Relationship Between Myocardial Strain and Extracellular Volume: Exploratory Study in Patients with Severe Aortic Stenosis Undergoing Photon-Counting Detector CT by Costanza Lisi, Victor Mergen, Lukas J. Moser, Konstantin Klambauer, Jonathan Michel, Albert M. Kasel, Hatem Alkadhi, Matthias Eberhard

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Diegetic Pregnancy in Jesse Greengrass’s Sight (2018), or the Ethics of Building Bodies in(to) Literature by Maxence Gouleau

“…Starting with the assessment that pregnancy in literature can be summed up by the image of “a man pac[ing] a carpet” while a woman gives birth outside the frame of the narration, Greengrass’s novel tackles the compulsion to look and to look away, to show and to hide that is at the heart of this image. The novel shows that pregnant bodies have been overlooked by literature not for lack of curiosity, but rather because of an obsessive curiosity for what lies inside them and what comes out of them. …”
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Magnetic Nanoparticles for Targeting and Imaging of Stem Cells in Myocardial Infarction by Michelle R. Santoso, Phillip C. Yang

“…Stem cells have emerged as a leading therapeutic option for many diseases and have broad applications in regenerative medicine. Injuries to the heart are often permanent due to the limited proliferation and self-healing capability of cardiomyocytes; as such, stem cell therapy has become increasingly important in the treatment of cardiovascular diseases. …”
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Infective Endocarditis Presented as a Right Atrium Mass in a Patient with Ulcerative Colitis by Ali Asghar Moeinipour, Hamid Hoseinikhah, Mohamad Ali Kiani, Naser Tayyebi Meibodi, Mohammad Hassan Aelami, Ali Reza Sepehri Shamloo, Shahram Amini

“…Involvement of the heart is infrequently seen in irritable bowel syndrome (IBD). …”
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Calfeutrer, contrôler, canaliser. Réflexion autour des dispositifs de traitement d’air en architecture by Eugénie Floret

“…While materials are at the heart of construction issues, an invisible element that we condition, process, recycle and, quite often, forget is also at play: air. …”
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La mosquée en Algérie.Figures nouvelles et pratiques reconstituées by Abderrahmane Moussaoui

“…Our study analyzes such changes taking place at the heart of the most important institution in Islam.…”
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Serum Biomarkers in Transthyretin Amyloidosis: An Overview of Neurofilaments, Cardiac, Renal, and Gastrointestinal Involvement by Valeria Guglielmino, Francesca Vitali, Angela Romano, Guido Primiano, Maria Ausilia Sciarrone, Marco Luigetti

“…Abstract Hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis (ATTRv, v for variant) is a genetic disorder characterized by the deposition of misfolded transthyretin (TTR) protein in tissues, resulting in progressive dysfunction of multiple organs, including the nervous system, heart, kidneys, and gastrointestinal (GI) tract. …”
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An integrated approach to the treatment of a patient with chronic tonsillitis. Clinical case by Khiyir T. Abdulkerimov, Ksenia I. Kartashova

“…Chronic tonsillitis (CT) is a common infectious-allergic disease leading to severe general somatic complications, including rheumatic damage of joints and heart, kidney disease. Currently in Russia there is an increase in the number of patients with CT. …”
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Ecotourisme et parcs naturels : innovations et contradictions sud-africaines, le cas de HIP (Hluhluwe-Imfolozi Park) by Fabrice Folio, Anaëlle Derroisne

“…As one of the oldest game reserves in austral Africa, the Hluhluwe-Imfolozi Park (HIP), set in the heart of the KwaZulu-Natal province, has become a south-african example as a conservation sanctuary involved in ecotourism practices. …”
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Confronting Race Head-on in 12 Years a Slave (Steve McQueen, 2013): Redefining the Contours of the Classic Biopic? by Anne-Marie Paquet-Deyris

“…By reconsidering the classic biopic/historical film, this article examines how the movie relocates America’s problems with race at the very heart of the national debate and offers a “post-post-racial” screen model that directly confronts race history.…”
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Case Report: A crushing sensation—a rare case of mediastinal germ cell tumor causing cardiac tamponade by Kevin S. Tang, Emin Zargarian, Pranav M. Patel

“…Cardiac tamponade often presents as external compression of the heart by pericardial fluid, leading to hemodynamic instability, but it can rarely be caused by compression by a solid mass. …”
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Primary Cardiac Lymphoma: Importance of Tissue Diagnosis by Lauren Mendelson, Emily Hsu, Hojune Chung, Andrew Hsu

“…The patient was treated with two cycles of rituximab plus cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, and prednisone (R-CHOP) which was complicated by progressive heart failure requiring substitution of liposomal doxorubicin. …”
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La primauté du modèle de l’homme grec dans les manuels d’histoire du premier franquisme by Bertrand Noblet

“…To the men of the future the school books were proposing models, which were hardly orthodox if we compare them to the virile ideal of the monk-soldier, exalted by a dictatorial regime (founded by soldiers) which carried in its heart the ideals of the Falange. Without doubt the educational system, and those who worked within it, had their own system of values, which escaped, at least in part, the official culture.…”
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Epidemiology of Hypertensive State among Chinese Migrants: Effects of Unaffordable Medical Care by Ming Guan

“…Hypertension is a major risk factor for heart disease and stroke. Affordability of medical care affects hypertension prevention, treatment, and control, but limited information is available for Chinese migrants with hypertensive state. …”
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Editorial for Vol. 34, No. 4 by Juwon Lim

“…Results show significant heart rate changes during the landing phase, reflecting increased workload and sympathetic activation. …”

The cell as secret agent—autonomy and intelligence of the living cell: driving force of development by Brian J. Ford

“…We cannot comprehend the realities of population dynamics and evolutionary impetus without the cell being at the heart of our considerations. Biologists emphasize the importance of the organism, and imperatives derived from Cartesian reductionism underpin contemporary interpretations of multicellular organisms and the manifestation of life in protists. …”
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Identité professionnelle des formateurs d’enseignants de Lycée Professionnel en IUFM : enjeux et dilemmes à l’heure des réformes by Thérèse Perez-Roux

“…It stresses the necessity of redefining professional activity. At the heart of teacher trainers’ preoccupations lies recognition. …”
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Multiple Coronary Fistulas as a Rare Cause of Stable Angina Pectoris by Jasna Čerkez Habek, Tea Friščić, Jozica Šikić, Marko Perčić, Dean Strinić, Daria Ljubas Perčić

“…When symptoms and complications occur, they include angina, myocardial infarction, atrial heart failure, arrhythmias, and endocarditis. The management of CA-LVMMFs is controversial, but it is generally agreed that conservative medical management is the primary treatment of choice. …”
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Nietzsche's Poethics: Poetry as a Way of Life in 'The Gay Science' by Philip Mills

“…By focusing mainly on The Gay Science, I explore the interaction between ethics and poetics that lies at the heart of Nietzsche’s ethical thought. Both poetics and ethics involve the question of value, and a poetic ethics (a poethics) reveals that the creation of ethical value is something necessarily poetic. …”
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Deliberation-Without-Attention in Solving Insight and Analytic Problems: Does Distractor Type Have an Effect? by Viktoria Tidikis, Anthony Stenson

“… Replication failure is at the heart of criticism of Dijksterhuis’ unconscious thought theory (UTT: Dijksterhuis, 2004). …”
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