Low-Grade Endometrial Stromal Sarcoma in a 22-Year-Old Maiden Female: A Rare Case Report from Syria by Lana Nseir, Georget Mansour, Junior Makhoul, Luna Skaf, Mohammad Ziad Dahhan, Zuheir AlShehabi

“…Here, we report a rare case of a 22-year-old Syrian female who presented with abnormal uterine bleeding; the preoperative diagnosis suggested leiomyoma while histopathological and immunohistochemical studies confirmed the diagnosis of LG-ESS stage IIA. …”
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Effects of the PPARα Agonist and Widely Used Antihyperlipidemic Drug Gemfibrozil on Hepatic Toxicity and Lipid Metabolism by Michael L. Cunningham, Bradley J. Collins, Milton R. Hejtmancik, Ronald A. Herbert, Gregory S. Travlos, Molly K. Vallant, Matthew D. Stout

“…Three-month feed studies of gemfibrozil were conducted by the National Toxicology Program (NTP) in male Harlan Sprague-Dawley rats, B6C3F1 mice, and Syrian hamsters, primarily to examine mechanisms of hepatocarcinogenicity. …”
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Reporting What’s Going on at the Neighbors from a Distance: Turkish News Channels’ Breaking News Coverage of the 2018 Missile Strikes against Syria by Ayşen Akkor Gül

“…For instance, no broadcast journalistsreflected the opinions of Syrian refugees living in Turkey, and very few reported from anywhere nearthe scene of the action. …”
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Exploring Sweden and South Africa’s Responses to Mass Migration during the Period 2015–2019 by Pragna Rugunanan, Celine Meyers

“…Following the so-called ‘Syrian refugee crisis’, Sweden witnessed the second largest asylum applications in Europe. …”
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Lipid-encapsulated gold nanoparticles: an advanced strategy for attenuating the inflammatory response in SARS-CoV-2 infection by Sanjeevram Dhandapani, Yujeong Ha, Rongbo Wang, Tae Woo Kwon, Ik-Hyun Cho, Yeon-Ju Kim

“…Conclusions Our findings strongly suggest that oral administering KGS-NE in mice and Syrian hamster models has the potential to effectively mitigate lung inflammation against coronavirus. …”
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PRINCIPLE TRAJECTORIES OF THE DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN POLICY CRISES IN MODERN TURKISH REPUBLIC by V. A. Avatkov, M. V. Kochkin

“…The most tangible signs of that are the resumption of hostilities between the Turkish army and PKK and also regular shillings of the positions of Syrian Kurds by Turkish artillery. According to the authorities of Turkey such policy is likely to force the Turkish society and foreign partners to make concessions and give the Justice and Development Party the right to reform the country in its own way. …”
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European distribution and intramuscular pathogenicity of divergent lyssaviruses West Caucasian bat virus and Lleida bat lyssavirus by Stefania Leopardi, Laurent Dacheux, Jordi Serra-Cobo, Ágota Ábrahám, Branka Bajić, Hervé Bourhy, Szilárd-Lehel Bücs, Ivana Budinski, Martina Castellan, Petra Drzewniokova, Heliana Dundarova, Francesca Festa, Lauriane Kergoat, Maxime Leuchtmann, Marc López-Roig, Dominique Pontier, Maria Francesca Priore, Emmanuelle Robardet, Dino Scaravelli, Barbara Zecchin, Zsófia Lanszki, Tamás Görföl, Gábor Kemenesi, Paola De Benedictis

“…We evaluated the intramuscular lethality of wild type isolates in Syrian hamsters. WCBV induced 100% lethality and a clinical disease compatible with furious rabies. …”
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TURKISH ALEVISM: RELIGIOUS IDENTIFICATION by D. V. Zhigulskaya

“…The question of possibility of ascribing Alevism to Shi’ism is also investigated in the article, as well as comparison of Alevism with Syrian Nusayri doctrine. It is well known that Nusayris of Syria are quite often called «Arab Alawites». …”
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Goats and Goddesses. Digital Approach to the Religioscapes of Atargatis and Allat by Kubiak-Schneider Aleksandra, Mazurek Sebastien

“…The charts and maps show the connectivity of distant places, such as Delos, Syrian Hierapolis, Athens, and Rome, and people of different cultural backgrounds who worshipped the goddesses. …”
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Understanding the Role of Refugees' Entrepreneurship Motives and Challenges in Integration: Evidence From the Food Industry by Ibrahim Cifci, Ozan Atsız

“…The data was collected through semi-structured interviews with Syrian refugees in two major European cities (i.e., London and Istanbul). …”
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The Impact of Suicide Attacks on Voting Behavior: The Case of November 2015 Early Elections by Ceren Yegen

“…These attacks aiming at destroying countries and citizens, and targeting civilians or state institutions, have been the current agenda in Turkey with cases such as Suruc Attack and Ankara Railway Station Attack following the June 7, 2015, elections and the Syrian Civil War. These attacks, which deeply affect the citizens and harm the country, can also have an impacton political behaviors such as social practices. …”
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Atypical presentation of anorexia nervosa pediatric patient: A multidisciplinary approach to diagnosis and management by Zainab Al Masseri, Afnan Aljawad, Zahrah Alkashi, Nadeer Albaik

“…This case report describes the complex presentation, diagnostic problems, and multidisciplinary therapy of a 13-year-old Syrian girl with an unusual form of anorexia nervosa (AN). …”
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Devlet Desteğinin Saldırgan Devlet Dışı Aktörler Üzerindeki Etkisi: ABD Desteği ve Naip Savaş Örneği Olarak Suriye İç Savaşı by Sinan DEMİRDÜZEN, Merve Suna ÖZEL ÖZCAN

“…We utilized from case study method to test our theory in Syrian civil war in general and relationship between the US and PYD/YPG/SDG in general. …”
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RUSSIAN-SAUDIAN POLITICAL INTERACTION by G. G. Kosach, E. S. Melkumyan, A. O. Filonik

“…The general attitude of both sides towards ISIS and Jabha al-Nusra as a source of terrorism, regional instability and the challenge of international security does not remove the two main contradictions that divide Moscow and Riyadh – attitude toward the official Syrian regime and the Iran’s regional policy. The study comes to the conclusion that Russia and Saudi Arabia are interested (albeit for various reasons) in diversifying their foreign policy and foreign economic relations.…”
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THE SECURITY ASPECT OF TURKEY-UNITED STATES RELATIONS: IN SEARCH FOR A NEW MODEL by I. A. Svistunova

“…At the same time such questions as participation of Turkey in the fight against ISIL and the USA military cooperation with the Syrian Kurds, whom Ankara considers to be connected with the PKK terrorist organization, has brought serious contradictions between the two countries. …”
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Priapism in a Child from Homocystinuria from Methylenetetrahydrofolate Reductase MTHFR (C677T) Mutation by Ameer Kakaje, Ammar Fadel, Osama Hosam Aldeen, Othman Hamdan

“…However, we present the first of such a case to the best of our knowledge of a prepubescent child who only had the MTHFR (C677T) mutation that causes homocystinuria and had ischaemic priapism. A nine-year-old Syrian Arab boy was presented with priapism that lasted for a few hours. …”
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Psychotherapists’ readiness to treat PTSD: the influence of refugees’ country of origin by Pia Maria Schwegler, Katharina Gossmann, Theresa Neumann, Anne Moser, Theresa Speth, Rita Rosner

“…There was no difference in treatment readiness between refugees from Syria and Ukraine, but therapists expected less therapeutic success for Syrian patients compared to Ukrainian patients. Gender did not influence the results.Conclusions: The study shows that refugee background and country of origin influence psychotherapists’ readiness to treat PTSD and their expectations of treatment success. …”
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Histopathology of the tongue in a hamster model of COVID-19 by John Coggins, Marina Hosotani Saito, Rebecca Cook, Shinji Urata, Megumi Urata, Nantian Lin Harsell, Wilhelmina Nanrui Tan, Bibiana Toro Figueira, Megan Bradley, Nadia Z. Quadri, Janisah Amirah I. Saripada, Rachel A. Reyna, Junki Maruyama, Slobodan Paessler, Tomoko Makishima

“…Abstract Objective With altered sense of taste being a common symptom of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), the main objective was to investigate the presence and distribution of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) within the tongue over the course of infection. Methods Golden Syrian hamsters were inoculated intranasally with SARS-CoV-2 and tongues were collected at 2, 3, 5, 8, 17, 21, 35, and 42 days post-infection (dpi) for analysis. …”
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Dietary Patterns and Their Association with Metabolic Syndrome and Their Components in Middle-Class Adults from Damascus, Syria: A Cross-Sectional Study by Malda Atasi, Ashuin Kammar-García, Rafael Almendra-Pegueros, Addi Rhode Navarro-Cruz

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TURKEY’S FOREIGN TRADE AS A DRIVER OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT by N. R. Masumova

“…But the conflict of interest during the war in Syria led to growing differences between Russia and Turkey. 24th of November 2015 became a turning point for the Russian-Turkish relations, when Turkish fighter jet F-16 shot down a Russian military jet along the Syrian border. This tragedy had serious consequences for the bilateral economic relations. …”
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