Parapharyngeal Abscesses Caused by Group G Streptococcus by Shori Tajima, Takashi Anzai, Rina Matsuoka, Hiroko Okada, Takuma Ide, Mitsuhisa Fujimaki, Shota Kaya, Shin Ito, Katsuhisa Ikeda

“…Group G streptococcus (GGS) constitutes the normal commensal flora of the human upper airway. …”
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A Modified Strain‐Wedge Model for Small Strain Rigid Piles in Sand by Yisheng Yin, Dongyuan Wang, Kai Cui

“…On the contrary, the prediction accuracy of numerical analysis using the UBC3D‐PLM constitutive model increases.…”
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Metal Flux from Dissolution of Iron Oxide Grain Coatings in Sandstones by J. Parnell, X. Wang, A. Raab, J. Feldmann, C. Brolly, R. Michie, J. Armstrong

“…Analyses by ICP-MS following acid leaching of the grain coatings show that the dissolved metals can constitute an ore-forming fluid, as hypothesized in models for sandstone-hosted ore deposits. …”
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River Flow Estimation from Upstream Flow Records Using Support Vector Machines by Halil Karahan, Serdar Iplikci, Mutlu Yasar, Gurhan Gurarslan

“…Whole observed data have been used for determining the model parameters in the heuristic methods given in the literature, which constitutes the major disadvantage of the existing approaches. …”
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Recent Advances in Underlying Pathologies Provide Insight into Interleukin-8 Expression-Mediated Inflammation and Angiogenesis by Basit Saleem Qazi, Kai Tang, Asma Qazi

“…Increased expression of IL-8 and/or its receptors has been characterized in many chronic inflammatory conditions, including psoriasis, ARDS, COPD, and RA as well as many cancers, and its upregulation often correlates with disease activity. IL-8 constitutes the CXC class of chemokines, a potent chemoattractant and activator of neutrophils and other immune cells. …”
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Targeting Toll-Like Receptors for Treatment of SLE by Christopher G. Horton, Zi-jian Pan, A. Darise Farris

“…Since activation of these receptor pathways promotes autoimmune phenotypes, inhibitory drugs that target these pathways constitute important new therapeutic strategies for the treatment of systemic autoimmunity.…”
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Super-leading logarithms in pp → 2 jets by Thomas Becher, Patrick Hager, Giuliano Martinelli, Matthias Neubert, Dominik Schwienbacher, Michel Stillger

“…While these effects only arise in high orders of perturbation theory and are suppressed in the large-N c limit, they formally constitute leading logarithmic corrections to the cross sections. …”
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On the Inertia Term of Projectile's Penetration Resistance by Yu Shan, Haijun Wu, Fenglei Huang, Jinzhu Li

“…The effect of the target inertia term of rigid kinetic energy projectiles (KEP’s) penetration resistance is investigated using nonlinear dynamic code LS-DYNA and four constitutive models. It is found that the damage number of target can be used to measure the influence of the inertia term. …”
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ADOPTION LEVEL OF GREEN PRACTICES AND ITS EFFECT ON EMPLOYEE’ PERFORMANCE by Ali Erbaşı, Gökhan Akandere

“…It was determined that the linear combination of values related to technological, organizational and environmental factors that constitute the perception of adoption of green practices significantly predicts the task and contextual performance of employees, and organizational factors is the variable of the employee's perception of adoption of green practices which is the most descriptive of the task and contextual performance, and environmental factors among the variables in the model do not have a statistically significant effect on task and contextual performance.…”
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Frequency-Dependent FDTD Algorithm Using Newmark’s Method by Bing Wei, Le Cao, Fei Wang, Qian Yang

“…The electric field intensity to polarizability recursion is derived, and the electric flux to electric field intensity recursion is obtained by constitutive relation. Then FDTD iterative computation in time domain of electric and magnetic field components in dispersive medium is completed. …”
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Longwall Mining Stability in Take-Off Phase by María-Belén Prendes-Gero, José Alcalde-Gonzalo, Pedro Ramírez-Oyanguren, Francisco-José Suárez-Domínguez, Martina-Inmaculada Álvarez-Fernández

“…The longitudinal and transverse spacings of the support and the number of walkways constituting the exploitation panel are analysed. The proposed formulation is validated by information gathered in a mine located in the region of Castilla-Leon.…”
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Comparison of Agriculture Biotechnology and its Spatial Diversification among Different Countries of the World by Adam Andrzejuk

“…Agricultural biotechnology constitute only a small percentage of all biotechnology R&D expenditures.…”
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Data from a multi-year targeted proteomics study of a longitudinal birth cohort of type 1 diabetes by Lisa M. Bramer, Ernesto S. Nakayasu, Javier E. Flores, Jennifer E. Van Eyk, Michael J. MacCoss, Hemang M. Parikh, Thomas O. Metz, Bobbie-Jo M. Webb-Robertson

“…Comprised of 6,426 plasma analyses, The Environmental Determinants of Diabetes in the Young (TEDDY) proteomics validation study constitutes one of the largest targeted proteomics experiments in the literature to date. …”
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Variation in Macro and Trace Elements in Progression of Type 2 Diabetes by Khalid Siddiqui, Nahla Bawazeer, Salini Scaria Joy

“…Macro elements are the minerals of which the body needs more amounts and are more important than any other elements. Trace elements constitute a minute part of the living tissues and have various metabolic characteristics and functions. …”
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Troublesome Tinnitus in Children: Epidemiology, Audiological Profile, and Preliminary Results of Treatment by G. Bartnik, A. Stepien, D. Raj-Koziak, A. Fabijanska, I. Niedzialek, H. Skarzynski

“…In our tinnitus clinic, children with distressing tinnitus constitute about 0,5% of all our patients. Objectives. …”
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Experimental Analysis and Discussion on the Damage Variable of Frozen Loess by Cong Cai, Wei Ma, Shuping Zhao, Yanhu Mu

“…The damage variable of frozen loess is investigated using the following four methods: the stiffness degradation method, the deformation increase method, the dissipated energy increase method, and the constitutive model deducing method during deformation process. …”
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The General Election Supervisory Agency’s Policy in Conflict Resolution (Case Study: 2019 Legislative Election in North Musi Rawas District) by Eva Kurnia Farhan, Budi Setiyono, Teguh Yuwono, Reni Shinta Dewi

“…The findings of this research is strengthens the democratic constitutional system, ensures fair and transparent elections, ensure consistency of electoral system arrangements, provide legal certainty and avoid duplication in election arrangements; and ensures effective and efficient elections.…”
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WHEAT ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDES by T. I. Odintsova, T. V. Korostyleva, L. L. Utkina, Ya. A. Andreev, A. A. Slavokhotova, E. A. Istomina, V. A. Pukhal’skii, T. A. Egorov

“…Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are low-molecular-weight defense polypeptides, produced in all living organisms either constitutively or upon perception of signals from pathogenic microorganisms. …”
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Jadassohn-Lewandowsky syndrome. Report of the first pediatric case in Cuba by Migdalis Hidalgo Muñiz, Aracelis Hernández García, Andrés Andrés Matos, Yadelis Maldonado Martínez

“…Worldwide, less than a thousand cases have been described to date and the one that is now published constitutes the first pediatric age report in Cuba. …”
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THE SUITABILITY OF THE BMY2 AND WAXY GENES AND INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACERS OF RRNA AS MARKERS FOR STUDYING GENETIC VARIABILITY IN ELYMUS SPECIES by N. A. Shmakov, D. A. Afonnikov, P. A. Belavin, A. V. Agafonov

“…This variation makes it useful in investigating the genome constitutions of novel Elymus species. Finally, systematical status of E. kamczadalorum as a species was proven valid.…”
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