The Relation of Coffee Consumption to Serum Uric Acid in Japanese Men and Women Aged 49–76 Years by Ngoc Minh Pham, Daigo Yoshida, Makiko Morita, Guang Yin, Kengo Toyomura, Keizo Ohnaka, Ryoichi Takayanagi, Suminori Kono

“…We examined the relation between coffee intake and serum UA levels in free-living middle-aged and elderly men and women in Fukuoka, Japan. …”
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AN EXAMINATION OF THE CONCEPT AND CLASSIFICATIONS OF MAQAM IN THE HISTORICAL PROCESS (13th-20th CENTURIES) by Emre Akgün

“…Classical Turkish music, which has been continuing to be fed with the Middle Ages Islamic world since the 10th century, owes its development to the pieces written by many theorists and composers, especially Fârâbî, İbn-î Sînâ, Safüyüddin Urmevî, Abdülkâdir Merâgî, Bedri Dilşad, Lâdikli Mehmed Çelebi, Abdülbâkî Nâsır Dede, Dimitri Cantemir, Rauf Yektâ. …”
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Aging disrupts the link between network centrality and functional properties of prefrontal neurons during memory-guided behavior by Yadollah Ranjbar-Slamloo, Huee Ru Chong, Tsukasa Kamigaki

“…This relationship, however, deteriorates in middle-aged and older mice. A computational model simulating age-related declines in synaptic plasticity reproduces these results. …”
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Unexpected Tension Pneumothorax-Hemothorax during Induction of General Anaesthesia by Ekaterini Amaniti, Chrysoula Provitsaki, Panagiota Papakonstantinou, George Tagarakis, Konstantinos Sapalidis, Ioannis Dalakakis, Dimitrios Gkinas, Vasilios Grosomanidis

“…We describe a case of a healthy middle-aged woman, who was planned to receive general anaesthesia for total thyroidectomy. …”
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Pulmonary Thromboembolism Complicating Amebic Liver Abscess: First Reported Case in the United States—Case Report and Literature Review by Devon McKenzie, Michael Gale, Sunny Patel, Grazyna Kaluta

“…In the USA, it is most prevalent in middle aged immigrant males from endemic countries such as Africa, Mexico, and India. …”
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Myristoylated Eepd1 Enhances Lipolysis and Thermogenesis through PKA Activation to Combat Obesity by Suzhen Chen, Yanping Wang, Qian Zhou, Qiqi Qian, Quanxin Jiang, Chuchu Liu, Yan Liu, Peihui Zhou, Jie Xiong, Yao Zhang, Ning Wang, Yang Emma Li, Limin Yin, Hongyuan Yang, Junli Liu

“…Abstract Middle-aged obesity, characterized by excessive fat accumulation and systemic energy imbalance, often precedes various health complications. …”
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Le pouvoir laïque est-il profane ? Classement distinctif et spiritualisation seigneuriale en Haute-Allemagne à la fin du Moyen Âge by Joseph Morsel, Camille Noûs

“…The article proposes a different interpretation of this practice, starting from a specific empirical terrain – secular lords in Upper Germany in the late Middle Ages – and considering seriously the caro/spiritus schema – instead of the common, albeit dated profane/sacred binomial couple –, not only as a discursive system but also and above all as the actual ideational matrix of social practices. …”
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Ambivalent and Contradictory: Victorian Architects’ Responses to Technology by Richard W. Hayes

“…Both Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin and John Ruskin saw architecture as the optimal site from which to mount vigorous critiques of the modern world as they idealized the Middle Ages in order to denounce the social ills concomitant with industrialism. …”
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Becoming a Caregiver: The Role of the Environment in the Process of Children Becoming Responsible for Others by Carolina Remorini

“…The concept of “mutual raising” is employed to examine the daily interactions between middle-aged children and their domestic animals. To gain an insight into how children develop sophisticated and ecologically relevant skills to become autonomous and responsible for the care of others within the context of environmental interdependence, we present and analyze a cultural practice that is salient to the identity and way of life in rural communities of the Andean region in South America: becoming a shepherd. …”
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Evaluating the effects of guide plans on the mental health of villagers (Case study: Central district of Darab County) by Hamid Heidary mokarrar, Hamid reza Nasimi, Zohreh Ramezanpour

“…Other results of the research confirm that there is a significant difference between mental health status in all three age groups of men But among women, there is a significant difference between the two age groups of the elderly with young people and middle aged people.…”
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Expressões retóricas do amor no Cancioneiro Geral de Garcia de Resende by Geraldo Augusto Fernandes

“…In antiquity, the orator was guided by elocutio to make his speech a rich ornament with the intention of convincing his audience that he, the orator, defended a correct thesis, and that his oratory was, above all, a piece for delight. In the Middle Ages, the ornaments used by orators became poetic composition not only as a work of lexicon, but also as the way in which poetry was structured. …”
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Conversions to Catholicism among Fin de Siècle Writers: A Spiritual and Literary Genealogy by Claire Masurel-Murray

“…They were also influenced by their Pre-Raphaelite predecessors’ interest in the Catholic Middle Ages as well as by their emphasis on the aesthetic dimension of religious experience, and claimed their kinship with the art for art’s sake creed of French Parnassians and Symbolists (Gray, in particular, translated several of Verlaine’s Catholic poems). …”
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Panem nostrum quotidianum da nobis hodie by Iria Gonçalves

“…The Europeans of the Middle Ages have always valued bread within their food system, especially as meat, another highly valued food, became scarcer. …”
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Pointing out persuasion in Philemon by P.B. Decock

“…He has selected, as the subtitle indicates, 50 readings of Philemon from three periods, the early church (starting with Ambrosiaster in chapter 1), the Middle Ages (chapter 2), and the period from the 16th to the 18th century (Chapter 3). …”
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Inflamm-Aging-Related Cytokines of IL-17 and IFN-γ Accelerate Osteoclastogenesis and Periodontal Destruction by Jingyi Tan, Anna Dai, Lai Pan, Lan Zhang, Zhongxiu Wang, Ting Ke, Weilian Sun, Yanmin Wu, Pei-Hui Ding, Lili Chen

“…Periodontal disease (PD), as an age-related disease, prevalent in middle-aged and elderly population, is characterized as inflammatory periodontal tissue loss, including gingival inflammation and alveolar bone resorption. …”
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Immunoglobulin G4 Sclerosing Cholangitis: An Unusual Cause of Obstructive Jaundice—Case Report and Literature Review by Pragya Shrestha, Brian Le, Brent Wagner, William Pompella, Paras Karmacharya

“…IgG4-RD is an increasingly recognized immune-mediated fibroinflammatory systemic disease, mostly affecting middle-aged and older male populations that can affect multiple organs. …”
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The Diagnosis and Treatment of Branch Retinal Vein Occlusions: An Update by Diana-Maria Darabuş, Rodica Georgiana Dărăbuş, Mihnea Munteanu

“…Branch retinal vein occlusion (BRVO) is a common retinal vascular condition and a significant contributor to vision loss worldwide, particularly in middle-aged and elderly populations. This review synthesizes current knowledge on the epidemiology, pathogenesis, and clinical features of BRVO, alongside recent advancements in diagnostic and therapeutic strategies. …”
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Distal muscle weakness as the main onset symptom in thymoma-associated myasthenia gravis: a case report and literature review by Xuan Wu, Xiao-tian Xu, Lin Zhou, Kai Qiao, Chong-bo Zhao, Su-shan Luo

“…This report presents a case of a middle-aged woman with a chronic onset of asymmetric upper limb weakness accompanied by difficulty in finger extension, without ptosis or fluctuation for 4 years. …”
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COVID-19 Vaccination Associated Bilateral Pulmonary Embolism: Cause or Coincidence by John Omotola Ogunkoya, Marion Itohan Ogunmola, Akinwale Folarin Ogunlade, Akindele Emmanuel Ladele

“…These cases were seen and described in middle-aged men. Case Summary. A 59-year-old man presented with a 2 week history of sudden onset dyspnea and a week history of productive cough. …”
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Spiradenoma: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Jia-Ying Chang, Yen-Chang Chen, Dah-Ching Ding

“…<b>Background and Clinical Significance:</b> Spiradenoma is a rare benign skin adnexal tumor with unknown incidence and prevalence, typically affecting young to middle-aged adults without a sexual predilection. <b>Case Presentation:</b> A 59-year-old woman presented with a palpable lesion in the suprapubic region that had been there for 20 years and had become enlarged over the past 2 months. …”
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