Results of sclerosing treatment of a hemorrhoids at patients with high surgical risk by I. V. Kostarev, L. A. Blagodarny, S. A. Frolov

“…At 13 patients with chronic hemorrhoids of 2–4 stages sclerosing treatment in combination to ultrasound cavitation, at 14 patients – sclerosing treatment without additional procedures was carried out.Results. Good and satisfactory results of treatment (termination or essential decrease of frequency and intensity of bleedings, decrease of degree of prolapse of hemorrhoids) after a week and month in both groups were identical. …”
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Digital ecclesiology and Africa’s digital natives: prospects and challenges by K.M. Ndereba

“…More specifically, this article argues that the digital mode of ministry enriches the church’s missional calling as it reaches out to Africa’s digital natives; expands the understanding of church as organism and invisible, and creates specific challenges for the church’s ministry in terms of key concepts such as identity, authority, and community. …”
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Creative Citizenship – two journeys, one destination by Hargreaves Ian, Hartley John

“…It seeks to combine (i) autobiographical narrative storytelling – two of them, in fact; with (ii) an attempt to build concepts, themes and strategies out of that narrative, and how the two stories did indeed arrive at ‘one destination’; and (iii) plentiful use of visual prompts, combined with part-scripted, part-improvised dialogic commentary. …”
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Pierwsze wyznanie Synostwa Bożego przez Jezusa (Łk 2, 41–52) by Stanisław Witkowski

“…His obedience to the heavenly Father takes priority over his filial subordination to Joseph and Mary, who did not understand this mystery. It turns out that faith in the mystery of Jesus is not given to man once and for all. …”
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Enhanced Ehlers transformation and the Majumdar-Papapetrou-NUT spacetime by Marco Astorino

“…The enhanced Ehlers transformation proposed turns out to act as a gravitomagnetic duality, analogously to the electromagnetic duality, but for gravity: it rotates the mass charge into the gravomagnetic (or NUT) charge. …”
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AN EVOCATION OF ION VIDU 150 YEARS AFTER HIS BIRTH. HIS ACTIVITY AS A COMPOSER AND A CONDUCTOR by Ion-Alexandru ARDEREANU

“…Thus, in this commemorative year, this paper sets out to highlight yet again not a general portrait of Ion Vidu (in which case the risk of a shallow approach would be very high), but the two most common dimensions of his personality: Ion Vidu, the composer and the conductor. …”
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Rozumienie przez dzieci 6-, 7- i 8-letnie występowania wody w gruncie by Jan Amos Jelinek

“… Groundwater is out of direct observation. Their presence can be inferred from the observation of water disappearing in puddles, wells and lakes. …”
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Evaluation of post-education and training to determine alumni performance quality by Nia Kurniawati

“…Outcomes of this training can be known through post-training evaluation activities which are carried out three to 6 months after the training is completed.…”
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Research on Optimal Power Generation Scheduling for Reservoir in Multi-Tailed River Channels by ZHANG Yonghui, WANG Jian, MA Jun, LI Dashang, WU Chengjun

“…According to 96 combinations under different inflow and irrigation requirements, a long series of optimal power generation scheduling simulations was carried out for Gezhen Reservoir. The results demonstrate that after optimization, the average annual power generation exhibits a remarkable increase of 18.92% compared to that of conventional scheduling practices over years. …”
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DEMOCRATIZATION PROCESS AND OPPOSITION PARTY IN NIGERIA: AN INSIGHT by IDREES MAHMUD GANA, OGAJI TIJANI ADAMU

“…This circumstance is an out different from how they have always been marketed as being reachable in developed countries. …”
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THE EFFECT OF USING MNEMONIC TECHNIQUE TOWARD STUDENTS’ VOCABULARY MASTERY AT GRADE XII-SCIENCE STUDENTS OF SMAN 9 KOTA BENGKULU by LIZA OKTARINI, BAMBANG SUWARNO, I WAYAN Dharmayana

“…This study aimed to find out whether the use of Mnemonic technique affected the students’ vocabulary mastery. …”
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Ekscytujący strach – zabawa ryzykowna w opinii rodziców by Patrycja Brudzińska, Lucyna Śmieszek-Formela

“…When designing the study, we took into account the fact that there are noticeable cultural differences in the attitude to risky play (Guldberg 2009), therefore the aim was to find out about the opinions of Polish parents about this type of activity. …”
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Med det förflutna för ögonen by Samuel Rubenson

“…The past shows us our differences, not, as we often think, what unites us. This we need to find out. As a church historian, I have realized that the image of the church as a tree with a common root and branches that eventually divide us is historically false. …”
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Tourism-phobia in historic centres: the case of Malaga by Fernando Almeida-García, Rafael Cortés-Macías, Antonia Balbuena-Vázquez

“…To this end, a specific questionnaire was produced about tourism-phobia, 378 surveys were distributed and completed and 10 semi-structured interviews were carried out with residents. Likewise, a thematic map was created, spatially identifying the main problems relating to the nuisances to residents. …”
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DOES HEALTH EXPENDITURE IMPACTS ON ECONOMIC GROWTH IN NIGERIA? by BENEDICT AZU, SHEDRACK ONYEKA AGBOBU

“…This could be as a result of the general consensus that economic growth leads to improved health status while the attention was not given to whether causality exists in the reverse direction. This study is carried out to breach this gap. Autoregressive conditional Heteroskedasticity regression analysis was employed and the result shows that health expenditures and education attainment are important determinants of economic growth in Nigeria while life expectancy rate has negative impact on growth for the period covered by the study. …”
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Mathematics learning for school readiness of kindergarteners in the western rural area of china – taking county s as an example by Min Li, Xiaoping Yang

“…From the research carried out, it was concluded that development in different math abilities are not coordinated, that the children’s performance in number and volume are much better than in geometry and relationship, and that there are significant differences between different kindergartens regarding location and funding – children from independent public kindergartens and private kindergartens, charging expensive tuition fees and located in county towns, are much better than others. …”
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Bullinger am Kap der Guten Hoffnung? Theologische bemerkungen zum einfluss Bullingers in Südafrika by V. E. d'Assonville

“…Furthermore, the importance of discerning between historical and theological texts has theological and historiographical consequences. This article points out that the issue of theological influence during the first half of the history of settlement at the Cape is more complex than it may seem at first glance, on the one hand, and that it is difficult to gauge the importance of Bullinger’s direct or indirect influence during this period, on the other. …”
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The role of YouTube platform as a learning resource in online learning effectiveness by Diva Fikri Harry Adnan, Norma Istiqomah

“…This study aims to find out the role and implementation as well as the obstacles that arise in using YouTube as a learning resource in supporting the effectiveness of online learning based on the perceptions or views of students. …”
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The role of religion and spirituality in transforming society by J. Beyers

“…Even so, religions have, over centuries, constantly called out against violence and oppression and motivated the search for peace. …”
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The power of health economics and outcomes research (HEOR) in making decisions that matter by Oscar Herrera Restrepo

“… Deciding on approving and granting market access to new medical technologies such as pharmaceutical products, vaccines, or medical devices is a multifactorial research problem. Balancing out clinical performance, epidemiological implications, burden of disease, economic value, and patient preferences, among other factors, is in itself a challenging endeavor. …”
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