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GIS and SWAT Model-Based Assessment of Theoretical Hydropower Potential in the Furfuro Watershed, Ethiopia

Ethiopia possesses abundant water resources and favorable topography for hydropower development; however, comprehensive data on many perennial rivers and their hydropower potential remain scarce. Accurate information is…

Change in Spinopelvic Parameters Before and After Lumbar Disc Herniation Surgery

Background: Sagittal balance depends on the interaction between lumbar alignment and spinopelvic parameters such as lumbar lordosis (LL), pelvic tilt (PT), sacral slope (SS), and pelvic incidence (PI). Although these pa…

Computer-aided Discovery of Novel COX-2 Inhibitors for Anti-inflammatory Therapy Using Pharmacophore Modelling, Molecular Docking, ADMET, and Virtual Screening

Cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) is a central enzyme in inflammation and a validated target for anti-inflammatory drug development. However, many existing COX-2 inhibitors cause gastrointestinal and cardiovascular side effects,…

Cortisol Signaling in Stress-Induced Pathophysiology: Molecular Mechanism and Therapeutic Implication

Cortisol is a glucocorticoid hormone essential for the physiological stress response. Its secretion is controlled by the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis, which coordinates the body's adaptive behaviour to inte…

Gene Therapy Approaches in Hematological Malignancies: Current Strategies and Future Directions

Hematological malignancies, such as leukemia, lymphoma, and myeloma, are cancers originating in the bone marrow and lymphatic system, marked by the uncontrolled growth of blood cells. Gene therapy offers a revolutionary…

Sleep Quality in Hemodialysis Patients According to Renal Anemia Treatment Outcomes

Backgound: We assessed the impact of renal anemia treatment on sleep quality among hemodialysis (HD) patients. Methods: To be included in the study, patients had to have received epoetin (EPO) therapy within the past ye…

Late Management of An Atrial Septal Defect Closure Device Embolized to Left Ventricle Outflow Tract

Atrial septal defect (ASD) which is among most common congenital heart disease diagnosed in adults. It is commonly managed with percutaneous closure successfully. However, percutaneous closure procedure has been associa…

Evaluation of the Relationship Between Vitamin D and Inflammation in Type 2 Diabetes and Diabetic Complications

Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and its microvascular complications are characterized by chronic inflammation, which arises as a consequence of persistent hyperglycemia and insulin resistance. In obese patients with T2D…

Defining, Blurring, and Crossing Boundaries

Between Autonomy and Crossing Boundaries: A Sketch on Linguistics as a Scientific Discipline,

This article explores the evolution in defining the goals, subject matter and boundaries of linguistics as an academic discipline. The discussion has two goals: to demonstrate shifts in the understanding of the essence…

Archaic paradigms in standard Croatian accentual patterns on the example of verbs ending in -ovati / -evati

The article discusses the accentual patterns of verbs ending in -ovati / -evati, in terms of the changes affecting these patterns in the standard Croatian language at the same time considering the history of Croatian. T…

Surzhyk: transformation of perception in the Ukrainian mass consciousness about the mixed Ukrainian-Russian idiom in the context of current socio-political events in Ukraine

This research analyzes the changes in perception about the mixed Ukrainian-Russian idiom (surzhyk) in the Ukrainian mass consciousness in the conditions of military aggression of the Russian Federation on Ukraine, which…

Fuzzy boundaries between hyponymy and meronymy

Lexical hierarchies are based on the relation between a superordinate lexeme that has a broader, more general meaning and its subordinate lexemes that have narrower, more specific meanings. In the lexical hierarchy, a r…

The use of connectives in the written production in Croatian as a mother tongue and English and German as foreign languages

The ability to write texts is an important aspect of foreign language learning, which includes producing a coherent and well-structured text. One of the ways to achieve that is the explicit marking of the relationship b…

Eavesdropper, not (only) reader. Transgressive possibilities of doubly deictic "you"

This article will take a closer look at the possible functions and stylizations of the use of the personal deictic "you" in the Croatian language. Since the double deixis manifests itself as a stylistic figure in its st…

Some features of the translation of the contemporary film adaptation of P. Yershov's fairy tale The Little Humpbacked Horse

The contemporary film adaptation of P.Yershov's fairy tale The Little Humpbacked Horse is characterised by its prose form, dialogue and the resulting colloquial language of the characters. This is evident in the frequen…

The Limits of the Language. Holocaust(s)? Between Decorum and a "Rhetorically Useful Concept" (The Case of Discourse in Poland)

The article presents several examples of the rhetorical use of the Holocaust in contemporary public discourse in Poland, the place where the extermination of the Jews took place on the largest scale. It evokes a recapit…

Different Dimensions of Borderlines in War Situations. Once Again on Vinko Brešan's Witnesses

The authoress offers an overview of various dimensions of borderlines in relation to the war situation, based on the analysis of Witnesses by Vinko Brešan (2003), a film that went down in the history of Croatian cinemat…

Representable and unrepresentable in film art: the limits of visual representation of reality

The paper focuses on the limitations of the cinematic representation of reality. Since the film was initially understood as an innovative tool for the reproduction of reality, but also as a copy of the viewer's percepti…

In or Out: Boundaries of Institutional and Noninstitutional Theatre Scene in Croatian Theatre

The paper presents the boundaries between the contemporary Croatian institutional and non-institutional scene, focusing on terminology, history, performance spaces and aesthetic demarcations. It provides the analysis of…

Between Performance and Action: Igralke

The paper titled Between Performance and Action: Igralke examines the Rijeka theatre Collective Igralke and their productions Bakice / Grannies (2020), Crna vuna / Black Wool (2022) and Cure / Girls (2023). It focuses o…

On trans-genres or Nick Cave without Laibach at the coronation of Charles III

A dyadicly conceived text, which is created as a comparison of the reaction of the Australian musician Nick Cave and the Slovenian band Laibach to the coronation of Charles III, or in general to the concept of the Briti…

Boundaries of text in the works of conceptual artist Mary Kelly

The paper analyses boundaries between image, text, and context and their transgressions in Mary Kelly's artworks Post-Partum Document (1973-1979) and Interim (1984-1989). Both hold a significant place in the canon of fe…

The Status of Theory in the Study of Literature and the Visual Arts

The article compares the state of theory in literary studies and the visual arts. While in the one the end of theory is proclaimed for several decades, in second it is systematically neglected as insufficiently scientif…

Third space and beyond

The concept of third space - an abstract space open to social and cultural interactions - was developed by the postcolonial theorist Homi K. Bhabha as a model of understanding post/colonial spaces, identities, cultures,…