Long-Term Consequences: Deep Time in Barry Lopez’s “The Stone Horse” by Norma Tilden

“…Lopez portrays the horse as subtractive art, coaxed out of the land by precise, sustained attention to particularities of natural contour and set in motion by the light of the sun moving across the desert floor. As an earthwork, the stone horse provides a material analogy to Lopez’s essay, a narrative confirmation of the non-reducible materiality of a physical site as it has existed through time. …”
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Associations between adolescents’ cognitive distortion and misperceptions about cigarette smoking by Jia Cindy Xinshan, Cheung Chau-Kiu, Li Li

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An Unusual Case of Pinna Squamous Cell Carcinoma Arising Shortly after Resection of Atypical Fibroxanthoma by Eugene Omakobia, Ahmad Orabi, Richard Knights

“…SCC is the most common cancer involving the pinna. Whilst prolonged sun exposure is an important risk factor for SCC, chronic inflammation and wounds are other potential sources. …”
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El mascarón arquitectónico preclásico de la Estructura 3 de Chacté, Guatemala by Carlos Morales-Aguilar, Daniel Salazar Lama, Ivan Šprajc, Richard D. Hansen

“…In this paper, we offer a preliminary iconographic interpretation of this sculpture mask that might represent the K’inich Ajaw god, symbolizing the emergence of the sun in the east.…”
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Accelerated Life Test for Photovoltaic Cells Using Concentrated Light by Daniel Tudor Cotfas, Petru Adrian Cotfas, Dan Ion Floroian, Laura Floroian

“…The electrical dc and ac parameters of the photovoltaic cells were measured and analyzed at 1 sun irradiance, before and after the test stress. …”
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Harmful Effects of Hyperoxia in Postcardiac Arrest, Sepsis, Traumatic Brain Injury, or Stroke: The Importance of Individualized Oxygen Therapy in Critically Ill Patients by Jean-Louis Vincent, Fabio Silvio Taccone, Xinrong He

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'Florida Whitewater' Caladium - A University of Florida Cultivar by G. J. Wilfert, Brent K. Harbaugh, B. D. Miranda

“…Although their native habitat largely consists of dense, moist forests with heavy shade, many of the cultivars grown today retain their bright color in full sun (Bell and Wilfret, 1998). Demand for caladiums is increasing because of their diversity in leaf color and shape, adaptability to various light conditions, and relatively low maintenance requirements (Harbaugh and Tjia, 1985). …”
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De « Todo bajo el sol» à « España es parte de ti » : 30 ans de spots de promotion touristique by Ivanne Galant

“…This article proposes to study the adverts produced by Inprotur and Turespaña since 1987 with the campaign "Everything under the sun" and 2017 with "Spain is part of you" in order to highlight their communication strategies (slogans, images and imaginaries mixed together). …”
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Competitive Intelligence in the Tourism Sector, with special focus on Southern Europe by Gisela Casado Salguero, José A. Jiménez Quintero

“…Despite strong competition from other such destinations, the Costa de Sol attracts millions of sun-seeking holiday-makers, as well as more and more visitors from other tourism sectors, such as sport and culture.…”
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The p-Adic Valuations of Sums of Binomial Coefficients by Yong Zhang, Peisen Yuan

“…In this paper, we prove three supercongruences on sums of binomial coefficients conjectured by Z.-W. Sun. Let p be an odd prime and let h∈ℤ with 2h−1≡0modp. …”
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Thermal Comfort for Urban Parks in Subtropics: Understanding Visitor’s Perceptions, Behavior and Attendance by Chuang-Hung Lin, Tzu-Ping Lin, Ruey-Lung Hwang

“…Observational results showed that the overall attendance was influenced by sun and thermal conditions. There was a robust relationship between thermal sensation votes, as well as thermal acceptability, and thermal environment, in terms of WBGT. …”
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Long-Term Analysis of Recurrence Beyond Milan Criteria Following Ablation of Solitary Early-Stage Hepatocellular Carcinoma ≤3 cm in Potentially Transplantable Patients: A Over 1... by Chen S, Qi H, Tan H, Cao F, Xie L, Huang T, Wu Y, Wen C, Wang Y, Shen L, Fan W

“…Shuanggang Chen,1,2,* Han Qi,1,2,* Hongtong Tan,1,2,* Fei Cao,1,2 Lin Xie,1,2 Tao Huang,1,2 Ying Wu,3 Chunyong Wen,1,2 Yujia Wang,1,2 Lujun Shen,1,2 Weijun Fan1,2 1Department of Minimally Invasive Interventional Therapy, Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, 510060, People’s Republic of China; 2State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Guangdong Provincial Clinical Research Center for cancer, Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, 510060, People’s Republic of China; 3Department of Interventional Therapy, Shenzhen second People’s Hospital, The First Affiliated Hospital of Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, 518035, People’s Republic of China*These authors contributed equally to this workCorrespondence: Weijun Fan, Email fanwj@sysucc.org.cn; Lujun Shen, Email shenlj@sysucc.org.cnBackground: Salvage liver transplantation is promising for hepatocellular carcinoma(HCC) recurrence post-ablation but is significantly affected by recurrence beyond Milan Criteria (RBM).Materials and Methods: A retrospective cohort study of potentially transplantable HCC patients undergoing ablation between 2007 and 2017 assessed median time to recurrence beyond Milan Criteria(TRBM) via Kaplan-Meier curves and predictive capacity of recurrence and RBM for overall survival(OS) via Receiver Operating Characteristic Curves, and identified independent risk factors for TRBM and RBM via Cox and binary logistic regression models.Results: We enrolled 191 potentially transplantable patients with early-stage HBV-related HCC ≤ 3 cm who underwent ablation. …”
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Semaphorin-4D signaling in recruiting dental stem cells for vascular stabilization by Lili Zhang, Dineshi Sewvandi Thalakiriyawa, Jiawei Liu, Shengyan Yang, Yan Wang, Waruna Lakmal Dissanayaka

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iRGD-Targeted Biosynthetic Nanobubbles for Ultrasound Molecular Imaging of Osteosarcoma by Liu T, Liang X, Liu W, Yang S, Cui T, Yan F, Li Z

“…Tingting Liu,1– 3 Xiaoxin Liang,4 Wei Liu,5 Shuai Yang,6 Tao Cui,7 Fei Yan,3 Zhenzhou Li1,2 1Department of Ultrasound, The second People’s Hospital of Shenzhen, The First Affiliated Hospital of Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, 518061, People’s Republic of China; 2Graduate School, Guangxi University of Chinese Medicine, Nanning, 530200, People’s Republic of China; 3CAS Key Laboratory of Quantitative Engineering Biology, Shenzhen Institute of Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, 518055, People’s Republic of China; 4Department of Ultrasound, Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, 510060, People’s Republic of China; 5School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, 510275, People’s Republic of China; 6Department of Clinical and Research, Shenzhen Mindray Bio-Medical Electronics Co, Ltd, Shenzhen, 518055, People’s Republic of China; 7Medical Imaging center, Shenzhen Yunshan Yunli Hospital, Shenzhen, 518055, People’s Republic of ChinaCorrespondence: Fei Yan; Zhenzhou Li, Email fei.yan@siat.ac.cn; lizhenzhou2004@126.comPurpose: Osteosarcoma is the most common primary malignant tumor of the bone. …”
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Association of albumin to non-high-density lipoprotein cholesterol ratio with mortality in peritoneal dialysis patients by Yongjie Xie, Xiaoran Feng, Youqun Gao, Xiaojiang Zhan, Fenfen Peng, Qian Zhou, Xianfeng Wu, Xiaoyang Wang, Na Tian, Qingdong Xu, Ning Su, Xingming Tang, Jianbo Liang, Jiao Li, Yueqiang Wen

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Gas Hydrate Accumulation and Occurrence Associated with Cold Seep Systems in the Northern South China Sea: An Overview by Wei Zhang, Jinqiang Liang, Qianyong Liang, Jiangong Wei, Zhifeng Wan, Junxi Feng, Wei Huang, Jing Zhao, Miaomiao Meng, Wei Deng, Chongmin Chen

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The Relationship Between Serum 25 hydroxy Vitamin D Deficiency and Dietary Pattern in Baxshin Hospital, Sulaimani City by Mohammed I M Gubari, Jeza Muhamad Abdul Aziz, Fadhil Ahmed Mohialdeen, Khalid Anwar Hama-Ghareeb, Bakhtyar Kamal Muhamed, Hemn Abdalla Omer

“…One hundred sixty-two (14.3%) of the 1131 participants were female, nine hundred sixty-nine (85.7%) of the participants were male. 65.5 % of them exposure to sun less than 30, 34.5% exposure to sun more than half hour. …”
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Polymeric immunogel prevents tumor recurrence and metastasis by dual activation of innate and adaptive immunity by Guanyu Jin, Hao Liu, Zi Mei, Qionghua Jin, Sheng Ma, Lanqing Wang, Yuanzhen Su, Letian Lv, Zijuan Wang, Huicong Zhou, Mingqiang Li, Zehuan Huang, Xuesi Chen, Shixian Lv

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Histone lysine crotonylation accelerates ACSL4-mediated ferroptosis of keratinocytes via modulating autophagy in diabetic wound healing by Fengjuan Li, Haowen Ye, Lanlan Li, Qingling Chen, Xianwu Lan, Liangxiu Wu, Bin Li, Lishan Li, Chuxian Guo, Milad Ashrafizadeh, Gautam Sethi, Jun Guo, Liangyan Wu

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Neuromodulatory Effects of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on Motor Excitability in Rats by Hui-Hua Liu, Xiao-Kuo He, Hsin-Yung Chen, Chih-Wei Peng, Alexander Rotenberg, Chi-Hung Juan, Yu-Cheng Pei, Hao-Li Liu, Yung-Hsiao Chiang, Jia-Yi Wang, Xiao-Jun Feng, Ying-Zu Huang, Tsung-Hsun Hsieh

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