Prognostic value of serum cystatin C in patients with sepsis by Chunfang Hu, Zhiyuan Zhang, Bin Hou, Han Xue, Xuehua Pu, Jilu Ye

“…Conclusion: The serum cystatin C level is elevated in patients with sepsis and it may serve as a biomarker for early diagnosis of sepsis and possess promising effects in assessing the severity of sepsis and the prognosis of patients.…”
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SEMIOTICS OF COLOR RED IN THE GIVER MOVIE by Emy Sudarwati, Nur Amalina Zatalini

“…The color red itself and the things that possess it have related meanings to complete each other. …”
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Communs (im)matériels : enjeux épistémologiques, institutionnels et politiques by Arnaud Buchs, Catherine Baron, Géraldine Froger, Adrien Peneranda

“…The second perspective, institutional, combines the tangible and intangible dimensions of the commons through the issues of rules shaping, particularly those related to ownership, possession and access, but also through the linked coordination issues. …”
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Embodying the Spirit (<i>meyppāṭu</i>): A <i>puttiṇai</i> Perspective by Nirmal Selvamony

“…I explain the early Tamil idea of <i>meyppāṭu</i> as a kind of action, which consists of embodying the spirit, and show how it manifests itself in ordinary emotional experience, in love at first sight, in emoting in theatre, and in spirit possession. The analytical tool I employ is the concept of <i>mūviṭam</i>, or the personaic triad, the central concept in the theory called <i>puttiṇai</i>. …”
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Thickness Dependent on Photocatalytic Activity of Hematite Thin Films by Yen-Hua Chen, Kuo-Jui Tu

“…The effects of film thicknesses on the photocatalytic activity of hematite films have been investigated. Hematite films possess a polycrystalline hexagonal structure, and the band gap decreases with an increase of film thickness. …”
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Ukrayna Örneğinden Hareketle Nükleer Silahsızlanmanın Olası Sonuçlarına Dair Bir İnceleme by Eray ALIM

“…States that are in an inferior position in the military balance gain “absolute deterrence”, if they possess nuclear weapons. Nuclear weapons are, therefore, functional devices in calibrating deterrence asymmetry between weak and strong states in favor of the former. …”
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Pre-service EFL teachers’ competencies for teaching young learners by Hilal Alten, Müge Karakaş

“…This explanatory study aims to identify certain competencies that teachers need to possess for teaching young and very young learners from the perspective of Turkish pre-service EFL teachers who are conducting their practicum studies within the last year of the teacher training program. …”
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Assessment of Salivary Adipokines Resistin, Visfatin, and Ghrelin as Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Biomarkers by Mythily Srinivasan, Melinda L. Meadows, Lisa Maxwell

“…Human saliva is an easily accessible biospecimen amenable for painless frequent collection and possesses nearly 50% of serum proteome. In this study, we measured the adipokines resistin, visfatin, TNF-α, and ghrelin as markers for T2DM in unstimulated whole saliva (UWS) using specific assay kits. …”
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Bioactive Volatile Content of the Stem and Root of Centaurea carduiformis DC. subsp. carduiformis var. carduiformis by Ibrahim Demirtas, Ayse Sahin

“…Several species of Centaurea, biennial (or more rarely perennial) plants which belong to the Asteraceae family, possess medicinal properties and are currently used in phytotherapy. …”
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Efficient Model Predictive Algorithms for Tracking of Periodic Signals by Yun-Chung Chu, Michael Z. Q. Chen

“…Both proposed algorithms possess nice convergence properties, which are also verified with computer simulations.…”
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Wychowanie ekologiczne w perspektywie personalistycznej by Stanisław Dziekoński

“…The .personalistic norm.) of pro-ecological education by no means depreciates other beings possessing autonomy and objective value. Between man and other beings, one can see close ties, relations of interdependence, common sharing of destiny. …”
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Masculinity and Femininity in the Qur’an: Reflections on the Personalities of the Prophet Muhammad and Siti Khadijah by Moh Soim, Zein Fuady, Muhammad Zahid

“…This study concludes that men and women can possess masculine and feminine traits, in that women can have masculine characteristics and men can have feminine traits, provided that they are legitimized by Islamic law. …”
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Color Confinement and Spatial Dimensions in the Complex-Sedenion Space by Zi-Hua Weng

“…In contrast to the complex-number wave function, the complex-quaternion wave function possesses three new degrees of freedom, that is, three color degrees of freedom. …”
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Nutrient Status of Vermicompost of Urban Green Waste Processed by Three Earthworm Species—Eisenia fetida, Eudrilus eugeniae, and Perionyx excavatus by Swati Pattnaik, M. Vikram Reddy

“…Moreover, the vermicompost produced by E. eugeniae possessed higher nutrient contents than that of E. fetida, P. excavatus, and compost. …”
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Communs (im)matériels : enjeux épistémologiques, institutionnels et politiques by Arnaud Buchs, Catherine Baron, Géraldine Froger, Adrien Peneranda

“…The second perspective, institutional, combines the tangible and intangible dimensions of the commons through the issues of rules shaping, particularly those related to ownership, possession and access, but also through the linked coordination issues. …”
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Animal Objects: Memory, Desire and Mourning by Julia Courtney

“…While the death of the animal is implicit in the construction of the domestic object, possession of the object allows the owner to recapture, even to re-experience, intensely lived moments of danger, violence, comradeship, physical prowess, closeness to nature and, especially, of power.…”
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Solving the Cape Town Puzzle: Class, Politics and Migration in the Informal Food Economy by Graeme Young

“… Political empowerment possesses significant potential to facilitate the realization of economic inclusion by allowing marginalized groups to make claims on the state in the pursuit of justice and equality. …”
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Using the Theory of Planned Behavior to Understand Traffic Violation Behaviors in E-Bike Couriers in China by Qian Cheng, Wei Deng, Qizhou Hu

“…Age, education level, whether one possessed a driver’s license, and past traffic violation behaviors had significant effects on belief composites and behavior. …”
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Lie Bialgebra Structures and Quantization of Generalized Loop Planar Galilean Conformal Algebra by Yu Yang, Xingtao Wang

“…Additionally, we prove that all LB structures on <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mi>W</mi><mo>(</mo><mo>Γ</mo><mo>)</mo></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> possess a triangular coboundary. We also quantize <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mi>W</mi><mo>(</mo><mo>Γ</mo><mo>)</mo></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> using the Drinfeld-twist quantization technique and identify a group of noncommutative algebras and noncocommutative Hopf algebras.…”
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BIRTH-MARKS OF RUSSIAN MENTALITY AND THE CULTURE OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS by A. P. Liferov

“…It is shown that Russian mentality and business, nurtured on the boarder-line between Western and Eastern cultures, possess a dual character. The paper shows the pendulum character of Russian business strategies in their interrelations with other countries. …”
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