‘Poor little princess’: Queen Victoria’s Court as a Site of Imperial Conquest by Chandrica Barua

“…Gouramma had found herself in 1850s England, displaced from her homeland and culture, anglicized and Christianized, pruned and displayed as the glorious civilizational project of the Empire, and yet never truly being an inhabitant of Victorian interiors. …”
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Measuring Productivity of Citrus Hand Harvesters and Assessing Implications on Harvest Costs and Mechanical Harvesting Developments by Fritz M. Roka, Barbara R. Hyman

“…While changes can be made to increase fruit recovery percentages, mechanical systems will never equal the fruit recovery percentages from hand-harvesting crews, much less capture 100 percent of the available fruit. …”
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An Unusual Presentation of Idiopathic Lymphatic Cyst of the Thigh by Chairat Burusapat, Sophilak Sringkarawat, Sineenard Thanapurirat, Rapeepat Sapruangthong, Chatchai Pruksapong, Kantang Satayasoontorn

“…To our best knowledge, idiopathic lymphatic cyst of the thigh in young adult has never been reported and should be kept in mind in the patient who presents with abnormal thigh mass.…”
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Stochastic tuning of gene expression enables cellular adaptation in the absence of pre-existing regulatory circuitry by Lydia Freddolino, Jamie Yang, Amir Momen-Roknabadi, Saeed Tavazoie

“…These hard-wired pathways, however, may be inadequate for adaptation to environments never encountered before. Here, we reveal evidence for an alternative mode of gene regulation that enables adaptation to adverse conditions without relying on external sensory information or genetically predetermined cis-regulation. …”
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Vesicoureteral Reflux in the Child with Lazy Bladder Syndrome: The Infrequent Voider by Marco Grasso, Fabrizio Torelli, Salvatore Blanco, Flavio Fortuna, Marco Baruffi

“…We report about a young girl affected by one-sided 2∘ degree vesico-ureteral reflux due to Lazy Bladder Syndrome that had never been diagnosed before. This patient has been submitted to a prompt bladder training and seems presently to have at last gained a physiological micturition after 9 months of follow-up, without actual evidence of vesicoureteral reflux. …”
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Can Tics be Performed Convincingly by an Actor? by Kirsten R. Müller-Vahl, Laura Riemann, Hermann Krämer, Alexander Münchau

“…However, people with tics (n=26) were less convinced compared to those who had never met a person with tics (n=110) (P=0.020). Conclusions. …”
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$K$-$b$-Frames for Hilbert Spaces and the $b$-Adjoint Operator by Chaimae Mezzat, Samir Kabbaj

“…We will introduce new results about this product, about $b$-frames and $K$-$b$-frames and we will also give some examples of both $b$-frames and $K$-$b$-frames that have never been given before. We will express the reconstruction formula of the elements of the Hilbert space. …”
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Long-term outcomes after percutaneous withdrawal of HeartWare left ventricular assist device (HVAD) support: A 10-year update by Chokanan Thaitirarot, Leonard M. Shapiro, Clive Lewis, Jayan Parameshwar, Steven S.L. Tsui, Stephen J. Pettit

“…While his left ventricular (LV) dimensions never completely normalized and there has been persistent mild impairment of LV systolic function, the patient remains free of heart failure symptoms and his natriuretic peptide level has been well suppressed on guideline-directed medical therapy. …”
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Bilateral Radial Ulnar Synostosis and Vertebral Anomalies in a Child with a De Novo 16p13.3 Interstitial Deletion by Allison Tam, Kit Shan Lee, Sansan Lee, William Burkhalter, Lucio U. Pascua, Thomas P. Slavin

“…The specific deletion has never been previously reported. We describe the phenotype of the boy and review the genes in the deleted region. …”
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Oleraceins from Portulaca oleracea leaves: Quali-quantitative determination and antioxidant potential by Ciro Cannavacciuolo, Assunta Napolitano, Verena M. Dirsch, Elke H. Heiss, Milena Masullo, Sonia Piacente

“…Qualitative and quantitative analysis of oleraceins in this extract resulted in the identification of three polyphenolic alkaloids never reported before and in the definition of oleracein A as the most abundant alkaloid. …”
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Inventory of introduced fish species traded in Medan Regency, North Sumatra, Indonesia by Batubara Agung Setia, Panggabean Anastasya Sorta, Rahmatsyah Rahmatsyah, Juliani Rita, Syarifuddin Syarifuddin, Muliari Muliari, Akmal Yusrizal, Irfannur Irfannur

“…Reports regarding introduced fish species traded in Medan have never been reported, even though the invasive impact of several species has occurred, especially in Lake Toba, North Sumatra. …”
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Poststernotomy Osteomyelitis Presenting with Severe Sepsis and Rhabdomyolysis by Eugene M. Tan, Melissa Lyle, Kelly Cawcutt, Zelalem Temesgen

“…This patient’s unusual presentation with osteomyelitis and rhabdomyolysis has never been reported and is crucial for clinicians to recognize in order to prevent delays in diagnosis.…”
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Consumption of Pornographic Materials among Hong Kong Early Adolescents: A Replication by Daniel T. L. Shek, Cecilia M. S. Ma

“…Results showed that over 80% of the respondents had never consumed pornographic materials in the past year. …”
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Iconic Celebration of Charms and Friendship in Poetry: Fálétí’s “Adébímpé Ọ̀jẹ́dòkun” by Michael Oladejo Afoláyan

“…He swore by the sacred incantation that there would be no peace for an animal that made waste the farm of his friend, just as “the male pigeon is never at ease to live inside the house; Èmì – the migrant rat, never sleeps in the same nest two nights in a row; and as the case is for the pataguenon monkey to jump from tree to tree restlessly without finding a place to rest . . .” so would it be for the animal that violated the farm of his friend. …”
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Conscientious Objection Based on Patient Identity by John Dinelli

“…I will explain why a virtuous physician would never conscientiously object to treating a patient based on the patient’s sexual orientation or gender identity, even if allowed, like in Arkansas. …”
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From fear to food: predation risk shapes deer behaviour, their resources and forest vegetation by Martin, Jean-Louis, Chamaillé-Jammes, Simon, Salomon, Anne, Gomez Pourroy, Devana Veronica, Schlaeflin, Mathilde, Le Saout, Soizic, Lucas, Annick, Bentaleb, Ilham, Chollet, Simon, Pattison, Jake, Martin-Blangy, Soline, Gaston, Anthony James

“…Where deer faced long-term hunting and natural predators, understories were denser and more diverse and resembled those of forests never exposed to deer. Severe deer culling in sites initially without risk dramatically increased the cover of understory vegetation, although different in composition from the one in forests with long-term presence of predators and hunting, or that never had deer. …”
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Types of electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) used by people of different age and smoking status groups: results from a US nationally representative survey by Lucy Popova, Robert T Fairman, David L Ashley, Zachary B Massey, Bai Cham, Ruiyan Luo, Mohammed Alqahtani, Scott Weaver

“…Among 13–17 years old, current (vs never) smokers had greater odds of current regular use for cigalikes (OR=2.79), disposables (OR=2.33), refillable tanks (OR=2.27), closed pods (OR=2.62) and drippers (OR=6.32; all p<0.05). …”
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Conditional Stochastic Simulations of Flow and Transport with Karhunen-Loève Expansions, Stochastic Collocation, and Sequential Gaussian Simulation by Mina E. Ossiander, Malgorzata Peszynska, Veronika S. Vasylkivska

“…Exact values of this field are never known, and thus one must evaluate uncertainty of solutions to the flow and transport models. …”
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Interpersonal relations by Llew von Essen

“…But like you, I am not that naïve to realise that it is an easy one free of problems. Never before in the lifetime of man has the need for a better understanding of communication and culture and their effect on interpersonal relations been so essential. …”
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Nurses' Psychosocial Barriers to Suicide Risk Management by Sharon Valente

“…Some nurses (𝑛=122) indicated that euthanasia was never justified and 11 were unsure of justifications and evaluated each case on its merits. …”
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