Delta opioid receptors engage multiple signaling cascades to differentially modulate prefrontal GABA release with input and target specificity by Ryan P.D. Alexander, Kevin J. Bender

“…Of the opioid receptor types, delta opioid receptors (DORs) appear to have a unique role in regulating the activity of circuits related to reward without liability for abuse. …”
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Revisiting ECB’s Technocratic Legitimacy: No Longer Fit‐for‐Purpose? by Dimitrios Argyroulis, Nikolas Vagdoutis

“…We find that the ECB’s early monetary policy statements (1998 and 2003) appear to be aligned with this model, due to the presence of strictly defined performance criteria and an interpretation of the ECB’s mandate that was limited to pursuing price stability as a single objective. …”
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Fatigue properties and fracture mechanism of load carrying type fillet joints with one-sided welding by Takamasa Abe, Hiroyuki Akebono, Masahiko Kato, Atsushi Sugeta

“…Multiple welding defects were observed in the unwelded portion, but did not appear to be crack origins. Although these welding defects affected the direction of crack propagation they exerted minimal influence. …”
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Improved background modeling for dark matter search with COSINE-100 by (COSINE-100 Collaboration)

“…These improvements are detailed in the paper.…”
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Pale Damsel Bug Nabis capsiformis Germar (Insecta: Hemiptera: Nabidae) by Karol L. Krey, Justin M. Renkema

“…At first glance, they appear like a cross between a mantis and an assassin bug. …”
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THE INTESTINAL INSUFFICIENCY SYNDROME AND THE SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME IN ACUTE PERITONITIS IN CHILDREN by Cristina Șerban, Georgiana Bianca Constantin, Daniela Mihalache, Alina Calin, Norin Forna, Mădălin Guliciuc

“…Background:According to many published research in the literature, acute peritonitis in children is a topic of interest, first due to the disorders produced by the growing organism and, on the other hand, due to the problems that may appear during the surgical intervention, becoming the main source of intraoperative and postoperative accidents. …”
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The Café Wall Illusion: Local and Global Perception from Multiple Scales to Multiscale by Nasim Nematzadeh, David M. W. Powers

“…We present here a predictive and quantitative approach for modelling foveal and peripheral vision for the induced tilt in the Café Wall illusion, in which parallel mortar lines between shifted rows of black and white tiles appear to converge and diverge. Difference of Gaussians is used to define a bioderived filtering model for the responses of retinal simple cells to the stimulus, while an analytical processing pipeline is developed to quantify the angle of tilt in the model and develop confidence intervals around them. …”
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Synthesis, Spectroscopic Characterization and Preliminary Antimicrobial Studies of Mn(II) and Cu(II) Complexes of two Thiolates; S,S’-(2,6-Diaminopyridine-3,5-diyl) Dibenzenecarbot... by P. O. Ukoha, C.U. Alioke, N.L> Obasi, K.F. Chah

“…The complexes of these compounds were prepared using copper(II) and manganese(II) chloride salts. The thiolates were characterized on the basis of their electronic, infrared and NMR spectra whereas the complexes were characterized via electronic and infrared studies. …”
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Coordination Behavior of Ni2+, Cu2+, and Zn2+ in Tetrahedral 1-Methylimidazole Complexes: A DFT/CSD Study by Samuel Tetteh

“…The interaction between nickel (Ni2+), copper (Cu2+), and zinc (Zn2+) ions and 1-methylimidazole has been studied by exploring the geometries of eleven crystal structures in the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD). …”
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The properties of fluorine-doped graphene-based intermediate band solar cell materials by Lingyun Sun

“…As can be seen from the optical absorption spectrum, there are three distinct absorption peaks appear from the complex. The two sub-band gap absorption on the left are attributed to the combined effect of the electron transition from the top of the valence band to the intermediate band and from the intermediate band to the bottom of the conduction band, while the large absorption peak on the right is due to the electron transition from the bottom of the conduction band to the top of the valence band. …”
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Nutritional Factors Related to Canine Gallbladder Diseases—A Scoping Review by Fabio Alves Teixeira, Kathleen Moira Aicher, Ricardo Duarte

“…In people, some nutrients appear to modify bile flow and are used as agents in the prevention and treatment of these conditions in the gallbladder. …”
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Growth of CZTS Thin Films by Cosputtering of Metal Targets and Sulfurization in H2S by N. Muhunthan, Om Pal Singh, Son Singh, V. N. Singh

“…Copper zinc tin sulfide (CZTS) is an emerging thin film photovoltaic material. …”
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The concept of peace and victory in the domestic and foreign policy of Ukraine by Hryhorii Perepelytsia

“…Outlining the contours of a new international security system is only possible if Russia is defeated. If this does not happen, the unipolar peace will be replaced by a multipolar peace, and the new security system of Eastern Europe will be based on a regional arrangement capable of repelling threats both from the East and from other directions. …”
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The Environmental Impact of a Wave Dragon Array Operating in the Black Sea by Sorin Diaconu, Eugen Rusu

“…The results show that although a significant influence appears near the wave farm, this gradually decreases to the coast line level. …”
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Design of a 20,000 Pound Variable Stiffness Actuator for Structural Vibration Attenuation by John Leavitt, James E. Bobrow, Faryar Jabbari

“…This paper describes the design of a novel actuator capable of protecting a full scale structure from severe load conditions. …”
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Observation-based temperature and freshwater noise over the Atlantic Ocean by A. A. Boot, H. A. Dijkstra, H. A. Dijkstra

“…Often this noise is assumed to be Gaussian, but detailed analyses of its statistics appear to be lacking. Here we study the noise characteristics in reanalysis data for two fields that are commonly used to force ocean-only models: evaporation minus precipitation and 2 m air temperature. …”
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Influencing Holistic Health Policy by Erica Bell

“…Beliefs that health policy-making is an inherently ‘ideological’ or ‘irrational’ process appear to have worked to prevent researchers from developing better understandings of the kind of evidence that does work to influence policy. …”
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Uterine Cavity Abnormalities in Patients with Endometriosis in Alexandria: A Diagnostic Test Accuracy Study by Eman Aly Abd El Fattah

“…Endometrial polyps, septate uterus, and hypoplastic uterus are more prevalent among infertile women who happen to have endometriosis. 4D ultrasonography and office hysteroscopy are equally successful in assessing the uterine cavity.…”
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FAHLORES FROM PORPHYRY Cu-(Mo) DEPOSITS OF THE URALS by O.Yu. Plotinskaya, E.V. Kovalchuk

“…The paper describes chemistry of tetrahedrite-tennantite group minerals from three porphyry deposits of the Urals: Mikheevskoe and Tomino porphyry copper deposits on the South Urals and Talitsa Mo porphyry deposit on the Middle Urals. …”
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Analysis of Silver Ink Bow-Tie RFID Tag Antennas Printed on Paper Substrates by Sari Merilampi, Leena Ukkonen, Lauri Sydänheimo, Pekka Ruuskanen, Markku Kivikoski

“…In this study, polymeric silver inks, paper substrates, and screen printing were used to produce prototype Bow-Tie tags. …”
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