Semantic transfers in the domain of FOODSTUFFS by Aleksandra Zofia Kowalczyk

“…For some language users it may sound somewhat unnatural, and hence unacceptable, to name a female person mutton with the intended metaphorical sense ‘a prostitute’, tomato applied in the transferred sense ‘attractive, but not a very wise female’ or peach, which denotes an ‘attractive female, especially in American English’. However, cases of foodsemy are nothing else, but instances of metaphorical conceptualizations, which are considered to be pervasive, unconscious and automatic. …”
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Screening A Christmas Carol (Dickens, 1843): Adaptation as Completion by Florent Christol

“…Indeed, the story of Scrooge’s life-changing encounter with the Christmas Spirits has been adapted, revised, condensed, retold, and modernized on screen more than any other work of English or American literature. Why is cinema so attracted to this particular piece? …”
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Global Scientific Overview of Dermatology Related to COVID-19: A Bibliometric Analysis by Miguel Cabanillas-Lazo, Carlos Quispe-Vicuña, Claudia Cruzalegui-Bazán, Juan C. Valencia-Martinez, Josmel Pacheco-Mendoza, Frank Mayta-Tovalino

“…Conclusion: Articles related to dermatology and COVID-19 are mostly published with American and Italian affiliations. In addition, there has been an increase in the distribution of articles published in the first quartile, which would reflect a growing interest in the community. …”
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The Cognitive Trap of Rousseau's "Organic Metaphor" and the Construction of U.S. Policy in Europe and Eurasia by K. E. Koktysh, V. M. Sergeev, A. A. Igityan

“…The article further examines how these strategies, which once targeted European empires, are now being employed against emerging integration unions in Eurasia, thereby highlighting the continuity of ideological tools in American foreign policy across different historical contexts.…”
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A Hypothesis Concerning a Potential Involvement of Ceramide in Apoptosis and Acantholysis Induced by Pemphigus Autoantibodies by Wendy B. Bollag

“…Autoimmune diseases affect more than 50 million Americans, resulting in significant healthcare costs. …”
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Reading the Sensual in James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room by Ronnel Keith Berry, Michael Thomas

“…In The Fire Next Time, African American writer James Baldwin describes the sensual as, “respect[ing] and rejoice[ing] in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread” (1998c 311). …”
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Active Surveillance for Localized Prostate Cancer – Current Practices and Recommendations by Jennifer N. Wu, Marc A. Dall'Era

“…Prostate cancer is now the most commonly diagnosed solid tumor in American men, due in part to widespread screening and aggressive diagnostic practices. …”
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Recognition and Treatment of BCG Failure in Bladder Cancer by Andrew J. Lightfoot, Henry M. Rosevear, Michael A. O'Donnell

“…Patients with high-grade Ta, T1, or carcinoma in situ non–muscle-invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) are at high risk for recurrence and, more importantly, progression. Thus, both the American Urological Association and European Association of Urology recommend initial intravesical treatment with bacillus Calmette-Guerin(BCG) followed by maintenance therapy for a minimum of 1 year. …”
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Liberation via Reliving the Suffering: A Study of August Wilson’s Monologues by Sumita, Mayur Chhikara

“…It explores how African American characters, through the act of monologue, relive their collective and individual suffering, thereby equipping themselves with greater readiness and resilience to envision and strive for a liberated future. …”
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Geographic Mapping of Crohn’s Disease and Its Relation to Affluence in Jiangsu Province, an Eastern Coastal Province of China by Dong Hu, Jianan Ren, Gefei Wang, Guosheng Gu, Song Liu, Xiuwen Wu, Jun Chen, Huajian Ren, Zhiwu Hong, Jieshou Li

“…Geographical variation in the incidence of Crohn’s disease (CD) has been reported in Europe and North American. However, there are no comparable data in mainland China. …”
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 Jack Kerouac’s Ecopoetics in The Dharma Bums and Desolation Angels : Domesticity, Wilderness and Masculine Fantasies of Animality by Pierre-Antoine Pellerin

“…Throughout his autobiographical cycle of fourteen novels, Jack Kerouac tried to present his narrator and his protagonists as archetypes of American masculinity who fought against their perceived domestication in a society which they characterized as undergoing feminization. …”
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Systematic Review of Focal Prostate Brachytherapy and the Future Implementation of Image-Guided Prostate HDR Brachytherapy Using MR-Ultrasound Fusion by M. Sean Peach, Daniel M. Trifiletti, Bruce Libby

“…Prostate cancer is the most common malignancy found in North American and European men and the second most common cause of cancer related death. …”
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Energy Budget on Various Land Use Areas Using Reanalysis Data in Florida by Chi-Han Cheng, Fidelia Nnadi, Yuei-An Liou

“…Therefore, in this study, North American regional reanalysis (NARR) data set from 1992 to 2002 were employed to investigate the energy budget on various land uses (lake, wetland, agriculture, forest, and urban) at a regional scale in Florida. …”
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Influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on the prevalence of depression in U.S. adults: evidence from NHANES by Yun Jiang, Wusheng Deng, Mei Zhao

“…Subgroups such as females, Mexican Americans, and young adults experienced particularly pronounced increases. …”
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Environmental scanning: how developed is information acquisition in Western European companies? by David Benczur

“…Important empirical essays in academic literature are overviewed, including extensive American and also French surveys. These works did not report any major development of Environmental Scanning Systems throughout the years or significant changes due to the Internet. …”
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Pengaruh Terapi Pijat Terhadap Kenaikan Berat Badan Bayi Prematur di RSUP. Dr. M. Djamil Padang by Yori Rahmi, Wedya Wahyu, Eliza Anas

“…One of the non-invasive actions that encourage weight gain is massage therapy. According to the American Association of Massage Therapy (AMTA), massage is defined as the manipulation of soft tissue using hands or body to hold, move, or apply stress manually. …”
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Is there a “Meditative-polemic-May”? by Maruszka Eve-Marie Meinard

“…The examples extracted from Google reveal that this specific use of MAY and MIGHT is mostly found in American English, that it is mostly used in journals, and that the subclause refers to past events that could logically be expected. …”
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AMÉRICA LATINA Y EL GIRO BOTÁNICO EN LOS ESTUDIOS CULTURALES1 by Alejandro Ponce de León

“…Este artículo traza los contornos del reciente giro hacia la vida vegetal dentro de los estudios culturales latinoamericanos, a partir de una lectura de tres libros: el volumen editado por Monica Gagliano, John Ryan y Patrıcia Vieira The Language of Plants: Science, Philosophy, Literature; el libro de Theresa Miller Plant Kin: A Multispecies Ethnography in Indigenous Brazil; y The Poetics of Plants in Spanish American Literature de Lesley Wylie. El escrito presenta algunas de las contribuciones y posibilidades que hacen los trabajos dentro del giro botánico a las conversaciones de los estudios culturales, y luego señala cómo la especificidad latinoamericana ofrece y demanda novedosas estrategias metodológicas y conceptuales con las cuales abordar las enredadas relaciones entre los humanos y las plantas en el contexto regional. …”
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The Historical Sociology of Rural-Urban Development by James Scott: Against Simplifications by A. M. Nikulin

“…This article is a critical analysis of the historical and sociological works of the American political anthropologist J. S. Scott (1936-2024). …”
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Nosocomial Isolates and Their Drug Resistant Pattern in ICU Patients at National Institute of Neurological and Allied Sciences, Nepal by Pashupati Bhandari, Ganesh Thapa, Bharat Mani Pokhrel, Dwij Raj Bhatta, Upendra Devkota

“…A standard methodology was used to achieve these objectives as per recommendation of American Society for Microbiology. ESBL was detected by combined disc assay using cefotaxime and cefotaxime clavulanic acid, ABL by inhibitor based method using cefoxitin and phenylboronic acid, and MBL by imipenem-EDTA combined disk method. …”
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