La ecología política de la crisis global y los límites del capitalismo benévolo by Eduardo Gudynas

“…First, the effects of the crisis were denied or minimized (with an appeal to images such as the uncoupling or shielding of economies), and now that they have been recognized, a “repair” or “reform” of capitalism has been proposed while maintaining its essence. …”
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Pathogenetic therapeutic approaches for endocrine diseases based on antisense oligonucleotides and RNA-interference by Olga Golounina, Ildar Minniakhmetov, Ramil Salakhov, Rita Khusainova, Ekaterina Zakharova, Igor Bychkov, Natalia Mokrysheva

“…RNA-targeted therapy can precisely modulate the function of target RNA with minimal off-target effects and can be rationally designed based on sequence data. ASOs and siRNA-based drugs have unique capabilities for using in target groups of patients or can be tailored as patient-customized N-of-1 therapeutic approach. …”
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Assessing the quality, reliability, and transparency of YouTube videos on spiritual palliative care: a content analysis by Fhaied Almobarak

“…Concerned authorities must recognize the risk of contact with substandard quality health-related YouTube content. …”
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Rectal versus vaginal progesterone administration for luteal phase support in the hormone replacement therapy frozen embryo transfer (HRT-FET) cycle: protocol for a non-inferiority... by Peter Humaidan, Birgit Alsbjerg

“…Introduction This study compares rectal administration with vaginal administration of progesterone as luteal phase support in hormone replacement therapy frozen embryo transfer (HRT-FET) cycles. The reason for comparing the two routes of administration is that rectal administration has been suggested to be more patient friendly.Methods and analysis This study is a randomised controlled trial comparing the ongoing pregnancy rate (OPR) at week 12 in HRT-FET cycles after rectal administered progesterone as the only administered progesterone compared with a vaginal luteal phase support regimen. …”
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Impact of lecture hall’s background noise on undergraduates’ higher order thinking skills: A field study by Nada Atef, Yasser Mansour, Hanan Sabry

“…Mastering higher-order thinking skills in Higher Education Institutions has become a must for undergraduates to cope with the continuously changing world and the vast globalization around them. Acoustics is recognized as a vital indoor environmental quality aspect having a significant impact over the learning performance of students inside learning spaces whether classrooms or large lecture halls. …”
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Environmental Supply Chain Performance Mapping of an Enterprise by Exploring a Novel Vague-Intellectual Approach by Juan Wang, M. Prabhu, Abatihun Alehegn Sewagegn, Anoop Kumar Sahu

“…Entire approaches are limited to recognize the weak metrics under assessment of two GTFN sets from experts and also not competent to measure the performance gap of metrics from its ideal value. …”
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Barriers to Uptake of Cataract Surgery in Central Chhattisgarh by Samrat Chatterjee, Nehal Mohata, Anil Babanrao Gangwe, Anupam Sahu, Deepshikha Agrawal

“…The different barriers were lack of escort (34.0%), cost of surgery (17.7%), lack of awareness of cataract (9.6%), fear of losing eyesight (6.8%), unfelt need (6.3%), waiting for outreach camp to happen in a close-by location (5.9%), waiting for the cataract to mature (4.6%), do not know where to go (3.9%), busy with work (3.7%), living far from the hospital (1.9%), need not felt - old age (1.7%), blindness is God’s will (1.4%), other health reasons (1.1%), being female (0.8%), and village not connected to the main road/lack of transport (0.6%). …”
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Mofette Vegetation as an Indicator for Geogenic CO2 Emission: A Case Study on the Banks of the Laacher See Volcano, Vulkaneifel, Germany by Hardy Pfanz, Frank Saßmannshausen, Christiane Wittmann, Benny Pfanz, Annika Thomalla

“…Soil CO2 increased, while soil oxygen decreased with increasing soil depth. There was a reasonable correlation between CO2 degassing and soil pH as well as soil conductivity. …”
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Correlation Between <i>Cryptococcus</i> Infection and the Nasal Mycobiota in a Population of Free-Ranging Koalas (<i>Phascolarctos cinereus</i>) in New South Wales, Australia by Andrew S. McPherson, Sophie L. Haworth, Alex Kan, Luisa Monteiro de Miranda, Mark B. Krockenberger

“…Nasal colonisation and subclinical cryptococcosis are common in koalas (<i>Phascolarctos cinereus</i>) due to their shared environmental niche with <i>Cryptococcus</i>: <i>Eucalyptus</i> trees. However, for reasons that remain unclear, the prevalence of clinical disease is low in koalas. …”
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The Metallogeny of the Tieling Cu-Mo Porphyry Deposit in Eastern Tianshan, NW China: New Insights from Zircon U-Pb, Fluid Inclusion, and H-O-S Stable Isotope Analyses by Ping Li, Ting Liang, Fan Huang, Tongyang Zhao, Zhixin Zhu, Yong Li, Jing Feng, Lei He

“…The Tieling Cu-Mo porphyry deposit, which is situated in the western part of the eastern Tianshan metallogenic belt, was recently recognized as being related to Carboniferous granite porphyry. …”
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Optimization of an Intelligent Sorting and Recycling System for Solid Waste Based on Image Recognition Technology by Haitao Chen

“…Image recognition is a technique to recognize images by capturing real-life images through devices and performing feature extraction, and this technique has been widely used since its inception. …”
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Problem of Unity and Differentiation of Internal Labor Regulations by D. S. Podkopai

“…In order to ensure the appropriate level of labor discipline, rational use of working time, improving the quality and productivity of labor by creating the necessary conditions for normal high-performance work, conscious and conscientious performance of their duties, employees must develop and approve sectoral internal regulations; and if for the public sector of the economy they should be given the status of mandatory, then for the non-state sector they should be exemplary.…”
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Measurement of population agglomeration, dynamic change characteristics, and motivations in metropolitan agglomerations-A case study of the Xi'an metropolitan area. by Ke Liu, Xu Bo, Wang Zhaoping, Ran Du, Chen Heng

“…This article compares the population agglomeration characteristics of the Xi'an metropolitan area in western China with those of metropolitan areas in other regions officially approved by the Chinese government. …”
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« Ilé Tuntun » à La Havane by Alain Konen

“…However, judging by the reactions of numerous babalawos based in Havana, they appear to be controversial for two reasons. First, Ilé Tuntun, by renewing and reinterpreting historical links to Africa, advocates a ritual subordination to Yoruba religious and political dignitaries. …”
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A Seed-Expanding Method Based on TOPSIS for Community Detection in Complex Networks by Jianjun Cheng, Wenbo Zhang, Haijuan Yang, Xing Su, Tao Ma, Xiaoyun Chen

“…The traditional algorithms always use a single centrality measure to recognize seed vertices from the network, but each centrality measure has both pros and cons when being used in this circumstance; hence seed vertices identified using a single centrality measure might not be the best ones. …”
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Application of Multimedia Quality Evaluation Relying on Intelligent Robot Numerical Control Technology in New Energy Power Generation System by Ruijuan Sun, Xiaoyuan Dang

“…The planned outage condition of the unit, which was ignored by the current stochastic simulation method, has been fully considered to ensure the rationality of the simulation of intelligent robot numerical control technology. …”
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Redesigning the Employer Value Proposition in Times of Crisis by Katarzyna Łazorko

“…Findings: The presentation of changing expectations of candidates, as well as analysis of the content of the entrepreneurs’ web pages lead to the conclusion that not many Polish enterprises have changed their Employer Value Proposition (EVP) in the last four years to adjust to expectations of potential employees (about 30% in the sample), although, due to their scale of operation their marketing budgets are probably higher than in the case of the rest of the market. There may be many reasons behind that situation, including the specificity of different industries, as well as unpredictability, and suddenness of changes in their environment. …”
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ABO isoagglutinin titers in group “O” blood donors by Sadhana Mangwana, Shashi Kumar, Vivek Gangwar

“…BACKGROUND: High titers of anti-A and anti-B are considered to be one reason for hemolytic transfusion reactions and ABO hemolytic disease in fetus and neonates. …”
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Efficacy of short term non steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs in Indian patients with axial spondyloarthritis by Shubha Bhalla, Shallu Verma, Anand Narayan Malaviya

“…The efficacy of NSAIDs observed in this study was much higher than that reported in European/North American patients. The reason for this difference needs further study.…”
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Detection of Burned Areas by Remote Sensing Techniques: İzmir Seferihisar Forest fire case study by Aslı Sabuncu, Haluk Özener

“…Based on the three different methods of results are compatible, rational and consistent with the results of the General Directorate of Forestry.…”
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