HERPETOFAUNAL REMAINS (ANURA, CROCODYLIA, TESTUDINES, SQUAMATA) FROM THE LATE MIOCENE OF THE CREVILLENTE AREA (SE SPAIN): PALAEOBIOGEOGRAPHICAL AND PALAEOECOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS by Rafael Marquina Blasco, DAVID MORALES-FLORES, ÁNGEL D. BARTOLOMÉ-BOMBÍN, PLINIO MONTOYA

“…The assemblage includes European autochthonous taxa (Lacertidae and Ophisaurus s.l. sp.) and taxa that likely arrived from Asia or North America during the Oligocene-Miocene transition or the Early Miocene, such as Pseudopus, Oriental vipers and, probably, Neonatrix. …”
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Lactoferrin: a secret weapon in the war against pathogenic bacteria by Lucero Ruiz-Mazón, Gerardo Ramírez-Rico, Mireya de la Garza

“…Bovine Lf (bLf) has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the European Food Safety Authority for its use as a dietary supplement in food products. …”
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Validation of ACC/AHA and ESC Sudden Cardiac Death Risk Guidelines in Diverse Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Cohort: Stratification HCM Study by Murillo Oliveira Antunes, Fabio Fernandes, Edmundo Arteaga-Fernandez, Félix José Alvarez Ramires, Vinicius Machado Correia, Juliano Novaes Cardoso, Cristhian Espinoza Romero, Henrique Martins Sousa, Marília Taily Soliani, Matheus Ramos Ramos Dal Piaz, Anna Danielle Rodrigues Gandarella, Ruiza Gonçalves Rocha Teixeira, Charles Mady, Caio Assis Moura Tavares, Patricia O. Guimarães, Vagner Madrini Junior

“…The American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association (ACC/AHA) and the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) have different guidelines for SCD risk stratification. …”
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The Great Arab Revolt, Palestine and a Phoenicianist Civilizing Mission: Transregional Debates in the Mexican Mahjar Press by Camila Pastor de Maria Campos

“…They ceased to be understood through an Ottoman history of coexistence of religious traditions in the Mashriq, resignified as a homogeneous people, vector of the imperialist project of European Zionism. Coverage of the Revolt elicited no echo from the mainstream Mexican press or interlocution from the Phoenicianist Maronite migrant notability. …”
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Transition towards circular economy: Exploiting open innovation for circular product development by Juan I. Dorrego-Viera, Andrea Urbinati, Valentina Lazzarotti

“…Two of them operate in European industrialized regions, and other two operate in less developed regions of South America, emphasizing the need for context-specific approaches to circular economy implementation and circular product development. …”
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Fluocinolone acetonide 0.2 µg/day intravitreal implant in non-infectious uveitis affecting the posterior segment: EU expert user panel consensus-based clinical recommendations by Uwe Pleyer, Carlos Pavesio, Elisabetta Miserocchi, Carsten Heinz, Helen Devonport, Víctor Llorenç, Tomás Burke, Vanda Nogueira, Laurent Kodjikian, Bahram Bodaghi

“…The aim here was to provide treating clinicians with some consensus-based-recommendations for the clinical management of patients with NIU-PS with 0.2 µg/day FAc implants. Methods A European-clinical-expert-group agreed to develop a consensus report on different issues related to the use of FAc implants in patients with NIU-PS. …”
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Modeling quinoa growth under saline and water-limiting conditions using SWAP-WOFOST by Diana C. Estrella Delgado, Tom De Swaef, Jan Vanderborght, Eric Laloy, Gerda Cnops, Maarten De Boever, Abdelaziz Hirich, Ayoub El Mouttaqi, Sarah Garré

“…The salinity stress function of SWAP effectively represents these tolerance mechanisms and accurately predicts the impact on yield, under arid conditions. Under Northwestern European climate, the model replicates the impact of drought stress on yield. …”
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Modernization of the Legal System of Ukraine: Sociocultural Dimension by Hladkyi S.

“…The need for a realistic assessment of the spiritual and cultural state of Ukrainian society and its consideration in the process of developing programs and strategies for the modernization of the national legal system, including European integration, is emphasized. Practical significance. …”
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Holarctic phylogeographic structure of Eurasian wigeon (Mareca penelope) by I. V. Kulikova, Y. N. Zhuravlev, I. G. Korobitsyn, G. A. Nemkova, K. G. McCracken, J. L. Peters

“…Nonetheless, analysis of molecular variance (AMOVA) identified two groups of populations: EuropeanSiberian and East Asian. The former included wigeons from Europe, Siberia and the Atlantic coast of North America, and the latter comprised ducks from Russian Far East, Kamchatka Peninsula, Chukotka Autonomous District, the Aleutian Islands, Alaska, and the Pacific coast of North America.…”
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Downscaling of ERA5 reanalysis land surface temperature based on attention mechanism and Google Earth Engine by Shiyu Li, Hong Wan, Qun Yu, Xinyuan Wang

“…The ERA5-Land LST dataset, developed and managed by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), is extensively used for global or regional LST studies. …”
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Multidimensional analysis of embeddedness and cooperation in a cluster – a literature and empirical study by Marzena Frankowska

“…The essence and dimensions of embeddedness of cooperating enterprises in inter-organizational networks (structural, relational, social, positional, territorial, geographical, spatial, institutional, ecological, political and temporal) were determined. Next, a survey of European cluster managers (study 1) on cooperation in a cluster was carried out in order to better understand the dimensions of embeddedness of enterprises cooperating in clusters (qualitative research, IDI). …”
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Changes of health-related quality of life within 6 months after stroke by clinical and sociodemographic factors by Nipaporn Butsing, Joachim G. Voss, Jesada Keandoungchun, Nalinrat Thongniran, Mary T. Quinn Griffin

“…Participants completed a questionnaire that included the stroke characteristics, sociodemographic characteristics, and the 5-level European Quality of Life 5 dimensions (EQ-5D-5L) before discharge. …”
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Exploring the impact of globalization and economic-energy dynamics on environmental sustainability in the EU by Aura Girlovan, Cristiana Tudor, Gabriel Robert Saiu, Daniel Dumitru Guse

“…This paper investigates the determinants of environmental sustainability by analyzing the impact of various economic, fiscal, and energy-related variables on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and energy intensity (EI) across 27 European Union member states from 2005 to 2022. Using dynamic panel data analysis through the system Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) estimator, we explore how key factors such as GDP per capita growth, foreign direct investment (FDI), portfolio investments (PI), trade openness (TO), and stock market performance (SMP) influence environmental outcomes. …”
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Can growth in captivity alter the calcaneal microanatomy of a wild ungulate? by Cottereau, Romain, Ortiz, Katia, Locatelli, Yann, Houssaye, Alexandra, Cucchi, Thomas

“…Using the calcaneus as a phenotypic marker through qualitative and quantitative 3D microanatomical analyses, we relied on a comparative study across wild boars (Sus scrofa) populations from controlled experimental conditions with different mobility patterns (natural habitat, large pen, and stall) and archaeological specimens collected from middle and late Mesolithic as surrogate for the norm of reaction in European wild boar phenotype before the spread of agriculture and domestic pigs. …”
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Understanding transmission pathways and integrated digital surveillance potential of antimicrobial resistance in Ethiopia in a One Health approach: a mixed-method study protocol by Muhammad Asaduzzaman, Christoph Gradmann, Andrea Sylvia Winkler, Zeleke Mekonnen, Ernst Kristian Rodland

“…In addition, the new European Union Global Data Protection Guidelines for data sharing, storage and protection will be followed. …”
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Causal relationship between affect disorders and endometrial cancer: a Mendelian randomisation study by Yewu Sun, Shuo Geng, Chunmeng Fu, Xiaoyan Song, Hua Lin, Yidan Xu

“…The genome-wide association studies(GWASs) data were derived from participants of predominantly European ancestry included in the Genome-wide Association Research Collaboration. …”
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Chronic-Care-Management Programs for Multimorbid Patients with Diabetes in Europe: A Scoping Review with the Aim to Identify the Best Practice by Julia Heike Brettel, Ulf Manuwald, Henriette Hornstein, Joachim Kugler, Ulrike Rothe

“…Nevertheless, the review shows that CCM was successfully implemented in various care situations and also can be useful in single practices, which often dominate the primary care sector in many European health systems. The present review was able to provide a comprehensive overview of the current care situation of chronically ill patients with multimorbidities. …”
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Pesticide Residues and Associated Public Health Risks in Vegetables from Irrigated Farms Adjacent to Rift Valley Lake Ziway, Ethiopia by Asrat Fekadu Demsie, Girma Tilahun Yimer, Solomon Sorsa Sota

“…The concentration of pesticide residues detected in 10.6% and 7.9% of tomato and onion samples was above the maximum residual limits of the European Commission (EU-MRLs), respectively. Noncarcinogenic health risk estimates show that onion heptachlor epoxide had THQ > 1, indicating the possibility of systemic health risk in both adult and child consumers. …”
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Sport and National Pride: A Literature Review by Rizal Kurniawan, Indriyani Santoso, Amin Akbar, Hanifa Dalimunthe, Hanny Damra, Iftita Rahmi, Anindra Guspa, Free Dwatra, Mario Pratama

“…Most of the articles included in the study used a cross-sectional approach and were studied in the context of European countries. Results: the results show that national pride in sports fluctuates more than other sources of national pride. …”
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Genetic markers for the resistance of honey bee to Varroa destructor by M. D. Kaskinova, L. R. Gaifullina, E. S. Saltykova, A. V. Poskryakov, A. G. Nikolenko

“…In the mid-20th century, the first case of infection of European bees Apis mellifera L. with the ectoparasite mite Varroa destructor was recorded. …”
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