Entre doces, palhas e fibras: experiências populares de geração de renda em cidades de pequeno porte no sul de Minas Gerais by Carlos Alberto Máximo Pimenta, Adilson da Silva Mello

“… A proposta desta reflexão circunscreve-se às estratégias populares de geração de renda, por meio de grupos de artesãos presentes nas cidades de Maria da Fé, Piranguçu e Alfenas, todos localizados no sul de Minas Gerais, no sentido de capturar os modos de saber-fazer traduzidos, a partir da experiência popular, em existência de objetos técnicos, dimensões do humano, do não-humano, do material e do imaterial contidos nas práticas estudadas. …”
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Facts about Carbohydrate by Nancy J. Gal, Amanda L. Ford, Wendy J. Dahl

“…Some glucose is stored in the liver and muscle cells for later use when required. Children need carbohydrate for growth, and adults need carbohydrate to maintain their weight. …”
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The Implications of Mental Health and Trauma in Interstitial Cystitis by Tyler R. Bendrick, Graison L. Sitenga, Cameron Booth, Matthew P. Sacco, Christine Erie, Danyon J. Anderson, Alan D. Kaye, Ivan Urits

“…It was also established that for individuals with early traumatic experiences, the more likely the development of IC later in life, and with more severe symptoms and adverse effects on quality of life. …”
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REVIEW ON THE ROAD TRAFFIC NOISE ASSESSMENT by ALINA PETROVICI, CLAUDIA TOMOZEI, FLORIN NEDEFF, OANA IRIMIA, MIRELA PANAINTE-LEHADUS

“…Whether it is industrial, airport, rail or road traffic noise, noise mapping provides accurate data needed later in developing action plans against noise. The road traffic noise assessments are performed periodically, and a representative picture of the noise in the analysed areas is obtained. …”
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Interview with Piet J. Naudé by Martin Laubscher

“…As Humboldt scholar, he later built a special academic relation with Michael Welker in Heidelberg (Germany) and with the Centre for Theological Inquiry at (USA). …”
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El Greco's Italian paintings (1560-76) based on Bible texts by Estelle Alma Maré

“…Even during his years as an apprentice El Greco’s art is proof that he aspired to the highest humanly accessible values exemplified by Renaissance artistic theory, humanism and Christian spirituality — all of which later came to fruition in an unprecedented original combination in Toledo, Spain, where he settled permanently in 1577. …”
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Shifting Parenthood to Advanced Reproductive Ages: Trends, Causes and Consequences by Tomáš Sobotka

“…This article discusses different aspects of the shift towards later parenthood which has affected all industrialised countries. …”
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Johannes Hoornbeeck, a monumental 17th Century Dutch theologian: continuities in his thinking on doctrine and life by J. W. Hofmeyr

“…This first article focuses especially on his contributions in the field of practical theology and homiletics, polemics and pastoral theology. In a later article, the focus will move to his contributions as a systematic theologian, as an historian, as a missiologist, and as a socially engaged theologian with an irenical and ecumenical orientation, in spite of him being a strong polemicist. …”
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Yellow Sugarcane Aphid, Sipha flava (Forbes) (Insecta: Heteroptera: Aphididae) by Gregg S. Nuessly

“…Originally referred to as the 'sorghum aphis' and placed in the genus Chaitophorus (Forbes 1884), it was later moved into the genus Sipha (Davis 1909). Sipha includes 12 species of grass feeders, at least four of which occur in North America north of Mexico. …”
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Lithuanian bibliophiles in the XVIII century by Levas Vladimirovas

“…They created wonderful collections in their palaces. Later, most of those books enriched various state and research libraries. …”
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Effects of the disconnection technique and preemptive one-lung ventilation on lung collapse during one-lung ventilation in thoracoscopic surgery by Hongru Zhang, Silin Xiang, Longyong Mei, Yonggeng Feng, Han She, Yi Hu, Li Wang

“…Preemptive group: OLV was initiated promptly after the patient was turned to the lateral position, and the bronchial tube port was clamped on the operative side at the lateral position for no less than 6 min until the pleura was opened. …”
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Effectiveness of a Patient Support Program in Supporting Access to Therapy for Solid Tumor Malignancies by Lindsay Parker, Alissa Shaul, Brian Murphy, Zeba M. Khan

“…Following benefits investigations for new patients entering the program (98.5%), CPS provided support to obtain free medicine (29.4%), appeal denial of coverage (15.0%), receive commercial co-payment assistance (8.1%), or obtain prior payer authorization (1.3%). Nab-paclitaxel was provided at no cost in 89.4% of cases where patients sought financial support; payer reimbursement was obtained in 63.2% of reimbursement appeals. …”
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Soil Erosion Process Under the Combined Action of Water and Gravity on Red Soil Slope by ZHANG Xiaohan, MA Lan, YU Chong, WU Zhiwei, WANG Jie

“…The runoff process in the later stage of each rainfall was basically the same, and the runoff rate decreased gradually. (3) The total sediment yield of each rainfall was 0.26, 10.6, 5.74, 3.15, 9.37 g, the erosion rate of the gravel soil fluctuated greatly under each rainfall, but the overall trend decreased in the later stage of rainfall. (4) Gravity erosion occurred in the non-gravel soil during the second rainfall. …”
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Optimal Bone Preparation for Triple-Tapered Stems: Does the Sagittal Taper Affect Optimal Femoral Sizing? by Jeff Shi, MD, Kevin Salomon, MD, Victor Shen, BS, Andrew Moore, MD, John T. Wilson, MD, Brian Palumbo, MD

“…The TTP overall mean percent metaphyseal fill was 74 ± 6% in the AP view and 71 ± 5% in the lateral view, both significantly higher than single-tapered preparation which was 67 ± 7% and 65 ± 7%, respectively (P < .001). …”
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After a Hand Was Lent: Sporadically Experiencing Multisensory Interference During the Rubber Hand Illusion Does Not Shield Against Disembodiment by Julia Eck, David Dignath, Andreas Kalckert, Roland Pfister

“…In analogy to this, we investigated whether experiencing occasional visuo-motor mismatches during the induction phase of the moving rubber hand illusion (intermittent condition) would result in slower disembodiment as compared to a regular induction phase where motor and visual signals always match (continuous condition). …”
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FIRM INNOVATIVENESS AND ENVIRONMENTAL DISCLOSURE: EVIDENCE FROM NIGERIAN MANUFACTURING FIRMS by Mubaraq Sanni, Lukman Adebayo Oke ABDULRAUF, Jamiu Alabere Abdulrasheed

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LA EXPERIENCIA EN LA FENOMENOLOGÍA DEL ESPÍRITU DE HEGEL by Arturo Santos Raga

“…El artículo presenta un análisis de cómo se constituye la experiencia hegeliana en tanto saber real, como modo de ser del espíritu absoluto, para llegar a la "experiencia" que el absuluto tiene de sí mismo, de su máxima intimidad; esto es, cuando el espíritu ha conquistado su verdad y se ha elevado a la experiencia filosófica. …”
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Habenaria trichosantha Lindl.: A newly recorded orchid from China by ZHAO Mingxu, WANG Hengying, TAN Yunhong, SUN Xingxu, HU Xingrun, CHEN Fei

“…The most recognizable feature of its flower is the fan-shaped outline of the lateral lobe of the lip, which is divided into long tassels with secondary branches. …”
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Monocular Depth Estimation: A Review on Hybrid Architectures, Transformers and Addressing Adverse Weather Conditions by Kumara Lakindu, Senanayake Nipuna, Poravi Guhanathan

“…Then we dive into the deep learning methods including transformer and CNN-transformer hybrid methods and their limitations. Later, we discuss several methods addressing challenging weather conditions. …”
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Excited cluster states: A new source for proton number fluctuations in the high baryon density regime by Boris Tomášik, Marcus Bleicher

“…Especially in light of the expected ultra-high precision data from CBM at FAIR, this new contribution is important to allow for a quantitative comparison with (potentially later available) lattice QCD or effective model results.…”
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