The Rising Role of Private Equity in Professional Sports. A Review by Piotr Charzewski, Agnieszka Starzyk, Aleksandra Religa

“…While governance challenges exist, PE investments address underfunding and position themselves as vital players in the financial evolution of professional sports. …”
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Neurocognitive and Reactive Return to Play Testing Protocol in Overhead Athletes Following Upper Extremity Injury by Kevin E Wilk, Zachary M Thomas, Robert E Mangine, Paul Fuller, George J Davies

“…The incidence of upper extremity (UE) injuries in sport, particularly with the shoulder and elbow in baseball/softball players, appears to be increasing yearly, especially in younger age athletes. …”
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Pluripotency Factors on Their Lineage Move by Clair E. Weidgang, Thomas Seufferlein, Alexander Kleger, Martin Mueller

“…Regulatory networks of maintaining pluripotency have been described in great detail and, similarly, there is great knowledge on key players that regulate their differentiation. Interestingly, pluripotency has various shades with distinct developmental potential, an observation that coined the term of a ground state of pluripotency. …”
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Impulse Noise: Can Hitting a Softball Harm Your Hearing? by Korrine Cook, Samuel R. Atcherson

“…The purpose of this study is to identify whether or not different materials of softball bats (wooden, aluminum, and composite) are a potential risk harm to hearing when batting players strike a 12′′ core .40 softball during slow, underhand pitch typical of recreational games. …”
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Differential game theory application in models of trade relations of Great Britain with Portugal and Russia with Belarus by I. V. Korolyov

“…Possible strategies of players’ behavior in non-antagonistic (positional) games are investigated. …”
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Role of T Regulatory Cells and Myeloid-Derived Suppressor Cells in COVID-19 by Alhasan Alsalman, Mohammad A. Al-Mterin, Eyad Elkord

“…Immunosuppressive cells including T regulatory cells (Tregs) and myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSCs) are key players in immunological tolerance and immunoregulation; however, they contribute to the pathogenesis of different diseases including infections. …”
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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. …”
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Hepatitis E rORF2p Stimulated and Unstimulated Peripheral Expression Profiling in Patients with Self-Limiting Hepatitis E Infection by Sanjay B. Rathod, Anuradha S. Tripathy

“…The observed upregulations of inhibitory, integrin, activatory, and Treg-associated cytokine genes on the PBMCs of acute HEV patients complemented by their frequency data suggest them as the major players in the fine-tuning of immune response in self-limiting hepatitis E infection.…”
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Selected Aspects in the Pathogenesis of Autoimmune Diseases by György Nagy, Peter C. Huszthy, Even Fossum, Yrjö Konttinen, Britt Nakken, Peter Szodoray

“…Finally we describe the function and role of extracellular vesicles in particular autoimmune diseases. Targeting these key players of disease progression in patients with autoimmune diseases by immunomodulating therapy may be beneficial in future therapeutic strategies.…”
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Inflammation and Inflammasomes: Pros and Cons in Tumorigenesis by Liliana R. Balahura, Aida Selaru, Sorina Dinescu, Marieta Costache

“…Additionally, microRNAs (miRNAs), evolutionary conserved noncoding molecules, have emerged as pivotal players during numerous biological events by regulating gene and protein expression. …”
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Anti-microbial cetylpyridinium chloride suppresses mast cell function by targeting tyrosine phosphorylation of Syk kinase by Bright Obeng, Lucas J. Bennett, Bailey E. West, Dylan J. Wagner, Patrick J. Fleming, Morgan N. Tasker, Madeleine K. Lorenger, Dorothy R. Smith, Tetiana Systuk, Sydni M. Plummer, Jeongwon Eom, Marissa D. Paine, Collin T. Frangos, Michael P. Wilczek, Juyoung K. Shim, Melissa S. Maginnis, Julie A. Gosse

“…Specifically, CPC inhibits tyrosine phosphorylation of specific key players Syk kinase and LAT, a substrate of Syk. In contrast, CPC did not affect Lyn kinase phosphorylation. …”
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MicroRNAs-Proteomic Networks Characterizing Human Medulloblastoma-SLCs by Giuseppina Catanzaro, Zein Mersini Besharat, Neha Garg, Maurizio Ronci, Luisa Pieroni, Evelina Miele, Angela Mastronuzzi, Andrea Carai, Vincenzo Alfano, Agnese Po, Isabella Screpanti, Franco Locatelli, Andrea Urbani, Elisabetta Ferretti

“…We aimed to identify pivotal players of specific pathways sustaining stemness and/or tumor development and progression and integrate the results of our recent proteomic study. …”
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Mesenchymal Stem Cell-Based Therapy of Inflammatory Lung Diseases: Current Understanding and Future Perspectives by C. Randall Harrell, Ruxana Sadikot, Jose Pascual, Crissy Fellabaum, Marina Gazdic Jankovic, Nemanja Jovicic, Valentin Djonov, Nebojsa Arsenijevic, Vladislav Volarevic

“…In addition to the suppression of lung-infiltrated immune cells, MSCs have potential to differentiate into alveolar epithelial cells in vitro and, accordingly, represent new players in cell-based therapy of inflammatory lung disorders. …”
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The Linguistic Landscape of Ulaanbaatar: what Signs and People tell about by Erzhen V. Khilkhanova

“…A synchronous ‘crosscut’ of the linguistic landscape of Ulaanbaatar showed that the key ‘players’ in the linguistic ‘field’ of Mongolia — both in the capital’s linguistic landscape and in the collective consciousness are the official Mongolian language, English, followed by Chinese, Russian and Korean; vertical Mongolian writing has a special symbolic meaning. …”
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Successful Outcome in Posttraumatic Superficial Femoral Artery Pseudoaneurysm following Distal Femur Fracture by Lalith Mohan, Sai Charan Vemulapalli, Chandrasekhar Patnala, Asif Hussain Khazi Syed, K. K. Kiran Kumar, A. Sundeep Kund

“…Neck of pseudo aneurysm is located and ligated. Distal femur plating (broad DCP) was done through the same exposure. …”
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Psychological determinants of performance in women's football: a systematic review on resilience, anxiety, motivation and cohesion by Javier Ventaja-Cruz, Jesús Manuel Cuevas Rincón, Virginia Tejada-Medina, Ricardo Martín-Moya

“… Introduction: Over the past decade, women's football has gained significant visibility, leading to increased attention on the psychological factors that influence players' performance. Mental toughness is identified as a key trait that allows athletes to remain focused and resilient in high-pressure environments. …”
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Analysis of the higher education system managerial and organizational potential in the United Republic of Tanzania with the aim of implementing a model of students’ eco-awareness f... by N. A. Nikitin

“…Russia is one of the key players in Africa. The development of diplomatic, trade, cultural relations with African countries is important in creating Russian economic relations with the outside world. …”
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Integration of corporate technological foresight into the technological development management system in companies of oil and gas sector by A. O. Alekseev, V. Ya. Afanasev

“…The experience of leading multinational players in conducting corporate technological foresight shows that the key to its successful implementation is effective integration with the existing corporate strategic planning system.The issue of identifying the most important and necessary measures for integrating foresight into the corporate governance system of oil and gas companies has been considered in the article. …”
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Glenohumeral Instability and Arm Pain in Overhead Throwing Athletes: A Correlational Study by Max Wardell, Doug Creighton, Carter Kovalcik

“…Previous studies illustrate that 75-80% of baseball players will experience some degree of upper extremity (UE) pain. …”
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The Influence of Budgeting and Financial Reporting on Financial Accountability in Primary Education Programs in Uganda by John Nakabago, Costa Hofisi

“…The gap of deficiency of skills among the key actors is a dominant finding, that undermines the role players’ effectiveness in promoting accountability and performance of the capitation grant. …”
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