A’joot  : Ethics, Rights and Values Spoken from the Stomach and Heart by Araceli Rojas

“…First, it describes the notions that are generally understood only from a Euro-Western view and position, which has created a universalising list of rights, reproducing paternalising and vertical power relations. …”
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Research on the Impact of Digital Finance on the Green Development of Chinese Cities by Jianhua Zhao, Guohua He

“…The heterogeneity analysis results show that digital finance has a stronger impact on green development in the central and western cities and small-scale cities. This paper contributes to the study of the relationship between digital finance and green development and puts forward relevant suggestions.…”
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Characterization of a pleomorphic rhabdomyosarcoma cell line by Sandra Stickler, Clemens Lang, Maximilian Rieche, Marie-Therese Eggerstorfer, Martin Hohenegger, Maximilian Hochmair, Gerhard Hamilton

“…Chemosensitivity of the PRMS cell lines was checked using cytotoxicity assays and oncogene-related and phosphoproteins by Western blot arrays. The BH1522 cell line proved to be chemosensitive to conventional chemotherapeutics and the Son of Sevenless 1 homolog (SOS1) inhibitor BAY-293 that inhibited proliferation and suppressed MYC activity. …”
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The Explosive Growth of U.S. Military Power on Guam Confronts People Power: Experience of an island people under Spanish, Japanese and American colonial rule by LisaLinda S. Natividad, Victoria-Lola Leon Guerrero

“…While the island and her people remained in relative isolation from the Western world for over 3,500 years from the earliest indications of settlement, its strategic location as a crossroad between East and West has resulted in colonization by successive maritime powers over the last six centuries.This article examines the plans for base expansion which threaten to swamp the local population, and the resistance to it, in light of Guahan's five hundred year colonial experience under Spain, Japan and the United States.…”
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Impacts of Oceanic Preexisting Conditions on Predictions of Typhoon Hai-Tang in 2005 by Akiyoshi Wada, Norihisa Usui

“…Warm-core oceanic eddies up to a few hundred kilometers across and a deep mixed layer climatologically distributed in the western North Pacific led to high mixed-layer heat potential, which increased latent heat flux, water vapor, and liquid water contents around Hai-Tang's center. …”
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Perceptions of Corruption in Higher Education among Alumni of the Leading Russian Universities by O. S. Deyneka, L. N. Dukhanina, D. V. Krylova, A. A. Maksimenko

“…The article analyzes current trends in the study of corruption in the higher education system in Russia and Western countries. Classifications of corruption abuse, the structure of corruption indicators in universities, problems of studying attitudes towards corruption in the higher education system and the reflection of abuse in the media are discussed. …”
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Renal Cancer Stem Cells: Characterization and Targeted Therapies by Anna Julie Peired, Alessandro Sisti, Paola Romagnani

“…Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is a major neoplasm with high incidence in western countries. Tumors are heterogeneous and are composed of differentiated cancer cells, stromal cells, and cancer stem cells (CSCs). …”
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LARP3 inhibits the apoptosis of hepatocellular carcinoma via the ROS/PI3K/c-Fos axis. by Lin Zhu, Qianqian Meng, Weiyi Qian, Weiting Shao, Yuyue Lu, Shuai Jin, Afei Zhang, Shuang G Yan, Jingtao Lu

“…Finally, through biological means such as RNA sequencing, flow cytometry, western blotting, and the construction of a subcutaneous tumorigenesis model in nude mice, we concluded that inhibition of HCC apoptosis by LARP3 is related to LARP3 negatively regulating ROS level and inhibiting the PI3K/c-Fos/apoptosis axis. …”
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The Fall of Fertility in Tasmania, Australia, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by Helen Moyle

“…Despite Tasmania’s location on the other side of the world, the fertility decline had remarkable similarities with the historical fertility decline in continental Western Europe, England and other English-speaking countries. …”
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Heat-Wave Events in Spain: Air Mass Analysis and Impacts on 7Be Concentrations by M. A. Hernández-Ceballos, E. Brattich, G. Cinelli

“…The heat-wave events are characterized roughly by western, southern, and nearby advections, with a higher frequency of the first two types. …”
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Climate change hazard index reveals combined risks to United States drinking water utilities by Zia J Lyle, Jeanne M VanBriesen, Constantine Samaras

“…While utilities located in Western regions and coastal areas have higher climate hazard index values, there are utilities serving different population sizes in all geographic regions with elevated climate risk. …”
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The Fall of Fertility in Tasmania, Australia, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by Helen Moyle

“…Despite Tasmania’s location on the other side of the world, the fertility decline had remarkable similarities with the historical fertility decline in continental Western Europe, England and other English-speaking countries. …”
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Structural Health Monitoring of a Reinforced Concrete Building during the Severe Typhoon Vicente in 2012 by Sin-Chi Kuok, Ka-Veng Yuen

“…Vicente was the eighth tropical storm developed in the Western North Pacific Ocean and the South China Sea in 2012. …”
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Coimagining the Future of Voice Assistants with Cultural Sensitivity by Katie Seaborn, Yuto Sawa, Mizuki Watanabe

“…Our aims were to explore the value of co-designing VAs in the non-Western context of Japan and demonstrate the necessity of cultural sensitivity. …”
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Toxicity and Molecular Identification of Green Toadfish Lagocephalus lunaris Collected from Kyushu Coast, Japan by Yuji Nagashima, Takuya Matsumoto, Keisuke Kadoyama, Shoichiro Ishizaki, Makoto Terayama

“…In 2008 to 2009, food poisoning due to ingesting L. lunais occurred in Western Japan. Five specimens of green toadfish caught in Kyushu coast, Japan, were analyzed for toxicity, toxins, and species identification. …”
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Integrative Taxonomy, Phylogeny, and New Species of the Weevil Genus Onyxacalles Stüben (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Cryptorhynchinae) by Peter E. Stüben, Jonas J. Astrin

“…A molecular phylogeny of the western Palearctic weevil genus Onyxacalles Stüben, 1999 is presented, combining two mitochondrial genes (COI and 16S) in a Bayesian analysis. …”
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A Post-colonial Approach to Displacement and Home in “At the Border” by Choman Hardi (1974) and “Home” by Warsan Shire (1988) by Mariwan N. Hasan

“…The study illustrates how both works contest Western notions of home and identity, providing a critical examination of the lasting psychological effects of colonialism on displaced individuals. …”
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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. This constellation resulted particularly in the renaissance on the level of European establishment of the nationalist phobia and memories deeply buried decades ago. …”
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Thrown to the (Were)Wolves: Sisterhood, Vengeance, and Liberal Feminism in Maggie Tokuda-Hall and Lisa Sterle’s <i>Squad</i> by Jessica Caravaggio

“…The book critiques individualistic Western/liberal feminism—an ideology also critiqued by contemporary feminist writers—that encourages women and girls to gain power for themselves and then use it to perpetuate hierarchies of domination. …”
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Alkaloid-rich fraction from Luffa cylindrica Linn fruit enhances memory and mitigates oxidative stress in hippocampus of ozone-exposed sprague Dawley rat via LCMS and network pharm... by Ankul Singh S, Chitra Vellapandian

“…The ozone-induced group exhibited complex behavioral changes. Western blot analysis revealed altered expression of SOD2, Caspase 3, and Cytochrome C which play integral roles in oxidative stress, apoptosis, and mitochondrial function. …”
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