Efficacy of Curcumin on Treating Cancer Anorexia-Cachexia Syndrome in Locally or Advanced Head and Neck Cancer: A Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Randomised Phase IIa Trial (CurCh... by Tawasapon Thambamroong, Kasan Seetalarom, Siriwimon Saichaemchan, Yanisa Pumsutas, Naiyarat Prasongsook

“…Curcumin was safe and well tolerated. This constitutes an unmet need for clinical trials. This trial is registered with NCT04208334.…”
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Domestic sewage irrigation on dynamics of nutrients and heavy metals in soil and wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) production by S. R. Salakinkop, C. S. Hunshal

“…In this context, a field experiment was laid out in splitâsplit plot design with three replications. Main plots constituted two types of lands (fields irrigated with sewage and bore well water since 1992). …”
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Efficacy of Chinese traditional quadruple single pill combination versus valsartan/hydrochlorothiazide for the treatment of hypertension (COSPQ-BP): study protocol for randomised c... by Kai Liu, Yu Yan, Xin Zhang, Yanan Li, Yuanyuan Yao, Lu Liu, Runyu Ye, Si Wang, Xiangyu Yang, Xiaoping Chen, Shanshan Jia, Qingtao Meng, Xianghao Zuo

“…Introduction Hypertension constitutes the primary health burden of cardiovascular diseases, and the global control of blood pressure (BP) remains insufficient. …”
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The ABC transporter A7 modulates neuroinflammation via NLRP3 inflammasome in Alzheimer’s disease mice by Irene Santos-García, Pablo Bascuñana, Mirjam Brackhan, María Villa, Ivan Eiriz, Thomas Brüning, Jens Pahnke

“…Methods We developed the first humanized, Cre-inducible ABCA7 flx knock-in mouse model, crossbred it with the APPPS1-21 β-amyloidosis model, and generated constitutive ABCA7ko and microglia Cx3cr1-specific conditional ABCA7ko AD mice. …”
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New Parameters for Impedance–pH Monitoring in Diagnosing Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease and Predicting its Severity by O. A. Storonova, A. S. Trukhmanov, A. A. Makushina, A. V. Paraskevova, V. T. Ivashkin

“…A correlation between the PSPW index and DCI (r = 0.22; p = 0.001) was found as well.In the group of ERD patients, the median values of PSPW and MNBI constitute 0.23 [0.17; 0.33] and 1.13 [0.63; 1.53], respectively. …”
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Les sociétés jbala et la nature by Yildiz Aumeeruddy-Thomas, Dominique Caubet, Younes Hmimsa, Ángeles Vicente

“…We suggest that the social organization in the Rif, as well as the diversity of dialects and languages, constitute stable identity elements of identity creating boundaries between the various Arabic and Berber-speaking social groups of various origins in the Rif and the Pre-Rif regions. …”
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The Eight Beatitudes in the Context of the Spirituality of the Sisters of the Resurrection by Joanna Pyszna

“…This analysis has been based on the documents of the Congregation (the Rule and the Constitutions), the writings of the Foundresses, Blessed Mother Celina Borzęcka, and the Venerable Servant of God Mother Jadwiga Borzęcka, as well as those of the general superiors. …”
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The Cultural Science of Consumption: Brains, Networks, and Identities by Herrmann-Pillath Carsten

“…The paper uses this ‘dual selves’ approach to rethink semiotics and the emergence of meaning, building up an argument about the importance of copying, narrative and language in constituting identity though distributed cognition. Finally, the paper proposes that cultural science can reintegrate the study of meaning and cognition in order to analyse consumer behaviour and choice.…”
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De la voix au théâtre au théâtre de la voix : l’envers du décor poétique de Robert Browning by Yann Tholoniat

“…The scenes are midway between both text and stage directions, between the text and what is beyond the text, and they display a great variety of expression to such an extent that they constitute Browning’s poetics workshop for Dramatic Lyrics (1842) and Dramatic Romances and Lyrics (1845).…”
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Application of Electrical Resistivity Tomography Technique for Characterizing Leakage Problem in Abu Baara Earth Dam, Syria by Walid Al-Fares

“…The analysis of the inverted ERT sections revealed the presence of fractured and karstified limestone rocks which constitute the shallow bedrock of the dam reservoir. …”
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Le mouvement protestataire algérien de 2019 à la lumière de la théorie des mouvements sociaux et des Printemps arabes by Frédéric Volpi

“…They help structuring and explaining to varying degrees what constitutes the specificities of the 2019 Algerian movement and what represents generic processes of protest movements. …”
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Początkowe stadia życia ludzkiego według Homera by Marek Gilski

“…According to Homer’s opinion childbirth does not constitute any significant turning point in human life. …”
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Surface Ship Shock Modeling and Simulation: Two-Dimensional Analysis by Young S. Shin, Leonard D. Santiago

“…First, the one-dimensional Bleich-Sandler model is used to validate the approach, and second, the underwater shock response of a two-dimensional mid-section model of a surface ship is predicted with a surrounding fluid model using a constitutive equation of a bilinear fluid which does not allow transmission of negative pressures.…”
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«Pasa la vida»: Cartografías Urbanas de Madrid en la Post-Transición (1982-1994) by Vicente Rodríguez Ortega

“…From the late 1980s to the mid 1990s, filmmakers tackle a social fabric characterized by a «presentism» that leaves behind a productive commitment to recent Spanish history and the capacity of the citizenry to decisively intervene within the constitutive pillars of social reality. In the studied period, Spanish cinema encounters an ever-flowing social, approaching it from different perspectives, turning into a representational mechanism that codifies the practices of the everyday –that is, the recurrent forms of interaction through which individuals function with a given social structure.…”
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Les paysages de décharges publiques urbaines au Liban : quelle problématique ? by Nada Chbat

“…The urban waste dumps that have proliferated in Lebanon constitute a real problem in this country. Situated in public locations, these waste dumps provoke several types of social manifestations related to the perception of waste that range between what is thrown and what is useful. …”
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A Dialectical Social Framework for the Analysis of Media Communication by Ercan Gündoğan

“…The study begins with the determination that a genuine theoretical analysis of mediaand communication must take into account certain constitutive relations and processes within thesocial whole, since communication is not part of a single social structure or a distinctive structurewithin a social system. …”
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