Determination of ²³⁸U Content by Gamma Radiation Emitting from ^234mPa Radionuclide by A. Khruschinski, S. Kutsen, A. Zhukouski, Naoyuki Sugai, Hiroshi Sugai, Michinori Mogi

“…This method makes it possible to determine the content of 238U in a continuous homogeneous medium while presence of natural radionuclides in it.The algorithm for determining of 238U content includes several main steps. …”
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ABOUT DEVELOPMENT OF MEASURES OF TRUST AND TRANSPARENCY IN A CONTEXT OF CALLS AND THREATS by A. Y. Malov

“…The Russian experts continue now work on generalization and classification of concrete MTDK in the form of the draft of the catalog of measures for ensuring transparency and trust in space activity. In case of its realization it could become a component of the researches presented to the report of the Secretary general to General Assembly at its sixty eighth session in pursuance of the resolution 65/68 8 of December, 2010. …”
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Synergies of dark tourism, future trends and tourism education: a dialogue with Professors John Lennon and Ian Yeoman by Rodney Westerlaken, John Lennon, Ian Yeoman

“…The conversation explores the multifaceted dimensions of dark tourism, its future trends and its place in tourism education. …”
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On the Complex Inversion Formula and Admissibility for a Class of Volterra Systems by Ahmed Fadili, Hamid Bounit

“…Next, a necessary and sufficient condition for Lp-admissibility p∈1,∞ of the system's control operator is given in terms of the UMD-property of its underlying control space for a wider class of Volterra integrodifferential equations when the leading operator is not necessarily a generator, which provides a generalization of a result known to hold for the standard Cauchy problem (Bounit et al., 2010, Proposition 3.2).…”
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Synthesis, H2S releasing properties, antiviral and antioxidant activities and acute cardiac effects of nucleoside 5′-dithioacetates by Miklós Bege, Miklós Lovas, Dániel Priksz, Brigitta Bernát, Ilona Bereczki, Rasha Ghanem Kattoub, Richárd Kajtár, Simon Eskeif, Levente Novák, Jan Hodek, Jan Weber, Pál Herczegh, István Lekli, Anikó Borbás

“…Dithioacetyl-adenosine and its metabolite showed similar acute cardiac effects as adenosine, however, it is noteworthy that both 5′-thio modified adenosines increased left ventricular ejection fraction or stroke volume, which was not observed with native adenosine.…”
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Wheat Leaf Rust Effector Pt48115 Localized in the Chloroplasts and Suppressed Wheat Immunity by Lulu Song, Liping Cui, Hao Li, Na Zhang, Wenxiang Yang

“…Pt48115 inhibited cell death induced by Bcl-2-associated X protein (BAX) from mice or infestans 1 (INF1) from <i>Phytophthora infestans</i> in <i>Nicotiana benthamiana</i> and by DC3000 in wheat, and its 145–175 amino acids of the C-terminal are critical for its function. …”
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Yorùbá Theatre Practice and Nollywood by Shola Balogun

“…Yorùbá theatre serves as an exposition of Yorùbá tradition and culture; thus, understanding the worldviews of its creators is essential for appreciating its current practice and the factors influencing its representation in Nollywood. …”
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Who Puts the ‘Open’ in Open Knowledge? by Montgomery Lucy, Neylon Cameron, Wilson Katie, Huang Chun-Kai (Karl), Hosking Richard, Ozaygen Alkim, Handcock Rebecca

“…This involves questions of equity, diversity and inclusion – who gets to make knowledge; as well the role of productive interactions across boundaries (disciplines/university/wider community) in its growth and spread. There is a genuine desire among many universities, research funders, and researchers themselves, to address the challenges of diversity, equity and impact implicit in the open knowledge agenda. …”
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Challenging museum narratives: the case of a Rhodesia Railways carriage by Will Sims, William Law

“…It argues that interpretation of the carriage since its repatriation has focused on the story of its return, while gaps in the knowledge of its operational life – including the experiences of passengers and the impacts of the railway’s labour hierarchy – have been overlooked. …”
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Using roof borehole electrical resistivity tomography to monitor roof water infiltration in a mine work face by Liang Du, Wenjin Zhu, Lei Wang, Hao Li, Xiaoyu Jiao, Teng Qin

“…Experiments and field tests suggest that the resistivity and its changes are related to the amount of water inflow and water channel. …”
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QUALITY ASSESSMENT OF STUDENT COURSEWORKS: COMPETENCY-BASED APPROACH by T. M. Shamsutdinova

“…The method provided enables to establish the relationship between contents of the training program and the requirements of FSES; to concretize assessment of competencies and to give reasons for its numerical indicators. Under a certain adaptation, this technique for assessment of student courseworks of economic and technical specialties can be applied for assessment of other academic works of students.…”
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Urban greeen areas in the reduction of cooling loads. Simulations in the Mediterranean climate by Carola Clemente, Massimo Palme, Anna Mangiatordi, Daniele La Rosa, Riccardo Privitera

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Intertextuální narativ? Vnímání vodoléčebné terapie pacienty Vincenze Priessnitze by Vladan Hanulík

“… Paper is aimed on comparison of different types of text narratives relating to hydropathy, coldwater cure and its founder Vincenz Priessnitz. Objective of comparison is the effort to determine extent or even the very potentiality of influence of textual corpuses on the individual perception of medical therapy in spa Gräfenberg from the patient’s point of view and the creation of unique metanarrative of hydropathical discourse in the third decade of 19th century. …”
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Self-Ligating Brackets and Their Impact on Oral Health-Related Quality of Life in Chinese Adolescence Patients: A Longitudinal Prospective Study by Yu Zhou, MinLing Zheng, Jiaqiang Lin, Yi Wang, Zhen Yu Ni

“…One hundred fifty Chinese orthodontic adolescence patients completed the 14-item Oral Health Impact Profile (OHIP-14, Chinese version) at five distinct intervals: after insertion of the fixed appliance at 1 week (T1), 1 month (T2), 3 months (T3), and 6 months (T4); and after treatment (T5). …”
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Adaptive temporal-difference learning via deep neural network function approximation: a non-asymptotic analysis by Guoyong Wang, Tiange Fu, Ruijuan Zheng, Xuhui Zhao, Junlong Zhu, Mingchuan Zhang

“…Abstract Although deep reinforcement learning has achieved notable practical achievements, its theoretical foundations have been scarcely explored until recent times. …”
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THE EFFECT OF ACTIVATING THE FOUNDATIONS OF SCENARIO THINKING IN INCREASING THE PERFORMANCE OF BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS by Башир Гессаби, Муса Гессаби

“…A number of proposasls are presented that can fenefit the domestic electrical engineering industry in increasing its productivity. It is necessary to develop and streng then the practice of scenario thinking in organizations of this industry by environment for the introduction of such thinking among manager and officials…”
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Effects of permafrost stability changes on vegetation dynamics in the middle part of the Greater Khingan Mountains by Jiaman Sun, Wei Shan, Chengcheng Zhang

“…Permafrost in the middle section of the Greater Khingan Mountains is highly sensitive to climate change; however, the specific mechanisms by which its degradation affects vegetation dynamics remain unclear. …”
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Bisecting GlcNAc modification of vesicular GAS6 regulates CAFs activation and breast cancer metastasis by Jing Li, Xueting Ren, Lin Cao, Kaixiang Min, Meng Wang, Shuai Lin, Lei Lei, Zengqi Tan, Xiaoliang Cheng, Xiang Li, Feng Guan

“…While glycosylation is known to regulate various cellular processes, its impact on CAFs activation remains insufficiently explored. …”
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Head and Neck Schwannomas: A Surgical Challenge—A Series of 5 Cases by Ishtyaque Ansari, Ashfaque Ansari, Arjun Antony Graison, Anuradha J. Patil, Hitendra Joshi

“…As a rule, treatment is surgical and dictated by the location of the tumor and nerve of origin. Due to its rarity, complex anatomical location and morbidity risk postexcision, they can pose a formidable challenge to surgeons. …”
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UDP-Induced Phagocytosis and ATP-Stimulated Chemotactic Migration Are Impaired in STIM1−/− Microglia In Vitro and In Vivo by Hye Min Lim, Heo Woon, Jung Woo Han, Yoshihiro Baba, Tomohiro Kurosaki, Min Goo Lee, Joo Young Kim

“…STIM1 function in immune cell calcium signalling has been studied extensively; however, its role in microglia, innate immune cells in brain, has not been fully understood. …”
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