Human trafficking in the Andean region: Socio-spatial dynamics in the Peruvian borders by Manuel Dammert Guardia, Lucia Dammert, Katherine Sarmiento

“…The article argues that borders constitute a strategic site for human trafficking in four different ways: i) they allow the formation of circuits, stages and itineraries that: ii) facilitate the incorporation of this criminal activity as a part of local life iii) they increase the dangers and vulnerabilities of cross-border migration and iv) they reveal the systemic connections of this illegal market to global processes.…”
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Molecular insights into the unique properties of the blood‐circulating proteasome by Yegor Leushkin, David Morgenstern, Shifra Ben‐Dor, Rebecca Haffner‐Krausz, Katharina Zittlau, Gili Ben‐Nissan, Michal Sharon

“…This serum proteasome is composed of constitutive and immuno subunits and exhibits all three catalytic activities. …”
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Construction of Three-Dimensional Crack Calculation Method for Transparent Rock-Like Materials Based on Stereo Vision Principle by Shu Zhu, Zhihua Luo, Zhu Zhende, Yufeng Gao, Nan Wu

“…Based on the theory of stereoscopic vision, a calculation method for the three-dimensional constitutive structure of crack propagation inside the rock was proposed, which can quantitatively describe the crack spatial morphological change. …”
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Subcapsular Renal Hematoma in Simultaneous Pancreas Kidney Transplantation by Daniele Cappellani, Chiara Terrenzio, Elena Gianetti, Walter Baronti, Valerio Borrelli, Lorella Marselli, Fabio Vistoli, Alessandro Campatelli, Ugo Boggi, Piero Marchetti

“…Subcapsular renal hematoma (SRH) is a challenging condition, which may jeopardize kidney function or constitute a life-threatening event. This is particularly true in single-kidney patients, such as kidney-transplant recipients. …”
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The Molecular Mechanism Underlying Continuous Exercise Training-Induced Adaptive Changes of Lipolysis in White Adipose Cells by Junetsu Ogasawara, Tetsuya Izawa, Tomonobu Sakurai, Takuya Sakurai, Ken Shirato, Yoshinaga Ishibashi, Hitoshi Ishida, Hideki Ohno, Takako Kizaki

“…Indeed, evidence has shown that the lipolytic responses in white adipocytes are upregulated by continuous exercise training (ET) through the adaptive changes in molecules that constitute the lipolytic cascade. During the past few decades, many lipolysis-related molecules have been identified. …”
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A Game Mechanism of Individual Value Decision-Making Based on SVO Differences by Xu Shi, Lu-yun Qiu, Zhi-geng Fang, Xia-qing Liu, Yang-yang Du

“…In the crisis environment, individual SVO type and decision-making constituted a mapping relationship. There was an equilibrium point in the decision of prosocial orientation, and the dominant decision of altruistic orientation or individualistic orientation is relatively stable.…”
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Problems in defining the motor space of children by Šekeljić Goran V., Marković Jovan M.

“…For a certain number of variables, it was found that they do not belong to any constituted vector. The results indicate differences in the structure of the motor space between the obtained and tested model; differences in the structure of the motor space between girls and boys; and a greater number of hypothetical models that can explain the structure of the motor space in children. …”
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Identification of Family Specific Fingerprints in β-Lactamase Families by Abhishikha Srivastava, Neelja Singhal, Manisha Goel, Jugsharan Singh Virdi, Manish Kumar

“…Based on the presence or absence of metallic ligand, β-lactamases have been divided into two broad functional classes. β-Lactamases are a constitutively evolving and expanding superfamily of enzymes, which could be further subdivided on the basis of presence/absence of conserved motifs. …”
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A Study on the Enhanced Best Performance Algorithm for the Just-in-Time Scheduling Problem by Sivashan Chetty, Aderemi O. Adewumi

“…The Just-In-Time (JIT) scheduling problem is an important subject of study. It essentially constitutes the problem of scheduling critical business resources in an attempt to optimize given business objectives. …”
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Thermodynamic assessment of the Al-Mo-V ternary system by Hu B., Yao B., Wang J., Zhao J.-R., Min F.-F., Du Y.

“…Thermodynamic assessment of the Al-Mo-V ternary system was performed by means of the CALPHAD (CALculation of PHAse Diagram) approach based on the thermodynamic descriptions of three constitutive binary systems (Al-Mo, Al-V and Mo-V) as well as the experimental phase equilibria data available in the literature. …”
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Complete O α s 2 $$ \mathcal{O}\left({\alpha}_s^2\right) $$ corrections to the leptonic invariant mass spectrum in b → X c l ν ¯ l $$ b\to {X}_cl{\overline{\nu}}_l $$ decay by Mateusz Czaja, Mikołaj Misiak, Abdur Rehman

“…Abstract In the determination of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix element |V cb | from inclusive semileptonic B-meson decays, moments of the leptonic invariant mass spectrum constitute valuable observables. To evaluate them with sufficient precision, perturbative O α s 2 $$ \mathcal{O}\left({\alpha}_s^2\right) $$ corrections to the analogous spectrum in the partonic b → X c l ν ¯ l $$ b\to {X}_cl{\overline{\nu}}_l $$ decay are necessary. …”
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Nephrogenic Syndrome of Inappropriate Antidiuresis by D. Morin, J. Tenenbaum, B. Ranchin, T. Durroux

“…Mutations in the vasopressin V2 receptor gene are responsible for two human tubular disorders: X-linked congenital nephrogenic diabetes insipidus, due to a loss of function of the mutant V2 receptor, and the nephrogenic syndrome of inappropriate antidiuresis, due to a constitutive activation of the mutant V2 receptor. This latter recently described disease may be diagnosed from infancy to adulthood, as some carriers remain asymptomatic for many years. …”
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Diversity-oriented synthesis of stereodefined tetrasubstituted alkenes via a modular alkyne gem-addition strategy by Xuan Di, Sitian Zhou, Yali Qin, Wenjun Li, Yue Zhang, Jie Zhang, Xu Shen, Jie Han, Jin Xie, Hongming Jin

“…Coupled with subsequent C-B and C-Se bond transformations, this 1,1-addition protocol constitutes a modular access to stereodefined all-carbon tetrasubstituted alkenes. …”
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RLS-associated MEIS transcription factors control distinct processes in human neural stem cells by Volker Kittke, Chen Zhao, Daniel D. Lam, Philip Harrer, Wojciech Krezel, Barbara Schormair, Konrad Oexle, Juliane Winkelmann

“…Our data suggest that MEIS1 can directly regulate the RLS-associated genes NTNG1, MDGA1 and DACH1, constituting new approaches to study the elusive pathomechanism or RLS.…”
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Using a Socio-Technical Model of a Global Software Development Project for Facilitating Risk Management and Improving the Project Structure by Ilia Bider, Henning Otto, Saga Willysson

“…The modeling technique helps to explicate and represent various kinds of distances between the functional components to determine which of them constitute risk factors. The technique was developed during two case studies, of which the second is used for presenting and demonstrating the new modeling technique in the article.…”
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The Influence of Season on the Gonad Index and Biochemical Composition of the Sea Urchin Paracentrotus lividus from the Golf of Tunis by Soumaya Arafa, Moncef Chouaibi, Saloua Sadok, Amor El Abed

“…The spawning period occurred between April and July and resulted in a fall in gonad indices to low level (7.12 ± 0.12%). Protein constituted the main component of the gonad, and lipid and carbohydrate were found at appreciable amounts. …”
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Coalescence of carbon nanotubes while preserving the chiral angles by Akira Takakura, Taishi Nishihara, Koji Harano, Ovidiu Cretu, Takeshi Tanaka, Hiromichi Kataura, Yuhei Miyauchi

“…The (2n, 2 m) nanotubes constitute up to ≈ 20%–40% of the final sample in the most efficient case. …”
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A new generation of ecocatalysts$^{\text{®}}$—from Invasive Alien Species to sustainable and biosourced glyceryl fatty esters by Lasbleiz, Arthur, Pelissier, Franck, Renault, Jean-Hugues, Grison, Claire M., Legrand, Yves-Marie, Grison, Claude

“…After calculating Pearson’s correlations to evaluate the relative importance of reaction parameters, a design of experiments (DoE) was implemented to synthesize glyceryl caprylate and oleate with a high selectivity. These molecules constitute emollients and non-ionic emulsifiers of high industrial interest. …”
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Prediction Compressive Strength of Concrete Containing GGBFS using Random Forest Model by Hai-Van Thi Mai, Thuy-Anh Nguyen, Hai-Bang Ly, Van Quan Tran

“…The RF model is first evaluated to determine the best architecture, which constitutes 500 growth trees and leaf size of 1. In the next step, the evaluation of the model is conducted over 500 simulations considering the effect of random sampling. …”
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Tumor-Derived CXCL1 Promotes Lung Cancer Growth via Recruitment of Tumor-Associated Neutrophils by Ming Yuan, Ha Zhu, Junfang Xu, Yuanyuan Zheng, Xuetao Cao, Qiuyan Liu

“…In vitro, 3LL cells constitutively expressed and secreted higher level of CXCL1. …”
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