L’intégration d’étrangers dans la santería et le culte d’Ifá à La Havane by Emma Gobin

“…In particular, the paper argues that the bonds Cuban priests establish with foreigners—through ritual kinship or through increasingly numerous ceremonial collaborations with initiates from abroad—constitute an additional component in the micro-conflicts that ordinarily pervade religious practice and can, on a larger scale, have an influence on the power relations that create oppositions between different ‘elite’ groups (some of them deeply committed to projects of ritual ‘reform’). …”
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The Nasal Route as a Potential Pathway for Delivery of Erythropoietin in the Treatment of Acute Ischemic Stroke in Humans by Julio Cesar García-Rodríguez, Iliana Sosa Teste

“…Contrary to the other EPO variants, Neuro-EPO is not chemically modified, making it biologically similar to endogenous EPO, with the advantage of less adverse reactions when this molecule is applied chronically. This constitutes a potential benefit of Neuro-EPO over other variants of EPO for the chronic treatment of neurodegenerative illnesses. …”
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Maxillofacial fractures in patients treated at the Princess Marina Hospital, Gaborone by Juan Carlos Quintana Díaz, Carlos Alberto Botella Suarez, Evis Johnson Montero, Raquel Rojas Bruzón

“…<p><strong>Background</strong>: Fractures of the maxillofacial complex constitute about half of all fractures, and in a large number of patients they are associated with other fractures and injuries. …”
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The Effect of Yttrium Addition on the Microstructures and Electrical Properties of CuMn Alloy Thin Films by Ho-Yun Lee, Chi-Wei He, Ying-Chieh Lee

“…The phase variation, microstructure, film thickness, and constitutional analysis of CuMnY films were characterized using X-ray diffraction, field emission scanning, and high-resolution transmission electron microscopy and related energy dispersive X-ray analyses (XRD, FESEM, and HRTEM/EDX). …”
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Microalbuminuria in the Early Diagnosis of Kidney Damage in Diabetic Patients by Gabriel Ignacio Hinojoza Alarcón, Agustín Paramio Rodríguez

“…The diagnosis of microalbuminuria was made after it was verified in two determinations of the three carried out in a period of 6 months, with two groups of patients being constituted according to whether the microalbuminuria presence or not was determined. …”
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MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF INCONEL 617B ALLOYAT ULTRA-SUPERCRITICAL TEMPERATURE by YIN Tao, CAI LiXun, BAO Chen

“…At last,Evolutive behavior of cyclic stress,cyclic constitutive relationships,relationships between strain amplitudes and cyclic lives,ultra-supercritical temperature effects are studied. …”
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WILL TO TRUTH AND GENDER STUDIES by D. Y. Snitko, O. P. Varshavskyi

“…To achieve this purpose, the following tasks are solved: 1) to investigate the way in which philosophy constitutes itself; 2) to establish how the category of "sex" manifests, both in the natural and in the social contexts; 3) to determine the correlation of gender studies and philosophy. …”
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Insights on film and TV series analysis in sociology in times of digital media spread by Túlio Rossi

“…It is argued in this paper that this technological shift changes how societies and individuals relate to electronically mediated images and constitute symbolic and valuation references through social life. …”
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The EU’s Consular Protection Policy from the Administrative Law Perspective by Erzsébet Csatlós

“…Therefore, the article examines what constitutes European administration in this and other policy fields and what represents its structural and procedural law sides. …”
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Quality of Life in University Students with Diabetes Distress: Type 1 and Type 2 of Diabetes Differences by Samah A. Moawd

“…Background. This study constitutes a preliminary trial to clarify the relationship between quality of life (QoL) and diabetes distress (DD in patients with diabetes mellitus (DM) by comparing patients with type 1 and type 2 diabetes. …”
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Russian prefixal posture verbs as a means of spatial thinking verbalization by A.V. Trofimova, V.A. Kosova

“…Verbs of speech and social activity constitute the fourth group. Finally, posture verbs with complicated additional semes are included the sixth group. …”
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Profile of Skin Disorders in Unreached Hilly Areas of North India by Deepak Dimri, Venkatashiva Reddy B, Amit Kumar Singh

“…Adults (>18 years) constituted about 80.9%. Among adults, about 59.9% were males. …”
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Prognostic Value of Transcranial Doppler in the Survival of Patients with Spontaneous Cerebral Intraparenchymal Hemorrhage by Julio López Argüelles, Erélido Hernández Valero

“…<strong>Background:</strong> transcranial doppler is a technique which is constantly being developed and constitutes an indirect measure of intracranial pressure.…”
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Frequency of Sportive Injuries in Amateur Athletes and Factors Affecting Injuries by Arif Satıcı, Osman İmamoğlu, Egemen Ermiş

“…This study aims to investigate frequency of sport injuries and factors affecting injuries to amateur athletes in Samsun region.666 amateur athletes serving in various amateur sports clubs in Samsun province were selected randomly. 462 participants were men, 204 were women. 240 athletes in individual sports branches (wrestling, table tennis, taekwondo, wrist wrestling, wushu, athletics), and 426 athletes in team sports (basketball, football, handball, volleyball) constitute the sample. The subjects completed a sports injury survey developed by the researchers. …”
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Comparison of the Effectiveness of Interventions to Reduce Smoking in Ecuadorian Patients with Cardiovascular Diseases by Elsy Labrada González, Angélica Victoria Martínez Herrera, Manuel Conrado Ezcurdia Bárzaga

“…Tobacco consumption constitutes a relevant risk factor. There are numerous therapeutic proposals from different health disciplines with the aim of facilitating the transition from habitual consumption to quitting tobacco. …”
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OVERCOMING THE CULTURAL DIFFERENCES: PARABLE AS A MEANS OF INTERCULTURAL DIALOGUE by Tetyana V. Danylova

“…This model helps people to constitute themselves as a part of their world. Parable requires to reject its interpretation in the oppositions inherent in a given culture and to reconsider the very way of understanding. …”
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Alzheimer’s disease diagnosis by 3D-SEConvNeXt by Zhongyi Hu, Yuhang Wang, Lei Xiao

“…Abstract Alzheimer’s disease (AD) constitutes a fatal neurodegenerative disorder and represents the most prevalent form of dementia among the elderly population. …”
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Coupled Geomechanics and Flow Modeling of Fractured Reservoirs considering Matrix Permeability Anisotropy by Dawei Wu, Yuan Di, Yu-Shu Wu

“…The geomechanics model of the proposed approach uses an equivalent continuum approach, which introduces an equivalent material to represent the overall deformation of the fractured rock under normal and shear stresses. The constitutive relations of the equivalent continuum are derived rigorously from stress-strain analysis, where the stress-dependent moduli of natural fractures are included. …”
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ANALYSIS OF FOREIGN EXPERIENCE OF INTRODUCTION OF THE SCHOOL DRESS CODE by O, I, Denisova

“…These requirements affect many important aspects and the principles of functioning of an educational system and all society in general: the observance of the constitutional rights of a child, including freedom of expression on grounds of gender; tolerance policy of intra school and state policy in the light of migration processes; problems of leveling of social and economic stratification of children, etc. …”
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Study on the Applicability of Elastic Recovery (Resilience) Experiment for Asphalt-Rubber by Zechen Yao, Renfeng Yang, Jian Kang, Zhigang Zhang

“…The mechanical model, based on the viscoelastic constitutive relation and particle inclusion theory, was developed. …”
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