Different patterns of pfcrt and pfmdr1 polymorphism in Plasmodium falciparum isolates from Tehama region, Yemen by Wahib M. Atroosh, Hesham M. Al-Mekhlafi, Adel Al-Jasari, Hany Sady, Salwa S. Dawaki, Fatin N. Elyana, Mona A. Al-Areeqi, Nabil A. Nasr, Awatif M. Abdulsalam, Lahvanya R. Subramaniam, Meram Azzani, Init Ithoi, Yee Ling Lau, Johari Surin

“…Among these, the CVIET classic, old-world African/Southeast Asian haplotype was the most predominant, and was mostly found in the isolates from the Khamis Bani Saad district of Al-Mahwit (93.1%) and the AdDahi district of Hodeidah (88.9%). …”
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Population structure and evolutionary history of the greater cane rat (Thryonomys swinderianus) from the Guinean Forests of West Africa by Isaac A. Babarinde, Isaac A. Babarinde, Adeniyi C. Adeola, Adeniyi C. Adeola, Adeniyi C. Adeola, Chabi A. M. S. Djagoun, Lotanna M. Nneji, Agboola O. Okeyoyin, George Niba, Ndifor K. Wanzie, Ndifor K. Wanzie, Ojo C. Oladipo, Ayotunde O. Adebambo, Semiu F. Bello, Said I. Ng’ang’a, Wasiu A. Olaniyi, Victor M. O. Okoro, Babatunde E. Adedeji, Omotoso Olatunde, Adeola O. Ayoola, Adeola O. Ayoola, Moise M. Matouke, Yun-yu Wang, Oscar J. Sanke, Saidu O. Oseni, Christopher D. Nwani, Robert W. Murphy

“…Grasscutter (Thryonomys swinderianus) is a large-body old world rodent found in sub-Saharan Africa. The body size and the unique taste of the meat of this major crop pest have made it a target of intense hunting and a potential consideration as a micro-livestock. …”
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How the Cobra Got Its Flesh-Eating Venom: Cytotoxicity as a Defensive Innovation and Its Co-Evolution with Hooding, Aposematic Marking, and Spitting by Nadya Panagides, Timothy N.W. Jackson, Maria P. Ikonomopoulou, Kevin Arbuckle, Rudolf Pretzler, Daryl C. Yang, Syed A. Ali, Ivan Koludarov, James Dobson, Brittany Sanker, Angelique Asselin, Renan C. Santana, Iwan Hendrikx, Harold van der Ploeg, Jeremie Tai-A-Pin, Romilly van den Bergh, Harald M.I. Kerkkamp, Freek J. Vonk, Arno Naude, Morné A. Strydom, Louis Jacobsz, Nathan Dunstan, Marc Jaeger, Wayne C. Hodgson, John Miles, Bryan G. Fry

“…The cytotoxicity of the venom of 25 species of Old World elapid snake was tested and compared with the morphological and behavioural adaptations of hooding and spitting. …”
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“Like a virgin”: Absence of rheumatoid arthritis and treponematosis, good sanitation and only rare gout in Italy prior to the 15th century by B.M. Rothschild, A. Coppa, PP. Petrone

“…Hypotheses have been offered that rheumatoid arthritis and syphilis were New World diseases, only transmitted to the Old World subsequent to the passages of Christopher Columbus (1-7). …”
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Multiproxy approach to reconstruct fossil primate feeding behavior: Case study for macaque from the Plio-Pleistocene site Guefaït-4.2 (eastern Morocco) by Iván Ramírez-Pedraza, Iván Ramírez-Pedraza, Laura M. Martínez, Laura M. Martínez, Hassan Aouraghe, Florent Rivals, Florent Rivals, Florent Rivals, Carlos Tornero, Carlos Tornero, Hamid Haddoumi, Ferran Estebaranz-Sánchez, Ferran Estebaranz-Sánchez, Antonio Rodríguez-Hidalgo, Antonio Rodríguez-Hidalgo, Antonio Rodríguez-Hidalgo, Jan van der Made, Aïcha Oujaa, Juan José Ibáñez, Hicham Mhamdi, Mohamed Souhir, Al Mahdi Aissa, M. Gema Chacón, M. Gema Chacón, M. Gema Chacón, Robert Sala-Ramos, Robert Sala-Ramos

“…The genus Macaca belongs to Cercopithecidae (Old World monkeys), Cercopithecinae, Papionini. The presence of Macaca in North Africa is well known from the Late Miocene to the Late Pleistocene. …”
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New Collective Monograph: The Golden Horde in World History (Kazan: Sh.Marjani Institute of History of AS RT, 2016. 968 p. + 28 p. of col. ins.) by Marie Favereau-Doumenjou

“…The Golden Horde had a major impact on the expansion of trade in the 1250s–1350s and its economic and political regime highly contributed to the globalization of the Old World. Historians have revealed that after the Chinggisid conquests, a phenomenal trade boom transformed the human and cultural landscape in Eurasia. …”
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Book Reviews by Redactie KITLV

“…Barnes, Africa's Ogun: Old world and new, Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1989. xi + 274 pp. …”
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Emergence of an ancient and pathogenic mammarenavirus by Xue-Lian Luo, Shan Lu, Chuan Qin, Mang Shi, Xiao-Bo Lu, Lu Wang, Sang Ga, Dong Jin, Xin-Li Ma, Jing Yang, Yan Dai, Lin-Lin Bao, Yan-Peng Cheng, Ya-Jun Ge, Yi-Bo Bai, Wen-Tao Zhu, Ji Pu, Hui Sun, Yu-Yuan Huang, Ming-Chao Xu, Wen-Jing Lei, Kui Dong, Cai-Xin Yang, Yi-Fan Jiao, Qi Lv, Feng-Di Li, Jianguo Xu

“…Phylogenetic analyses revealed that this virus was clearly separated from previously reported New and Old World mammarenaviruses. Under the co-speciation framework, the estimated divergence time of PPV was 77–88 million years ago (MYA), earlier than that of OW and NW mammarenaviruses (26-34 MYA).…”
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Feedback of Mani beliefs in Arabic literature(Relying on poems off "aboathie; abunovas; aboala; bashar) by abbas karimi, شهریار همتی

“…Manitheism is a deep manifestation of old and old-world beliefs in Iran. Undoubtedly, worldview and recognition of Manichi's mysticism has been based on Gnostic beliefs. …”
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International Opinions on Grading of Urothelial Carcinoma: A Survey Among European Association of Urology and International Society of Urological Pathology Members by Irene J. Beijert, Liang Cheng, Fredrik Liedberg, Karin Plass, Sean R. Williamson, Paolo Gontero, Maria J. Ribal, Marko Babjuk, Peter C. Black, Ashish M. Kamat, Ferran Algaba, David M. Berman, Arndt Hartmann, Alexandra Masson-Lecomte, Morgan Rouprêt, Antonio Lopez-Beltran, Hemamali Samaratunga, Shahrokh F. Shariat, A. Hugh Mostafid, Murali Varma, Steven Shen, Maximilian Burger, Toyonori Tsuzuki, Joan Palou, Eva M. Compérat, Richard J. Sylvester, Theo H. van der Kwast, Bas W.G. van Rhijn, Michelle R. Downes

“…We surveyed urologists and pathologists of European Association of Urology and International Society of Urological Pathology on their preferences regarding NMIBC grading to generate a multidisciplinary dialogue. Both the “old” World Health Organization (WHO) 1973 and the “new” WHO2004 grading schemes are still used widely. …”
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The role and development of metallurgy in the late Neolithic and early Bronze Age of Greece by McGeehan Liritzis, V, McGeehan Liritzis, Veronica

“…</p> <p>The historical background of the metal technology of the Old World was reviewed, in particular the beginnings of melting, smelting and the origins and development of alloying,in order to provide a reference with which to compare the status of the Greek mainland metallurgical industries.…”

Ancestral Tourism: A Novel Market of Isfahan Tourism by Neda Torabi Farsani, Leila Mirghadr, Hossein Sadeghi Shahdani

“….- Hjorthén, A. (2021). Old World Homecomings: Campaigns of Ancestral Tourism and Cultural Diplomacy (1945–66). …”
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Annotated catalogue of the Tachinidae (Insecta, Diptera) of Chile by James E. O'Hara, D. Monty Wood, Christian R. González

“…Species distributions are recorded by country within the New World and by larger geographical divisions in the Old World. Additional information is given in the form of notes and references under valid names at the level of tribe, genus, and species. …”
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Concept and parts of the philosophy of nature in Saint Bonaventura’s Collationes by Andrés Grau i Arau

“…The intelligence of the Christian wisdom demonstrated by the fact that we have managed to select consistent and competent old worldly wisdom according to the Revelation. St. …”
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L’idéal corrompu et l’idéal retrouvé. La fonction de la métaphore dans le Donet baillié au roy Loÿs douzieme de Jean Molinet by Anna Gęsicka

“…From an eschatological perspective, the author demonstrates how insignificant the old “worldly” ideal and alleged intellectual ideal will be in the eyes of God at the moment of Judgment. …”
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Reimagining local worlds: Wen village conservation and regeneration by Amateur Architecture Studio by Xiang Ren

“…The current article examines the characterisation of the Wen village conservation and regeneration project, led by the Amateur Architecture Studio in Zhejiang Province of China (2012–2016), as an architectural reimagination of local worlds, with a strong sensitivity to the ordinary places and lifeworlds of rural China and juxtapositions of new local worlds within old worlds. By piecing together the flows and fragments of the architectural process, this article shows how locally situated designs and dynamics have shaped the project in both its formation and afterlife, both ethically and contemporarily. …”
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Between Stephen Lloyd and Esteban Yo-eed: Locating Jamaica Through Cuba by Faith Smith

“…In their oft-cited manifesto, the Martinican Creolists exhort Caribbean people to forego their continuing allegiances to the “mythical shores” of various old worlds, and to affirm instead the “alluvial Creoleness” that binds (or that ought to bind) them to each other, and to other communities across the globe with a similar plantation history: “Neither Europeans, nor Africans, nor Asians, we proclaim ourselves Creoles; “[the Creole language] is the initial means of communication of our deep self, or our collective unconscious, of our common genius, and it remains the river of our alluvial Creoleness.” …”
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Updated estimation of cutaneous leishmaniasis incubation period in French Guiana. by Romain Blaizot, Albin Fontaine, Magalie Demar, François Delon, Albane de Bonet d'Oleon, Aurélie Mayet, Franck de Laval, Vincent Pommier de Santi, Sébastien Briolant

“…IP current estimates for CL range from 14 days to several months with a median around 30-60 days, as established by a few previous studies in both New and Old Worlds.<h4>Methodology</h4>We estimated CL incubation period distribution using time-to-event models adapted to interval-censored data based on declared date of travels from symptomatic military personnel living in non-endemic areas that were exposed during their short stays in French Guiana (FG) between January 2001 and December 2021.…”
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Paleoparasitology at "Place d'Armes", Namur, Belgium: a biostatistics analysis of trichurid eggs between the Old and New World Paleoparasitologia na "Praça das Armas", Namur, Bélgi... by Gino Chaves da Rocha, Nicolau Maués Serra-Freire

“…Trichurids were described inboth New and Old Worlds since the prehistorical time. To elucidate the zoological origin of the organic remains, the parasites and the prior function of the sanitary structures Trichuris eggs were statistically analyzed for morphometric parameters, and suggest that it could be an important tool to help the whole paleoparasitological diagnosis.…”
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Sor Juana and her library world by Elsa Barberena Blásquez

“…Sor Juana with her beauty, charm, intelligence and ability to deal with the most important personalities of her time was considered a string between the New and the Old Worlds because of her literary contributions as a woman, more so as an American woman of the XVIIc. …”
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