Utilization of Black Cotton Soil Stabilized with Brick Dust-Lime for Pavement Road Construction: An Experimental and Numerical Approach by Damtew Melese, Belete Aymelo, Tewodros Weldesenbet, Alemineh Sorsa

“…The laboratory tests were done according to the American Association State of highway and Transport Official (AASHTO) and the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM). …”
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The communicative evaluation of Spanish in non-Spanish-speaking students of the Medical Sciences preparatory course by Adrian Abreus González, Guadalaupe García González, Nancy Castillo Mauri, Zaydelys Lucrecia Torres Calzadilla, Juan Manuel Cala Corrales

“…<br /><strong>Objective:</strong> to describe the linguistic performance of non-Spanish-speaking students in the preparatory course for Medical Sciences students at the Medicine Latin American School.<br /><strong>Methods:</strong> Qualitative research methods and techniques such as observation and discussion groups were used, through workshops developed with the group of Spanish teachers for foreigners at the Medicine Latin American School and the Cienfuegos University. …”
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Markers of Sleep-Disordered Breathing and Prediabetes in US Adults by Omayma Alshaarawy, Srinivas Teppala, Anoop Shankar

“…This association was stronger in women and was present mainly in non-Hispanic whites and Mexican Americans.…”
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Practical Concerns Regarding the 7th Edition AJCC Staging Guidelines by D. Buethe, C. Warner, J. Miedler, C. J. Cockerell

“…This paper is modified from a more comprehensive treatment of the staging of nonmelanoma skin cancer by Warner and Cockerell entitled “The new 7th edition American joint committee on cancer staging of cutaneous nonmelanoma skin cancer: a critical review,” in the American Journal of Clinical Dermatology (paper accepted, pending publication).…”
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The Kurdish Movement’s Factor in US Politics at the Peak of Iran and Afghanistan Crises, 1979 – January 1981 by V. T. Yungblud, A. I. Sennikov

“…At the close of 1979, the United States encountered a critical need to realign its Middle East strategy in the wake of the capture of the American Embassy in Tehran by supporters of Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah R. …”
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Evaluation of the genetic diversity and population structure of 5 pheasant breeds in Shanghai by Lina Qi, Xianyu Li, Jingle Jiang, Wengang Zhang, Xuelin Lu, Hongyan Yuan, Weijian Zhang

“…In this study, the whole-genome resequencing was used to analyze a total of 352 samples from 5 pheasant species (American pheasant, White pheasant, Green pheasant, Shenhong pheasant, and Fengxian blue pheasant). …”
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Carlos Castillo-Chavez: A century ahead by James Schatz

“…Within the mathematical sciences, students with advanced degrees from the Chicano, Latino, Native American, and African-American communities are underrepresented. …”
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Renal Dysfunction and Recovery following Initial Treatment of Newly Diagnosed Multiple Myeloma by Benjamin A. Derman, Jochen Reiser, Sanjib Basu, Agne Paner

“…Reversal of RI in newly diagnosed MM (NDMM) improves patient outcomes, but it is unknown if there is a disparity in renal recovery in NDMM between African Americans (AA) and non-African Americans. Methods. …”
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“I could not understand anything they said!”: Non-native English-speaking instructors, online learning, and student anxiety by McClure Katelyn Lee, Chen Hung-Tao Michael

“…The current study sought to determine if a lecture video with a non-native English-speaking instructor would cause more learner anxiety compared to a lecture video where the instructor had a standard American accent. The study also divided participants into high and low accented-speech experience groups. …”
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La traductologie canadienne : ancrage européen, tropisme anglo-américain by Annie Brisset

“…At the crossroads of European and American poststructuralist works, Canadian translation criticism emerged at the turn of the1990s. …”
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Aaron Temkin BECK: After Cricitical Thinking to A Creative Psychotherapy Theory by Mehmet DİNÇ

“…There is growing interest in the cognitive psychotherapy all around the world including Turkey. According to American Institute of Cognitive Therapy; cognitive psychotherapy is the fastest growing and most rigorously studied kind of talk therapy and it is practiced around the world, taking hold in places from the Middle East to Japan. …”
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Ahmed Glaucoma Valve Implantation for Refractory Glaucoma in a Tertiary Hospital in Brazil by Ricardo Yuji Abe, Carla Melo Tavares, Rui Barroso Schimiti, José Paulo Cabral Vasconcellos, Vital Paulino Costa

“…Multivariate analysis with generalized estimating equations revealed that African American ancestry and early hypertensive phase were risk factors for failure (P=0.001 and P=0.002, resp.). …”
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From Isolationism to Interventionism. Book Review of ‘The U.S.-German Relations, 1938–1941: Politics, Diplomacy, Priorities’ by O.V. Petrosyants by D. V. Rodin

“…The monograph is based on a wide range of primary sources including previously unpublished documents from the Russian and American archives. It reveals a complex and contradictory nature of the U.S. foreign policy at the turn of the 1930s and 1940s and identifies its key internal and external determinants. …”
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Evolving View of Coronary Artery Calcium: A Personalized Shared Decision-Making Tool in Primary Prevention by Omar Dzaye, Cara Reiter-Brennan, Albert D. Osei, Olusola A. Orimoloye, S. M. Iftekhar Uddin, Mohammadhassan Mirbolouk, Michael J. Blaha

“…The 2018 American Heart Association and American College of Cardiology (AHA/ACC) cholesterol management guideline considers current evidence on coronary artery calcium (CAC) testing while incorporating learnings from previous guidelines. …”
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Jean-Baptiste Gossé, L’Europe face aux déséquilibres mondiaux : une analyse historique, théorique et empirique by Jean-Baptiste Gossé

“…Firstly, we highlight a British cycle of global imbalances (1815-1944) during which Europeans benefited from saving transfers and an American cycle (since 1944) which Europeans did not really take part in. …”
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Subsequent Acute Ischemic Stroke in a Patient with Monocular Vision Loss Associated with Isolated Internal Carotid Artery Occlusion: A Case Report by Jessica Seetge, Balázs Cséke, Zsófia Nozomi Karádi, Eszter Szalai, Valéria Gaál, László Szapáry

“…<b>Background/Objectives:</b> Acute retinal ischemia, including central retinal artery occlusion (CRAO), is recognized as a stroke equivalent by the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association (AHA/ASA), necessitating immediate multidisciplinary evaluation and management. …”
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Revolutionizing Diabetic Retinopathy Screening: Integrating AI-Based Retinal Imaging in Primary Care by Dean Beals, Lesley Simon, Faith Rogers, Stan Pogroszewski

“…However, despite strong recommendations for screening at regular intervals by many professional societies, including the American Diabetes Association and the American Academy of Ophthalmology, screening rates remain suboptimal, with only 50–70% of patients with diabetes adhering to recommended annual eye exams. …”
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Outcome for Patients with Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Is Not Dependent on Race/Ethnicity by Quyen D. Chu, Amanda E. Henderson, Fred Ampil, Benjamin D. L. Li

“…The 5-year overall survival was 77% for African-American women versus 72% for Caucasian women (𝑃=0.95). …”
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Evaluation of Cross-Border Transport Connectivity and Analysis of Spatial Patterns in Latin America by Changqi Miao, Yinbao Zhang, Xinjia Zhang, Jianzhong Liu, Shike Zhang

“…Comprehensive connectivity evaluations are lacking and insufficient attention has been paid to Latin American connectivity, so it is of great practical importance to comprehensively and rationally evaluate Latin American connectivity. …”
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The Haunted House in Contemporary Filmic and Literary Gothic Narratives of Trauma by Monica Michlin

“…Haunted houses are still a central figure in contemporary American film and literature alike. Contemporary narratives of haunting are acutely aware that the haunted house is the psyche itself: the motif has become prevalent in postmodern narratives staging the “haunted self” of survivors of trauma. …”
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