Social Confrontation with Menstruation: A Feminist Ethnography of Menstrual Experience among Female Instagram Users by Rana Mohammad Taghinejad Esfahani, Majid Movahed, Halimeh Enayat, Aliyar Ahmadi

“…Consequently, many women refrain from sharing their experiences or challenging the taboos surrounding menstruation in public, confining this natural process to the private sphere. …”
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Designing a defensive silence failure model of creative employees in organizations by Azam Khosravi, karam khalili, Esfandyar Mohammadi

“…Organizational silence is defined as refraining from expressing behavioral, cognitive and effectiveness evaluations about organizational situations. …”
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Sacral Stress Fracture following the Bone Union of Lumbar Spondylolysis by Tatsuro Sasaji, Hideki Imaizumi, Hiroyuki Takano, Hideo Saitoh, Taishi Murakami, Ryuichi Kanabuchi, Motohiko Sekiya

“…He was a high school soccer player with a previous history of a bilateral L5 lumbar spondylolysis in 2014. The patient refrained from soccer and wore a brace for six months. …”
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Cudworth and More on Immaterial Extension: A New Text with Analysis by Matthew A. Leisinger

“…In The True Intellectual System of the Universe, More’s friend and fellow Cambridge Platonist Ralph Cudworth notes More’s position but refrains from criticizing it. By contrast, in a passage from one of Cudworth’s unpublished manuscripts that has escaped scholarly attention and that is included here as an appendix, Cudworth addresses More directly, raising objections against More’s view and responding to two of More’s arguments. …”
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A Critical Review of “Ibn-Sina’s Influence on Dons Scotos” by Hassan Fathi

“…Dr Abbaszade could have a better work by seeing all of scotus’ philosophical writings, and by refraining from some prejudices and exaggerations.…”
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The Election and Invitation in al-Hâdavî Zaydism ABSTRAcT by Zeyd B. Ali El-vezir

“…It is stressed in the article that al-Hadi ilâ al-Haqq, the caliph between 284298/897-911, comes to power by election and he is appointed as Imam in order to accomplish the duty of ordering the right and refraining people from the wrong as well as ruling with ‘ the Book.’ …”
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Recalcitrant ‘knuckle pads’: a revisited case by Enas Attia

“…After the condition was explained, the patient consciously refrained from biting her knuckles with improvement within a few weeks.…”
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Severe Clostridial Pyomyoma following an Abortion Does Not Always Require Surgical Intervention by Daphna Stroumsa, Eliel Ben-David, Nurith Hiller, Drorith Hochner-Celnikier

“…In selected cases of infected myoma complicated by clostridial sepsis, refraining from surgical intervention is a possible therapeutic approach.…”
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Traduire la xéno-encyclopédie en finnois et en français : une approche pragmatique by Martin Carayol

“…In some cases, the translator refrains from translating neologisms, and in others, on the contrary, the translator may introduce neologisms.…”
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The Odd One Out? Revisiting the Belgian Welfare State by Cor Wagenaar

“…Here, the De Taeye Act of 1948 sponsored the construction of individual, detached houses; not surprisingly, most clients preferred traditional architecture and refrained from modern experiments. Industrial parks, office buildings and shops, on the other hand, developed into the cornerstones of Belgian modern architecture after 1945. …”
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Navigating diverging responsibilities for inclusion in a biobased value chain: the case of Solaris tobacco in South Africa by Eefje De Gelder, Lotte Asveld

“…Companies should empower local agents to achieve their objectives while refraining from imposing external norms on local contexts.…”
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Vienna’s Resistance to the “Neoliberal Turn" by Florian Urban

“…At the turn of the twenty-first century, when public authorities all over Europe increasingly retreated from their responsibility for housing, Vienna refrained from large-scale privatisations. Upholding the system of state-subsidised housing, the Austrian capital supported new architecture as a means to regenerate the inner city and to promote innovative social policy. …”
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Love Them & Leave Them: science-based rationale for a campaign at the public health-conservation interface by Jamie K. Reaser, Jamie K. Reaser, Hongying Li, Sean Southey

“…The campaign’s six key messages emphasize the inter-linkages between wildlife and human well-being for pandemic prevention and encourage the campaign target audiences to appreciate (love) wildlife while refraining from touching wildlife or occupying places that wildlife inhabit or feed (leave them … alone). …”
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Flux of the professional standards: Objectivity, advocacy journalism and paradigm repair by Kulić Milica

“…Journalists seem to be expected not to be objective but engaged, fueling ideological frameworks and refraining from questioning their own policies, thus reinforcing the fortress of ideological extremism where media and their owners sit. …”
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Simple Sources for Complex Problems. Where Did Californians Come From in 1940? by Myron P. Gutmann

“…Migration to California is one of the persistent refrains encountered in both popular and academic works about the history of the 1930s. …”
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DYNAMICS OF AFRICAN TRADITIONAL AND CULTURAL PRACTICE AS A SOCIAL CONTROL MECHANISM: A DETERRENT THEORETICAL ANALYSIS ON THE ALEKWU BELIEF SYSTEM AMONG THE IDOMA PEOPLE IN NIGERIA by Daniel, Rosemary Onchi

“… Strong traditional and cultural convictions prevalent in many African communities place a premium on deference to established rules and refraining members from abominable or deviant behaviour. …”
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Impact of Smoking on Oxygen Saturation, Carboxyhemoglobin, and Carbon Monoxide Levels: A Pilot Study of Chairside Biomarkers for Smoking Status by Christeena Binny, Mathew Jacob, Saramma M. Fenn

“…Methods: Participants who had refrained from smoking for 3 hours prior to measuring exhaled carbon monoxide and carboxyhemoglobin levels. …”
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Memory, Identity and Otherness in Rhea Galanaki’s Novel "The Life of Ismail Ferik Pasha: Spina Nel Cuore" by Neli Popova

“…This new iteration of the historical novel, as articulated by Vangelis Hadjivassiliou, refrains from instrumentalizing the dichotomy of Self and Other to valorize the ‘own’ at the expense of the ‘other.’ …”
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Influence of Heat- and Cold-Stressed Raw Milk on the Stability of UHT Milk by Nan Li, Zhigang Yang, Zhiyu Yuan, Zizhu Zhen, Xinna Xie, Danqing Zhu, Gang Lu, Feng Zhao, Bo Qu, Bingli Qi, Yujun Jiang, Qianyu Zhao, Chaoxin Man

“…The findings indicate shortcomings in the quality of cold-stressed milk and its adverse effects on the stability of UHT milk, underscoring the necessity of preventing cold stress in the herd and refraining from utilizing cold-stressed milk as a raw material for UHT production.…”
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Accurate recognition of micromorphology images of epoxy coatings for deep-sea environments based on a deep learning super-resolution method by JiaQi Pan, Furou Liu, Jia Feng, Fandi Meng, Yufan Chen, Jianning Chi, Zelan Li, Jie Li, Li Liu

“…The results show that this method not only refrains from destroying the clarity of the original images but also greatly outperforms bicubic method in terms of precision, recall, mAP50 and mPA50–95, which are improved by approximately 23.1 %, 32.4 %, 36.4 % and 26.7 %, respectively. …”
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