The Role of Helicobacter pylori Seropositivity in Insulin Sensitivity, Beta Cell Function, and Abnormal Glucose Tolerance by Lou Rose Malamug, Rudruidee Karnchanasorn, Raynald Samoa, Ken C. Chiu

“…Our aim was to determine the role of H. pylori infection in glucose metabolism in an American cohort. We examined data from 4,136 non-Hispanic white (NHW), non-Hispanic black (NHB), and Mexican Americans (MA) aged 18 and over from the NHANES 1999-2000 cohort. …”
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“They paved the Atlantic with books”: William and Jenny Bradley, literary agents and cultural passeurs across borders by Laurence Cossu-Beaumont

“…Ultimately, the article argues that the Bradleys’ lifework articulates cultures in ways that defy the simplified vision of a unidirectional flux in what has been suggested to be an “American Century” of influence and cultural domination. …”
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Evolutionary Insights into IL17A in Lagomorphs by Fabiana Neves, Joana Abrantes, Tereza Almeida, Paulo P. Costa, Pedro J. Esteves

“…Here, we studied IL17A from five lagomorphs, European rabbit, pygmy rabbit, brush rabbit, European brown hare, and American pika. We observed that this protein is highly conserved between these species, with a similarity of 97–99% in leporids and ~88% between leporids and American pika. …”
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The EU Public Diplomacy in the United States under the D. Trump Administration: Challenges, Key Projects and Outcomes by A. N. Marchukov

“…Trump administration forced the EU to focus on non-traditional channels of interacting with the American audience. In this context, the analysis of the EU’s attempts to adapt its public diplomacy programmes in the United States to the new realities is of particular interest. …”
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Russian System of Foreign Policy Expertise by A. A. Varfolomeev, O. P. Ivanov, I. V. Surma, Yu. A. Trefilova

“…This ensures a variability of approaches in foreign policy decision-making, which ultimately contributes to the promotion of balanced national interests. The North American approach differs in preferences, methodological trends, forms of theoretical ethnocentrism and various forms of social construction. …”
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“The state has a debt to us, it ended our dreams, our life projects”: Reconstructing life projects after torture by Anne Sønneland

“…Introduction: The concept of ‘life project’ is at the core of several decisions in the inter-American human rights system. The concept has also become part of the legal consciousness of torture survivors in Peru and is often referred to when they describe the impact of torture and imprisonment on their lives and on the lives of their children. …”
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Linking Sleep to Hypertension: Greater Risk for Blacks by A. Pandey, N. Williams, M. Donat, M. Ceide, P. Brimah, G. Ogedegbe, S. I. McFarlane, G. Jean-Louis

“…This study examined associations between sleep duration and hypertension, considering differential effects of race and ethnicity among black and white Americans. Methods. Data came from a cross-sectional household interview with 25,352 Americans (age range: 18–85 years). …”
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Change in the Prevalence of Testing for Latent Tuberculosis Infection in the United States: 1999–2012 by Nicholas T. Vozoris, Jane Batt

“…Compared to 1999-2000, significantly fewer individuals self-reported being tested for LTBI in 2011-2012 among Hispanic Americans (68.0% versus 60.7%, p<0.0001) and among those with comorbidities (74.7% versus 72.0%, p=0.02). …”
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Aaron Temkin Beck (born July 18, 1921-) Biography by K. Fatih Yavuz, M. Hakan Türkçapar

“…he American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2007. Beck is noted for his research in psychotherapy, psychopathology, suicide, and psychometrics, which led to his creation of cognitive therapy, for which he received the 2006 Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award, and the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), one of the most widely used instruments for measuring depression severity. …”
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'Jami Chadiba Nahin' (We Will Not Leave this Land): Materiality and Imagination in Indigenous Land Ethics by Ananya Mishra

“…I explore Adivasi land ethics, particularly from the contexts of Odisha and Jharkhand, placing them alongside North American First Nations writings. The paper traces a range of resonances to inform queries on land ethics; in this, it begins from particular sites to global spaces to articulate broader questions for Environmental Studies. …”
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“Explaining Is Where We All Get Into Trouble”: Anti-Philosophical Philosophies in Richard Ford’s Bascombe Novels by Nicholas Manning

“…This position may be compared to Nick Shay’s misological efforts, in Don DeLillo’s Underworld, to preserve a “wordless shock” before the world, or the renouncement of the search for meaning in Philip Roth’s American Pastoral (“He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach—that it makes no sense”). …”
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A Quantitative Trait Locus on Chromosome 5p Influences D-Dimer Levels in the San Antonio Family Heart Study by V. P. Diego, L. Almasy, D. L. Rainwater, M. C. Mahaney, A. G. Comuzzie, S. A. Cole, R. P. Tracy, M. P. Stern, J. W. MacCluer, J. Blangero

“…To better understand this risk factor, we performed a genome scan on 803 (301 males and 502 females) Mexican Americans in the San Antonio Family Heart Study (SAFHS). …”
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Antanas Milukas - a Lithuanian historian of the books by Bronius Raguotis

“…Žilinskas), he was a historian of American Lithuanians and their culture. The article deals with the importance of A. …”
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"[T]hings among the ruins" : les choses contre le roc dans The Song of the Lark et The Professor’s House de Willa Cather by Céline Manresa

“…Exploring the vast expanses of the American wilderness in her fiction, Willa Cather had to find a new mode of nature-writing. …”
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Behaviour and design of extruded high-strength aluminium alloy SHS beam-columns by Beibei Li, Pengcheng He, Jingfeng Wang, Yuanqing Wang

“…Both experimental and simulated datasets were employed to verify the precision of resistance forecasts for SHS beam-columns by design approaches outlined in European, Chinese and American standards. Findings indicated that both the European and Chinese standards tended to provide relatively conservative predictions for buckling resistances, while the American standard sometimes produced predictions leading to higher risk. …”

From the Road Movie to Wilderness Travel: The Quest for Adventure on the Road and the Myth of the Heroic Traveller by Pascale Argod

“…The reference points for two American travel diary films Into the Wild (2007), written and directed by Sean Penn, and Wild (2014, directed by Jean-Marc Vallée, are Jack Kerouac’s On the Road and the American pioneer front. …”
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VIRTUAL REALITY: U.S. INFORMATION SECURITY THREATS CONCEPT AND ITS INTERNATIONAL DIMENSION by E. V. Batueva

“…On the international level the main task for the American diplomacy is to guarantee the U.S. information dominance. …”
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Zinc Supplementation Prevented Type 2 Diabetes-Induced Liver Injury Mediated by the Nrf2-MT Antioxidative Pathway by Lechu Yu, Yuanyuan Liu, Yichun Jin, Tinghao Liu, Wenhan Wang, Xuemian Lu, Chi Zhang

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Preparation and In Vitro Evaluation of Alginate Microparticles Containing Amphotericin B for the Treatment of Candida Infections by Merlis P. Alvarez-Berrios, Lisa M. Aponte-Reyes, Lourdes Diaz-Figueroa, Juan Vivero-Escoto, Alexis Johnston, David Sanchez-Rodriguez

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Opioid-free versus opioid-based anesthesia in laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy: a single-center, randomized, controlled trial by Hanane Barakat, Linda Gholmieh, Jessy Abou Nader, Vanda Yazbeck Karam, Obey Albaini, Mohamad El Helou, Rony Al Nawwar

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