A Rare Manifestation of Tuberculosis Presenting in the United States by Osman Bhatty, David Waters, Nicholas Wilka, Shradha Samuel, John Horne, Renuga Vivekanandan

“…Initial biopsy revealed granulomas, but Ziehl-Neelsen and Gram stain were negative for TB so antibiotics were prescribed for abscess until culture came positive for tuberculosis. She was started on triple therapy for extrapulmonary tuberculosis, an exceedingly rare presentation that requires high clinical suspicion in the Western world.…”
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Katolická církev v českých zemích a její vztahy k moderně, nacionalismu a nacionálnímu socialismu v meziválečném období. by Jaroslav Šebek

“…Czechoslovakia was one of the examples of the religious development of Central and Western Europe, which was given by the influence of the secularisation affecting the public area as well as pronounced anti-Catholic sentiments. …”
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How the Public in the US Responded to Javanese and Balinese Performing Arts? by Rafngi Mufidah, Dhanang Respati Puguh, Singgih Tri Sulistiyono

“…It was pertaining to the debate on the national culture, particularly arts. As Indonesia had diverse traditional arts, the debate was a dilemma. …”
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My Hijab Covers my Mane, Not My Mind: Challenges Facing South African Muslim Women Academics by Quraisha Dawood

“…Despite Muslim women being more visible through media in recent years, literature shows that many remain marginalised, misunderstood, and often discriminated against for not subscribing to the dominant culture of the Western workplace. The study explores the challenges Muslim women academics face in South African higher education institutions when fulfilling their professional roles while maintaining Islamic and cultural obligations. …”
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Pemaknaan Pengalaman Bahagia pada Orang Islam by Diana Elfida, Winarini Wilman D. Mansoer, Mirra Noor Milla, Bagus Takwin

“…Two philosophical perspectives on the good life, namely hedonic and eudaimonic, have become references for experts to explain how people understand happiness in Western societies with individualistic culture and the majority of Christians. …”
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"CYCLIST ON THE MARSH": LESSONS AND PROSPECTS OF THE LAST EU ENLARGEMENT by A. I. Tevdoy-Bourmouli

“…Specific historic experience of the applicants pre-determined a considerable specialty of west-European fashioned democratic regimes in those countries, weakness of consensus and tolerance culture which has already rooted itself in the West-European society, and which has to a considerable degree secured stable development of Western Europe over the last decades. …”
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The Pre-colonial Yoruba Education System: Catalyst Against Immorality by Layo Ogunlola

“…Even though the said system of education was not documented, it is not only flexible enough to conserve the tradition and culture of the people, it has also proved adequate in transmitting the cultural heritage from generation to generation using the mother-tongue as a tool. …”
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Gazetecilik Yıllarında Bülent Ecevit ve Anti-Komünizm (1950-1961) by Ferit Salim SANLI

“…Ecevit also evaluated communism as a problem against the values of Western culture and civilization. Ecevit, who undertook the spokesmanship of the pole described as the "free world" under the leadership of the United States against communism, believed that democracy is as important as military measures in the fight against communism, and that the state should provide social justice and welfare to the citizens in order to eliminate the ground that may cause communism to be favored. …”
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Patriotic Enthusiasm at the Beginning of the First World War by N. V. Yudin

“…In the present paper from the constructionist perspective is examined one of the most controversial issues of the modern western historiography of the First World War - the issue of patriotic enthusiasm of 1914, its scopes and nature. …”
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Plasminogen Activator Inhibitor-1 Regulates LPS Induced Inflammation in Rat Macrophages through Autophagy Activation by Zhong-Hui Wang, Wei-Ying Ren, Lei Zhu, Li-Juan Hu

“…ELISA was used to assess the amounts of TNF-α, IL-1β, and PAI-1 in cell culture supernatants; TLR4, MyD88, PAI-1, LC3, Beclin1, and mTOR protein and mRNA levels were determined by western blot and quantitative RT-PCR, respectively; western blot was used to determine NF-κB protein levels. …”
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PRDX2 induces tumor immune evasion by modulating the HDAC3-Galectin-9 axis in lung adenocarcinoma cells by Yunjia Dong, Anqi Cheng, Jiawei Zhou, Jianqiang Guo, Yafeng Liu, Xuan Li, Maoqian Chen, Dong Hu, Jing Wu

“…RNA-Seq was used to obtain the downstream immune molecule. si-RNA knockdown of Galectin-9 was co-cultured with T cells in vitro. Immunofluorescence and Western blot verified that PRDX2 regulates Galectin-9 expression through HDAC3. …”
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IL-21 Modulates Release of Proinflammatory Cytokines in LPS-Stimulated Macrophages through Distinct Signaling Pathways by Su-nan Li, Wei Wang, Shou-peng Fu, Jian-fa Wang, Hong-mei Liu, Shan-shan Xie, Bing-run Liu, Yang Li, Qing-kang Lv, Zhi-qiang Li, Wen-jing Xue, Bing-xu Huang, Wei Chen, Ju-xiong Liu

“…ELISA analysis showed that IL-21 also suppressed LPS-induced production of TNF-α and IL-6 in culture supernatants. Western blot analysis showed that IL-21 clearly inhibited ERK and IκBα phosphorylation and NF-κB translocation in LPS-stimulated macrophages, but it increased STAT3 phosphorylation. …”
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I santi degli altri. Devozione, mutamento e rituali tra i singalesi cattolici a Messina by Giovanni Cordova

“…In both cases, these “saints of the others” must be placed and understood in the context of social and political relations within which devotional idioms and cultural repertoires take shape.…”
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Le Sacre du stock by Paul Landauer

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Suicide from a Holistic Point of View by Søren Ventegodt, Joav Merrick

“…Suicide has been honoured and respected in the eastern culture, especially in Japan with the famous tradition of Hara-kiri, or seppuku, while in most western societies suicide has been seen negatively and many contemporary physicians tend to consider suicide the most self-destructive and evil thing a human being can do and something that should be avoided at all cost. …”
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The role of agritourism in the development of regions by Gasimova Gunay, Mustafayev Telman, Gasimov Isa

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GREAT EURASIAN POWER IN THE WHIRLWIND OF CHANGE: RUSSIA’S MISSION IN THE 21st CENTURY by A. V. Torkunov

“…The second part assess the practical consideration of such a conceptualization with the aim of mitigating the current tensions between the Russian Federation and the Western states. The third part presents an overview of the Russian approach towards tong-term international stability, distributional international justice and mutual respect.The author concludes that profound change in the international system did not bring considerable alteration in the Russian strategic culture and strategic vision. …”
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L’ḥarga e le sue bruciature. Riflessioni sulla migrazione “irregolare” tunisina a partire da alcune note etnografiche by Carmelo Russo

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Friedrich Hölderlin or Emanuele Severino? The Sacral Dimension of Nature in the Context of Modern Technology by Andrzej Kobyliński

“…Delsol, on the other hand, points out that throughout Western culture we are now witnessing the birth of a new religion of nature, which is a modern form of ancient paganism. …”
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Channels of Iranian pastoral nomads on the YouTube network: Video narratives of the life of the Lori (Lur) Bakhtiari tribal people and ethnic group by Gorunović Gordana

“…Observing the films of Iranian videographers who themselves belong to the culture of Lor Bakhtiari was the reason for the anthropologist to start getting acquainted with academic ethnology and anthropology in Iran, which belongs to those national traditions of the discipline that are located on the periphery of the world’s main, predominantly Western, centers of socio-cultural anthropology.…”
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