Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis in Setting of Inhaled Toxin Exposure and Chronic Substance Abuse by Meirui Li, Salem Alowami, Miranda Schell, Clive Davis, Asghar Naqvi

“…We report a case of secondary PAP in a 47-year-old man, whose risk factors include occupational exposure to inhaled toxins, especially aluminum dust, the use of anabolic steroids, and alcohol abuse, which in mice leads to alveolar macrophage dysfunction through a zinc-dependent mechanism that inhibits granulocyte macrophage-colony stimulating factor (GM-CSF) receptor signalling. …”
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Du concept psychiatrique à la métaphore théâtrale : le miroir de l’Autre dans les dramaturgies postcoloniales de Caryl Churchill et de Nick Gill by Liliane Campos

“…Both playwrights draw their ideas from a psycho-analytical approach to post-colonial identities, basing their assessment of their characters’ conflicting identities on a symptomatic approach to the fear of the Other. …”
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David couldn't bring down Goliath: museum specimen reveals a failed predation attempt by fire ants (Solenopsis Westwood, 1840) upon a large hawk moth Eumorpha phorbas (Cramer,... by Adrián Sánchez Albert, Alain Dejean, Mercedes París

“…As fire ants have very large colonies showing collective hunting behaviour, this worker was likely trapped while taking part in a group attack with nestmates attempting to subdue this comparatively large moth. …”
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THE HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT AND CURRENT TRENDS OF POLITICAL SCIENCE AS A FIELD OF STUDY IN NIGERIA by Toye Manuwa

“…It examines how political science emerged and evolved as a distinct academic discipline in Nigeria after its independence from British colonial rule. It explores the main subfields, approaches, theories, and methods of political science in Nigeria, such as comparative politics, political economy, political sociology, political behavior, public administration, international relations, and political philosophy. …”
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Identidades, estamentos y prácticas escriturarias: estudio de un caso de fines del siglo XVIII by Héctor Manuel Cuevas Arenas

“…A través de un estudio de caso sobre la falsificación de una real cédula para eximirtributos a unos indígenas del pueblo de Tuluá, se indaga por la representación y elreconocimiento de las distintas partes implicadas, así como por el uso de las categoríassociales del periodo colonial. Todo esto en el marco de unas relaciones clientelaresy escriturarias que abren márgenes de acción para sectores subalternos dentro delas luchas por las clasificaciones, que incluye, en este asunto, la negociación conpoderosos, lo fraudulento y la revisión de los accionares de los individuos en el marcode valoraciones morales y sociales.…”
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Dynamic Decoupling Control Optimization for a Small-Scale Unmanned Helicopter by Rui Ma, Li Ding, Hongtao Wu

“…In comparison with several different iterative search algorithms, an artificial bee colony (ABC) algorithm is selected to obtain the optimal control parameters. …”
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Asian Giant Hornet Vespa mandarinia Smith (1852) (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Vespidae) by Caitlin Gill, Cameron Jack, Andrea Lucky

“…Not only is the wasp occasionally life-threatening to humans, it can decimate a number of insect colonies, most notably wild and farmed honey bees. …”
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Des paysages agroforestiers à l’interface entre ressource, production et conservation (Uttarakhand, Inde) by Sylvie Guillerme

“…In such a context, and faced with an environmental and protectionist forestry policy inherited from the British colonial period, village communities are blamed for the degradation of the forests in spite of their ancestral use of these forests in association with agroforestry farming practices in the cultivated areas. …”
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Defensive Nymphs of the Woolly Aphid Thoracaphis kashifolia (Hemiptera) on the Oak Quercus glauca by Utako Kurosu, Shigeyuki Aoki, Keigo Uematsu, Mayako Kutsukake, Takema Fukatsu

“…Aphid nymphs with enlarged fore- and mid-legs were found from woolly colonies of Thoracaphis kashifolia (Hormaphidinae, Nipponaphidini) on leaves of the evergreen Quercus glauca in Japan. …”
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Jean-Jacques et Hippolyte, deux commandeurs meneurs de grève, ou comment sonner l’alarme à la sucrerie des Manquets (Saint-Domingue, 1782) by Jean-Louis Donnadieu

“…Studying family papers and plantation estates may be useful to discover new items about the former pro-slavery colonial society in the Americas. For instance, in 1782 on the Manquets sugar estate (in l’Acul, northern Saint-Domingue), a slaves’ strike led by two drivers, Jean-Jacques and Hippolyte, occured. …”
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Un cas exemplaire de prophylaxie de la délinquance juvénile : le traitement médico-pédagogique de l’enfant subnormal placé à l’École de préservation Théophile Roussel de Montesson... by Dominique Messineo

“…Succeeding to an agricultural penal colony, the new preservation house-Théophile Roussel presents itself as a model institution highlighting implements such as a mental orthopedic program (strict hygiene, ambitious professional education program, careful selection of residents judged on the basis of their psychological characteristics as being the most reformable) in order to prevent the dangers of juvenile crime. …”
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A Presence without a Narrative: The Greeks in Egypt, 1961-1976 by Eftychia Mylona

“…What’s more this social mobility calls into question the construction of a homogeneous social and economic post-colonial Egyptian state.…”
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Pivotal Roles of GM-CSF in Autoimmunity and Inflammation by Aoi Shiomi, Takashi Usui

“…Granulocyte macrophage-colony stimulating factor (GM-CSF) is a hematopoietic growth factor, which stimulates the proliferation of granulocytes and macrophages from bone marrow precursor cells. …”
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Dynamic adaptive discrete particle swarm optimization algorithm based method on low-power mapping in network-on-chip by Qin-rang LIU, Qi-hua DAI, Jian-liang SHEN, Bo ZHAO

“…Experimental results show that comparing with the random mapping, genetic algorithm (GA), PSOA and dynamic ant colony algorithm (DACA), DADPSOA can save the execution time, reduce the communication power consumption of mapping results. …”
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Comer y vivir bien en el mundo indígena misak: “sentipensar el cuidado de la vida” by James Montano Morales

“…It also examines the impact of modern pressures, particularly the coloniality of consumption, which continuously disrupts various aspects of Indigenous life. …”
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Retrospective Thinking: Decolonizing Minerals at National Museums Scotland  by Georgina Grant, Ellie Swinbank

“…It examines what these objects and their provenance reveal about the Museum’s collecting methods and how they reflect and perpetuate colonial attitudes in Britain in the nineteenth century. …”
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DESPLAZAMIENTOS EN TORNO A LA CORPORALIDAD. ENTRE LA ÉTICA DE LA LIBERACIÓN Y LA PERSPECTIVA DESCOLONIAL by BÁRBARA AGUER

“…Ambas se inscriben en un campo filosófico comprendido como conocimiento situado, lo que significa que dichas perspectivas, al visibilizar su propio lugar de enunciación, realizan una sistematización crítica-racional, fundada en la experiencia concreta, histórica y sensible de la herida colonial. En el marco que configura este punto de partida reflexivo, el lugar asignado a la corporalidad constituirá el nodo de articulación fundamental para establecer tanto los desarrollos críticos como los prospectivos de ambas teorías.…”
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The Coral Reefs Optimization Algorithm: A Novel Metaheuristic for Efficiently Solving Optimization Problems by S. Salcedo-Sanz, J. Del Ser, I. Landa-Torres, S. Gil-López, J. A. Portilla-Figueras

“…The CRO algorithm artificially simulates a coral reef, where different corals (namely, solutions to the optimization problem considered) grow and reproduce in coral colonies, fighting by choking out other corals for space in the reef. …”
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An ongoing search of constant and sustainable Lutheran Theological Education in South Africa in the 21st century. by K. Mashabela, M. Madise

“… This article explores the recent history of Lutheran theological education in South Africa, which is still confronted by the legacy of colonial and apartheid education systems. The latter need to be confronted with liberation and decolonisation systems that reclaim African indigenous identities. …”
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Des “hermaphrodites de nationalité” ? Colonisation maritime en Algérie et naturalisation des marins-pêcheurs italiens de Bône (Annaba) des années 1860 à 1914 by Hugo Vermeren

“…The history of the maritime colonization of Algeria in the 19th century underlines the constant dialectic that the French colonial authorities were facing when dealing with the de facto Italian monopoly on fishing and sailing along the North African shores. …”
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