Interleukin-6 stimulates gene expression of extracellular matrix components in bovine mesangial cells in culture by C. Zoja, A. Benigni, G. Piccinini, M. Figliuzzi, L. Longaretti, G. Remuzzi

“…IL-6 (100 U/ml) time dependently increased the steady state expression of mRNAs coding for α1 collagen III and fibronectin, both transcripts being 1.5- and 2.5-fold higher than basal level at 24 and 48 h, respectively. …”
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DIGITAL CULTURE – A HISTORICAL STAGE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE INFORMATION CULTURE OF SOCIETY by M. Yu. Zakharov, I. E. Starovoytova, A. V. Shishkova

“…Different scientific approaches to digital culture have been analysed in the article: digital culture is considered as a special form of being, a special integral design that includes audiovisual, semiotic, technological, logical, communication, network and other subsystems that exists at five levels: material, functional, symbolic, mental and spiritual; and as a set of values ofmodern society based on digital coding; and as a system of changes in practices, products of human activity associated with the culture of the digital age; and as a special level of digital literacy and competency. …”
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Sungai Batu Archaeological Complex (SBAC) in Kedah, Malaysia, as a sustainable heritage tourism product by Mohd Hasfarisham Abd Halim, Shyeh Sahibul Karamah Masnan, Mokhtar Saidin

“…The Living Culture Gallery at the SBAC develops heritage tourism by applying digital technology such as VR, AR, hologram fans, and QR codes. Therefore, it directly contributes to the promotion of tourist sites and ensures their sustainability.…”
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The Configuration of Work in the XXI Century: The Market Eloy Salmon and Molecular Movements of the Capital by María Luisa López Guerrero

“…This can be explained by observing that in their existing organization they have their own institutional forms, internal codes of exchange, and cultural practices that allow there to be social and local attachments, as well as the fostering of relationships with global capitalism, which creates “resistance” to the State.…”
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A Short Report on the Markov Property of DNA Sequences on 200-bp Genomic Units of Roadmap Genomics ChromHMM Annotations: A Computational Perspective by Hyun-Seok Park

“…The non-coding DNA in eukaryotic genomes encodes a language that programs chromatin accessibility, transcription factor binding, and various other activities. …”
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Pesticide Safety Miniposter: Labels and Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDSs) by Rebecca W. Baldwin, Stephanie K. Larrick Hill, Philip Koehler, P. A. Mitola, J. C. Medley

“…The poster has quick response (QR) codes that direct smartphones to short, online videos explaining how to read pesticide labels and MSDSs. …”
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Le détournement du genre policier sur la scène anglaise contemporaine : One Minute (2003) de Simon Stephens et Orphans (2009) de Dennis Kelly by Aloysia Rousseau

“…These two playwrights are thus reinventing a genre, subverting the codes of both traditional detective fiction and the thriller. …”
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Study and Design Optimization of Fiber Bragg Grating Based Wind Pressure Sensor by Danhui Dan, Rong Xiao, Wulong Bai, XueLei Wen

“…By using finite element analysis, the design of the wind-bearing carrier of the WPS is optimized such that the nominal measured values by the FBGs are maximized under the action of fundamental wind pressures suggested in codes. Furthermore, sensing characteristics of the WPS, as well as its static wind safety, pressure stability, and dynamic stability during operation, are investigated. …”
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Limites politiques et barrières sociales dans le monde maya classique by Dominique Michelet

“…The examination of a few pieces of information, borrowed from the results of recent collective research projects, indicates that more-or-less thin formal demarcations must have been rare, that there would even have been few explicit boundary markings, and that the thresholds were endowed with a certain thickness, their crossing obeying precise codes and/or involving ritualised behaviours.…”
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Identifying the components of the administrative system employee empowerment model based on organizational intelligence and interpersonal relationships by fatemeh khoshhal, ali reza sargolzaie, zahra vazife

“…The data analysis process was restarted with open coding. Open coding was first implemented in the content of all the interviews; after extracting the initial codes, the conceptually and content-wise shared codes were merged and formed the basic themes. …”
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Vanessa Place: The Death of the Poetry Book by Hélène Aji

“…While one can see her work as the manifestation of a retreat from creativity in keeping with her claim that she does not write, but rather, works as a medium to circulate text, one can also approach it as an extreme type of experimentation with expectations, conventions, and the general codes of social order. It is this article’s contention that Vanessa Place systematically appropriates the modes of communication of the digital age to undermine the ideologies at work beneath the surface of all kinds of texts and text formats, through the production of books that re-form and recontextualize these texts to convey their ethical shortcomings.…”
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Mapping Your World with Community Analyst: An Easy to Use Tool to Map the Characteristics of U.S. Communities by Robert Swett, Lisa Krimsky

“…The application’s extensive suite of data metrics, in conjunction with on-demand reports and interactive color-coded maps, allows one to quickly explore the characteristics of one or more geographic areas. …”
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Landscape, Geopolitics, and National Identity in the Norwegian Thrillers Occupied and Nobel by Saunders Robert A.

“…Drawing on literature from popular geopolitics, geocriticism, and visual politics, my analysis interrogates the ways in which geopolitical codes and visions manifest via televisual fiction, reflecting a variety of insecurities associated with Norway's current position in world affairs, as well as contemporary challenges to Norwegian national identity. …”
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Des archives pour l’anthropologie : futurs possibles et passés contingents by David Zeitlyn

“…Archives (paper and digital) also provide access to the results of anthropological research in ways mandated by ethics codes, but these are subject to controversy. What sorts of consent and what sorts of anonymization should be provided? …”
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How Tourism Imaginary has been Updated in the New Spanish Sun-and-Beach Comedy: Fin de curso, Atasco en la nacional and Benidorm, mon amour by Salvador Martínez Puche, Antonio Martínez Puche

“…Its narrative and expressive codes can still be found in films that fall into the españolada supra-genre and use some of those clichés—now recycled and updated—in their form and content. …”
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Carol Ann Duffy’s Everyman (2015), A Contemporary Morality Play by Esma Seçen Hınıslıoğlu

“…A myriad of philosophers, writers and playwrights from various societies has tried to establish moral codes of conduct that individuals must obey in order to lead them to a better world. …”
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A Survey study on design procedure of Seismic Base Isolation Systems by Hossein Shakeri Soleimanloo

“…In this research we use some codes forthe design examples of elastomeric bearings. …”
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Archiving ethnography? The impossibility and the necessity by David Zeitlyn

“…There are ethical contradictions: some ethics codes tell us to destroy data after a period of time, others to save for the long term. …”
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Pesticide Safety Miniposter: Pesticide Formulations by Rebecca W. Baldwin, Stephanie K. Hill, Philip Koehler, P. A. Mitola, J. C. Medley

“…The poster has quick response (QR) codes that link to videos showing example formulations of liquid pesticides, baits, pressurized aerosols, and a variety of dry product pesticides. …”
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Atrofia nieformalnej diagnostyki edukacyjnej we wczesnej edukacji. Między biernością i przemocą poznawczą w epoce ekspertów by Grażyna Szyling

“…I have subjected to analysis observations of lessons placed in 85 student portfolios, treating them as data found. For the coding and categorisation of data I have used the theory of technologically-oriented educational diagnostics. …”
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