The participation of a juvenile victim’s representative in criminal proceedings: procedural and forensic aspects by I. O. Iemets

“…The article identifies the procedural and forensic aspects of participation of an attorney-at-law engaged to represent the interests of a juvenile victim in criminal proceedings. …”
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Cross-Gendering the Racial Memory by Marlon B. Ross

“…I argue that while Gaines draws on this black nationalist image as context and subtext, he diverts attention away from this militant and often violent black nationalist iconography of cross-gendering to figure instead a strong, enduring black woman as a pacifying emblem of cross-racial American nation-building. …”
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Delirium with Concurrent Use of Lithium and ECT and the Safety Implications: Case Reports and Review of the Literature by Mustafa Ali, Barikar C. Malathesh, Seshadri Sekhar Chatterjee, Soumitra Das, Prakriti Pokhrel, Mary Elizabeth Trejo Hernandez, John C. Murnin

“…To investigate potential adverse side effects, this study reports on two cases where bipolar affective disorder patients developed delirium after receiving electroconvulsive therapy and lithium concurrently. The delirium was attributed only to the combined administration of these medicines after ruling out other potential causes. …”
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Prevalence, Pattern and Effect of Intimate Partner Violence against Women in Abeokuta, South West Nigeria by AbdulMumin Kayode Ahmed, Ayotunde Sherif Azees, Mojirola Martina Fasiku, Olanrewaju Saheed Jimoh, Gloria Bosede Imhonopi, Abiola Oluwatoyin Temitayo-Oboh, Rasheed Abiodun Salam, Ibrahim Ahmed El-Imam, Omobola Yetunde Ojo, Emmanuel Chukwudi Ehiem

“…The effects of IPV reported were bruises/lacerations, unwanted pregnancies, sexually transmitted infections and attempted suicide. Conclusion: The prevalence of IPV of all forms were high in the studied population. …”
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La réforme régionale en France : une occasion manquée ? by Élisabeth Bonnet-Pineau

“…The main objective of the reform sought to ‘give the regions a critical size’ to enable them ‘to exercise the strategic responsibilities attributed to them and to achieve efficiency gains’. …”
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Differences and analogies in thyroid cancer discovered incidentally or by thyroid-related screening: a multicenter study by Laura Croce, Rosaria Maddalena Ruggeri, Camilla Virili, Carlo Cappelli, Marsida Teliti, Pietro Costa, Spyridon Chytiris, Antonio Nicocia, Francesca Coperchini, Maria Flavia Bagaglini, Flavia Magri, Alfredo Campennì, Mario Rotondi

“…No significant differences could be observed in terms of TC histotype, cancer size, extrathyroidal extension, lymph node metastases, AJCC staging or American Thyroid Association (ATA) risk stratification. Conclusions: Biological features of TC are similar in the TD and ID groups, but patients in the two groups display significant differences regarding their clinical features.…”
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Le « socle », matériau du projet de paysage by Hervé Davodeau

“…The geographer’ eye, working on this documentary database as rich as unexploited, is attracted by the student’s use of geography as a material of landscape project. …”
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Metazoan diversity in Chilean hypersaline lakes unveiled by environmental DNA by Mattia Saccò, Mattia Saccò, Mattia Saccò, Matthew A. Campbell, Pablo Aguilar, Pablo Aguilar, Pablo Aguilar, Gonzalo Salazar, Gonzalo Salazar, Gonzalo Salazar, Tina E. Berry, Tina E. Berry, Matthew J. Heydenrych, Angus Lawrie, Nicole E. White, Chris Harrod, Chris Harrod, Chris Harrod, Morten E. Allentoft, Morten E. Allentoft

“…Samples were collected from three hypersaline lakes in Northern Chile: Salar de Atacama (Laguna Puilar), Salar de Pujsa, and Salar de Tara. eDNA outputs were also compared with results generated from aquatic macroinvertebrate assessments using kick-nets. …”
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Cultura do estupro ou cultura antiestupro? by Carmen Hein de Campos, Lia Zanotta Machado, Jordana Klein Nunes, Alexandra dos Reis Silva

“…Reflete sobre a necessidade de repensar esse dualismo e as políticas públicas de atendimento às mulheres vitimadas.…”
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„Nasz elementarz” – krótki opis daru, który zubaża obdarowanych by Dorota Klus-Stańska

“…The text is a critical analysis of the assumptions and content of “Nasz elementarz”, a textbook for the first grade of the primary school which has been promoted by the Ministry of Education. An overt attempt at the unification, control, and limiting of the development space of the youngest pupils has been indicated. …”
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Propofol Reduces Lipopolysaccharide-Induced, NADPH Oxidase (NOX2) Mediated TNF-α and IL-6 Production in Macrophages by Tao Meng, Jingya Yu, Zhen Lei, Jianbo Wu, Shuqin Wang, Qiyu Bo, Xinyu Zhang, Zhiyong Ma, Jingui Yu

“…Results showed that propofol attenuated LPS-induced TNF-α and IL-6 expression. Moreover, LPS-stimulated phosphorylation of NF-κB and generation of ROS were weakened in response to propofol. …”
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ALIGNING PRAXIS OF FAITH AND THEOLOGICAL THEORY IN THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION THROUGH AN EVALUATION OF CHRISTIANITY IN SOUTH AFRICA by E. Oliver

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Doctoral Supervision in Russian Universities: to the Problem of Balancing Activity and Performance by B. I. Bednyi, N. V. Rybakov

“…A large portion of this group consists of staff holding academic positions and lecturers who do not attain a Doctor of sciences degree or academic rank. …”
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Uczenie się a zarobki – dziecięce rozumienie problemów ekonomicznych świata dorosłych by Janina Uszyńska-Jarmoc

“…The results of the qualitative research on younger school-aged children’s perception of the relation between the learning outcomes and their impact on the financial situation of the adult have been presented in the article. What the paper attempts to address are the main differences in children’s knowledge about making money and their attitudes towards the basic sources of achieving financial success in adulthood. …”
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X-ray pulsed light curves of highly compact neutron stars as probes of scalar–tensor theories of gravity by Tulio Ottoni, Jaziel G. Coelho, Rafael C. R. de Lima, Jonas P. Pereira, Jorge A. Rueda

“…Consequently, scalar parameters might be better constrained when uncertainties in NS radii decrease, where this could occur with the advent of next-generation gravitational wave detectors, such as the Einstein Telescope and LISA, as well as future electromagnetic missions like eXTP and ATHENA. Thus, our findings suggest that accurate X-ray data of the NS surface emission, jointly with refined theoretical models, could constrain STTs.…”
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Bone-Immune Cell Crosstalk: Bone Diseases by Giorgio Mori, Patrizia D’Amelio, Roberta Faccio, Giacomina Brunetti

“…In particular, we focused our attention on the major pathogenic mechanism underlying periodontal disease, psoriatic arthritis, postmenopausal osteoporosis, glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis, metastatic solid tumors, and multiple myeloma.…”
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Extracellular matrix turnover in severe COVID-19 is reduced by corticosteroids by Janesh Pillay, Antine W. Flikweert, Matijs van Meurs, Marco J. Grootenboers, Simone van der Sar-van der Brugge, Peter H. J. van der Voort, Morten A. Karsdal, Jannie M. B. Sand, Diana J. Leeming, Janette K. Burgess, Jill Moser

“…DEX treatment appeared to attenuate ECM remodeling, although this effect was not linked to improved survival. …”
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Predictive Biomarkers of Bacillus Calmette-Guérin Immunotherapy Response in Bladder Cancer: Where Are We Now? by Luís Lima, Mário Dinis-Ribeiro, Adhemar Longatto-Filho, Lúcio Santos

“…The most effective therapeutic option for managing nonmuscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC), over the last 30 years, consists of intravesical instillations with the attenuated strain Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (the BCG vaccine). …”
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Prokaryotic diversity of the rhizosphere from Argentinean wine-producing regions by Andres Martin Toscani, Monica Oyuela Aguilar, Constanza Rey, Ramiro Eugenio Rocco Welsh, Alex Gobbi, Maria Florencia del Papa, Liliana Carmen Semorile, Lars Hestbjerg Hansen, Mariano Pistorio

“…Both varietals have attracted significant interest in recent research given their distinctive characteristics, which vary according to the geographic growing region. …”
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Analysis of the Temporal and Spatial Patterns of Residential Prices in Qingdao and Its Driving Factors by Yanjun Wang, Yin Feng, Kun Han, Zishu Zheng, Peng Dai

“…This paper summarizes the spatial distribution of housing prices in Qingdao using GIS, analyzing spatial distribution characteristics, and combines these with the Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR) model to explore the influence of various factors, such as community attributes, location, transportation, and peripheral facilities on residential prices. …”
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