Editorial by María Elizabeth de los Ríos Uriarte

“…Es por lo que, en este número hemos publicado siete artículos y una reseña y tenemos temas variados que van desde reflexiones rigurosas que retoman aspectos éticos y bioéticos de la pandemia por COVID-19 que, a cuatro años de distancia, se han analizado de forma más objetiva, hasta propuestas novedosas en temas actuales de investigación y trasplante de órganos. …”
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Fog Harvesting Via Multistage Edge‐Effect Condensation by Ahmad Illahie, Kowsar Majid, Saifullah Lone

“…The pillars are imbued with nonadecane, a hydrocarbon renowned for its low surface energy characteristics ensures the uninterrupted progression of water droplet formation, coalescence, and seamless transportation, unveiling a symphony of molecular interactions at the microscale. …”
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Horizontes de la reflexividad etnográfica. Revelaciones y tensiones para el estudio antropológico del desarrollo en Chile by Noelia Carrasco Henríquez

“…Como referente empírico, recogemos el tratamiento etnográfico de la industria forestal y sus circunstancias socioculturales, derivados de la reflexión que antecede y acompaña la ejecución del Proyecto Fondecyt N° 11080196, entre noviembre de 2008 y noviembre de 2010.…”
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Who does technology serve? A critical analysis of sociocultural factors shaping opportunities, practices and barriers faced by a smallholders in south-western Colombia by Marcela Ramos, Natalia Triana, Stefan Burkart, Jhon Freddy Gutiérrez, Diana María Gutiérrez-Zapata, Alejandro Ruden, Lady Sepúlveda, Brian Barrett

“…Specifically, improved forages, silvopastoral systems and new practices, such as the implementation of rotational pasturing, have been promoted as relevant new approaches. …”
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Analysis on the progress of all-optical network standardization and technology development by Rui TANG, Geng ZHANG, Bingbing WU, Wenyu ZHAO, Haiyi ZHANG

“…All-optical network has been considered as the ultimate goal of the optical communication network.With the development of liquid crystal and MEMS technologies and the maturity of configurable optical devices such as WSS,all-optical network has once again become the focus of research and application.Based on the technical status and system architecture of the all-optical network,the technical problems to be solved in the all-optical network were discussed,the latest developments in standardization research were sorted out,the typical problems existing in the all-optical network standardization were further analyzed,and its future developments were finally forecasted.…”
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Aechmea fasciata Silver Vase by Edward Gilman, Ryan W. Klein, Gail Hansen

“…It also highlights propagation methods and potential problems like scale and root rot. The bold form and coarse texture make it ideal for landscape design. …”
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Un final/el final: Cuaderno de Pripyat de Carlos Ríos by Mariana Catalin

“…En una primera instancia, se analiza la forma en que esta multiplicación de temporalidades afecta la presentación de los testimonios que el relato dice recolectar. …”
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How political organisations can become more attractive to young adults by Philipp Köbe

“…Lesser options should be developed that offer a multitude of opportunities in different spheres of participation, and these options must be carried into the relevant media of young people with sufficient information. An instrument in the form of an evaluation model is offered to the political organisations to help them excercise control. …”
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Characteristics of water supply and demand in an agroforestry ecosystem under long-term continuous cropping assessed using the RZWQM2 model by Jing Zhang, Li Wang, Gong Cheng, Liangliang Jia

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The Official Lithuanian Language in the Interwar Years by Aldonas Pupkis

“…Reform of the economy, development of culture and education, the choice of the Western way of life, and formalising Lithuanian as the official language in the 1922 Constitution, created favourable conditions for the Lithuanian language and culture to function independently in the entire public life. …”
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Evaluation of Southern African wild edible plants for potential herb-drug interactions through ex vivo p-glycoprotein and in vitro cytochrome P450 3A4 inhibitory effects by P.S. Kheoane, K.C. Mokhetho, S. Mokhele, K.C. Mbara, C.M. Leonard, T.H. Gadaga, C. Tarirai

“…Hence, it is vital to explore the possibility of herb-drug interactions when concomitantly taking conventional drug dosage forms with some of the WEPs. P-gp and CYP3A4 show analogous substrate specificities and work together to establish an intestinal absorption barrier against xenobiotics. …”
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A New Efficient Ordering Scheme for Sphere Detection by Cao Haiyan, Li Jun

“…A new ordering scheme for sphere detection is presented in this paper, which is based on SIC (serial interference canceling) and the gradient defined by the accumulated probability of the absolute difference between symbol element and the zero-forcing solution. The simulation results show that the proposed ordering scheme can achieve a significant complexity reduction, especially for high numbers of antennas and large constellation sizes in the low SNR region. …”
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Ultimate Pullout Capacity of a Square Plate Anchor in Clay with an Interbedded Stiff Layer by Tugen Feng, Jingyao Zong, Wei Jiang, Jian Zhang, Jian Song

“…The rationality of the finite element numerical calculation results and the empirical formula is verified by comparing the results from this study with results previously reported in the literature.…”
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Relationship between Serum Levels of OPG and TGF-β with Decreasing Rate of BMD in Native Chinese Women by Xi-Yu Wu, Yi-Qun Peng, Hong Zhang, Hui Xie, Zhi-Feng Sheng, Xiang-Hang Luo, Ru-Chun Dai, Hou-De Zhou, Xian-Ping Wu, Er-Yuan Liao

“…However, statistically significant correlations between serum TGF-β1 and BDR at the lumbar spine and ultradistal forearm remained. Multiple linear regression stepwise analysis showed that serum OPG could explain 1.4–3.7% of BDR variation. …”
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Acute Interstitial Nephritis due to Leptospira grippotyphosa in the Absence of Weil’s Disease by Tanja Schmidhauser, Simona Curioni, Enos Bernasconi

“…Anicteric leptospirosis is a self-limited flu-like disease, whereas the icteric form is a severe illness characterized by multiple organ involvement or even failure. …”
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Dynamical Behavior and Stability Analysis in a Stage-Structured Prey Predator Model with Discrete Delay and Distributed Delay by Chao Liu, Qingling Zhang

“…Furthermore, directions of Hopf bifurcation and stability of the bifurcating periodic solutions are studied based on normal form theory and center manifold theorem. Numerical simulations are carried out to show consistency with theoretical analysis.…”
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Citrus Nutrition UF/IFAS Grower Trials by Tripti Vashisth, Jamie D. Burrow

“…The pamphlet also contains a sign up form for the trials. Written by Tripti Vashisth and Jamie D. …”
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COVID-19 Pandemic: Impact on World Politics by M. M. Lebedeva

“…At the same time, the rapid development of previously formed processes has led to a sharp increase in social, economic, and political contradictions, and as a result – polarization on many grounds in world politics, which creates a potential danger of conflict development.…”
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TÜKETİCİ ETNOSENTRİZMİ: BEYAZ EŞYA VE İÇECEK SEKTÖRLERİNDE KARŞILAŞTIRMALI BİR SAHA ARAŞTIRMASI by T. Şükrü Yapraklı, Ercan Keser

“…Beyaz eşya ve içecek sektörlerinden 200’er kişiye olmak üzere toplam 400 kişiye sektörel farklılıklarına göre uyarlama yapılan anket uygulanmış ve anketlerin tamamı çalışmaya dahil edilmiştir. Anket formunda 2 grup soru yer almaktadır. Bunlardan birinci grup sorular tüketicilerin etnosentrizm eğilimlerini belirlemek amacıyla hazırlanmıştır. …”
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The New Silence Trend for Businesses: Quiet Hiring by Güzin Kıyık Kıcır

“…The reactive tendencies in silence, which have recently come to the fore in the business world, bring about the development of different adaptation skills for employees, managers and businesses. …”
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