Herbal remedies as a potential alternative therapy for arthritis by Disha Trivedi, Riya Jayapal Roja, Eva Künnemann

“…In detail, we describe how different plant substances, that is, curcumin and several ingredients of rosehip, can interact with cartilage compounds and reduce the inflammatory reaction by specifically interacting with cellular pathways. Arthritis forms a vicious cycle, where upon overuse of a joint or an autoimmune reaction inflammation and pain occur. …”
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Be Your Sister’s Keeper: Personal Experience of Travelling a Lonely Journey in Academia by Duduzile Mzindle

“…Black woman marginalisation takes variegated forms, and it has its roots in patriarchy and identity confusion. …”
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Chevroned Water Hyacinth weevil Neochetina bruchi Hustache (Insecta: Coleoptera: Curculionidae) by Eutychus Kariuki, Carey Minteer

“… Neochetina bruchi Hustache is commonly referred to as the chevroned water hyacinth weevil and is a weed biological control agent used to manage water hyacinth, Pontederia crassipes Mart. [formely Eichhornia crassipes (Mart.) Solms (Pellegrini et al. 2018)], in more than 30 countries (Winston et al. 2014). …”
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Research on glass imitation jade culture in the ancient Chinese Silk Road by Sai Huang, Ziyi Wang, Junyi Zhu

“…Imitation jade culture extends beyond physical forms, permeating material selection, technological innovation, and cultural symbol inheritance. …”
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Distinguishing rheumatoid arthritis from psoriatic arthritis by Joseph F Merola, Luis R Espinoza, Roy Fleischmann

“…Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and psoriatic arthritis (PsA) have key differences in clinical presentation, radiographic findings, comorbidities and pathogenesis to distinguish between these common forms of chronic inflammatory arthritis. Joint involvement is typically, but not always, asymmetric in PsA, while it is predominantly symmetric in RA. …”
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Morphological diversity of tadpoles of fork-tongued frogs (Anura: Dicroglossidae) with different trophic specializations by Anna B. Vassilieva, Trung Duc Nguyen, Pavel A. Sorokin

“…Different trends in the evolution of larval macrophagy in Dicroglossidae led to the formation of fundamentally different larval forms. In the first case, the tadpoles are opportunistic predators that retain the ability to use a wide range of food resources (Hoplobatrachus); they have extremely specialized mouthparts but moderately transformed digestive tract and larval skeleton. …”
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EVALUATING THREATS OF ARMED BANDITRY ON HUMAN AND FOOD SECURITY IN SHIRORO LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF NIGER STATE, NIGERIA by DR MUSA EMMANUEL UMARU, DR ALIYU MOHAMMED BELLO, DR CHARLES O. OKWUWA

“…As a recommendation, the study suggests that the government deploy its security forces robustly to curb various forms of armed insurgencies. This involves providing advanced detection equipment in the forested lands of the study area to effectively address the prevailing challenges. …”
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A HISTORY OF THE AGILA IN ADO LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF BENUE STATE by OCHOGA EDWIN OCHOGA, Imanah Sunday Omoafena

“…Thirdly, their children and descendants apparently formed the twelve clans; fourthly, the socio-cultural stratifications existing among the clans regarding the chieftaincy institution, the Arekwu cults and other customs were collectively agreed by the two Progenitors to be fashioned after the Idah Model. …”
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On the interaction between implicit statistical learning and the alternation advantage: Evidence from manual and oculomotor serial reaction time tasks. by Arianna Compostella, Marta Tagliani, Maria Vender, Denis Delfitto

“…Saccadic responses preceding stimulus onset allow us to argue for the perceptual nature of ISL: participants detected regularities in the string by forming S-S associations based on the sequence of the perceived stimuli. …”
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Futures thinking becomes a priority for all globalized societies by Roland Benedikter

“…This text presents the most central buzz words, framings, concepts and overall style prevalent in contemporary global future fora and initiatives, taking them as symptomatic for an ongoing renaissance of approaches towards “futuring” in the advanced forms of “futures staging”, “futures casting” and “futures design” which, if this trend continues, could eventually lead to a more stable, post-conventional and wide-spread trans-national implementation of the discipline of “critical futures studies” in academia, policy and practice.…”
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Diet’s Cariogenicity and Healthfulness Index (DCHI) - A Novel, Comprehensive Index for Children by Raghavendra Shanbhog, H. P. Chanchala, K. T. Srilatha, B. Madhu, S.N. Manjunatha

“…An appropriate diet analysis forms the basis for precise dietary advice. Analysis of diet for its cariogenicity is a complex process. …”
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Virtual Power Plant and Multi-prosumer Hybrid Game Strategy Based on Energy Sharing by QI Lei, GAO Yang, AI Qian

“…A virtual power plant formed by the aggregation and interconnection of such prosumer clusters can collaboratively optimize flexible resources and improve the overall efficiency of the cluster through power interactions and power mutual aid. …”
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Marriage, sexuality, and holiness: aspects of marital ethics in the Corpus Paulinum by R. Zimmermann

“…In the theologically substantiated union of the sexes one can recognize not only traditional, but especially Judaic forms of speech, created through the close interweaving of relationships between the sexes and the relationship with God. …”
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Medical and social domains of ageing research in Singapore (2008–2018): a scoping review by Chen Hee Tam, Elaine Qiao Ying Ho, Sumali Subhashini Hewage, Shilpa Tyagi, Gerald Choon Huat Koh

“…Non-medical publications comprised 38% of all the included publications, with publications on the social aspects of ageing (43%) forming the largest group in this cluster, followed by publications on Prevention (19%) and Healthcare services (18%). …”
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Women’s experiences of ceasing to breastfeed: Australian qualitative study by Jennifer Elizabeth Ayton, Leigh Tesch, Emily Hansen

“…In an effort to avoid formula and prolong exclusive breastfeeding, mothers will endure multiple issues (eg, pain, low milk supply, mastitis, public shaming) and make use of various forms of social and physical capital; resources such as father/partner support, expressing breast milk, bottles and dummies. …”
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Supervisory written feedback in ELT practicum: exploring content, linguistic features, and perceptions of preservice teachers by Safaa M. Abdelhalim, Asma Abdullah Alsahil

“…Additionally, we underscore the influence of observation instruments, emphasizing the value of less structured forms for reflective exchanges in supervisory written feedback.…”
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Assessing the Level of Awareness on Wash Related Diseases in Kaliro Town Council Kaliro District, Uganda. Masanja Alex by Masanja, Alex

“…The study research design was cross sectional in nature Both qualitative and quantitative methods were employed to collect data. 295 members formed the target population while the simple random sampling was used to select the respondents. …”
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Examining the Impact of Women's Savings Groups on Socio¬economic Welfare of Families in Northern Division Kabale Municipality. by Namara, Brenda

“…Despite the existence of women's savings groups in the Northern division of Kabale Municipality which would help in poverty reduction and improve on socio-economic welfare of families through the provision of small loans to its members at low interest rates and saving the little they have, still, the social economic welfare of families has remained the same in the area and there seem to be no reasons for forming such savings groups. The purpose of the study was to examine the impact of women's savings groups on the socioeconomic welfare of families in the Northern division of Kabale Municipality.…”
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Performance Management Practices and Health Service Delivery in Kabale Hospital, Kabale District, Uganda. by Gideon, Tumwesigire

“…It was also recommended that hospital administration need to ensure that performance appraisal forms are filled by both the supervisors and their subordinates. …”
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Overlying strata movement law and rockburst prevention & control for fully mechanized top coal caving face in extra-thick coal seams by Hai Rong, Longyue He, Yadi Wang, Xiangzhi Wei, Shilong Wei, Suihan Yang, Jincheng Li, Linlin Chen

“…Taking the 12,240 working face of Gengcun Coal Mine as the engineering background, initially, the calculation formula for the collaborative deformation load of hard rock strata and the formula for the instability scale of hard rock strata are employed to precisely ascertain the position and instability scale of the key strata. …”
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