New humanism or posthumanism? Ethical and legal aspects of the legalisation of euthanasia in the world in the years 2000-2015 by Andrzej Kobyliński

“…All the indications are that the process of the legalisation of euthanasia will develop in the coming decades. Today we need a new paradigm of bioethics, built on the basis of a new humanism, which will allow us to adequately analyse such phenomena as death, suffering and dying. …”
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The Possible Role of Transplacentally-Acquired Antibodies to Infectious Agents, With Molecular Mimicry to Nervous System Sialic Acid Epitopes, as Causes of Neuromental Disorders: P... by André J. Nahmias, Susanne Beckman Nahmias, Dan Danielsson

“…Proof of causality of most neuromental disorders (NMD's) is largely unavailable. Lessons from four-decade investigations of the epidemiology, immunology, pathogenesis, prevention and therapy of perinatal infectious agents, which invade directly the nervous system, have led us to propose a new indirect effect hypothesis: maternal transplacentally-acquired antibodies, to agents with epitope molecular mimicry with the developing nervous system, can cross the fetus/infant's blood–nervous system barriers to cause NMD's, clinically manifest years later.…”
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Synthesis of trehalose-based chemical tools for the study of the mycobacterial membrane by Lesur, Emilie, Rollando, Paulin, Guianvarc’h, Dominique, Bourdreux, Yann

“…Corynebacteriales including the causative agent of many diseases such as tuberculosis are known to be extremely resistant against external stress as well as to antibiotic treatments which is believed to be related to the singular architecture of their mycomembrane. Over the last decades, both bioorthogonal chemical reporters and fluorescent probes for the metabolic labeling of bacterial cell glycans were developed including several trehalose-based probes to study the dynamics of mycomembrane components. …”
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Wczesna edukacja i opieka nad dzieckiem jako wyzwanie dla polityki społecznej z perspektywy Unii Europejskiej by Elżbieta Subocz

“…For two decades we have been observing a lot of interest in the issues of early childhood education and child care in the European Union. …”
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Recurrence Relations and Hilbert Series of the Monoid Associated with Star Topology by Jiang-Hua Tang, Zaffar Iqbal, Abdul Rauf Nizami, Mobeen Munir, Faiza Azam, Jia-Bao Liu

“…The interconnection between these two objects has been an active area of research since last decade. Star network is one of the most common in computer network topologies. …”
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Field Corn Production Guide by David Wright, Jim Marois, Jim Rich, Richard Sprenkel

“…Production has declined over the past two decades because of limited opportunities for profit, increased financial risks with less insurance coverage as compared to cotton and peanut, reduction in infrastructure for handling, and higher production costs. …”
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Need for a Competency-based Approach to Training in Endoscopic Surgery by Abraham Dimas Reyes Pérez, María del Carmen Rodríguez Fernández, Javier Cruz Rodríguez

“…Despite the development achieved in the country in the field of health and medical education, the surgical residency program has remained static for nearly three decades. In particular, surgical residents must acquire skills for endoscopic surgery during their specialized training. …”
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Intercultural Communication in the Eastern Cape by Willie Kruger

“… Language variety is a phenomenon which has enjoyed a great deal of at tention in the Republic of South Afri ca during the past few decades. The alm of this paper is to concentrate more on possible similari tles/universalla as strategy for Improved Black-White communication within the heterogeneous Eastern Cape society of our country. …”
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Behçet Disease-Like Symptoms with a Novel COPA Mutation by E. Anderson, J. Hatch, J. Cardinal, D. Langguth, D. Coman

“…The clinical phenotype of COPA syndrome primarily comprised pulmonary disease, arthritis, and renal disease secondary to immune dysregulation, with onset of symptoms commonly in the first decade of life. Herein, we describe a family with an attenuated Behçet-like phenotype of COPA syndrome, further expanding the phenotypic understanding of this syndrome.…”
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DİNLERİN ŞEHİRLEŞME KABİLİYETİ by Şaban Düzgün

“…Urbanization is among by far the most serious questions of last decades related to religion. And it goes without saying that religion must with its severity face this issue and must inquire whether it has a capability of transforming the modern society with a due religious language. …”
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INNOVATIVE IDEA OR UTOPIA: THE ECONOMIC VIEWS OF RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONARY DEMOCRATS by M. Rybina

“…In many ways, political and socio-economic life of the young socialist State demonstrated the embodiment of ideas, which for decades have been formed under the socialist utopian thought domestic revolutionary democrats.…”
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Box-shaped cloak clasps in the Late Avar Period by Ádám Máté Horváth, Bence Gulyás

“…Based on the related find assemblages, it was in fashion from the second half of the 8th century and was still in use in the first decades of the 9th century. …”
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Anti-pneumococcal vaccination in Cuba. Challenges by Dunia María Chávez Amaro, María Felicia Casanova González, Jorge Luis Capote Padrón

“…In Cuba, in spite of the efforts, the anti-pneumococcal vaccine has not been introduced and for more of a decade time scientists have been working in a heptavalent conjugated vaccine, currently in an advanced clinical evaluation. …”
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Vocal flexibility in nonhuman primates and the origins of human language by Hélène Bouchet, Hiroki Koda, Nobuo Masataka, Alban Lemasson

“…Nobuo Masataka (University of Kyoto, Japan), Alban Lemasson (University of Rennes 1, France) and their colleagues have been collaborating for over a decade on projects investigating nonhuman primates' vocal behaviour and tackling the issue of the evolutionary origins of human language. …”
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Field Corn Production Guide by David Wright, Jim Marois, Jim Rich, Richard Sprenkel

“…Production has declined over the past two decades because of limited opportunities for profit, increased financial risks with less insurance coverage as compared to cotton and peanut, reduction in infrastructure for handling, and higher production costs. …”
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The Centenary of the Birth of Professor Georgy I. Dorofeev by A. V. Gordienko

“…The article is devoted to one of the leaders of the Leningrad school of gastroenterologists of the second half of the last century. For almost two decades, he headed the oldest department of the Military Medical Academy — the Department of Hospital Therapy, turning it into one of the famous gastroenterological centers of the country of that period. …”
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Imperialismo, fascismo y revolución. El discurso sobre la guerra en la prensa anarquista gallega by Óscar Freán Hernández

“…In the nineteen thirties, the social tensions and the political violence were increasing in the context of the deep economic crisis of this decade. The class struggle, the imperialistic expansion, the rise of totalitarian regimes, the civil wars or the military rearmament were expressions of this drift that will lead in a few years to the Second World War. …”
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Ethics and perioperatory pain in pediatric age. by Juana María Herrera Pirez, Bernardo Oliver Bernal, Hipólito Herrera Pirez, Juana María Morejón Fernández, Luis Enríquez Santana Sánchez, Magda Domínguez Cantero

“…This research paper analyses the causes and consequences of the inadequate treatment of acute peri operative pain in the paediatric patient because of both, its poor management in our environment and the attention deserved by the scientific community in the last decades. Emphasis is given to the distressing component of pain in infancy, mainly in the most vulnerable children like pre-term, newborn and critically ill ones. …”
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Highlights for the Management of a Child with Hypertension by Mouin G. Seikaly

“…Over the past several decades, childhood hypertension has undergone a considerable conceptual change, as hypertension is a predictor of future development of cardiovascular disease in adults. …”
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Les instruments conceptuels de la patrimonialisation du paysage et de la nature dans l’Europe de la Belle Époque by Luigi Piccioni

“…The “heritagisation” of the landscape dates back to the last decades of the 19th century. The phenomenon may be studied either as a part of the strong nationalist movement of the period or as a part of the emergence of environmentalism. …”
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