Efficacy of low-dose rituximab versus immunosuppressants in refractory orbital inflammatory pseudotumors with intracranial extension by Yuyu Li, Mingming Sun, Xintong Xu, Biyue Chen, Xiyun Chen, Yuhang Wang, Quangang Xu, Huanfen Zhou, Shihui Wei

“…ObjectiveThe aim of this study was to compare the efficacy of low-dose rituximab (RTX) and immunosuppressants in treating orbital inflammatory pseudotumor (OIP) with intracranial extension, a refractory and high-relapse disease.MethodsPatients who had been diagnosed with refractory OIP with intracranial extension and who were refractory to systemic corticosteroids were retrospectively recruited at the Neuro-Ophthalmology Department at the Chinese People’s Liberation Army General Hospital between December 2018 and September 2022. …”
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Utility of a Wearable Tracker to Assess Sleep Quality in Nurses and Their Spouses: A Prospective Cohort Study by Tomohiro Ishinuki, Erika Goda, Hiroomi Tatsumi, Goro Kutomi, Toshio Ohyanagi, Hirofumi Ohnishi, Yoshiki Masuda, Thomas T. Hui, Toru Mizuguchi

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Role of Janus Kinase inhibitors in the management of pulmonary involvement due to Long COVID-19 disease: A case control study by Pawan Kumar Singh, Vinod Kumar Sharma, Lokesh Kumar Lalwani, Dhruva Chaudhry, Manjunath B. Govindagoudar, Chaudhari Pramod Sriram, Aman Ahuja

“…The number of patients off oxygen support at 4 weeks was higher in the JAKi group (85% in the corticosteroid group vs. 95.2% in the JAKi group, P = 0.269), and the median time to liberation from oxygen support was significantly lower in JAKi group (19 days in corticosteroid group vs. 9 days in JAKi group, P < 0.001). …”
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Clustering Analysis in Wireless Sensor Networks: The Ambit of Performance Metrics and Schemes Taxonomy by Asim Zeb, A. K. M. Muzahidul Islam, Mahdi Zareei, Ishtiak Al Mamoon, Nafees Mansoor, Sabariah Baharun, Yoshiaki Katayama, Shozo Komaki

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Astrology as Sacred Ecological Knowledge in the Tibetan Buddhist Tradition by Yulia Yu. Erendzhenova

“…The three Lamrim-derived motives — to improve this lifetime, gain liberation from samsaric suffering, achieve enlightenment for the sake of universal well-being — may accordingly direct the intentions of Buddhists toward the use of sacred astrological knowledge to solve problematic situations, identify oneself, understand others, restore the balance of external and internal cycles. …”
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Relations between Russia and Lithuania in the contemporary Lithuanian historiography by Nerijus Šepetys

“…The situation of historical research during the last twenty years on Lithuanian-Russian relations, and especially on the collapse of the USSR and liberation of Lithuania, is the most dynamic and the most complicated at the same time. …”
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Immigration modulates audiovisual emotional processing in adults: is this really an influence of the host culture? by Anna K. Nakamura, Anna K. Nakamura, Hisako W. Yamamoto, Hisako W. Yamamoto, Sachiko Takagi, Tetsuya Matsuda, Hiroyuki Okada, Chiaki Ishiguro, Chiaki Ishiguro, Akihiro Tanaka

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Tegaserod maleate exerts anti-tumor effects on prostate cancer via repressing sonic hedgehog signaling pathway by Maoping Cai, Shengdong Ge, Yaying Hong, Yao Chen, Yang-Zi Ren, Dacai Zhong, Mingkun Chen, Yuan Liu, Zhe-Sheng Chen, Ninghan Feng, Zhanghui Chen, Shan-Chao Zhao

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Población y Estado en Argentina de 1930 a 1943. Análisis de los discursos de algunos actores sociales: industriales, militares, obreros y profesionales de la salud by Susana Novick

“…Se inicia con el primer golpe de Estado que quiebra el orden formal constitucional y provoca el derrumbe del proyecto liberal agroexportador junto con la restauración del conservadurismo de tintes nacionalistas. …”
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La bibliothèque dans Le Silence de la mer, un espace symbolique by Nathalie Gibert-Joly

“…Le Silence de la mer, écrit en 1941 et publié en 1942, est un livre culte qui a consacré son auteur Vercors – de son vrai nom Jean Bruller - comme un des écrivains de la Résistance. A la Libération, ce premier volume de la maison d’édition clandestine les Editions de Minuit, a été immédiatement réimprimé, puis suivi d’une adaptation théâtrale en 1949 dans une mise en scène de Jean Mercure, et du film très fidèle de Jean-Pierre Melville. …”
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The staffing problem in the police during 1943–1944 and ways to resolve it by V. A. Grechenko

“…In the regions of Ukraine liberated from the Nazis, NKVD operational groups immediately began recruiting police officers. …”
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L’École de journalisme d’Alger (1964-1990) : les défis d’une formation professionnelle by Chloé Nejma Rondeleux

“…During this period, the establishment of the single party translated into a monopoly of political power over the media as a whole (newspapers, radio, television and press agencies), placed either under the supervision of the Ministry of Information or under the party of the National Liberation Front (FLN). With the evolution of this university institute, the only place in Algeria for training in the information trades, there emerge different visions of the figure of the journalist and the great transformations of higher education in Algeria, of which the most striking is Arabisation.By considering, on the one hand, ministerial supervision and, on the other, the socialist and Third World positions adopted by Algerian political managers from 1962, this article favours an internal view of the institute. …”
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Nonlocal Intracranial Cavity Extraction by José V. Manjón, Simon F. Eskildsen, Pierrick Coupé, José E. Romero, D. Louis Collins, Montserrat Robles

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La cultura insurreccional del republicanismo catalán restauracionista: muerte y conmemoración de los militares republicanos Ramón Ferrándiz y Manuel Bellés, 1884-1910 by Àlex Pocino Pérez

“…La hipótesis de esta investigación es que el republicanismo catalán adoptó durante la Restauración un lenguaje insurreccional de herencia liberal –basado en la legitimidad de la insurrección armada– en un momento en que, las vías legales estaban cerradas por un gobierno considerado como reaccionario. …”
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Activities of the Minister of Internal Affairs of the Ukrainian SSR Pavlo Yakovlevych Meshyk (1953) by V. A. Grechenko

“…Meshyk also took some measures to “root” the leadership of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, translated the ministry’s office work into Ukrainian, eased some of the Soviet government’s repressive policies towards the Ukrainian national liberation movement, actually restored the normal operation of Lviv State University, and improved contacts with Western Ukrainian intellectuals. …”
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METHAPHYSICS OF DEATH PENALTY by V. E. Gromov

“…The author believes that refusal from death penalty under the pretence of rule of humanism is just a liberal façade, plausible excuse for defective moral state of the society which, rejecting its own guiltiness share as for current disregards of the law, does not grow but downgrades proper human dignity. …”
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Impacts of Racket Handle Design on Table Tennis Topspin Forehand Rally Performance Among Beginner Players by Ryushi Kumamoto, Ping Yeap Loh, Yuqi He, Enrico Ferlinghetti, Matteo Lancini, Tadashi Uno

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Psychological Characteristics and Health Behavior for Juvenile Delinquency Groups by Fangbin Song, Ruihua Li, Wei Wang, Shenyu Zhang

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Indigenous Populations, Plantations, and Agrarian Conflicts in Rural North Maluku during the Colonial Period from the 17th to the 20th Century by A. Rahman

“…The colonial and imperialist spirit, with its liberal capitalist views, significantly restricted indigenous freedoms to cultivate spices on their own plantations and manage forest products like resin. …”
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Yoon Suk Yeol’s policy towards Japan: Reasons for changing approach and prospects by К. V. Asmolov, О. S. Pugacheva

“…The conservative ruling circles in South Korea are focused on developing and deepening cooperation with the countries of the collective West, including Japan, which share the values of liberal democracy. President Yoon considers Japan a “partner” with whom it is possible to counter common threats, in particular North Korea (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, DPRK). …”
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