Microplastic accumulation in snake-eyed lizard (Ophisops elegans Menetries, 1832) after long-term monitoring: habitats matter, not years by Cantekin Dursun, Kamil Candan, Kaan Karaoğlu, Çetin Ilgaz, Yusuf Kumlutaş, Elif Yıldırım Caynak, Serkan Gül

“…The highest number of MPs was detected in 2001, followed by 1995. It is thought that this accumulation is caused by human activities in the lizard's environment and that it enters the food web indirectly because it lives in areas with high human interaction. …”
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F. NIETZSCHE’S POŽIŪRIS Į TIESĄ: MIRTINAS ĮKANDIMAS? by Aivaras Stepukonis

“…Aivaras Stepukonis  Summary A requisite for a proper understanding of Nietzsche’s philosophy of truth is some acquaintance with the general way in which the thinker approaches most of his intellectual problems and which in many a detail resembles that of René Descartes and his methodic doubt. In Nietzsche’s thought, there may be observed a threefold turning away from the traditionally affirmative conception of truth: (1) the reduction of thinking and knowing to the physiological processes of the body and its changing corporeal states; (2) the exposure of many time-honored truths as mere superstitions expedient to factual human communities in dealing with reality in a practical, yet oversimplified and distorted manner; (3) the devaluation and/or disvaluation of truth as something useless or even detrimental to life. …”
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Clinical and laboratory profile and its outcome in scrub typhus-positive acute febrile illness cases in the Pediatric Department of BRD Medical College, Gorakhpur by Anamika Chaudhary, Bhoopendra Sharma, Ashok Kumar Pandey, Priyanka Singh

“…It is a reemerging cause of acute undifferentiated fever in India and around the world. It was previously thought to be a seasonal disease occurring mainly in rural areas, but cases are now frequently detected in urban areas outside the monsoon season. …”
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Conflicts between indigenous and scientific concepts of landscape management for wildlife conservation: human-chimpanzee politics of coexistence at Bossou, Guinea by Gen Yamakoshi, Vincent Leblan

“…The stated goals of the swidden preparation campaign was to secure land for subsistence purposes, but it is thought that the main driving factor was maintaining the right to decide matters like the allocation of tourism income, which the government research institute was attempting to usurp. …”
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Misdiagnosed Tooth Aspiration in a Young Handicapped Boy: Case Report and Recommendations by Thibault Canceill, Rémi Esclassan, Mathieu Marty, Marie-Cécile Valera, Estelle Trzaskawka-Moulis, Emmanuelle Noirrit-Esclassan

“…During the extraction procedure, he aspired his maxillary incisor without presenting any signs of respiratory distress and was discharged by the surgical team, who thought that he had swallowed the tooth. Three weeks later, he was admitted to the emergency service because of a pulmonary infection. …”
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Effects of Multicomponent Exercise on Functional and Cognitive Parameters of Hypertensive Patients: A Quasi-Experimental Study by Hélio José Coelho Junior, Bruno Rodrigues, Daniele Jardim Feriani, Ivan de Oliveira Gonçalves, Ricardo Yukio Asano, Samuel da Silva Aguiar, Marco Carlos Uchida

“…The physical exercises were thought to mimic the activities of daily living and, therefore, aggregated functional and walking exercises. …”
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Modelling the Impact of Media-Induced Social Distancing on the Containment of COVID-19 in Beijing by Yinjiao Gong, Aili Wang, Jin Guo, Stacey R. Smith?

“…Media reports on COVID-19—which can induce precautionary behaviour such as social distancing, by providing disease-related information to the public—are thought to be effective in containing the spread. …”
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Protein Kinase Cα Modulates Estrogen-Receptor-Dependent Transcription and Proliferation in Endometrial Cancer Cells by Alicia M. Thorne, Twila A. Jackson, Van C. Willis, Andrew P. Bradford

“…Thus, PKCα signaling, via PI3K/Akt, may be a critical element of the hyperestrogenic environment and activation of ER that is thought to underlie the development of estrogen-dependent endometrial hyperplasia and malignancy. …”
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A case report of Gorham-Stout disease diagnosed during the course of recurrent meningitis and cholesteatoma by Makoto Hosoya, Naoki Oishi, Jun Nishiyama, Kaoru Ogawa

“…The patient had a history of multiple surgeries for cholesteatoma and suffered from recurrent cerebrospinal fluid leakage, which initially was thought to be caused by recurrence of cholesteatoma. …”
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Renoprotective Effect of Pitavastatin against TAA-Induced Renal Injury: Involvement of the miR-93/PTEN/AKT/mTOR Pathway by Marawan A. Elbaset, Bassim M. S. A. Mohamed, Passant E. Moustafa, Tuba Esatbeyoglu, Sherif M. Afifi, Alyaa F. Hessin, Sahar S. Abdelrahman, Hany M. Fayed

“…The principal hypothesis of this study was that Pita can regulate the miR-93/PTEN/AKT/mTOR pathways, which is thought to be responsible for its renoprotective effects. …”
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Sea Ice Modulates Air–Sea Methane Flux in the Southern Ocean by Gong Zhang, Qinghua Yang, Bo Han, John Prytherch, Brett F. Thornton, Dake Chen

“…Suggesting that the Antarctic MIZ is more important in the global CH4 budget than previously thought.…”
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SKF96365 Inhibits Tumor Proliferation by Inducing Apoptosis and Autophagy in Human Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma by Jiaxin Zhang, Huiqiong Han, Yihan Liu, Jiayao Xu, Daidi Zhang, Wenjia Wang, Yaping Gao, Zhengrui Li, Yanru Qin

“…SKF96365, originally thought to be a store-operated calcium entry (SOCE) inhibitor, is now often used as a TRPC channel blocker and is widely used in medical diagnostics. …”
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La reescritura prismática del orfismo y sus dimensiones en la poesía de Carles Riba, Agustí Bartra y Josep Sebastià Pons by Marta López Vilar

“…From this point, I will propose the origin of this article, which will develop how Orphism – in its mythical and religious dimensions – is articulated within the poetic thought of the Catalan poets Carles Riba (1893–1959) and Agustí Bartra (1908–1982), and of the Rosellonian poet Josep Sebastià Pons (1886–1962). …”
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FROM OPTIMISM TO DISAPPOINTMENT: THE EVOLUTION OF SWAMI VIVEKANANDA’S ATTITUDE TOWARDS THE WEST by E. V. Volgina

“…It is widely known that roots of the actual social and political thought in India go back to the period of colonialism. …”
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Historiography in Vilnius University from 1803 to 1832: between education and romanticizm by Mečislovas Jučas

“…He considered the human mind as the main criteria of truth. He thought that each nation had a specific "soul of the nation," but it was different, depending on the epoch, therefore, history is not to be mechanically divided using dynasties, but into epochs where the previous "soul of the nation" changes, vanishes, and the new "soul of the nation" appears. …”
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Relationship Between the Results of the Landing Error Scoring System and Trunk Muscle Thickness by Yuki Muramoto, Hironobu Kuruma

“…Poor landing maneuvers, such as lateral bending of the trunk, are thought to be associated with a risk of lower-extremity injury. …”
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Policy and Culture: From Machiavelli’s Political Philosophy to Kipling’s Political Prophecies by K. M. Dolgov, E. I. Starikova

“…The article is concerned with interrelationship of policy and culture, in particular N.Machiavelli's political philosophy and its reflection in some short stories by R.Kipling, one of the most recognized representatives of the British imperial thought. Policy and culture have traditionally been considered almost incompatible spheres of human activity as policy tended to become more and more severe, cynical, "dirty", while culture aspired to develop supreme values and perfect ideals. …”
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Relationship of Maqasid al-Shari’ah with Usul al-Fiqh (overview of historical, methodological and applicative aspects) by Nur Hasan

“…Some have written about the maqasid al-shari‘ah’s concept, the figures’ thought, and its application to various Islamic law and social issues. …”
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Thermal state of permafrost in the high mountains of Mexico by Kenji Yoshikawa, Victor Soto, Guillermo Ontiveros-Gonzales, Samael Oliver Vagamontes, Hugo Delgado Granados, Lorenzo Vazquez-Selem, David Palacios

“…The lower limit of mountain permafrost is about 5,200 to 5,300 m.a.s.l. much higher than originally thought. Some of the sporadic permafrost may still exist on the Little Ice Age rock glaciers, but most of the buried glacial ice between 4,500 and 5,000 m.a.s.l. is slowly decaying and not thermally stable as permafrost. …”
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Earthquake Statistical Parameters Analysis and Regional Variations of March 02, 2017 Adıyaman-Samsat Earthquake (Ml = 5.7) by Using its Aftershocks by Nihan HOSKAN

“…The p-value, which is thought to be related to crustal heterogeneity, heat flux and tectonic deformation, is less than 1, reflecting the relatively slow aftershock decay rate. …”
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