New Caladium Cultivars ‘Dots Delight’ and ‘Wonderland’ by Zhanao Deng, Natalia A. Peres

“…Grower surveys indicated that they planted more acres of lance-leaved cultivars in recent decades to accommodate rising consumer demand. The caladium breeding program at the UF/IFAS Gulf Coast Research and Education Center has been developing new lance-leaved cultivars that can produce attractive, robust plants with many bright, colorful leaves and improved tuber yield potential. …”
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The Evolving Epidemiology of Helicobacter pylori Infection and Gastric Cancer by Jia-Qing Huang, Richard H Hunt

“…The relationship between Helicobacter pylori infection and the risk of gastric cancer has been well established in the last decade. Four metaanalyses have found that the infection increases the risk of noncardia gastric cancer by 2- to 6-fold compared with noninfected control populations. …”
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Capitalism Strikes Back: Why and What Consequences for Social Sciences? by Robert Boyer

“…This article addresses a twofold issue: why the word capitalism has become more and more frequently used during the last decade? How could socio-economic researches contribute to understanding of the contemporary transformations of the various brands of capitalism? …”
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Writing (at) the End: Thomas Pynchon’s Bleeding Edge by Brian Chappell

“…In work spanning six decades, Thomas Pynchon has depicted a plural world reduced to mechanization, automation, and control. …”
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Semi-supervised learning by constructing query-document heterogeneous information network by Yu-feng LIU, Ren-fa LI

“…How-ever, although classification on homogeneous networks has been studied for decades, classification on heterogeneous networks has not been explored until recently. …”
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An Approach to Iron-Deficiency Anemia by Imran Rasul, Gabor P Kandel

“…Therefore, physicians need to know what lesions can be identified reliably and, more importantly, the importance of ruling out life-threatening conditions such as occult malignancy. Over the past decade, a number of prospective studies have been completed that examined the yield of endoscopy in the investigation of iron-deficiency anemia. …”
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Astrotheology: The natural interface between hyperspace and the Trinity by A.C. Pieterse

“… Over the past few decades, physicists are seeking a unifying theory that could encapsulate the theories of general relativity and quantum mechanics, our understanding of the very big and the infinitesimal small, into one all-inclusive theory. …”
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A Criterion Based Rehabilitation Protocol for ACL Repair with Internal Brace Augmentation by Ahmer Irfan, Stewart Kerr, Graeme Hopper, William Wilson, Lynsay Wilson, Gordon Mackay

“…ACL reconstruction has been the preferred operative management of an ACL rupture for several decades; however, success rates are variable. Recently, interest in arthroscopic primary repair of the ligament has increased. …”
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“Étrangers à la montagne” by Aimada Solé, Miguel Solana, Enric Mendizabal

“…This article explores the social and cultural integration of international labour migrants to a mountain area, the High Pyrenees and Aran (Catalan Pyrenees, Spain). Since the last two decades of the 20th century, the Pyrenees has experienced significant social and economic changes. …”
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Fabry Disease and Early Stroke by U. Feldt-Rasmussen

“…Affected males with the classic phoenotype have acroparaesthesias, hypohidrosis, and corneal opacities in childhood and develop renal failure, cardiac hypertrophy or strokes in the third to fifth decade of life. Some female heterozygotes are asymptomatic, some as severely affected as males. …”
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Navigating the crossroads: Challenges and opportunities for governance reform in Sudan by Fawzi Ahmed Abdullah Slom

“…There is a critical need for comprehensive governance reform in Sudan, a nation navigating the turbulent shift from decades of authoritarian rule to a fragile post-conflict democracy. …”
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Use and scope of ultrasonography in rheumatology in India by Parasar Ghosh, Prasan Deep Rath

“…Musculoskeletal ultrasound (MSUS), once a sole territory of radiologists, has over the past decade been increasingly exploited by rheumatologists in clinical practice and as a research tool. …”
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Integrated risk governance in the Yungui Plateau, China: The 2008 ice-snow storm disaster by Qian Ye, Ming Wang, Jiarui Han

“…Due to its unique mountain geographic landscape and domination by a monsoon climate, it has high vulnerabilities and is frequently hit by various climatic and geological hazards such as droughts, floods, earthquakes, and landslides. In the past two decades, while the region has enjoyed rapid social and economic development, vegetation degradation, water pollution and soil loss, as well as other environmental problems, have become major concerns in the region. …”
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INVESTIGATION OF HYDROCARBON CONTAMINANTS DESTRUCTING MICROORGANISMS AS A METHOD OF WATER PURIGICATION INTENSYING by Irina I. Ivanenko, Antonina M. Novikova, Elena Y. Lapatina

“…Increased hydrocarbon pollution of the natural environment and water bodies in recent decades has prompted the search for ways to reduce anthropogenic pollution. …”

“Scientific Collaborations” at the Level of Countries – A Case Study: A “Hard” Physical Geography and a “Soft” Economics Science Field by Zsófia Viktória Vida

“…Scientific collaboration is a widely studied science field in the recent decades. For measuring, it a tighter approach co-authorship is frequently used. …”
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Elementos para a apreensão da dimensão regional do urbano-metropolitano na atualidade by Olga Lúcia Castreghini de Freitas-Firkowski

“…This is because urbanization has produced new spatial expressions in the last decades, part of them, apprehended through a diversity of concepts in which the region stands out, among others, can be pointed: city-region, megaregion and urban- and others where the regional dimension - although not explicitly - is present, such as the urban corridors and megalopolis. …”
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La normalisation financière internationale face à l’émergence de nouvelles autorités épistémiques américaines by Grégory Vanel

“…Financial services industry is in great transformation for the last two decades. National financial structures, national financial systems and the international financial system have been profoundly altered. …”
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Les pratiques paysagistes à l’épreuve du film de recherche by Chris Pividori

“…Over the last few decades, landscape architecture has emerged in France as an alternative to urban planning, which is all too often limited to functionalist recipes. …”
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A Life Committed by Sbonelo Radebe

“…Pahad served as the Minister in the Presidency from 1999 until 2008 under former President Thabo Mbeki who wrote a foreword to this book, “I am happy to commend this educative tour through many decades of exciting struggles for our liberation and a better world, as contained in this autobiography” (p17). …”
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Advocacy Coalition Framework in Environmental Governance Studies: Explaining Major Policy Change for A Large Dam Removal in Japan by Tomohiko Ohno

“…While environmental governance has been studied for several decades, there is no prevailing research framework. …”
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