Sub-regional efforts to achieve gender equality in land ownership by Marcel Loyd MINKA

“… Context and background A typical character of land tenure or property systems in sub-Saharan Africa is that the systems exclude women (implicitly and explicitly) (Chigbu, 2019). Over the past twenty years, several African countries have done some efforts towards improving the state of women’s land rights as a means to achieve gender equality in land ownership. …”
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Genetic profiling of extended-spectrum β-Lactamase and carbapenemase-producing Escherichia coli O157:H7 from clinical samples among diarrheal patients in Shashemene, Ethiopia by Shimelis Teshome Ayalneh, Biruk Yeshitela Beshah, Yeonji Jeon, Ashenafi Alemu Wami, Seifegebriel Teshome, Solomon Gebreselassie, Se Eun Park, Mekonnen Teferi, Woldaregay Erku Abegaz

“…This study aimed to investigate the genetic profile of ESBL and carbapenemase coding gene carriage in E. coli O157:H7 from clinical stool samples and evaluate antimicrobial susceptibility patterns. Methods A total of twenty-nine bacterial isolates obtained from diarrheal patients were subjected to conventional culture and phenotypic (Kirby Bauer disc diffusion method) testing for antimicrobial resistance. …”
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Retrospective Analysis of Pregnancy Terminations: 9-Years Experience at a Tertiary Hospital in Southeastern Turkey by Neslihan Bayramoglu Tepe, Reyhan Gunduz, Omer Faruk Dizibuyuk, Huseyin Caglayan Ozcan, Ozge Komurcu Karuserci, Seyhun Sucu, Tanyeli Guneyligil Kazaz, Ali Irfan Kutlar

“…Three major causes of termination were central nervous system (45.78%), head-neck (17.4%) and multiple anomalies (14%). One hundred and twenty-eight (71.5%) patients with central nervous system anomalies were not using folic acid. …”
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Incidence and Evaluation of Incidental Abnormal Bone Marrow Signal on Magnetic Resonance Imaging by Gunjan L. Shah, Aaron S. Rosenberg, Jamie Jarboe, Andreas Klein, Furha Cossor

“…Results. 49,678 MRIs were done with 110 patients meeting inclusion criteria. Twenty two percent underwent some evaluation, most commonly a complete blood count, serum protein electrophoresis, or bone scan. …”
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Zadie Smith’s NW or the art of line-crossing by Vanessa GUIGNERY

“…The argument will draw from David Lodge’s metaphor of the crossroads (when he wondered which directions the novelist of the second half of the twentieth century could take), as well as from Deleuze and Guattari’s concepts of lines of “segmentarity” and lines of flight, along which individual and collective lives are ordered or fractured. …”
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Integrated chronic care models for people with comorbid of HIV and non-communicable diseases in Sub-Saharan Africa: A scoping review. by Rumbidzai Chireshe, Tawanda Manyangadze, Keshena Naidoo

“…<h4>Results</h4>A total of twenty-one articles were included in the final review. …”
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Proteomic Analysis Reveals Growth Inhibition of Coriolus versicolor by Methanol Extracts of Cinnamomum camphora Xylem by Quan Li, Xiangyang Li, Hui Lin

“…The results showed that 41 protein spots were obviously changed among the 366-385 protein spots of C. versicolor treated with methanol extracts of C. camphora xylem. Twenty-one protein spots were upregulated, and 20 protein spots were downregulated. …”
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Assessment of hemodynamic disturbances and impaired ventricular filling in asymptomatic fontan patients: A 4D flow CMR study by Li-Wei Hu, Xiaodan Zhao, Shuang Leng, RongZhen Ouyang, Qian Wang, Ai-Min Sun, Yi-Man Liu, Wei Dong, Liang Zhong, Yu-Min Zhong

“…Objectives: The aims of this investigation were to: 1) examine the impact of flow components and kinetic energy (KE) parameters on hemodynamic disturbances in asymptomatic Fontan patients and control group; 2) Assess left ventricular diastolic dysfunction through the analysis of 4D flow parameters across different Fontan sub-groups; 3) Compare intracardiac flow parameters among Fontan sub-groups based on morphological features of the left ventricle (LV) and right ventricle (RV). Methods: Twenty-five Fontan patients (mean age: 10 ± 3 years, male/female: 15/10) and fourteen control subjects (mean age: 10 ± 2 years, male/female: 8/6) were recruited retrospectively for the study. …”
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Transcranial direct current stimulation improves time perception in children with ADHD by Vahid Nejati, Fateme Mirikaram, Michael A. Nitsche

“…In the present study, we aimed to explore if modulation of the excitability of these areas with non-invasive brain stimulation alters time perception in ADHD. Twenty-six children with ADHD performed time discrimination and time estimation/reproduction tasks in five sessions with one week interval and specific tDCS conditions. …”
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The Architect, the Planner and the Bishop: the Shapers of ‘Ordinary’ Dublin, 1940–60 by Ellen Rowley

“…Vast structures of ecclesiastic authority, Catholic (determinedly revivalist) church building and the suite of Catholic (tentatively modernist) schools were presented as support structures for mass housing, thereby completing the image and experience of Dublin’s new mid-twentieth-century suburbs. Taking the 1950s genesis of one vast north Dublin neighbourhood, Raheny/Coolock, as a case study, this paper sets previously unexamined archive material from the local Catholic bishopric and Dublin Corporation alongside critical thinking about Irish Catholicism and postwar suburbia generally. …”
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Timing of high-definition transcranial direct current stimulation to the nondominant primary motor cortex fails to modulate cortical hemodynamic activity and improve motor sequence... by Minxia Jin, Xiaomeng Xu, Ziwei Zhang, Weili Xia, Xiaoyu Lou, Zhongfei Bai

“…Method A single-blind, randomized, cross-over experiment was conducted. Twenty healthy participants engaged in a sequential finger-tapping task with their left hand. …”
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The effects of coach encouragement on the physical and technical test performances of young tennis players by Barış Karakoç, Yusuf Soylu, Erşan Arslan, Bülent Kilit

“…This study investigates the effects of coach encouragement (CE) on the physical and technical performance of young tennis players. Twenty nationally ranked male tennis players (age: 13.6 ± 0.3 years, height: 160.9 ± 7.9 cm, body mass: 52.5 ± 7.6 kg,) participated in the present study. …”
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Cash transfer, maternal and child health outcomes: a scoping review in sub-Saharan Africa by Emery L. Ngamasana, Jessamyn Moxie

“…Only peer-reviewed studies on CT that reported health outcomes beyond nutritional outcomes and service utilisation among women of reproductive age and children below 18 years old were included. Results Twenty-one articles reporting studies conducted in six sub-Saharan African countries were identified. …”
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Nailfold Capillaroscopy in Early Stages of Mixed Connective Tissue Disease in a Sample of Egyptian Patients by Yasser A Elmotaleb Gazar, Hesham Salah Hamoud, Sherif Mohamed Ismail

“…Results: Of the sixty patients studied, 49 (81.7%) patients were females and 11 were males with a mean age of 31 years with a median of 29.5 and range 16–52 years. Three of the twenty patients diagnosed with systemic sclerosis had arthritis. …”
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Refractory myasthenia gravis treated with autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation by Benjamin Beland, Jan Storek, Liam Quartermain, Christopher Hahn, C. Elizabeth Pringle, Pierre R. Bourque, Michael Kennah, Natasha Kekre, Christopher Bredeson, David Allan, Kareem Jamani, Christopher White, Harold Atkins

“…Our objective is to report on the efficacy and safety of HSCT in refractory MG. Methods Twenty‐one patients who underwent HSCT for MG were retrospectively reviewed. …”
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Immune infiltrate populations within distinct tumor immune microenvironments predictive of immune checkpoint treatment outcome by Brian Z Ring, Catherine T. Cronister, Huijun Z. Ring, Douglas T. Ross, Robert S. Seitz

“…We have previously validated signatures predictive of checkpoint inhibitor efficacy which distinguish immunomodulatory, mesenchymal stem-like, and mesenchymal phenotypes. Here we use twenty tumor types (7162 samples) to identify potentially conserved immune biology within these TIME spaces, genes co-expressed across distinct cell types involved these immune processes, and the association of these signatures with ICI response. …”
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The effect of emotional intelligence on nurses’ job performance: the mediating role of moral intelligence and occupational stress by Rozita Cheraghi, Naser Parizad, Vahid Alinejad, Mehri Piran, Laleh Almasi

“…Methods This descriptive cross-sectional correlational study was conducted in Urmia Teaching Hospital from February to April 2022. Six hundred and twenty-one nurses were recruited using quota sampling. …”
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Understanding the properties and functional role of neutrophils in oral squamous cell carcinoma – A systematic review by Thayalan Dineshkumar, Nirmala Anandan, Krishnan Rajkumar, Indumathi N

“…Original studies of 28 records were included in the analysis. Results: Twenty-eight prospective and retrospective studies were included in this systematic review. …”
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Differences in Lower Extremity Kinematics Between High School Cross-Country and Young Adult Recreational Runners by Mark F Reinking, Nina M Carson, Bridget M End, Olivia K Miller, Joshua D Munter, Thomas G McPoil

“… # Purpose The purpose of this study was to compare sagittal plane kinematics during treadmill running in high school cross-country and young adult recreational runners using 2-dimensional motion analysis techniques. # Methods Twenty-five high school cross-country runners (13 women, 12 men) and 25 young adult recreational runners (12 women, 13 men) consented to participate in this study. …”
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Centro de cálculo, redes de circulação e história da geografia: o caso da Revista Brasileira de Geografia do IBGE (1939-1996) by Guilherme Ribeiro, André Santos da Rocha, Leandro Dias de Oliveira, Marcio Rufino Silva, Tatiana Tramontani Ramos, Glauco Bruce Rodrigues, Leonardo Arantes

“…This research project aims to examine, from the point of view of the history of geography, what was the main Brazilian geographic journal of the twentieth century: the Revista Brasileira de Geografia. …”
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