Mortality, Work and Migration. A Consideration of Age-specific Mortality from Tuberculosis in Scotland, 1861-1901 by Alice Reid, Eilidh Garrett

“…We show that the age and gender-specific pattern of mortality in the rural area is consistent with higher male than female out-migration together with return migration of those who had contracted the disease elsewhere and needed care during their lengthy illness. …”
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A Molecular and Whole Body Insight of the Mechanisms Surrounding Glucose Disposal and Insulin Resistance with Hypoxic Treatment in Skeletal Muscle by R. W. A. Mackenzie, P. Watt

“…There is little doubt that acute hypoxia increases glucose metabolism in skeletal muscle and does so using the same pathway as muscle contraction. The purpose of this review paper is to provide an insight into the mechanisms underpinning the observed effects and to open up discussions around the conflicting data surrounding hypoxia and glucose control.…”
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Orthorexia nervosa: Healthy habit or pathology? Experiences and expansion of the consciousness of the correct diet by Ginés Mateo-Martínez, Antonio Vázquez-Sellán, María Luisa Díaz-Martínez, María Carmen Sellán-Soto

“…Findings: The phenomenological field of healthy eating intermittently unfolds in both experience and discourse, akin to a process of expansion and contraction, in the narrative “Expanding the Consciousness of Healthy Eating”. …”
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Diferencias de la conciliación vida-carrera en mujeres de Sonora y Coahuila, México by Alicia Hernández Montaño, José González Tovar, Dariela Janet Regino Rico, Elba Abril Valdez, María José Cubillas Rodríguez, Alejandra Córdova Moreno, Sandra Domínguez Ibáñez

“…El objetivo de este estudio fue analizar las diferen - cias de la conciliación de los componentes vida y carrera laboral de mujeres trabajadoras de dos es - tados del norte de México, Coahuila y Sonora, con el fin de conocer los contrastes en la distribución y la armonización de las tareas dentro y fuera de casa. …”
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More than data repositories: perceived information needs for the development of social sciences and humanities research infrastructures by Anna Sendra, Elina Late, Sanna Kumpulainen

“…Findings reveal that developing an infrastructure for conducting data-intensive research is a complicated task influenced by contrasting information needs between social sciences and humanities scholars and computer and data scientists, such as the demand for increased support of the former. …”
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Force Tracking Control of Lower Extremity Exoskeleton Based on a New Recurrent Neural Network by Yuxuan Cao, Jie Chen, Li Gao, Jiqing Luo, Jinyun Pu, Shengli Song

“…The proposed control scheme’s (ARBFNN-FDO-ZNN) force tracking performances are presented and contrasted with the exponential reaching law-based sliding mode controller (ERL-SMC). …”
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First in Vivo SPECT Imaging of Mouse Femorotibial Cartilage Using Tc-NTP 15-5 by Elisabeth Miot-Noirault, Aurélien Vidal, Philippe Auzeloux, Jean-Claude Madelmont, Jean Maublant, Nicole Moins

“…Given that bone and muscle did not show any accumulation of the tracer, highly contrasted joint imaging was obtained from 15 minutes postinjection. …”
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GENETIC COMPLEXITY AND CONTEXT SPECIFICITY OF TRAITS IMPROVING WHEAT YIELD UNDER DROUGHT CONDITIONS by V. A. Krupnov

“…Under drought conditions, water shortage of varying duration and intensity is often combined with heat and other stresses, and years with favorable moisture are occasional. In these contrasting conditions, the key role in grain yield is played by growth habit, growing period, and technology. …”
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Water Budget on Various Land Use Areas Using NARR Reanalysis Data in Florida by Chi-Han Cheng, Fidelia Nnadi

“…However, soil moisture becomes primary source for evaporation in drier conditions, and differences in capacity of plants access water, often dictated by the rooting depth, can result in contrasting evaporative losses across vegetation types. …”
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A Unique Case of Metformin-Associated Lactic Acidosis by Benjamin Gershkovich, Christopher McCudden, Kevin D. Burns

“…From a safety standpoint, health care providers should advise and educate their patients about discontinuing metformin and other potentially harmful medications in the context of acute illness with volume contraction.…”
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Auf der Suche nach Hatespeech in parlamentarischen Debatten: Analyse der Reden von Krzysztof Kasprzak und Jens Maier by Michał Smułczyński

“…In the following article, which is part of a comprehensive German-Polish contrastive study on linguistic impoliteness and hate speech in parliamentary debates, I have focused on the identification and characterization of hate speech. …”
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BMP-Recommended Water and Phosphorus Inputs for Tomato and Watermelon Can Reduce Environmental Losses of Phosphorus and Save Water by Sanjay Shukla, Gregory S. Hendricks, Thomas A. Obreza, Willie G. Harris

“…The average water and P fertilizer rates used by growers in south Florida were contrasted with the recommended BMP rates. Applying BMP-recommended water and phosphorus (P) inputs for seepage-irrigated tomato and watermelon in Florida can reduce water use and P leaching to groundwater without adversely impacting fruit yield. …”
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Narrative microstructure and macrostructure in adolescents with Down syndrome and Williams syndrome by Aitana Viejo, Maite Fernández-Urquiza, Eliseo Diez-Itza

“…Down syndrome (DS) and Williams syndrome (WS) are genetic neurodevelopmental disorders associated with intellectual disability, showing contrasting linguistic profiles with asymmetries in grammatical (DS weakness/WS strength) vs. pragmatic abilities (DS strength/WS weakness). …”
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Devilish Bad Manners: Slaughtering Innocents on the Medieval and Early Modern English Stage by Pauline Ruberry-Blanc

“…Pour démontrer ce changement à la fois culturel et littéraire, qui révèle des correspondances et des contrastes parfois surprenants, cet article juxtapose surtout des pièces mettant sur scène le tyran biblique Hérode avec la tragédie sanglante de vengeance par John Webster, La duchesse d’Amalfi (premières représentations entre 1612 et 1614, première édition en 1623).…”
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TWO-POINT BOUNDARY PROBLEM SOLUTION BY NON-GRADIENT RANDOM SEARCH METHOD by V. A. Malkin

“…For the purpose of ensuring of representative sampling for mean and RMS values estimation the adaptive recurrent search procedure with stepby-step domain Q0 contraction is introduced. The initial conditions of conjugate set of equations on the next search stage are determined on a base of sample estimates of distribution’s parameters.The example problem solution for thirst-order control object is given. …”
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(De)Humanising People in Discussions around Race and Religion by Lea Skewes

“…In her talk she offered examples from her interview data about how religion and race intersect in Denmark, especially in the educational system where discourses contrasting religiosity and secularity govern. Professor Lene Kühle from the Department of the Study of Religion at the School of Culture and Society offered a talk entitled Is the regulation of religious individuals and communities in Denmark discriminatory or racist? …”
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Mortality, Work and Migration. A Consideration of Age-specific Mortality from Tuberculosis in Scotland, 1861-1901 by Alice Reid, Eilidh Garrett

“…We show that the age and gender-specific pattern of mortality in the rural area is consistent with higher male than female out-migration together with return migration of those who had contracted the disease elsewhere and needed care during their lengthy illness. …”
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Los conflictos en la reflexión oriental by Francisco Benavente Meléndez de Arvas

“…El cambio, dicho en abstracto, se percibe peligroso en un hemisferio y como parte de la misma vida en el otro.En este contexto, “pensar la guerra” debe sufrir o sufre los mismos contrastes. De descubrir sus peculiaridades va este trabajo de análisis.En nuestros días, los chinos, por ejemplo, siguen sintiendo internamente el orden del universo de raíz milenaria, budista, confucionista. …”
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Cell-specific functions of androgen receptor in skeletal muscles by Hiroshi Sakai, Yuuki Imai

“…We focus on three specific cell populations expressing AR within skeletal muscles: skeletal muscle cells, responsible for muscle contraction; satellite cells, which are essential stem cells contributing to the growth and regeneration of skeletal muscles; and mesenchymal progenitors, situated in interstitial areas and playing a crucial role in muscle homeostasis. …”
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Employment of Social Workers in the Public Sector: Current Situation, Challenges and Future Prospects by kamil Alptekin, Selami Topuz, Murat Öz

“…Apart from these, low levels of professionalization, recognition of other professions, lack of initiative and self-confidence, lack of recognition, and ongoing neoliberalist policies have also played a role in the contraction of employment in the public sector. In order to address the employment issue, there is a need for new and regulatory mechanisms to be put in place in the social work profession and education, which will be built with a common sense that is critically filtered. …”
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