BRICS in a world at crossroads? by Siphamandla Zondi, Norman Sempijja, Thulisile Mphambukeli

“…The expansion of NATO westward, like its expansion south with the invasions of Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya is not an innocent expansion of a regional body but an extension of a highly problematic security complex in defence of Western dominance of the world order. …”
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BRICS in a world at crossroads? by Siphamandla Zondi, Norman Sempijja, Thulisile Mphambukeli

“…The expansion of NATO westward, like its expansion south with the invasions of Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya is not an innocent expansion of a regional body but an extension of a highly problematic security complex in defence of Western dominance of the world order. …”
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¿Posfundacionalismo o consumación de la metafísica? La teoría de la hegemonía de Ernesto Laclau by Carlos A. Ramírez

“…En oposición a esta postura y, a partir de un análisis del concepto de hegemonía, se busca mostrar cómo el pensamiento de Laclau no se libra de la metafísica, sino que, por el contrario, desarrolla políticamente la que es –según Heidegger, el padre espiritual del posfundacionalismo– su forma consumada: la metafísica nietzscheana de la voluntad de poder.…”
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Floating Knee Injury Associated with Patellar Tendon Rupture: A Case Report and Review of Literature by Singaravadivelu Vaidyanathan, Jagannath Panchanathan Ganesan, Mugundhan Moongilpatti Sengodan

“…DCS fixation by bridge plating technique for the distal femur and lateral buttress plating by MIPO technique for proximal tibia were planned and executed under spinal anesthesia with image intensifier. …”
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Isolated Distal Tibiofibular Syndesmotic Injury: A Case Series and Proposed Mechanism by Sydney Asper, Hailey Allen, Maryam Soltanolkotabi

“…Conclusion: Isolated tibiofibular IOM injury should be considered in patients with lower leg pain after blunt trauma. MRI of the entire tibia and fibula can be instrumental in characterizing and confirming the injury and should be considered when clinical and injury mechanism indicators are present.…”
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Cenas cotidianas: cultura de consumoe mídia em contos de André Sant’Anna by Ligia Bezerra

“…He articulates a critique of consumer culture’spresence in Brazilian everyday life that departs from what Lidia Santos calls anaesthetic of difficulty, which marked Brazilian literature’s approach to massculture between the 1960s and the 1980s. …”
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Predictors of the Short‐Term Outcomes of Guillain–Barré Syndrome: Exploring Electrodiagnostic and Clinical Features by Yi‐Hsiang Chen, Chia‐Lun Wu, Wei‐Chieh Weng, Yi‐Chia Wei

“…Notably, the motor conduction features, including distal and proximal CMAP and MNCV of the median and tibial nerves (all p < 0.05), were particularly important electrodiagnostic features of outcome discrimination in the AIDP subgroup. …”
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Pulsed alternating wavelength system lighting does not negatively impact production or welfare but reduces dopamine activity and may improve bone growth in grow-out Pekin ducks by S. Tonissen, B.J. Emmert, J.M. Schober, E.M. Oluwagbenga, D.M. Karcher, G.S. Fraley

“…Body weights and feed intake were monitored weekly. Brains, femurs, tibiae, and humeri were collected on days 7, 14, 21 and 29 (n = 6 ducks/age/lighting type). …”
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A novel consensus bacterial 6-phytase variant added to phytate-rich diets totally replaced inorganic phosphate in broilers by Y. Dersjant-Li, A. Bello, E. Esteve-Garcia, C. Ramírez Creus, L. Marchal

“…A negative control was not included for animal welfare reasons. Tibias were collected on d 11, 22 and 42 from two birds/pen. …”
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Reconstruction of near total glossectomy and segmental mandibular defect with free fibula flap in Type IIIA popliteal artery branching variant: A case report and review of poplitea... by Dipmalya Chatterjee, Ziaur Rahman, Shishir Agrawal, Akash Menon

“…Intraoperative exploration showed absence of posterior tibial artery (PTA). A short segment of the fibula with a short pedicle was harvested. …”
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Norfloxacin and N-Donor Mixed-Ligand Copper(II) Complexes: Synthesis, Albumin Interaction, and Anti-Trypanosoma cruzi Activity by Darliane A. Martins, Ligiane R. Gouvea, Gabriel S. Vignoli Muniz, Sonia R. W. Louro, Denise da Gama Jaen Batista, Maria de Nazaré C. Soeiro, Letícia R. Teixeira

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Life Cycle Assessment of Methanol Production from Municipal Solid Waste: Environmental Comparison with Landfilling and Incineration by Cristiano Queiroz Cerqueira, Electo Eduardo Silva Lora, Lidiane La Picirelli de Souza, Márcio Montagnana Vicente Leme, Regina Mambeli Barros, Osvaldo José Venturini

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Fractura del fragmento de Wagstaffe-Le Fort en un paciente con luxofractura de tobillo. Equivalente cuadrimaleolar. Reporte de un caso by Juan Manuel Romero Ante, Felipe Carrasco Vélez

“…Se presenta el caso de una paciente que sufre una luxofractura del tobillo izquierdo con compromiso trimaleolar, pero, en la tomografía computarizada prequirúrgica, se documenta el compromiso adicional del tubérculo de Wagstaffe-Le Fort, por lo que se decide considerarlo como un equivalente cuadrimaleolar diferente de los descritos previamente con el compromiso del fragmento anterolateral de la tibia (Tillaux-Chaput). Este caso permite un enfoque de 360° de las lesiones de tobillo que afectan la congruencia articular y se propone un análisis osteo-ligamentario para su tratamiento definitivo, favoreciendo las reparaciones anatómicas para disminuir la necesidad de fijaciones transindesmales sin afectar el desenlace quirúrgico.…”
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La imagen de Toledo en la literatura de viajes argentina by Verónica Gijón Jiménez

“…En este artículo se analiza la visión que los viajeros argentinos tuvieron de la capital del Tajo, centrada en el relato de Lilia Rañó de Petracchi, que ha sido poco estudiado. …”
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Birnbaum's models for the assessment of quality of dough «linear algebra, analytical geometry» by Lidia A. Muratova

“…The two-parametrical model unlike one-parametrical1 Lidia A. Muratova, Cand. of Tech. Sci., Associate Professor of Higher Mathematics and Applied Informatics Departmentmodel Russia contains the parameter characterizing the differentiating ability of a task. …”
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An Overview of Neovaginal Reconstruction Options in Male to Female Transsexuals by Marta Bizic, Vladimir Kojovic, Dragana Duisin, Dusan Stanojevic, Svetlana Vujovic, Aleksandar Milosevic, Gradimir Korac, Miroslav L. Djordjevic

“…The gold standard in neovaginal reconstruction in male to female sex reassignment surgery is penile skin inversion technique with or without scrotal flaps, which enables adequate sensation of the neovagina, good neovaginal depth, good erotic sensitivity of the neclitoris, and esthetically acceptable labia minora and maiora.…”
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BLOCKCHAIN PERSPECTIVES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF GREEN ECONOMY FINANCE by M. L. Dorofeev

“…An important conclusion obtained from the study was that despite a number of attempts to create analogues of private money (Libra, Gram, etc.) in the near future the replacement of traditional fiate money circulation by cryptocurrencies is unlikely for a number of objective reasons.…”
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Melkersson-Rosenthal Syndrome: A Rare Cause of Recurrent Facial Nerve Palsy and Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome by Behiye Deniz Kosovali, Asiye Yavuz, Fatma Irem Yesiler, Mustafa Kemal Bayar

“…Pathologically, granulomatosis is responsible for oedema of face, labia, oral cavity, and facial nerve. We present a patient with MRS admitted to our hospital with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). 45-year-old woman was admitted to an emergency department with dyspnea and swelling on her hands and face. …”
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Rank Protein Immunolabeling during Bone-Implant Interface Healing Process by Francisley Ávila Souza, Thallita Pereira Queiroz, Eloá Rodrigues Luvizuto, Renato Sussumu Nishioka, Idelmo Rangel Garcia-JR, Paulo Sérgio Perri de Carvalho, Roberta Okamoto

“…Twenty male Wistar rats, 90 days old, after having had a 2 mm diameter and 6 mm long implant inserted in their right tibias, were evaluated at 7, 14, 21, and 42 days after healing. …”
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Lymph Drainage of Posttraumatic Edema of Lower Limbs by Ana Carolina Pereira de Godoy, Rodrigo Ocampos Troitino, Maria de Fátima Guerreiro Godoy, José Maria Pereira de Godoy

“…A 70-year-old male patient suffered direct trauma resulting in a compound fracture of the tibia and fibula of the left leg. He was treated with an external fixator for four months followed by plaster cast immobilization for three weeks. …”
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