Liver Biomarkers and Lipid Profiles in Mexican and Mexican-American 10- to 14-Year-Old Adolescents at Risk for Type 2 Diabetes by Ana Cecilia Fernández-Gaxiola, Roxana Valdés-Ramos, Kimberly Fulda, Ana Laura Guadarrama López, Beatriz E. Martínez-Carrillo, Susan F. Franks, Shane Fernando

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Exact Formulae for Degree Distance Indices of Sum Graphs by Muhammad Javaid, Faiz Farid, Jia-Bao Liu, Abdulaziz Mohammed Alanazi

“…In extremal theory of graphs, improving the bounds with best possible values is a worth investigating problem. In this note, the exact formulae of the DDI for the four different types of the sum graphs in the terms of various indices of their factor graphs are computed. …”
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Become Captain of Your Financial Ship, Unit 1: Charting the Course by Josephine Turner

“…It includes a slide presentation and a fact sheet and set of worksheets on money management that will help consumers understand their goals, their net worth, and their spending habits, and then develop a spending plan. …”
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Teaching materials for ESL distance learning by Memić-Fišić Iris, Bijedić Nina

“…Distance education, as a form of education that enables and promotes development of autonomous life-long learning skill, necessary to keep up with rapid changes and development in today’s society, is a concept definitely worth considering. Teaching a foreign language in a distance education system is very challenging, primarily in terms of overcoming the main gap – lack of direct contact between teachers and learners. …”
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Geographical Flushing of the Children’s Face: A New Clinical Entity? by Masatoshi Jinnin, Satoshi Fukushima, Yuji Inoue, Hironobu Ihn

“…Many dermatologists may have seen a similar condition but did not think much about it. Thus, it should be worth regarding such symptom as the benign new clinical entity, which may comfort patients with similar conditions and merit further attention in clinical practice.…”
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« La langue bien pendue ». Pour une nouvelle traduction de Mafalda by Claire Latxague

“…Nearly 50 years after the release of Mafalda’s first edition in France, it is worth considering whether French readers today perceive its political dimension. …”
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Become Captain of Your Financial Ship, Unit 1: Charting the Course by Josephine Turner

“…It includes a slide presentation and a fact sheet and set of worksheets on money management that will help consumers understand their goals, their net worth, and their spending habits, and then develop a spending plan. …”
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Feasibility Study of the Development of a Drinking Water Supply System (SPAM) Investment of Cibulakan Springs Perumda Drinking Water Tirta Rahaja Bandung District – West Java by Hari Sundana, Wateno Oetomo, Risma Marleno

“…This explains that the investment in developing a Drinking Water Supply System (SPAM) from the Cibulakan springs of Perumda Drinking water Tirta Raharja in Bandung Regency is worth running, because there is a return on investment as proven by the BEP value for 7 years. …”
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To a critique of space in architectural discourse by Петр Капустин

“… What is it worth to constantly use the word ‘space’ in contexts related to architecture, urbanism or even ‘new urbanism’? …”
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A Summary of N and K Research with Strawberry in Florida by George Hochmuth, Ed Hanlon

“…More than 50 years’ worth of strawberry fertilization research has been conducted in Florida. …”
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Arte e criação artística em contexto urbano: um estudo de caso de política pública em Porto Alegre (RS, Brasil) by Ana Luiza Carvalho da Rocha, Cornelia Eckert

“…n Porto Alegre the production of public art has been since 1991 an object of specific concern for the Coordination of Plastic Arts of the Municipal Department of Culture, which instituted the contest Espaço Urbano & Espaço Arte, a project that ended up directly influencing a series of cultural policies. It is worth mentioning the performance of one of its coordinators, who reports her experience with the origins of the contest and its unfolding as a public policy. …”
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Geometric Assortative Growth Model for Small-World Networks by Yilun Shang

“…We obtain analytical solutions of relevant topological properties such as order, size, degree distribution, degree correlation, clustering, transitivity, and diameter. It is also worth noting that the model can be viewed as a generalization for an iterative construction of Farey graphs.…”
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Evaluation Method of IT English Blended Teaching Quality Based on the Data Mining Algorithm by Lin Shao

“…As the mixed education model gradually becomes widespread in various universities in Japan, the evaluation of the quality of IT English mixed education has become a very important issue, and it is worth considering the corresponding evaluation method. …”
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A Summary of N and K Research with Strawberry in Florida by George Hochmuth, Ed Hanlon

“…More than 50 years’ worth of strawberry fertilization research has been conducted in Florida. …”
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Positive Solutions for BVP of Fractional Differential Equation with Integral Boundary Conditions by Min Li, Jian-Ping Sun, Ya-Hong Zhao

“…By applying the monotone iterative method and some inequalities associated with Green’s function, we obtain the existence of minimal and maximal positive solutions and establish two iterative sequences for approximating the solutions to the above problem. It is worth mentioning that these iterative sequences start off with zero function or linear function, which is useful and feasible for computational purpose. …”
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A Novel Chaotic System without Equilibrium: Dynamics, Synchronization, and Circuit Realization by Ahmad Taher Azar, Christos Volos, Nikolaos A. Gerodimos, George S. Tombras, Viet-Thanh Pham, Ahmed G. Radwan, Sundarapandian Vaidyanathan, Adel Ouannas, Jesus M. Munoz-Pacheco

“…A few special chaotic systems without unstable equilibrium points have been investigated recently. It is worth noting that these special systems are different from normal chaotic ones because the classical Shilnikov criterion cannot be used to prove chaos of such systems. …”
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A proposal for a systematic approach to moral philosophy by Christopher Caruana

“…This article gives a methodological overview of three standards against which it is possible to examine the worth of moral theories and to test their true contribution to ethics. …”
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Emprego em TICs e gênero no ramo de informática: uma primeira exploração by Zuleica Lopes Cavalcanti de Oliveira, João Raposo Belchior

“…The question that guides this study is related to the following points: (a) the extent to which gender differences in the labor market have played in the computer sector (b) to what extent women's participation in this sector has experienced changes worth noting. Moreover, this work is based on government statistics, since there are still few quantitative nature of the analysis on the trends of female employment in the computer sector.…”
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Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo and Occult Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Complicated after Head Trauma by Qinghua Li, Shuangxing Hou, Hualan Yang

“…How to effectively recognize SAH especially concealed bleeding before maneuver treatment for BPPV is worth paying attention by every clinician. Presently described is a case that when there are some clinical symptoms cannot be completely explained by simple BPPV, the combination of CT and FLAIR MRI sequences are needed in the early-stage detection of acute SAH.…”
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Review: Fifty Years Plus of Accelerometer History for Shock and Vibration (1940–1996) by Patrick L. Walter

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