Effect of Wind Loading Pattern on Shear Lag Phenomenon in Framed-Tube Building by Ashish Singh, Piyush Gaikwad, Sasankasekhar Mandal

“…Six load cases are taken from American and Canadian codes to analyze the wind load effects on a 40-storeyed tubular building. …”
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Central Nervous System Involvement in Henoch-Schonlein Purpura in Children and Adolescents by Iliyana H. Pacheva, Ivan S. Ivanov, Krastina Stefanova, Elena Chepisheva, Lyubov Chochkova, Dafina Grozeva, Angelina Stoyanova, Stojan Milenkov, Penka Stefanova, Anna Petrova

“…Diagnosis was based on the American College of Rheumatology criteria. Out of 112 children with HSP 1 case (0.9%) had CNS involvement presenting as Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome (PRES), which may be a result of CNS vasculitis or arterial hypertension. …”
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Effects of orthography presentation and loanword frequency on L2 speech shadowing by Daiki Hashimoto, Keigo Tatsuya, Reiko Asada

“…The current study explores the Japanese English learners’ shadowing of the American English vowels /æ, ɑː/. Our specific interests are in the effects of orthography presentation and loanword frequency on the formant values of the two vowels Japanese English learners produce when shadowing model speech stimuli. …”
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Estrutura para Detecção do Risco de Fraude nas Demonstrações Contábeis: Mapeando o Ambiente Fraudulento by Fernando Dal-Ri Murcia, José Alonso Borba

“…Com base nessa análise, 6 trabalhos foram selecionados: American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (2002), Conselho Federal de Contabilidade (1999), Albrecht e Romney (1986), Eining, Jones e Loebbecke, (1997), Bell e Carcacello (2000) e Wells (2005). …”
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Clinical Trial of Human Fetal Brain-Derived Neural Stem/Progenitor Cell Transplantation in Patients with Traumatic Cervical Spinal Cord Injury by Ji Cheol Shin, Keung Nyun Kim, Jeehyun Yoo, Il-Sun Kim, Seokhwan Yun, Hyejin Lee, Kwangsoo Jung, Kyujin Hwang, Miri Kim, Il-Shin Lee, Jeong Eun Shin, Kook In Park

“…At 1 year after cell transplantation, there was no evidence of cord damage, syrinx or tumor formation, neurological deterioration, and exacerbating neuropathic pain or spasticity. The American Spinal Injury Association Impairment Scale (AIS) grade improved in 5 of 19 transplanted patients, 2 (A → C), 1 (A → B), and 2 (B → D), whereas only one patient in the control group showed improvement (A → B). …”
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Navigating the Aftermath: U.S. Policy in Afghanistan Following Troop Withdrawal by Z. Makoveeva

“…Russia, the country which is crucially interested in stable peace in the Middle East, and China, which is cooperating with Afghanistan in the economic sector, began negotiations with the Taliban government to stabilize the situation peacefully after the withdrawal of American troops.The article analyzes the changes in US policy in Afghanistan after the withdrawal of troops in August 2021. …”
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Corps (é)conduits : La construction d’un regard-machine dans Crash (1996) et Cosmopolis (2012) de David Cronenberg by Guilhem Billaudel

“…Crash et Cosmopolis shall not, however, be apprehended as exceptions, neither in relation to North-American film history nor to Cronenberg’s work itself. …”
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An Unusual Case of Anti-GBM Antibody Elevation in HIV-Associated Nephropathy by Vinay Minocha, Raafat Makary, Andreea Poenariu

“…We present a case of a 27-year-old African American female with a history of schizophrenia, cocaine abuse, and HIV infection who upon admission to our hospital was found to have severe acute kidney injury requiring hemodialysis. …”
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Neurofilament Light Chain Levels in Serum and Cerebrospinal Fluid Do Not Correlate with Survival Times in Patients with Prion Disease by Mika Shimamura, Kong Weijie, Toshiaki Nonaka, Koki Kosami, Ryusuke Ae, Koji Fujita, Taiki Matsubayashi, Tadashi Tsukamoto, Nobuo Sanjo, Katsuya Satoh

“…In this study, we employed a fully automated multiplex ELISA (Ella^®) to measure the concentrations of 14-3-3 protein, total tau protein, and neurofilament light chain (NF-L) in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and serum samples from patients with prion disease and analyzed their link to disease prognosis. However, in North American and European cases, we did not confirm a correlation between NF-L levels and survival time. …”
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Biodiversity of Lecanosticta pine-needle blight pathogens suggests a Mesoamerican Centre of origin by Ariska van der Nest, Michael J. Wingfield, Paulo C. Ortiz, Irene Barnes

“…The pathogen is thought to have a Central American centre of origin. This was based on the morphological variation between isolates believed to represent L. acicola from native Pinus spp. …”
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Photographie et écologie aux États-Unis: l’image à contre-emploi by François Brunet

“…A traditional and powerful connection links landscape art and environmental consciousness in North American art, classically embodied in artists such as Thomas Cole in painting and Ansel Adams in photography, and reinforced since the 1970s by various photographic projects animated with militant environmentalist purposes. …”
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„Religion and Ecology” – nowy paradygmat poznawczy by Ryszard F. Sadowski

“…In the late 1990s in some universities were started first lectures concerning religion and ecology. Now several American and European universities propose graduate, postgraduate and even doctoral programs on religion and ecology. …”
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Five crew, how many clergy : pourquoi certains noms collectifs peuvent-ils servir à nommer des membres ? by Laure Gardelle

“…The paper first describes the data from two corpora of American English. It then shows that these uses are not collective: what the noun denotes is members of a class (e.g. for crew, of a professional category), and at the same time, the fact that these members are typically construed as part of a group. …”
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Water Budget on Various Land Use Areas Using NARR Reanalysis Data in Florida by Chi-Han Cheng, Fidelia Nnadi

“…1992 to 2002 data from North American Regional Reanalysis (NARR) were used to investigate water budget on five land use areas: urban, forest, agriculture, lake, and wetland in the state of Florida, USA. …”
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NATIONAL ROMANTICISM IN WALT WHITMAN POEMS by Tomi Arianto

“…The role of the idea of romanticism has evolved in American territory because it shares the same pattern and state of affairs as revolutions against noble, social, and political norms and rationalization of nature. …”
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Genotypic Investigation of Clostridium difficile in Prince Edward Island by H Martin, LP Abbott, DE Low, B Willey, M Mulvey, J Scott Weese

“…The most common ribotype, ribotype W, was a North American pulsotype 2 (NAP2), toxinotype 0 strain, which represented 18% of isolates. …”
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Cryotherapy for Primary Treatment of Prostate Cancer: Intermediate Term Results of a Prospective Study from a Single Institution by S. Alvarez Rodríguez, F. Arias Fúnez, C. Bueno Bravo, R. Rodríguez-Patrón Rodríguez, E. Sanz Mayayo, V. Hevia Palacios, F. J. Burgos Revilla

“…Criteria of biochemical recurrence were unified according to the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology (ASTRO). …”
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Short and stout as she was : relations inter-propositionnelles avec la structure « adjectif + as + sujet + be » by Bénédicte Guillaume

“…. + as” and the main clause deserves special attention, as it can be interpreted either in terms of a cause and effect relationship or of concession (paradoxical relationship); more importantly, the study of a corpus of about 240 examples (mostly sampled from the “Corpus of Contemporary American English” – COCA) confirms the intuition according to which the paradoxical interpretation of the relationship between the two clauses is overwhelmingly more frequent than the causal one (by a proportion of about ten to one in my corpus). …”
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Peritoneal Equilibration Test in Costa Rica: Discrepancies from Other Populations by Marta Avellan-Boza, Fabio Hernández, Allan Ramos-Esquivel

“…Peritoneal permeability among Costa Rican CAPD patients is different from the original population described by Twardowski et al. and from other Latin-American population. This supports the theory that ethnical differences could be responsible for such variations and they validate our statement that each region should possess value references of their own.…”
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Anterior and posterior tibial anesthetic block in diabetic foot surgery. by José Julio Ojeda González, Evangelina Dávila Cabo, Remberto González Enoa, Obdulio Rodríguez García

“…The variables measured were: age, weight, height, surgical time, type of surgery, cardiac frequency medium arterial pressure, and classification of patients according to the American Association of Anesthesiology All the patients were applied a scale for assessing pain in three different moments.…”
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