Insecurity and generalized political crises by Lawali Dambo, Maman Waziri Mato, Département de Géographie, Université de Zinder, Niger, Elhadji Maman Moutari

“…This chronic insecurity, resulting from several political crises (two rebellions in Niger, crises in Libya and Mali, the Boko Haram movement in northern Nigeria) since the 1990s, has revealed the extreme weakness of a tourism model in an area whose geopolitical situation, once considered an asset, has become a major constraint on the flowering of an activity that contributes both to the livelihood of a whole region and the cultural development of an entire people.This insecurity has obliged different local stakeholders to develop adaptation strategies ranging from the exercise of multiple activities to a sort of conversion from tourism towards other sectors of activity. …”
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Vulvar Metastasis in Renal Cell Carcinoma: A Case Report Highlighting the Aggressive Nature of Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma by Andreea Boiangiu, Ana-Maria Cioca, Gabriel-Petre Gorecki, Romina-Marina Sima, Liana Pleș, Marius-Bogdan Novac, Ionut-Simion Coman, Valentin-Titus Grigorean, Vasile Lungu, Mihai-Teodor Georgescu, George-Alexandru Filipescu

“…In this article, we present the case of a 56-year-old patient diagnosed with clear cell renal carcinoma, who came to our clinic with a lesion on the right labia, which was identified as a metastasis originating from the kidney. …”
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Late-Onset Recurrent Femoral Cyst Formation 10 Years after ACL Reconstruction: A Case Report and Literature Review by Enrique Sanchez-Munoz, Antonio Maestro Fernández, Iván Pipa Muñiz, Nicolas Rodríguez García

“…Synovial fistula and cyst formation after anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction is very unusual and almost always affects the tibia. Only 3 cases originating in the femur have been reported. …”
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Effect of Electroacupuncture on Chondrocyte Apoptosis and Cartilage Matrix of Experimental Rats with Knee Osteoarthritis by Guangwen WU, Chunsong ZHENG, Xihai LI, Qiuying LIN, Yichen DAI, Qiuxiang LIN, Yuanyuan ZHANG, Mingxia WU

“…The medial cartilages of right tibial plateau were obtained, and fixed in 4%paraformaldehyde, and embedded in paraffin. …”
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Bacterial Cellulose-Hydroxyapatite Nanocomposites for Bone Regeneration by S. Saska, H. S. Barud, A. M. M. Gaspar, R. Marchetto, S. J. L. Ribeiro, Y. Messaddeq

“…BC-HA membranes were evaluated in noncritical bone defects in rat tibiae at 1, 4, and 16 weeks. Thermogravimetric analyses showed that the amount of the mineral phase was 40%–50% of the total weight. …”
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Trump and the Al Qaeda and ISIS Networks in Africa by Christopher Griffin

“…The presence of the US Army and its actions in Somalia, Libya, Niger and in Nigeria demonstrate that Trump has carried over some of the active military policies of George W. …”
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Relating Ø/to/in the desert: Scottish World War II Poets in North Africa and the Middle-East by Stéphanie NOIRARD

“…Scottish poets were sent to the African front during the Second World War and their poems, letters or diaries reflect their experience in Egypt, Libya and Tunisia, offering sharp contrasts with what is commonly believed or imagined of desert landscapes and the Desert War. …”
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Optimizing the graft size in the Evans osteotomy to minimize the calcaneocuboid joint pressure by highly realistic in-silico analysis by Luca Quagliato, Youngbin Lim, Yunjeong Choi, Kyoung Min Lee, Sewon Kim, Taeyong Lee

“…The FEA model includes all 28 bones of the foot up to the distal end of fibula and tibia as well as soft tissues, tendons, and muscles. …”
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I. Dünya Savaşıyla İlgili Yurt Dışındaki Türk Şehitlikleri by Cengiz Dönmez

“…Dünya Savaşı, Osmanlı Devleti’nin Kafkasya, Irak, Sina- Filistin-Suriye, Yemen, Hicaz, Süveyş Kanalı, Çanakkale, Galiçya, Makedonya, Romanya, İran ve Libya cephelerinde savaştığı, fakat sonunda müttefikleriyle birlikte yenildiği ve çeşitli yönlerden büyük kayıplar yaşadığı bir savaştır. …”
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Derrotas militares, ¿acusaciones políticas? Los juicios contra los jefes de las campañas al Paraguay y al Alto Perú, 1811-1813 by Irina Polastrelli

“…Tras el fracaso de las campañas, el gobierno revolucionario enjuició a sus jefes políticos y militares a fin de neutralizar las oposiciones abiertas y vigilar las adhesiones tibias. Además de dicha intención, los juicios estudiados exhiben las tensiones que la guerra generó entre las funciones y responsabilidades.…”
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Cursorial ecomorphology and temporal patterns in theropod dinosaur evolution during the mid-Cretaceous by Kohta Kubo, Yoshitsugu Kobayashi

“…In contrast, in tyrannosauroids, alvarezsaurs and troodontids, the proportional elongation of the tibia and metatarsals occurred in parallel with the acquisition of the arctometatarsus. …”
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Update Review and Clinical Presentation in Congenital Insensitivity to Pain and Anhidrosis by L. M. Pérez-López, M. Cabrera-González, D. Gutiérrez-de la Iglesia, S. Ricart, G. Knörr-Giménez

“…The consultation of a child female in our center with CIPA and a tibia fracture in pseudoarthrosis encouraged us to carefully review literature and examine the therapeutic possibilities. …”
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Le zodiaque dans la décoration ecclésiale médiévale : une autre manière de penser le temps et l’espace by Angélique Ferrand

“…A capital of Vézelay with Libra and Gemini as the instrument of the Last Judgment associated with Adam and Eve synthetizes some of ideas of this study which aims to show another face of the Zodiac.…”
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A Rare Case of Aneurysmal Bone Cyst of Calcaneum: A Case Report by Chayan K Pal, RP Raghavendra Raju, Athmaram Meda, Chennur Shaik Mohammed Sibghatulla Mazhar, Navya Pulimi, Y Kiran Kumar

“…The most common site of lesion is metaphyseal lesions of long bones like the femur, tibia, and radius. However, they can occur in flat bones like the spine and pelvis. …”
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THE UNITED NATIONS CHARTER AND THE RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT: INTERROGATING THE HUMANITARIAN CRISIS IN SYRIA by ANTHONY IMEH UMOH, BARINAADAA NWINKOL

“…The paper questioned why the case of Syria is different despite having been implemented in Libya before. The paper concludes that the case of Syria is different because she is backed by a superpower, Russia and the fact that politics thrive on interest, the other superpower stand to gain nothing from Syria. …”
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Compondo temporalidades: o colonial e a ditadura nas narrativas brasileiras do século XXI by Lua Gill da Cruz

“…En este texto examinaremos los puntos ciegos de esta historia, discutiendo la relación y la composición de las temporalidades coloniales y dictatoriales y observando qué historias de violencia y resistencia se contaron, y cómo se escribieron y movilizaron, incluso años después de los procesos de justicia transicional y reparación, en el presente y en la literatura, desde las narrativas Nem tudo é silêncio (2010, de Sonia Bischain, la llamada Trilogia Infernal, compuesta por los libros Aqui, no coração do inferno (2016), O peso do coração do homem (2017), y O amor, esse obstáculo (2018), de Micheliny Verunschk, en mayor medida, y, en menor medida, las obras Ainda estou aqui (2015), de Marcelo Rubens Paiva y Antes do passado (2012), de Liniane Brum.…”
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Phylogenomics of North American cybaeid spiders (Araneae, Cybaeidae), including the description of new taxa from the Klamath Mountains Geomorphic Province by Marshal Hedin, Martín J. Ramírez, Rodrigo Monjaraz-Ruedas

“…The systematics of humble-in-appearance brown spiders (“marronoids”), within a larger group of spiders with a modified retrolateral tibial apophysis (the RTA Clade), has long vexed arachnologists. …”
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Collapse risk assessment based on linear programming variable weight-cloud model. by Xiaoyi Zhou, Ke Hu, Tingqiang Zhou

“…In this paper, 20 collapse samples counted by predecessors in G4217 Wenchuan-Lixian section are taken as research cases. The evaluation results of 20 collapse samples are compared with other evaluation methods and field survey conditions to prove the reliability and rationality of the method. …”
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First in Vivo SPECT Imaging of Mouse Femorotibial Cartilage Using Tc-NTP 15-5 by Elisabeth Miot-Noirault, Aurélien Vidal, Philippe Auzeloux, Jean-Claude Madelmont, Jean Maublant, Nicole Moins

“…When 1 mm pinhole SPECT acquisition was focused on the knee, the medial and lateral compartments of both the femoral condyle and tibial plateau were highly delineated, allowing a separate quantitation of tracer accumulation within each component of the femorotibial joint. …”
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Microimaging Characterization of a B16-F10 Melanoma Metastasis Mouse Model by Christopher T. Winkelmann, Said Daibes Figueroa, Tammy L. Rold, Wynn A. Volkert, Timothy J. Hoffman

“…Examples of metastatic lesions identified and followed up by micro-CT imaging included a lung metastasis, mandibular metastasis, subcutaneous metastasis, and tibial/femoral metastasis. Micro-CT and small-animal PET fusion imaging successfully correlated anatomic localization of glucose metabolism of the metastatic tumors. …”
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