Administration of Vitamin D Metabolites Affects RNA Expression of Xenobiotic Metabolising Enzymes and Function of ABC Transporters in Rats by Karoline Klumpp, Frauke Lange, Alexandra S. Muscher-Banse, Nadine Schnepel, Kathrin Hansen, Adrian L. Lifschitz, Laura Mate, Mirja R. Wilkens

“…Forty-eight female rats were divided into three treatment and corresponding placebo groups: (1) a single intraperitoneal injection of 1,25-(OH)2D3 or placebo 12 h before sacrifice; (2) daily supplementation with 25-OHD3 by oral gavage or placebo for 10 days; and (3) a single intramuscular injection of vitamin D3 10 days before sacrifice. …”
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Fasts and Feasts in Estonians’ Representations of the Seto Culture by Andreas Kalkun

“…The religious rituals of the Seto came to be regarded with a fresh eye: traditional fasting was associated with the discourse of health care, food sacrifice with economy and religious feasts with criminal activities and alcoholism. …”
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Introduction to Dossier. Dispossession, Social Segregation of Space and Territories in Resistance in Latin America by Ivette Vallejo, Giannina Zamora, William Sacher

“…Accumulation due to dispossession in Latin America has intensified in the last decade, creating new areas of sacrifice for the installation of hydrocarbon, energy-mining, monoculture, agroindustry and biofuel projects. …”
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African Indigenous Medicine Activities in Mbarara Municipality, Uganda by Godfrey, Barigye

“…Some African indigenous medicine healers and neo-liberalists have misused the cherished objectives of community values and turned it into witch-craft characterized with human sacrifice, money extortion, and many more evil related practices. …”
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The Politics of Objects: Eliza Cook’s Biographies of Things by Fabienne Moine

“…Then this article turns to the social lives of things, more precisely of raw material, whose dignity is restored by giving them a voice and by showing that their self-sacrifice ensures the preservation of the community’s identity and promotes social cohesion. …”
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Fast Image Search with Locality-Sensitive Hashing and Homogeneous Kernels Map by Jun-yi Li, Jian-hua Li

“…As to hold the kernel functions, recent work has probed methods to create locality-sensitive hashing, which guarantee our approach’s linear time; however existing methods still do not solve the problem of locality-sensitive hashing (LSH) algorithm and indirectly sacrifice the loss in accuracy of search results in order to allow fast queries. …”
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Ruiz Zorrilla y El Motín: la construcción de una legitimidad revolucionaria en la prensa satírica republicana durante la Restauración (1881-1895) by Eduardo Higueras Castañeda

“…In collaboration with periodical press and other media, he built a character that symbolized political values entailed with civic virtue and masculinity, like sacrifice, integrity, determination, and rebellion. …”
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En Inde, dans les salles de cinéma, les spectateurs sont-ils acteurs ou simples spectateurs ? by Wendy Cutler

“…In that way, they distinguish themselves from their original role attributed by the epic poem, the Ramayana, in which they watched Sita’s sacrifice without reacting. Therefore, we can ask ourselves if we could qualify the audience as a “spectactor”, neologism used within the framework of Information and Communication Sciences. …”
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St. Thomas Aquinas’ Doctrine of Christ’s Descent into Hades and its implications for African Ancestor Christological discourse by I. Boaheng

“…This emphasises that salvation is solely through Christ, and no rituals, sacrifices, or ancestors can replaceHis redemptive work. …”
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Application Area and Scope of the Principle of Social Risk by Nemetullah Agahabaleı Fanıd

“…As a requirement of the social state principle, in addition to the principle of balancing the sacrifice, there is also the strict liability of the administration based on the principle of danger or risk. …”
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CHRISTOPANGANISM: A RELIGION IN SEARCH OF RELEVANCE OR A CONTEXTUALIZED CHRISTIANITY IN NIGERIA? by Amos Francis Dike

“…She must seek to return to a God-Christ-centered message where the price paid by Jesus Christ is sufficient to be projected at the expense of all human sacrifice, dilemma, and family predicaments. …”
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Multiple Power-Saving MSSs Scheduling Methods for IEEE802.16e Broadband Wireless Networks by Shih-Chang Huang

“…Splitting the overflowing transmission frames can improve bandwidth utilization by more than 10% over that achieved using the method of interlacing active periods, with a sacrifice of only 1% of the sleep periods in the interlacing active period method.…”
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Fast Visual Tracking with Enhanced and Gradient-Guide Network by Dun Cao, Renhua Dai

“…One is the adoption of the deep architecture that drives the Siamese tracker to sacrifice speed for performance, and the other is that the template is fixed to the initial features; namely, the template cannot be updated timely, making performance entirely dependent on the Siamese network’s matching ability. …”
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Gréckokatolícki mučeníci z obdobia neslobody 1939–1989 by Peter Borza

“…They also brought the greatest sacrifice of own life for bold attitude to cruel regime or were exposed to risk of death. …”
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“Ikwekwe yinja1 (a Boy is a Dog)” by Zukile Ngqeza

“…., Abraham’s decision to sacrifice Isaac, Jephthah’s decision to kill her daughter in honour of his agreement with Yahweh, the killing of the boy children during the time of Pharoah and King Herod exhibit the idea that children are not fully human. …”
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Preface to Special Issue in Honor of Carlos Castillo-Chavez by Simon A. Levin

“…It is always difficult to read in such letters what potential exists in the author; but there was something about what Carlos wrote, the obvious sacrifice he was prepared to make, and my regard for Fred Brauer that convinced me that I must meet this fellow. …”
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Cumulated Checksum and Dynamic Addresses for Secure Wireless Sensor Networks by Qiong Zhang

“…Simulation results prove that Sec-ARQ can improve wireless security with little performance sacrifice, which is more suitable for resource-constrained wireless sensor networks.…”
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A Compact Representation for 3D Animation Using Octrees and Affine Transformations by Youyou Wang, Guilherme N. DeSouza

“…Finally, as the result section demonstrates, the proposed improvements do not sacrifice performance since our method has a better or at least very similar performance in terms of compression ratio and PSNR.…”
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WOMEN OF UKRAINIAN ANTI-NAZI UNDERGROUND REFLECTED IN HISTORICAL ANTROPOLOGY by M. A. Slobodyanyuk, T. O. Radkevich

“…At the same time, the majority of women left in the Soviet underground chose as a strategy of survival the path of confrontation with occupiers, held true to their choices, often showed courage, ingenuity and self-sacrifice.…”
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Communication-Efficient Modeling with Penalized Quantile Regression for Distributed Data by Aijun Hu, Chujin Li, Jing Wu

“…As for the communication efficiency, the proposed method does not sacrifice any statistical accuracy and provably improves the estimation error obtained by centralized method, provided the penalty levels are chosen properly. …”
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