Poétiques de l’altérité : lecture croisée de J.-H. Rosny aîné et Stanley G. Weinbaum by François Laforge

“…Rosny and Weinbaum also had in common a positive view of the Aliens they described, which was at odds with the paradigm prevalent in Science Fiction since The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells. All those commonalities justify a comparative approach. …”
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Management of Bladder Cancer following Solid Organ Transplantation by Jeffrey J. Tomaszewski, Jeffrey A. Larson, Marc C. Smaldone, Matthew H. Hayn, Stephen V. Jackman

“…Three patients with CIS and one patient with T1 low grade BUC were treated by TURBT and adjuvant BCG. All four are alive and free of recurrence at a mean follow-up of 51 ± 22 months. …”
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Occlusal Features and Temporomandibular Joint Disorder: A Cross-Sectional Study by Mustafa M. Al-Khatieeb, Layth M. Nissan, Yasir R. Al-Labban, Mushriq Abid

“…The current cross-sectional study was conducted on 200 TMD patients seeking dental treatment at different dental centers in Baghdad city, aged 18–35 years. All participants underwent assessment for occlusal features, which were molar and canine classifications, overjet, posterior buccal or lingual crossbites, and overbites, and TMD parameters (muscle pain, TMJ pain, and clicking) using the Chi-square test for statistical analysis. …”
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Association of Lumican Gene with Susceptibility to Pathological Myopia in the Northern Han Ethnic Chinese by Fengju Zhang, Tingzhun Zhu, Zhongjun Zhou, Yudong Wu, Yang Li

“…Univariate analysis revealed significant differences between two groups for three SNPs: rs3759223 (C→T) and rs17853500 (T→C) of the lumican gene and rs74419 (T→C) of decorin gene with (P<.05) for all their genotype distribution and allele frequency. …”
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Digital games and virtual reality applications in child abuse: A scoping review and conceptual framework. by Afsoon Asadzadeh, Hassan Shahrokhi, Behzad Shalchi, Zhila Khamnian, Peyman Rezaei-Hachesu

“…Given the extensive capabilities of these technologies, further studies are needed to show all their potential applications for child abuse problems.…”
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A Two-Stage Robust Optimization Method Based on the Expected Scenario for Islanded Microgrid Energy Management by Qing Duan, Wanxing Sheng, Haoqing Wang, Caihong Zhao, Chunyan Ma

“…In this study, focusing on the energy management of a typical islanded microgrid and considering uncertainties such as the power output of renewable energy sources and the power demand of loads, an expected-scenario-oriented two-stage robust optimization (E-TSRO) method is proposed to alleviate the conservative tendency of the C-TSRO method because the E-TSRO method chooses to optimize the system cost according to the expected scenario instead, while ensuring the feasibility of the first-stage variables for all possible scenarios, including the worst case. …”
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Sovereignty and Charted Companies: Objective facts, Subjective Foundations by arezoo rangchian, Seyed erfan Lajevardi

“…According to the theory of separation of sovereignty from Commercial Activities, companies do not exercise sovereignty; although this theory of French law has not been an accepted principle in all legal systems, including in Iran, where prior to the enactment of the Third Development Plan, public sector companies undertook sovereign duties too. …”
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IMPROVEMENT OF EXPANSIVE SOIL BY USING FIBER GLASS -SILICA FUME MIXTURE by Alyaa Radhi Mehsin, Adnan Qahtan Mohammed, Maysam Th. Al-Hadidi, Firas Ghrari

“…As well as adding 1 % (F) to the (clay soil - SF) mixture modify the prepared soil by reducing (Cc), (Cr), (SW) % and increasing (c, φ). Based on all of the above results, we concluded that adding (SF) and (F-SF) mix. can enhance the engineering characteristics of swelling soil. …”
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Magnetically Guided Capsule Endoscopy in Pediatric Patients with Abdominal Pain by Mingping Xie, Yuting Qian, Shidan Cheng, Lifu Wang, Ruizhe Shen

“…We enrolled 48 patients with abdominal pain aged 6–18 years. All patients underwent MGCE to evaluate the gastric cavity and small intestine. …”
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A Decision-Making Method Providing Sustainability to FPGA-Based SoCs by Run-Time Structural Adaptation to Mode of Operation, Power Budget, and Die Temperature Variations by Dimple Sharma, Lev Kirischian

“…It is based on the concept of Run-Time Structural Adaptation (RTSA); whenever there is a change in a system’s set of constraints, Explorer selects a suitable hardware processing circuit for each active task at an appropriate operating frequency such that all the constraints are satisfied. Explorer has been experimentally deployed on the ARM Cortex-A9 core of Xilinx Zynq XC7Z020 SoC. …”
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Biogenic Synthesis of Cu-Doped ZnO Photocatalyst for the Removal of Organic Dye by Biruktait Ayele Lemecho, Fedlu Kedir Sabir, Dinsefa Mensur Andoshe, Noto Susanto Gultom, Dong-Hau Kuo, Xiaoyun Chen, Endale Mulugeta, Temesgen D. Desissa, Osman Ahmed Zelekew

“…The characterization of the obtained samples was carried out, and the removal of the methylene blue (MB) dye was examined. Out of all catalysts, Cu-ZnO (3%) had the best photocatalytic performance and 89% of the MB dye was degraded. …”
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Multicriteria-Based Location Privacy Preservation in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks by Haleem Farman, Bilal Jan, Muhammad Talha, Abi Zar, Huma Javed, Murad Khan, Aziz Ud Din, Kijun Han

“…The best alternative (target phantom vehicle) is selected through an ANP where all the alternatives are ranked from best to worst. …”
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Synthesis of yttrium aluminum garnet ceramic powder doped with ruthenium by V.E. Suprunchuk, A.A. Kravtsov, L.V. Tarala, E.V. Medyanik, F.F. Malyavin, V.A. Lapin, D.P. Bedrakov

“…The presence of impurity phases was established for all samples. It was found that increasing the calcination temperature to 1600°C led to a decrease in the quantitative content of impurity phases, but did not lead to their complete elimination. …”
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The Effect of Various Composite Resin Types, Surface Treatments, and Repaired Materials on the Shear Bond Strength of Composite Resin Repair by Diyar Kh Bakr

“…Methods:  Total of 120 undercut cylindrical cavities 8 mm in diameter in 2.5 mm in depth were cut at the center of self-cured acrylic resin blocks, the samples divided randomly according to the types of composite resin into 2 groups; microfilled and hybrid, the samples in each groups subdivided according to surface treatment; diamond bur and phosphoric acid. Then all the samples received bonding agent, these groups were subdivided into subgroups according to three composite repair materials. …”
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Epidemiology and Molecular Aspect of pediculosis among Primary School Children in Sulaimani Province Kurdistan-Iraq by Abdullah A. Haama

“…Direct contact, Sharing of clothing and combs can be a way for lice transmission from infected person to another.This study had been done to determine the pediculosis infection rate and risk factors asociassion with head lice among primary schools children in Sulaimani Province, all cases were evaluated by physical examination (visual inspection) and detail structured questionnaire which was including education levels, family size, hair washing frequency, type and length of hair, mother occupation and education, father occupation, and education was used, the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) used for confirming the head lice clade. …”
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Convergent evolution of type I antifreeze proteins from four different progenitors in response to global cooling by Laurie A. Graham, Peter L. Davies

“…Instead, it is replete with repetitive DNAs and transposons, several stretches of which could encode alanine tracts with a dominant codon (GCC) that matches the bias observed in the AFP genes. All four known instances of type I AFPs occurring in fishes are independent evolutionary events that occurred soon after the onset of Northern Hemisphere Cenozoic glaciation events. …”
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Antibacterial and Pharmacological Evaluation of Fluoroquinolones: A Chemoinformatics Approach by Damini Sood, Neeraj Kumar, Aarushi Singh, Meena Kishore Sakharkar, Vartika Tomar, Ramesh Chandra

“…Also, the pharmacological properties of the compounds including the Lipinski rule of five, absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion, LD50, drug likeliness, and toxicity were evaluated. We found that among all four FQ molecules, ofloxacin showed the highest antibacterial activity through in silico assays with a strong interaction (−38.52 kJ/mol) with the antibacterial target protein (topoisomerase-II DNA gyrase enzyme). …”
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Air Pollutant Levels during the Large-scale Social Restriction Period and its Association with Case Fatality Rate of COVID-19 by Muhammad Rendana

“…Abstract The COVID-19 outbreak has caused millions of deaths in all over the world since it was declared by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a pandemic in March 2020. …”
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Identification of Binding Partners of Deafness-Related Protein PDZD7 by Haibo Du, Rui Ren, Panpan Chen, Zhigang Xu, Yanfei Wang

“…Several PDZD7-binding proteins have been identified, including usherin, ADGRV1, whirlin, harmonin, SANS, and MYO7A, all belonging to USH proteins. Here, we report the identification of novel PDZD7-binding partners through yeast two-hybrid screening using the first two PDZ domains of PDZD7 as bait. …”
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Some species of <i>Valeriana</i> L.: comparative description of fruit morphology by M. М. Ishmuratova, A. R. Ishbirdin, E. N. Suleymanova, N. I. Baryshnikova

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