The new media as monitors of democracy by Dumisani Moyo

“… While Zimbabwe’s first two post-independence elections in 1980 and 1985 were generally considered to be a credible expression of the will of the people, subsequent elections in that country were largely contested, with allegations of rigging, gerrymandering, vote-buying and coercion, among several other irregularities. …”
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Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Outcomes in Type 2 Diabetic Patients: Role of MicroRNA Changes by Celestino Sardu, Michelangela Barbieri, Maria Rosaria Rizzo, Pasquale Paolisso, Giuseppe Paolisso, Raffaele Marfella

“…CRT effects are related to alterations in genes and microRNAs (miRs) expression, which regulate cardiac processes involved in cardiac apoptosis, cardiac fibrosis, cardiac hypertrophy and angiogenesis, and membrane channel ionic currents. …”
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A Novel Model of Cancer-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy and the Role of TRPA1 in Pain Transduction by Ahmad Maqboul, Bakheet Elsadek

“…Immunoblots exhibited an increase in TRPA1 expression on day 14. TRPA1 mRNA underwent an increase on day 7 (normalized to 18S). …”
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Apocrine Sweat Gland Ductal Adenoma with Sebaceous Differentiation in a Dog by Masaki Michishita, Junki Yasui, Rei Nakahira, Hisashi Yoshimura, Kimimasa Takahashi

“…In contrast, the basaloid tumor cells were positive for CK14, p63, and αSMA but not for CK19 or CAM5.2. CK8 expression was observed in both luminal epithelial and basaloid tumor cells. …”
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Women’s experiences of ceasing to breastfeed: Australian qualitative study by Jennifer Elizabeth Ayton, Leigh Tesch, Emily Hansen

“…In an effort to avoid formula and prolong exclusive breastfeeding, mothers will endure multiple issues (eg, pain, low milk supply, mastitis, public shaming) and make use of various forms of social and physical capital; resources such as father/partner support, expressing breast milk, bottles and dummies. The cessation of exclusive breastfeeding was frequently experienced as unexpected and ‘devastating’, leaving mothers with ‘breastfeeding grief’ (a prolonged sense of loss and failure).Conclusions and implications For many mothers, the cessation of exclusive breastfeeding results in lingering feelings of grief and failure making it harmful to women’s emotional well-being. …”
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Systematic study on the evaluation method of surface antibacterial activity based on the fluorescent observation of bacterial growth by Noriko Nakamura, Tatsuki Yamagishi, Wataru Nagata, Yuki Akahane, Hyemin Seo, Ayaka Otsuka, Daiki Hishikawa, Risa Yoshimoto, Nobuhiro Miyamae, Seiichi Ohta

“…In this study, we develop a novel evaluation procedure for antibacterial substrates that enables in situ visualization of bacterial growth on a surface with centimeter-scale spatial information using fluorescent protein-expressing bacterial cells and an image acquisition setup. …”
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Acute stimulation of PBMCs drives switch from dopamine-induced anti- to proinflammatory phenotype of monocytes only in women by Leonie Fleige, Silvia Capellino

“…Moreover, B cells from men showed higher dopamine receptor (DR) expression, which was shown to be further increased by sex hormones only in men. …”
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Torque Differential-Based Dynamic Modeling, Validation, and Steering Characteristics Analysis of Multi-Axial Skid-Steered Wheeled Vehicle by Yuzheng Zhu, Shihua Yuan, Xueyuan Li, Ao Li, Xin Gao

“…This model is grounded in the vehicle’s steering mechanism and the single-wheel dynamics model, and a steering radius model based on TD input was established using the concept of the instantaneous center of rotation (ICR). Additionally, an expression for the stability factor was derived, and both the steady-state and transient steering characteristics were analyzed. …”
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Predicting the urban water demand by equipping intelligent-based methods with discrete wavelet transform function by Mohammad Reza Alikhani, Ramtin Moeini

“…For this purpose, in this research, artificial intelligence and data mining methods, including genetic programming (GP), gene expression programming (GEP), artificial neural network (ANN), and discrete wavelet transform function, are used to predict the daily drinking water consumption values of WDN. …”
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Tendências atuais da proteção social: considerações sobre o workfare e as políticas de ativação by Silvio Aparecido Redon, Eliane Christine Santos de Campos

“… Em nossa sociedade, a proteção social institucional se coloca como incontestavelmente necessária ao enfretamento das expressões da “questão social”. Após um período excepcional de êxito inigualável, canonizado nos modelos de Estado Social Europeus, os direitos sociais são flagrantemente alvo de ofensivas do capital. …”
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Materialidad en la auditoría financiera: Estándares internacionales y juicio profesional. by María Eugenia Quintero Bazán

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Integrated Analysis of microRNA Targets Reveals New Insights into Transcriptional–Post-Transcriptional Regulatory Cross-Talk by Simona Panni, Roberto Pizzolotto

“…It is becoming increasingly clear that microRNAs are key players in gene regulatory networks, modulating gene expression at post-transcriptional level. Their involvement in almost all cellular processes predicts their role in diseases, and several microRNA-based therapeutics are currently undergoing clinical testing. …”
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Nuclear receptors in regulation of bile acids transport and metabolism by A. F. Sheptulina, Ye. N. Shirokova, V. T. Ivashkin

“…Some adaptive processes including change of hepatocyte transport systems expression reduction of BA synthesis, activation of BA detoxication and elimination are upredgulated during cholestasis. …”
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An Analysis of spatial inequalities of Housing quality in middle textures neighboods of zanjan city by Mohsen Ahadnejad, Asghar Teymouri, Mahnaz Vaez livari, Hossein Tahmasebi Moghaddam

“…The quality of housing as one of the main foundations of a comprehensive program and a necessary tool for expressing the various dimensions of economic, social, cultural, environmental and physical development of sustainable, has a special place in urban planning. …”
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A new crustin-like gene from the redclaw crayfish Cherax quadricarinatus and its response to decapod iridescent virus 1 (DIV1) challenge by Xiaoying Hang, Jianbo Zheng, Fei Li

“…Similar to the Crustin2 gene (CqCrs) in C. quadricarinatus, the highest expression level of Cqcarc1 was also detected in the hemocyte organ. …”
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Agr-typing of methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA) isolated from non-human primates by V. A. Kalashnikova

“…The present study is devoted to molecular genetic testing of S. aureus isolated from different biological samples taken from monkeys and is based on typing of agr polymorphic locus which acts as a regulator of pathogenic gene expression. As a result of PCR analysis of 301 S. aureus isolates it was established that most of S. aureus belonged to agr IV (55%), and agr I (34%) was the second most group. …”
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Differential Stress Responses to Rice Blast Fungal Infection Associated with the Vegetative Growth Phase in Rice by Takuma Koyama, Takumi Tezuka, Atsushi J. Nagano, Jiro Murakami, Takanori Yoshikawa

“…Transcriptome analysis following blast fungus infection revealed that several genes involved in the defense response were upregulated in both the juvenile and intermediate stage, but the expression changes of many genes were growth phase-specific. …”
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Case Reports in Oncological Medicine Myoepithelioma: A New Rearrangement Involving the LPP Locus in a Case of Multiple Bone and Soft Tissue Lesions by Géraldine Pairet, Gaëlle Tilman, Rafaël Sciot, Thomas Schubert, Vasiliki Perlepe, Hélène A. Poirel, Christine Galant

“…All tumors showed the double immunophenotype of epithelial markers and S100 protein expression. No rearrangement of the EWSR1 and FUS loci was detected as reported in myoepitheliomas. …”
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Modulatory effects of perindopril on cisplatin-induced nephrotoxicity in mice: Implication of inflammatory cytokines and caspase-3 mediated apoptosis by Aljuhani Naif, Ismail Raed S., El-Awady Mohammed S., Hassan Memy H.

“…Perindopril remarkably ameliorated cisplatin-induced perturbations in renal histology, renal levels of tumor necrosis factor-alpha, interleukin-6 and interleukin-10, apoptosis-regulating protein expressions (Bax and Bcl2), and partially normalized Bax to Bcl2 ratio and active caspase 3 protein expression. …”
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Highlights in IBD Epidemiology and Its Natural History in the Paediatric Age by Marco Gasparetto, Graziella Guariso

“…IBD’s changing epidemiology suggests that environmental factors play a major role in modifying disease expression. Aim. To review studies carried out worldwide analyzing IBD epidemiology. …”
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