From Savage to Sublime (And Partway Back): Indians and Antiquity in Early Nineteenth-Century American Literature by Mark Niemeyer

“…Bringing together these two quite different worlds, however, resulted in various ambiguities: it simultaneously reinforced the suggestion that Indians were already part of the past (providing a certain complicity with the continuing destruction of Indian culture) and questioned the then dominant image of Ancient Greece and Rome as examples of some of the highest levels attainable of government and human civilization.…”
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La production d’un paysage par et pour le ski by Caterina Franco

“…We seek to understand the methods and tools used by the architect in defining resort plans and the elements that contribute to the construction of a landscape, and to comprehend how the architect's method and plans have evolved. By re-examining the past, we come to reflect on the relationship between project and environment in high mountain areas.…”
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Des fromages en friches. Le difficile renouveau de la production fromagère dans une vallée post-industrielle ariégeoise by Tristan Fournier, Olivier Lepiller, Guillaume Simonet

“…Indeed, since the end of the 2010s, several initiatives have emerged, without the link with the valley's cheese-making past being cultivated for the moment. These initiatives show the new favorable conditions, but also the persistent obstacles, to the relocation of food circuits in this post-industrial rural territory.…”
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Epidemiology of gastric cancer: global trends, risk factors and prevention by Prashanth Rawla, Adam Barsouk

“…While strides in preventing and treating H. pylori infection have decreased the overall incidence of gastric cancer, they have also contributed to an increase in the incidence of cardia gastric cancer, a rare subtype of the neoplasm that has grown 7-fold in the past decades. A better understanding of the etiology and risk factors of the disease can help reach a consensus in approaching H. pylori infection. …”
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Confidence Interval Estimation of an ROC Curve: An Application of Generalized Half Normal and Weibull Distributions by S. Balaswamy, R. Vishnu Vardhan

“…In the recent past, the work in the area of ROC analysis gained attention in explaining the accuracy of a test and identification of the optimal threshold. …”
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Why natural drugs being attracted to treat oral cancer? – Highlights from “Oral oncology reports” by Vinothini Gunasekaran, Palanivel Sathishkumar

“…Herein, the therapeutic efficacy, feasibility, and limitations of various natural drugs for the oral cancer treatment approaches published in “Oral Oncology Reports” from the past two years are discussed in detail. Overall, this study highlights that carotenoid (astaxanthin), alkaloids (piperine), polyphenols (epigallocatechin-3-gallate), flavanoids (genistein and quercetin), probiotic molecules (bacteriocin and extracellular polysaccharides), and marine peptides might be a promising natural drug for the treatment of oral cancer cells. …”
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NFIB-Mediated lncRNA PVT1 Aggravates Laryngeal Squamous Cell Carcinoma Progression via the miR-1301-3p/MBNL1 Axis by Tian Tang, Feng Zeng

“…Laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma (LSCC) is one of the most common malignant tumors of head and neck cancers. In the past decades, although the therapy strategies of LSCC have made considerable improvement, the terrible outcomes of LSCC still bring an enormous burden to the world health care system. …”
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Renal Sympathetic Denervation for the Treatment of Difficult-to-Control or Resistant Hypertension by Vasilios Papademetriou, Michalis Doumas, Konstantinos Tsioufis

“…This paper outlines the pathophysiological background for renal sympathetic denervation, describes the past and the present of this interventional approach, and considers several future potential applications.…”
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Innovative Design and Application of Pitching Movement Transmission Mechanism in Large-scale Wind Tunnel by Guangfei You, Dewei Zhang, Zhihui Lu, Guoliang Zheng, Yongqiang Qiao, Yanbo Lai

“…This mode realizes the linear actuation function with a limited range of rotation， and overcomes the problems of high manufacturing cost and difficulty in installation and commissioning of large-size and high-precision worm gear pair in the past. To verify the effectiveness of this mode， a comprehensive analysis of the mechanism from aspects of dynamics of mechanism， kinematics of mechanism， control characteristics， stiffness and strength is conducted. …”
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Influence of external impacts on the dynamics of the industrial structure of gross regional product by D. A. Gaynanov, A. G. Ataeva

“…Firstly, based on a comparison of the trends in oil prices and the gross regional product of Russian regions over the past 20 years, the paper determines that the oil crisis will affect the economic development of all regions, regardless of the specialization of the territory. …”
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Corps-dissident, Corps-défendant. Le tatouage, une « peau de résistance » by Emma Viguier

“…The basis of such treatment in the past has related, and continues to relate, to one’s situation, religion or act : the slave, prisoner, criminal, social misfit, prostitute, enemy of the faith, « non-aryan » of the Nazi ideology. …”
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Allergen-Induced Asthma by Donald W Cockcroft

“…The late asthmatic response, recurrent bronchoconstriction after spontaneous resolution of the early responses occurring 3 h to 8 h or more postchallenge, has been identified and well characterized over the past 50 years. The associated allergen-induced airway hyper-responsiveness (1977) and allergen-induced airway inflammation (1985) indicate that these late sequelae are important in the mechanism of allergen-induced asthma. …”
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ANALYSIS OF THE TRADE RELATIONS BETWEEN THE REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA AND THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY by Emilija Miteva-Kacarski, Iskra Stanceva-Gigov, Kostadinka Cabuleva

“…The results of the analysis point to the fact that in the past few years the RM has realized a trade surplus in the exchange with FRG as a result of the catalyst export of bearers of precious metals and their compounds, the product category which brings the country a comparative advantage in the exchange with FRG. …”
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Uniaxial Compression Mechanical Analysis of Cylindrical Rock Specimens Based on Space Axisymmetric Problem by Jianguang Li, Yanchun Wang, Chuanqi Su

“…The common failure forms in the uniaxial compression test of standard cylindrical rock specimens are symmetric cone failure and splitting failure. In the past, two kinds of failure forms were explained from the plane problems of elasticity theory. …”
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Hopf-Bifurcation Analysis of Pneumococcal Pneumonia with Time Delays by Fulgensia Kamugisha Mbabazi, Joseph Y. T. Mugisha, Mark Kimathi

“…The model results suggest that, as the respective delays exceed some critical value past the endemic equilibrium, the system loses stability through the process of local birth or death of oscillations. …”
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Why East Asian Objects in Slovenia Became “Orphaned” by Nataša Vampelj Suhadolnik

“…This makes it extremely difficult for researchers to trace the biographies of these objects and identify their past ownership. Many other records, such as photographs of interiors and other object documents, have also been lost due to the complex socio-political situation and the mobility of the objects between the private and public spheres. …”
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Geotourism and Geoconservation on the Isle of Wight, UK: Balancing Science with Commerce by Martin Simpson

“…A positive attitude is recommended in view of past experiences.…”
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A Diagnostic Dilemma of Recurrent Disseminated Peritoneal Leiomyomatosis with Hypertrophied Omental Vessels: Imaging and Embolization of Omental Branches with Positive Outcome by Jitendra Parmar, Chander Mohan, Deepak Hans, Maulik Vora

“…We present a case report of recurrent disseminated peritoneal leiomyomatosis in a 30-year-old female with a past history of laparoscopic myomectomy by a technique of morcellation for a large fibroid in 2014. …”
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Hydroxychloroquine Therapy Led to the Diagnosis of Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase (G6PD) Deficiency in an Elderly Patient with COVID-19 Involvement: A Case Report and Review of... by Razieh Taghizadeh-Sarvestani, Hamid Reihani, Ali Ghanei-Shahmirzadi, Alireza Keshtkar, Parsa Yazdanpanahi

“…Here, we present the case of a 70-year-old man with no past medical history of G6PD deficiency that was admitted to our hospital due to COVID-19 infection and developed acute hemolytic anemia while receiving hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) medication for COVID-19-related pneumonia.…”
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Formation of new narratives in the field of regional economic research by V. V. Stroev

“…The article studies evolution of main approaches to the study of regional economy. Over the past half a century, the research paradigm in the area of economic sciences has undergone significant changes: the theories of regional economics have changed, significantly evolving, complementing, and mutually reinforcing each other. …”
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