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After the successful reception of our first edition, we thank and congratulate the authors who submitted their contributions and manuscripts for review. We present this new edition to offer all authors a first-rate publication space for their studies related to the health impact of combat sports and martial arts. In order to continue increasing the...

The Expositio in Apocalypsim by Alexander Minorita (also known as Alexander of Bremen, d. 1271) is the earliest complete mendicant Apocalypse commentary. It has been noted for its highly chronological interpretation of the path toward the End Times and its witness to the early spread of Joachimite texts into Central Europe. Our knowledge of the tra...

The Essex Finance Centre (EFiC) at Essex Business School and the Laboratory of Bank, Business, Finance and Ethics (BifeLab) are jointly organising the seventh edition of the EFiC Conference in Banking and Corporate Finance that will take place in person on 6-7 July 2023 in Gaeta, Italy. The objective of the Conference is to bring together leading...

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De nos jours, les systèmes d'information géographique sont devenus de plus en plus des instruments incontournables d'analyse scientifique liée étroitement avec la géographie, L'évolution phénoménale des SIG a connu son émergence pendant les années soixante, pour passer d'un stade embryonnaire d'outil rudimentaire à une puissante plateforme moderne...

It is a great pleasure, on behalf of Politecnico di Torino, AGI and Università degli Studi di Torino, to invite you to the “2nd International Workshop on Complex Formations” on May 9th 2023 at Politecnico di Torino, Turin! Complex block-in-matrix formations, such as bimrocks and bimsoils, are characterized by great spatial, lithological and mechan...

New to This Edition Updated throughout with new coauthor Tim Pressley; incorporates the latest research about reading development and difficulties. A chapter on instruction for emergent bilingual learners (EBs), plus an appendix on selecting texts for EBs. Expanded discussions of dyslexia and the role of executive function in reading. Applicatio...

Un ouvrage sur l'exigence de repenser le système pénal, s'accompagnant de propositions concrètes de refondation des sanctions pénales réellement alternatives à l'incarcération. Le mot de l'éditeur : "À la fin de 2022, le nombre de détenus dans les prisons françaises a atteint son plus haut niveau historique avec 72 809 personnes derrière les barre...

Strategic management for the modern age ... using the power of story to bring a compelling strategic logic to life. You can access chapter 1 here ... https://bloomsburycp3.codemantra.com/viewer/64108121ee3588000179ff4b

Purpose: To retrospectively assess if diffusion-weighted MR imaging (DWI) and quantitative apparent-diffusion coefficient (ADC) maps could be used to differentiate between low-grade gliomas (LGGs) and mixed neuronal-glial tumors (MNGTs including Dysembryoplastic Neuroepithelial Tumor and Ganglioglioma). Materials and methods: We retrospectively...

Objectives: Associations between age at menopause and cognition post-menopause are examined to determine whether relationships are stronger for certain cognitive domains. Study design: Women from the Medical Research Council National Survey of Health and Development and its neuroscience sub-study, Insight 46, were included if they had known age...

This special topic edition is devoted to current issues in materials science and materials synthesis and processing technologies. The publication will be useful to materials science, machinery and construction specialists. Editors: Dr. Thangaprakash Sengodan, Dr. Peter Horňak, Dr. Miloš Matvija, Dr. Denis B. Solovev and Dr. Ramadhansyah Putra Jaya

This book collected articles based on the results of scientific and engineering research in the area of structural metals treatment, their corrosion behaviour and corrosion protection, features of friction welding technologies, properties of glasses, functional ceramics and materials for micro- and optoelectronics and also of various cement replace...

This book aims to give all Ph.D. scholars admitted to different universities in India across disciplines a practical, hands-on, systematic method for conducting doctoral-level research and fostering scientific creativity in the conceptual, theoretical, and operational domains. This book stands out from the great majority of books on research method...

This is the third edition of the monograph (first edition 2020, second edition 2021) devoted to the problem of mean-square approximation of iterated Ito and Stratonovich stochastic integrals with respect to components of the multidimensional Wiener process. The mentioned problem is considered in the book as applied to the numerical integration of n...

Que se passe-t-il lorsque, poussés par la nécessité, des vendéens s'expa- trient dans le Gers, vers les années 1920, pour s'y établir parmi les man- geurs d'armotes ? Langue, régime alimentaire, pratiques religieuses, façons agricoles, tout paraît les opposer à leurs nouveaux voisins, et ils semblent destinés au repli sur soi, à la reconstitution f...

This special edition is devoted to recent issues in materials science and technologies of materials synthesis and processing used in machine building, biomedical engineering, civil construction and geotechnics. This special publication will interest researchers and engineers from mentioned engineering and industrial areas. Editors: Prof. Paulo Mend...

Computer-based education relies on information systems to support teaching and learning processes. These systems store trace data about the interaction of the learners with their different functionalities. Process mining techniques have been used to evaluate these traces and provide insights to instructors on the behavior of students. However, an a...

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The 5th edition of the World Health Organization (WHO) classification of endocrine tumors was released in 2022. Several novelties have been introduced concerning the nomenclature and histopathological diagnosis of follicular-derived thyroid neoplasms. Tumor types have been sharply classified according to prognostic risk categories into benign tumor...

Scottish Educational Research Association Researching Education Bulletin - Creative Arts Special Education Editors Angela Jaap Lio Moscardini

We aimed to calculate the interrater reliability of the Test of Gross Motor Development-Third Edition (TGMD-3) after raters reached a consensus regarding measurement criteria. Three raters measured the fundamental movement skills of 25 children on the TGMD-3 at two different times: (a) once when simply following the measurement criteria in the TGMD...

Message design is an interdisciplinary field of knowledge. It encompasses influences and facts from more than fifty established disciplines and areas of research. The main areas of research may be divided into six groups with “base disciplines” such as language, art and aesthetics, information, communication, behaviour and cognition, business and l...

On World TB Day, the Open Source Pharma Foundation (https://www.ospfound.org/) and the National Institute of Advanced Studies (https://www.nias.res.in/) are delighted to introduce the fourth edition of their Tuberculosis Newsletter. This publication hopes to contribute to the global fight against tuberculosis and to drive progress towards a world f...

A new edition of the 2015 book, revised and expanded.

A systematic socio-cultural study of the uses of Christian poetry in the late antique Greek-speaking Mediterranean is still lacking. Most literary overviews restrict themselves to an overview of the extant texts and some programmatic reflections in the poetry by Gregory of Nazianzus. This paper seeks to address this matter by a combined reading of...

The aim of this study was to describe the relationship between low-income Chilean adolescent maternal playfulness and mothers' non-intrusiveness in their children's development and to analyze whether a mother's non-intrusiveness mediates the relationship between maternal play-fulness and children's development. The Parental Playfulness Scale and th...

The article aimed to explore the drivers of employees' job satisfaction. Empirically, the study is based on the Czech data from the 2017 edition of the European Union Labour Force Survey (EU LFS), accounting for 12,699 employed individuals. The implemented methods relied on the employment of the multivariate ordered logistic regression analysis. Th...

In the last years, robots are moving out of research laboratories to enter everyday life. Competitions aiming at benchmarking the capabilities of a robot in everyday scenarios are useful to make a step forward in this path. In fact, they foster the development of robust architectures capable of solving issues that might occur during human-robot coe...

WORKSHOP O f (A m e r i c a n P s y c h o l o g i c a l A s s o c i a t i o n (A P A) 7 t h E d i t i o n F o r m a t t i n g a n d S t y l e) a n d (D i g i t a l a r c h i v i n g) For the active and invaluable participation during the International Workshop on "Digital archiving" and "American Psychological Association (APA) 7th Edition Formatti...

Security is holistic not heuristic. The Pillars of Information Security (Figure 11) are such that they form a continuum, whereby, one cannot have one without its predecessors. For example, Accountability is of no use without Authenticity. Further, Authentication now includes four factors: Something your HAVE, ARE, KNOW & DO. NB: This pre-print ext...

The first years of the Halych district court functioning (1435–1440): participants and the number of sessions The article describes the beginning of work of the Halych district court in 1435–1440. The oldest court records published in 1887 in the multivolume edition Akta Grodzkie i Ziemskie comprise the material of the research. Based on the analy...

The most common method of constructing an underground space in the tight working space of an existing building is the construction of a foundation pit fence carried out of piles or the diaphragm wall with a gradual excavation of the soil within the fence. At the same time, it is necessary to develop a reliable design of the fence, which guarantees...

Isaac Newton, in popular imagination the Ur-scientist, was an outstanding humanist scholar. His researches on, among others, ancient philosophy, are thorough and appear to be connected to and fit within his larger philosophical and theological agenda. It is therefore relevant to take a closer look at Newton's intellectual choices, at how and why pr...

Full book can be downloaded at https://repositorio.ipea.gov.br/bitstream/11058/11826/1/El_Derecho_al_Agua.pdf. Book endorsement: This book represents an important contribution to our understanding of the “Human Right to Water and Sanitation”, accepted by the UN in 2010, and includes a revision of the precedents that led to that decision. More imp...

This is a review of LInear Programming Computation (Second Edition)

Objectives COVID-19, which is caused by SARS-CoV-2, is a severe threat to human health and the economy globally. This study aimed to investigate the prevalence of taste and/or smell dysfunction and associated risk factors in mild and asymptomatic patients with Omicron infection in Shanghai, China. Design This was a questionnaire-based cross-section...

Backgound and objectives: In recent years, the adoption of 3D models for surgical planning and intraoperative guidance has gained a wide diffusion. The aim of this study was to evaluate the surgeons’ perception and usability of ICON3DTM platform for robotic and laparoscopic urological surgical procedures. Materials and Methods: During the 10th edit...

Isaac Newton, in popular imagination the Ur-scientist, was an outstanding humanist scholar. His researches on, among others, ancient philosophy, are thorough and appear to be connected to and fit within his larger philosophical and theological agenda. It is therefore relevant to take a closer look at Newton’s intellectual choices, at how and why pr...

Introduction to the Michaelmas 2022 edition of JNDS from the Editor-in-Chief.

This guide aims to support healthcare workers to provide care, to close the detection and treatment gap, to reduce missed opportunities to prevent TB and ultimately reduce TB-related mortality in children and adolescents. The fully revised edition incorporates the recent updates from the World Health Organization adapted for healthcare workers in...

The article considers the possibility of using a periodical printed edition as a source on the history of social security and charity of the Russian Orthodox Church in 1882-1905 using the analysis of publications in the Tobolsk Diocesan Vedomosti as an example. It is noted that the issues of charity and social security were covered in the Tobolsk D...

The ninth International Symposium Monitoring of Mediterranean Coastal Areas: Problems and Measurements Techniques was organized by CNR-IBE in collaboration with Italian Society of Silviculture and Forest Ecology, and Natural History Museum of the Mediterranean and under the patronage of University of Florence, Accademia dei Lincei, Accademia dei Ge...

Volume covering seastars, urchins, brittle stars, sea cucumbers, crinoids. This Field Guide aims to facilitate underwater/topside field identification from visual characters of organisms seen by scuba divers based on Ross Island, Antarctica. Most organisms were identified from photographs with no specimen collection, so these identifications are to...

Article summarizes several key chapters in a book by the author, Winning at New Products 5th edition, as well as recent articles by the author, to provide a superb introduction to the Stage-Gate idea-to-launch system... plus updates found in the latest 5th generation of Stage-Gate. This summary is a "must read" for anyone starting research on the n...

This chapter is the chapter n°31 of the semiotic work "A même le sens, hommage à Jacques Fontanille", publishedin september 2021 by Editions Lambert Lucas (Limoges,France) This chapter deals with the theory of the formation of the collective "actant" in contemporary societies that identify themselves as "naturalistic world" according to the Descola...

This is a draft of chapter 1 of tractate Makkot in our fourthcoming edition of Tosefta Nezikin

Background Survey data were needed to assess the mental and social health, health related behaviors and compliance with preventive measures of the population during the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet, the pandemic challenged classical survey methods. Time and budgetary constraints at the beginning of the pandemic led to ad hoc recruitment of participants a...

Introduction Patients with neuroendocrine neoplasms (NENs) may often develop other malignancies. This study aimed to identify the frequency at which these second malignancies occurred in England. Methods Data was extracted from the National Cancer Registration and Analysis Service (NCRAS) on all patients diagnosed with a NEN at one of eight NEN sit...

Aufgaben und Anforderungen, Randbedingungen, Basiskomponenten sowie Spezialanwendungen von/für Bohrlochzementationen

Objectives This study aimed to obtain the profile of efficacy and tolerance of risperidone in the treatment of people with autism spectrum disorder. Materials and Methods This research was a cross-sectional and retrospective study. The medical records of 100 patients diagnosed with ASD according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental D...

The classification of diffuse gliomas into the adult type and the pediatric type is the new basis for the diagnosis and clinical evaluation. The knowledge for the neuroradiologist should not remain limited to radiological aspects but should be based additionally on the current edition of the World Health Organization (WHO) classification of tumors...

Restingas are located all along the Brazilian coast, playing a crucial role in protecting coastal cities from extreme weather events. Threats to this ecosystem have intensified with the dismantling of environmental legislation and regulatory bodies, such as the National Environmental Council (CONAMA). This paper investigates the implications of the...

Uganda established a National Action Plan for Health Security in 2019, following a Joint External Evaluation (JEE) of International Health Regulations (2005) capacities in 2017. The action plan enhanced national health security awareness, but implementation efforts were affected by limited funding, excess of activities, and challenges related to mo...

Federico Commandino’s Latin editions of the mathematical works written by the ancient Greeks constituted an essential reference for the scientific research undertaken by the moderns. In his Latin editions, Commandino cleverly combined his philological and mathematical skills. Philology and mathematics, moreover, nurtured each other. In this article...

Digital libraries can enable their patrons to go beyond modern language translations and to engage directly with sources in more languages than any individual could study, much less master. Translations should be viewed not so much as an end but as an entry point into the sources that they represent. In the case of highly studied sources, one or mo...

This is a personal account by the author, giving background behind his reasons for ZeroStories, and for what he calls "MatheMagics -- a Mathematics with/of Heart". It first appeared in the 1990 zero-th edition of "The MatheMagical Powers of Zero (and Her Whole Family)". Later it was slightly edited to be the last chapter of "MatheMagics for our ear...

This is a Book - Special Edition of the European Scientific Journal entitled “After a Last Wave of the Pandemic: Towards a Post-Covid Era” (Public Policies in Times of Pandemics II). It is a great honor for us, the proposal made by the Editorial Team to participate as Guest Editors of this second Special Edition. After the success of the first...

A practical handbook for a general audience on Sail Freight oprtations, including Vessel Selection, Crew, Cargo Handling, Port Operations, and more details. Designed as a compilation of practical knowledge from the experience of the Sail Freight Revival thus far and historic sources, the Sail Freight Handbook is not so much academic as the bridge b...

Manual for the R package PracTools v.1.3. Functions and datasets to support Valliant, Dever, and Kreuter, Practical Tools for Designing and Weighting Survey Samples (2nd edition, 2018). Contains functions for sample size calculation for survey samples using stratified or clustered one-, two-, and three-stage sample designs, and single-stage audit s...

This paper presents an overview of the third edition of the HEad and neCK TumOR segmentation and outcome prediction (HECKTOR) challenge, organized as a satellite event of the 25th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) 2022. The challenge comprises two tasks related to the automatic analysis...

Plato's "theory of the forms" has been fundamentally misunderstood ever since Plato's dialogues have been read through the categories of philosophies that emerged after Plato and most recently through the categories of analytic philosophy (Gregory Vlastos), Heidegger, or whatever is trendy. Instead, I read Plato as using his cultural tradition, the...

This study aims to analyze words, phrases, clauses, and sentences in short stories, categorized as lexical and grammatical cohesion. The data sources of this research are short stories and short stories excerpts published in Indonesian textbooks for IX grade of Senior High School written by Suherli et al. 2017 revised edition. This Indonesian textb...

Ayurveda being a practical science is codified through centuries in written documents called Manuscripts. A manuscript is any document written by hand or typewritten as opposed to being mechanically printed or reproduced in some automated way. A very few of these manuscripts have been published during the past decades. As such,several treatment met...

We retrospectively analyzed National Health Insurance claims data (January 2002–December 2018) to determine the asthma prevalence and risk factors among preterm infants born in Korea. Patients with asthma were defined as those with a history of asthma medication prescriptions at least twice per year with International Classification of Diseases, Te...

Fuel consumption is unavoidable in farm practices to boast mechanization of agriculture. In this study, field experiments were performed to evaluate the variability in tractor fuel efficiency parameters during ploughing operations. An experimental plot of 138 m by 50 m (6900m 2) area was cleared and divided into three blocks of nine sub-blocks. Eac...

Aim: To analyze the association between neonatal near miss and infant development at two years. Methods: Data from two birth cohorts, one conducted in Ribeirão Preto (RP)/São Paulo and the other in São Luís (SL)/Maranhão, were used. The cognitive, motor and communication development of children was evaluated using the Bayley Scales of Infant and...

An article about how the Ancient Greeks thought about economics and its place in a culture. This is very relevant for our time, since the Modern Western World changed the paradigm entirely. We need to structure societies so that economic prosperity is not the top priority. Originally published: “Philosophy, Politics, and Economics in the Global Era...

We are delighted to invite you to contribute to this special edition of Toxics to celebrate the achievements of women environmental scientists and toxicologists, and furthering our understanding of the exposure, effects, and risks of chemicals and materials in humans and the natural environment as well as approaches to assessing and/or managing the...

‘The Leuven Project: Enhancing Catholic School Identity?’ appeared in the May 2022 edition of ITQ. ¹ Motivated by concerns that the article misrepresents the Enhancing Catholic School Identity (ECSI) research in the academic forum and fundamentally rejects the theology of the Second Vatican Council from which it springs, I write to clarify some of...

The syndrome of transient headache and neurologic deficits with cerebrospinal fluid lymphocytosis (HaNDL) is a rare, self-limiting condition with severe headaches combined with neurological symptoms. However, evidence-based recommendations on diagnostics and treatments are unavailable due to the condition’s rarity and unknown pathophysiology. A you...

Operations and Supply Chain Strategy is crucial for the success of organizations in the context of Industry 4.0. Operations and Supply Chains are a potential field to generate competitive advantages, and then supporting organizations to strongly compete in the market. Nonetheless, considering the context of Industry 4.0, technologies also play an i...

This is an Editorial in the Special Edition of the European Scientific Journal entitled “After a Last Wave of the Pandemic: Towards a Post-Covid Era” (Public Policies in Times of Pandemics II). It is a great honor for us, the proposal made by the Editorial Team to participate as Guest Editors of this second Special Edition. After the success of the...

Objective To screen for neurodevelopmental delays in a cohort of full-term infants born to mothers with SARS-CoV-2. Study design This was a prospective, descriptive cohort study of full-term infants born to mothers with SARS-CoV-2 during pregnancy. Subjects underwent neurodevelopmental screening using the Ages and Stages Questionnaires®-Third Edit...

CG:SHOP is an annual geometric optimization challenge and the 2022 edition proposed the problem of coloring a certain geometric graph defined by line segments. Surprisingly, the top three teams used the same technique, called conflict optimization. This technique has been introduced in the 2021 edition of the challenge, to solve a coordinated motio...

Synaptopathies are neurodevelopmental disorders caused by genetic mutations disrupting the development and function of neuronal synapses. We administered the validated Social Responsiveness Scale, Second Edition (SRS-2) to investigate the phenotypic presentation of social-behavioral impairments for the synaptopathy— SYNGAP1 -related Intellectual Di...

We aimed to investigate the protumor mechanisms of platelets in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC). Serum samples were collected from 656 PDAC patients and 3105 healthy people, and a Panx1 knockout tumor model and an adoptive platelet transfusion mouse model were established. We showed that the blood platelet counts were not significantly diff...

Taking into account the above, a drug with an adaptogenic effect was developed based on the flavonoids of the aerial part of S. comosa. While continuing the research, studies were conducted on the standardization of raw materials prepared from the aerial part of S. comosa. The research was conducted according to the methods specified in the State P...

This updated on-line bibliography contains studies on different kinds of properties (mostly semantic, but also syntactic, sociolinguistic, prosodic, ...) of particular items of the lexicon and the grammar of French. With the integrated search motor you can search for a specific unit (e.g. devoir, sur, puisque, re-, -able, au-delà, que, quelque, le,...

Deep Speech Enhancement Challenge is the 5th edition of deep noise suppression (DNS) challenges organized at ICASSP 2023 Signal Processing Grand Challenges. DNS challenges were organized during 2019-2023 to stimulate research in deep speech enhancement (DSE). Previous DNS challenges were organized at INTERSPEECH 2020, ICASSP 2021, INTERSPEECH 2021,...

In this special edition (closed on 31 October 2022), 4 reviews, 13 original papers, 1 communication, and 1 case report are published [...]

In this article, I examine two case studies of spatial representation of atrocity and trauma: Jerzy Skąpski’s poster Każdy Dzień Oświęcimia (Every Day at Auschwitz) (1974), published in the October 1978 edition of The Unesco Courier, and the aesthetic/activist action known as “El Siluetazo” (1983), which was created by Rodolfo Aguerreberry, Julio F...

The price of food has been affected in recent months in response to events such as the war in Ukraine, energy costs, inflation, the COVID-19 pandemic, and climate change. Indeed, supply problems, as well as the repercussions of global issues, have had an impact on grocery bills. Just between September and October 2022, the price of food increased b...

A historical and theoretical investigation of the "common storylines" of recent financial crises. Financial crises have some common storylines, among them bursting asset bubbles, bank failures, sharp tightening of credit, and downturn in trade. They are also different from one another. Some start with sudden reversal of international capital flows,...

Zusammenfassung Die 5. Edition der WHO-Klassifikation maligner Lymphome (WHO-HAEM5) und die Internationale Konsensus-Klassifikation (ICC) zeigen, was die Einteilung aggressiver B‑Zell-Lymphome angeht, erfreulicherweise nur wenige Unterschiede, die unseren diagnostischen Alltag wenig beeinflussen dürften. Auch die Neuerungen gegenüber der revidierte...

Neonatal Care: A Compendium of AAP Clinical Practice Guidelines and Policies, 2nd Edition, provides the most recent and trustworthy content and recommendations from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Committee on Fetus and Newborn and other relevant AAP committees, sections, and councils. This compendium contains the collected AAP clinical pr...