Time, Infrastructure and Knowledge: Rethinking Temporality in the Anthropocene by Vando Borghi, Luigi Pellizzoni, Paolo Savoia

“…Finally, Paolo Savoia traces a “revival” of natural history in the environmental humanities, enabled by temporal short-circuits between the 16th and 21st centuries. …”
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Ecophilosophical and Ecopsychological Aspects of Sustainable Consumption and Lifestyle by Mikołaj Niedek

“…Ecophilosophical and ecopsychological concepts can significantly help in this, contributing to human sensitivity to environmental issues related to the contemporary ecological crisis. …”
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Application of Time Study Model in Rice Milling Firm: A Case Study by AO Odior, FA Oyawale

“…Rice milling is a process whereby the rice grain is transformed into a form suitable for human consumption and it has to be done with utmost care to prevent breakage of the kernel and improve the recovery. …”
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SCHOOL-BASED VIOLENCE AND PEACE: IMPROVING LEARNING IN HIGHER EDUCATION AMONG ADULT SURVIVORS OF SCHOOL BULLYING by Jonathan Chukwuemeka Madu, Abugu Solomon Ogbonna

“… Promoting equity and egalitarian society is very vital for enhancing human development, and one of the most powerful instruments for this purpose is education, which boosts people’s self-confidence, equips them for their future; to act responsibly in making better choices and relevant contributions in their society. …”
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A Beginner's Guide to Water Management: Common Aquatic Birds Using Florida Lakes by Mark V. Hoyer

“…Citizen volunteers can provide a comprehensive and intimate understanding of birds and their interactions with Florida lake systems, helping to detect the changes in the types and numbers of birds using lakes that may indicate important natural or human-caused environmental trends. Whether you want to identify birds you’ve spotted or take an active role in the management and conservation of Florida's natural resources, this circular can help you learn the basics. …”
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In Vitro Repair of Fractured Fiber-Reinforced Cusp-Replacing Composite Restorations by Willem M. M. Fennis, Cees M. Kreulen, Arzu Tezvergil, Lippo V. J. Lassila, Pekka K. Vallittu, Nico H. J. Creugers

“…Methods. Sixteen extracted human premolars with fractured cusp-replacing woven (Group (A)) or unidirectional (Group (B)) FRC restorations from a previous loading experiment were repaired with resin composite and loaded to fracture. …”
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MAIT cells protect against sterile lung injury by Xiawei Zhang, Shuailin Li, Wojciech Lason, Maria Greco, Paul Klenerman, Timothy S.C. Hinks

“…MAIT cells drive the accumulation of type 1 conventional dendritic cells (cDC1s), limiting tissue damage in a DNGR-1-dependent manner. Human scRNA-seq data revealed that MAIT cells were activated, with increased cDC populations in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis patients. …”
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Transcriptional Regulators of Claudins in Epithelial Tight Junctions by Niamat Khan, Abdul R. Asif

“…Human gastrointestinal tract is covered by a monolayer of specialized epithelial cells that constitute a protective barrier surface to external toxic and infectious agents along with metabolic and digestive functions. …”
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Modeling and Analysis of Static and Dynamic Characteristics of Nonlinear Seat Suspension for Off-Road Vehicles by Zhenhua Yan, Bing Zhu, Xuefei Li, Guoqiang Wang

“…A novel nonlinear seat suspension structure for off-road vehicles is designed, whose static characteristics and seat-human system dynamic response are modeled and analyzed, and experiments are conducted to verify the theoretical solutions. …”
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Progress in Elucidating the Mechanism of Selenium in Mitigating Heavy Metal Stress in Crop Plants by Shuqing Jia, Qing Guan, Yulong Niu, Ye Wang, Linling Li, Hua Cheng

“…In the context of rapid industrialization and agricultural modernization, the issue of heavy metal (HM) pollution has surfaced as a critical concern, posing a substantial threat to human health and having a profound impact on agricultural cultivation. …”
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Projection of the Spatially Explicit Land Use/Cover Changes in China, 2010–2100 by Yongwei Yuan, Tao Zhao, Weimin Wang, Shaohui Chen, Feng Wu

“…The simulation results showed that the land use/land cover in China will change continually due to the human activities and climate change, and the spatial pattern of land use/cover will also change as time goes by. …”
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Influences of Rearing Season, Host Plant, and Silkworm Species on Gut Bacterial Community by Chang Chen, Yujuan Hao, Jiaqi Yang, Jingyu Zhang, Huan Wang, Yanqun Liu

“…<i>Antheraea pernyi</i> and <i>A. yamamai</i> (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae) are two traditional sources of human food, as well as being silk-producing insects. …”
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Identification of meibomian gland testosterone metabolites produced by tissue-intrinsic intracrine deactivation activity by Khanh Tien Nguyen Pham, Takahito Miyake, Tomo Suzuki, Shigeru Kinoshita, Yuki Hamada, Hikari Uehara, Mamiko Machida, Takeshi Nakajima, Emi Hasegawa, Masao Doi

“…Here, we performed radioactive tracer studies in combination with pharmacological enzyme inhibition, followed by targeted liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) analysis, and found three androgen metabolites—androstanedione, androsterone, and epiandrosterone—in mouse and human meibomian glands. Accounting for the enzymatic conversion, we show tissue-endogenous 3α/3β-ketosteroid reductase expression. …”
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Unfixing the Frame: Visualizing Histories of Transcultural Contact, Exchange &amp; Performance in Prince Roland Bonaparte’s Peaux-Rouges (1884) by Emily L. Voelker

“…Created within the emergent discourses of nineteenth-century French anthropology grounded in notions of the racial type, the volume has largely been contextualized in these conceptions of human difference and developing scientific cultures. …”
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Deep eutectic solvent-based magnetic molecular nanomaterials coupled with fluorescent carbon dots as a new strategy to highly enrich and sensitively detect doxycycline in food matr... by Yanqiong Luo, Han Zhang, Jun Liu, Aleeza Jamil, Yujiao Hou, Qian Li, Min Zhao, Chunjie Zhao, Wenjing Li, Bo Hong

“…The highly selective enrichment and sensitive detection of antibiotics in food are crucial for human health, environmental monitoring, and management. …”
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One approach is that we learn together, regardless of the language, regardless of the school subject: the translanguaging stance of teachers in a migration school scenario in south... by Anamaria Welp, Eduardo Sampaio, Gláucia Helena Sarmento Malta

“…The research is grounded in the theory of translanguaging, which offers a humanizing approach that places students and their diverse repertoires at the center of learning, breaking down traditional language barriers. …”
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Computational Representation of White Matter Fiber Orientations by Adelino R. Ferreira da Silva

“…The method holds promise to support robust tractographic methodologies and to build realistic models of white matter tracts in the human brain.…”
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Virtual Space: New Communication Phenomena Виртуальное пространство: новые феномены коммуникации Віртуальний простір: нові феномени комунікації... by K. V. Sokolova

“…The article deals with the problem of memes as units of cultural information in human minds and their social role. The analysis of a communicative function of the Internet-memes that refers to a much broader category of cultural information has been given special attention in the article.…”
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METAPHORICAL TERMINOLOGY IN ANCIENT TEXTS OF TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE: PROBLEMS OF UNDERSTANDING AND TRANSLATION by Qiuhua Sun, Irina S. Karabulatova, Jinna Zou, Chen Kuo

“…The author’s hypothesis proceeds from the position that the ancient treatises of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) describe metaphorically an ethnocultural understanding of neuro-linguistic and psychophysiological processes in the human body from the perspective of communication between large and small. …”
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Nonhematopoietic Variants of Erythropoietin in Ischemic Stroke: Need for Step-Wise Proof-of-Concept Studies by Dirk M. Hermann

“…Only with such information should decisions be made whether intranasal Neuro-EPO may be evaluated in human patients.…”
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