Racionalidade(s) dos sojicultores familiares do Sudoeste Paranaense by Angelita Bazotti

“…Having this in mind, the main goal of this paper is to understand the rationality, strategies, and motivations of family farming involved in soybean production, based on a field research with farmers in Capanema, located in the southwest of Paraná. The empirical evidence gathered in the region reveal some endogenous factors related to culture of the rural population, know-how on soybean production, tradition, and possibilities given by favorable soil and climate. …”
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Mechanistic insights into connexin-mediated neuroglia crosstalk in neurodegenerative diseases by Simona Denaro, Simona D’Aprile, Nunzio Vicario, Rosalba Parenti

“…However, accumulating evidence suggests that Cxs can also act as pathological pore in neuroinflammatory conditions, thereby contributing to neurodegenerative phenomena such as synaptic dysfunction, oxidative stress, and ultimately cell death. …”
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La licence obligatoire : outil emblématique de la protection de la santé publique au Sud by Samira Guennif

“…On the basis of a conceptual framework specifying the three dimensions of accessibility, this survey will systematically compare the theoretical arguments and empirical evidence by discussing successively the impact of compulsory licensing on affordability, availability and quality of HIV/AIDS drugs in the South. …”
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THE VALIDATION OF VALUES IN ECOLOGICAL ETHICS by Česlovas Kalenda

“…These changes in ecological research and the constant rapid growth of ecological ethics during the last decades can apparently be considered as evidence that mankind feels an increasing need for new ecological humanism. …”
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CONSULTATION OF WORKERS AS A MEASURE FOR IMPROVEMENT THE OH&S MANAGEMENT SYSTEM. CASE STUDY AT THE „VASILE ALECSANDRI” UNIVERSITY OF BACAU by MARIA-CRINA RADU

“… Identifying and assessing occupational health and safety risks and implementing measures to prevent accidents at work and occupational diseases are legal obligations and the implementation and certification of an occupational health and safety (OH&S) management system may help organization to achieve these goals, being also a credible evidence of its commitment to protect life and health of its interested parties. …”
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Echocardiographic Assessment of Preload Responsiveness in Critically Ill Patients by Alexander Levitov, Paul E. Marik

“…Furthermore, increasing evidence suggests that excess fluid resuscitation is associated with increased mortality. …”
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A Review of the Effect of Injected Dextranomer/Hyaluronic Acid Copolymer Volume on Reflux Correction Following Endoscopic Injection by Sumit Dave, Darius J. Bägli

“…This article reviews the evidence pertaining to the effect of injected Dx/HA volume on success rates following endoscopic correction. …”
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Early Templar Administration in Provence and North-Eastern Spain by Alan Forey

“…Information about the creation of Templar convents and a province in Provence, north-eastern Spain and neighbouring territories before 1150 is limited. Some types of evidence, however, suggest the establishment of convents. …”
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As Camp as a Row of Pink Tents: Stephen’s Portrait of Mr W. S. by Samuel Slote

“…Furthermore, like the various characters in Wilde’s story, Stephen’s theory is propelled primarily from the internal evidence of Shakespeare’s texts. In this article, I will analyse the playful and learned insincerity of both theories through the optic of camp in order to tease out the implications that Stephen’s argument about Shakespeare has for James Joyce’s aesthetics.  …”
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Cytokines and Liver Diseases by Herbert Tilg

“…There is increasing evidence that several cytokines mediate hepatic inflammation, apoptosis and necrosis of liver cells, cholestasis and fibrosis. …”
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Analytical Model for the End-Bearing Capacity of Tapered Piles Using Cavity Expansion Theory by Suman Manandhar, Noriyuki Yasufuku

“…On the basis of evidence from model tests on increasing the end-bearing behavior of tapered piles at the load-settlement curve, this paper proposes an analytical spherical cavity expansion theory to evaluate the end-bearing capacity. …”
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Experimental and Computational Fluid Dynamics: decades of turbulent EFD/CFD complementarity by Bonnet, Jean Paul

“…The growing evidence of organized motions in turbulent flows pushes in parallel both experiments and numerical approaches to develop new measurement technologies and numerical methods. …”
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Les « coups de foudre » de Jupiter et l’exportation de la religion romaine en Gaule by Nicolas Laubry

“…However, confronting the Gallic documentation with written sources and evidence for this ritual in Italy helps to consider these inscriptions in a different way. …”
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Choosing a Licensed Wood-Destroying Organism (WDO) Inspector by Faith M. Oi, Paul Mitola, Kathleen C. Ruppert, Michael J. Page, Mark H. Ruff

“… A wood-destroying organism inspection is a visual inspection performed by a licensed pest control inspector trained to identify evidence of termites, powderpost beetles, and other organisms that chew on wood and cause damage to property. …”
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Exú's Work – The Agency of Ritual Objects in Southeast Brazilian Umbanda by Eleonora A. Lundell

“…This article concentrates on the material side of religious intimacy in Afro-Brazilian Umbanda through an ‘ontographic’ perspective as well as looking at materiality as evidence. It is based on an eleven-month fieldwork among devotees, clients and individual practitioners of Umbanda in Southeast Brazilian metropolises, especially in São Paulo. …”
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The development of Anthropocene Awareness Scale. by Donghun Kang, Moon Choi

“…Designed to explore individual attitudes, the scale could provide quantitative researchers with an entry point into the Anthropocene discourse and facilitate empirical studies that generate evidence for environmental policies and education in the Anthropocene.…”
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Cognition, Relevance and Ideology Formation through Travel Documentaries: A Longitudinal Approach to Audiences by Castaldi Jacopo

“…After introducing a more nuanced model of RT’s contextual effect, the paper reports an empirical case study to explicate the methodological approach. Evidence is provided that a specific text can have a long-lasting effect on an audience: a hierarchy of effects and the cognitive circumstances under which this may happen are discussed.…”
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Modified Newtonian Dynamics: A Falsification of Cold Dark Matter by R. H. Sanders

“…The fact that it works very well on the scale of galaxies is problematic for cold dark matter (CDM). Here I present evidence in favor of this assertion and claim that this is, in effect, a falsification of CDM on the scale of galaxies.…”
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Fatigue Failure Analysis of a Gear in Automobile Engine Coolant Pump by Krishnakumar Krishnasamy, D. Subbulekshmi, T. Deepa, B. M Gnanasekaran, T. Maridurai, M. Sriram, Srinivasan Suresh Kumar, Mebratu Markos

“…The crack initiated from the corner radius of the keyway and propagated towards to the root of the teeth, which is evidence of the failure due to fatigue. Recommendations are given to improve the fatigue strength of gear.…”
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The challenge of the spiral-of-silence theory by Wolfgang Donsbach

“…Nevertheless, the empirical evidence up to now seems to underline that it has the potential to explain some of the variance in individual behaviour and in the dynamics of public opinion pro-V cesses. …”
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