Inflammation and Immune Response in COPD: Where Do We Stand? by Nikoletta Rovina, Antonia Koutsoukou, Nikolaos G. Koulouris

“…Finally, autoimmunity is another novel aspect that may play a critical role in the pathogenesis of COPD. …”
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An opportunistic observational study of hospital switchboard hold messages, hold music and time spent waiting by Jordan P. Skittrall, Mary D. Fortune

“…At least one message was out of date. Another advised unwell people not to visit the hospital. …”
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Application of Low Intensity Ultrasound in the Treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease by Hong Fei, Xu Fei

“…For pathological research, the development of low-intensity ultrasound (LIUS) provides another idea for the mechanism of AD treatment, which can better treat AD, regulate various factors specifically, and effectively treat AD by stimulating synapses and improving neurons. …”
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A Review of the Detection Methods for Climate Regime Shifts by Qunqun Liu, Shiquan Wan, Bin Gu

“…An abrupt climate change means that the climate system shifts from a steady state to another steady state. Study on the phenomenon and theory of the abrupt climate change is a new research field of modern climatology, and it is of great significance for the prediction of future climate change. …”
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Distribution of Phenol Derivatives by River Waters to the Marine Environment (Gulf of Gdansk, Baltic Sea) by Nehring Iga, Staniszewska Marta, Bodziach Karina

“…The highest concentrations of phenol derivatives were found in summer, most likely due to higher consumption of products containing phenol derivatives. Another factor may be the type of development in the catchment area. …”
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Cardiogenic Shock: An Unusual Initial Presentation of Churg-Strauss Syndrome by M. Apirami, J. A. Pratheepan, T. Kumanan, M. Guruparan, G. Selvaratnam

“…This case report adds to the literature another rare initial presentation of CSS to the existing array of its clinical manifestations.…”
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Contributions to the elucidation of a controversial episode. The Ciulei Case. (2) by Liviu CORCIU

“…The fact that the members of court martial panels were appointed by the commanders of the major units with which they operated, from the divisional level upwards, was a procedure that naturally facilitated the existence of subordination relationships, with a direct effect on the administration of justice. Another explanation for the low quality of justice is the lack of specialized training of the members of the councils of war and courts-martial, the training of the officers called upon to carry out military justice being encumbered by the educational system of the time. …”
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Domestic Workers in South Africa by Candice James, Fairuz Mullagee, Abigail Osiki

“…On 19 November 2020, the Constitutional Court ordered the inclusion of domestic workers in the Compensation for Occupational Injuries and Diseases Act (COIDA). This marked another victory for domestic workers. Textual inclusion is a relatively easier feat compared to the real challenge of implementation to give effect to such inclusion. …”
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A Surgically Treated Case of Ureterovesical Amyloidosis of the Bladder in a Patient with Idiopathic Thrombocytopenia by Sung Han Kim, Weon Seo Park, Jae Young Joung, Kang Hyun Lee, Jinsoo Chung, Ho Kyung Seo

“…Systemic amyloidosis is another bleeding disorder involving amyloid deposits that create defects in coagulation and increased prothrombin and thrombin times. …”
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Investigating the relationship between the sense of belonging to the place and the level of social security of citizens - Case study: Qom- by mohsen kameli, Hamidreza azemati

“…Similarly, the type of form and the size of space, which is another component of the sense of belonging to the place, has a solidarity with social abnormalities and freedom of movement. …”
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Des SfN avant l’heure : ce que nous en disent les opérations de mitigation urbaine en zone inondable. Le cas des villes ligériennes by Marie Fournier, Mathilde Gralepois

“…The NBS framework is now a normative reference framework based on three aspects that allows mitigation projects to be re-examined a posteriori: synergies between different functions; adaptation to local situations over time ; and the participation of local stakeholders. …”
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SOST and DKK: Antagonists of LRP Family Signaling as Targets for Treating Bone Disease by James J. Mason, Bart O. Williams

“…One group, the focus of this paper, is based on antagonizing the functions of putative inhibitors of Wnt signaling, Dickkopf-1 (DKK1), and Sclerostin (SOST). Another group of reagents under development is based on the observation that LRP5 may function to control bone mass by regulating the secretion of serotonin from the enterrochromaffin cells of the duodenum.…”
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Microstrip Triband Bandstop Fitler with Sharp Stop Band Skirts and Independently Controllable Second Stop Band Response by Kishor Kumar Adhikari, Nam-Young Kim

“…To achieve a compact size filter, alternating impedance lines of the resonators are folded widthwise and also one resonator is embedded within another. Theoretical analysis and design procedures are described, including the synthesis equations for each resonator. …”
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High-Dose Glycine Treatment of Refractory Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Body Dysmorphic Disorder in a 5-Year Period by W. Louis Cleveland, Robert L. DeLaPaz, Rashid A. Fawwaz, Roger S. Challop

“…Major exacerbations following ear infections involving Group A 𝛽-hemolytic streptococcus at ages 19 and 20 led to intravenous immune globulin therapy, which was also ineffective. At age 22, another severe exacerbation followed antibiotic treatment for H. pylori. …”
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Comparative transcriptomics in serial organs uncovers early and pan-organ developmental changes associated with organ-specific morphological adaptation by Marie Sémon, Marion Mouginot, Manon Peltier, Claudine Corneloup, Philippe Veber, Laurent Guéguen, Sophie Pantalacci

“…This highlights the important role of developmental system drift in one organ to accommodate adaptation in another.…”
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Classifying Lupus Nephritis: An Ongoing Story by Saba Kiremitci, Arzu Ensari

“…However, the studies indicated that the presence of glomerular necrotizing lesion was no longer significant to determine the classes of lupus nephritis leading to loss of pathogenetic diversity of the classes. Another weakness of the classification that also emerged in time was the lack of discussions related to the prognostic significance of tubulointerstitial involvement which was not included in the classification. …”
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Efficient and Adaptively Secure Attribute-Based Proxy Reencryption Scheme by Huixian Li, Liaojun Pang

“…Ciphertext-Policy Attribute-Based Proxy Reencryption (CP-ABPRE) has found many practical applications in the real world, because it extends the traditional Proxy Reencryption (PRE) and allows a semitrusted proxy to transform a ciphertext under an access policy to the one with the same plaintext under another access policy. The existing CP-ABPRE schemes were proven secure only in the selective security model, a limited model, which is an unnatural constraint on the attacker. …”
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Effects of Variations of SUSY Breaking Scale on Neutrino Parameters at Low Energy Scale under Radiative Corrections by Kh. Helensana Devi, K. Sashikanta Singh, N. Nimai Singh

“…Two approaches are adopted one after another—bottom-up approach for running gauge and Yukawa couplings from low to high energy scale, followed by the top-down approach from high to low energy scale for running neutrino parameters defined at high energy scale, along with gauge and Yukawa couplings. …”
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Maximizing Free Energy Gain by Artemy Kolchinsky, Iman Marvian, Can Gokler, Zi-Wen Liu, Peter Shor, Oles Shtanko, Kevin Thompson, David Wolpert, Seth Lloyd

“…We also derive simple formulae that relate the free energy gained using the optimal initial state rather than another suboptimal initial state. Finally, we demonstrate that the problem of finding the optimal initial state may have two distinct regimes, one easy and one difficult, depending on the temperatures used for preparation and work extraction. …”
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FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION AND THE RIGHT TO RESPECT FOR PRIVATE LIFE by Goran Ilic

“…In one case it is Art. 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights, and in another the case law of the European Court of Human Rights regarding the meaning of the term of the right to privacy from Art. 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights. …”
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