Literature reviews are an important part of research as they precede a doctoral dissertation, a master’s thesis, a policy paper with recommendations, a single scientific publication, a white paper, a ...

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In this paper, I use discourse analysis as a framework to examine Facebook posts and understand how South African ethnic and racial slurs are used and responded to on social media platforms. I ...

This article will examine the ways in which the right and a large part of the left have converged in their assessment of the African problem, united both in their denigration of dependency theory and ...

Introduction For non-native English speakers, a lack of command of the English language may hinder publishing scientific or academic articles, particularly among individuals from monolingual countries ...

Student evaluations of teaching (SET) are widely used in academic personnel decisions as a measure of teaching effectiveness. We show: SET are biased against female instructors by an amount that is ...

Infectious diseases pose a major challenge to public health worldwide. In recent years, vector-borne and zoonotic diseases have emerged as major public health threats. Effective prevention, control, ...

Phosphodiesterase-4 (PDE4), a member of the phosphodiesterase superfamily, has highly important roles in cyclic nucleotide signaling pathways and a variety of skin disorders. Blocking PDE4 activity ...

A 54-year-old woman presented to our clinic for the first time in February 2024, reporting exertional dyspnea. Cardiological examination, electrocardiography, and transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) ...

Objective: This study was aimed at investigating factors influencing the progression of native coronary atherosclerosis after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). Methods: A cohort of 462 ...

Abstract In the past 5 years, there has been a growing focus on infectious diseases, such as viral infections (coronavirus, Mpox, and influenza), sudden pandemics, and persistent bacterial infections ...