Russian conservatism: outlines of a responsible political course by A. P. Vorobev

“…The current socio-political situation indicates that Russian society refuses to accept liberal Western values, giving preference to values of a conservative nature. …”
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Revisiting Agamben’s Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life – A Critical Review by Md. Lab Hossain, Mahmuda Akter

“…Therefore, this book will serve as a trajectory not only for understanding the Western political sphere but also for the liberal democratic context of the subcontinent. …”
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Organizational and Economic Aspects of the Intellectual Transport Systems Effectiveness by A. O. Merenkov

“…The research touched the approaches to understand of the ITS covered by both Russian and western scientists. The author defined basic parameters applicable for «digital» transport and logistics used by leading countries of the world. …”
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Meeting report: MyoIN – Pan-India collaborative network for myositis research by Latika Gupta, Sravan Kumar Appani, Ramya Janardana, Hafis Muhammed, Able Lawrence, Sanjiv Amin, Vineeta Shobha, Liza Rajasekhar, Ramnath Misra

“…Collaborative efforts in rare diseases from the Western world have yielded exemplary results. Hence, a pan-India collaborative network called MyoIN (Myositis India Collaborative Effort) was formed to collect data on patients with inflammatory myositis in a standardized format including clinical and investigational parameters both at presentation and follow up to build up a large series prospectively. …”
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Knockdown of Annexin A1 induces apoptosis, causing G2/M arrest and facilitating phagocytosis activity in human leukemia cell lines by Hasan Masyitah, Kumolosasi Endang, Jantan Ibrahim, Jasamai Malina, Nazarudin Norlaili

“…Cell cycle and apoptosis were analyzed using flow cytometry and a mechanism involving caspases and Bcl-2 was quantified using Western blotting. Phagocytosis activity was evaluated using hematoxylin & eosin staining. …”
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Identity, imaginary and tourism in the tuareg region, in Niger by Emmanuel Grégoire, Marko Scholze

“…The authors discuss first the western imagination relative to the Sahara and the Tuareg, an element that the Tuareg have remarkably played upon to encourage regional tourism based on “Desert tourism”. …”
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Interview with Rothney S. Tshaka by Martin Laubscher

“… From text: I started my theological training at the Faculty of Religion and Theology at the University of the Western Cape in 1997. After completing my BTh, I moved to the University of Stellenbosch to further my theological studies. …”
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The Scanian Economic-Demographic Database (SEDD) by Martin Dribe, Luciana Quaranta

“…It covers all individuals born in or migrated to the city of Landskrona and five rural parishes in western Scania in southern Sweden. The entire population present in the area is fully covered after 1813. …”
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Research on Optimization of 3D Tourism Virtual Crossover Scene based on Semantic Perception Analysis by Guixia Wang

“…Using the digital elevation model, an empirical study on the semantic perception of cultural landscape in the western Tombs of Qing Dynasty is carried out. Taking the traditional Chinese culture of the site selection of royal tombs and the feudal hierarchy represented as the semantic criteria, eighteen feature points were extracted from two representative tomb cultural landscapes from different landscape perspectives, and the corresponding weight coefficients were assigned to each feature point from different landscape perspectives; based on the results of perceptual degree calculation, the semantic mining of the existing sightseeing routes is carried out and the optimization scheme is designed. …”
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Activation of CD147 with Cyclophilin A Induces the Expression of IFITM1 through ERK and PI3K in THP-1 Cells by Ju-Young Kim, Ho Kim, Kyoungho Suk, Won-Ha Lee

“…Interferon-induced transmembrane 1 (IFITM1) was detected to be induced and it was confirmed by RT-PCR and Western blot analysis. CD147-induced expression of IFITM1 was blocked by inhibitors of ERK, PI3K, or NF-κB, but not by inhibitors of p38, JNK, or PKC. …”
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Minerals in edible insects: A review of content and potential for sustainable sourcing by Mingxing Lu, Chenxu Zhu, Sergiy Smetana, Ming Zhao, Haibo Zhang, Fang Zhang, Yuzhou Du

“…Entomophagy is a tradition in many countries including China and Thailand, and edible insects have attracted a lot of attention in Western World due to their suitable nutrient composition, high mineral content (e.g., Fe, Zn, Ca, Mg) and potential use as a supplement in human diet. …”
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SOCIAL NETS AS A NEW FACTOR OF SYSTEM SECURITY IN RUSSIA IN THE 21ST CENTURY by S. A. Kravchenko, A. I. Podberezkin

“…In the context of growing pragmatism and globalization of activities of agents of Western civilization the networks take on the quality of the new and highly effective weapon intended to destroy and destroy high-priority policy objectives. …”
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Traditional Chinese Medicine nursing of a patient with type 2 diabetes complicated with hypertension (1例2型糖尿病合并高血压患者的中医特色护理体会) by ZHANG Ji (张继), LIU Ai (刘爱), ZHANG Min (张敏), ZHAO Lina (赵丽娜), MING Yue (明月), ZUO Lin (左琳), FENG Ying (冯莹), ZHAO Zitong (赵紫彤)

“…This article summarized the Traditional Chinese Medicine nursing practice of a case of type 2 diabetes with hypertension during hospitalization. On the basis of western medicine treatment, the intervention was carried out in combination with Traditional Chinese Medicine nursing techniques such as auricular acupoint pressing pills, acupoint application, and Traditional Chinese medicine cream and rubbing, which fully played the characteristics and advantages of Traditional Chinese Medicine technology, effectively controlled the patient's blood pressure and blood glucose, and improve the patient's quality of life. …”
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“Helt Texas, Morgan Kane!”: Notes on the Pedagogies of Finding, Documenting, and Teaching the American West in Norwegian Backyards by Stefan Rabitsch

“…For example, the students’ findings included but were not limited to country-specific (re)imaginings of the mythic West in different media, heterotopic spaces of performance, play, consumption and the hyperreal, instances of ‘playing Indian,’ iconographic scatterings, cowboy/Western poetics in music, and more. Ultimately, this article illustrates how that which we study from afar may be found in more local(ized) Norwegian contexts, imaginaries, and cultural practices. …”
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Deux programmes d’éducation environnementale pour la conservation des grands singes africains: Club Ebobo et Club P.A.N. by Claudia Borchers, Julia Riedel, Christophe Boesch, Thomas Breuer

“…In both projects, children learn about the importance of the conservation of their regional ecosystems and the protection of the endangered great apes living close to them – the west African chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus) in Ivory Coast, and the western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) and common chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes troglodytes) in the Republic of Congo. …”
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"Showing respect" in Bible translation by R. van der Spuy

“…This article also highlights by way of comparison how Afrikaans and other Western translations use the 2nd person personal pronoun. …”
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Immunization against Lamb Haemonchosis with a Recombinant Somatic Antigen of Haemonchus contortus (rHcp26/23) by Leticia García-Coiradas, Francisco Angulo-Cubillán, Basilio Valladares, Enrique Martínez, Concepción de la Fuente, José María Alunda, Montserrat Cuquerella

“…Immunological assays (ELISA, Western blotting, and immunolocalization), using sera from lambs immunized with p26/23, confirmed the identity of the recombinant protein and demonstrated that the synthetic protein is equivalent to the purified protein employed in the previous immunoprophylaxis studies. …”
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The high cancer incidence in young people in Italy: do genetic signatures reveal their environmental causes? by Ruggero Ridolfi

“…The increased incidence of cancer in children and adolescents registered in Italy in the last few decades is one of the highest amongst Western countries. The causes are difficult to identify, but recent daily news and some epidemiological surveys, such as the ‘Sentieri’ study, suggest that environmental pollution has an important role. …”
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Transformation des structures agricoles et recomposition des paysages de bocage by Thibaut Preux, Daniel Delahaye, Maxime Marie

“…In spite of public statements and actions in favour of maintaining and even restoring bocage landscapes, the results of this study suggest that the changes in the structure of farms (larger establishments, their concentration and the specialisation of production) has contributed to the erosion of these landscapes which are emblematic of these western rural areas and has led to the emergence of new forms of landscapes.…”
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Productivity of European beech coppice stands in the Forest Management Area “Donjevrbasko”, Bosnia-Herzegovina by Srđan Keren, Vojislav Dukić, Zoran Govedar, Marijana Kapović-Solomun, Branislav Cvjetković

“… The object of this study were three coppice beech stands located in the forest management area “Donjevrbasko” close to Banja Luka in the Republic of Srpska, north-western part of Bosnia and Herzegovina. These coppice stands grow in different conditions. …”
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