Retinal Artery Occlusion Associated with Prepapillary Arterial Loop: An Isolated Ocular Disease? Case Report and Literature Review by Mansour AM, Parodi MB, Casella AMB, Kheir WJ, Bashshur ZF

“…Ahmad M Mansour,1 Maurizio Battaglia Parodi,2 Antônio Marcelo Barbante Casella,3 Wajiha J Kheir,1 Ziad Fayez Bashshur1 1Department of Ophthalmology, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon; 2Department of Ophthalmology, University Vita-Salute Milan, Milan, Italy; 3Department of Ophthalmology, Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Paraná, BrazilCorrespondence: Ahmad M Mansour, Department of Ophthalmology, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon, Tel +961-337-7633, Email ammansourmd@gmail.comPurpose: When branch retinal artery occlusion is linked to prepapillary artery loop, is a systemic work-up necessary?…”
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Blood pressure categorization and subclinical left ventricular dysfunction in antihypertensive medication‐naive subjects by Koki Nakanishi, Masao Daimon, Yuriko Yoshida, Jumpei Ishiwata, Naoko Sawada, Megumi Hirokawa, Hidehiro Kaneko, Tomoko Nakao, Yoshiko Mizuno, Hiroyuki Morita, Marco R. Di Tullio, Shunichi Homma, Issei Komuro

“…This study investigated the relationship between BP categories given in the new 2017 American College of Cardiology (ACC)/American Heart Association (AHA) guideline and subclinical LV dysfunction in subjects free of cardiac disease. …”
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Justification for Interference? The Role of the Monroe Doctrine in the Stigmatization and Legitimation of Intervention in the US Foreign Policy in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries by I. A. Istomin

“…The paper examines the role of the doctrine in denouncing the interference of European powers in the domestic affairs of Latin American countries and justifying US actions in the region. …”
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Evaluating the Accuracy, Quality, and Readability of Online Breast Cancer Information by Elsie A. Valencia, BS, Chandler S. Cortina, MD, MS, FSSO, FACS, Adrienne N. Cobb, MD, MS, Lubna N. Chaudhary, MD, MS, Tracy Kelly, MD, Amanda L. Kong, MD, MS, FSSO, FACS

“…Mean readability was compared with the American Medical Association and National Institutes of Health 6th grade recommendation. …”
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Contribution of Arginine Catabolic Mobile Element and Copper and Mercury Resistance Element in Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus: A Vantage Point by Parya Shokrollahi, Alka Hasani, Mohammad Aghazadeh, Mohammad Yousef Memar, Akbar Hasani, Maryam Zaree, Mohammad Ahangarzadeh Rezaee, Javid Sadeghi

“…Our results shed light on the emergence of two independent clones possessing ACME (North American) and COMER (South American) elements which later disseminated to other regions. …”
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The Present and the Future of the Special Relationship: The Debate in the United States and the United Kingdom by A. O. Mamedova

“…The author aligns herself with those researchers who attribute the durability of Anglo-American cooperation to the high level of institutionalization in the defense, intelligence and nuclear spheres. …”
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Avatars and humans may not elicit the same accent-related biases in mock courtroom research by Lara A. Frumkin, Anna Stone, Mary Jane Spiller

“…The design was a 2 × 2 × 3, mode of presentation (human or avatar), accent (General American English or non-standard) and country of origin (Germany, Mexico or Lebanon). …”
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CRYβB2 alters cell adhesion to promote invasion in a triple-negative breast cancer cell line by Amr A. Waly, London Harper, Jodie M. Fleming, Lindsey M. Costantini

“…Abstract Objective African American women with breast cancer experience disproportionately poor survival outcomes, primarily due to the high prevalence of the deadliest subtype; triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC). …”
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HORROR FILMS IN UNCONSCIOUS ANTHROPOLOGICAL STRATEGIES OF BIOPOWER by S. A. Malenko, A. G. Nekita

“…And the emergence of the horror film genre in American and world cinema means abandoning the model of classical political power based on the sacralisation and rationalization of personal authority and physical coercion. …”
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Arthur Danto and Art world by I. N. Nekhaeva

“…The American philosopher Arthur Danto left a bright mark in the history of contemporary art as his analyst, critic and even artist. …”
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Alliance between the right to identity and the right to family life as a constitutional/conventional basis to rethink adoption in a contemporary key by Marisa Herrera

“…For the purposes of this interpellative task, we are encouraged to get into the ring and thus dispute this centrality in light of the development of the right to family life, taking arts as a starting point. 17 of the ACHR and 8 of the ECHR with the consequent dynamic interpretation carried out by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and the European Court of Human Rights. …”
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Tessellated Scale, Ecualymnatus tessellatus (Signoret) (Insecta: Homoptera: Coccidae) by G. W. Dekle

“…Borchsenius (1957) considers E. tessellatus (Sign.) probably South American in origin and disseminated by man to all parts of the world on its cultivated hosts. …”
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International cooperation in the sphere of peaceful uses of nuclear energy as a resolution of energy supply and nuclear proliferation problems by M. V. Zharkih

“…The comparative analysis of the two large-scale initiatives in the field ofmultilateral approaches to the nuclear fuel cycle – these are the Russian initiative on the development of the Global infrastructure of nuclear energy and the American Global nuclear energy partnership –made in the article discloses the main principles of work of the abovementioned mechanisms of interaction as well as their advantages and disadvantages. …”
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La « Montagne raciale » : et après ? Parcours identitaires dans deux romans ghanéens contemporains by Marie-Jeanne Gauffre

“…Afro-American poet Langston’s Hughes’s challenge to the "Negro artist" in 1926—to run away from "the race towards whiteness" and climb the "racial mountain" in order to "discover himself and his people" reverberated throughout the colonial and later postcolonial world. …”
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On Love and the Canon: H.D., Robert Duncan, and “Venice-Venus” by Lara Vetter

“…This paper will plumb representations of Venice and Venus in H.D.’s Trilogy and Duncan’s “The Venice Poem,” demonstrating how what H.D. termed “Venice-Venus” is central to Duncan’s notion of the modern American literary canon.…”
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Re-framing Early Intervention: from a child to a teacher centred perspective in education by Stine Vik, Rune Hausstätter

“…It is stated that EI is historically rooted in an Anglo-American tradition where the central goal was to reduce the societal consequences of children struggling in schools and life in general. …”
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Facts About Fluoride by Anne Kendall

“…Due to water fluoridation, almost one-half of American children have never had a cavity in their permanent teeth. …”
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Facts About Fluoride by Anne Kendall

“…Due to water fluoridation, almost one-half of American children have never had a cavity in their permanent teeth. …”
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Rhetorical questions or rhetorical uses of questions? by Špago Džemal

“…The analysis is based on extensive data (over 1200 examples of rhetorical questions taken from 30 plays by two British and two American writers), and the results are expected to give an insight into whether we can talk about rhetorical questions or just a rhetorical use of questions.…”
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Le Sud et la nation américaine au vingtième siècle : espace(s), identité(s), définitions by Anne Stefani

“…Focusing on the history of North/South relations since the nineteenth century, it shows how and why the South, which once stood as an exception in the nation, has come to symbolize the essence of American identity without losing its distinctiveness.…”
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