Christianity and medical science: A historical quest for remedy in time of epidemics by V.U. Iheanacho

“…For its part, reason dictates what needs to be done in terms of practical and necessary measures to alleviate pain and suffering while waiting for divine intervention. …”
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Missing Poetry: A historiography of Albanian Literature during the Communist Regime by Edlira Macaj

“…The conclusions reinforce the idea that any evaluation of the literary process dictated by extra-literary principles damages the natural literary process. …”
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Accessibility of Medical Facilities in Multiple Traffic Modes: A Study in Guangzhou, China by Juhua Wu, Zeqian Cai, Honglei Li

“…Although the government intended to provide equal access for all, in the final evaluation, fairness of the distribution of services was usually dictated by location. Measuring and predicting access to social services can help to adjust and better accommodate underserved regions. 3SFCA modes based on the Gaussian function are proposed to delineate the service area of providers delivering social services and produce a probability metric that maps the equity of the medical services in multiple traffic modes. …”
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Shear localisation controls the dynamics of earthquakes by Fabian Barras, Nicolas Brantut

“…Energy dissipation is dictated by the mechanical behaviour of the fault, which is itself the result of feedbacks between thermo-hydro-mechanical processes acting at the mm to sub-mm scale. …”
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Genetic, Functional, and Immunological Study of ZnT8 in Diabetes by Qiong Huang, Jie Du, Chengfeng Merriman, Zhicheng Gong

“…In type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM), autoantibodies show specificity for binding two variants of ZnT8 (R or W at amino acid 325) dictated by a polymorphism in SLC30A8. In this review, we summarize the structure, feature, functions, and polymorphisms of ZnT8 along with its association with diabetes and explore future study directions.…”
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Physiologic Course of Female Reproductive Function: A Molecular Look into the Prologue of Life by Joselyn Rojas, Mervin Chávez-Castillo, Luis Carlos Olivar, María Calvo, José Mejías, Milagros Rojas, Jessenia Morillo, Valmore Bermúdez

“…This vital course may be systematized in three subsequent stages: prenatal development of ovaries and germ cells up until in utero arrest of follicular growth and the ensuing interim suspension of gonadal function; onset of reproductive maturity through puberty, with reinitiation of both gonadal and adrenal activity; and adult functionality of the ovarian cycle which permits ovulation, a key event in female fertility, and dictates concurrent modifications in the endometrium and other ovarian hormone-sensitive tissues. …”
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Anti-correlation of LacI association and dissociation rates observed in living cells by Vinodh Kandavalli, Spartak Zikrin, Johan Elf, Daniel Jones

“…These results contradict the long-standing hypothesis that TF binding site strength is primarily dictated by the dissociation rate, but may confer the evolutionary advantage that TFs do not get stuck in near-operator sequences while searching.…”
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Foule et public by Emmanuel Plasseraud

“…She understood that the audience, in its diversity, would dictate its tastes to the film-makers, expressing an idea that Hollywood producers had already assimilated.…”
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W.V.O. Quine’s “Indeterminacy Thesis of Radical Translation” and the Logic Problem in the Expression of African Thoughts by Emmanuel Ofuasia (csp)

“… Western missionaries, ethnographic and anthropological scholars arrived in Africa, quizzed the pre-colonial African, and adjudged her, pre-critical and pre-logical, since the latter could not disclose or express thoughts according to the dictates or criteria initiated by the former. The criteria are the former’s language and logic. …”
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Satisfaction by the certain subjective success in career by Janjić Ivana, Ilić Đurđijana

“…For modern business, characterized by strong competition and constant change, the labor market dictates the requirements of developing personal abilities. …”
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'Man is the Measure of All Things' by Victor Muñoz Sanz, Dan Handel

“…What we seek in this issue of Footprint is to add to these perspectives cases of what we call radical conditioning, in which some architectures bypass assumed values of humanism and operate under a wholly different set of values, emanating from industrial and post-industrial economies and its technological developments. These architectures dictate the creation of spaces in which the human body has to operate, and to which it needs to adapt in order to survive. …”
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Situational model of financial support for construction in the framework of project implementation in the Russian Federation by D. A. Borisyuk, O. E. Astafyeva

“…The increasing volume of construction financing, dictated by the national development goals of the Russian Federation, determines the increased role of rational choice of methods, mechanisms and tools of financial support for construction in order to make managerial decisions on the implementation of projects aimed at achieving the targets within the declared national development benchmarks of the Russian Federation. …”
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Optimal network sizes for most robust Turing patterns by Hazlam S. Ahmad Shaberi, Aibek Kappassov, Antonio Matas-Gil, Robert G. Endres

“…However, biological gene-regulatory pathways are more complex than simple Turing activator-inhibitor models and generally do not require fine-tuning of parameters as dictated by the Turing conditions. To address these issues, we employ random matrix theory to analyze the Jacobian matrices of larger networks with robust statistical properties. …”
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Adjuvants for peptide-based cancer vaccines by Willem W Overwijk, Hiep Khong

“…As vaccine adjuvants dictate the type and magnitude of the T cell response after vaccination, it is critical to understand how they work to design safe, but also effective, cancer vaccines for clinical use. …”
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Digital transformation of the Russian media business in the face of uncertainty by A. M. Druzhinin

“…On the other hand, renewal and adaptation are dictated by such organisations by the external environment, while simultaneously increasing costs and risks.…”
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Pull-In and Snap-Through Analysis of Electrically Actuated Viscoelastic Curved Microbeam by Ehsan Akrami-Nia, Hamid Ekhteraei-Toussi

“…The shape and mechanical properties of microbeams dictate their functional characteristics. Focusing on their instability-based working mechanism, one can appreciate that viscoelasticity of MEMS materials cannot be neglected. …”
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4 3 2 1, The Book of Endlessly Forking Paths by Ilana Shiloh

“…4 3 2 1, Paul Auster’s 2017 novel, is a creative exploration of counterfactual thinking – thinking about what might have been. 4 3 2 1 departs from the premise that “the real […] also consist[s] of what could have happened but didn’t”. This premise dictates Auster’s narrative strategy, which involves the juxtaposition of four alternative versions of the protagonist’s character and life. …”
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SCIENCE DIPLOMACY: FRENCH EXPERIENCE by A. V. Shestopal, N. V. Litvak

“…However, its goals in this area are reduced to mere survival under conditions dictated by other countries. Modern trends in the world of science, which lead to integration, force to reconsider the attitude towards staff training, to research itself, and to its place and role in politics and diplomacy. …”
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GLOBAL SUPRANATIONAL ACTORS OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY by I. V. Surma

“…These and other circumstances dictate the need to generate adequate effective state policy of counteraction to cyber terrorism and the development of the new «intellectual technologies» and software tools to control the «dark-web» and analysis of social networks. …”
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Photosymbiosis shaped animal genome architecture and gene evolution as revealed in giant clams by Ruiqi Li, Carlos Leiva, Sarah Lemer, Lisa Kirkendale, Jingchun Li

“…Genome-based demographic inferences uncover a tight correlation between T. maxima global population change and major paleoclimate and habitat shifts, revealing how abiotic and biotic factors may dictate T. maxima microevolution. Comparative analyses reveal genomic features that may be symbiosis-driven, including expansion and contraction of immunity-related gene families and a large proportion of lineage-specific genes. …”
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