The Roles of circRNAs in Intervertebral Disc Degeneration: Inflammation, Extracellular Matrix Metabolism, and Apoptosis by Hao Li, Lijun Tian, Jianhua Li, Yongjin Li, Lilong Du, Zhenxin Huo, Baoshan Xu

“…The purpose of this review is to summarize the mechanism and related signaling pathways of circRNAs in IDD reported in the past. Particularly, the roles of circRNAs in inflammation, ECM metabolism, and apoptosis are emphasized.…”
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Sarcomatoid Renal Cell Carcinoma Metastasis to the Penis by Victor D. Liou, Oussama M. Darwish, Mary M. Henry, Ik C. Jun, Sameer A. Siddiqui

“…Secondary cancers of the penis are extremely uncommon with less than 300 cases reported in the past 100 years. These cancers are most frequently a result of an aggressive or poorly managed primary prostate or bladder cancer and rarely a metastasis from a primary kidney tumor. …”
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La emigración académica España-Ecuador durante el período de recesión económica: España-Ecuador durante el período de recesión económica: España-Ecuador durante el ¿una geoes... by PÉREZ-GAÑÁN, Rocío, MORENO, Gorka

“…Nonetheless, during the economic crisis of the past few years, there has been a significant change and increase, directing migrants to counties in the global South. …”
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The Role of Bile Acid Excretion in Atherosclerotic Coronary Artery Disease by Gideon Charach, Alexander Rabinovich, Ori Argov, Moshe Weintraub, Pavel Rabinovich

“…The impact of cholesterol and different classes of lipoproteins on the development of coronary artery disease (CAD) has been investigated in extensively during the past 50 years. The cholesterol metabolism is dependent on numerous factors, including dietary fat, fractional absorption of dietary cholesterol, tissue stores of cholesterol, endogenous cholesterol synthesis, and fecal bile excretion. …”
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Acceleration Feedback-Based Active and Semi-Active Seismic Response Control of Rail-Counterweight Systems of Elevators by Rildova, M.P. Singh

“…Based on the observations in the past earthquake events, the traction elevators in buildings are known to be vulnerable to earthquake induced ground motions. …”
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Fatigue loading characteristic for the composite steel-concrete beams by Ahmed I.Hassanin, Hesham M. Fawzy, Ahmed I. Elsheikh

“…During the past few decades, composite beams (steel I beam and concrete slab) have had a wide range of uses, particularly in bridge construction. …”
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Long Memory of Pathfinding Aesthetics by Ron Coleman

“…Finally, in those cases where metrics have been used in the past, they show only that aesthetic paths are different. …”
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An Experimental Study on Heat Conduction and Thermal Contact Resistance for the AlN Flake by Huann-Ming Chou, Jin-Chi Wang, Yuh-Ping Chang

“…The electrical technology has been a fast development over the past decades. Moreover, the tendency of microelements and dense division multiplex is significantly for the electrical industries. …”
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The Merits and Pitfalls of Participatory Action Research: Navigating Tokenism and Inclusion with Lived Experience Members by Tracy Smith-Carrier, Rana Van Tuyl

“…Using a collaborative autoethnographic methodology, this paper provides an overview of PAR, including its purposes and objectives. Aiming to move past tokenistic inclusion, issues associated with meaningful participation, including relational (e.g., issues of power), ethical (e.g., risks of participation), emotional (e.g., research triggers), economic (e.g., remunerating contributions and financially supporting participation), representational (e.g., whose perspectives are advanced), and structural barriers (e.g., time, technological connectivity, etc.) are discussed using concrete examples. …”
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Florida Pest Management Industry Economic Contributions Report by Hayk Khachatryan, Xuan Wei, Christa D. Court

“…The market share concentration of the Florida pest management industry has increased due to consolidation during the past decade, but the general concentration within the industry has remained relatively low. …”
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Biomechanics in the onset and severity of spondyloarthritis: a force to be reckoned with by Mark Hwang, Priyanka Iyer, Lauren Ridley, Michael M Weisman

“…Furthermore, we know that damage and inflammation can limit spinal mobility, but is there a cycle created by altered spinal mobility leading to additional damage and inflammation?Over the past several years, mechanotransduction, the mechanism by which mechanical perturbation influences gene expression and cellular behaviour, has recently gained popularity because of emerging data from both animal models and human studies of the pathogenesis of ankylosing spondylitis (AS). …”
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Lacanian Psychoanalysis and the Possibility of Re-invention of the Political: A Critical Review of Lacan and the Political by Aliashraf Nazari

“…Psychological and political theories are the mission of understanding individual and collective behaviors in the context of political life. Over the past two decades, the analysis of the psychoanalytic dimensions of politics with the focus of this discussion on how to talk about the relationship between politics and psychology has attracted many scholars. …”
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Urachal Tumor: A Case Report of an Extremely Rare Carcinoma by José Palla Garcia, Rita Sampaio, Carlos Peixoto

“…We report a case of a 46-year-old woman, with no past medical history, complaining of hematuria with 6-month duration and a physical exam and an abdominal computed topographic scan revealing an exophytic mass of 6.8 cm longer axis that grew depending on the anterior bladder wall, invading the anterior abdominal wall. …”
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Tradition of reform as reform of tradition: some considerations on the relation of religion and reform by C. Frevel

“…The concept “reform” is understood as a means of change with recourse to the past. Reform, it is argued, while currently more of a highly metaphorical and no less normative concept, proves to be a structural moment of tradition insofar as reform is related to tradition and tradition to reform. …”
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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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Selecting Candidates for Liver Transplantation: A Medical Ethics Perspective on the Microallocation of a Scarce and Rationed Resource by Eric M Yoshida

“…Liver transplantation has evolved over the past 35 years from an experimental procedure with high perioperative mortality to an accepted form of treatment with an approximate 85% one-year and 80% three-year patient survival rate. …”
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On issue of Nikifor Chernigovsky’s citizenship in connection with development of Amur region by Russia by M. S. Novikov

“…Interpretations of the events of the distant past of the Russian state have now become the arena of not only ideological, but also geopolitical struggle for territories and resources. …”
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Kaolinite induces rapid authigenic mineralisation in unburied shrimps by Nora Corthésy, Farid Saleh, Jonathan B. Antcliffe, Allison C. Daley

“…Abstract Fossils preserving soft tissues and lightly biomineralized structures are essential for the reconstruction of past ecosystems and their evolution. Understanding fossilization processes, including decay and mineralisation, is crucial for accurately interpreting ancient morphologies. …”
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Habiter la mémoire à la frontière de l’oubli : la maison comme seuil by Joana Duarte Bernardes

“…It means that even before becoming a dream figure or an imagined place of our past-future, the house all at once holds and makes possible the process of memory. …”
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Effects of the Attention Training Technique on Auditory Hallucinations in Schizo-Affective Disorder: A Single Case Study by Karin E. P. Carter, Adrian Wells

“…No antipsychotic medication was prescribed in this case following a serious adverse reaction in the past. The aim of the study was to test the impact of ATT on the frequency and duration of hallucinations using a repeated return to baseline followed by an alternating treatment design. …”
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