Expert perspectives on incorporating justice considerations into integrated assessment modelling by Sean Low, Elina Brutschin, Chad M. Baum, Benjamin K. Sovacool

“…Abstract There is growing criticism aimed towards global integrated assessment models (IAMs) and an ongoing academic debate on how justice considerations can be incorporated in those models. …”
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African Approaches to Intellectual Property: Intellectual Property, Development and the Contested Meanings of Decolonisation by Ntokozo Dladla

“…I argue that in the work of Okediji, the term is used to renew the radical debates of the 1970s on the right to development in order to undo international law and IP’s imperialist correlates. …”
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Ecofeminismos en América Latina: la reflexión entorno a la violencia extractivista y patriarcal de Mujeres Creando by Agnese Codebò

“…De tal manera, el colectivo boliviano contribuye a las discusiones del ecofeminismo, corriente muy viva en el debate latinoamericano contemporáneo, que revela cómo los despojos del capitalismo neoextractivista afectan tanto a los cuerpos como a los territorios. …”
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THE IMPACT OF EXCHANGE RATE VOLATILITY AND INFLATION ON THE NIGERIAN ECONOMY by Olabode Eric Olabisi, Kemi Funlayo AKEJU

“… In African countries, exchange rate volatility, inflation, and economic growth relationships remain debatable, especially in Nigeria, because of the historical homogeneity of the monetary macroeconomic variables among the member countries. …”
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Controversy About Management of Osteoarthritis with Disease-modifying Anti-rheumatic Drugs by CUI Hanshu, LIU Bin

“…This article analyzes and discusses this debate based on the mechanisms of OA inflammation and pain, and in conjunction with relevant research findings from domestic and international studies.…”
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Un Nuevo impulso a la democracia europea by Carlos Pérez Padilla

“…Finalmente, se exploran tanto los debates de actualidad como futuros usos de estos instrumentos. …”
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Capitalismo y la economía del absurdo by Camila Potyara Pereira

“…Suas últimas produções, intituladas “La Economía del Absurdo”, de 2015, ganhadora do Prêmio Joan Fuster de Ensayos, e “Adiós a La Soberania Política”, de 2017, constituem material de debate obrigatório para a todos que desejam entender os perigos que atualmente pairam sobre a democracia, a cidadania social, o poder do Estado, os direitos trabalhistas e, consequentemente, à política social como política pública. …”
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Liver Damage in Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus by A. O. Bueverov, A. V. Zilov

“…Diabetes type 1 causes a markedly more common liver injury than traditionally assumed. Three types of hepatic damage have been described to date in T1D patients, steatosis, glycogen hepatopathy and diabetic hepatosclerosis, with the latter two apparently pathognomonic of this diabetes type. …”
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IMIGRAÇÃO E DIREITOS NA REGIAO NOROESTE PAULISTA by Marcelo Alario Ennes

“…Para isto, problematiza o debate e a criação de leis como expressões de concepções de direitos e de identidade nacional desenvolvidas e difundidas por forcas político-partidárias. …”
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, A CULTURA PRIMARIA DA DEMOCRACIA: comunidades locais, públicos democráticos e associações by Philippe Chanial

“…A intenção ê aproximar teoricamente os debates recentes da sociologia francesa sobre o tema, especialmente os estudos sobre a dádiva, e a tradição pragmática norte-americana. …”
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É fã ou hater? interrupções religiosas e colapsos morais nas redes sociais digitais de artistas evangélicas by Raphael Bispo

“…Fofocas e tretas sobre trajetórias religiosas emergem nos debates escritos, gravados e narrados nas plataformas digitais de mulheres famosas envolvidas em algum momento de suas histórias pessoais com igrejas evangélicas. …”
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Iron-regulatory liver hormone hepcidin and its place in the system of congenital immunity by O. A. Smirnov

“…So-called inflammation anemia (anemia of chronic diseases) serves as clinical and morphological manifestation of this rearrangement, which severity correlates to unfavorable course of chronic hepatitis B and C, as well as neoplastic, renal and cardiac diseases. …”
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Modern treatment methods of patients with liver metastases of colorectal cancer by Ye. N. Grebenkin, V. D. Chhikvadze, U. S. Stanoyevich, Ye. I. Dekhissi

“…Efficacy of liver resection, radio-frequency ablation (RFA), systemic and intra-arterial hepatic chemotherapy (IAHC) was studied.Results. The five-years general survival rate at liver resection was 33,3%, relapse-free – 22,2%, at RFA – 16,2 and 13,5% respectively. …”
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Religious faith traditions tussle with rampant corruption toward sustainable development: Search for the missing links in light of ubuntu by E. Chinyena

“… There is a raging debate in scholarly discourse on the role of religious faith traditions in influencing firm dispositions on various institutions and economic growth. …”
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Primary biliary cirrhosis: clinical and laboratory criteria of diagnostics and up-to-date treatment by L. Yu. Il’chenko, V. I. Reshetn’yak

“…АМА-positive (classical) variant of PBC with pruritus, jaundice, biochemical syndrome of cholestasis and revealing of AMA in diagnostic titer (more 1:40) in blood serum is defined; АМА-negative variant of PBC with lower biochemical and immunologic activity, lower frequency of extrahepatic manifestations, that, however, does not influence the prognosis and terms of LC progression; overlap syndrome with autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) – PBC/AIH (9,4%); asymptomatic course of PBC which is characterized by absence of clinical symptoms for a long period and manifestation of disease at the stage of LC complications. …”
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Biomass derived carbon/platinum nanoparticles as electrocatalyst for the hydrogen evolution by Shimaa M. Ali

“…The proposed synthesis method offers a green, economic, and efficient route for preparing precious metals used for catalytic applications.…”
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Economic Growth and Firm Size Dynamics: Evidence from Romania’s Development Regions by Daniel Badulescu, Alina Badulescu, Ramona Simut, Dragos Dianu

“… The relationship between firms and economic growth is an intensely debated topic in the literature, emphasizing the impact of the large businesses or small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in ensuring growth, innovation and employment, the role of support measures or social benefits. …”
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Carbon pricing drives critical transition to green growth by Isaak Mengesha, Debraj Roy

“…Our research has important implications for the ongoing debate around the relationship between economic growth, inequality, and environmental sustainability.…”
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OPERA AND ITALIAN IDENTITY: THE LONG VIEW by Stefano CASTELVECCHI

“…The role that opera may have played in that process has been the object of much debate. Here I take a longer view, and begin to explore the more elusive ways in which music and opera may have contributed to the emergence of an Italian identity (an important condition for any thought about political unification) in the eighteenth century. …”
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Modelling and Simulation of the Spread of HBV Disease. by Niyirora, Ignatius

“…It was guided by specific objectives that were to find out the disease-free equilibrium of the spread of Hepatitis B Virus, to determine sensitivity analysis on Ro to ascertain which parameter is most sensitive and that should be targeted by way of intervention and to examine the local stability of the model equation using the modified implicit function theorem. …”
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