Lanthanum-Induced Radiopaque Intestinal Precipitates: A Potential Cause of Intestinal Foreign Bodies by Jason Galo, Bianca Madrid, Warren Kupin

“…The elemental form of lanthanum is a soft metal, which will appear radiopaque on a standard X-ray radiograph. …”
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Corporate greenwashing and green management indicators by Viviana Fernandez

“…Nonetheless, family businesses appear better positioned to leverage environment-friendly initiatives for enhanced performance outcomes.Further analysis indicates that bribery may reduce greenwashing in family firms, particularly in light industries. …”
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Potential Damage to Modern Building Materials from 21st Century Air Pollution by Peter Brimblecombe, Carlota M. Grossi

“…The evolution of damage to building materials has been estimated for the 21st century, with a particular focus on aluminum, zinc, copper, plastic, paint, and rubber in urban areas. …”
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Instantaneous Rock Blasting Wave and Its Microscopic Characteristics during Interaction with Concrete by Shaoqin Huang, Lifeng Luan, Wanli Xing, Qunyi Liu

“…This paper uses improved technology for dynamic strain measurement to investigate the dynamic strain signals of blasting wave action tested in the range of 8–16 cm from the central blast. …”
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Las canciones del 15-M y su memoria. El sonido de un compromiso político by José Rafael Ramos Barranco

“…It became an active starting point for a different way of understanding democracy that derived from the creation of citizen platforms to the emergence of political parties. In this paper we intend to analyze the role of songs in that movement and, above all, how the ideas of 15-M appear in contemporary Spanish song and through which artists. …”
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Location Privacy and Energy Preservation in Sensor Allocation Systems by Hosam Rowaihy

“…We also propose an energy-based algorithm that uses the remaining energy of a sensor as a factor to scale the distance between a sensor and a task such that sensors that have more energy appear to be closer than ones with less energy left. …”
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The influence of planning on the development of innovation in small and medium enterprises by Vujičić Slađana, Ravić Nenad, Nikolić Miloš

“…The goal of innovation is to create more successful future of the company, but this success does not happen by itself, but a purposeful implementation of the innovation process is required - which requires, in the first place, the planning of all phases and sub-processes.…”
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L’éducation à la majorité selon Theodor W. Adorno by Alain-Patrick Olivier

“…On the contrary, Adorno points out a number of processes that seem to run counter to this aim, or indeed that are putting into place precisely the conditions making such an education for autonomy impossible. In this paper, I will discuss three problematic concepts taken from Adorno’s philosophy, which appear to have potential for an update in this respect, namely Aufklärung, the culture industry and authoritarian personality. …”
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Axial Symmetry Cosmological Constant Vacuum Solution of Field Equations with a Curvature Singularity, Closed Time-Like Curves, and Deviation of Geodesics by Faizuddin Ahmed, Bidyut Bikash Hazarika, Debojit Sarma

“…In this paper, we present a type D, nonvanishing cosmological constant, vacuum solution of Einstein’s field equations, extension of an axially symmetric, asymptotically flat vacuum metric with a curvature singularity. …”
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Propagation and Production of Seacoast Marshelder by Mack Thetford, Debbie Miller

“…Flowers are not very showy, occur on terminal racemes with a bract below each flower, and have small lavender petals. The flowers appear in late summer and continue into early fall. …”
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Change of the structure of the surface of galvanic coatings under exposure to cold air plasma by A. G. Anisovich, I. I. Filatova, S. V. Goncharik, V. F. Gologan, Zh. I. Bobanova

“…Methods of metallographic analysis and scanning probe microscopy are used to study changes in the surface of copper electroplating under the influence of cold air plasma. …”
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How long can tardigrades survive in the anhydrobiotic state? A search for tardigrade anhydrobiosis patterns. by Milena Roszkowska, Bartłomiej Gołdyn, Daria Wojciechowska, Zofia Księżkiewicz, Edyta Fiałkowska, Mateusz Pluskota, Hanna Kmita, Łukasz Kaczmarek

“…The observed tardigrade species displayed clear differences in their anhydrobiotic capacity, which appear to be determined by the habitat rather than nutritional behavior of species sharing the same habitat type. …”
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ENSEMBLES MUSICAUX REPRÉSENTATIFS DE LA PHILHARMONIE « TRANSILVANIA » DE CLUJ-NAPOCA. LES QUATORS À CORDES PENDANT LES ANNÉES 1955 – 1989 by Simona-Mihaela SPIRIDON

“…The “Pro camera” Quartet is the second string quartet to appear in chronological order in the musical activity of the Philharmonic of Cluj in 1967. …”
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Cannabinoids: A New Group of Agonists of PPARs by Yan Sun, Andy Bennett

“…An increasing number of therapeutic actions of cannabinoid are being reported that do not appear to be mediated by either CB1 or CB2, and recently nuclear receptor superfamily PPARs (peroxisome-proliferator-activated receptors) have been suggested as the target of certain cannabinoids. …”
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How far it is gone in the Soviet historiography from H. Lowmianski's study about the genesis of Lithuanian state by Edvardas Gudavičius

“…In 1931-1932, the earnest work of H. Lowmianski appeared and raised this problematic to the world level at once. …”
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Teaching how to critically read Indo-Caribbean bodies in nineteenth-century postcards by Rupa Pillai

“…From village scenes to Indo-Caribbean women in studio portraits, the bodies featured in these postcards appear in ethnographic views to promote perceptions of Indo-Caribbeans as being exotic and different. …”
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Le numérique au secours des monnaies locales et complémentaires by Bénédicte Martin

“…Local and complementary Currencies as well as crypto currencies appear after the 2008 crisis and are built on a critique of the dominant financial system. …”
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Structural Predestination of Individual Diversity in the Course and Severity of Infectious Diseases by Sergey N. Rumyantsev

“…In a population attacked by an infectious agent, individuals can be conveniently divided into three categories: totally resistant organisms which contain no susceptible structures and are not affected; mildly susceptible organisms in which a few foci appear and in which the infection runs a benign course; organisms in which the number of constitutionally susceptible structures is high and the infectious process develops in a severe form. …”
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Les réseaux de la qualité de l’air : des associations stratèges actrices de l’action publique by Franck Boutaric

“…Among those mechanisms appear the networks of air pollution agencies.…”
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Thigmotropism of Malignant Melanoma Cells by Pascale Quatresooz, Claudine Piérard-Franchimont, Fanchon Noël, Gérald E. Piérard

“…These specifically located paucicellular aggregates of MM cells do not appear to be involved in the tumorigenic growth phase, but rather they participate in the so-called “accretive” growth model. …”
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