LGBT Actors, Ritual and Martial Arts Groups, and State-Building in Post-Conflict Timor-Leste by Lili Chen, Laura Sjoberg

“…There are many ways in which our research is quite preliminary: we had access to a small number of LGBT interviewees who gave us information about their organizations, and we have not had the opportunity to look at if (and if so, how) RAG and MAG community-building and state-building measures are seen by, understood by, or of benefit to, anyone other than our LGBT interviewees —particularly, either non-LGBT members of the groups or people outside of the groups. …”
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Soviet Scientific Elite of the 1930s under the Patronage of the Commission for the Promotion of Scientists under the Council of People’s Commissars of the USSR: Life, Health, Inter... by A. L. Posadskov

“…It is reported that the CPS replaced the Central Commission for the Improvement of the Life of Scientists (CCILS), which had operated under the Council of People’s Commissars of the USSR since 1921. …”
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ECG changes and notable markers in ischemic stroke: a systematic review by Meitong Lin, Hongling Zhu

“…Our results suggest that P-wave terminal force in V1 (PTFV1), atrial fibrillation (AF), interatrial block (IAB), premature atrial complexes (PAC) had salient association with the risk of IS. Notably, AF and IAB also had an evident association with cardioembolism stroke (CES). …”
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Exploring the Effect of Compound Glycyrrhizin and Silybinin on the Metabolism of Pexidartinib in Rats Based on CYP3A4 and CYP2C9 by Yanding Su, Xinyi Wei, Qian Cheng, He Qi, Jianghui Chen, Xiang-Jun Qiu

“…Pexidartinib offered a new therapeutic option for adult patients with symptomatic tenosynovial giant cell tumor (TGCT) who were refractory to surgical treatment and had severe morbidity or functional limitations. …”
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Oral Health-Related Quality of Life of Greek Adults: A Cross-Sectional Study by William Papaioannou, Constantine J. Oulis, Demetra Latsou, John Yfantopoulos

“…The education level of the subjects had a significant positive impact on the quality of life of the subjects. …”
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Evaluation of Serum Magnesium Level and Maternal Outcomes in Antenatal Women by Ravikumar Boda, Suchita Dabhadkar, Vaishali Taralekar, Meghana K. Padwal, Lalna R. Takale

“…In Group I, out of 15 women with hypomagnesemia (<1.6 mg/dl), 3 women developed preeclampsia and none of them had preterm labour. In Group II, out of 205 women with normal magnesium (>1.6 mg/dl), 39 women developed preeclampsia whereas 35 women had preterm labour. …”
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Congenital Midureteric Stricture: Challenges in Diagnosis and Management by Raashid Hamid, Nisar A. Bhat, Kumar Abdul Rashid

“…RGP delineates the level of stricture and the course of ureter, as shown in our cases. All patients had significant obstruction on the affected side. …”
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RET enhancer haplotype-dependent remodeling of the human fetal gut development program. by Sumantra Chatterjee, Lauren E Fries, Or Yaacov, Nan Hu, Hanna E Berk-Rauch, Aravinda Chakravarti

“…The human embryos we studied had major remodeling of the gut transcriptome but were unlikely to have had HSCR: thus, genetic or epigenetic changes in addition to those in RET are required for aganglionosis.…”
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Interceptive and Orthopedic Orthodontic Treatments Performed in Pediatric Dentistry Practice and the Factors Associated with Treatment Patterns by Luciano Casagrande, Thaís Marchand, Gerson Arisoly Xavier Acasigua, Eduardo Kenji Nakamura

“…Thirty-two (26.7%) professionals had additional Orthodontics and Facial Orthopedics training. …”
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Self-Assembled Hydrogel Based on (Bio)polyelectrolyte Complex of Chitosan–Gelatin: Effect of Composition on Physicochemical Properties by Kashurin Aleksandr, Litvinov Mikhail, Podshivalov Aleksandr

“…It was shown that hydrogels at <i>z</i> ≈ 1 had an increased sorption capacity and water sorption rate, as well as increased resistance to the in vitro model environment of phosphate-buffered saline (<i>PBS</i>) solution containing lysozyme at 37 °C. …”
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Heat Shock Protein 70 and 90 Genes in the Harmful Dinoflagellate Cochlodinium polykrikoides: Genomic Structures and Transcriptional Responses to Environmental Stresses by Ruoyu Guo, Seok Hyun Youn, Jang-Seu Ki

“…However, CpHSP90 had one intron in the coding genomic regions, and no intergenic region was found. …”
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ASSESSMENT OF UTILISATION OF SOIL MANAGEMENT PRACTICES AMONG ARABLE CROP FARMERS IN OGUN STATE: IMPLICATION FOR SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE IN NIGERIA by Rukayat Abiodun ADEYEMO, Afolabi Mohammed OLADOJA, Michael FAMAKINWA, Dorcas Lola ALABI

“…Age (r = 0.20); farming experience (r= 0.451) and crop yield (r = 0.223) had significantly relationship with the respondents’ utilisation of SMPs. …”
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Perioperative Outcomes of Simultaneous Bilateral Total Knee Arthroplasty in Elderly Indian Patients: A Retrospective Study by Yogesh Chaudhari, Ketankumar Thombare

“…Patients with chronic kidney disease had the highest LOS (5.10 days), followed by those with Parkinson’s disease (5.00 days). …”
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Evaluating the effectiveness of training on malnutrition for Anganwadi workers in Anekal Taluk, Bengaluru Urban District by Nancy Angeline Gnanaselvam, Avita Rose Johnson, Anupama Shetty

“…Results: As compared to the pretest scores, 45.9% of the participants had an increase in knowledge of malnutrition immediately after the training and after 6 months. 19.81% of the participants had an increase in knowledge. …”
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DC priming by M. vaccae inhibits Th2 responses in contrast to specific TLR2 priming and is associated with selective activation of the CREB pathway. by Nina Le Bert, Benjamin M Chain, Graham Rook, Mahdad Noursadeghi

“…M. vaccae induced DC dependent inhibition of Th2 responses, in contrast to Pam(3)CSK4, which had the opposite effect and LPS, which had no polarizing effect. …”
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Effects of Managerialism Reflected in Public Institutions Serving Women in Turkey by Tuğçe Uğur Güler, Derya Şaşman Kaylı

“…This study is aimed at revealing the effects of managerialism ideology on the structure and functioning of public institutions providing services for women. …”
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Semi-automatic grading system in histologic and immunohistochemistry analysis to evaluate in vitro chondrogenesis by Johana Guevara Morales, María Lucía Gutiérrez, Luis Alejandro Barrera

“…We developed a functional system for semi-automatic slide grading. …”
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Characterisation of connexin expression and electrophysiological properties in stable clones of the HL-1 myocyte cell line. by Priyanthi Dias, Thomas Desplantez, Majd A El-Harasis, Rasheda A Chowdhury, Nina D Ullrich, Alberto Cabestrero de Diego, Nicholas S Peters, Nicholas J Severs, Kenneth T MacLeod, Emmanuel Dupont

“…Inward currents were characterised by voltage clamp and conduction velocities measured using microelectrode arrays. The HL-1 clones had similar sodium and calcium inward currents with the exception of clone 2 which had a significantly smaller calcium current density. …”
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First dorsal metacarpal artery islanded flap: A useful flap for reconstruction of thumb pulp defects by Chetan Satish, Sunit Nema

“…It is very important to reconstruct these defects using sensate flaps as the thumb pulp needs to be sensate for implementing the various functions of the thumb. A very good option for coverage of these defects is the islanded first dorsal metacarpal artery flap. …”
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Awareness of biobanking among patients and doctors: experience of the Tomsk Oblast by E. M. Kamenskikh, Yu. O. Bakhareva, Yu. D. Demchenko, T. S. Sokolova, S. D. Kazakov, K. A. Chubakova, O. S. Fedorova

“…Patients and doctors had not received information about biobanks from official sources, but intuitively understood their functions and roles in biomedical research. …”
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