Domestic violence against men: unmuting the reality of the forgotten gender by Sabelinah Tshoane, Adewale A. Olutola, Paul O. Bello, Jacob T. Mofokeng

“…Domestic violence is mostly portrayed as a crime perpetrated by men against women. …”
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Effective Mechanical Property Estimation of Composite Solid Propellants Based on VCFEM by Liu-Lei Shen, Zhi-Bin Shen, Yan Xie, Hai-Yang Li

“…A solid rocket motor is one of the critical components of solid missiles, and its life and reliability mostly depend on the mechanical behavior of a composite solid propellant (CSP). …”
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Analysis of Impoliteness Strategies Used in Putin's Speech at Annexation Ceremony by Aalaa Yaseen Hassan, Marwah Firas Abdullah Al-Rawe, Shaden Shamel Abdullah, Stéphane Hlaimi

“…Both qualitative and quantitative analyses have been used to accomplish the study objectives. Putin mostly used the negative impoliteness strategy, directly attacking the West and their policies. …”
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Atmospheric Arc Discharge as a Fabrication Tool for Synthesizing Iron Nanoparticles Embedded into Carbon Nanosheets by A. Breus, S. Abashin, O. Serdiuk

“…After a positive polarity was supplied to a smaller electrode, carbon nanosheets with an average width of 200 mm and thickness of about 20 nm that host Fe nanoparticles with diameters mostly ranging from 10 to 40 nm were found. Moreover, the initial oxygen content of 18% wt. was reduced to just 4% wt., as measured in the synthesized nanocomposites.…”
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Identification of a Novel Mutation in a Family with Pseudohypoparathyroidism Type 1a by Adelaide Moutinho, Rosa Carvalho, Rita Ferreira Reis, Sandra Tavares

“…Pseudohypoparathyroidism type 1a is mostly caused by inactivating GNAS mutations that have been gradually reported in the literature that lead to a typical and complex clinical phenotype and resistance to multiple hormones. …”
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The use of photography for qualitative data collection with adolescent mothers: a scoping review by Daniela de Castro Barbosa Leonello, Giovanna Ushirobira Souza, Rhyquelle Rhibna Neris, Giovanna Cristina Machado Kayzuka, Marina Prado de Souza, Adriana Moraes Leite

“…Results: A total of 46 articles were found, mostly published in English. Ten were selected after full-text reading. …”
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SERS Characterization of the Indocyanine-Type Dye IR-820 on Gold and Silver Nanoparticles in the Near Infrared by Tatiana B. V. Neves, Gustavo F. S. Andrade

“…Changes in the SERS relative intensities compared to the Raman spectrum in solution are subtle, mostly due to the preresonance effect of the dye. …”
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Irregularity Measures of Subdivision Vertex-Edge Join of Graphs by Jialin Zheng, Shehnaz Akhter, Zahid Iqbal, Muhammad Kashif Shafiq, Adnan Aslam, Muhammad Ishaq, Muhammad Aamir

“…Irregularity measures are mostly used for the characterization of the nonregular graphs. …”
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Reforms without reforming: Trends in local and regional governance and decentralization in Croatia by Đulabić Vedran, Lopižić Iva

“…The paper shows that there have been several "real" reforms that have raised and addressed very important issues, while other "reforms" can mostly be described as partial changes that occur when there is significant political will for them or under strong external pressure. …”
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Common Bane: Uncommon Bug by Madhumita Nandi, Prasenjit Barman, Arpita Paul Datta, Arunavo Sarkar

“…Aim and background: <italic>Staphylococcus pseudintermedius</italic> is an emerging zoonotic pathogen of the <italic>Staphylococcus</italic> group, mostly found in the skin and soft tissue of domestic animals, especially dogs. …”
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Simultaneous Disruption of the Pubic Symphysis and Sacroiliac Joint during Vaginal Birth by Hakan Çıçek, H. Levent Keskın, Ümit Tuhanıoğlu, Kasım Kiliçarslan, Hasan Ulaş Oğur

“…The patient was treated conservatively with pain-relief medication; bed rest, mostly in the left lateral decubitus position; closed reduction and application of a pelvic binder; use of a walker; and physical therapy. …”
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Evaluating the Role of Content in Subjective Video Quality Assessment by Milan Mirkovic, Petar Vrgovic, Dubravko Culibrk, Darko Stefanovic, Andras Anderla

“…Despite the evidence that content has an impact on the quality score the sequence receives from human evaluators, currently available VQA databases mostly comprise of sequences which fail to take this into account. …”
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Potential Nosocomial Acquisition of Epidemic Listeria monocytogenes Presenting as Multiple Brain Abscesses Resembling Nocardiosis by Aleksandra Stefanovic, James Reid, A Celine Nadon, Jennifer Grant

“…Listerial brain abscesses are rare, and are found mostly in patients with underlying hematological malignancies or solid-organ transplants. …”
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Potential for Recycling Nutrients from Biosolids Amended with Clay and Lime in Coarse-Textured Water Repellence, Acidic Soils of Western Australia by Sanjutha Shanmugam, Lynette K. Abbott

“…Historically, soil amendments such as lime, clay, and recently biochar are being applied for such problematic soils at Western Australia and these researches focused mostly on improvement in soil physical and chemical properties. …”
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The psychometric network of individual flourishing across nationally representative samples from 22 countries by Michela Zambelli, Dwight C. K. Tse, Richard G. Cowden, Jan Höltge, Byron R. Johnson, R. Noah Padgett, Tyler J. VanderWeele

“…Results revealed a network of mostly positive interrelations among the 12 components, although there was substantial heterogeneity in the strength of associations, especially between life satisfaction, happiness, and mental health. …”
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Selected Topics on Advances in Capability-Oriented Information Systems Development: Editorial Introduction to Issue 10 of CSIMQ by Jelena Zdravkovic, Óscar Pastor, Peri Loucopoulos

“…From a technical perspective, the gap between business requirements and supporting IS is still present, mostly due to the fact that current IS development approaches operate with artifacts defined on a relatively low abstraction level. …”
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Amount of CO2 emissions irreversibly leading to the total melting of Greenland by S. Charbit, D. Paillard, G. Ramstein

“…Its behavior is therefore mostly dependent on the cumulative CO2 emissions. …”
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The Environmental Impact of Medical Imaging Agents and the Roadmap to Sustainable Medical Imaging by Verena Pichler, Ricardo P. Martinho, Lisanne Temming, Tim Segers, Frederik R. Wurm, Olga Koshkina

“…., contrast agents for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and radiopharmaceuticals, play a vital role in the diagnosis of diseases. Yet, they mostly contain harmful and non‐biodegradable substances, such as per‐ and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), heavy metals or radionuclides. …”
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THE MORPHO-FUNCTIONAL PECULIARITIES OF THE SYNSARCOSIS MUSCLES IN RED SQUIRRELS by Constantin SPATARU, Mihaela-Claudia SPATARU, Ozan GÜNDEMIR

“…In terrestrial species, body propulsion is mostly performed via the pelvic limbs. In semiaquatic species, both pairs of limbs are used in swimming and diving, whereas in arboreal species, the pelvic limbs are used to maintain body stability. …”
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Non-conventional pressure estimates by using transmission electron microscopy coupled with energy-dispersive spectroscopy (TEM-EDS): testing on submicrometer white mica from low-gr... by E. Sanità, M. Di Rosa, E. Mugnaioli, E. Mugnaioli

“…However, on submicrometric mineral phases, mostly present in low-grade rocks, the chemical analysis can be contaminated by the surrounding. …”
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