Investigation of plasmid profiles of enterococcus faecalis isolated from mastitic cow milks by Mehmet Öztürk, Süheyla Türkyılmaz

“…<p> <b>Materials and Methods:</b> As a material, 54 E. faecalis strains isolated in the past years from milk samples with mastitis were used. …”
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“They didn’t break me either way”. Women, Captivity and Interrogation in World War II: Resurfacing Self-Empowering Narratives by Simona Tobia

“…The article concludes that the way these women came to terms with their violent past challenges ideas about the vulnerability of women in captivity and that their narratives reach surprisingly empowering epilogues.…”
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Role of Investigating Thrombophilic Disorders in Young Stroke by Kay W. P. Ng, Pei K. Loh, Vijay K. Sharma

“…Our knowledge about various inherited and acquired causes of thrombophilic disorders has increased significantly during the past decade. Technology for various diagnostic tests for these rare disorders has matched the rapid advances in our understanding about the thrombophilic disorders. …”
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Imaginaire et différ(a)nce : générateurs de paysages by Rita Occhiuto

“…Our assumption is that the project produces a different or deferred meaning, a différ(a)nce, a textual composition with a double structure : "trace-gap", "residual and dynamic", "retentive and subject to propensity", (Jacques Derrida), linked to the past (trace) and projecting into the future through a distance or distancing (gap).…”
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Multilingualism and Polyphony: Post-modernism Features in "Possible Night" (Shab-e Momken) Novel by Nooshin Ostadmohamadi, Maryam Hoseini

“…Iranian fiction atmosphere, in the past two decades, is strongly under the influence of Schools and literary movements, such as postmodernism. …”
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The Use of START/STOPP Criteria for Elderly Patients in Primary Care by Muhteşem Erol Yayla, Uğur Bilge, Elif Binen, Ahmet Keskin

“…The files surveyed allowed us to list the drugs they used in the past year and to detect inappropriate drug use. Results. …”
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The paradox of hikikomori through a transcultural lens by Yoko Nagai, Amy Kartar, Magdalena Pfaff, Hussien Elkholy

“…This article appraises cultural understanding and controversies regarding hikikomori (prolonged social withdrawal), with reference to research over the past 20 years. Initially viewed as a uniquely Japanese phenomenon, hikikomori is now recognised globally, prompting a re-evaluation of its cultural, psychological and socioeconomic demographics. …”
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Jurassic Marine Crocodiles in the Monts d’Ardèche UNESCO Global Geopark by Bernard Riou, Mehdi Bennourine, Nicolas Klee, Marc Lutz

“…Fossils of crocodilians have been discovered in these layers, highlighting the diversity of past marine environments. Sites of interest and their fossils are today protected and valorized by different public and private actors working in synergy, notably through the UNESCO Global Geopark label.…”
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Immune Deficiency and Autoinflammation, the " Yin" and " Yang" of the Immune System by ZHOU Yu, SONG Hongmei

“…However increasing research has shown that noninfectious manifestations can also be the initial or even primary presentation of IEI. Over the past ten years, more and more IEIs associated with autoinflammatory symptoms have been identified. …”
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Ecological and Coevolutionary Dynamics in Modern Markets Yield Nonstationarity in Market Efficiencies by Colin M. Van Oort, John Henry Ring IV, David Rushing Dewhurst, Christopher M. Danforth, Brian F. Tivnan

“…The U.S. stock market is one of the largest and most complex marketplaces in the global financial system. Over the past several decades, this market has evolved at multiple structural and temporal scales. …”
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Efficiency and Progressivity Measures of the Flat Tax with a Special Focus on Bosnia and Herzegovina by Lejla Lazović-Pita

“… The research begins with a brief overview of the personal income taxation trends in developed and transition countries in the past thirty years. During this period, we determine that in developed countries there has been a shift from equity towards efficiency principle conducted by a reduction of top progressive personal income tax (hereafter: PIT) rates and through base broadening. …”
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Timelines of Tension: Trajectories of Protected-Area Creation in the Austrian Alps by Valerie Braun, Gebhard Bendler, Andreas Haller, Kati Heinrich

“…To shorten these “timelines of tension” in future conservation projects, communication measures and strategies could clearly be improved and past experiences of protected area designations made available to present policy makers of the Alpine region. …”
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Foreign Policy Change Under Authoritarian Leaders: Analysis of Uzbekistan’s Foreign Policy in the Post-Cold War Era by Feruza Madaminova

“…By focusing on the actors of foreign policy decision-making, past scholarship has mainly concentrated on the role of institutional and noninstitutional factors in foreign policy change. …”
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Tuberculosis Infection Mimicking Brain Metastatic Malignancy Lesions in an Elderly Male by Dimitrios Anyfantakis, Ageliki Damianaki, Maria Kokosi, Emmanouil K. Symvoulakis, Serafim Kastanakis

“…An 83-year-old Caucasian Greek man was referred by his general practitioner to the emergency department of the general hospital in Crete because of seizures and agitation. His past medical history was negative for any neurological or medical condition. …”
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Effect of Ferronickel Slag Powder on Strength of Soil in Marine Environment by Feng Chen, Shenghao Tong

“…Over the past few years, soil-cement has been widely used in marine geotechnical engineering; meanwhile, the safety of soil-cement in marine environment has attracted wide attention. …”
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Tolerance for inequality in Thailand by Wannaphong Durongkaveroj

“…Over the past two decades, income inequality has increased in most developed countries and in some developing countries. …”
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Review of approaches and methods for identifying experts in organizational research by E. M. Shironina

“…Methods are considered: social acclamation, political influence, problem situation, personal involvement, external cues, self-ratings, past performance, knowledge tests, psychological traits. …”
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Intertextuality as a Poetic Rewriting Strategy in Pelin Batu’s Self-Translated Poems by Göksenin Abdal

“…Intertextual elements contribute to increasing the depth of meaning in literary texts through their associations with present and past texts produced by different authors in the literary world. …”
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New Frequency-Dependent Trigonometric Interpolation Functions for the Dynamic Finite Element Analysis of Thin Rectangular Plates by Supun Jayasinghe, Seyed M. Hashemi

“…The DFE method, originally developed by the second author, has been exploited heavily to study the modal behaviour of beams in the past. Results from these studies have shown that the DFE method is capable of arriving at highly accurate results with a coarse mesh, thus, making it an ideal choice for preliminary stage modal analysis and design of structural components. …”
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Blunt Renal Trauma in a Pre-Existing Renal Lesion by G.V. Soundra Pandyan, Idris Omo-Adua, Mohammed Al Rashid, Ahmed Bakheet Zaharan

“…A pre-existing renal lesion (PERL) was strongly suspected by his past history of gross macroscopic hematuria and monotrauma to the kidney without other associated injuries. …”
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