The Role and Therapeutic Potential of Endothelial Progenitor Cells in Tumor Neovascularization by Branislava Janic, Ali S. Arbab

“…Numerous studies over the past decades demonstrated that neovascularization associated with tumor growth occurs via angiogenic and vasculogenic mechanisms that involve sprouting angiogenesis, intussusceptive angiogenesis, vessel co-option, vasculogenic mimicry, lymphangiogenesis, and the recruitment of endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs). …”
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Percutaneous Nephrolithotomy in Children by Romano T. DeMarco

“…The surgical management of pediatric stone disease has evolved significantly over the last three decades. Prior to the introduction of shockwave lithotripsy (SWL) in the 1980s, open lithotomy was the lone therapy for children with upper tract calculi. …”
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Ethics of life and death: changes in the book's content – and the philosopher‘s thinking? by Svava Sigurdardottir

“…Over the last four decades, Vilhjálmur Árnason professor emeritus in philosophy, has been at the forefront in the academic fields of moral and political philosophy, and medical – and bioethics in Iceland. …”
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New Highlanders in Traditional Out-migration Areas in the Alps by Roland Löffler, Michael Beismann, Judith Walder, Ernst Steinicke

“…According to the population and migration development on a municipal level in the Alps since the last decades, it has become obvious that the population gain that began in France in the 1980s has been expanding ever since towards the eastern parts of the Alps. …”
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Sound effects have only minor contribution to perceptions of anthropomorphism and animacy of simple animated shapes by K Collins, Maya Murad, Adel Manji

“…While studies of anthropomorphism have spanned many decades, there is little evidence of the role that sound effects may play. …”
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Improving Public Policy for Children: A Vote for Each Child by Robert H. Pantell, Maureen T. Shannon

“…Changes in social policy in the United States (US) over the past four decades have provided health insurance for 100 percent of persons over age 65 and decreased poverty for this group while the number of children in poverty has risen and ten million are uninsured. …”
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Do not Just Blame the Gun: The Midwestern Insight into the Relationship between Gun Laws and Firearm Mortality by Martin Zilvar

“…Gun violence has been a prevalent phenomenon in the United States for decades. The article investigates the extent to which the reality in the Midwestern states reflects empirical assumptions regarding the impact of gun laws on firearm mortality rates. …”
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Trade deregulation and fiscal revenue in selected Pacific Island countries. by Keshmeer Makun, Baljeet Singh

“…We find that as the countries have become more deregulated over the decade, the trade tax revenues and direct income tax revenues have declined whereas domestic indirect tax revenues have increased. …”
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From Uncle Tom to Nat Turner: An Overview of Slavery in American Film, 1903-2016 by Melvyn Stokes

“…This seemed to change in the second decade of the twenty-first century when three films—Lincoln (2012), Django Unchained (2012), and 12 Years a Slave (2013)—dealt critically with slavery while also attracting a mass audience. …”
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VIETNAMESE-RUSSIAN COOPERATION IN EXPLORATION AND PRODUCTION OF OIL AND GAS FROM 1980 TO THE PRESENT by Thi Huyen Bui

“…The cooperation was confirmed and promoted in the first two decades of the 21st century after the two countries established a strategic partnership in 2001 and developed it into a comprehensive strategic partnership in 2012. …”
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The Instrumentalization of Metaphors in the Management Field: Reflections from the use of the Book “The Art of War” on Business by Luiz Gustavo Lara, Fabio Vizeu, Elizeu Barroso Alves

“…The debate about the use of metaphors in the organizational context in the last decades has not been exhausted, especially in discourse studies. …”
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New visions for sustainability during a pandemic Towards sustainable wellbeing in a changing planet by Adriana GALVANI, Maria SOTELO PEREZ, Alan LEW

“…At the end, changes in the physical world only come through changes in human mentality and consciousness. In recent decades, the human mind has been producing exponential changes, though some of these have been delivered in perhaps less than desirable directions. …”
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Percepções de justiça e competências políticas em Nova Iguaçu (RJ) by Jussara Freire

“…The continuous use of emotions as resources in their public claims over the past two decades points to a unique form of political involvement, a resource that is related to their difficulty of being heard in the public space.…”
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Les premières années de la diplomatie états-unienne : l’influence décisive de Benjamin Franklin à Paris (1776-1778) by Christian Lerat

“…This paper relies on scholarship produced over the last decades to take stock of the role of Benjamin Franklin as founding father of American diplomacy. …”
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Jérusalem, entre attraction et répulsion migratoire by Irène Salenson

“…Despite the high symbolic and political values granted to Jerusalem, the city’s net migration balance has been negative for several decades, within the Israeli as well as within the Palestinian population. …”
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Teaching North American Studies in Finland: Searching for Crossdisciplinary Perspectives by Saara Kekki, Rani-Henrik Andersson

“…Over the past several decades, this interest has grown within academic circles, leading to the creation of several cross-disciplinary North American studies programs in Finland. …”
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Les perspectives de la biodiversité en Afrique subsaharienne : repenser collectivement le modèle de gestion by Robert Kasisi

“…The signatory countries of the Convention on Biological Diversity set the objective of halting the decline of biodiversity by 2010, but as the target date arrived and passed, the status of biodiversity on the planet remained dismal. As the UN Decade for Biodiversity dawned by the Rio+20 Earth Summit in June 2012 and the UN Biodiversity Strategic Plan moves forward, this article contextualizes biodiversity prospects in sub-Saharan Africa by examining the history of interactions between African communities and the environment, from the pre-colonial period to today. …”
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Une « drôle de guerre » à l’écran : Khalkhin Gol by Alexandre Sumpf

“…Under the misleading appearance of a linear narrative, there is thus a complex mechanism that uses all the weapons developed by Soviet film propaganda from the previous two decades – in vain, it seems, since the film finally remains "on the shelf", considered inappropriate in 1940 when the "Strange peace" settles in the East of Europe.…”
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Le timide reboisement des paysans ghanéens by Stefano Boni

“…After a century of predatory exploitation of the environment which has seen the forest cover almost completely disappear, in the last decade the NGOs and the Ghanaian government have intensified their attempts to regenerate a forest cover in the southern half of Ghana. …”
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W.S. Merwin’s Search for Walt Whitman, Whoever He Was by Ed Folsom

“…This essay recounts the author’s decades-long conversations with W.S. Merwin about Walt Whitman. …”
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