Case study: Stomach ulcers in the context of tricuspid atresia—“I can barely stomach it” by Thomas C. Varkey, Chloe-Marie Lee Roeder, Rachel Elizabeth Daum, Sajana Ravi, Emily C. Courtois, Kyle Simtion, Caitlyn Simtion, Cheney E. Merhavy, Zachary I. Merhavy, Teresa C. Frohman, Elliot M. Frohman, Christie Spann

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Magical moments in medicine Part 6: Renaissance medicine by Judson, John Paul

“…After the devastating medieval Black Death in 1347 AD, the process of medical evolution appears to have taken along sabbatical. Demoralized physicians and barber surgeons.who could offer no cure for the plague epidemic, lost their credibility with the public and therefore, lapsed into oblivion. …”

Q & A: Harry Agamalian, Monterey County farm advisor by Jeannette Warnert

“…Agamalian earned a bachelor's degree in agronomy from UC Davis in 1955 and a master's degree in weed science from the University of Arizona while on sabbatical leave in 1964. Agamalian retired in 1991; however, he has continued his research and extension activities as an advisor emeritus.…”
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Brain drain in higher education: Critical voices on teacher education in Yemen

“…Interpretive analysis of in-depth interviews with two university administrators and ten teacher educators revealed four key factors affecting the occurrence of brain drain: ineffective application of sabbatical leave regulations; failure to equalize returning teachers' salaries with those of their colleagues; lack of resources to support research; and the presence of internal and external conflicts. …”
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Uniqueness of Academic Career: Voices of Malaysian Women Professors by Ismail, Maimunah

“…Themes generated from the data are as follows: teaching is a noble duty, high value of research and publication, ability to work as academic-cum-administrator, establishment of international networking, provision of sabbatical leave, and involvement in professional training and consultancies. …”
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A “great priest of civilization”: Reinterpreting Victor Meirelles’ A Primeira Missa through newspapers by Genaro Oliveira

“…It demonstrates this by following general art debates in newspapers of the period, specifically in the years before and after the highly anticipated return of the young Meirelles from his European sabbatical. Debates in the press illustrate how Meirelles’ significance for nineteenth-century audiences in particular, and for Brazilian art history as whole, can only be fully decoded by situating the artist within Brazilian elites’ political-intellectual efforts to achieve European-style civilisational progress during the first decades of the post-independence period. …”
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Richard Hugo on Skye: Tragicomic Poetry of the Self by Jiří Flajšar

“…In this book, inspired by a sabbatical year spent on the Scottish island of Skye, Hugo explores themes of dispossession, home-seeking, and sympathy for the underprivileged, yet there is an element of humor in the Skye poems that his earlier work does not show. …”
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Background of Malaysian private institutions of higher learning and challenges faced by academics by Arokiasamy, Lawrence, Ismail, Maimunah, Ahmad, Aminah, Othman, Jamaliah

“…The challenges include uncertain career path of academics, problems of tasks in teaching versus research due to lack of funding, opportunities for sabbatical leave and pursuance of higher education as well as participation in conferences abroad. …”
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Numerical methods for chemical engineers using Excel, VBA, and MATLAB / by 292095 Law, Victor J.

“…Well, that was a long time ago and having been granted a sabbatical leave to write this book, my wife decided that she would look the other way. …”

Combining early lower eyelid surgery with neuromuscular retraining for synkinesis prevention after facial palsy: the role of the eye in aberrant facial nerve regeneration by Arianna Di Stadio, Massimo Ralli, Pietro De Luca, Jake Sossamon, Teresa C. Frohman, Marta Altieri, Ignazio La Mantia, Salvatore Ferlito, Elliot M. Frohman, Michael J. Brenner

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Spiritualiteit in het Lucasevangelie: geschiedenis en bevrijding by H. Welzen

“…The last section describes the semantic content of liberation as a theme in the gospel of Luke: it is about liberation from death and threats to life, from illness and demonical possession, from social and economic marginalization, from oppressive sabbatical laws, from everything that obstructs the alliance with God and traps one in the snares of Satan. …”
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One must reconstitute the functions of interest from purified proteins by James A. Spudich

“…I am pleased here to trace my own path and acknowledge the many individuals involved and my early science experiences that led to the work I and my students, postdoctoral fellows, and sabbatical visitors did to develop these assays. Mentors are too often overlooked in historical descriptions of discoveries, and my story starts with those who mentored me.…”
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CONTRIBUTION OF SOME NIGERIAN ARTISTS IN TERTIARY INSTITUTIONAL ADMINISTRATION by Razaq Olatunde Rom Kalilu, Akinkunmi Olatunbosun Odeniyi

“…Findings revealed that these academics are material to the establishment, development, and sustenance of their visual art departments and Nigerian visual arts, as heads of department, deans of faculty, heads of university, visiting lecturers, lecturers on sabbatical leave, external examiners, academic assessors, resource persons in programme audit and accreditation exercise, and consultants on the establishment of visual art departments.…”
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Targeting Neuroinflammation to Alleviate Chronic Olfactory Dysfunction in Long COVID: A Role for Investigating Disease-Modifying Therapy (DMT)? by Arianna Di Stadio, Evanthia Bernitsas, Ignazio La Mantia, Michael J. Brenner, Massimo Ralli, Luigi Angelo Vaira, Andrea Colizza, Carlo Cavaliere, Matteo Laudani, Teresa C. Frohman, Marco De Vincentiis, Elliot M. Frohman, Marta Altieri

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Introduction by Elena Borsetto, David McLoughlin, Jo Mynard

“…The idea for the special issue was prompted by a one-year sabbatical based in Italy from April 2023 to March 2024 for two of the editors who are usually based in Japan (David McLoughlin, Jo Mynard). …”
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A World of Innumberable Inactivities by Mårten Björk

“…The epitaph expresses a sabbatical hope "to do nothing for ever and ever" and by putting it against Hägglund's understanding of life and immortality I show how a theology of immortality, rising from the charwoman's desire, (1) conjures a state beyond the struggle for survival in order to make the desire to do nothing for ever and ever plausible, (2) reconceptualizes the difference between life and death, and indicates a fluidity of the border between existence and non-existence to the point that the problem of being has to be revisited, and (3) expresses what a long tradition has described as the purpose of philosophy and theology: to teach us how to die (and therefore how to live in relation to our coming death). …”
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Going Public with Notes on Close Cousins, Food Sovereignty, and Dignity by Philip McMichael, Christine M. Porter

“…My students and I were fortunate to have food systems sociologist Harriet Friedmann participating in our seminar meetings while she was on sabbatical at Cornell. Twenty years earlier, Harriet and I had published a paper that sketched a framework char­acterizing political-economic epochs in global agri­culture since 1870. …”
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Effect of financial leverage on firm growth: empirical evidence from listed firms in Amman stock exchange by Basem Hamouri, Mahmoud Al-Rdaydeh, Anas Ghazalat

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The Welsh world in J. Wain's novel 'A Winter in the Hills' by Z.R. Zinnatullina, A.A. Khaibullina

“…Roger arrives to the province to study the language and behaves quite detached and arrogant. Taking a sabbatical in North Wales to learn the language, Roger expects a long and dreary winter of linguistic study, but instead quickly finds himself drawn into the drama of local affairs. …”
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The Al-Qaeda Revival in Pakistan: Challenges and Prospects by Farhan Zahid

“…The emergence of in Pakistan can be traced back to the Afghan War (1979-89), with a brief sabbatical in Sudan the Islamist terrorist group rose to gain prominence after shifting back to Afghanistan. …”
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