Inflammation and Hypertension: Are There Regional Differences? by Patricio López-Jaramillo, Carlos Velandia-Carrillo, Julie Álvarez-Camacho, Daniel Dylan Cohen, Tatiana Sánchez-Solano, Gabriela Castillo-López

“…The concentration of proinflammatory cytokines is higher in the Latin American population than that reported in developed countries, suggesting a higher susceptibility to develop systemic low-degree inflammation at a given level of abdominal obesity. …”
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Transcultural transformation in cinema by Yu. V. Vorontsova

“…This concept was the basis for a study of the organisational practices of director Carlos Saura, who in his last phase of his career focused on making films that offer samples of music, dance and unusual storytelling (based on the principle of “photography”) associated to the Iberian and Latin American space. This creates a special definition of the musical and artistic genres, combining traces of a documentary style influencing the authenticity of the representations depicted, with a strong aesthetic impulse emphasising the organisational and artistic nature of these representations. …”
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Delayed Presentation of Suture Erosion following Burch Colposuspension by Robert Shapiro, Ali Hajiran, Stanley Zaslau

“…Synthetic mid-urethral mesh slings are the most common primary surgical treatment for stress urinary incontinence (SUI) and have been designated as the standard of care by the American Urogynecologic Society. In recent years, synthetic mesh has come under increased scrutiny by the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) due to concerns over patient safety. …”
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A Rare Case of Renal Gastrinoma by Devendar Katkoori, Srinivas Samavedi, Merce Jorda, Norman L . Block, Murugesan Manoharan

“…To the best of our knowledge, only one case of renal gastrinoma has been reported in the literature so far. An African American male was diagnosed with Zollinger Ellison syndrome at the age of 15 years, when he underwent surgery for peritonitis secondary to duodenal ulcer perforation. …”
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Economic Policy Uncertainty and Conditional Dependence between China and U.S. Stock Markets by Xinyu Wu, Meng Zhang, Mengqi Wu, Hao Cui

“…In the case of EPU, we consider the global EPU (GEPU), the American EPU (AEPU), and the China EPU (CEPU). The empirical analysis based on the Shanghai Stock Exchange Composite (SSEC) index in China and the S&P 500 index in the U.S. shows that the tail dependence between China and U.S. stock markets is symmetrical, and the t Copula outperforms alternative Copulas in terms of in-sample goodness of fit. …”
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The Nine-banded Armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus) by Joseph M. Schaefer, Mark E. Hostetler

“…The earliest fossil ancestor of our North American armadillo occurred about 60 million years ago; it was as large as a rhinoceros. …”
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The Impact of Fathers on Children’s Well-Being by Sarah M. Ellis, Yasmin S. Khan, Victor W. Harris, Ricki McWilliams, Diana Converse

“… American families have changed dramatically over the last century. …”
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John Dewey : la démocratie comme forme de vie et ses implications éducatives. by Michel Fabre

“…Wesbroock's hypothesis in John Dewey and American Democracy (1991), is that Dewey, upon leaving the University of Chicago, would have gradually turned away from pedagogical reflection on democracy in education in favor of a broader political reflection on the relationships between democracy and education. …”
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A Study of Non-Finite Forms of Anaphoric do in the Spoken BNC by Kimberly Oger

“…It is rarely used in other varieties of English, and American speakers, in particular, tend to consider its usage ungrammatical. …”
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Grotesque and Southern Gothic in Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian by Hüseyin Altındiş

“…This article offers a post-southernist reading that challenges and problematizes the impacts of haunted past of the American South with implications of violence embodied by Judge Holden in Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian, or The Evening Redness in the West. …”
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Questioning the Extreme Neurovirulence of Monkey B Virus (Macacine alphaherpesvirus 1) by R. Eberle, L. Jones-Engel

“…Zoonotic BV is extremely rare, having been diagnosed in only a handful of North American facilities with the last documented case occurring in 1998. …”
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Privatization, efficiency and integration: the truth about the Paraguay-Paraná Waterway in Argentina in the 1990’s by Gisela Ariana Rausch

“…The Paraguay-Paraná Waterway program (HPP in Spanish), was a large scale infrastructure project which intended to attract global investment to five South American countries and intensify the extraction of “natural resources”, for export to major world production centers. …”
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Citrus Mechanical Harvesting Systems--Continuous Canopy Shakers by Fritz M. Roka, Reza J. Ehsani, Stephen H. Futch, Barbara R. Hyman

“… Mechanization has been the hallmark of American agriculture. Nearly 100 percent of the agronomic crops grown in the United States are plowed, planted, and harvested with mechanical equipment. …”
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Mexican Redrump Tarantula, Brachypelma vagans (Ausserer) (Arachnida: Araneae: Theraphosidae) by Glavis B. Edwards, Kenneth L. Hibbard

“…The first author examined the specimen (which was only half grown) and tentatively identified it as Brachypelma vagans (Ausserer), a species known to be commonly imported by the pet trade under assorted common names (Central American, Guatemalan, Honduran, or Mexican black velvet tarantulas). …”
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Pelvic Tuberculosis Diagnosed during Operative Laparoscopy for Suspected Ovarian Cancer by Daniel Martingano, Kayla Cagle-Colon, Jeanine Chiaffarano, Alan Marcus, Diana Contreras

“…A 67-year-old para 2 African-American woman presented with abdominal pain and shortness of breath. …”
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Diagnosis of cylindrical projections and analysis of suitability for the territorial area of South America by Leonardo Carlos Barbosa, Luiz Filipe Campos do Canto, Willian dos Santos Ferreira, Max Vinicius Esteves Torres, Andresa Ayara Torres e Silva

“…The purpose of this study was to identify the cartographic projection that best represents South America terrestrial surface, focusing mainly on the area of the continent, determined by the South American Defense Council. Initially, the projections were selected based on a bibliographic review. …”
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Disaster Tips for People with Disabilities by Carolyn S. Wilken

“…Basic supply lists are available from a number of sources, but the list available at the American Red Cross web site serves as the model (http://www.redcross.org/disaster/safety/fds-all.pdf). …”
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Athletes’ Personal Branding on Social Media: A Case Study of Eileen Gu during the Beijing Olympics by Fang Xie, Dongye Lyu, Hao Zhang

“…This study examines how athletes use social media to shape and promote their personal brand, employing the case of Eileen Gu, a Chinese American skier who won three medals at the 2022 Beijing Olympics on behalf of China. …”
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Évolution de la pensée de James Corner et son rôle dans l’émergence du Landscape Urbanism by Imène Ouali-Bourahla

“…The contemporary American landscape architect James Corner has made a major contribution to the development and renewal of landscape architecture in the United States. …”
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Specialty Cut Flower Production Guides for Florida: Sunflower by Rick Schoellhorn, Everett Emino, Erin Alvarez

“… One of the four native American commercial crops of global importance, sunflowers are grown for oil seed, snack seed, birdseed, and garden flowers. …”
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