Acidic Microenvironment Enhances Cisplatin Resistance in Bladder Cancer via Bcl-2 and XIAP by Kaede Hiruma, Vladimir Bilim, Akira Kazama, Yuko Shirono, Masaki Murata, Yoshihiko Tomita

“…As acidity of the tumor microenvironment has been reported to be associated with treatment resistance and poor prognosis across various cancer types, our objectives in this study were to investigate the effects of an acidic environment on BC cells and elucidate the mechanisms behind CDDP resistance. Our findings show that BC cells cultured under acidic conditions developed cisplatin resistance as acidity increased. …”
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Investigating Errors in the Written Composition of Undergraduate ESL Learners at Aligarh Muslim University by Mohd Akram Khan

“…The researcher concluded that the study's errors were in the form of spelling, copula, word choice, prepositions, verb tenses, plural formation, punctuation, subject-verb agreement, and articles. The reasons   behind these errors were identified as interlingual and intralingual causes, whereas intralingual was the most significant factor, which indicates their inadequate knowledge about grammar. …”
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Psychological well-being remaja dari keluarga broken home by Ifdil Ifdil, Indah Permata Sari, Viqri Novielza Putri

“…Remaja dengan kondisi keluarga broken home tentu ini tidak mudah karena mereka berada pada kondisi penuh tekanan yaitu harus menyesuaikan diri dengan lingkungannya dan mengalami perubahan-perubahan pada diri dan kehidupan mereka, sebagai remaja hendaknya perlu mencapai kesejahteraan psikologis yang baik agar dapat mencapai tugas-tugas perkembangannya.…”
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Evaluating sustainable water management strategies using TOPSIS and fuzzy TOPSIS methods by Fang Han, Rami N. Alkhawaji, M. Mehdi Shafieezadeh

“…Water Recycling ranks closely behind ( $${C}_{i}^{+}$$ C i + =0.608), highlighting its adaptability and technological feasibility, while Desalination, though highly efficient, is hindered by lower cost-effectiveness ( $${C}_{i}^{+}$$ C i + =0.578). …”
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Analisis Potensi Likuifaksi Berdasarkan Data Cone Penetration Test (Studi Kasus Belawan, Medan) by Siti Nur Indah Sari, Rajinda Bintang

“…Dan dari analisis potensi likuifaksi berdasarkan data CPT (Cone Penetration Test), serta dengan perhitungan dan analisa data fisik tanah, magnitude gempa serta beban siklik CSR dan CRR pada enam titik pengeboran yang dilakukan pada daerah tersebut, didapatkan bahwasanya tanah yang berada dilokasi mengalami potensi likuifaksi karena factor keamanan < 1. …”
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Clearing the forest, adding social struggles: territorialities and alternatives in the Argentinian environmental disaster by Joaquin Ulises Deon

“…The actions of the powerful power networks behind these current colonialist practices are visualized and the high environmental impact of their territorialization practices is illuminated (particularly in the province of Cordoba). …”
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John Ruskin, William Morris and Walter Pater: From Nature to Musical Harmony in the Decorative Arts by Martine Lambert-Charbonnier

“…Advocating a renewed experience of nature proper to disclose truth to the beholder, he inspired William Morris with a new form of interior design that promoted craftsmanship as a way to counter mass production and restore man’s dignity. …”
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Les notables voconces au Haut-Empire by Bernard Rémy, Nicolas Mathieu

“…Women (42 in number) are also far behind men (136). Our documentation covers a long period, from 66-65 BC to the second half of the 3rd c. …”
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Missing pieces in the story of a caterpillar fungus — Ophiocordyceps sinensis by Siran Liang

“…Te description of its production site is not meant to deceive the consumers, but it is only one piece of the story. Behind the veil of Ophiocordyceps commodification, we see missing pieces from a personal experience during a two-month-long field research in the eastern Tibetan region in summer 2018: Tibetan harvesters, a harsh climate, the declining Ophiocordyceps populations, plastic packaging and aluminum cans loitering the meadows. …”
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Preferable academic work forms of medical students in the era of digitalization by I. E. Zolin, A. A. Iudin, D. I. Iudin, A. I. Iudin

“…The work showed that behind the variety of medical students’ attitudes on the effectiveness of different forms of education, there is a willingness of young people to move away from traditional methods of obtaining professional knowledge and skills, and they clearly have a complex request for new forms of teaching, including using the Internet and electronic resources. …”
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Exploring why and how commercial organizations contribute to OpenStreetMap by Héctor Ochoa-Ortiz, Barbara Re

“…Five distinct ways of contribution have been found: data editing, tool development and/or funding, event sponsoring, OSM Foundation or related funding, and community building. The motivations behind their contribution to the project are a mixture of their own business benefits, such as to improve the data quality in a source the companies use, and social value motivations, like community-building. …”
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Devlet Desteğinin Saldırgan Devlet Dışı Aktörler Üzerindeki Etkisi: ABD Desteği ve Naip Savaş Örneği Olarak Suriye İç Savaşı by Sinan DEMİRDÜZEN, Merve Suna ÖZEL ÖZCAN

“…The second purpose of the article is to reveal the underlying reason behind the foreign aid to non-state actors. We suggest that most effective and tangible foreign aid to violent non-state actors are steming from the instrumental foreign policies of states. …”
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Research Data Management Within the EU Data Policy Framework by Milčiuvienė Saulė, Amilevičius Darius, Raškinis Gailius

“…Despite these robust EU-level frameworks, Lithuania’s national policies lag behind, particularly in addressing the growing needs of artificial intelligence innovation.…”
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An Analysis of the Influential Factors of Violations in Urban-Rural Passenger Transport Drivers by Yun Xiao, Haoyun Liu, Zijun Liang

“…In order to explore the traffic safety mechanisms behind urban and rural passenger transport, the personal attributes of urban-rural bus drivers from different areas were investigated. …”
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Socioeconomic status and left ventricular ejection fraction decline in breast cancer survivors following receipt of doxorubicin (PREVENT WF-98213) by Arnethea L. Sutton, Nathaniel S. O’Connell, Alexander R. Lucas, Kristine C. Olson, Kerryn W. Reding, Vanessa B. Sheppard, Bonnie Ky, Kathryn J. Ruddy, Kathryn E. Weaver, W. Gregory Hundley

“…Our study demonstrated that non-clinical factors associated with social drivers of health, such as socioeconomic status, contribute to subclinical cardiovascular dysfunction and therefore supports further investigation of mechanisms behind these associations. Trial registration NCT01988571 (WF-98213).…”
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Les territoires agriurbains en Île-de-France : entre paysage ordinaire, paysage agricole et paysage alimentaire ? by Monique Toublanc, Monique Poulot

“…The approach used here, which is a cross between a geographical and a sociological study, attempts to bring to light certain presuppositions concerning the principle behind the actions and initiatives in the development of these areas which are presented as self-evident.…”
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SurvBeNIM: The Beran-Based Neural Importance Model for Explaining Survival Models by Lev V. Utkin, Danila Y. Eremenko, Andrei V. Konstantinov, Vladimir A. Muliukha

“…It aims to explain predictions of machine learning survival models, which are in the form of survival or cumulative hazard functions. The main idea behind SurvBeNIM is to extend the Beran estimator by incorporating the importance functions into its kernels and by implementing these importance functions as a set of neural networks which are jointly trained in an end-to-end manner. …”
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Network and Agent Dynamics with Evolving Protection against Systemic Risk by Chulwook Park

“…The conceptual principle and methodological techniques behind the mechanisms involved (in such dynamics) have been harder to grasp than researchers understood them to be. …”
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The Public Transport Crisis in South Africa: Through the Eyes of the Four Revolutions by Mondli Hlatshwayo

“…Critically applying the prism of the four industrial revolutions, the article demonstrates that South Africa lags behind from a transport perspective, and still relies on the transportation of the Second Industrial Revolution when other countries are utilising technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. …”
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DNA spontaneously wrapping around a histone core prefers negative supercoiling: A Brownian dynamics study. by Chunhong Long, Hongqiong Liang, Biao Wan

“…During transcription, negative supercoils generated behind the polymerase during transcription may play a role in triggering nucleosome reassembly. …”
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