Cisterns to Collect Non-Potable Water for Domestic Use by R. A. Bucklin

“…By efficiently collecting rainwater, cisterns offer a sustainable solution for domestic water needs beyond human consumption, contributing to water conservation efforts in areas facing scarcity or high costs of potable water. …”
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Thin Air Resulting in High Pressure: Mountain Sickness and Hypoxia-Induced Pulmonary Hypertension by Jan Grimminger, Manuel Richter, Khodr Tello, Natascha Sommer, Henning Gall, Hossein Ardeschir Ghofrani

“…We additionally summarize current knowledge regarding possible treatment options for hypoxia-induced pulmonary hypertension by reviewing in vitro, rodent, and human studies in this area of research.…”
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Significance and Characteristics of Listeria monocytogenes in Poultry Products by Abdollah Jamshidi, Tayebeh Zeinali

“…Unfortunately, these isolated pathogens had sometimes resistance to commonly used antibiotics which were used for treatment of human infection.…”
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Greenhouse Gas Inventory of a Typical High-End Industrial Park in China by Bin Chen, Guoxuan He, Jing Qi, Meirong Su, Shiyi Zhou, Meiming Jiang

“…Global climate change caused by greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, which severely limits the development of human society and threatens the survival of humanity, has drawn the international community's long-term attention. …”
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Asian longhorned tick, Haemaphysalis longicornis Neumann (Arachnida: Acari: Ixodidae) by Yuexun Tian, Phillip E Kaufman

“…The Asian longhorned tick feeds on a wide range of hosts including birds and mammals, including humans. This tick is considered a medical and veterinary vector due to its ability to transmit pathogens that cause disease in humans and other animals. https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/in1263 …”
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Towards an Adequate Anthropology by Andrzej Jastrzębski

“… An adequate anthropology is an anthropology that sees each human being as a person. It reveals fully our complexity and the fascinating dignity of human beings. …”
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Rôle des métaphores verbales et gestuelles dans le développement de la prudence lors d’activités de dialogue philosophique by Sandra Lagrange-Lanaspre

“…In this way, philosophical practices may help future generations cope with human vulnerabilities in the sense described by Cynthia Fleury.…”
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The Impact of Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles on Cytotoxicity, Genotoxicity, and miRNA Expression in Barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) Seedlings by Ilona Plaksenkova, Inese Kokina, Anastasija Petrova, Marija Jermaļonoka, Vjačeslavs Gerbreders, Marina Krasovska

“…Understanding the impacts of nanoparticles on plant growth and development is crucial for the assessment of probable environmental risks to food safety and human health, because plants are a fundamental living component of the ecosystem and the most important source in the human food chain. …”
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Modelling for the Reduction and Spread Transmission of the Dynamics and Control of Zika virus Disease: Using Ordinary Differential Equations by G. Adamu, A.S. Ndagara, M. Mamuda, I.U. Omatola

“… The Zika virus is a flavivirus which upon infection in humans causes an illness known as Zika fever. It is commonly identified by popular rash, mild fever and arthritis. …”
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Problem uporczywej terapii w świetle filozofii człowieka by Kazimierz Szałata

“…The documents of Catholic Church state that actions which do not serve human life any more should be stopped so that let a man in agony die with dignity. …”
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Materialismo ecológico como materialismo de la reproducción: un diálogo entre Theodor Adorno y Raquel Gutiérrez Aguilar by Andrés F. Parra-Ayala

“…This potential, though never devoid of complexity or tension, gestures toward a vision of differentiation without domination between humanity and nature.…”
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Primordial Germ Cells: Current Knowledge and Perspectives by Aleksandar Nikolic, Vladislav Volarevic, Lyle Armstrong, Majlinda Lako, Miodrag Stojkovic

“…Causes of infertility are numerous and the treatment often does not lead to desired pregnancy especially when there is a lack of functional gametes. In humans, the primordial germ cell (PGC) is the primary undifferentiated stem cell type that will differentiate towards gametes: spermatozoa or oocytes. …”
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The Living Camera in the Ritual Landscape: The Teachers of the Tatuutsi Maxakwaxi School, the Wixárika Ancestors, and the <i>Teiwari</i> Negotiate Videography by Lea Kantonen, Pekka Kantonen

“…We discuss how ritual landscape can be researched using community-based documentary video art in a way that takes the ontological conceptions of the human and non-human relations of the community seriously. …”
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Etyczne warunki rezygnacji z uporczywej terapii by Wojciech Bołoz

“…This trend is sometimes justified by the exceptional value of human life, which demands both the patient’s and doctor’s heroism. …”
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La dignità umana e la ricerca del suo fondamento. Considerazioni a margine dall’Enciclica “Fratelli tutti” by Agnese Varsalona

“…Such a search cannot prescind from the concept of person, taken up in the theological reflection of the first centuries to say the newness of the God of Jesus, and only later used to tell who is the human being, whose creation in the image and likeness of God grounds his inalienable dignity. …”
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Effects of Anesthetics on Barrier Tissue Function by Fujing Wang, Yanhui Li, Changlei Cui, Zhaoping Xue, Haichun Ma

“…Anesthetics have long been proven to have additional effects other than anesthesia on different organs and tissues of the human body. Barrier tissues play critical roles in human health and diseases, yet the impacts of anesthetics on barrier tissues are still not clear. …”
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Spatial distribution characteristics, ecological risk assessment, and source analysis of heavy metals in surface sediment of a reservoir in northwest China by Yufeng Xie, Ming Kong, Fei He, Rongrong Ying, Tao Long

“…The pollution index analysis shows that the heavy metals in the surface sediment of the reservoir are at an uncontaminated level, but arsenic (As) is within the pollution alert range; The potential ecological hazard index method shows that mercury (Hg) and cadmium (Cd) are the main ecological hazard contributing factors; Correlation analysis and principal component analysis suggest that As and Pb are mainly affected by human activities, while heavy metals chromium (Cr) and copper (Cu) mainly come from natural sources, while other heavy metals are simultaneously affected by both human activities and natural sources. …”
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Os discursos do etnólogo, do filósofo e do ficcionistana estrutura do romance Nove noites by Cid Ottoni Bylaardt

“…This text seeks, therefore, to reflect upon how the fictionseizes the discourse of human sciences in order to put it in question, in amovement similar to Derrida‟s thinking in the permanent deconstructionism‟sinterpellation to the scientific discourse. …”
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Multirotor UAV-borne Vital Signs Sensing Using 4D Imaging Radar by Zhi LI, Chengyao TANG, Yongpeng DAI, Tian JIN

“…Through registration and motion compensation of the radar point cloud, the motion error interference of UAV hovering is eliminated; vital sign signals are then obtained after aligning the human target. Simulation results show that the proposed method can effectively align the 4D radar point cloud sequence and accurately extract the respiration and heartbeat signals of human targets, thereby providing a way to realize UAV-borne vital sign sensing.…”
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Osteomyelitis Infection of Mycobacterium marinum: A Case Report and Literature Review by Hao H. Nguyen, Nada Fadul, Muhammad S. Ashraf, Dawd S. Siraj

“…It is the most common atypical Mycobacterium that causes opportunistic infection in humans. M. marinum can cause superficial infections and localized invasive infections in humans, with the hands being the sites most frequently affected. …”
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