Evaluation of Nanomagnetite–Biochar Composite for BTA Removal by Carolina Guida, Nathaniel Findling, Valérie Magnin, Fabienne Favre Boivin, Laurent Charlet

“…Within the short time scale (up to 8 h), the removal of BTA by nanomagnetite–biochar composite was shown to be due to BTA deprotonation by the nanomagnetite surface. Through proton liberation, Fe²⁺ is released in accordance with the reaction Fe₃O₄ + 2H⁺ → Fe₂O₃ + Fe²⁺ + H₂O, which likely influences BTA complexation and its possible redox degradation. …”
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Production and Characterization of Highly Thermostable β-Glucosidase during the Biodegradation of Methyl Cellulose by Fusarium oxysporum by Folasade M. Olajuyigbe, Chidinma M. Nlekerem, Olusola A. Ogunyewo

“…Methyl cellulose supported the highest yield of β-glucosidase (177.5 U/mg) at pH 6.0 and 30°C at 96 h of fermentation with liberation of 2.121 μmol/mL glucose. The crude enzyme had optimum activity at pH 5.0 and 70°C. …”
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Characterization of Serum Phospholipase A2 Activity in Three Diverse Species of West African Crocodiles by Mark Merchant, Kate Juneau, Jared Gemillion, Rodolfo Falconi, Aaron Doucet, Matthew H. Shirley

“…Incubation of different volumes of crocodile serum with bacteria labeled with a fluorescent fatty acid in the sn-2 position of membrane lipids resulted in a volume-dependent liberation of fluorescent probe. Serum from the Nile crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus) exhibited slightly higher activity than that of the slender-snouted crocodile (Mecistops cataphractus) and the African dwarf crocodile (Osteolaemus tetraspis). …”
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Effect of size of capsulorhexis on the outcome of cataract surgery: a protocol for systematic review and individual participant data meta-analysis by Yue Liu, Yue Zhang, Songhong Wang, Tiexi Wu, Xuejiao Qin

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Experimental and numerical simulation of the attenuation effect of blast shock waves in tunnels at different altitudes by Changjiang Liu, Hujun Li, Zhen Wang, Yong He, Guokai Zhang, Mingyang Wang

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Dış Politika Karar Alma Süreçlerine Etkileri Bağlamında Türk Dış Politikasında Ermeniler by Yasin Öztürk

“…Ermeni meselesi ve Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA) örgütü de bu bağlamda Türk dış politikası karar alma süreçlerinde tarihten günümüze önemli etki doğuran aktör ve faktörlerden olmuştur.…”
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FROM OPTIMISM TO DISAPPOINTMENT: THE EVOLUTION OF SWAMI VIVEKANANDA’S ATTITUDE TOWARDS THE WEST by E. V. Volgina

“…He used it as a “soft power” to draw attention of the West to the national liberation struggle just starting to unfold in India. …”
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#BlackLivesMatter: by Nusrat Jahan

“…This article undertakes an Afrofuturist and Afro-pessimistic reading of an American experimental hip-hop band clipping.’s (stylized as clipping.) song “The Deep” (2017) and Rivers Solomon’s novella The Deep (2019) to examine how the narratives of trauma and collective memory work to create a futuristic nexus of emancipation, liberation, and technology. Based on the mythology of Detroit electronic band Drexciya, clipping.’s song "The Deep", a multilayered and evocative sci-fi tale, deals with the underwater descendants of pregnant African women who were cast off slave ships. …”
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Hélène Cabanes-Gracia (1919-2010), Itinerari d’una ensenhaira occitana by Philippe Canales

“…Hélène Cabanes (06/071919-19/11/2010) occupies a place of prime importance in the beginnings of the teaching of Occitan in post-war public schools. From the Liberation onwards, she took part in all the battles; union activist, Freinet activist and above all Occitanist activist. …”
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“Archbishop” Vladimir (Ivanov) and the renovationist schism in Kuban in 1941–1945 by Toporov Maxim, Priest

“…At the same time, the article suggests that Ivanov may have worked with the Soviet authorities during the occupation, as records show that after the liberation of Krasnodar he was awarded the medal “For Valiant Labour”. …”
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Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial of Proportional Assist Ventilation for Minimizing the Duration of Mechanical Ventilation: the PROMIZING study by Karen J. Bosma, Claudio M. Martin, Karen E. A. Burns, Jordi Mancebo Cortes, Juan Carlos Suárez Montero, Yoanna Skrobik, Kevin E. Thorpe, Andre Carlos Kajdacsy-Balla Amaral, Yaseen Arabi, John Basmaji, Gaëtan Beduneau, Francois Beloncle, Guillaume Carteaux, Emmanuel Charbonney, Alexandre Demoule, Martin Dres, Vito Fanelli, Anna Geagea, Ewan Goligher, François Lellouche, Tommaso Maraffi, Alain Mercat, Pablo O. Rodriguez, Jason Shahin, Stephanie Sibley, Savino Spadaro, Katerina Vaporidi, M. Elizabeth Wilcox, Laurent Brochard, On behalf of the Canadian Critical Care Trials Group and, the REVA Network

“…The weaning process will be identical in the two arms. Time to liberation will be the primary outcome; ventilator-free days and other outcomes will be measured. …”
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War and negotiations. How Vietnam defeated the American Colossus by A. M. Vasiliev

“…To achieve this goal the war and negotiations dragged on for years, and on the eve of the signing of the agreements, the most fierce bombing of the DRV was carried out.Thanks to the powerful air defense created with the help of the USSR, the DRV won the “air Dien Bien Fu”.The United States was forced to sign a peace agreement, which provided for the complete cessation of all US military operations in Vietnam, the withdrawal of all American troops, but left the North Vietnamese forces in South Vietnam together with the armed forces of the National Liberation Front along with the decaying and doomed to death Saigon regime. …”
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Multicamera Real-Time 3D Modeling for Telepresence and Remote Collaboration by Benjamin Petit, Jean-Denis Lesage, Clément Menier, Jérémie Allard, Jean-Sébastien Franco, Bruno Raffin, Edmond Boyer, François Faure

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Black Orpheus by Hlonipha Mokoena

“…The fate of African Nationalism, Pan-Africanism, Negritude and Black Internationalism was also bundled up with Cold War politics and this has in some ways resulted in the conclusion that the thawing of American and Soviet Union also led to the depreciation of these liberation and anti-colonial ideas. This aftermath has bred a certain type of continental fatalism in which all our dead, dying and barely alive utopias are inevitably read from the vantage point of Cold War politics and after. …”
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Design and Experiment of Assistive Mechanism for Adjustment of Transrectal Ultrasound Probe by Jin-Gang Jiang, Hui Zuo, Yong-De Zhang, Zhi-Yuan Huang, Xiao-Wei Guo, Yong Xu

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Efficacy of low-dose rituximab versus immunosuppressants in refractory orbital inflammatory pseudotumors with intracranial extension by Yuyu Li, Mingming Sun, Xintong Xu, Biyue Chen, Xiyun Chen, Yuhang Wang, Quangang Xu, Huanfen Zhou, Shihui Wei

“…ObjectiveThe aim of this study was to compare the efficacy of low-dose rituximab (RTX) and immunosuppressants in treating orbital inflammatory pseudotumor (OIP) with intracranial extension, a refractory and high-relapse disease.MethodsPatients who had been diagnosed with refractory OIP with intracranial extension and who were refractory to systemic corticosteroids were retrospectively recruited at the Neuro-Ophthalmology Department at the Chinese People’s Liberation Army General Hospital between December 2018 and September 2022. …”
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Cosmétiques by Jean-Louis Déotte

“…Un début de réponse se trouve dans l’itinéraire politique de ce résistant, gaulliste, fort sensible à la situation d’extrême précarité des sociétés de chasseurs-cueilleurs du Mexique, les Lacandons (et qui, administrateur en Algérie pendant la guerre de libération, glissa brutalement vers l’OAS). On peut faire l’hypothèse que, fasciné par la civilisation aztèque pour deux raisons (c’était une société pour la guerre, où un paysan pouvait gravir tous les échelons de l’armée, bref une sorte de démocratie en armes comme la France d’alors), il projeta ces caractéristiques sur la colonie qu’était l’Algérie française. …”
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Role of Janus Kinase inhibitors in the management of pulmonary involvement due to Long COVID-19 disease: A case control study by Pawan Kumar Singh, Vinod Kumar Sharma, Lokesh Kumar Lalwani, Dhruva Chaudhry, Manjunath B. Govindagoudar, Chaudhari Pramod Sriram, Aman Ahuja

“…The number of patients off oxygen support at 4 weeks was higher in the JAKi group (85% in the corticosteroid group vs. 95.2% in the JAKi group, P = 0.269), and the median time to liberation from oxygen support was significantly lower in JAKi group (19 days in corticosteroid group vs. 9 days in JAKi group, P < 0.001). …”
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Astrology as Sacred Ecological Knowledge in the Tibetan Buddhist Tradition by Yulia Yu. Erendzhenova

“…The three Lamrim-derived motives — to improve this lifetime, gain liberation from samsaric suffering, achieve enlightenment for the sake of universal well-being — may accordingly direct the intentions of Buddhists toward the use of sacred astrological knowledge to solve problematic situations, identify oneself, understand others, restore the balance of external and internal cycles. …”
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Relations between Russia and Lithuania in the contemporary Lithuanian historiography by Nerijus Šepetys

“…The situation of historical research during the last twenty years on Lithuanian-Russian relations, and especially on the collapse of the USSR and liberation of Lithuania, is the most dynamic and the most complicated at the same time. …”
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