Differing Pattern of Ambulatory Blood Pressure in Very Elderly Men Expresses Dynamics in Atherosclerotic Load in the Senescence by Arkadiusz Siennicki-Lantz, Sölve Elmståhl

“…Higher ABPM reflects instead an increasing CBP and aggravating atherosclerosis during the preceding decade in that part of the cohort with previously favorable risk factor status.…”
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Subliminal visual stimulation produces behavioural oscillations in multiple frequencies in a visual integration task by Michelle Johannknecht, Alfons Schnitzler, Joachim Lange

“…Crucially we investigated if a subliminal stimulus preceding the target stimulus modulates behaviour. …”
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Paraneoplastic Autoimmunity Associated with Testicular Myeloid Sarcoma and Chronic Myelomonocytic Leukemia by Jeffrey W. Craig, Richard J. Lin

“…Here, we report an unusual case of myeloid sarcoma of the testis found in association with chronic myelomonocytic leukemia where the presenting symptoms were autoimmune pericarditis and migratory arthralgias and myalgias that preceded testicular enlargement by nearly three months. …”
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Violence and the Displacement of Rail Workers of Altsasu-Alsasua in the Spanish Civil War and its Aftermath by Daniel Oviedo Silva, Esther Aldave Monreal, Juan C. García-Funes, Imanol Satrustegui Andres

“…First, we examine the circumstances that produced early flights, which only make sense if we bear in mind the myriad experiences of socio-political conflict which preceded the war and heralded its beginning. Thereafter, the article maps the itineraries of those who abandoned the area. …”
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Navigating technical, legal, and ethical hurdles to scraping LinkedIn data for academic research by André José de Queiroz Padilha, Jesús Pascual Mena-Chalco

“…Despite prohibitive measures and potential legal issues outlined by LinkedIn, recent court decisions provide favorable precedents for the lawful scraping of public profiles. …”
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Fast updating feedback from piriform cortex to the olfactory bulb relays multimodal identity and reward contingency signals during rule-reversal by Diego E. Hernandez, Andrei Ciuparu, Pedro Garcia da Silva, Cristina M. Velasquez, Benjamin Rebouillat, Michael D. Gross, Martin B. Davis, Honggoo Chae, Raul C. Muresan, Dinu F. Albeanu

“…Both odor and, surprisingly, the sound cues trigger responses in the cortical bulbar feedback axons which precede the behavioral report. Responses to the same sensory cue are strongly modulated upon changes in stimulus-reward contingency (rule-reversals). …”
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Three-Dimensional Electrical Impedance Imaging During Spontaneous Breathing Trials in Patients With Acute Hypoxic Respiratory Failure: A Pilot Study by Nilton Barbosa da Rosa, Jr, MS, Tzu-Jen Kao, MD, PhD, John Brinton, PhD, Patrick J. Offner, Ellen L. Burnham, MD, Jennifer L. Mueller, PhD

“…EIT data were collected in 24 mechanically ventilated patients immediately preceding and during a SBT on two rows of 16 electrodes using a simultaneous multicurrent source EIT system for 3D imaging. …”
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The illusion of limitlessness: Engaging Cornel du Toit’s perspective on transhumanism and being by Benson O. Igboin

“…He explores the implications of this development for human existence, as it shifts the role of humans from being subjects to objects, with artificial intelligence taking precedence. Despite this, he concludes that there is nothing to fear about the superintelligent machines as they cannot replace human beings. …”
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Transitional justice and impunity for fascism in southern Europe: The case of Spain in a comparative perspective by Roque Moreno Fonseret, Pedro Payá López

“…In France and Italy, the criminal justice, administrative purges, and economic sanctions that were applied were preceded by extra-legal repression exercised during the final phase of the war, the liberation, and the immediate postwar period in what was known as an épuration and in which the Resistance played a leading role. …”
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Pandemic Fictions: Covid-19 and the Cultures of Dystopia by Sean Mark

“…Contextualising the British government’s handling of the crisis in the political culture of neoliberalism, the essay uses the concept of dystopia to underline the continuity of this response with the politics of the decade that preceded it – in the aborted pursuit of “herd immunity”, for example; the non-transparent conferment to private-sector companies, with little or no public health expertise, of contracts worth billions; and the authoritarian use of Covid legislation. …”
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Psychogenic Equinovarus Caused by Dislocation of the Chopart Joint Complex by Ichiro Tonogai, Koichi Sairyo

“…He had noticed left equinovarus deformity upon waking abruptly but had no history of preceding trauma and no relevant medical history. Computed tomography (CT) images revealed dislocation of the left Chopart joint complex, but clinical examination did not suggest an organic neurologic disorder. …”
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When is a DAO Decentralized? by Henrik Axelsen, Johannes Rude Jensen, Omri Ross

“…Yet, decentralization is an abstract concept with scarce legal precedence. We investigate dimensions of decentralization through thematic analysis, combining extant literature with a series of expert interviews. …”
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Nü Jidu in Matthew 24:27: An exegetical evaluation of Dongfang Shandian in China by Harman Z. Laia, Jimmy Sutrisno

“…Christ’s return has not yet occurred, but it will happen at the end of time, preceded by various terrifying events around the world known as the tribulation. …”
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After visibility: Data as a factor of production in Douyin e-commerce by Shuaishuai Wang

“…In contrast to Instagram, traffic conversion into sales takes precedence over product visibility on Douyin. In this process, Douyin actively uses user data to manufacture high-traffic keywords with buying intent. …”
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Virginia Woolf’s “Modernist Renaissance” in “Anon”: A Singular Counter-History by Anne Besnault

“…It is this very notion of rebirth that Woolf rewrites in her drafted essay “Anon,” the unfinished chapter of her “Common History Book” that she left in the form of an incompletely revised typescript in 1940 and that was posthumously published. In the months preceding her death, the Second World War was putting all ideas of renewal at bay: to rewrite Britain’s cultural history, whether in the form of a play-poem with Between the Acts (1940) or in the form of a critical literary history had become an urgent act of hope in the midst of despair. …”
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Autobiographical Memory Retrieval and Hippocampal Activation as a Function of Repetition and the Passage of Time by Lynn Nadel, Jenna Campbell, Lee Ryan

“…While undergoing fMRI scanning, participants retrieved remote autobiographical memories that had been previously retrieved either one month earlier, two days earlier, or multiple times during the preceding month. Behavioral analyses revealed that the number and consistency of memory details retrieved increased with multiple retrievals but not with the passage of time. …”
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The introduction of the Stanford-Binet intelligence scales in Paraguay by José E. García

“…Although the first strategies to evaluate the human intellectual skills find millennial precedents in the ancient China, the attempts of measurement in the modern period began with the English psychologist Francis Galton in the decade of 1880, applying physiological measurements to estimate the human talent. …”
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Information management and technology strategy in healthcare: local timescales and national requirements by Les Smith, Hugh Preston

“…Its initial investigation of information needs preceded the publication of the national strategy and its implementation straddled the timescale devised by the NHS Information Authority. …”
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Tourism and economic growth in Portugal: an empirical investigation of causal links by João Paulo Cerdeira Bento

“…This study uses quarterly time series for the period from 1995 to 2015 to assess the temporal causal link between tourism and economic growth based on the hypothesis according to which tourism development precedes economic growth. It adopts a disaggregated approach to study the effects of both domestic tourists and foreign tourists on economic growth. …”
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Bigeminy with Prolonged QT Interval as an Ominous Sign for Impending Torsades de Pointes: A Case Report by Thuc Vu, Jake Valentine

“…We highlight a case of torsades preceded by a bizarre bigeminal rhythm with QTc prolongation likely caused by memantine use and hypokalemia. …”
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