A Leadership Journey: Personal Reflections from the School of Hard Knocks by R. Scott Pochron

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Louisiana, we’ve got a situation (yes, again…). by Julie Hernandez

“…There are only three seasons in Louisiana: football season, Mardi Gras season, and hurricane season. 1 The beginning of each is marked by civic rituals (knocking on wood comes to mind), heated discussions, expert strategizing, and complicated chart-supported predictions. …”
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The Bioethical Complexity of the Issues of Surrogate Motherhood by Željko Rakošec, Mirjana Radan, Žarko Šperanda, Suzana Vuletić

“…Surrogate motherhood as the most complex method of medically assisted reproduction and the last tool in the fight against infertility, stirs great debates around the world, knocking also on the doors of our own legislation, medicine and judiciary, which is the main reason for a comprehensive analysis of this phenomenon from a bioethical point of view in order to show the complex moral consequences that follow surrogate motherhood in the complex relationships (of the surrogate mother, spouses, the client couple, the child).…”
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Brain Disorders and Novel Therapeutics by Hanns Möhler

“…Selective circuits of GABAergic inhibitory transmission were targeted by introducing point mutations in defined GABAA receptor subtype genes in mice (knock-in strategy). New behavioural phenotypes were generated which reflect various brain disorders. …”
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Inflation is not an Effective Remedy for High Public Debt Ratio by Michael Grömling, Jürgen Matthes

“…Only under very specific conditions — and by simultaneously ignoring the manifold knock-on effects of inflation — does a higher inflation rate bring about a decline in the government debt ratio. …”
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Le nuove metamorfosi ovidiane del restauro by Susanna Caccia Gherardini

“…But because restoration faces the dilemma of micro-history in a world that we would like to be global and should have knock down all barriers. Globalization has accelerated the “presentism”, thus undermining even the language of actors, as well as of those involved in restoration and preservation, who have as their cognitive foundation the multiplicity of time and of the times that history entrusts to the restorer. …”
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Bootstrapping of gene-expression data improves and controls the false discovery rate of differentially expressed genes by Goddard Mike E, Meuwissen Theo HE

“…In a cancer data set, the bootstrap-<it>t</it>-test discovered 200 differentially regulated genes at a FDR of 2.6%, and in a knock-out gene expression experiment 10 genes were discovered at a FDR of 3.2%. …”
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The canopy spiders (Araneae) of the floodplain forest in Leipzig by Otto, Stefan, Floren, Andreas

“…In 2006 we sampled 30 tree canopies in the ‘Burgaue’ nature reserve with pyrethrum knock-down fogging, recording 502 adult spiders belonging to 48 species and 11 families. …”
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Charity and welcome at the monastery by Laura Del Bono

“…The precept of love towards the others is also distinguished in the care for the sick in need of assistance, the guests who arrive at the monastery and the poor knocking at its door or wanderers asking to be housed. …”
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Causes and consequences of large-scale windthrow on the development of fir-beech forests in the Dinaric mountains by Matjaž Čater, Ajša Alagić, Mitja Ferlan, Jernej Jevšenak, Aleksander Marinšek

“…The windthrow hazard model revealed that a large number of consecutive events with strong winds in each section weakened the stand, which was subsequently knocked down during the next extreme wind and rainfall event.…”
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China’s New Economic Model as a Mark of Re-globalization by Zh. R. Agybay, Zh. M. Tolen, D. Orynbassarov

“…However, the recent outbreak of Covid-19 pandemic has seriously knocked the most countries’ economic sector, and Chinese economic ties and budget trade relationship in the world has also shown considerable reduction. …”
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Impact of Non-Performing Loans on the Growth of the Banking Sector in Bangladesh by Momtaj Parvin, Merajul Islam, Larysa Vdovenko

“…According to Bangladesh Bank, state-owned banks are prone to substantial collapses, which have a knock-on effect on the entire commercial banking sector. …”
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Many Faces of Migrations by Milica Antić Gaber, Marko Krevs

“…The paper of Zora Žbontar deals with the attitudes towards foreigners in ancient Greece, where the hospitality to strangers was considered so worthy a virtue that everyone was expected to “demonstrate hospitality and protection to any foreigner who has knocked on their door”. The contrast between the hospitality of ancient Greece and the modern emergence of xenophobia and ways of dealing with migration issues in economically developed countries is especially challenging. …”
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