Surgical Periodontal Management of Peripheral Ossifying Fibroma: A Series of Three Cases by Karo Parsegian, Roger M. Arce, Nikola Angelov

“…The second case represented a rare case of POF appearing on the palatal aspect of the anterior maxilla of an African American male. The third case represented POF that developed on the mandible, and contrary to the first two cases, it was excised using a diode laser and not a scalpel blade. …”
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Screening for Ischemic Heart Disease with Cardiac CT: Current Recommendations by Matthew J. Budoff

“…It has been incorporated into both the European and American guidelines for risk assessment. CAC is the most robust test today to reclassify individuals based on traditional risk factor assessment and provides the opportunity to better strategize the treatments for these subjects (converting patients from intermediate to high or low risk). …”
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The Same Conversational Page? by Adrienne Jankens, Nicole Guinot Varty, Anna Lindner, Linda Jimenez, Anita Mixon, Carly Braxton, K.M. Begian-Lewis

“…Importantly, while most survey participants agreed that “bringing linguistic diversity into the classroom enhances their writing,” most focus group participants generally implied a much different experience, describing writing “formally”  or “in Standard American English,” for classes, with no suggestion that their writing was positively affected by linguistic diversity. …”
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Usefulness of Therapeutic Laser for Pain Management in Orthodontic Treatment by Karen Daniela Villavicencio Córdova, Katherim Anahí Cortez Campaña, Pamela Jeanneth Salinas Villacis

“…A search for scientific articles that mainly covered this topic was carried out in the databases: Google Scholar, Elsevier and the digital journals, American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics, Tamé, the Angle Orthodontics in the period of January 2018 to March 2022. 1410 articles were found, of which 34 studies were chosen that included the use of laser in orthodontic treatments. …”
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Rabbits, Rabbits, Rabbits: Show Rabbit Record Book by Joy C. Jordan, Loretta Rodriguez, Jessica Kochert, Bill Heltemes, Chris Decubellis, Renee Gore

“… The 4-H Show Rabbit project focuses on all the aspects of showing rabbits according to the American Rabbit Breeders Association (ARBA) show guidelines, showmanship skills, and breed Standards of Perfection. …”
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Challenge of Retinoblastoma in Mexico in 2020: Perspectives and Solutions by Lucas A. Garza-Garza, Raúl E. Ruiz-Lozano, Genaro Rebolledo-Méndez, Ismael Ibarra-Nava, Héctor J. Morales-Garza, David Ancona-Lezama

“…Unfortunately, as in other Latin American LICs, retinoblastoma outcomes in Mexico are worrisome. …”
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When Ancient Lithuanian State Became an Empire and Ceased to Be It? An Answer to Lithuanian Question Using an Estonian Method by Zenonas Norkus

“… The article introduces a Lithuanian reader into the ideas of distinguished American-Estonian political scientist Rein Taagepera on comparative cliometrics of empires and uses them to detect main thresholds in the imperial history of ancient Lithuania. …”
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The problem of social inequality in the USA by N. E. Petrovskaya

“…The article explores the problem of social inequality in modern American society. The author draws attention to various aspects of this phenomenon, including economic inequality in terms of income, wealth, access to education and health care, age, racial-ethnic and gender aspects. …”
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THE ABUSE OF DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITIES AMONG STATES: ISSUES AND CHALLENGES by UDEOJI EBELE ANGELA, OCHOGA EDWIN OCHOGA

“…Some of such cases include the killing of an American police, Yvonne Fletcher, Kidnapping of Umaru Dikko and other criminal and civil offenses. …”
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Electrocardiographic changes induced by temperature variations in newly hatched Aperema (Rhinoclemmys punctularia, Daudin, 1801) by Deise de Lima Cardoso, Deise de Lima Cardoso, Brenda Stefany dos Santos Braga, Brenda Stefany dos Santos Braga, Daniella Bastos de Araújo, Clarissa Araújo da Paz, Luciana Eiró-Quirino, Thaysa de Sousa Reis, Luana Vasconcelos de Souza, Rayllan da Cunha Ferreira, Gabriela Brito Barbosa, Raíssa Vieira de Souza, Yris da Silva Deiga, Maria Klara Otake Hamoy, Diva Anelie de Araújo Guimarães, Diva Anelie de Araújo Guimarães, Moisés Hamoy

“…IntroductionAperema (Rhinoclemmys punctularia) is a South American semi-aquatic freshwater turtle characterized by a highly curved, dark brown to black carapace and is distributed across Central and South America. …”
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Translating French Drama for English Audiences: Adolphe Belot’s L’Article 47 by Barbara T. Cooper

“…So reads the opening sentence of the anonymous review published in The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art (Mar 3, 1877). Invoked by an American woman of colour abandoned by the French lover who had promised to marry her upon their arrival in France, the French law mentioned in the play’s original title serves to complicate a story of passions and punishment that takes place over a period of years. …”
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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

“…We report the results of imputing the missing data from a case study, using educational, sociopsychological, and socioeconomic data from the National Latino and Asian American Study (NLAAS). We report the results of multiply imputed data on a substantive logistic regression analysis predicting socioeconomic success from several educational, sociopsychological, and familial variables. …”
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Settlement deservingness perceptions of climate change, economic, and political migrant groups across partisan lines by Defne Aksit, Tijs Laenen

“…Building on the CARIN deservingness theory, this article sheds new light on this so-called “hidden immigration consensus” by investigating Americans’ original perceptions of different migrant groups rather than following the standard practice of assessing how they react to a set of pre-defined migrant characteristics in a conjoint experiment. …”
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Lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta Douglas ex Loudon) invasion in subarctic Iceland: evidence from a long-term study by Pawel Wasowicz, Guðrún Óskarsdóttir, Þóra Ellen Þórhallsdóttir

“…The North American lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta) has been widely introduced globally and is now considered invasive in several countries. …”
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Sociodemographic Variation of Caries Risk Factors in Toddlers and Caregivers by G. J. Eckert, R. Jackson, M. Fontana

“…Caregivers self-identified as Non-Hispanic African-American (44%), Non-Hispanic White (36%), Hispanic (19%), and other” (1%). …”
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Simultaneous Detection and Differentiation of Highly Virulent and Classical Chinese-Type Isolation of PRRSV by Real-Time RT-PCR by Shuqi Xiao, Yaosheng Chen, Liangliang Wang, Jintao Gao, Delin Mo, Zuyong He, Xiaohong Liu

“…And now the HP-PRRS virus (HP-PRRSV) and classical North American type PRRSV strains have coexisted in China. …”
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Autonomia delle persone in movimento e antropologia compromessa: riflessioni sulle reciproche influenze nella gestione dell’immigrazione in Perù by Irene Palla

“…Entering into the Latin American debate and placing it in dialogue with the concept of 'other meaning' by Ferdinando Fava, the text questions the contribution of compromised anthropology to the critical reflection of studies on the autonomy of migrations, highlighting the peculiarities of Peru. …”
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Three Waves of Populism in Latin America by O. V. Varentsova

“…This article presents common characteristics of Latin American populist regimes that emerged in different historical periods which help identify the origins as well as distinctive features of Venezuelan and Bolivian political regimes. …”
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Caixas de memórias: a relação entre objetos, fotografias, memória e identidade ilustradas em cenas da ficção by Olivia Silva Nery, Frantieska Huzsar Schneid, Maria Letícia Mazzucchi Ferreira, Francisca Ferreira Michelon

“…Then analyze the episode “Male in the Mail” from the American TV series Bones (2012). In this episode, the main character Booth receives a box that belonged to his father, who has recently passed away. …”
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Species Identification and Effects of Aromatic Hydrocarbons on the Fluorescence Spectra of Different Oil Samples in Seawater by Yongchao Hou, Ying Li, Guannan Li, Mingfei Xu, Yunpeng Jia

“…Qualitative and quantitative difference analysis of the experimental and composite fluorescence spectra was performed based on the redshift of the main peak position, the fluorescence intensity distance, and the generalized included angle cosine, while correlation analysis was used to establish the relationship between the different fluorescence spectral parameters and the American Petroleum Institute gravity and viscosity of the oil species. …”
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