Gaps in the Management of Type 2 Diabetic Patients in a Metropolitan Area of Havana by Armando Rodríguez Salvá, Linet Céspedes Hernández, Addys Díaz Piñera, René García Roche, Susana Balcindes Acosta

“…<strong>Foundation:</strong> there are flaws in diabetic patient management this makes it difficult to develop intervention strategies to improve the quality of their medical care. …”
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The right to education and attitudes toward Hijras in Bangladesh: assessing educational support to achieve sustainable communities by Abul Kalam, Md Jahangir Alam, Lubaba Basharat, Golam Faruk Sarker, M. Abdullah Al Mamun, Abu Hossain Muhammad Ahsan

“…Numerous barriers, such as discriminatory views and remarks about third-gender people, physical and mental harassment, a lack of emotional and financial support, family issues, discrimination in the school community and hostility from classmates and teachers, make it difficult for hermaphrodite students to receive a proper education. …”
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Protection of personal data under martial law in Ukraine by V. A. Svitlychnyi

“…It has been highlighted that the disclosure of such data can lead to a risk to the personal safety of people, including those involved in the conflict. …”
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Inhibition of microRNA-139-5p Improves Fibroblasts Viability and Enhances Wound Repair in Diabetic Rats Through AP-1 (c-Fos/c-Jun) by Mo J, Zhang J, Meng X, Wang F, Tang W, Liu Y, Fu L, Liang F, Mo Z

“…Jiake Mo,1,2,&ast; Jiaqi Zhang,1,2,&ast; Xubiao Meng,3 Fang Wang,1,2 Weian Tang,1,2 Ying Liu,1,2 Lanfang Fu,3 Fang Liang,4 Zhaohui Mo1,2 1Department of Endocrinology, Third Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, Hunan Province, People’s Republic of China; 2Diabetic Foot Research Center of Central South University, Changsha, Hunan Province, People’s Republic of China; 3Department of Endocrinology, Haikou People’s Hospital & Haikou Affiliated Hospital of Central South University Xiangya School of Medicine, Haikou, Hainan Province, People’s Republic of China; 4Department of Endocrinology, Xingtai People’s Hospital, Xingtai, Hebei Province, People’s Republic of China&ast;These authors contributed equally to this workCorrespondence: Zhaohui Mo; Fang Liang, Email easd04mzh@126.com; liangfang1024@163.comIntroductions: Diabetic foot ulcers (DFU) are notoriously difficult to heal, however, its underlying molecular mechanisms are unknown. …”
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Sustainable development of cities by Gogić Nemanja, Milenković Dragana

“…The accumulated environmental problems became more comprehensive, inevitable and more difficult than any that had ever existed. Cities have become the biggest consumers and therefore the biggest polluters of the environment. …”
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Exposition à la pollution atmosphérique liée au trafic routier et risques sanitaires by Sabine Host

“…However, its health impacts remain difficult to grasp, especially because of the vast diversity of approaches used in epidemiological studies. …”
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Le processus incapacitant au cours du vieillissement : rôle de l’exercice/activité physique by Philipe de Souto Barreto, Anne-Marie Ferrandez

“…Concerning the relationships between physical exercise/activity and disablement process, some inconsistencies arise among articles, making difficult to compare them and to draw conclusions. …”
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Cryptogenic stroke in young patients and cannabis use: case presentation and literature review by A. Atkočiūnas, A. Jasionis, G. Lengvenis, R. Badaras, K. Ryliškienė

“… Approximately 10% of ischemic strokes occur in people under the age of 50 – this is called early on set or stroke in young adults. …”
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Evaluating the Risk of Metabolic Syndrome Based on an Artificial Intelligence Model by Hui Chen, Shenghua Xiong, Xuan Ren

“…Metabolic syndrome is worldwide public health problem and is a serious threat to people's health and lives. Understanding the relationship between metabolic syndrome and the physical symptoms is a difficult and challenging task, and few studies have been performed in this field. …”
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‘At once pet, ornament, and “subject for dissection”’: The Unstable Status of Marine Animals in Victorian Aquaria by Silvia Granata

“…Yet, marine species were very different from other, more usual pets: their marked otherness, and the limited contact allowed by the glass tank, made it more difficult to understand their behaviour, or to establish relations with them. …”
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Un secret bien partagé. La place du directeur de conscience dans les négociations de mariage d'une famille noble (seconde partie du XIXe siècle) by Caroline Muller

“…Getting access to this information was difficult given the period’s protection of familial privacy. …”
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Impacts of Covid-19 on Migrants and Refugees by Subhash Kumar Baitha, Rinkal Tyagi, Souvik Chatterjee

“…These precautions are extremely difficult for refugees and migrants to take amidst a global pandemic. …”
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Ten Strategies for Working With Your Home Owner Association to Convert to a Florida-Friendly Yard by Gail Hansen de Chapman, Claire Lewis

“…But over sixty million people now live in neighborhoods governed by Homeowner Associations, whose regulations can make it difficult to implement some changes by mandating types of plants, percentages of turf and plant material, location of plant materials, and restricting specialty gardens to back yards. …”
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HOW TO ANALYZE BIG DATA: A STUDY ON UNDERSTANDING WHAT THE TURKISH THINK ABOUT SYRIAN REFUGEE CRISIS by Pınar Aslan, Tuğçe Ertem Eray

“…The term big data is becoming an essential part of our lives since it is one of the pioneering components of the communication process providing us with real-time data and insights. However, it is a difficult task to process it. What is important at this stage is to create little stories out of big data and try to make them as meaningful as possible, say the experts. …”
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The Shadow of Crime: Impact on Prison Experiences and Recidivism Tendency by Roza Süleymanoğlu

“…A phenomenological approach was adopted, total of 15 people were interviewed and a semi-structured interview form was used. …”
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L’eau à Siğilmāsa (Maroc) : témoins écrits et matériels pour une hydro-histoire du Tāfīlālt (VIIIe-XVe siècles) by Thomas Soubira

“…Every human society is marked by the daily importance of water for people and animals, housework, agriculture, industry or religion. …”
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Berobat Kampung: Religion and Traditional Knowledge of Seeking Recovery in Borneo by Yusdiana Yusdiana, Hariansyah Hariansyah, Dedi Firmansyah, Dini Presti Billia

“…Passing occurs in a closed, difficult and secret process. The preservation of traditional healing is due to very important facts; that it is low cost, being located far from modern health facilities and short time between risk of death and health resources. …”
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Religious Solidarity for Coping with Economic Crisis During the Covid-19 Pandemic by Luqman Luqman, Ilhamdi Ilhamdi

“…However, it has also contributed to the functioning of social solidarity in dealing with crisis pressure among local people which became a survival strategy for various businesses. …”
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Imagining alternative futures through the lens of food in the Afghan and Tajik Pamir mountains by Frederik J.W. Van Oudenhoven, L. Jamila Haider

“…Imagining alternative futures in the Pamir Mountains of Afghanistan and Tajikistan is as difficult as it is necessary. Development efforts in the Pamirs are hampered by i) real and imagined agro-ecological limits, ii) terrific geopolitical, institutional and social challenges, and related to both, iii) a strong lack of imagination. …”
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Overview of detection techniques for malicious social bots by Rong LIU, Bo CHEN, Ling YU, Ya-shang LIU, Si-yuan CHEN

“…The attackers use social bots to steal people’s privacy,propagate fraud messages and influent public opinions,which has brought a great threat for personal privacy security,social public security and even the security of the nation.The attackers are also introducing new techniques to carry out anti-detection.The detection of malicious social bots has become one of the most important problems in the research of online social network security and it is also a difficult problem.Firstly,development and application of social bots was reviewed and then a formulation description for the problem of detecting malicious social bots was made.Besides,main challenges in the detection of malicious social bots were analyzed.As for how to choose features for the detection,the development of choosing features that from static user features to dynamic propagation features and to relationship and evolution features were classified.As for choosing which method,approaches from the previous research based on features,machine learning,graph and crowd sourcing were summarized.Also,the limitation of these methods in detection accuracy,computation cost and so on was dissected.At last,a framework based on parallelizing machine learning methods to detect malicious social bots was proposed.…”
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