Spectroscopic Approach to Capillary-Alveolar Membrane Damage Induced Acute Lung Injury by Jing Wang, Luis Oppenheimer, Paola Fata, Julio Pintin, Ross Stimpson, Henry H Mantsch

“…BACKGROUND: Acute (or adult) respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is often associated with a high mortality rate in the critical care population. The term acute lung injury (ALI), a primitive phase of ARDS, was introduced by the European and American consensus groups to provide early diagnoses of ARDS. …”
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Rupestrian Habitat: Sustainability and Energy Performance by Lorena Musotto

“…The article analyses the solutions and the settlement characteristics developed in the Mediterranean area, with reference to the hypogean and rupestrian-dwellings, and investigates the reasons that have led man to prefer forms of subtractive architecture. The critical re-reading of the phenomenon of troglodyteism has brought out features of rock living so far still little investigated; this is due to the lack of studies able to translate the energetic behavior of these constructive solutions to the different climatic and environmental stresses in measurable data.…”
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First-principles and machine-learning approaches for interpreting and predicting the properties of MXenes by José D. Gouveia, Tiago L. P. Galvão, Kais Iben Nassar, José R. B. Gomes

“…Key advances and challenges are critically examined, offering insights into applying computational research to transition these materials from the lab to practical use.…”
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Architecture and Nature in Japan: Nishizawa, Kuma e Fujimoto by Salvator-John Liotta

“…This paper defines the sense of nature for Japanese culture according to the interpretation of the philosopher Testuro Watsuji, provides an overview of the devices of traditional Japanese spatiality and shows through a critical analysis of various projects by Ryue Nishiwaza, Kengo Kuma and Suo Fujimoto as Japanese contemporary architecture has renewed its bond with nature. …”
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Extinction and Nonextinction for the Fast Diffusion Equation by Chunlai Mu, Li Yan, Yi-bin Xiao

“…For 0<m<1, under appropriate hypotheses, we show that m=p is the critical exponent of extinction for the weak solution. …”
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INVESTIGATION OF TASK SCHEDULING IN GRID by A. A. Prihozhy, O. M. Frolov

“…The results of conducted computing experiments have found out the critical scheduler’s components and preferable scheduling approaches which are promising and indicate the ways of further development of grid optimization methods.…”
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“If Jesus lived today, he would smell like smoke”: Contemporary Visions of Jesus Christ in Philip Pullman’s Novel and Tumblr Blogs by Danijela Petković

“… Influenced by critical race theory and drawing on historical Jesus scholarship, the paper discusses the portrayals of Jesus Christ in Philip Pullman’s novel The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ (2010), and the poems written by young, mainly anonymous, poets found online on the social media platform Tumblr. …”
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Ironie et communauté (L’Éducation sentimentale) by Boris Lyon-Caen

“…Communities based on certain effects of insider understanding and recognition, that call to and stimulate the reader’s critical spirit. Irony is the cause of it, in its own manner, incidental and furtive, central but diffuse. …”
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Artificial Organelles: Digital Microfluidic Platform for Proteoglycan and Glycoprotein Biosynthesis by Jeffrey G. Martin, Julie M. Beaudet, Jonathan S. Dordick, Robert J. Linhardt

“…This device should be useful in high-throughput combinatorial proteoglycan/glycoprotein synthesis, providing critical information about the control of biosynthetic pathways for these important signaling molecules.…”
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An Unfortunate Cause of Chronic Nausea and Vomiting: Mitochondrial Neurogastrointestinal Encephalomyopathy (MNGIE) by Neethi Dasu, Brian Blair, C. Jonathan Foster, Colin Smith

“…The patient underwent an extensive workup and was diagnosed with mitochondrial neurogastrointestinal encephalopathy. Early diagnosis is critical to proper management of this disease process. …”
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Brezis Nirenberg type results for local non-local problems under mixed boundary conditions by Lovelesh Sharma

“…., the combination of classical Laplace operator and fractional Laplace operator) and critical nonlinearity. Also, we focus on identifying the optimal constant in the mixed Sobolev inequality, which we show is never achieved. …”
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(Re)Imagining Flyover: An Introduction by Cornelia Klecker, Sascha Pöhlmann

“…This introduction to the special issue titled "(Re)Imagining Flyover Fictions" theorizes the flyover trope (as in "flyover country/state") as a critical concept in cultural studies in order to make it an abstract tool to explore, among others, the historical continuities and present facets of polarization in the United States. …”
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La Création de réseaux dédiés à l’enseignement design‑build : mise en place, objectifs, enjeux depuis 2012 by Coline Madelaine

“…It then goes on to examine the reasons for their emergence and the issues they currently face, in an approach that is both critical and forward-looking. The aim is to understand their position in relation to architectural education, which they seek to renew.…”
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Hepatocyte Growth Factor in Synaptic Plasticity and Alzheimer's Disease by Shiv K. Sharma

“…HGF signaling, which is initiated by its binding to a receptor tyrosine kinase, plays critical roles during development. HGF and its receptor are also present in brain cells. …”
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Power Prior Elicitation in Bayesian Quantile Regression by Rahim Alhamzawi, Keming Yu

“…The propriety of the power prior is one of the critical issues in Bayesian analysis. Thus, we discuss the propriety of the power prior in Bayesian quantile regression. …”
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Testing quantum gravity with dilute dipolar Bose gases by Asma Tahar Taiba, Abdelâali Boudjemâa

“…We calculate quantum gravity corrections to the condensed fraction, the equation of state, the critical temperature and the superfluid fraction. Improved upper bounds on the generalized uncertainty principle parameters are found. …”
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Sprayer Cleanout Procedures: Protect Equipment and Crops by Brett Bultemeier, Benjamin Sperry

“…This is even more important when it comes to pesticide application equipment. A critical piece of this maintenance is properly cleaning the tank out after use. …”
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Postulat de la monnaie et théorie de la valeur chez Marx by Nicolas Piluso

“…The paper attempts to reevaluate the criticism of Carlo Benetti about the marxian theory of money. …”
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Russell and Wittgenstein: apprenticeship and other ‘crossings’ by V. V. Tselishchev

“…The mythology of the traditional interpretation of the development and collaboration of Wittgenstein and Russell is demonstrated and criticized. A more complex trajectory of the development of these relations is shown, which does not correspond to the traditional interpretation, according to which this development led to a kind of intellectual and creative surrender of Russell to his former student.…”
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Towards Building New Partnership with Southeast Asia: Japan’s Initiatives and the Challenges Ahead by Mie OBA

“…For Japan, strengthening its partnerships with Southeast Asia is becoming increasingly critical.…”
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