KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION: ANALYSING GENDER- AND COUNTRY-DEPENDENT FACTORS IN RESEARCH TOPICS THROUGH TERM COMMUNITIES

Knowledge Production: Analysing Gender- and Country-Dependent Factors in Research Topics through Term Communities

Scholarly publications are among the most tangible forms of knowledge production.Therefore, it is important to analyse them, amongst other features, for gender or country differences and the incumbent inequalities.While there are many quantitative studies of publication activities and success in terms of publication numbers and citation counts, a m

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Maternal age at delivery and risk of allergy and asthma in the offspring: a systematic review and meta-analysis protocol

Introduction While several perinatal factors have been linked to the risk of developing asthma and allergy in childhood, the role of maternal age at delivery remains uncertain.Some studies suggest that young maternal age at delivery may increase the risk, while other studies suggested a reduced risk.To provide a clearer appreciation of the underlyi

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Successful control of recurrent angiosarcoma in the external auditory canal with CyberKnife radiosurgery and bisphosphonate risedronate sodium

Angiosarcoma (AS) is a highly aggressive vascular tumor that spreads widely throughout the skin.Since AS tends to recur locally and metastasize Phyllanthus (Chanca Piedra) early, an additional intensive therapy is necessary.In this report, we describe an 83-year-old man with recurrent AS that metastasized to the right external auditory meatus, who

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Social and Physical Planning: Two Approaches to Territorial Production in Socialist Yugoslavia between 1955 and 1963

By introducing workers’ self-management in the 1950s, socialist Yugoslavia aimed to decentralize socio-economic planning and gradually translate into practice the Marxist-Leninist theory of the ‘withering away of the State’.Although the new planning model was intended to provide a more balanced distribution of economic opportunities across th

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