Exogenous Pulmonary Surfactant as a Vehicle for Antimicrobials: Assessment of Surfactant-Antibacterial Interactions In Vitro by Alexei Birkun

“…Owing to its unique surface-active properties, an exogenous pulmonary surfactant may become a promising drug delivery agent, in particular, acting as a vehicle for antibiotics in topical treatment of pneumonia. …”
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Autonomous Orbit Determination for Lagrangian Navigation Satellite Based on Neural Network Based State Observer by Youtao Gao, Tanran Zhao, Bingyu Jin, Junkang Chen, Bo Xu

“…In order to improve the accuracy of the dynamical model used in the orbit determination of the Lagrangian navigation satellites, the nonlinear perturbations acting on Lagrangian navigation satellites are estimated by a neural network. …”
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Comment faire Peuple ? Le cas des protestations publiques au Maghreb by Smaïn Laarcher, Cédric Terzi

“…Yet comparison is useful in revealing a central invariant element : the difficulty in acting as one people and collectively produce unity to institutionalize division ; in other words, to give their right and legitimacy to misunderstandings and politics. …”
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Affinity in Adversity: Examining Brand Love and Online Customer Engagement in the Restaurant Industry by José William de Queiroz Barbosa, Maria Carolina Cavalcante Dias, Lissa Valéria Fernandes Ferreira

“…From the dimensions of brand love, the results showed that customers who love restaurant brands react to negative reviews about them on social media, expressing their positive emotional connection with the companies and acting as their defenders. The study shows that for the restaurant segment, it is relevant to have consumers who love the brand once they help mitigate the effects generated by negative comments online. …”
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Multiple Functions of Phosphoinositide-3 Kinase Enhancer (PIKE) by Chi Bun Chan, Keqiang Ye

“…Thus, PIKE possesses multitudinous biological functions rather than solely acting as an apoptosis inhibitor. In this review, we will update our current knowledge of the role of PIKE in various cellular activities. …”
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Designing transportation for women: Night paratransit service for the female community of Sapienza university of Rome by Maria Vittoria Corazza, Silvia D’Eramo

“…However, research questions revolve around service acceptance and affordability among the so-called “Sapienza women” (female students and teaching and administrative staff), along with service profitability for the university acting as an operator. A feasibility study of a gender-dedicated university-to-home paratransit night service called MinervaMove from Sapienza’s main campus for commuting home in the evening is conducted. …”
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Formulation of energy loss due to magnetostriction to design ultraefficient soft magnets by Hiroshi Tsukahara, Haodong Huang, Kiyonori Suzuki, Kanta Ono

“…The viscosity of magnetic materials causes the resistive force acting on magnetic domain walls through strain due to magnetostriction, and magnetic energy is eventually dissipated by friction even without eddy currents. …”
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Mechanical Calculation of Flexible Wires of Overhead Lines with Aerial Barrage Balls in Different Climatic Regimes by Yu. V. Bladyko

“…Aviation aerial barrage balls are considered as concentrated loads acting on the wire. The article deals with the mechanical calculation of flexible wires of overhead lines, in which barrage balls warning spheres are installed. …”
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« Deux épisodes dans la vie » de Gérald Godin : à la jonction du récit, du reportage et du journal de bord by Jonathan Livernois, Emmanuelle Germain

“…We want to delve deeper into the idea that Godin’s writings have a stabilizing virtue acting on the events, allowing him to represent them and represent them to others. …”
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The Anticancer Perspective of Tangeretin: A Small Review by Yuan Xu, Xi Yan, Junpeng Zhuang, Haijun Hao

“…Tangeretin can inhibit the growth, proliferation, and metastasis of cancer cells by acting on JAK/STAT (Janus Kinase/signal transducer and activator of transcription) and caspase-3 signal transduction and by regulating the cell cycle of tumor cells. …”
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Terror and Contemplation from Habermas and Chomsky to Derrida: A Formal and Content Critique of the Book Terror and Contemplation by Majid Hosseini, Meisam Ghahreman

“…In a general criticism, all of the above-mentioned viewpoints about a historiography of a terrorist event (each one from a specific perspective) have their own defects, and this has been acting as a block against making a comparison between terror and contemplation; consequently, it leads to better understand the phenomenon with different dimensions, and in the critiques, an attempt has been made to pay attention to it.…”
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The paradox when managing the riparian zones of rivers with engineered embankments in The French prealps by André Evette, Caroline Zanetti, Paul Cavaillé, Fanny Dommanget, Patrice Mériaux, Michel Vennetier

“…However, alluvial vegetation and riparian zones can play important ecological roles by providing often very biodiverse environments and acting as biological corridors.There is a paradox when managing these embankments between the security requirement to exclude woody plants and the ecological imperative to add vegetation. …”
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CIHR Canadian HIV Trials Network Coinfection and Concurrent Diseases Core: Canadian Guidelines for Management and Treatment of HIV/Hepatitis C Coinfection in Adults by Mark Hull, Marina Klein, Stephen Shafran, Alice Tseng, Pierre Giguère, Pierre Côté, Marc Poliquin, Curtis Cooper, on behalf of The CIHR Canadian HIV Trials Network HIV/Hepatitis C Management and Treatment Guidelines Working Group

“…HIV-HCV management is more complex due to the accelerated progression of liver disease, the timing and nature of antiretroviral and HCV therapy, mental health and addictions management, socioeconomic obstacles and drug-drug interactions between new HCV direct-acting antiviral therapies and antiretroviral regimens.…”
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Neural Behavior Chain Learning of Mobile Robot Actions by Lejla Banjanovic-Mehmedovic, Dzenisan Golic, Fahrudin Mehmedovic, Jasna Havic

“…Our behavior-based system evolution task is a mobile robot detecting a target and driving/acting towards it. First, the mapping relations between the image feature domain of the object and the robot action domain are derived. …”
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Axonal excitability and conduction alterations caused by levobupivacaine in rat by Tuncer Seçkin, Tuncer Peker Tülay, Burat İlksen, Kiziltan Erhan, İlhan Barkin, Dalkiliç Nizamettin

“…In this study, effects of the long-acting amide-type local anesthetic levobupivacaine on axonal conduction and excitability parameters of the rat sciatic nerve were thoroughly examined both in vitro and in vivo. …”
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Thomas Aquinas: on law, tyranny and resistance by N. P. Swartz

“…If the prince or state acts without legal authority, it is acting lawlessly, which is against the notion of a constitutional democracy. …”
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Accounting for Spacers in the Mechanical Calculation of Flexible Wires for Overhead Lines and Switchgears by Yu. V. Bladyko

“…Spacers are considered as concentrated loads acting on the split phase. The formulas for determining the sag are given for a different number of spacers as a function of their number and the coefficient of concentrated forces. …”
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Molecular profiling and detection methods of microRNA in cancer research by Nurul-Syakima Ab Mutalib, Imilia Ismail, Hooi-Leng Ser

“…In fact, the unusual expression of miRNAs has also been associated in etiology of various cancers. Acting like a “double-edge” sword, miRNAs can control and/or act as tumor suppressor genes and oncogenes, thus any unwanted alterations in their expression would bring upon disastrous effects on the host. …”
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Do strigolactones play a role in the ascent and attachment behavior of Pisum sativum? by Bianca Bonato, Tom Bennett, Silvia Guerra, Sara Avesani, Umberto Castiello

“…They play a crucial role in acting as long-distance signals from root to shoot to coordinate shoot growth with root environmental conditions. …”
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Identifying and Assessing the Functionality of IT Systems for the Maintenance and Development of the Road Network by Marcin Świtała, Anna Ledwolorz

“…The applied research method took a form of a survey, and the research sample consisted of 100 local government units acting as administrators of the road network, i.e., administrators of municipal roads (AMR), county roads (ACR) and operating within cities with independent county rights (ACCR). …”
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