Histological staining of tick bite skin biopsies for spirochetes and Powassan virus RNA by Jihane Oufattole, Anne Piantadosi, Sam R. Telford, Alvaro C. Laga, Isaac H. Solomon

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Privatization, efficiency and integration: the truth about the Paraguay-Paraná Waterway in Argentina in the 1990’s by Gisela Ariana Rausch

“…The Paraguay-Paraná Waterway program (HPP in Spanish), was a large scale infrastructure project which intended to attract global investment to five South American countries and intensify the extraction of “natural resources”, for export to major world production centers. …”
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Biomass derived carbon/platinum nanoparticles as electrocatalyst for the hydrogen evolution by Shimaa M. Ali

“…Abstract Green hydrogen is gaining a significant attention in the transition to sustainable energy and achieving net-zero emissions. …”
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A retrial queueing system with processor sharing and impatient customers by V. I. Klimenok

“…Customers of one of the types that have made all the channels assigned to them busy leave the system unserved with some probability and, with an additional probability, go to the orbit of infinite size, from where they make attempts to get service at random time intervals. Customers of the second type, which caused all the channels assigned to them to be busy, are lost. …”
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The Significance of Socm-Psychological Competence of Students of International Relations in Contemporary Russia by D. A. Svirskaya

“…The specificity of student environment as a field with its own value and evaluation structure, requirements system and psychological context is attended separate. The unicity of the student environment in this case is in the international character of the University international relations, unique educational program and established methods and approaches.…”
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'n Estetika van Televisievermaak by Pieter Jacobus Fourie

“…In the style of Plato the researcher should then ask the following: but what is it that leads the viewer to attach the value "entertainment", which is associated with pleasure and satisfaction, to television fic tion? …”
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Silent Protesters or Acceptors? The Reaction of the Russian-speakers to the Removal of the Soviet Monuments in Latvia and Estonia after Russia’s Full-scale Invasion of Ukraine* by Aleksandra Kuczyńska-Zonik

“…The situation has significantly changed due to Russia’s aggressive policy against Ukraine, when the authorities made several attempts to remove the Soviet monuments. This brought some controversies and objections among the Russian-speaking communities in Latvia and Estonia. …”
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Influence of Exposure to Benzo[a]pyrene on Mice Testicular Germ Cells during Spermatogenesis by Hueiwang Anna Jeng, Silvina M. Bocca

“…Exposure to B[a]P at 50 and 100 mg/kg/day induced testicular atrophy and yielded a significant reduction in the concentrations of spermatogonia, spermatocytes, pachytene spermatocytes, and round spermatid cells as compared with the control. …”
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Juliet’s Migrations in Alice Munro’s Runaway: Making and Losing Connections by Christine LORRE-JOHNSTON

“…As a result, Juliet’s migrations, from one period of her life to another, from one part of Canada to another, from one story to the next, both lead to a build-up of experience that lends itself to interpretation, and to a questioning of the meaning to be attributed to that experience. This is achieved in various ways: through mythological interpretation (and counter-interpretation) of her life; through the choice of a trilogy, by contrast in particular with a dyad; through the very functioning of the trilogy as pictorial tryptich that allows the circulation and therefore the instability and liveliness of sensations; and through the changing meaning of words, that convey evolving emotions and ways of feeling. …”
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Existence for Singular Periodic Problems: A Survey of Recent Results by Jifeng Chu, Juntao Sun, Patricia J. Y. Wong

“…In particular, we pay our attention to singular scalar differential equations, singular damped differential equations, singular impulsive differential equations, and singular differential systems.…”
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Metal‐Mediated Chlorine Transfer for Molten Salt‐Driven Thermodynamic Change on Silicon Production by Minjun Je, Jin Chul Kim, Jiyeon Kim, Sungho Kim, Sunmin Ryu, Jaegeon Ryu, Sang Kyu Kwak, Soojin Park

“…Above its melting temperature (Tm ≈ 192 °C), three AlCl3 molecules coordinate with each metal (M) atom (e.g., conventional Al and Mg, or even thermodynamically unfeasible Zn) to form metal‐AlCl3 complexes, M(AlCl3)3. …”
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Surficial Failure of Expansive Soil Cutting Slope and Its Flexible Support Treatment Technology by Jie Xiao, He-ping Yang, Jun-hui Zhang, Xian-yuan Tang

“…The reasons for the shear strength attenuation of the natural expansive soil and the surficial failure of the expansive soil cutting slopes were analyzed. …”
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Early Functional Treatment and Modern Cast Making for Indications in Hand Surgery by S. Bohr, N. Pallua

“…In order to minimize potential complications commonly associated with cast treatment, efforts to further improve cast making must attempt to reconcile two conflicting objectives: (1) to achieve stability and rigidity at the site of injury (e.g., fracture retention) and (2) to allow free range of joint movement as early as possible. …”
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The Diplomacy of Small States: Exploring Opportunities and Limitations in the Case of Timor-Leste by O. A. Krasnyak, P. S. Shaternikov

“…These challenges can be attributed to underdeveloped national public institutions and the enduring influence of greater powers, which affect not only Timor-Leste but also the wider region.…”
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The high-resolution global shipping emission inventory by the Shipping Emission Inventory Model (SEIM) by W. Yi, X. Wang, T. He, H. Liu, Z. Luo, Z. Lv, K. He

“…<p>The high-resolution ship emission inventory serves as a crucial dataset for various disciplines including atmospheric science, marine science, and environmental management. …”
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LPS Counter Regulates RNA Expression of Extracellular Proteases and Their Inhibitors in Murine Macrophages by Andreas Hald, Birgitte Rønø, Leif R. Lund, Kristoffer L. Egerod

“…Besides their evident importance in host defense, macrophages have been shown to play a detrimental role in different pathological conditions, including chronic inflammation, atherosclerosis, and cancer. Regardless of the exact situation, macrophage activation and migration are intimately connected to extracellular matrix degradation. …”
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Trustworthy identity system based on IPv6 source address validation by Duan-qi ZHOU, Jun BI, Guang YAO

“…In the Internet,there are no mechanisms to verify the identity of a message sender,resulting in a large number of forged identity attacks,such as phishing websites.By mapping the user identity into the rightmost 64 bit of the IPv6 address,this paper tries to make every message embedded with an identity,which lay a credible foundation for communications on the Internet.We design and realize a true identity communication system based on source address validation improvement,which can protect the privacy of the users,and ensure the verifiability and authenticity of the user identities.…”
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Social and psychological features of the mental component of the modern hybrid war against Ukraine by N. V. Bobro

“…The author’s definition of the concept of “mental war” is formulated as a complex psychological influence by the aggressor country on the consciousness of the population of the country that was attacked, using changes in its national outlook, historical memory, values, national-historical identity in the interests of the aggressor country. …”
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Pour une définition de la notion de « langue régionale » by Alain Viaut, Antoine Pascaud

“…Consequently, this paper attempts to take stock of the common defining features and the various properties of this notion from one country to another, from minimal meanings to others meanings that add to geographical ("regional") and demolinguistic features the properties that characterize this language in relation to other minority languages, either by the type of historicity and link to the territory, or by the legal status.…”
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Single-cell RNA-seq reveals immune cell heterogeneity and increased Th17 cells in human fibrotic skin diseases by Cheng-Cheng Deng, Xue-Yan Xu, Yan Zhang, Long-Can Liu, Xuan Wang, Jun-Yi Chen, Liu-Yi Yao, Ding-Heng Zhu, Bin Yang

“…Thus, the precise immune cell atlas in fibrotic skin diseases remains unknown. …”
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