Multi-Element Exposure and Health Risks of Grains from Ambagarh Chowki, Chhattisgarh, India by Bhagyashri Wakhle, Saroj Sharma, Khageshwar Singh Patel, Piyush Kant Pandey, Antonela Blažević, Željka Fiket, Sema Yurdakul, Simge Varol, Pablo Martín-Ramos, Hanan M. Al-Yousef, Ramzi A. Mothana

“…Despite being grown in a highly contaminated region, the study identifies some rice cultivars like <i>Luchai</i> and <i>Sarna</i> as relatively safer options due to a lower accumulation of toxic elements.…”
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Comprehensive assessment of the varietal fund of quince (Cydonia oblonga Mill.) in the conditions of Krasnodar region by T. G. Prichko, L. D. Chalaya, N. V. Mozhar

“…The article presents a selection of parental pairs, taking into account their biologically and economically valuable traits: Ispolinskaya (yield of large fruits); Cаunchi 8 (fruit quality); Zolotistaya and Muskatnaya (yield, high winter hardiness and drought resistance); and Kubanskaya (tree growth restraint). …”
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Genetic Predictors of Poor Prognosis in Portuguese Patients with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis: Data from Reuma.pt by Ana Filipa Mourão, Maria José Santos, Sílvia Mendonça, Filipa Oliveira-Ramos, Manuel Salgado, Paula Estanqueiro, José Melo-Gomes, Fernando Martins, Ana Lopes, Bruno Filipe Bettencourt, Jácome Bruges-Armas, José Costa, Carolina Furtado, Ricardo Figueira, Iva Brito, Jaime Branco, João Eurico Fonseca, Helena Canhão

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Toxicity of Nanoparticles in Biomedical Application: Nanotoxicology by Chukwuebuka Egbuna, Vijaykumar K. Parmar, Jaison Jeevanandam, Shahira M. Ezzat, Kingsley C. Patrick-Iwuanyanwu, Charles Oluwaseun Adetunji, Johra Khan, Eugene N. Onyeike, Chukwuemelie Zedech Uche, Muhammad Akram, Mervat S. Ibrahim, Nihal M. El Mahdy, Chinaza Godswill Awuchi, Kaliyaperumal Saravanan, Habibu Tijjani, Uchenna Estella Odoh, Mohammed Messaoudi, Jonathan C. Ifemeje, Michael C. Olisah, Nebechi Jane Ezeofor, Chukwudi Jude Chikwendu, Chinwe Gloria Ibeabuchi

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Prevention and management of cytomegalovirus infection and disease in kidney transplant: A consensus statement of the Transplantation Society of Taiwan by Mu-Chi Chung, Cheng-Hsu Chen, Shen-Shin Chang, Chih-Yuan Lee, Ya-Chung Tian, Mei-Yi Wu, Hsu-Han Wang, Chia-Cheng Yu, Teng-Wei Chen, Chien-Chang Kao, Chih-Yang Hsu, Yang-Jen Chiang, Ming-Ju Wu, Yen-Ta Chen, Mai-Szu Wu

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Multiple Episodes of Remote Brightenings Driven by a Coronal Extreme-ultraviolet Jet on the Sun by Chao Zhang, Zhenghua Huang, Hengyuan Wei, Youqian Qi, Mijie Shi, Hui Fu, Xiuhui Zuo, Weixin Liu, Mingzhe Sun, Ming Xiong, Lidong Xia

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From Uncle Tom to Nat Turner: An Overview of Slavery in American Film, 1903-2016 by Melvyn Stokes

“…This seemed to change in the second decade of the twenty-first century when three films—Lincoln (2012), Django Unchained (2012), and 12 Years a Slave (2013)—dealt critically with slavery while also attracting a mass audience. …”
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GLOBALIZATION AND GLOBAL GOVERNANCE by A. A. Gromyko

“…According to the author the problems of globalization must be approached with knowledge of history and acknowledgement of social justice;– the need in morally acceptable balance among unifying potential of globalization, unchained global market and the state as the last resort of its nation;– the need to make United Nations a platform, where political and social democracy should lay ground for global governance so craved for by the mankind. …”
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Conocer tu ciudad: tomar conciencia del entorno urbano y sus problemas relevantes mediante la propia indagación y la tecnología by Sergio Tirado-Olivares, José Eduardo Córcoles-Tendero, Juan Antonio García-González

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