Aquaporin-2 in the early stages of the adenine-induced chronic kidney disease model. by Lucas H Oronel, Maria Ortiz, Carolina Yarza, Sofía Gayone, Carlos Davio, Mónica Majowicz, Maria Florencia Albertoni Borghese

“…The 0.25% adenine diet induces progressive kidney damage, constituting an adequate model mimicking human CKD. Vasopressin (VP) was postulated as a mediator of CKD, mainly acting through its V2 receptors. …”
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Regulated microbe vaccines: from concept to (pre-clinical) reduction to practice by Richard Voellmy, David C Bloom, Nuria Vilaboa

“…Regulated microbes constitute novel vaccine platforms that may be employed for the development of more potent and/or more broadly effective vaccines.Areas covered We review the development and characterization of the vaccine potential of replication-competent controlled herpesviruses (RCCVs) which represent the first examples of regulated microbes used as vaccines.Expert opinion The RCCVs developed to date are suitable for application to the skin and can be activated deliberately to replicate efficiently, but only transiently, in the administration site. …”
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Perinatal characterization of multiple pregnancy in Cienfuegos city from 2001 to 2002 by Mariam Zam, Alberto Jorge Fernández, Gabriel Jiménez González, Alexis Díaz Brito, Cristóbal Torres González

“…This kind of pregnancy with more than 28 weeks of gestation as well as the deliveries taken place in the above mentioned hospital constituted the sample of this investigation. The influence of this kind of pregnancy in the main perinatal morbimortality indicators was analyzed. …”
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Poldérisation et préservation des paysages côtiers Singapouriens by Claire Doussard

“…These two mangroves originally constituted a single landscape entity which was subsequently broken up by different urban policies. …”
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Study on Acoustic Emission Characteristics and Damage Evolution Law of Shale under Uniaxial Compression by Wenjie Wu, Chee-Ming Chan, Yilei Gu, Xiaopeng Su

“…Therefore, this paper presents experimental works on the correlation between AE and failure mechanisms of rock mass under uniaxial compression stress, with the aim of capturing the damage evolution leading to a new damage constitutive model. The experimental results indicate that the uniaxial compression process of shale can be divided into four stages according to AE characteristics. …”
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Multi-Scale Robotics: A Numerical Investigation on Mobile Micro-Tweezers for Micro-Manipulation with Extreme Requirements by Ahmet Fatih Tabak

“…Furthermore, addressable control of the position to the vortex would constitute a robotic system. In this study, a spherical micro-object composed of super paramagnetic particles tightly packed in a non-magnetic resin is rotated with a combined magnetic field of permanent magnets. …”
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The Curriculum of Iran: Emphasizing Citizenship Education by Saeid Sharifi Rahnmo, Seyed Mohammad Masoumi, Majid Sharifi Rahnmo

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Ethical and Legal Aspects of the Dispute Over the Legalization of Assisted Suicide in Italy in 2017-2022 by Andrzej Kobyliński

“…In 2017, the institution of the living will was introduced in Italy, which allows to make a declaration of intent for potential future loss of consciousness and ability to make decisions regarding one’s treatment and saving one’s life. In 2019, the Constitutional Court obliged the parliament to draft a law regulating the termination of life on request. …”
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Actions’ system for continuous improvement in the functioning of disciplinary groups by Mabel Rocha Vázquez, María Isabel Mentecón Ledo

“…<br /><strong>Results:</strong> identified potentialities and limitations in the functioning of the disciplinary groups in the institution, aspects considered when proposing planning, organization, execution and control actions for continuous improvement, which particularize aspects for those groups that focus on work practice by constitute education at work as a fundamental principle and organizational form in Cuban Medical Education. …”
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Les rendez-vous manqués de l’ethnologie et de la primatologie de terrain (1960-2010) by Vincent Leblan

“…For the other part, by comparing how ethnologists and primatologists engage with the beings under study: their field practices seem able to constitute more solid epistemological grounds for bridge-building than the positivist conception of culture elaborated in a period of ethnology’s formation and nowadays borrowed by primatologists. …”
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Recognizing Fault Structures and Studying the Evolution of Karst Sources Using Ground Penetrating Radar (Case Study: Kermanshah Province) by Amjad Maleki, Mohsen Ovaisy

“…The region under study located in zagros producing zone have been built out of carbonate constitutes. Karst springs of kermanshah play an important role in providing the water for kermanshah province, because of this importance, geophysical operations have been done to recognize the role of earth structure (fractions) in making karset springs. …”
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Effect of Age and Diabetes on the Response of Mesenchymal Progenitor Cells to Fibrin Matrices by A. Stolzing, H. Colley, A. Scutt

“…When blood vessels are damaged, a fibrin clot forms as part of the wound healing response. The clot constitutes a form of stem cell niche as it appears to maintain the stem cell phenotype while supporting MSC proliferation and differentiation during healing. …”
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Politics of Counter-Memory in Turkey: Docudramatizing the Past as a Panacea for Official Discourses? by Nuran E. Işik

“…Historical narratives reveal a discursive struggle among different voices and ideologies which constitute an important key to understand the projections about the future. …”
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Weber’s Law as the emergent phenomenon of choices based on global inhibition by Marcin Penconek

“…It was postulated that the law constituted the emergent phenomenon arising in the choice circuit computing categorical choices based on global inhibition. …”
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Articulating (ultimate) commitments: historical, factual and systematic considerations by D. F. M. Strauss

“… Acknowledging that religion forms a constitutive part of human life is recently confirmed by Göbekli Tepe, an archaeological site in Turkey, from which it appears that religion is basic to all the other cultural developments within human society. …”
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Characterization and prognosis factors of cerebro-vascular disease in Cienfuegos province. by Rubén Bembibre Taboada, José Cabrera Gómez, Roberto Suárez Suri, Eduardo Concepción Morales

“…<strong>Fundaments: </strong>Cerebrovascular disease constitutes the third cause of death and the first cause of severe discapacity in adults in those countries that have a developed health system like ours. …”
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Les élites de l’ancien régime libyen : reconfigurations politiques en contexte transnational by Soraya Rahem

“…This article analyses the reconfiguration of the political elites of the former Libyan regime and highlights the way in which the transnational space may have constituted a political opportunity that allowed them to redeploy to the national political spheres.…”
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The impact of government subsidies on microplastic pollution control in mariculture: an evolutionary game theory analysis in Qingdao, China by Haiming Song, Xinting Wang, Xiaomeng Huan, Lin Yang

“…Mariculture constitutes the primary origin of microplastic pollution, necessitating immediate action to address microplastic pollution by focusing on both the supply and demand aspects of fishing gear. …”
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Advancements in Nanomedicine for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Kidney Stones by Wang Y, Yang J, Amier Y, Yuan D, Xun Y, Yu X

“…Yongqi Wang, Junyi Yang, Yirixiatijiang Amier, Dongfeng Yuan, Yang Xun, Xiao Yu Department of Urology, Institute of Urology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, People’s Republic of ChinaCorrespondence: Yang Xun; Xiao Yu, Department of Urology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Liberalization Ave, No. 1095, Wuhan, 430030, People’s Republic of China, Email tjxyang1993@163.com; yujiuhu@163.comAbstract: Kidney stones constitute a common condition impacting the urinary system. …”
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Dramatic Autobiography: the Poetic Voice Recreating Itself in Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s ‘The Bride’s Prelude’ by Raphaël Rigal

“…Her explanation of what happened constitutes a dramatic autobiography, or an autobiographical monologue: a genre at the crossroads between autobiography and dramatic monologue, in which a voice which is rarely heard is given the opportunity to tell its own version of the story. …”
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