Plastic Surgery: Under the Skin, Suture, Destructive Plasticity and Post-Cinematic Ontologies by Greg Hainge

“…The forms of wounded subjectivity we find there are unable to stitch themselves into the illusory narratives needed to enable them to access a fixed sense of individual or shared identity and enclose them in a subjectivity separated off from all else around. Here, on the contrary, alterity, the alien, is situated within. …”
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Impact of surgery on visual acuity and life quality of senile patients by Mariela Julia Curbelo Gómez, Maria Adela Llull Tombo

“…<strong><br />Methods:</strong> A prospective, descriptive, study including variables as age, gender, general and visual personal pathological history of all the patients who attended to the provisional consultation of the General Hospital “Dr. …”
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Guide to Fertilization for Pine Straw Production on Coastal Plain Sites by Anna Osiecka, Patrick J. Minogue, E. David Dickens

“…It is attractive, relatively low-cost, and easy to work with. Best of all, it performs well in all kinds of locations–including those difficult-to-mulch slopes! …”
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Age as a Determinant of the Effectiveness of Intravaginal Sponges Impregnated with Progestin and Equine Chorionic Gonadotropin for Multiple Births Induction of Awassi Ewes by Abbas Daham, Ali Jaber, Jabbar Al-Saaidi

“…All treated ewes came to estrus (100%); the highest twining rate was recorded in ewes aged 2-3 years, while the highest triple rate were found in those aged 3-4 years. …”
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Double-dual n-types over Banach spaces not containing ℓ1 by Markus Pomper

“…The function τ:E×ℝn→ℝ, defined by letting τ(x,a1,…,an)=‖x+∑i=1naig″i‖ for all x∈E and all a1,…,an∈ℝ, defines an n-type over E. …”
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A strategy of the new “green revolution” in wheat breeding: celebrating the jubilee of Lyudmila A. Bespalova, Full Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences by E. K. Khlestkina

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Contribution to the knowledge of the butterfly fauna (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea) of Central Slovenia by Luka Šturm, Andrej Peternel, Jure Zaman, Rudi Verovnik

“…To fill this knowledge gap, we selected all unpublished records of butterflies since 2014, in addition to the focused field surveys performed in the 2019–2022 period. …”
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Cytotoxicity and Antiangiogenic Activity of Turbinaria ornata Agardh and Padina australis Hauck Ethanolic Extracts by Jenefa L. Canoy, Jayzon G. Bitacura

“…Also, both T. ornata and P. australis ethanolic extracts exhibited antiangiogenic activity (100% vascular inhibition) as all the concentrations of both species caused severe vascular damage in all the duck CAM samples treated. …”
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Radiotherapy for Metastatic Merkel Cell Carcinoma: A Review of the Literature by Luluel Khan, Elizabeth A. Barnes

“…Significant limitations applied in all studies due to limited sample sizes and the retrospective nature of these studies. …”
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Production Cost Efficiency and Profitability of <i>Abakaliki Rice</i> in Ihialia Local Government Area of Anambra State, Nigeria by J Egbodion, J Ahmadu

“…They were all significant at 5% level of probability. The farmers had cost efficiency ranging from 1.001 - 1.122 with the average of 1.048. …”
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Working with Missing Data: Imputation of Nonresponse Items in Categorical Survey Data with a Non-Monotone Missing Pattern by Machelle D. Wilson, Kerstin Lueck

“…Findings indicate that, for all variables in the model, all of the single tests were consistent with the combined test.…”
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A representation theorem for operators on a space of interval functions by J. A. Chatfield

“…Suppose N is a Banach space of norm |•| and R is the set of real numbers. All integrals used are of the subdivision-refinement type. …”
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Alternate Sequential Suture Tightening: A Novel Technique for Uncontrolled Postpartum Hemorrhage by Sharda Brata Ghosh, Y. M. Mala

“…The most commonly described technique of modified B-Lynch suture may not be suitable for all the patients presenting with flabby, atonic uterus. …”
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Basotho learners’ challenges affect effective learning in a rural high school during the COVID-19 era by Mofokeng Mantwa

“…They experienced academic pressure, inadequate curriculum coverage, a knowledge gap in the next grade, and the learners transitioning to virtual learning. All these challenges affected learners' learning process due to transiting, which had to happen and did not favour all the learners’ family backgrounds.…”
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Cluster Approach to the Development of Youth Entrepreneurship in Classical University by V. Y. Stromov, P. V. Sysoyev, V. V. Zav’yalov

“…The development of competences in the field of entrepreneurship among students of all other areas of training and specialties can significantly expand the employment opportunities for students upon graduation from the university and diversify small and medium-sized businesses in the regions. …”
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An Integrated Risk Management Framework for Global Supply Chains by Mualla Gonca Avcı

“…The proposed framework covers all phases of risk management, namely, risk identification, risk miti-gation and control. …”
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Design Studies of Ultra-Wideband Microstrip Antennas with a Small Capacitive Feed by Veeresh G. Kasabegoudar, Dibyant S. Upadhyay, K. J. Vinoy

“…A design criterion for the air gap has been empirically obtained to enable maximum antenna bandwidth for all these operational frequencies.…”
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Effectiveness of the world network of biosphere reserves in maintaining forest ecosystem functions by Charlotte Gohr, Henrik von Wehrden, Sassan Saatchi, Nathalie Pettorelli, Pierre L. Ibisch

“…Our findings based on linear mixed effect models show that (i) only 18 of 119 biosphere reserves exhibited higher values for all forest ecosystem function proxies inside the reserves compared to outside, (ii) smaller reserves in fragmented forestscapes were more affected by hot day temperatures, and (iii) greater forest cover correlated with increased ecosystem functioning across all biomes. …”
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On the thickness and layup dependence on failure mechanisms during unfolding of curved woven composites by R.D.R. Sitohang, S. Benou, L.L. Warnet, R. Akkerman

“…Intra-yarn cracks were found at the compression side of all 4-ply samples. These cracks caused surface yarn buckling in the [(0,90)]2s and [(±45)]2s samples, but not in the [(90,0)]2s.…”
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Deprofessionalization of teachers’ occupation: sociological analysis by Jūratė Litvinaitė

“…Based on Abbott’s (1988) analysis of the development of professions, it identifies the processes taking place in all professions causing them to lose their privileged status in society. …”
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