathys, Guilherme L. Pimentel, Facundo Rost

“…Abstract Massless spinning correlators in cosmology are extremely complicated. In contrast, the scattering amplitudes of massless particles with spin are very simple. …”
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Generalized Scaling of Urban Heat Island Effect and Its Applications for Energy Consumption and Renewable Energy by T.-W. Lee, Heung S. Choi, Jinoh Lee

“…This may appear to be in contrast to the classical work by Oke (1973). However, in this work, we show that if the population density is used in converting the population data into urbanized area, then a good agreement with the current theory is found. …”
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Comparative Analysis of TF-IDF and Word2Vec in Sentiment Analysis: A Case of Food Reviews by Zhan Zerui

“…The results showed that TF-IDF showed high accuracy in training data (99.16%), but showed obvious overfitting problems in test data (73.9%). In contrast, Word2Vec was more balanced on training and testing data (68.4% vs. 68.65%), showing better generalization. …”
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Enhanced sampling of protein conformational changes via true reaction coordinates from energy relaxation by Huiyu Li, Ao Ma

“…The resulting trajectories follow natural transition pathways, enabling efficient generation of unbiased reactive trajectories. In contrast, biased trajectories from empirical collective variables display non-physical features. …”
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Compensatory Function of the Subtalar Joint for Lower Extremity Malalignment by Kensei Yoshimoto, Masahiko Noguchi, Akifumi Yamada, Yuki Nasu

“…The subtalar joint valgus alignment improved after total knee arthroplasty or high tibial osteotomy for varus knee deformity, even if the deformity was severe. In contrast, whether the subtalar joint alignment changed after the surgery for ankle or valgus knee deformity has not been considered. …”
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