CD4 T cell dynamics shape the immune response to combination oncolytic herpes virus and BRAF inhibitor therapy for melanoma by Victoria Jennings, Kevin Harrington, Hardev Pandha, Alan Melcher, Adel Samson, Fiona Errington-Mais, Victoria Roulstone, Eva Crespo-Rodriguez, Galabina Bozhanova, Shane Foo, Emmanuel C Patin, Martin McLaughlin, Malin Pedersen, Richard Vile, Joan Kyula, Jehanne Hassan, Lizzie Appleton, Charleen ML Chan Wah Hak, Gabby Baker, Edward Armstrong, Matthew Chiu, Masahiro Ono

“…Immune characterization showed HSV or dual therapy led to fewer intratumoral Treg, although with a more activated phenotype, together with more effector CD8 +T cells. Tocky analysis further showed that HSV/BRAFi dual treatment reduced the Tocky signal (reflecting engagement with cognate antigen), in both Treg and conventional subsets of CD4+, but not in CD8 +cells. …”
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Marketing Cooperatives and sustainable Agricultural development in Rulindo District, Rwanda by Nkubito, Habyarimana Jean Pierre

“…The findings revealed that the agricultural marketing cooperatives addressed in the study made considerable socio-economic and environmental contribution to the sustainability of agricultural development and to the well being of their members. …”
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Inquietações feministas: desafios metodológicos e epistemológicos nos processos de pesquisa by Carmem Sílvia Maria da Silva

“…Parte da compreensão de que os estudos qualitativos sobre movimentos de mulheres podem contribuir com elaborações que revelem a diversidade de práticas sociais em diferentes contextos. Apresenta a reflexão sobre uma pesquisa empírica qualitativa acerca da atuação e organização de um movimento de mulheres – a AMB. …”
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Hippocrates: facts and fiction by Francois P. Retief, Louise Cilliers

“…The textual tradition and the composition of the socalled Corpus Hippocraticum, the collection of medical works written mainly in the 5th and 4th centuries BC (of which possibly only about five can be ascribed to Hippocrates himself) are discussed. …”
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Effect of Work-Related Stress on Employee's Performance among Construction Professionals in Julius Berger PLC, Abuja, Nigeria by Waziri Babamaaji Goodnews, Kabiru Jinjiri Ringim, Halima Shuaibu

“…The main objectives is: to examinine the influence of socio-demographic and work characteristics on work related stress; and to examinine the influence of socio-demographic and work characteristics on employees' performance. …”
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Multiple states clustering analysis (MSCA), an unsupervised approach to multiple time-to-event electronic health records applied to multimorbidity associated with myocardial infarc... by Marc Delord, Abdel Douiri

“…Interestingly, multivariate analysis revealed that clusters were also associated with various combinations of socio-demographic characteristics including gender and ethnicity. …”
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Investigating challenges and opportunities to achieve SDG 6: a study of Benin City, Nigeria by Ruth Ogbonmwan, Furat Al-Faraj

“… Access to clean water and adequate sanitation improve sound health, enhance socio cultural development, and promote economic balance. …”
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Estimating population attributable risk fraction of determinants of pediatric obesity by Maryam Yazdi, Ibrahim Abdollahpour, Mostafa Qorbani, Saba Karimi, Mohammad Esmail Motlagh, Majid Khademian, Roya Kelishadi

“…Abstract Objectives Childhood obesity imposes a remarkable socio-economic and health-related burden, with an increasing worldwide trend. …”
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Spatial heterogeneity in deployment and upscaling of wind power in Swedish municipalities by Yodefia Rahmad, Fredrik Hedenus, Jessica Jewell, Vadim Vinichenko

“…First, techno-economic, socio-technical, and political perspectives from national energy transition literature were employed to identify relevant deployment mechanisms. …”
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BORDER MANAGEMENT, ARMED BANDITRY AND TERRORISM MITIGATION IN NIGERIA by ODE AGI OKO

“…This paper is set to examine key security challenges and socio-economic effects of insurgency and Armed Banditry in Nigeria; seeing that the country as a nation state is under a severe internal socio-economic and security threat. …”
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Processos culturais e relações com a desigualdade: Contribuições teóricas da sociologia cultural by Lucas Hertzog Ramos

“… Este artigo adereça respostas e reflexões acerca do paradigma bourdieusiano da distinção social à luz de estudos identificados com a virada cultural nas ciências sociais a partir da década de 1970, com especial atenção aos desenvolvimentos da sociologia cultural norte-americana. …”
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Deambulações cotidianas: a emergência de um método na observação dos sem-teto by José Machado Pais

“…O que se debate é a possibilidade de as ciências sociais poderem usar um método de descoberta também assente em deambulações cotidianas. …”
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Prevalence and sociodemographic characteristics of functional impairment in community-dwelling older adults in China: a cross-sectional study by Yun Li, Li Zhang, Zhe Tang, Lina Ma, Pan Liu, Xiaxia Li, Wenhua Yu, Yaxin Zhang

“…This study aimed to explore the prevalence and socio-demographic characteristics of functional impairment in Chinese community-dwelling older adults using the Function Impairment Screening Tool (FIST), which was previously developed based on the Delphi method.Design Cross-sectional study.Setting Community-based.Participants The study included 6444 community-dwelling older adults from the China Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment Study.Results The FIST identified functional impairment in 31.3% of Chinese community-dwelling older adults. …”
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NOTAS SOBRE A FENOMENOLOGIA SOCIAL DE SCHÜTZ Considerações acerca de alguns pressupostos filosóficos by Maria da Assunção Calderano

“…Buscando apreender as bases da pesquisa em ciências sociais, este trabalho focaliza alguns princípios filosóficos sobre os quais assentam-se abordagens metodológicas importantes tais como a etnometodologia. …”
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Bycie dziecka w Polsce „dobrej zmiany”– między Konwencją o Prawach Dziecka a rzeczywistością by Małgorzata Dagiel, Małgorzata Kowalik-Olubińska

“…The authors analysed a discourse of the Ombudsmen for Children’s interventions in order to reconstruct the image of being of the child in a new socio-political reality in Poland. The analysis shows the disagreement between the assumptions of the pro-family state policy and the situation of the child in Poland. …”
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Immigrant Gambling in Finland by Perpetual Crentsil

“…Anthropological studies of other aspects of immigrants’ lives—remittance giving, socio-economic status, and development issues in origin countries—usually present immigrants as ethnographic subjects. …”
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SPATIAL METAPHORS AS A MEANS OF PERSUASION IN ROMANS 5:12-21 by A. Potgieter

“… George Lakoff and Mark Johnson’s seminal book Metaphors we live by (1980) makes us realise that a metaphor is not merely a linguistic phenomenon, but also a conceptual, socio-historical, neural, and bodily phenomenon establishing mental models. …”
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The (possible) function of the beatitude of the poor in the context of the struggle against poverty by Joachim Kügler

“…Yet it has political and socio-ethical implications as it connects the poor with God and his kingdom. …”
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Geo-societal More-than-Humanness by Bohle Martin

“…., the nexus that ties human socio-cultural domains and planetary technosphere, biosphere and geosphere, and that more-than-humanness is one of the nexus’ attributes.…”
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DIMENSÕES ONTOLÓGICAS DE RAÇA E CULTURA EM SISTEMAS BINÁRIOS by Evandro Câmara

“…Isso se opera através da cristalização das divisões sociais e diferenças culturais entre os grupos dominantes e subalterno, e de suas respectivas identidades grupais, como propriedades essenciais do status racial de cada grupo. …”
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