« L’œil du hibou ». Le Flaubert au pluriel de Calvino by Susi Pietri

“…“Several Flaubert(s) in the plural” are thus inscribed throughout Calvino’s theoretical texts over time: nihilist Flaubert; supreme Model of work on form; Master of doubt and skepticism; critic of culture and of the plurality of languages; forerunner of the avant-gardes; paradigm of narrative visibility; invisible “God” of infinity at the heart of the infinitesimal; exemplary witness of the dissolution of knowledge; testamentary executor of the romance of convention; literary ancestor of “knowledge-as-multiplicity”; seeker of the absolute through the encounter with otherness.…”
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Of an Apocalyptic Tone Recently Adopted in Theatre: British Drama, Violence and Writing by Dan Rebellato

“…Representations of violence have been at the heart of some key movements in post-war British theatre. …”
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Smoking. Addiction that Causes more Deaths than AIDS by Emiliano Nicolás Diez y Martínez de la Cotera

“…We describe the direct link between smoking and some chronic diseases such as lung cancer and ischemic heart disease. Given that the Cuban government has expressed its political and legal will, gradually oriented to the eradication of this addiction, we urge the community to comply with legislations related to smoking control.…”
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An Anomalous Configuration of Coronary Artery: A Cadaveric Study by Rajani Singh

“…Anatomical variations in relation to coronary artery and its branches will help cardiac surgeons for refining imaging techniques and coronary artery bypass grafting. A heart was detected with multiple anomalies of coronary arteries in a cadaver. …”
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Healthy Living: High Blood Pressure by Linda B. Bobroff, Leigh Ann Martin

“…Too much pressure causes more work for the heart. Another name for high blood pressure is hypertension. …”
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Thielaviopsis Trunk Rot of Palm by Monica L. Elliott

“…In Florida, the two most frequent (and usually lethal) Thielaviopsis diseases observed in the landscape and field nursery are a bud (heart) rot and trunk rot. Thielaviopsis bud rot is discussed at http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/pp144. …”
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Premature Ventricular Complex Causing Ice-Pick Headache by Selcuk Ozturk, Ertan Yetkin

“…Premature ventricular contractions are early depolarization of the ventricular myocardium and in the absence of a structural heart disease, it is considered to be a benign disease. …”
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Diet and Chronic Inflammation by Daniela Rivero-Mendoza, Wendy J. Dahl

“…In contrast, chronic inflammation contributes to many diseases, including heart disease, diabetes, and kidney and liver disease. …”
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Healthy Living for Elders: Exercise and Diabetes by Sergio Romero

“…Exercise can help you control your blood sugar levels, reduce body fat, and decrease your risk of heart disease. This leaflet contains some tips to help you create a fun and healthy exercise program. …”
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The Deer Hunter : essai de topologie imaginaire américaine by Jacques Pothier

“…In this film the dichotomies between civilization/the wilderness, male space / female territory, national vs. ethnic identities present in the American imagination from Cooper to the classic western through Washington Irving or Mark Twain, are thoroughly revisited through the tragic counterpointing of a Russian working-class community in a Pennsylvania small town and an Asian heart of darkness. Cimino’s heroes find out that the otherness of evil may turn out to be very familiar--but in the end the lid is back on Pandora’s box.…”
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Habitants des bidonvilles et revendications de droits de citoyenneté au Maroc by Jaouad Agudal

“…The materiality of these documents, which grant access to public services through to the possibility of resettlement, are at the heart of strategies, enacted both by the shantytown inhabitants and by the civil servants who deliver or claim them.…”
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Expanding the clinical spectrum of 19p13.3 microduplication syndrome: a case report highlighting nephrotic syndrome and literature review by Wenjie Sun, Hong Yan, Mengxin Sun, Jie Wang, Kunxia Li

“…In addition to common symptoms, such as developmental delay, microcephaly, distinctive facial features, and congenital heart defects, the patient also had nephrotic syndrome, a previously unreported phenomenon. …”
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The Nrf-2/HO-1 Signaling Axis: A Ray of Hope in Cardiovascular Diseases by Xueyan Zhang, Yihan Yu, Hanyu Lei, Yufeng Cai, Jie Shen, Ping Zhu, Qingnan He, Mingyi Zhao

“…Normal cardiovascular diseases, such as viral myocarditis and myocardial ischemia-reperfusion injury, have been treated with Nrf2/HO-1. Rheumatic heart disease, cardiac tumors, arteriosclerosis, arrhythmia, hypertensive heart disease, and myocardial infarction have also been treated during experiments. …”
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EKOS™ Jena Experience: Safety, Feasibility, and Midterm Outcomes of Percutaneous Ultrasound-Assisted Catheter-Directed Thrombolysis in Patients with Intermediate-High-Risk or High-... by Friederike Klein, Sven Möbius-Winkler, Laura Bäz, Rüdiger Pfeifer, Michael Fritzenwanger, Stefan Heymel, Marcus Franz, Pawel Aftanski, P. Christian Schulze, Daniel Kretzschmar

“…No stroke, myocardial infarction, right heart decompensation, or recurrent PE occurred. 31 patients (63%) were discharged without any signs of right ventricular stress. …”
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Development of measures to assess listening-related effort and fatigue in daily life among hearing aid users: protocol for a quantitative field trial by Trine Flensborg-Madsen, Andreea Micula, Jeppe Høy Konvalinka Christensen, Dorothea Wendt, Hamish Innes-Brown, Ingrid Johnsrude, Matthew Apps, Torsten Dau

“…Recent studies have found that higher sound pressure levels (SPL) and lower signal-to-noise ratios (SNR) are linked to increased heart rate and decreased heart rate variability, reflecting the greater effort required to process auditory information. …”
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Main Comorbidities and Complications in Type 2 Diabetic Patients from Two Different Perspectives by Diana Serret López, Armando Rodríguez Salvá, Addys María Díaz Piñera, Maritza Benítez Martínez, Geominia Maldonado Cantillo

“…<br /><strong>Conclusions:</strong> the most frequent comorbidities were: high blood pressure, heart disease and obesity in women and people aged 65 years and over. …”
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Adrenal Insufficiency under Standard Dosage of Glucocorticoid Replacement after Unilateral Adrenalectomy for Cushing’s Syndrome by Kentaro Fujii, Kazutoshi Miyashita, Isao Kurihara, Ken Hiratsuka, Seiji Sato, Kenichi Yokota, Sakiko Kobayashi, Hirotaka Shibata, Hiroshi Itoh

“…The patient was a 62-year-old woman who has had hypertension for 5 years and presented with heart failure due to hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. …”
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Comparison of Medical Treatments According to the Characteristics of Idiopathic Premature Ventricular Contractions: Beta-blockers or Calcium Channel Blockers? by Omer Faruk BAYCAN, Serdar FIDAN, Fatma Betul CELIK, Mustafa Adem TATLISU, Serhan OZYILDIRIM, Mustafa CALISKAN

“…Results: The male ratio was higher (p&lt;0.001), and the left ventricular ejection fraction was lower in BB responders than in CCB responders (p&lt;0.001). Although the mean heart rate was higher in BB responders (p&lt;0.001), the initial PVC burden was lower in BB responders than in CCB responders (p&lt;0.001). …”
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Postoperative New-Onset Atrial Fibrillation following Noncardiac Operations: Prevalence, Complication, and Long-Term MACE by Ofir Koren, Rony Hakim, Asaf Israeli, Ehud Rozner, Yoav Turgeman

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Cost-Effectiveness of the CNIC-Polypill Strategy Compared With Separate Monocomponents in Secondary Prevention of Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease in Portugal: The MERCUR... by Carlos Aguiar, Francisco Araujo, Gabriel Rubio-Mercade, David Carcedo, Silvia Paz, Jose María Castellano, Valentín Fuster

“…In patients with histories of coronary heart disease or stroke, the CNIC-Polypill more effectively controls CV risk factors compared with monocomponents.…”
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