Enhancing NMDA Receptor Function: Recent Progress on Allosteric Modulators by Lulu Yao, Qiang Zhou

“…Past efforts in targeting NMDARs for therapeutic intervention have largely been on inhibitors of NMDARs. In light of the discovery of NMDAR hypofunction in psychiatric disorders and perhaps Alzheimer’s disease, efforts in boosting NMDAR activity/functions have surged in recent years. …”
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Comment le concept d’homophobie permet-il d’analyser les discours contre la « PMA pour toutes » ? by Claire Hugonnier

“…Does it appear to be the most relevant concept for shedding light on the dynamics of minorization in discourse? …”
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UNPARK. The second life of an infrastructure in a high-density urban environment by Paolo Carli, Patrizia Scrugli

“…With this in mind, the contribution aims to cast light on a topic with a great deal of potential to fuel debate within the discipline as well as our cities.…”
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'Micro-Tina' and 'Micro-Gemma' Miniature Dwarf Tomatoes by John W. Scott, Brent K. Harbaugh, E. A. Baldwin

“…They provide a well-proportioned plant ideally suited to commercial growing, shipping, and marketing because of their small size and light weight. This is document HS986, a publication of the Horticultural Sciences Department, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, IFAS, University of Florida. …”
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Factor Structure of a Multidimensional Gender Identity Scale in a Sample of Chinese Elementary School Children by Lu Yu, Dong Xie, Daniel T. L. Shek

“…These results are discussed in light of cross-cultural similarities and differences in development of gender identity.…”
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American media, Scandinavian audiences: Contextual fragmentation and polarisation among Swedes and Norwegians engaging with American politics by Robinson Jessica Yarin

“…At the same time, media fragmentation is higher in the Norwegian language than in any other sphere. This article sheds light on the relationship between the sometimes-conflated concepts of fragmentation and polarisation and provides a discussion of the implications of political information sharing on transnational digital platforms.…”
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A Path-Based Gradient Projection Algorithm for the Cost-Based System Optimum Problem in Networks with Continuously Distributed Value of Time by Wen-Xiang Wu, Hai-Jun Huang

“…The cost-based system optimum problem in networks with continuously distributed value of time is formulated as a path-based form, which cannot be solved by the Frank-Wolfe algorithm. In light of magnitude improvement in the availability of computer memory in recent years, path-based algorithms have been regarded as a viable approach for traffic assignment problems with reasonably large network sizes. …”
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A New Cross-Shaped Graphite Furnace with Ballast Body for Reduction of Interferences in Atomic Absorption Spectrometry by A. A. Asweisi, H. M. Kuss

“…The Tungsten ballast body was inserted inside one part of the crossed furnace in a way perpendicular to light path. The analyzed sample was injected manually on the ballast body inside the cross and pushed into the measuring zone using the original inner and additional purge gas. …”
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Juan Sánchez Cotán’s Still Lifes and Artistic Ingenio in Early Modern Toledo by Carmen Ripollés

“…This essay brings new light on the creation and early reception of the still lifes of the Toledan painter Juan Sánchez Cotán. …”
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Slavery and Early Christianity - a reflection from a human rights perspective by P. G. Kirchschlaeger

“…Finally, there is the hermeneutic challenge of engaging with texts from Early Christianity from an ethical perspective in order to reach present-day normative propositions, while respecting the original intention of the texts. In light of these challenges, this article will offer a brief overview of opinions on slavery in Hellenistic philosophy and in the Jewish tradition, and then discuss slavery and Early Christianity, followed by a reflection on slavery and Early Christianity from a human rights perspective. …”
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MISSIONAL-DIACONAL PRACTICES IN JAPAN AND SOUTH AFRICA: by J.S. Van der Watt

“…The article indicates that, in light of frequent natural disasters, sharing God’s compassion in concrete ways has become vital to these churches’ existence. …”
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Qui construit le paysage bruxellois ? Le cas de Tour et Taxis by Sophie Hubaut

“…The article seeks to shed light on this political dimension of the landscape through the case of the re-use of the Tour & Taxis industrial site in Brussels. …”
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« Rejoindre les civilisations », Victor Brauner et sa collection d’arts extra-européens by Noémie Fillon

“…This article aims to shed light on Brauner’s putting together of the collection. …”
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A Systematic Review on the Advancement in the Study of Fuzzy Variational Problems by Mansi Verma, Chuei Yee Chen, Adem Kılıçman, Risman Mat Hasim

“…Finally, we set up the main open problems regarding the limitations of the current approaches, shedding light on future directions.…”
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L’émergence de surfeurs malgaches à Madagascar : comment de nouvelles spatialités participent aux façonnements de paysages by Lilia Khelifi

“…The recent dissemination of surfing practices and the imaginary dimension sheds light on the local contexts encountered.…”
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Synthesis, Characterization and Printing Application of Solvent Dyes Based on 2-Hydroxy-4-n-octyloxybenzophenone by Bharat C. Dixit, Hitendra M. Patel

“…The result shows that better hue was obtained on printing on cotton fiber and it is resulted in yellow to reddish brown colorations which showed a good fastness to light, with poor to good fastness to washing, perspiration and sublimation, however it shows poor rubbing fastness.…”
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Introduction by J. Mokhoathi, L. Sutton

“…The theme of the 40-year anniversary therefore allows us to ask anew how theology and religion will have to be transformed so that we – in inter and multi-disciplinary conversation as well as in light of the many ways in which we have not actualised this – will practise our transforming potential globally and locally in accordance with this significant milestone. …”
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The Flâneur’s Scopic Power or the Victorian Dream of Transparency by Estelle Murail

“…This article focuses on the dream of transparency which pervaded the nineteenth-century literary cityscape, and which, I argue, is embodied in the figure of the flâneur, the ubiquitous observer of urban life. To shed light on the function and makeup of this enigmatic figure, I analyze the flâneur through the lens of transparency and through the prism of three objects which use transparency as their core functioning principle. …”
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Interaction of Two-Level Atom with Squeezed Vacuum Reservoir by Tamirat Abebe, Demissie Jobir, Chimdessa Gashu, Ebisa Mosisa

“…It is found that the half width of the power spectrum of the light increases with the squeeze parameter, r. Furthermore, in the absence of decay constant and interaction time, it enhances the probability for the atom to be in the upper level.…”
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La bande dessinée contemporaine au rendez-vous de la mémoire violente de l’après-guerre civile espagnole et du premier franquisme by Viviane Alary

“…Many comic book authors have chosen to tell the story of individual destinies by interweaving them into a collective history, that of Spain under Franco's regime. This article sheds light on the work of memory that Spanish comics have been undertaking since the 1970s through four graphic works placed in the context of their first publication (the Paracuellos series, 1977; El artefacto perverso, 1996; Cuerda de presas, 2005; Los surcos del azar, 2013). …”
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