The Practical Logic of Clientelist Domination by Javier Auyero, Claudio Benzecry

“…Against what’s commonly asserted, this paper maintains clientelist politics takes place in daily life’s routine (and not only in the context of campaigns and elections), and that the behaviour of the most loyal clients must not be understood nor explained as a product of rational action or normative conducts, but as resultant of clientelist habits, that is, a set of cognitive and affective political dispositions, produced by repeated interactions that take place within the inner circles of the followers of the mediating agents.…”
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ERASE FROM THE PERSON OF THE GROUND OF PESTS AND SPIES": THE NORTH CAUCASIAN CHARACTERISTICS PROCESSES OF "BIG TERROR" by Elena Strekalova

“…The content analysis of the Newspapers "North Caucasian Bolshevik" and "Ordzhonikidzevskaya Pravda" showed that the words "enemies" and "pests" most often repeated in the headlines and in the content of articles in 1937 there was not a single week in 1937 without detection of accidents, crashes, delays due to the fault of "hostile elements", "Trotskyist saboteurs", "class enemies". …”
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SKIN CARE IN INFANTS by I. N. Zakharova, E. B. Machneva

“…Diaper dermatitis is one of the most common skin diseases during infancy and childhood. …”
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Microsatellite Instability in Mouse Models of Colorectal Cancer by Nicola Currey, Joseph J. Daniel, Dessislava N. Mladenova, Jane E. Dahlstrom, Maija R. J. Kohonen-Corish

“…The markers with longer mononucleotide repeats (37–59) were the most sensitive for MSI while the markers with shorter repeats (24) showed only minor change. …”
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How should a patient with rheumatoid arthritis behave after achievement of remission? by D. E. Karateev

“…The results of the trials of etanercept are most optimistic.…”
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Trajectory, interactions, and predictors of higher symptom burden during induction therapy for multiple myeloma by Mona Kamal, Qiuling Shi, Shu-En Shen, Charles Cleeland, Xin Shelley Wang

“…Results Sixty-four MM patients participated. Most patients (89%) received bortezomib-based therapy. …”
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Mass spectrometry‐based proteomics for biomarker discovery in the Drosophila model of Parkinson's disease by Mohammad Radid Khan, Ramisha A. Rahman, Md Harunur Rashid, Md Shariful Islam

“…Despite extensive research, the etiology of both familial and sporadic PD remains unclear. While most PD cases are sporadic, a significant minority are linked to genetic mutations, notably in the synuclein‐alpha (SNCA) and leucine‐rich repeat kinase 2 (LRRK2) genes. …”
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Neurological evaluation of children and adolescents with brain tumor, based on ambulatory-oriented follow-up by Alexandre Serafim, Luiz Celso Pereira Vilanova, Najla Saba Silva

“…Forty-one male and twenty-nine female patients were analyzed, in that a slightly higher number of infratentorial tumors was observed (thirty-eight cases), compared to those supratentorially located (thirty-two cases). The most repeatedly observed during the study was the medulloblastoma (twenty-one patients), followed by the astrocytoma (fifteen patients) and the germinoma (eleven patients). …”
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Hypocalcaemic cardiomyopathy: a description of two cases and a literature review by Martin Válek, Lenka Roblová, Ivan Raška Jr., Dita Schaffelhoferová, Tomáš Paleček

“…In the first case, a lack of compliance led to a repeated decrease of both serum calcium level and left ventricular systolic function. …”
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Simulation technology use in disaster medicine education and training: a scoping review by José García Ulerio, José García Ulerio, Mouhanad Al Khatib, Bassma Aammar, Bassma Aammar, Luca Ragazzoni, Luca Ragazzoni, Francesco Barone-Adesi, Francesco Barone-Adesi, Marta Caviglia, Marta Caviglia

“…Most studies reported improvements in knowledge, triage accuracy, or learner confidence. …”
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MUTATION SPECTRUM OF THE GENE KCNQ1 IN RUSSIAN PATIENTS WITH LONG QT SYNDROME by M. E. Polyak, E. A. Ivanova, A. V. Polyakov, E. V. Zaklyazminskaya

“…There were 39 mutations revealed in the gene KCNQ1. Most mutations were found once per family, only 4 mutations repeated in 3 or more non-related families. …”
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Different dry-wet pulses favor different functional strategies: A test using tropical dry forest tree species. by Flor Vega-Ramos, Lucas Cifuentes, Fernando Pineda-García, Todd Dawson, Horacio Paz

“…This variability imposes two concomitant challenges for plants: surviving droughts and efficiently utilizing water when it becomes available, whose responses are closely interconnected. To date, most studies have focused on the response to drought following static designs that do not consider consequences of repeated transitions from one state to the other. …”
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Homicides in the context of intimate partner violence in Serbia: Manifestations and victim protection by Marković Saša M.

“…The results of the research show that the perpetrators of homicide in partner relationships are most frequently men, while the victims are most often women; homicide is most commonly committed after the termination of an emotional relationship using a sharp object or firearms, and 46% of the perpetrators in homicide cases decide to commit suicide. …”
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A Single-Center Case Series of Hereditary Ataxia from Gujarat: Clinical and Genetic Data by Pranav Joshi, Shalin Shah, Mukesh Sumra, Sudhir Shah

“…Spinocerebellar ataxia (SCA) type 2 was the most common type (31%) of Autosomal Dominant ataxia, and Friedreich’s ataxia (FA) was the most common Autosomal Recessive ataxia (13.8%). …”
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Molecular Characterization of Shigella sonnei: An Increasingly Prevalent Etiologic Agent of Shigellosis in Guizhou Province, Southwest of China. by Shijun Li, Jianping Wang, Xiaoyu Wei, Ying Liu, Lu You, Xia Luo, Guangpeng Tang, Qiangzheng Sun, Changyun Ye, Jianguo Xu, Dingming Wang

“…Multiple-Locus Variable number tandem repeat (VNTR) Analysis (MLVA) based on seven VNTR loci discriminated them into 19 different MLVA types (MTs), and four MTs were represented by more than one isolate with MT4 (N = 39) containing the most number of isolates, followed with MT12 (N = 18). 15 Multilocus sequence typing (MLST) base on 15 loci differentiated the isolates into six sequence types (STs), among which four STs were novel. …”
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Management of giant-cell arteritis in Switzerland: an online national survey by Michele Iudici, Andrea Katharina Hemmig, Mihaela Stegert, Courvoisier Courvoisier, Sabine Adler, Mike Oliver Becker, Christoph T. Berger, Diana Dan, Axel Finckh, Alfred Mahr, Thomas Neumann, Stephan Reichenbach, Camillo Ribi, Luca Seitz, Peter Villiger, Lukas Wildi, Thomas Daikeler, on behalf of Giant Cell Arteritis SCQM Study Group

“…The glucocorticoid tapering scheme, glucocorticoid-sparing agent, and glucocorticoid-sparing treatment duration varied among the participants. Most physicians did not follow a predefined repeat imaging scheme for follow-up and mainly relied on structural changes (vascular thickening, stenosis, or dilatation) to drive treatment choice. …”
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Barriers to the implementation of clinical guidelines on lipid metabolism disorders in routine practice in the federal districts of the Russian Federation by E. I. Usova, A. S. Alieva, N. E. Zvartau, E. V. Shlyakhto

“…Low screening rate for familial hypercholesterolemia is most typical for the Ural and North Caucasian districts. …”
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Characterization of Movement Disorder Phenomenology in Genetically Proven, Familial Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. by Carmen Gasca-Salas, Mario Masellis, Edwin Khoo, Binit B Shah, David Fisman, Anthony E Lang, Galit Kleiner-Fisman

“…<h4>Background</h4>Mutations in granulin (PGRN) and tau (MAPT), and hexanucleotide repeat expansions near the C9orf72 genes are the most prevalent genetic causes of frontotemporal lobar degeneration. …”
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Sounds of Strength: a programmatic evaluation of a music therapist led community-based program for Veterans in supportive housing by Lori F. Gooding, Flor del Cielo Hernandez, Diane G. Langston

“…Session topics most often included music, recreation/leisure, and emotions. …”
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Application of Hierarchical/Multilevel Models and Quality of Reporting (2010–2020): A Systematic Review by Killian Asampana Asosega, Atinuke Olusola Adebanji, Eric Nimako Aidoo, Ellis Owusu-Dabo

“…Moreover, 83.1% were cross-sectional design, and 9.2% and 6.2% were longitudinal and repeated measures, respectively. Moreover, a little over half (55.4%) of articles reported on the intraclass correlation measure, and all articles indicated the response variable distribution where most (47.7%) were normally distributed. …”
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