Operation Warp Speed as a “Moonshot”: Some Public Policy Lessons by Nicholas Sowels

“…This article presents Operation Warp Speed (OWS), a federal government project launched by the Trump administration in May 2020 to develop a vaccine against COVID-19. …”
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Comparison of the Democratic Concepts of the People in Mainland China and Taiwan: Support and Understanding by Hsin-Che Wu, Long Xiao

“…Compared to people in mainland China, the Taiwanese have a deeper and more widely shared belief in the principles of participation and pluralism, while the differences between their beliefs in the principles of equality, freedom, and checks and balances are narrow. …”
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Secondary Neutropenias by Alister C. Ward

“…As a consequence, individuals with neutropenia, defined by a reduction in absolute neutrophil counts, exhibit a strong propensity to severe infections that typically present with muted symptoms. Neutropenias encompass a heterogeneous set of disorders, comprising primary neutropenias, in which specific genes are mutated, and the more common secondary neutropenias, which have diverse non-genetic causes. …”
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Supervising Undergraduate Law Students’ Dissertations: A Four-Step Review by Jayden Houghton, Oriel Kelly

“…This article surveys the literature on the supervision of undergraduate students, describes the lead author’s supervision process, and presents and discusses the study results. Students reported that each step in the four-step review process was helpful for their dissertation progress and achieving their goals for the dissertation, and provided useful feedback that was more useful than anticipated for each step in the review process. …”
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Charakterystyka laminarnego płynięcia cieczy nienewtonowskich za pomocą modelu reologicznego o trzech parametrach by W. Parzonka

“…The present paper contains a review of equations for describing the curves of flow of non-Newtonian liquids. …”
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Modern approaches to drug therapy of bladder cancer after first progression. by L. V. Bolotina, L. A. Koroleva

“…We have our own positive experience with Javlor in older age group of patients, that is presented in the article…”
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Risque environnemental et action collective : l’exemple de la gestion du risque d’érosion à Wissant (Côte d’Opale) by Vincent Herbert, Muriel Maillefert, Olivier Petit, Bertrand Zuindeau

“…It confronts then the answers proposed by the actors with theories and practices of collective action. To analyse more in details the relationships between environmental risk and collective action, we first come back on the ambiguities raised by the notion of environmental risk to better understand the problems at stake. …”
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Testing, tracing and isolation in compartmental models. by Simone Sturniolo, William Waites, Tim Colbourn, David Manheim, Jasmina Panovska-Griffiths

“…However ABMs are complex, less well-understood and much more computationally expensive. This paper presents a new method for accurately including the effects of Testing, contact-Tracing and Isolation (TTI) strategies in standard compartmental models. …”
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Combination Tones in the Model of Central Auditory Processing for Pitch Perception by Tadeusz ZIĘBAKOWSKI

“…The aim of the model presented in this paper is to show that combination tones phenomenon can be explained as an effect of central mechanisms. …”
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“Winners” and “Losers” of the Bivalve Evolution by Jasenka Sremac, Marija Bošnjak

“…Additionally, thousands more species occurred during their 500-million-year long evolution. …”
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Does social media information affect individual investor disposition effect? Evidence from Xueqiu. by Siliu Chen, Fei Ren

“…Furthermore, it is through negative information that social media information reduces the disposition effect. When presented with negative information, individual investors will gradually become more rational in adjusting their positions. …”
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Washū - japanische Besonderheiten in der klassisch-chinesischen Dichtung. Ursprung und Rezeption eines Schlüsselbegriffs by Victor Fink

“…As a technical term in Japanese literary studies characterizing deficient kanshi (as well as kanbun) texts the word initially retained its derogative meaning prefigured in its discursive history. More recent studies presented a re-interpretation of the term. …”
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Oil Well Characterization and Artificial Gas Lift Optimization Using Neural Networks Combined with Genetic Algorithm by Chukwuka G. Monyei, Aderemi O. Adewumi, Michael O. Obolo

“…Artificial gas lift involves injecting high-pressured gas from the surface into the producing fluid column through one or more subsurface valves set at predetermined depths. …”
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Infantile Amoebiasis: A Case Report by Mohammad Zibaei, Farzaneh Firoozeh, Alireza Azargoon

“…In developed countries Entamoeba histolytica infections are commonly seen in travelers, recent immigrants, homosexual men, and inmates of institutions. The disease is more severe in the two extremes of life. This paper paper describes a four-month-old male infant with Entamoeba histolytica presenting initially with refusal of feeds, hyperactive bowel sound, vomiting, and diarrhea. …”
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Amalgames de la terminologie allemande : Problématique pour l'accès aux données terminologiques multilingues et la traduction by Renate Trurnit-Verbic, Hélène Ledouble

“…Looking for information in a dictionary is therefore facilitated by a more logical classification of "sealed" German translation units, within a general ontological approach of medical terminology.…”
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Introduction of the Subject ‘Principles of Russian State System’ in the Russian Plekhanov University of Economics: First Results and Prospects of Enhancement by Yu. V. Kapitanets, E. V. Chekmarev

“…The content of the subject based on civilization approach was presented and methodological approaches used for preparing and conducting classes were demonstrated. …”
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Estrogen and Body Weight Regulation in Women: The Role of Estrogen Receptor Alpha (ER-α) on Adipocyte Lipolysis by Harry F Luglio

“…This finding is supported by the fact that mice lacking of ESR1 gene (encodes ER-α) accumulate more fat and ESR1 mRNA in human adipose tissue was inversely correlated with body mass index (BMI). …”
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Renal Tumors in Pregnancy: A Case Report Focusing on the Timing of the Surgery and Patient Positioning by Hamidreza Ghorbani, Mahdi Mottaghi, Salman Soltani

“…There is no consensus regarding the fundamental timing issues (which trimester) of the interventions and patient positioning during the procedures. We present three pregnant women with renal mass and their management, focusing on patient positioning and timing of surgical intervention. …”
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ADMINISTRATION OF LACTULOSE IN COMPLEX PEHABILITATION TREATMENT AFTER RADICAL AND RECONSTRUCTIVE RESTORATIVE SURGERY OF BOWELS IN CHILDREN by I.V. Kirgizov, I.A. Shishkin, A.A. Gusev, P.V. Ivanov

“…The results of treatment of children (n = 64) of 1,5–17 years old, receiving rehabilitation course after reconstructive — restorative surgery of bowels are presented in this article. It was shown, that prolonged (1 month and more) administration of lactulose (Duphalac) results in improvement of motor and evacuation function of bowel, and decreases «sensor inability» of reduced parts of bowel. …”
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Peculiarities of Combined Mixing Caused by Instability of Mechanical Equilibrium of Isothermal Ternary Gas Mixture at Diffusion by Vladimir N. Kossov, Venera Mukamedenkyzy, Arsen Tolepbergen, Holm Altenbach

“…Reliability in reproducing quantitative values of concentrations during combined mixing for large relaxation times, which had been previously studied experimentally, was also noted. The presented results make it possible to analyze the mixing modes in multicomponent systems, which makes it possible to determine more correctly the regions of diffusion and convective perturbations.…”
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