Squamosamide Derivative FLZ Protects Pancreatic β-Cells from Glucotoxicity by Stimulating Akt-FOXO1 Pathway by Xiangchen Kong, Longmei Zhang, Xianxin Hua, Xiaosong Ma

“…These effects on apoptosis and insulin were reversed by FLZ in a dose-dependent manner. FLZ treatment also increased forkhead box O1 protein phosphorylation and reduced its nuclear location. …”
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A Quantum Perceptron: A New Approach for Predicting Rice Prices at the Indonesian Wholesale Trade Level by Solikhun, Tri Yunita

“…Accurate price predictions are crucial for informing government policy in a timely manner. This research introduces a new approach that utilizes the Quantum Perceptron algorithm to forecast rice prices. …”
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Crack growth simulation in heterogeneous material by S-FEM and comparison with experiments by Masanori Kikuchi, Yoshitaka Wada, Yulong Li

“…As a result, small surface crack grows in complicated manner.…”
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DYNAMICS OF AFRICAN TRADITIONAL AND CULTURAL PRACTICE AS A SOCIAL CONTROL MECHANISM: A DETERRENT THEORETICAL ANALYSIS ON THE ALEKWU BELIEF SYSTEM AMONG THE IDOMA PEOPLE IN NIGERIA by Daniel, Rosemary Onchi

“…These ideas have the potential to exert strong social control by discouraging individuals from acting in an abnormal manner. Traditional and cultural customs in Africa have long been used as a form of social control mechanism which is known for regulating conduct and preserving community peace. …”
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What makes the difference? Social media platforms and party characteristics as contextual factors for political parties’ use of populist political communication by Magin Melanie, Larsson Anders Olof, Skogerbø Eli, Tønnesen Hedvig

“…Which parties used populist communication the most depended on the platform, and it was not always the populist Progress Party [Fremskrittspartiet] that communicated in the most populist manner. Parties located towards the fringes of the political party spectrum used more populist communication. …”
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A Recognition Method of Athletes’ Mental State in Sports Training Based on Support Vector Machine Model by Yu Li

“…For the opponent, by analyzing the opponent’s psychological state during exercise, the game strategy can be adjusted in real time in a targeted manner, and the probability of winning the game can be provided. …”
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The path forward for sustainability of the pension system in a historical context by J. Mertl, R. Valenčík

“…When reforming the pension system in this manner the opportunity arises to begin gradual changes through fully merit system reform and therefore significantly motivating of extending the period of productivity (putting off retirement) through the upgrade of this system for persons who have reached the retirement age as specified by law.This paper aims to substantiate and explore possible changes in this direction that will not endanger anyone’s entitlements when the reforms are implemented (they have got the form of Pareto improvement), as they derive their funds by extending the time of individual productivity. …”
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Logiques et contradictions du trafic transalpin dans le contexte politique et social européen by Manfred Perlik

“…3 - Under what conditions may transport be reduced in a more comprehensive manner? Answers are given by analysing three fields relevant for traffic growth in their internal coherence: the political logic, the economic logic, and the logic of spatial development. …”
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Language and business: Patterns in the annual report translations of public companies in Indonesia by Emma Natasha Octoveria, Aris Munandar

“…Patterns in translating annual reports from Indonesian to English were identified, namely the use of explicitations and implicitations in interactional, cohesive, and denotational manners through translation shifts. The results of this study suggest that annual report translation was made possible through shifts involving changes in syntactic structure and the choice of information to be added, omitted, or substituted.…”
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Cultural Dyphemisms in the Turkish Culture Region by İlhami Durmuş

“…Thus the life continued in a manner of searching new pastures and shuttling between plateau and winter quarters . …”
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Cost-Optimal Fuel Utilization, Genset Configuration and Battery Sizing: A Case-Study of a Norwegian Trawler by Tor Hennum, Øyvind Kåre Kjerstad, Ann R. Nerheim

“…The current application achieves a 7.3% fuel reduction in a cost-efficient manner over the period. It also suggests that a fuel-reducing system might not necessarily be cost-efficient, particularly for energy systems with small batteries.…”
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Stylization of history in the works of N.V. Kukolnik by Alexandr V. Kubasov

“…This concept is characterized by a free interpretation of the past in a figurative manner, while still maintaining reliance on well-known facts, events, or qualities of historical figures, expressed within a specific stylistic framework. …”
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MEMAHAMI HAKIKAT DAN KARAKTERISTIK PEMBELAJARAN BIOLOGI DALAM UPAYA MENJAWAB TANTANGAN ABAD 21 SERTA OPTIMALISASI IMPLEMENTASI KURIKULUM 2013 by Suciati Sudarisman

“…Processes in science implies manner or scientific activity for natural phenomena to describe the product obtained in the form of science facts, principles, laws, or theories. …”
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Evaluating Middle School Students’ Spatial-Scientific Performance within Earth/Space Astronomy in Terms of Gender and Race/Ethnicity by Jennifer Wilhelm, Michael Toland, Merryn Cole

“…A multi-level modeling approach was used in a hierarchical manner to evaluate student performance on the Purdue Spatial Visualization: Rotation test (PSVT-Rot) and on the Lunar Phases Concept Inventory (which included four spatial domains), while controlling for two variables (gender and race/ethnicity) at the student level and one variable (teaching experience) at the teacher level. …”
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Degradation of Toxic Dye Using Phytomediated Copper Nanoparticles and Its Free-Radical Scavenging Potential and Antimicrobial Activity against Environmental Pathogens by S. Rajeshkumar, M. Vanaja, Arunachalam Kalirajan

“…The present investigation deals with the green synthesis of copper nanoparticles in an ecofriendly manner using leaf extract of Andrographis paniculata. …”
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An Extended FMEA Model for Exploring the Potential Failure Modes: A Case Study of a Steam Turbine for a Nuclear Power Plant by Huai-Wei Lo, James J. H. Liou, Jen-Jen Yang, Chun-Nen Huang, Yu-Hsuan Lu

“…Furthermore, to rank the risk priorities in a rational manner, a modified technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution (modified TOPSIS) is adopted. …”
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Franz Kafka's 'The Castle': Postmodern discourse in contemporary Austrian literature by E.M. Shastina, G.A. Frolov

“…The attention has been focused on the writers, whose creative manner reflects the tendencies in contemporary Western European literary process – from avant-gardism (A. …”
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Exploring Transformation Through Travel by Means of the Movie The Way by Burhan Çınar, Umut Morkoç, Tuğba Pala Morkoç

“…To do this, the movie The Way (Emilio Estevez, 2010), which depicts the relationship between touristic experience and the transformation of the individual in an artistically powerful manner, was utilized. To analyze the document that constitutes the data source of the research study, a narrative analysis, and a qualitative research design, was followed. …”
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Continual deep reinforcement learning with task-agnostic policy distillation by Muhammad Burhan Hafez, Kerim Erekmen

“…Therefore, the agent acts in a self-supervised manner by systematically seeking novel states. By utilizing task-agnostic distilled knowledge, the agent can solve downstream tasks more efficiently, leading to improved sample efficiency. …”
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Old Nick Crossed the Mississippi: The Figure of the Devil in Late Cold War Era Novels of the American West by Michael Walonen

“…This essay focuses on Western regional novels of the late Cold War period (1968-1991), analyzing their manner of using the devil figure to variously challenge and/or reinforce mainstream conceptions of evil and come to terms with the meaning and direction of America at a time of crossroads and vast social transfiguration. …”
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