Glioblastoma Stem Cells Microenvironment: The Paracrine Roles of the Niche in Drug and Radioresistance by Alessia Fidoamore, Loredana Cristiano, Andrea Antonosante, Michele d’Angelo, Erica Di Giacomo, Carlo Astarita, Antonio Giordano, Rodolfo Ippoliti, Elisabetta Benedetti, Annamaria Cimini

“…An altered vascular network determines irregular blood flow, so that tumor cells spread rapidly beyond the diffusion distance of oxygen in the tissue, with the consequent formation of hypoxic or anoxic areas, where the bulk of glioblastoma stem cells (GSCs) reside. …”
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Reconfigurable scattering by liquid crystal–polymer composite by Duan-Yi Guo, Yan-Ting Liu, Chen-Wei Tu, Iam Choon Khoo, Tsung-Hsien Lin

“…By leveraging the electro-optic properties of LCPCs, the morphology and types of the reconfigured speckles can be dynamically adjusted between Rayleigh and non-Rayleigh with good stability. In addition, the polarization characteristics of the reconfigured speckles can be modulated, introducing another degree of freedom in scattering reconfiguration. …”
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A Novel Approach to Reduce the Unicast Bandwidth of an IPTV System in a High-Speed Access Network by El Hassane Khabbiza, Rachid El Alami, Hassan Qjidaa

“…This means that, after each channel change request, the STB will receive the unicast traffic from another STB instead of the central server. By using this method, the unicast traffic will not pass through the IP network; it will be a peer-to-peer communication via the Access Network only. …”
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Monitoring and Controlling Electric Power Stations Using GSM Network by Goran Ismail, Bilal A. Mubdir, Asso Majeed, Asaad Mubdir Jassim Al-Hindawi

“…PLC generates a text message and forward to other side; control center or mobile phone of engineer and technicians; who are responsible of monitoring. At control center, another GSM modem which has capability to connect with personal computer, receives that text massage using SMS and executes it. …”
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Impact of hyper- and hypothermia on cellular and whole-body physiology by Toshiaki Iba, Yutaka Kondo, Cheryl L. Maier, Julie Helms, Ricard Ferrer, Jerrold H. Levy

“…However, accidental hypothermia presents another environmental threat due to arrhythmias, cardiac arrest, and coagulopathy. …”
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Bipolar Soft Sets: Relations between Them and Ordinary Points and Their Applications by Tareq M. Al-shami

“…In conclusion, it can be noted that the relations defined herein give another viewpoint to explore the concepts of bipolar soft topology, in particular, soft separation axioms and soft covers.…”
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Liminarités, fissures et réécritures : un événement à la frontière entre le nord du Portugal et la Galice by Paula Godinho

“…At the same time, it was a shelter area, a place to form ties ; it was another way to survive or make a living. Local history, language and sociability reveal a reality rolled out with time through coexisting local populations, either quarrelling or cooperating beyond or against the state’s norms and jurisdictions. …”
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Rescuing the Jews in Lithuania during World War II: Practices of Creating a Lithuanian Museum Narrative by Rūta Šermukšnytė

“…The question is: what narrative schemes of the rescue of the Jews are used in Lithuanian museums, what does the museum want to communicate to the public on the topic of the rescue of the Jews, by what means does the museum create a historical narrative, what historical cultural events promote the emergence of themes of the rescue of the Jews in one or another Lithuanian museum? The analysis of four cases (Vilna Gaon Museum of Jewish History, ‘Sugihara House’ in Kaunas, The Ninth Fort of Kaunas, ‘Lost Shtetl’ museum under construction in Šeduva) is used to answer these questions. …”
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Seizures, Psychosis, and Cerebral Vascular Malformation: A Rare Chain of Events by Ismail Hanine, Khadija Benallel, Roukaya Benjelloun, Mohamed Kadiri

“…An abnormality leading to another, here is how we could describe our patient’s psychopathology leading to psychotic symptoms. …”
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Atypical Features in a Large Turkish Family Affected with Friedreich Ataxia by Semiha Kurt, Betul Cevik, Durdane Aksoy, E. Irmak Sahbaz, Aslı Gundogdu Eken, A. Nazli Basak

“…EMG showed demyelinating sensorimotor polyneuropathy in another patient. The GAA expansion-negative 11-year-old female patient had mental-motor retardation, epilepsy, and ataxia. …”
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Analysis effectiveness of online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic by Yudis Ghifari, Diva Aulia Amanda, Angga Hadiapurwa

“…This causes students not to understand the task at hand. Another point that shows the ineffectiveness of online learning is that many issues occur during online learning sessions, for example, internet connection issues, limited interaction, lack of literacy skills, and lack of motivation and productivity of students in its implementation. …”
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Acute Pancreatitis: An Unusual Side Effect of Adalimumab in Crohn’s Disease Patient by Walid El Ouardi, Mustapha Benazzouz

“…Case presentation: Our case report presents a case of a 23-year-old patient followed for Crohn disease in whom a diagnosis of acute pancreatitis induced by adalimumab was made. …”
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Bone-Targeted Therapies in Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer: Evolving Paradigms by Joelle El-Amm, Ashley Freeman, Nihar Patel, Jeanny B. Aragon-Ching

“…Bisphosphonates were the first class of drugs investigated for prevention of SREs and zoledronic acid is the only bisphosphonate that is FDA-approved for this indication. Another bone-targeted agent is denosumab which is a fully humanized monoclonal antibody that binds to the RANK-L thereby inhibiting RANK-L mediated bone resorption. …”
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Persistent Polyclonal B Cell Lymphocytosis B Cells Can Be Activated through CD40-CD154 Interaction by Emmanuelle Dugas-Bourdages, Sonia Néron, Annie Roy, André Darveau, Robert Delage

“…We conclude that the CD40-CD154 activation pathway is functional in the memory B cell population of PPBL patients, suggesting that the disorder may be due to either a dysfunction of other cells in the microenvironment or a possible defect in another B cell activation pathway.…”
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The motivation of reading of vocational-technical (VT) schoolchildren by Birutė Mockienė

“…One-third of the tested young people indicated that reading is a matter of great importance. Another part of the schoolchildren expressed their positive but passive standpoint. …”
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Memoryless Systems Generate the Class of all Discrete Systems by Erwan Beurier, Dominique Pastor, David I. Spivak

“…These arbitrarily simple machines can be wired together—so that the output of one is passed to another as its input—to form more complex machines. …”
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دور شبکات التواصل الاجتماعى (الفیس بوک) فى الوعى المعلوماتى بادارة الأزمات والکوارث : دراسة استکشافیة تحلیلیة... by د. نها محمد عثمان Mohamed Othman

“…The concept of crisis or catastrophe is one of the most widely heldconcepts in contemporary society, where it touches one way or another allaspects of life, from crises and disasters facing the individual, governments andinstitutions, to crises and international disasters.The world of crises and disasters is a living and interactive world, a worldwith its phases, its characteristics and its causes. …”
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Air Transport versus High-Speed Rail: An Overview and Research Agenda by Xiaoqian Sun, Yu Zhang, Sebastian Wandelt

“…Our meta-analysis reveals that the literature is highly controversial and the results vary substantially from one region to another, and a generalization is difficult, given route-specific characteristics, such as demand distribution, network structure, and evolution of transportation modes. …”
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Traffic Congestion in Ecuador: A Comprehensive Review, Key Factors, Impact, and Solutions of Smart Cities by Luis Roberto Jacome Galarza, Wilson Eduardo Jaramillo Sangurima, Silvia Alexandra Jaramillo Luzuriaga

“…Vehicle pollution is another consequence of lower-quality fuel and the topography of highland cities, which demand more engine power. …”
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Metastatic Malignant Melanoma of the Inguinal Lymph Node with Unknown Primary Lesion by Sherif Ali Eltawansy, Ryane Panasiti, Samaa Hasanien, Dennis Lourdusamy, David Sharon

“…Theories try to explain the pathway of development of such tumors and one of the theories mentions that it could be a spontaneous regression of the primary cutaneous lesion. Another theory is that it could be from transformation of aberrant melanocyte within the lymph node. …”
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