Eternal City or the Stuff of Nightmares? The Characterisation of Rome in Portrait of a Lady and Middlemarch by Hannah Hunt

“…It notes the recurring use in both novels of a metaphor of marriage as constituting a confining cul de sac, in which the idealism of both Dorothea and Isabel is crushed and their autonomy suppressed. …”
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Prevalence, risk factors and health-seeking behavior of menstrual disorders among women in India: a review of two-decade evidence by Puja Das, Suresh Jungari

“…The study further found that irregular lifestyle, obesity, inadequate diet, age at marriage, family history, smoking, and place of residence factors is associated with menstrual disorders in India. …”
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Social Strata Differentials in Reproductive Behavior among Agricultural Families in the Krummhörn Region (East Frisia, 1720-1874) by Kai Willführ, Charlotte Störmer

“…While the upper class did not have lower infant and child mortality than the lower class, they had more surviving children because of their shorter birth intervals and lower female age at marriage. Crop prices did not affect mortality or fertility before 1820. …”
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Forensic Discrimination Potential of Blue, Black, Green, and Red Colored Fountain Pen Inks Commercially Used in Pakistan, by UV/Visible Spectroscopy, Thin Layer Chromatography, and... by Mehwish Sharif, Madeeha Batool, Sohail Chand, Zahoor Hussain Farooqi, Syed Azhar Ali Shah Tirmazi, Makshoof Athar

“…Examination and comparison of fountain pen inks are very important in forensic questioned documents examination in developing countries where the chances of fraud are greater in cases of cheques, marriage papers, entry of birth and death, etc. In this study, fountain pen inks of blue, black, green, and red colours that are commercially used in Pakistan have been discriminated by UV-Vis spectroscopy, TLC, and FTIR spectroscopy. …”
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Johann Franz Count von Würben and His Diary Entries from 1662 by Martin Bakeš, Jiří Kubeš

“…First they dedicate attention to the diarist Count von Würben, reconstructing both his life story and his important secular career the initiation of which was facilitated by his relocation from Moravia to Prague and his marriage to the daughter of the Oberstburggraf Bernhard Ignaz von Martinitz. …”
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The Role of Parents in Uplifting Girl-Child Education in Karambi Sub- County Kasese District. by Ndungo, Erisa

“…The study findings revealed that the biggest problem hindering girls' education is forced early marriage and that drop out of girl child students affects the standards and performance of other students. …”
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Longitudinal Cross-Lagged Analysis Between Depressive Symptoms, Social Withdrawal, Self-Esteem, and School Adaptation in Multicultural Adolescents by Chung Choe, Seunghee Yu

“…In Korea, as the number of multicultural families formed through the marriage of Korean men and foreign women from lower-income countries such as China, Southeast Asia, and Central Asia increases, the psychosocial adaptation of adolescents from these families is becoming increasingly important. …”
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Achilles Tendon Xanthoma and Cholestanol Revealing Cerebrotendinous Xanthomatosis: A New Case Report by Mohamed Ahmed Ghassem, Aziza Mounach, Julien H Djossou, Hamza Toufik, Najlae El Ouardi, Lahsen Achemlal, Ahmed Bezza

“…The patient was the first child of consanguineous marriage. She had bilateral cataracts and developmental delay. …”
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Tatars of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the United States of America by Siarhiej Miskiewicz

“…It is based on the results of study of family collections, oral stories, archival documents (Ellis Island cases, certificates of birth, death, marriage, draft) and pictures. The organization structure, the names of the famous Tatars and the Society board members (presidents, vice-presidents, secretaries, treasurers, imams, teachers, bank account holders, funeral committee members, etc.), the information about two cemeteries are re- vealed and provided. …”
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Karandu (Gong): History, Functions, and Symbols in the Life of the Tolaki People in 17th -20th Century Southeast Sulawesi by Akhmad Marhadi, Syahrun Syahrun, Basrin Melamba, Marwati Marwati, Hayari Hayari

“…The traditional object in marriage was called tawa-tawa sara (traditional gong), then replaced with money (nililima/ nilungga). …”
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Hereditary Tyrosinemia Type 1 in Jordan: A Retrospective Study by Noor A. Megdadi, Ahmad K. Almigdad, Mo’men O. Alakil, Shahrazad M. Alqiam, Sumaia G. Rababah, Moshera A. Dwiari

“…Positive family history was identified in 61.1% of patients, and a similar percentage were born to parents with consanguineous marriage. The most common presentation was abdominal pain, vomiting, and fever. …”
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Cultural Aspects of Type-2 Diabetes-related Social Stigma: A Cultural Epidemiological Study among General Community Members in Urban Pune, India by Abhay Machindra Kudale, Mayuri Dnyandeo Ghawat, Akshada Vikram Gopale, Mugdha Sharad Phutane, Saju Joseph

“…The milder stigma for type-2 diabetes was revealed through the preference to hide, problems in arranging marriages, difficulties in ongoing marriages, and discrimination instances at the workplace. …”
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INTERNATIONAL LEGAL FRAMEWORK ON HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND CRIMINAL LIABILITY ON TRAFFICKERS by Paul Nwala

“…People can be trafficked for many different forms of exploitation such as forced prostitution, forced labour, forced begging, forced criminality, domestic servitude, forced marriage, and forced organ removal. It has become a serious global problem that despite legal efforts so far put in place to combat, it has continued to persist. …”
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Trust as a key element in family mediation during divorce: strategies, practices (supervision experience with the use of neural networks) by V. V. Krivopuskov, I. V. Mkrtumova, O. E. Gracheva

“…The article analyses the statistics of marriage and family relations, the number of divorces in Russia, Moscow, in the world for 5 years, also during the COVID-19 pandemic. …”
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Intellectual Disability and Parenthood by Isack Kandel, Mohammed Morad, Gideon Vardi, Joav Merrick

“…Jewish Law has been very progressive regarding the possibility of marriage between persons with ID (in contrast to American Law where historically this right has been denied, until recently). …”
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Barriers and facilitators regarding the implementation of policies and programmes aimed at reducing adolescent pregnancy in Ghana: an exploratory qualitative study by Melissa Kang, Bright Opoku Ahinkorah, Lin Perry, Fiona Brooks

“…Community members should be sensitised on the negative effects of norms that support child marriage, gender-based violence and early childbearing.…”
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Sources of Information on HIV and Sexual and Reproductive Health for Couples Living with HIV in Rural Southern Malawi by Belinda Chimphamba Gombachika, Ellen Chirwa, Address Malata, Alfred Maluwa

“…Our results illuminate five specific issues: some of the informants (1) remarry after divorce/death of a spouse, (2) establish new marriage relationship with spouses living with HIV, and (3) have children hence the need for information to base their decisions. …”
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Association of systemic inflammatory response index and stroke: a cross-sectional study of NHANES, 2005–2018 by Aokai Tian, Yafang Zheng, Jing Jin, Chunyuan Huang

“…Additional interaction tests and subgroup analysis revealed that age, sex, race, education, marriage, BMI (body mass index), smoking, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, and coronary heart disease (CHD) were not positively correlated (p interaction >0.05). …”
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Governing the boundary: between socio-environmental vulnerability and state capacity in Temajuk Village, Indonesia by Alfath Bagus Panuntun El Nur Indonesia, Defila Priana Falarima, Said Khaidir, Ari Surida, Nur Muliasari MS, Tara Charissa Oktavia S

“…The findings exposed potential national threats caused by geographic isolation, and porous borders that facilitate illicit activities, such as drug and alcoholic drinks smuggling, with serious social consequences, including youth delinquency, early marriage, declining education levels, and increased health risks, such as the spread of HIV/AIDS. …”
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A Review of Reinforcement Learning for Fixed-Wing Aircraft Control Tasks by David J. Richter, Ricardo A. Calix, Kyungbaek Kim

“…A lot of that can be attributed to the recent advancements in machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) as a whole, the power of deep neural networks and the incorporation of them into reinforcement learning algorithms and techniques. This marriage of deep neural networks and traditional reinforcement learning methods has enabled reinforcement learning algorithms to achieve incredible results in use-cases that were previously deemed to be too complex. …”
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