Update on Extracorporeal Oxygenation in Adults by W Demajo

“…The usefulness of managing adult patients with severe acute respiratory distress syndrome and hypoxemia by means of systems using extracorporeal oxygenation has been questioned. A National Institutes of Health multicentre study, published in 1979, reported survival rates of 9.5% and 8.3% in extracorporeally and ventilator managed patients, respectively. …”
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Cypress looper Anacamptodes pergracilis (Hulst) (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Geometridae) by Wayne N. Dixon

“… Anacamptodes pergracilis (Hulst), commonly known as the cypress looper, drew considerable attention in late summer of 1980 with the unexpected defoliation of nearly 28,000 ha of cypress trees in USFS-NPS Big Cypress National Preserve (Collier and Monroe counties). Currently, cypress looper populations are at low levels, even in the Fisheating Creek (Glades County) area, a perennial generator of significant cypress looper defoliation over the past 20 years. …”
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Les trois visages de l’islam politique en Afrique du Nord et au Moyen-Orient : essai de typologie by Samir Amghar

“…As Islamic formations operate primarily within national frameworks, the political context in which they evolve has a strong influence on their strategies, rhetoric and political programs. …”
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PRACTICE TRAINING OF ENERGY MANAGERS – A NEW CLASS OF ENGINEERING AND ECONOMICS PROFESSIONALS by Roman S. Golov, Vyacheslav Yu. Teplyshev, Aleksey V. Myl’nik

“…The article analyzes the activity of Russia’s first chair of «Energy service and energy saving management» established at the Institute of Management, Economics and Social Technologies of Moscow Aviation Institute (National Research University). The focus of the department staff is training of specialists in energy management for various industries. …”
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Cypress looper Anacamptodes pergracilis (Hulst) (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Geometridae) by Wayne N. Dixon

“… Anacamptodes pergracilis (Hulst), commonly known as the cypress looper, drew considerable attention in late summer of 1980 with the unexpected defoliation of nearly 28,000 ha of cypress trees in USFS-NPS Big Cypress National Preserve (Collier and Monroe counties). Currently, cypress looper populations are at low levels, even in the Fisheating Creek (Glades County) area, a perennial generator of significant cypress looper defoliation over the past 20 years. …”
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Book Review: A Brief History of South Africa: From Earliest Times to the Mandela Presidency by Mandla J. Radebe

“…On the other hand, the liberal tradition considered South Africa as constituting a single nation with white people making up the core while black people in general, and Africans in particular, had to be integrated on the basis of meeting particular standards (Nxumalo, 1992). …”
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FORMATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE MOBILE TV MARKET IN THE 20TH CENTURY by I. Levitina

“…Modern mobile television is a rapidly developing branch of the national economy. The objective of this research is to fill the lack of coverage in the domestic economic-scientific literature of the processes of formation and development of the world market of mobile television (this paper is part of the special complex materials for higher education).…”
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La croissance urbaine au Brésil : concentration dans les métropoles ou rééquilibrage du système urbain ? by Cathy Chatel, François Moriconi-Ebrard, Maria Encarnação Beltrão Sposito

“…It is now much lower than national growth. The methodology used consists in reconstructing the entire urban hierarchy of the country, starting from a strictly morphological definition of the urban agglomerations. …”
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Development of the Russian Universities’ Human Capacity in the Field of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Digital Technologies by A. V. Zamyatin, A. I. Chuchalin

“…The Centre was created within the framework of the project “Human Resources for the Digital Economy” of the national program “Digital Economy of the Russian Federation”. …”
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Les maïs natifs du nord, centre et sud du Mexique by Elena Lazos-Chavero, Michelle Chauvet

“…This article traverses different agricultural mosaics between the north, south and center of the country in order to recognize that the entire national territory is the center of origin and diversification of maize. …”
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SCYLLA AND C HARYBDIS OF EDUCATION: SPECULATIONS ON THE PROBLEMS OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING IN HIGHER SCHOOLS OF RUSSIA by Natalya K. Ivanova, Marina N. Mileeva

“…The complex of the problems relating to Englishization – the application of the English language in national educational and research processes – is discussed, internal and external factors of ineffective traditional methods of teaching in Russian higher schools are revealed, comparison with European approaches to foreign language teaching is made. …”
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PROSPECTS OF USING IN RUSSIA OF EXPERIENCE OF CHINA BANKING SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT by L. Ryabchenko

“…It is concluded that the reforms of China’s banking system including its structure were related to the tasks of developing the national economy and the banking system of the state. …”
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INTERROGATING ISSUES AND PERSPECTIVES ON RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN SELECTED NIGERIAN PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES by Otega Okinono, Okpan Samuel O.

“…Research plays a vital role towards institutional and national development. Development of research culture has remained an imagination in Nigeria due to mirids of challenges. …”
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Surgical, non-traumatic splenopathies by Ivonne López Masó, Rafael Trinchet Soler, Manuel García Artiles, Ada Arlenis Pérez Mayo

“…We presented the Good Clinical Practices Guideline for Portal hypertension, approved by consensus in the 4th National Good Clinical Practices Workshop in Pediatric Surgery (Las Tunas, Cuba, March, 2005).…”
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" Đi chơi đi ! ". « Allons-nous amuser ! » by Emmanuelle Peyvel, Marie Gibert

“…Studying leisure practices is tangible way to analyze the way recent national wealth is put to use, its distribution and social meaning. …”
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La constitution des collections du Muséum par l’appropriation : du rassemblement du mobilier de la Couronne dans la Grande Galerie aux saisies en Europe, à travers les actions d’He... by Gianmarco Raffaelli

“…While the analysis of the acts of a little-known figure such as Reboul allows light to be shed on new aspects of the history of the Louvre, it is at the same time the opportunity to be interested in the conceptual implications of the arrival, in the first national museum, of the artistic creations having belonged to the kings of France and of those that were confiscated in Europe, the physical appropriation of these objects being accompanied by an intellectual appropriation.…”
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La responsabilité sociale des universités en France : un concept en émergence ? by Emmanuelle Annoot

“…The impact of the autonomy of universities on a democratic access to higher education remains to be studied at a local, national and European scale.…”
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Ditadura militar e literatura “parajornalística”: desconstruindo relações by Sabrina Schneider

“…It is understood that, in their appreciation of these works, academic literary critics considered only the impact of national political situation – the military dictatorship –, taking up these narratives as mere substitutes for censored newspapers. …”
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Pobreza por subtração: A festa, de Ivan Ângelo by Frans Weiser

“…Roberto Schwarz highlights the exclusion of marginalized classes from discus- sions about Brazilian national identity in “Nacional por subtração” (1987). …”
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Interpretability of Composite Indicators Based on Principal Components by Kris Boudt, Marco d’Errico, Hong Anh Luu, Rebecca Pietrelli

“…The effectiveness of the proposed approach is illustrated in defining the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations’ Resilience Capacity Index, which is used to measure household-level resilience to food insecurity. …”
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