Bilateral Renal Colic as an Initial Presentation of Erdheim-Chester Disease by Julien Sarkis, Fady Haddad, Sarah Nasr, Elie Hanna, Ahmad Mroueh, Elie Nemr

“…Kidney CT-guided biopsy and 18-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography whole body scan as well as the history of hypopituitarism and vasculitis confirmed the diagnosis of Erdheim-Chester disease. …”
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Мотив искушений в драме Флобера «Искушение святого Антония» by Galina Modina

“…The drama can be read as the history of forming the creative individuality of Flaubert, with the temptation being a perquisite for self-knowledge of the Artist.…”
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Bullying as an object of statistical research by L. A. Davletshina, M. V. Karmanov

“…In the course of examining the history of the given phenomenon as an object of scientific research, it was revealed that according to the first definition proposed in 1993 by the Norwegian psychologist D. …”
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A Rare Case of HHV-8 Associated Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis in a Stable HIV Patient by Nonso Osakwe, Diane Johnson, Natalie Klein, Dalia Abdel Azim

“…A 70-year-old Asian male patient with history of stable HIV on medications with CD 4 cell count above 200 presented with cough and fever and was initially treated for pneumonia as an outpatient. …”
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The 2020 IDS Release of the Antwerp COR*-Database. Evaluation, Development and Transformation of a Pre-Existing Database by Sam Jenkinson, Francisco Anguita, Diogo Paiva, Hideko Matsuo, Koen Matthijs

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Unilateral Giant Varicocele Mimicking Inguinal Hernia Resulting from Portosystemic Shunt without Evidence of Portal Hypertension: An Unusual Case Report by Muhammed Zahir, Hassan R. Al Muttairi, Surjya Prasad Upadhyay, Piyush N. Mallick

“…Isolated giant varicocele has been reported with portal hypertension that results in abnormal communication between portal venous system and testicular vein venous system resulting in retrograde backflow of blood into the testicular venous system which leads to varicosity of the pampiniform plexuses. 65-year-old male with no past medical or surgical history presented to us with soft inguinoscrotal swelling that disappears on lying down mimicking inguinal hernia. …”
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Estimated Interval-Based Checkpointing (EIC) on Spot Instances in Cloud Computing by Daeyong Jung, JongBeom Lim, Heonchang Yu, Taeweon Suh

“…Our scheme sets the thresholds of price and execution time based on history. Whenever the actual price and the execution time cross over the thresholds, the system saves the state of spot instances. …”
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Perioperative infarction during coronary bypass surgery: an attempt to refine the diagnostic criteria using data from a retrospective case–control study by Lars Niclauss, Liam-Kani Roulet, Piergiorgio Tozzi, Filip Dulguerov, Ziyad Gunga, Anna Nowacka, Matthias Kirsch

“…The risk factors were a family history of cardiovascular disease (odds ratio (OR) 2.8), tobacco abuse (OR 3.8), recent MI (OR 3.6), and triple-vessel disease (OR 2.8). …”
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MEASURING GLOBALIZATION IN THE CONTEXT OF TRANSITION PROCESS - THE CASE OF WESTERN BALKAN COUNTRIES by Jelena Tešić

“… There is no widely accepted definition or methods for measuring globalization and it is one of the most debatable phenomena in recent human history. The focus of this paper is,  therefore, on globalization and methods of its measurement. …”
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Twenty-Five Battalion, The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) Changing the Decorum in the South African Parliament, 2014 to 2018 by Mohau Soldaat

“…Broadly, the study contributes to the growing contemporary history scholarship, with special reference ti the EFF. …”
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Contiguous Multilevel Thoracic Ossification of Ligamentum Flavum in a Young Adult Spine by Tsuyoshi Yamada, Ichiro Torigoe, Kenichiro Sakai, Atsushi Okawa, Yoshiyasu Arai

“…This female with obesity presented with a 6-month history of progressively worsening dorsal cord disorders. …”
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Biochemical Composition of Propolis and Its Efficacy in Maintaining Postharvest Storability of Fresh Fruits and Vegetables by İbrahim Kahramanoğlu, Volkan Okatan, Chunpeng Wan

“…Moreover, it has a long history in the traditional and scientific medicine as having antibacterial, anticancer, anti-inflammatory, anti-infective, and wound healing effects since 300 BC. …”
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The city as context: culture and scale in new immigrant destinations by Wendy Cadge, Sara Curran, B.Nadya Jaworsky, Peggy Levitt

“…In this study of two small, post-industrial cities, we argue that important variations in how cities create and deploy what we call their cultural armature, including differences in urban self-presentation, the prevailing ethos toward immigrants, how culture is harnessed in service of urban renewal projects, and how history and political economy influence the available cultural apparatus explain much of the variation in our two contexts of reception.…”
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A Modified Strain-Rate-Dependent Spring-Mass Model for Response Prediction of Composite Laminates Subjected to Low-Velocity Impact by Qiao Zhu, Zhefeng Yu

“…The stiffness coefficients of the spring-mass model were updated step-by-step during solving the Bubnov-Galerkin equation by the variational method, allowing the SRD contact history to be obtained via recursive integration. …”
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Brain Death Secondary to Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever Encephalitis by Steven D. Rhodes, Alicia M. Teagarden, Brian Graner, Riad Lutfi, Chandy C. John

“…We present this case to highlight the importance of considering RMSF and other tick-borne illnesses in a child with prolonged fever and rash in a nonendemic area and also the difficulty of diagnosis in early stages of disease. A detailed travel history, evaluation of key laboratory findings (white blood count, platelet count, and transaminases), and close follow-up if rash and fevers persist may help to improve detection of RMSF. …”
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Neurostigma Enderlein, 1900 (Psocodea: ‘Psocoptera’: Epipsocidae) from Brazilian Amazon Rainforest: new species and variations in forewings by Natália S. Reategui, José A. Rafael, Alberto M. da Silva-Neto

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URBAN UPGRADE IN BISKRA’S SHANTYTOWNS SAMPLE: THE NEIGHBORHOODS OF SIDI GHAZEL AND SIDI ROUAG (ALGERIA) by Djouheina Kouidre BOUHKELIFI, Fateh MEZERDI

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Civilizational Analysis in Historical Sociology and Explanations of the “Soviet Collapse" by M. V. Maslovskiy

“…In these studies, the example of “Soviet collapse” was generally used for a confirmation of earlier approaches to Soviet history. At the same time, they mostly focused on the immediate preconditions of that event rather than on long-term historical processes. …”
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Childhood Hypopigmented Mycosis Fungoides: A Rare Diagnosis by Cláudia Patraquim, Maria Miguel Gomes, Carla Garcez, Filipa Leite, Tereza Oliva, António Santos, Armando Pinto

“…We present a 5-year-old boy with an 18-month history of progressive, generalized, nonpruritic hypopigmented lesions with central lacy erythema. …”
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Cultural disaster: A threat to the preservation of Minangkabau culture by Oktavianus Oktavianus, Nopriyasman Nopriyasman, Zahid Indirawati

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