Editorial by Michael Rose, Jonathan M. Hoffmann

“…Since the girl’s child would not exist if it had not been born at that time, it could not blame its mother for its bad start in life, as long as it has a life worth living. …”
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Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871 – 1918 by Arzu Melek Ozgumus

“…It was the time when the collapse of Ottoman Empire has started, the European powers’ competition over its territory was already risking the Concert of Europe, and there was little chance for small German states to survive without a confederation. …”
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COVID-19 – if the cure is worse than the disease. The Italian chaos by Giuseppe FERRARI

“…COVID-19 is a new virus, very aggressive, with a high level of contagiousness and its capacity to be transmitted has been probably underestimated. …”

Full-length inhibitor protein is the most effective to perturb human dUTPase activity by Bianka Kőhegyi, Zoé S. Tóth, Enikő Gál, Máté Laczkovich, András Benedek, Beáta G. Vértessy, Kinga Nyíri

“…However, to explore the physiological processes arising upon the lack of dUTPase an effective and selective enzyme inhibitor is much needed. A highly specific and strong binding proteinaceous human dUTPase inhibitor described by us recently was a promising starting point to develop a molecular tool to study temporal and conditional dUTPase inhibition in cellulo. …”
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Capital Punishment without Capital Trials in Japan’s Lay Judge System by David T. Johnson

“…And in October, Japanese citizens started to decide who the state should kill. By the end of 2010, lay judge panels had made five capital decisions, resulting in one life sentence, three death sentences, and one acquittal.This article examines a series of recent death penalty judgments under Japan's new lay judge system.…”
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Thabo Mbeki’s Decolonial Idea of an African in the African Renaissance by William Jethro Mpofu

“…For the African of Mbeki’s representation and observation, the dream of liberation from colonialism collapsed into a nightmare of coloniality, and the starting point of an African renaissance is the decolonial effort to dare dream and imagine another Africa and other Africans built from the ashes of the colonisers and the colonised. …”
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Celle des riches et celle des pauvres by Bernard Roussel, Feleke Woldeyes

“…Various provenances which quality has been ameliorated have some difficulties to find a good place in the market.…”
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Big Data Analytics for the ATLAS EventIndex Project with Apache Spark by Álvaro Fernández Casaní, Carlos García Montoro, Santiago González de la Hoz, José Salt, Javier Sánchez, Miguel Villaplana Pérez

“…The LHC Run 3, started in 2022, has seen increased data-taking and simulation production rates, with which the current infrastructure would still cope but may be stretched to its limits by the end of Run 3. …”
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La presse italienne, le pouvoir politique et l’autorité judiciaire durant le fascisme by Yannick Beaulieu

“…The role of the Italian press has been a crucial political issue from the end of the First World War onwards. …”
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Innovations in TB Screening and Preventive Therapy Services for PLHIV in Yogyakarta City, Indonesia by Dani Catrianiningsih, Guardian Yoki Sanjaya, Geoff Chan, Betty Weri Yolanda Nababan, Rina Triasih, Desthi Diah Intani, Endang Sri Rahayu

“…Tuberculosis preventive therapy (TPT) for people living with HIV (PLHIV) has been recommended by Indonesia’s National TB Program since 2014 but has seen limited implementation. …”
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Liver Transplantation and Hepatitis C by Nobuhisa Akamatsu, Yasuhiko Sugawara

“…The use of poor quality organs, particularly from older donors, has a highly negative impact on the severity of recurrence and patient/graft survival. …”
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Contribuţii privitoare la viaţa şi activitatea lui Ienăchiţă Văcărescu by Eugenia Dima

“…In the paper the author deals with some unclear or even unknown aspects connected with the activity of the great Romanian scholar Ienăchiţă Văcărescu: 1. As a result of the linguistic and stylistic comparison between the texts known to belong to Văcărescu and the Pravilniceasca Condică, law code published in 1780 at the request of prince Alexandru Ipsilante, she has reached the conclusion that the text in Romanian is the work of Ienăchiţă Văcărescu. 2. …”
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Investigating the Effects of Debt Convergence of Companies on the Speed of Capital Structure Adjustment Considering the Time Horizon by Sayed Mojtaba Ahmadi, Mehdi Agha Beik Zadeh, Afsaneh Soroushyar

“…Studies on capital structure adjustment speed have generally found that companies adjust their leverage gradually over a long period of time. Specifically, the adjustment tends to start off at a slower pace in the beginning and then accelerate in the later years of the adjustment process. …”
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Die Rosenkreuzer als imaginäre Gesellschaft by Ralph Häfner

“…Through his Rosicrucian writings—more precisely the Fama fraternitatis and the Chymical Wedding—Andreae’s work has provided throughout history starting points for the Masonic movement, who was sometimes thought to have originated in the secret Rosicrucian society. …”
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Granulomatous dermatitis post Mycobacterium Indicus Pranii (MIP) vaccine in severe covid-19 infection: an exaggerated hypersensitivity phenomenon by Pooja Agarwal, Raju Chaudhary, Kalgi Baxi, Malhar Shah

“…At the end of 2 months, all the lesions showed complete healing with a resolution of discharge and nodularity, leaving behind postinflammatory hypopigmentation and atrophic scarring. …”
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Extensive 5G measurement campaign to monitor EMF exposure in France by Sefsouf, Lydia, Conil, Emmanuelle, Agnani, Jean-Benoît

“…As part of its mission to monitor public exposure, the French National Frequency Agency (ANFR) has launched an extensive measurement program at nearly 2000 sites to assess exposure following the deployment of the new 5G mobile technology starting at the end of 2020. …”
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Discovering causal models for structural, construction and defense-related engineering phenomena by M.Z. Naser

“…This paper presents one of the first works at creating causal models in the area of structural and construction engineering. To this end, this paper starts with a brief review of the principles of causality and then adopts four causal discovery algorithms, namely, PC (Peter-Clark), FCI (fast causal inference), GES (greedy equivalence search), and GRaSP (greedy relaxation of the sparsest permutation), have been used to examine four phenomena, including predicting the load-bearing capacity of axially loaded members, fire resistance of structural members, shear strength of beams, and resistance of walls against impulsive (blast) loading. …”
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Nouveaux modes de coordination des acteurs dans le développement local: cas des zones rurales au Bénin by Bernard G. Hounmenou

“…The currency development policies in many southern countries, especially in those of sub-Saharan Africa have started a new turn, by the end of the years 1980. …”
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Le sensorium synthétique : réflexion sur l’utilisation de l’expographie immersive numérique et muséale by Dominique Gélinas

“…For a long time, the museum exhibition has been understood as an intellectual process that is analogous to an illustrated text. …”
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Alimenter la ville de Lyon en eau : les galeries de captage antiques sous les collines de Fourvière et de la Croix-Rousse by Emmanuel Bernot

“…The third can be reconstructed over a length of 120 m and has a masonry gutter at its base covered by a protective layer of rubble. …”
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