Bioinspired self-flowing wood chemical treatment by Xuan Wang, Sheldon Q. Shi

“…In this process, wood lumbers are placed in a tank containing treatment chemicals such as preservatives, fire retardants, or reactive agents. Through an absorbent sheet bridging the untreated lumber to an overflow tank, the chemicals are drawn into the lumber under capillary force and pressure difference, so that continuous treatment occurs inside the wood. …”
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Mitochondrial Stress Signalling: HTRA2 and Parkinson's Disease by Enrico Desideri, L. Miguel Martins

“…Mitochondria have therefore evolved specific molecular quality control mechanisms to compensate for the action of damaging agents such as oxygen-free radicals. PTEN-induced putative kinase 1 (PINK1) and high-temperature-regulated A2 (HTRA2), a mitochondrial protease, have recently been proposed to be key modulators of mitochondrial molecular quality control. …”
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Modeling Nonusers’ Behavioral Intention towards Mobile Chatbot Adoption: An Extension of the UTAUT2 Model with Mobile Service Quality Determinants by Gatzioufa Paraskevi, Vaggelis Saprikis, Giorgos Avlogiaris

“…Artificial intelligence agents (chatbots), which are programs to communicate with users primarily in customer service contexts, are an alternative interaction channel supporting businesses in the digital environment and vital components in customer service. …”
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Antibody-Mediated Rejection: Pathogenesis, Prevention, Treatment, and Outcomes by Olivia R. Blume, Sarah E. Yost, Bruce Kaplan

“…Splenectomy is used in desensitization protocols for ABO incompatible transplants as well as being found to treat AMR refractory to conventional treatment. Also used are agents targeted for plasma cells, B cells, and the complement cascade which are bortezomib rituximab and eculizumab, respectively.…”
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Identification of Molecular Substrate for the Attenuation of Anxiety: A Step Toward the Development of Better Anti-Anxiety Drugs by Uwe Rudolph

“…Benzodiazepine tranquilizers like the prototypic diazepam are among the most widely used anti-anxiety agents. In addition to their anxiolytic action, they also induce sedation and may impair motor coordination, both of which are undesired side effects when they are used as anxiolytics. …”
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La territorialisation des politiques environnementales. Le cas de la pollution nitrique de l’eau par l'agriculture by Anne Lacroix, François Bel, Amédée Mollard, Emmanuelle Sauboua

“…Theoretically, such policies are considered optimal, since economic agents tune their efforts according to the sensitivity of the milieu where they operate. …”
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Emojilogía: propuesta metodológica para la transformación escolar desde y con el estudiantado by Cristopher Yáñez-Urbina, Ignacio Figueroa, Esteban Fica

“…En primer lugar, se aborda la «caja de herramientas» teórico-epistemológica que permite repensar al colectivo estudiantil como agentes sociales válidos para generar procesos de transformación escolar. …”
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Au-delà de l'État. La vie sociale des pesticides dans le secteur maraîcher au Bénin by Roch Appolinaire Houngnihin, Pascal Mègnissè Gbégan, Dimi Theodore Doudou

“…Likewise, the institutional vacuum created by public sector agents is filled by some specific actors, the "distributor-framers". …”
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Estudio de la educación patrimonial de la historia del territorio: clave de futuro de la gestión turística municipal distrito de Vichayal, provincia de Paita by David González Espino

“…Para llegar a su consolidación es necesario la implicación de la gestión turística municipal como un agente que permite motivar a diversos actores como las autoridades, servidores municipales, y sociedad civil organizada en la defensa y conservación del patrimonio. …”
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Estado e desenvolvimento capitalista by José Carlos Radin, Luciano Adilio Alves

“…Este artigo analisa o paradoxo neoliberal de construção e defesa do chamado Estado mínimo e a histórica relação com o Estado brasileiro, principal agente financiador de boa parte das grandes corporações empresariais. …”
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Prevalence of eimeria spp. in diarrhoeic calves by Nermin Işık, Özlem Derinbay Ekici

“…In particular, the calves in the age group of 1-3 months should be evaluated in terms of coccidiosis and other etiological agents and necessary control measures sholud be taken.…”
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Investigar y Deliberar en la filosofía aristotélica by Alejandro Farieta

“…Se tratará de probar una relación mucho más fuerte entre investigación y deliberación, mostrando que no es ni su objeto ni las habilidades racionales y cognitivas lo que distingue la una de la otra, sino simplemente su finalidad: investigar es el género de la deliberación, y, por tanto, es preciso distinguir entre investigación teórica e investigación práctica o deliberación, cuyo fin, a diferencia de la investigación teórica, es hallar la manera de alcanzar un estado de cosas determinado, lo cual no depende tanto del objeto mismo, como es el caso de la teoría, sino del agente.…”
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Targeting Drug Delivery to the Lungs by Inhalation by C. O'Callaghan

“…To deliver therapeutic agents by inhalation to the lower respiratory tract, inhaled drug particles must have appropriate aerodynamic characteristics. …”
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Shall we kill again? Violence and intimacy among the “awajun “new leaders” in the northeastern Peruvian frontier by Silvia Romio

“…All this occurs as a result of experiences resulting from close contact with the earliest agents of government authority to show up in their native homelands: evangelical missionaries and the army. …”
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Routine Immunization of Adults in Canada: Review of the Epidemiology of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases and Current Recommendations for Primary Prevention by Michael D Parkins, Shelly A McNeil, Kevin B Laupland

“…Vaccination of all Canadians to these common agents remains a vital tool to decrease individual morbidity and mortality and reduce the overall burden of preventable disease in Canada.…”
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Tensiones en cotidianidad de jóvenes universitarios: estudio en tres universidades del Quindío by Mónica María López-González, Magda Fernanda Benavides-Ponce, Ruby Marcela Buitrago-Montoya

“…Se encontró que las redes de apoyo pueden convertirse en agentes de tensión: red familiar, expectativas frente al desempeño académico; red social, necesidad de encajar y establecer relaciones, y red universitaria, metodologías de algunos profesores y desconocimiento de infraestructura.…”
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The (O)mission statements by Muchativugwa Hove

“…The article ultimately suggests that there is a need for a shift from a deficit discourse to looking critically and reflexively at current university practices and shortcomings in the use of discourse patterns to include or exclude significant agents in both the crafting and implementation of the principalities embedded in their mission statements and strategic development plans. …”
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Social Mobility of The Bugis Female Hajj Pilgrims by Hilmi Muhammadiyah, Siti Sara binti Haji Ahmad

“…Utilizing qualitative methods which include field studies and interviews with Bugis women who have completed the Hajj, this research positions them as agents, actors, and subjects. Its objective is to reveal the various forms of social mobility that have reshaped the status of Bugis women who have performed the Hajj. …”
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Acción pública local: una alternativa para dotar de agua potable a las colonias de la periferia de Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua by Gustavo Córdova Bojórquez

“…Los resultados indican que no hay convergencia entre actores, ya que ni el gobierno ni los agentes no gubernamentales estudiados, en este caso los jefes de hogar, han podido desarrollar estrategias conjuntas; hay algunos elementos importantes que tomar en cuenta, tanto macrosociales como microindividuales, para desarrollar, si acaso, una acción pública local.…”
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Natural Compounds as Regulators of NLRP3 Inflammasome-Mediated IL-1β Production by József Tőzsér, Szilvia Benkő

“…Although many of these studies lack the mechanistic explanation of their action, these compounds may be considered as complementary supplements in the treatment of chronic inflammatory diseases, consumed as preventive agents, and may also be considered as molecular tools to study NLRP3 function.…”
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