Curbing the Fiscal Drag — A Provisional Assessment by Matthias Warneke

“…Abstract It took decades of political discussion for lawmakers to begin adjusting the income tax tariff for inflation in order to curb the fiscal drag. …”
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L’esquisse du genre by Simon Massei

“…In a genealogical and diachronic approach, this article aims to describe the representations of masculinity and femininity in Disney’s full length animated movies since 1937, and the evolution of these representations over the last decades. Methodologically, it is based on the viewing and the qualitative analysis of fifteen movies, every one tracing the romance of a heterosexual couple. …”
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Contributors to this edition by Ronit Frenkel

“… The University of Johannesburg acquired The Thinker in April 2019 from Dr Essop Pahad. Over the last decade, The Thinker has gained a reputation as a journal that explores Pan-African issues across fields and times. …”
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Les stations thermales secondaires de Bourgogne-Franche-Comté by Fabien Dufoulon

“…Often (but not systematically) located away from the rail network and, above all, financially and legally deprived to face local competition, they struggled to develop and declined in the first decades of the early twentieth century.…”
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The role of Akkermansia muciniphila in maintaining health: a bibliometric study by Fangfang Gao, Canyu Cheng, Canyu Cheng, Runwei Li, Zongcun Chen, Zongcun Chen, Ke Tang, Guankui Du, Guankui Du, Guankui Du

“…The aim of this study was to comprehensively assess the research status of Akkermansia muciniphila over the past decade and explore the relationships between this bacterium and various health-related aspects.MethodsTools VOSviewer, Bibliometrix, and CiteSpace were used to analyze various aspects including publication metrics, contributors, institutions, geography, journals, funding, and keywords.ResultsOver the past decade, research on Akkermansia muciniphila has demonstrated a consistent annual growth in the number of publications, with a notable peak in 2021. …”
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Temporal and habitat-specific variations in drivers of aboveground biomass dynamics in a Chinese subtropical forest by Yuxuan Bian, Qi Wu, Rong Zheng, Jiaqin Fu, Jianhua Chen, Xiangcheng Mi, Mingjian Yu, Yunquan Wang, Yunquan Wang, Yunquan Wang

“…Our findings indicate that aboveground biomass at community level experienced a significant decline followed by an increase over the decade, predominantly driven by changes in the low-valley habitat. …”
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The dynamics of lowland river sections of Danube and Tisza in the Carpathian basin by Imre M. Jánosi, Imre M. Jánosi, István Zsuffa, István Zsuffa, Tibor Bíró, Boglárka O. Lakatos, Boglárka O. Lakatos, András Szöllősi-Nagy, Zsolt Hetesi, Zsolt Hetesi

“…Almost all the water level and discharge records indicate a decadal decreasing trend for annual maximum values. …”
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Divergent trends in the incidence and mortality of acute myocardial ischaemic syndrome, especially in women. Evidence from Finland in 1996–2021 by Atte Kallström, Ida Holopainen, Oleg Kambur, Markus Perola, Veikko Salomaa, Aki S. Havulinna, Markus Ramste, Juha Sinisalo

“…Objective Although the incidence and case fatality (CF) of acute myocardial ischaemic syndrome (AMIS) have declined in recent decades, some studies have suggested a potential stagnation in this decline. …”
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Newborn screening for congenital hypothyroidism: worldwide coverage 50 years after its start by Marta Arrigoni, Nitash Zwaveling-Soonawala, Stephen H LaFranchi, A S Paul van Trotsenburg, Christiaan F Mooij

“…Objective: This study aimed to assess the implementation of new NBS programs for CH over the past decade, and screening methods and coverage rates of current programs. …”
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Patterns and trends of heat and wildfire smoke indicators across rural–urban and social vulnerability gradients in Idaho by Seyd Teymoor Seydi, Jennifer Pierce, John T Abatzoglou, Anna Radin, Ethan Sims, Hilary Flint, Stephanie Wicks, Eric Henderson, Bhaskar Chittoori, Mojtaba Sadegh

“…Furthermore, we show that while ambient air quality in the past two decades improved in southern Idaho—consistent with national trends—it worsened in northern Idaho. …”
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Human Transcriptome and Chromatin Modifications: An ENCODE Perspective by Li Shen, Inchan Choi, Eric J. Nestler, Kyoung-Jae Won

“…A decade-long project, led by several international research groups, called the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE), recently released an unprecedented amount of data. …”
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Growth, Reduction, and Survival of Bacteria on Melon Types by Thao P. Nguyen, Michelle D. Danyluk, Keith R. Schneider

“…Even with efforts to educate industry and consumers of safe produce-handling practices, in the last decade there were still over 1,100 documented illnesses associated with melon consumption. …”
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Remote Sensing of CO2 Absorption by Saline-Alkali Soils: Potentials and Constraints by Wenfeng Wang, Xi Chen, Zhi Pu

“…Both the technological progress of multispectral remote sensing over the past decades and the conjectures of mechanisms and controls of CO2 absorption by saline-alkali soils are advantageous for remote sensing of such absorption. …”
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S-Amlodipine: An Isomer with Difference—Time to Shift from Racemic Amlodipine by Jamshed Dalal, J. C. Mohan, S. S. Iyengar, Jagdish Hiremath, Immaneni Sathyamurthy, Sandeep Bansal, Dhiman Kahali, Arup Dasbiswas

“…Being clinically researched for nearly two decades, we performed in-depth review of S-AM. This review discusses clinical evidence from total 42 studies (26 randomized controlled trials, 14 observational studies, and 2 meta-analyses) corroborating over 7400 patients treated with S-AM. …”
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Bacias hidrográficas e os conflitos pelos usos das águas no estado de Sergipe by Anézia Maria Fonseca Barbosa, Alberlene Ribeiro de Oliveira, Luiz Carlos Sousa Silva, Rosemeri Melo e Souza, Sindiany Suelen Caduda dos Santos

“…The results reveal that the conflicts around the current dynamics of agriculture and cattle raising activities, the use of lands, industry, civil engineering, commerce, and other services, occur in an unsustainable way and will compromisse water supplies in the coming decades. In the long run, it becomes clear that the State, concerning water resource manegement policies, needs to come up with integrated actions, aiming the socialenvironmental sustainability of the hydrographic basins in Sergipe and minimization of the existing conflicts.…”
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New Integration Period? Changing Tendencies of the Urban Network in South East Europe by Szilárd Rácz

“…The past two decades have brought basic changes in the whole Balkan Peninsula, where spatial structures and settlement network were not devoid of changes either. …”
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«The Muslim Brotherhood» and prospects of the political process in contemporary Egypt by M. Z. Razhbadinov

“…The country has just started to move in the way that Turkey did a few decades ago…”
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Retinal Pigment Epithelium Transplantation: Past, Present, and Future by Ayyad Zartasht Khan, Tor Paaske Utheim, Jon Roger Eidet

“…Due to these properties and the clinical significance of this epithelium in various retinal diseases, RPE transplantation as a treatment modality has gained considerable interest in the last decade. This paper presents the main techniques for RPE transplantation and discusses recent clinically relevant publications.…”
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Data Journalism, Digital Verification and AI. The Case for Newsroom Convergence by Laura Postma

“…As has AI, they have all entered newsrooms in various forms over the past two decades. This article comes out of preparatory work for an online course on data literacy for journalism, communication and creative industries students called MediaNumeric. …”
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Brand New Oldies: Recent English Narrative Verse by David Malcolm

“…A substantial amount of narrative verse has been written and published in England in the first two decades of the 21st century. Several writers, including Bernardine Evaristo, Ros Barber, Patience Agbabi, and Moniza Alvi, have written successful and well-received longer narrative poems. …”
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