Cellular and cytokine immunoregulation in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and bronchial asthma by Wanda Stankiewicz, Marek P. Dabrowski, Andrzej Chcialowski, Tadeusz Plusa

“…In addition to diverse effector mechanisms, the cellular and humoral elements participating in the development of immune response may appear to be different in COPD and bronchial asthma (BA) patients.…”
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Mania as a Rare Adverse Event Secondary to Steroid Eye Drops by Moayyad Alsalem, Majed A. Alharbi, Rayan A. Alshareef, Raghad Khorshid, Salman Thabet, Abdulrahman Alghamdi

“…These behavioral or psychiatric adverse events usually appear within a few days after commencing GCs and are possibly to reverse with drug withdrawal. …”
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La sati indienne au travers de l’histoire. Du suicide héroïque aux martyres du système socio-politique by Harald Tambs-Lyche

“…The earliest documented instances of the rite (12th century) appear as individually chosen acts, generally to avenge specific events, which fit into a wider pattern of stories of female heroism. …”
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Design of DC Motor Using Local Materials. by Ndyamuhaki, Bruce

“…This project explores the design and construction of a DC motor using unconventional materials, including wood, magnets, copper wires, and plastic tubes. The motor's performance and efficiency are evaluated and the results demonstrate a functional DC motor with efficiency within the expected range for do-it-yourself DC motors. …”
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The Long-Term Change of Arrhythmias after Transcatheter Closure of Perimembranous Ventricular Septal Defects by Hongyan Zheng, Aiwen Lin, Li Wang, Yukai Xu, Zhiwei Zhang

“…Serious arrhythmias that appear early after transcatheter pmVSD closure may impose a risk of recurrence although they have been cured already. …”
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Impact of trace mineral supplementation and translucency score on eggshell quality, hatchability, fertility, and chick quality by Cassidy A. Morris, Duarte Neves, Michael Carroll, Jonathan Moon, Leticia Orellana, Raquel Burin, Colwayne Morris, Austin Jasek, Kenneth S. Macklin

“…The supplementation of trace minerals such as zinc, manganese, and copper in broiler breeder diets has been previously linked to an increase in eggshell quality, which may lead to increased fertility, hatchability, and chick quality. …”
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Sources analysis and risk assessment of heavy metals in soil in a polymetallic mining area in southeastern Hubei based on Monte Carlo simulation by Jing Wang, Bo Wang, Qibin Zhao, Jinnan Cao, Xiao Xiao, Di Zhao, Zhenya Chen, Di Wu

“…The main findings are as follows: (1) Among the heavy metals present in the soil, copper (Cu) has the highest average concentration at 278.54 mg/kg, followed by zinc (Zn) at 161.16 mg/kg, chromium (Cr) at 75.23 mg/kg, nickel (Ni) at 30.38 mg/kg, arsenic (As) at 22.53 mg/kg, cadmium (Cd) at 0.76 mg/kg, and mercury (Hg) at 0.14 mg/kg; (2) The distribution of heavy metal concentrations exhibits significant regional variations, with the spatial pattern of pollution indicating that TLS is more affected than JLS, as evidenced by the Pollution Load Index (PLI) values; (3) Three potential sources of heavy metals were identified: natural sources, anthropogenic activities (including industrial production and agricultural practices), and atmospheric deposition (both dry and wet); (4) While severe contamination levels of specific metals such as copper and cadmium are observed in JLS and TLS soils, the overall contamination is mild, suggesting complex contamination dynamics; (5) Cadmium poses a moderate to high ecological risk, being the most sensitive factor in the comprehensive ecological risk assessment with a contribution rate of 65.2 %; (6) The concentrations of heavy metals in the soil present certain health risks, with children being more vulnerable than adults. …”
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Lithological and geochemical characterization of ‘adinole’ artefacts from cave deposits in southwest Wales: A material of choice during the late Middle to Upper Palaeolithic by Richard Bevins, Elizabeth A. Walker, Nick Pearce, Duncan Pirrie, Rob Ixer, Ian Saunders, Matthew Power

“…Twenty-three artefacts previously identified as being manufactured from adinole, a fine-grained metasomatic rock, from late Middle to Upper Palaeolithic cave sites in southwest Wales have been re-examined in terms of their petrology and geochemistry. …”
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Alteration, mineralization, geochemistry and fluid inclusion investigations in Joftrud prospect area, southwest of Birjand by Omid Shareipour, Azadeh Malekzadeh Shafaroudi, Maryam Javidi Moghaddam

“…Maximum of geochemical anomalies in veins are for copper 6000 ppm, lead 2934 ppm, zinc 6904 ppm, and Au 144 ppb. …”
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Nutrition of Florida Citrus Trees, Third Edition by Davie Mayeso Kadyampakeni, Kelly T. Morgan

“…Changes to the second edition will appear at the beginning of chapters 2, 6, 8, 9, and 11. …”
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Géohistoire du massif forestier d’Écouves (Orne, Normandie) by Nicolas Blanchard, Damase Mouralis, Dominique Todisco

“…Although the traces of anthropization appear to be more tenuous than elsewhere, this work stresses the need to understand the forest as a spatial palimpsest preserving superimposed anthropic legacies and bio-geographic dynamics which are of scientific interest.…”
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Openings: the Act of Modelizing and the Question of Complexity by Emilie Janton

“…Focusing on the openings helps point out functional variations in the use of models, which appear to be essential to the continuous development of complexity throughout the texts. …”
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A Review on Recent Developments for Detection of Diabetic Retinopathy by Javeria Amin, Muhammad Sharif, Mussarat Yasmin

“…Diabetic retinopathy is caused by the retinal micro vasculature which may be formed as a result of diabetes mellitus. Blindness may appear as a result of unchecked and severe cases of diabetic retinopathy. …”
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Acer japonicum 'Vitifolium' by Edward F. Gilman

“…The hanging clusters of showy, purple/red flowers appear in late spring and are followed by the production of winged seeds. …”
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A Large Left Ventricle Myxoma: Presenting with Epigastric Pain and Weight Loss by Solmaz Fakhari, Eissa Bilehjani

“…Cardiac myxomas are the most common benign tumors found in the heart. They usually appear in the left atrium. Those originating from the left ventricle (LV) are rare. …”
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ISSUES OF LANGUAGE EDUCATION IN RUSSIAN TECHNICAL UNIVERSITIES AND SOLUTIONS FOR THEIR ELIMINATION by Tatiana V. Sidorenko, Svetlana V. Ryboushkina

“…However, it must be admitted that the system of language education at a university level comes up against serious problems of historical, economic or political background, for which reason there are processes in the system that hinder or hamper solution of the tasks set before the university. …”
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DZENBUDIZMO FENOMENOLOGIJA by Algis Mickūnas

“…This essay extricates these structures and their correlations at the level of their mutual constitution as they appear in Zen and its practice. Within the latter context, these structures open what for Zen is emptiness, pointing to a level of experience for whose designation we lack words. …”
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Dynamic Analysis for a Kaldor–Kalecki Model of Business Cycle with Time Delay and Diffusion Effect by Wenjie Hu, Hua Zhao, Tao Dong

“…With the diffusion coefficients increasing, different patterns appear.…”
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A decolonial reading of the Third Chapter of the Gospel of John in Moffat’s Translation of the Catechism into Setswana (1826) by I.D. Mothoagae

“…It is argued that translation does not happen in a vacuum; rather, it also has the ideological intentions of the translator. …”
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Melting of Nanoprticle-Enhanced Phase Change Material inside Shell and Tube Heat Exchanger by Seiyed Mohammad Javad Hosseini, Ali Akbar Ranjbar, Kourosh Sedighi, Masoumeh Rahimi

“…This paper presents a numerical study of melting of Nanoprticle-Enhanced phase change material (NEPCM) inside a shell and tube heat exchanger using RT50 and copper particles as base material and nanoparticle, respectively. …”
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