Large Mesenteric Cyst Mimicking Tuberculous Ascites by Cumhur Dulger, Ertan Adali, Serhat Avcu, Zehra Kurdoglu

“…Most are discovered incidentally during routine abdominal examinations. Methods. We report a patient with a mesenteric cyst masquerading as tuberculous peritonitis and ascites. …”
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Efficient information transfer by Poisson neurons by Lubomir Kostal, Shigeru Shinomoto

“…In thiscontribution we employ the classical information-theoretic results toanalyze the efficiency of such a transmission from differentperspectives, emphasising the neurobiological viewpoint. …”
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The Scanian Economic-Demographic Database (SEDD) by Martin Dribe, Luciana Quaranta

“… The Scanian Economic-Demographic Database (SEDD) is a high-quality longitudinal data resource spanning the period 1646-1967. …”
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Motion Objects Segmentation and Shadow Suppressing without Background Learning by Y.-P. Guan

“…A foreground reclassification is developed to get an optimal segmentation by fusion of mode filtering, connectivity analysis, and spatial-temporal correlation. …”
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Fine-Tuning Reception in the Bone: PPARγ and Company by Z. Elizabeth Floyd, Sanjin Zvonic, Mark E. Nuttall, Jeffrey M. Gimble

“…PPARγ plays a central role in the formation of fat. Regulation of PPARγ activity depends on numerous factors ranging from dietary ligands to nuclear hormone coactivators and corepressors to oxygen-sensing mechanisms. …”
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Teorías neurocientíficas del aprendizaje y su implicación en la contrucción de conocimiento de los estudiantes universitarios by Bertha Marlén Velásquez Burgos, María Graciela Calle M., Nahyr Remolina De Cleves

“…El artículo que se presenta a continuación invita a los lectores a reflexionar sobre las diferentes teorías neurocientíficas del aprendizaje: teoría del cerebro triuno, teoría del cerebro total o cerebro base del aprendizaje, cerebro derecho versus cerebro izquierdo y teoría de las inteligencias múltiples, así como, su implicación directa en el proceso de búsqueda y construcción de conocimiento de los estudiantes universitarios, en la estructuración curricular, en la implementación de metodologías facilitadoras del proceso de enseñanza - aprendizaje y en los sistemas de evaluación, entre otros aspectos.…”
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An evaluation of New Zealand political party Websites. by Matthew Conway, Dan Dorner

“…In a very short time, Websites have become vital campaign and communication tools for political parties around the world. …”
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Existence and Uniqueness of Mild Solutions to Impulsive Nonlocal Cauchy Problems by Mohamed Hannabou, Khalid Hilal, Ahmed Kajouni

“…By utilizing the theory of operators semigroup and fractional derivative, a new concept on a solution for our problem is introduced. …”
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Performance of clock sources and their influence on time synchronization in wireless sensor networks by Francisco Tirado-Andrés, Alvaro Araujo

“…Wireless sensor networks require time synchronization, which is the coordination of events or actions to make a system operate in unison. In this work, real experiments and a theoretical analysis of the behavior of the clock sources, most used in wireless sensor networks, have been carried out. …”
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La place du paysagiste dans le paysage agricole by Laurence Renard

“…Giving lessons about the landscape therefore becomes counter-productive. There is a strong temptation to assume the responsibility of the landscape by becoming a farmer-cum-landscape architect. …”
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Ensinar e avaliar competências em Matemática: que desafios? by Leonor Santos

“… Tomando como ponto de partida as novas orientações curriculares para o ensino da Matemática, em particular, o novo entendimento dado ao currículo, perspectivando-o como um conjunto de aprendizagens e competências, e a percepção de avaliação enquanto interacção social, e como tal preferencialmente dirigida à regulação do processo de ensino e aprendizagem, este artigo discute quais as implicações que este novo quadro curricular traz para a aula de Matemática. …”
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Southern Pine Coneworm, Dioryctria amatella (Hulst) (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) by James R. Meeker

“… The southern pine coneworm, Dioryctria amatella (Hulst), also commonly referred to as a pitch moth, is consistently one of the most damaging insect pests of pine seed orchard crops throughout the southeastern United States (Ebel et al. 1980). …”
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Paesaggio e paesaggisti nell’istruzione superiore francese by Camilla Barbero

“…Also, it allows an exploration about the schools attitude on research in landscape and on the purpose to make a landscape architect being a good mediator too: aims that actually became crucial in landscape education.…”
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Global, Continental, and Regional Development Agendas – What Does It Mean to Domesticate or Localise These? by Lusanda Batala

“… The domestication of regional, continental and global development agendas can be confusing, leading to one concluding that these are either an addition to or a replacing of, a country's national development plan. …”
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Yorùbá Philosophy and Contemporary Nigerian Realities by Adeshina Afolayan

“…Premised on the fundamental assumption that Yorùbá philosophy constitutes a fundamental site of scholarship within which the task of understanding and reinventing the Nigerian state and societies can be achieved, the Introduction weaves this assumption into the analysis of the fourteen essays that explores Nigeria’s postcolonial realities ranging from overpopulation, public (im)morality, ethnic conflict, injustice, and democratic deficit to environmental degradation, disability, depersonalization, youth culture, and a glaring disconnection between educational theory and practice. …”
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Geometry of Hamiltonian Dynamics with Conformal Eisenhart Metric by Linyu Peng, Huafei Sun, Xiao Sun

“…Furthermore, the equations for the conformal geodesics, for the Jacobi field along the geodesics, and the equations for a certain flow constrained in a family of conformal equivalent nondegenerate metrics are obtained. …”
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The Role of Physical and Recreational Activities in Occupational Therapy at Social Welfare Centres in Poland by Olszewski-Strzyżowski Dariusz Jacek

“…This article presents a study on the potential role of physical, sporting, recreational and tourism activities as elements of occupational therapy conducted in Social Welfare Centres (OPS) in Poland. …”
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Treatment of Sclerosing Mesenteritis with Corticosteroids and Azathioprine by Anand Bala, Sylvain P Coderre, Douglas RE Johnson, V Nayak

“…A 21-year-old man was diagnosed with sclerosing mesenteritis, and treated with a partial ileal resection and defunctioning ileostomy. …”
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I am hated, therefore I am: The Enemy in Yorùbá Imaginary by Abimbola Adelakun

“…  This essay will study how the Yorùbá conceptualize “ọ̀tá” or the enemy, a trope that recurs in various cultural phenomena such as music, prayers, and other social rituals. …”
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Pronominalization and clitic doubling in Syrian and Omani Arabic by Hallman Peter, Al-Balushi Rashid

“…This article treats cliticization of a pronoun to a syntactic host and doubling of the clitic pronoun with a non-pronominal counterpart in Syrian and Omani Arabic. …”
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