Tedium and Terror: Dreading Narration in Colson Whitehead’s Zone One by Mark Pedretti

“…The article concludes by considering this form of dread as indicative of a postnarrative moment that calls for new forms of storytelling.…”
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Theoretical Aspects of Professional Competence of Police Officers from the Tactical and Operative Response Unit by Ye. S. Romanenko

“…Considering Ukrainians’ high political activity, the urgent necessity of security guaranteeing and holding the public order were formed by the National Police Bodies during public events with participation of a great number of people. …”
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EXPLICITATION STRATEGY IN TRANSLATING AN INDONESIAN NOVEL INTO ENGLISH by Erlina Zulkifli Mahmud, Cece Sobarna

“…Using descriptive qualitative method, this research is aimed at revealing the kind of information being explicitated, the forms of explicitation used, and the semantic information of the words explicitated. …”
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ФЕМИНАТИВЫ С СУФФИКСОМ -К(А) В НОВОЙ РУССКОЙ ЛЕКСИКЕ by БЕАТА НОВИЦКА

“…The feminatives have been categorized on the basis of formal and derivational structure of their motivating words. …”
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From Shi`a to White: Race and Colonialism in Kamel Murouwwa’s Nahnu fi Ifriqiya by Dahlia El Zein

“…In this article, I use Murouwwa’s travelogue as a lens to understand the process of racial identity formation in West Africa from a Lebanese visitor’s perspective in the 1930s under French colonialism. …”
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Lazer e Representatividade Homoafetiva no Seriado Tailandês “Bad Buddy” by João Lucas de Almeida Campos, Vivianne Limeira Azevedo Gomes, Júlia Drumond Cunha, Christianne Luce Gomes

“…No intuito de investigar as construções narrativas em torno dos personagens homoafetivos protagonistas da série, realizou-se uma análise fílmica e de discurso, considerando a tessitura das relações sobre representações e visibilidade midiática homoafetiva no enredo da trama. Na análise, foram constatados alguns traços que ora desmistificam estereótipos sobre homens gays e valorizam a diversidade, ora dão visibilidade a padrões heteronormativos. …”
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Misiones económicas en Colombia y su incidencia en la educación técnica industrial (1930-1960) by Álvaro Acevedo-Tarazona, Dayana Lucía Lizcano-Herrera

“…Las misiones Kemmerer (1923, 1930), Currie (1949-1950) y Lebret (1954-1956) diagnosticaron el acontecer económico y social del país, y determinaron las condiciones para emprender procesos de crecimiento a partir del desarrollo de la educación técnica industrial en sus diferentes niveles, para así cumplir con los requerimientos de políticas externas que promovieron el desarrollo de América Latina, lo cual impulsó la formación técnica industrial y la consolidación del sistema educativo en general.…”
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Ethno-cultural particularity of English, French and Russian phrasiological units with components of names of domestic animals by E. N. Belaya

“…The author of the article treats archetypes, mythologems, ritual forms of national culture, religion, literature, history. …”
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Application of Light Therapy in Brain Function Modulation and Rehabilitation by TAO Qian, SO Kwok-Fai

“…The discovery of intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells (ipRGCs) has opened up a new field of research: the non-image forming visual (NIFV) of light. Light in the environment can have extensive effects on specific brain functions. …”
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Editorial for Vol.32, No.4 by Alan Jović

“…Journal of Computing and Information Technology brings four papers from the areas of power load forecasting, fault detection, multi-objective optimization, and information retrieval.…”
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There and Back Again by Owen Hopkins

“…The essay concludes with the contention that if populist politics tends towards a monocultural architecture and urbanism, then a built environment that allows room for different forms, ideas and agendas may itself help foster a politics of pluralism. …”
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Downregulation of Ezrin Suppresses Migration Potential in Cervical Cancer Cells by Marta Hałas-Wiśniewska, Wioletta Arendt, Alina Grzanka, Magdalena Izdebska

“…Results: Reducing the EZR level resulted in a decrease in the invasive and migration potential of SiHa and HT-3 cells’ inhibition of colony formation, a decrease in adhesive properties, and a strong reorganization of F-actin with a dominance of cells with a mitotic catastrophe phenotype. …”
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Semaglutide Protects against 6-OHDA Toxicity by Enhancing Autophagy and Inhibiting Oxidative Stress by Dong-xing Liu, Chen-sheng Zhao, Xiao-na Wei, Yi-peng Ma, Jian-kun Wu

“…Semaglutide is a long-acting, once-a-week injection treatment and the only available oral form of GLP-1 analog. In the present study, we treated the human neuroblastoma SH-SY5Y cell line with 6-hydroxydopamine (6-OHDA) as a PD in vitro model to explore the neuroprotective effects and potential mechanisms of semaglutide to protect against PD. …”
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Neuroinflammation and Oxidative Stress in Diabetic Neuropathy: Futuristic Strategies Based on These Targets by Reddemma Sandireddy, Veera Ganesh Yerra, Aparna Areti, Prashanth Komirishetty, Ashutosh Kumar

“…Oxidative-nitrosative stress not only activates the major pathways namely, polyol pathway flux, advanced glycation end products formation, activation of protein kinase C, and overactivity of the hexosamine pathway, but also initiates and amplifies neuroinflammation. …”
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Natural Food Colorant Obtained from Wild <i>Berberis vulgaris</i> L. by Ultrasound-Assisted Extraction: Optimization and Characterization by Erika N. Vega, Lorena González-Zamorano, Elena Cebadera, Lillian Barros, Tânia C. S. P. Pires, Adriana K. Molina, Tayse F. F. da Silveira, Guillermo Vidal-Diez de Ulzurrun, Javier Tardío, Montaña Cámara, Virginia Fernández-Ruiz, Patricia Morales

“…These results highlight the richness of BVFF and BVE in bioactive compounds, especially anthocyanins, underscoring their potential as natural food colorants that can be used in food product formulations instead of synthetic azo colorants.…”
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Public politicians electoral potential in social media by N. A. Yushkina

“…The main quantitative indicators of the presence and activity of the Russian public politicians on Facebook, Instagram and Youtube, successful interaction forms between government representatives and the society, indexes of popularity, activity, audience loyalty, as well as visual features of the accounts’ content were analysed. …”
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Ascorbic Acid Reduces the Blood Boss After Total Knee Arthroplasty: Insights From a Randomized Controlled Trial by Pooya Hosseini-Monfared, MD, Alireza Mirahmadi, MD, Mohammad Mehdi Sarzaeem, MD, Soheil Pourshahryari, MD, Parisa Aminnia, MD, Mohammad Poursalehian, MD, Seyed Morteza Kazemi, MD

“…Patient-reported outcomes such as Oxford Knee Score, Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Osteoarthritis Index, Knee Injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score, and Forgotten Joint Score were used to evaluate the postoperative pain and function in the 6-month follow-up. …”
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Protected Turning Movements of Noncooperative Automated Vehicles: Geometrics, Trajectories, and Saturation Flow by Xiaobo Liu, Lijuan Lai, You Kong, Scott Le Vine

“…We analyze noncooperative (“defensive”) behavior, in keeping with the Assured Clear Distance Ahead legal standard to which human drivers are held and AVs will likely also be for the foreseeable future. We demonstrate that, under plausible behavioral parameters, AVs appear likely to have positive impacts on throughput of turning traffic streams at intersections, in the range of +0.2% (under the most conservative circumstances) to +43% for a typical turning maneuver. …”
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Students’ Subjectness, Self-Efficacy and Psychological Well-Being: Comparative Research of Russian and Kazakhstan Students by V. G. Maralov, A. D. Kariyev, O. V. Krezhevskikh, M. A. Kudaka, L. E. Ageeva, E. N. Agranovich

“…As a result, no fundamental differences were revealed in the structure and manifestations of subjectivity depending on the place of residence, national and cultural traditions, which indicates the existence of some general patterns in the formation of the subjectivity of a future teacher or psychologist. …”
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Legal bases of material support of militia workers of the Ukrainian SSR in the 20s of the XX century by S. V. Vasyliev

“…It is concluded that the conditions for the material support of militia workers in the early 1920s were established based on the norms in force for the army. In the middle of the studied period, the conditions for remuneration and social security of militia workers were determined by the requirements of labor legislation. …”
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