A Case of a Nonpetrous Cholesterol Granuloma Presenting as a Temporal Mass by Nathaniel Reeve, Jacob Kahane, Matthew Ng

“…A case of a skull base cholesterol granuloma (CG) of the squamosal temporal bone. This is the first ever reported case of CG in a well-pneumatized squamous temporal bone. …”
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Numerical and Experimental Study on the Multiobjective Optimization of a Two-Disk Flexible Rotor System by Zheng Longxi, Jia Shengxi, Huang Jingjing

“…With the ever-increasing requirement for the thrust to weight ratio, the rotational speed of modern aeroengine is increasingly improved; thus most of the aeroengine rotor is flexible. …”
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Stigmasterol Modulates Allergic Airway Inflammation in Guinea Pig Model of Ovalbumin-Induced Asthma by Aaron Opoku Antwi, David Darko Obiri, Newman Osafo

“…We explored the potential benefits of stigmasterol in the treatment of asthma, an airway disorder characterized by immune pathophysiology and with an ever-increasing worldwide prevalence. We assessed the modulatory effect of the intraperitoneal administration of stigmasterol on experimentally induced airway inflammation in guinea pigs. …”
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The Initial Months of Antiretroviral Therapy and Its Influence on AGEs, HMGB1, and sRAGE Levels in Asymptomatic HIV-Infected Individuals by Karen Ingrid Tasca, Juliana Trindade Caleffi, Camila Renata Correa, Mariana Gatto, Caio Cavassan de Camargo, Monica Bannwart Mendes, Marjorie de Assis Golim, Mara Biasin, Lenice do Rosário de Souza

“…Because of the current ever-earlier recommendations to start cART and its prolonged use, these and other markers should be investigated in order to monitor and postpone the appearance of non-AIDS comorbidities in PLWHA.…”
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Germ Cell Proteins in Melanoma: Prognosis, Diagnosis, Treatment, and Theories on Expression by Ashley M. Rosa, Nitika Dabas, Diana M. Byrnes, Mark S. Eller, James M. Grichnik

“…Unique germ cell pathways include those involved in immortalization, genetic evolution, and energy metabolism. There is an ever increasing recognition that within tumors there is a subpopulation of cells with stem-cell-like characteristics that play a role in driving tumorgenesis. …”
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Production of Laccase by Cochliobolus sp. Isolated from Plastic Dumped Soils and Their Ability to Degrade Low Molecular Weight PVC by Tirupati Sumathi, Buddolla Viswanath, Akula Sri Lakshmi, D. V. R. SaiGopal

“…One of the utmost man-made problems faced today has been the ever-increasing plastic waste filling the world. …”
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An investigation on heavy metals in soils around oil field area by A.R. Karbassi, S. Tajziehchi, S. Afshar

“…These highly polluted areas require methods such as phytoremediation more than ever. By comparing list of local plants with that of heavy metals absorbing plants and given the local climate, a suitable absorbing plant for each of the existing heavy metals was recommended.…”
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The new thiazolidine-2,4-dione-based hybrids with promising antimycobacterial activity: design, synthesis, biological evaluation, and drug interaction analysis by Nazar Trotsko, Agnieszka Głogowska, Barbara Kaproń, Katarzyna Kozieł, Ewa Augustynowicz-Kopeć, Agata Paneth

“…The ever-increasing drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) has invigorated the focus on the discovery and development of novel therapeutic agents and treatment options. …”
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Environmental exposures associated with atopy in a rural community in Gwanda district, Zimbabwe: a cross-sectional study by Vuyelwa Ndlovu, Vuyelwa Ndlovu, Moses Chimbari, Pisirai Ndarukwa, Pisirai Ndarukwa, Elopy Sibanda, Elopy Sibanda

“…In the subgroup of adults who reported ever being employed in any potentially harmful occupation, atopic sensitisation was associated with a history of tuberculosis (TB; OR = 3.37, 95% CI = 1.08–10.52) and a history of bloody urine and/or schistosomiasis (OR = 4.36, 95% CI = 1.40–13.65). …”
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Call to Action: Lead Pharmacy into the Next Decade by Kerry K Fierke, Gardner Lepp, Bridget McGugan, Marta Brooks, Gregory Zumach

“…There are more ways than ever to share information, and more need than ever to share best practices for leadership related to pharmacy. …”
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Retourner en forêt quinze ans après sa thèse : quelle place nouvelle pour le paysage dans la gestion forestière depuis le début des années 2000 ? by Véronique Fourault-Cauët

“…References to landscape management, which were prevalent in the 1980s and 1990s, are becoming rarer, whereas landscape ecology, which is used in scientific research on forests, is hardly ever referred to in the more operational documents. …”
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METHODOLOGICAL PROFILES OF THE CIVIL SOCIETY: CIVIC VIRTUE VERSUS CIVIL ASSOCIATION by Marius Povilas Povilas Šaulauskas

“…The professional sensu stricto usage of the concept unfolds and could be as such identified only on the diachronic and synchronous background of different theoretical contexts that were articulated in the millennial history of ever controversial Western philosophical discourse. …”
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Impact of participative leadership on employee innovation behaviour in multinational enterprises by Gjorgjina Gina Sherovska

“…Despite the dominant autocratic management style in the North Macedonian business sector, leadership is considered a major asset in today's ever-changing environment. The findings suggest, when institutional complexity is high, it may be more difficult to adopt a participatory approach due to a greater gap between leaders and those below them. …”
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Shifting the focus of world industrial development from European countries and North America to Asia by A. V. Ivanchenko

“…It makes it possible to change the term “developed countries” meaning and extend it not only to European and North American countries, but also to a number of Asian and Latin American countries due to the ever-growing importance of these countries’ industry on a global scale.…”
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Du coton traditionnel au coton colonial, le coup de force du progrès (Nord-Cameroun) by Christian Seignobos

“…The inception of colonial cotton production in Cameroun shows the extent of state interventionism and greatly influenced the business model of the African cotton industry, dominated by the ever-powerful Cfdt-Sodecoton.…”
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L’insularità, l’isolamento e l’autonomia alimentare degli ikoots (Oaxaca, Messico) fra storia, flussi oceanici e catene globali di depauperamento by Cristiano Tallè

“…In recent decades, their communities have experienced an ever-greater dependence on the supply chains which goes hand in hand with a growing territorial conflict and a progressive loss of fish food autonomy, based on an “ocean-political sovereignty” today in deep crisis. …”
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Citrus Leafminer Parasitoid, Ageniaspis citricola Logvinovskaya (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae) by Alison Walker, Marjorie A. Hoy

“…A second strain of Ageniaspis citricola was introduced into Florida from Taiwan in 1997, although there is no evidence that this second strain ever established (Hoy and Nguyen 1997). The citrus leafminer was first detected in Florida in 1993, and quickly spread throughout all 860,000 acres of citrus, posing a serious threat to the state's citrus industry. …”
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substance use and recidivism of intimate partner violence in Peru: A cross-sectional study. by Victor Roman-Lazarte Sr., Enrique Moncada-Mapelli, Maryorie K Galeas-Torre, Luz A Roman, Maricela L Marcelo-Armas

“…# Background Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) carries significant global burden, with approximately 27% of women who have ever had a partner experiencing IPV. Additionally, substance use (alcohol and drugs) is often associated with aggressive attitudes and serves as a risk factor for IPV…”
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Cotidiano, consumo e vida urbana em cidades médias brasileiras by Eda Maria Góes

“…As main conclusion it is observed that the expansion of access to the housing market, household appliances and vehicles occurred in Brazil since the 1990s, mainly in the 2000s, made possible the spread of the working class representation, as a consumer and producer of urban life at the same time that normalization of the consumption, individual leisure and the peripheral location of residences have favored social control, especially in these middle-sized cities in which public spaces, trade unions, political manifestations and even "the tavern on the corner" exercise ever less attraction.…”
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The Ubiquity of Strange Frontiers: Minor Eschatology in Richard Powers’s The Echo Maker by Zachary Tavlin

“…This essay first considers the recurring epistemological frontiers in American literature and culture, including within the scholarly American Studies tradition that located ever-present links between Puritan millennialism, American Romanticism, and the settlement of the American continent. …”
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