NFIB-Mediated lncRNA PVT1 Aggravates Laryngeal Squamous Cell Carcinoma Progression via the miR-1301-3p/MBNL1 Axis by Tian Tang, Feng Zeng

“…Laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma (LSCC) is one of the most common malignant tumors of head and neck cancers. In the past decades, although the therapy strategies of LSCC have made considerable improvement, the terrible outcomes of LSCC still bring an enormous burden to the world health care system. …”
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Rettspolitisk mobilisering og strategisk sakførsel mot isolasjon i norske fengsler by Kjersti Lohne, Marte Rua

“…Abstract Solitary confinement in prison and police detention has been a widespread criminal policy and human rights problem in the Scandinavian countries for decades. However, in recent years, there has been a significant legal mobilization in Norway whereby lawyers individually and collectively have challenged solitary confinement in the courts. …”
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Frozen Section Diagnostic Pitfalls of Sertoli-Leydig Cell Tumor with Heterologous Elements by Ashley Burris, Caleb Hixson, Nathaniel Smith

“…A woman in her sixth decade presented with several months of abdominal cramping, decreased appetite, bloating, and increased constipation. …”
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Herbert Hoover and the Organization of the American Relief Effort in Poland (1919-1923) by Matthew Lloyd Adams

“…Poland, recreated after the armistice of 1918, was confronted at its rebirth with four very severe challenges: welding together the separate sections of the dissected country, which for many decades had been under the rule of Prussia-Germany, Austria and Russia; creating a functioning administration and military force for the country; ensuring the recovery of agriculture, which, during World War I, had seriously declined; and restarting industries destroyed or closed during foreign military occupation. …”
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Comparative Analysis of Systematic, Scoping, Umbrella, and Narrative Reviews in Clinical Research: Critical Considerations and Future Directions by Mohamad Motevalli

“…Review studies play a key role in the development of clinical practice by synthesizing data and drawing conclusions from multiple scientific sources. In recent decades, there has been a significant increase in the number of review studies conducted and published by researchers. …”
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Skin Acute Wound Healing: A Comprehensive Review by Luis Cañedo-Dorantes, Mara Cañedo-Ayala

“…Experimental work of the last two decades has revealed the general steps of the wound healing process. …”
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Same-Sex Marriage and Other Moral Taboos: Cultural Acceptances, Change in American Public Opinion and the Evidence from the Opinion Polls by Marco Morini

“…Hodges, state-level decisions and the public opinion trends can be considered as the outcome of a grassroots coordinated campaign which began more than a decade ago and was able to conquer the majority of Americans. …”
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Side-stepping the guardian of the genome: current cancer therapeutics targeting mutant p53 by Iulianna C. Taritsa, Eric T. Fossel

“…Cancer therapies have attempted to target the transcription factor p53, a gene also described as the “guardian of the genome,” for decades. However, the approach has faced numerous barriers to clinical efficacy due to several factors: mutations in p53 occur in almost half of all human cancers, mutations are cancer-specific, and the associated genomic changes grant mutant p53 with oncogenic potential unique from that of wild-type p53. …”
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Contemporary urbanization in the Brazilian Amazon: food markets, multisited households and ribeirinho livelihoods by Tatiana Schor, Gustavo S. Azenha, Estevan Bartoli

“…The past decade witnessed important changes in the Amazon region. …”
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Improving Knowledge about Snow by Crossing Qualitative and Quantitative Data from the Everest Region (Nepal) by Ornella Puschiasis, Marie Savéan, Pierre Chevallier, Joëlle Smadja, Olivia Aubriot, François Delclaux

“…To get a better understanding of solid precipitation and how it has evolved over the last decades, and thus to improve our knowledge of hydro-climatic variations, we crossed quantitative data (measured, spatialised and simulated) produced from work in hydrology, with qualitative data (field interviews) derived from work in human geography. …”
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“We must dig our trenches, and win or die”: Voltairine de Cleyre’s Transnational Anarchism by Rita Filanti

“…Far from being a “foreign poison imported into the States from decadent Europe by criminal paranoiacs,” she and her comrades viewed anarchism as a direct legacy of the American literary tradition, sprouted from “native stock and soil” (Havel). …”
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Washington-Miami-Havana 1999-2009: Towards the End of a Ménage à Trois? by Isabelle Vagnoux

“…This piece focuses on the past decade and will explore Washington’s continuing hard line toward Cuba as well as the serious challenges this posture is facing today. …”
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The Ideology of Climate Change Denial in the United States by Jean-Daniel Collomb

“…The concerted effort to discredit the scientific consensus over man-made global warming has been continuing for two decades in the United States, and shows no sign of weakening. …”
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A Systematic Literature Review of Online Peer Feedback: Uncovering the Current Situation in EFL Setting by Sibakhul Milad Malik Hidayatulloh

“…The findings reveal that over the past decade, the practices of online peer feedback in EFL have become increasingly diverse, extending beyond specific educational levels. …”
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Reprise d’initiative et éducation interculturelle chez les Amérindiens de l’Amazonie brésilienne (Etat d’Amazonas) by Olivier Meunier

“…In Brazil, following the republican process aiming at assimilate the Amerindian populations to the Nation during the 1970-1980, these last were organized to safeguard their territory and their cultural identity, which gave place from the 90’ of the last decade at a generalization of an intercultural school education in the indigenous territories, opening the school with the indigenous sociocultural knowledge. …”
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Elphick, Richard, The Equality of Believers. Protestant Missionaries and the Racial Politics of South Africa by J. J. Kritzinger

“…Although its focus is on the years of Protestant missionary endeavours since the beginning of the 19th century up to about 1960, the subject of the book is inbedded in the whole colonial history since 1652 when the question of the relations between the races became an issue. It is the result of decades of intense, informed and fair scholarship (as its 30 pages Bibliography and 60 pages of Notes show). …”
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Anatema capitalismului în presa românească din anii 1949–1950 – campanii – by Lucian Chişu

“…The author presents some of the „campaigns” of this short period, in which the „themes” of the communism’s superiority over the capitalism, of the proletarian internationalism over the idea of a nation or of the social realism over the decadent cosmopolitism take the nonsensical shapes of the class struggle. …”
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The TEI and Current Standards for Structuring Linguistic Data by Maik Stührenberg

“…Although it is based on the consensus of a large community, it does not have the legal status of a standard. During the last decade, efforts have been undertaken to develop definitive de jure standards for linguistic data that not only act as a normative basis for the exchange of language corpora but also address recent advancements in technology, such as web-based standards, and the use of large and multiply annotated corpora. …”
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Poly(3-hydroxybutyrate): Promising biomaterial for bone tissue engineering by Dariš Barbara, Knez Željko

“…Cardiovascular patches, scaffolds in tissue engineering and drug carriers are some of the possible biomedical applications of poly(3-hydroxybutyrate). In the past decade, many researchers examined the different physico-chemical modifications of poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) in order to improve its properties for use in the field of bone tissue engineering. …”
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"The City’s Charms and Challenges" by P K Leung (translation) by Chris Song

“…In the essay, he also mapped out the early beginnings of Hong Kong literature, its intrinsic roots in Chinese literature, and how it has thrived amidst the socio-cultural and historical changes in Hong Kong in the last few decades. In charting the locality of places, the difference between the urban and the rural living in Hong Kong, Leung highlights the importance to acknowledge the complex layers and dimensions of Hong Kong literature, where both Chinese and English languages and different cultures intersect.…”
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