Lock-out, lock-in, and networked sovereignty. Resistance and experimentation in Africa’s trajectory towards AI by Iginio Gagliardone

“…But, following Mbembe, it is by reconnecting with the epistemic traditions that characterized pre-colonial Africa (Mbembe, 2020) that it becomes possible to experiment with new forms of resistance and value making that seem more attuned to some of the realities brought by digital technologies, and Artificial Intelligence more specifically. …”
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Interaction of STIL with FOXM1 regulates SF3A3 transcription in the hepatocellular carcinoma development by Haijun Zhang, Lin Zhang, Ziqi Wu

“…Changes in malignant behavior of HCC cells after downregulation of SF3A3 were assessed by EdU, colony formation, flow cytometry, wound healing, and Transwell invasion assays. …”
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Bacteriospermia and Sperm Quality of Cryopreserved Bull Semen Used in Artificial Insemination of Cows in South Wollo Zone, Ethiopia by Abadi Amare Reda, Gizat Almaw, Solomon Abreha, Wedajo Tadeg, Belege Tadesse

“…Overall average bacterial load of 50.38 ± 16.29 colony-forming units (CFU)/ml (from nil to 1318.20 CFU/ml) was found. …”
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International Dimension in Colonization of the North-West of America and California at the End of the 17-18 ^th Centuries by A. Y. Petrov, V. N. Kostornichenko, M. M. Koskina

“…It tries to understand the policies of European powers in the American Northwest and the reasons for pursuing their colonial interests there. It analyses the history of exploration of these territories, expeditions to the northern part of the Pacific Ocean, and historical maps of this region. …”
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Imperial Questions and Social Identities by Lauren Banko

“…These new statuses for the former Ottoman subjects, the majority of whom were Arab, reflected colonial and imperial norms and they incorporated the changing international terminology of identity issued from the League of Nations and post-World War I treaties. …”
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Indígenas, catequesis y civilización en la Provincia de Minas (Brasil, siglo XIX) by Izabel Missagia de Mattos

“…De esta forma, la investigación del fenómeno empírico de la dinámica de las identidades indígenas en la situación colonial puede revelar tanto sus directrices históricas, fornecidas principalmente por las prácticas indigenistas coetáneas, como su contracara nativa, la de los procesos etnopolíticos. …”
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esculpir da mulher brasileira by Ana Elisa Spaolonzi Queiroz Assis, Rodrigo Pereira de Figueiredo

“…Seguindo o raciocínio e em sintonia com a diversidade cultural e racial que modelou a sociedade brasileira, por uma revisão de literatura, este artigo vincula história, sociologia e estudo jurídico para dar compreensão no tempo e no espaço dos papeis sociais e os direitos conferidos à mulher no Brasil desde o período colonial, demostrando como as organizações sociais modelaram a imagem das mulheres e como foram os processos de insurreição por elas militados a fim de afastar a superioridade masculina. …”
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A scoping review on the use of different blood sources and components in the artificial membrane feeding system and its effects on blood-feeding and fecundity rate of Aedes aegypti... by Yuvaraahnee Suresh, Aishah Hani Azil, Syamsa Rizal Abdullah

“…In addition, human blood of up to 10 days after the expiration date could still be used to establish Ae. aegypti colonies with good blood-feeding rates and number of eggs produced. …”
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Occurrence and Antibiotic Resistance of Mesophilic Aeromonas in Three Riverine Freshwaters of Marrakech, Morocco by Boujamaa Imziln

“…Average counts of Aeromonas in low and heavily polluted waters were 2.5 × 103 and 2.1 × 106 colony forming units per 100 ml, respectively. The biochemical identification of 841 isolates indicated a predominance of A. caviae in heavily and moderately polluted water and sediment. …”
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La sor-horroridad de la monstrua latina: visiones del miedo desde una perspectiva de género en Trabalhar cansa y As boas maneiras de Juliana Rojas y O animal cordial de Gabriela Am... by Estefanía Paz Hermosilla Órdenes

“…Ambas líneas se analizan desde el contexto latinoamericano, sobre el cual el terror emerge como un fenómeno histórico-cultural que alude al pasado colonial de América Latina y el Caribe. Al respecto, se plantea el concepto de sor-horroridad como contracara de la sororidad, por medio del cual se visibiliza las formas de violencia que las mujeres ejercen contra otras mujeres y disidencias, y cómo ésta es resultado de los privilegios que les otorga el sistema capitalista patriarcal hetero-cis. …”
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Hydrogel as an alternative to agar for laboratory rearing of the green peach aphid Myzus persicae by Ana Paula Nascimento Silva, Camila Faria Chagas, Emanuel Lucas de Andrade Alves, Vinícius de Castro Carvalho, Khalid Haddi

“…Furthermore, the most significant differences between the evaluated treatments resulted mostly from the combined effects of the host plants and the temperatures. Therefore, colonies of M. persicae can be maintained over time producing sufficient offspring using N. physalodes leaves on a layer of hydrogel (0.6 g) at 20 °C. …”
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Optimizing Photovoltaic Panel Performance: A Comparative Study of Meta-Heuristic Algorithms by M. Sundar Rajan

“…This method was compared against other well-known algorithms such as Artificial Bee Colony (ABC), Dragonfly Algorithm (DA), Grey Wolf Optimizer (GWO), Cuckoo Search (CS), Composite Grey Wolf Optimizer (CGWO), and the standalone PSO and GWO methods. …”
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Cosmétiques by Jean-Louis Déotte

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Cryptanalysis of hyperchaotic S-box generation and image encryption by Mohammad Mazyad Hazzazi, Gulraiz, Rashad Ali, Muhammad Kamran Jamil, Sameer Abdullah Nooh, Fahad Alblehai

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Evaluation of ior ® Leukocim efficacy on patients with Neutropenia. by Ana María Ramos Cedeño, Leslie Pérez Ruiz, Julio Dámaso Fernández Águila, Tamara Guerra, Maritza Cabrera Zamora, Hailen Bobillo López

“…<p><strong>Bakground:</strong> Neutropenia and infections are the most restrictive side effects in chemotherapy application. The granulocytic colonies stimulating factor activates the neutrophils, shortens the neutropenic period and can be effective against the potential risk of infection. …”
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Asparagine endopeptidase regulates lysosome homeostasis via modulating endomembrane phosphoinositide composition by Linli Yao, GuangHui Zi, Miao He, Yuhong Xu, Lulu Wang, Baowei Peng

“…Loss of AEP impaired colony formation by breast cancer cells in vitro and suppressed lung metastasis in mice. …”
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Threats and the active protection of birds in a riverbed: postulates for the strategy of the preservation of the middle Vistula River avifauna by Dariusz Bukaciński, Monika Bukacińska, Arkadiusz Buczyński

“…This effort included (a) reducing the number of American minks and red foxes, (b) neutralising the presence of predators and livestock at the nesting sites with electric fences and the use of incubators and dummy eggs and (c) restoration of the nesting habitat, as well as, in the case of mew gulls, (d) increasing the genetic diversity within colonies. The most important demand is the conducting of the active protective measures in a comprehensive way and continuously for at least five years (until 2023), optimally throughout the decade (2019--2028). …”
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KLF5 promotes esophageal squamous cell carcinoma radioresistance by targeting the Keap1-Nrf2 pathway by Yang Wang, Yue-ying Yang, Abulajiang Kamili, Dilimulati Aishanjiang, Yi Liu

“…The effects of overexpression or downregulation of KLF5 on anti-irradiated cells' proliferation, migration, invasion, and apoptotic activity were studied through colony formation assay, Transwell assay, and flow cytometry. …”
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A study on beneficial impact of the use of medium-molecular-weight hydroxyethyl starch in granulocyte apheresis using continuous-flow cell separator Spectra Optia: A retrospective... by Amardeep Pathak, Devasis Panda, Narender Tejwani, Anurag Mehta

“…All the donors in both the groups received single 600 μg of granulocyte colony-stimulating factor subcutaneous injection followed by 8 mg of dexamethasone tablet 10–12 h and omnacortil 60 mg orally 3 h before harvest. …”
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Neuroprotective Effects of Collagen-Glycosaminoglycan Matrix Implantation following Surgical Brain Injury by Jia-Hui Chen, Wei-Cherng Hsu, Kuo-Feng Huang, Chih-Huang Hung

“…Proinflammatory (tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α), interleukin-6 (IL-6), and NF-κB (nuclear factor kappa-light-chain-enhancer of activated B cells)) and anti-inflammatory (IL-10 and granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GMCSF)) cytokine expression was evaluated by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays. …”
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