Clot Formation in the Sipunculid Worm Themiste petricola: A Haemostatic and Immune Cellular Response by Tomás Lombardo, Guillermo A. Blanco

“…The mass with sealing properties is brought about by homotypic aggregation of granular leukocytes present in the coelomic fluid that undergo a rapid process of fusion and cell death forming a homogenous clot or mass. The clot structure appears to be stabilized by abundant F-actin that creates a fibrous scaffold retaining cell-derived components. …”
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Selectives (“topic markers”) on subordinate clauses by Wälchli Bernhard

“…Despite the frequent occurrence of selectives on conditional clauses, selectives tend not to be conditional connectives unless this happens to be their grammaticalization source.…”
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Seismic Performance of Exterior Steel Ring-Stiffener Joint by Zhaoqiang Zhang, Yanru Sa, Yong Yao, Junhai Zhao

“…The results reveal (a) damage to the specimens at the beam-end near the joint, (b) no failure at the joints’ core area and column, (c) appearance of a plastic hinge at the beam-end near the joint, and (d) plump spindle-shaped hysteretic loops and normal rigidity degradation curves in the specimens. …”
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An Emerging New Paradigm in Opioid Withdrawal: A Critical Role for Glia-Neuron Signaling in the Periaqueductal Gray by Handong Ouyang, Shue Liu, Weian Zeng, Roy C. Levitt, Keith A. Candiotti, Shuanglin Hao

“…Among the brain regions implicated in opiate dependence and withdrawal, the periaqueductal gray area (PAG) appears to be critical in regulating the complex signs and symptoms of opioid withdrawal. …”
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Particulate matter effect on biometric and biochemical attributes of fruiting plants by U. Younis, T.Z. Bokhari, S.A. Malik, M.H. Raza Shah, M. Athar, S. Niaz

“…Biochemical traits of P. guajava appeared to be more prone than foliage ones. A positive correlation was foundbetween dust accumulation and foliage attributes in F. carica. …”
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De quelle nostalgie l’utopie andalouse d’Aragon est-elle le miroir ? by Stéphane Baquey

“…This nostalgia of what could have happened, being dislocated in the culture of the Muslim worlds, also leads to reconceive the claims of a universalism which would not take into account as a prerequisite a principle of hospitality.…”
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Effects of Surfactant Warm-Mix Additives on the Rheological Properties of High-Viscosity Asphalt by Jingtao Shi, Weiyu Fan, Yi Lin, Pinhui Zhao, Jian Ouyang

“…In order to evaluate the possibility of the application of warm mixing technology in high-viscosity asphalt mixture, in this paper, the effects of surfactant warm-mix additives (WMAs) on physical and rheological properties of high-viscosity asphalt (HVA) which was prepared with self-developed SBS/C9 petroleum resin blends (SPR) modifier were measured. …”
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The Influence of “Rumah Pangan Kita” (RPK) Partnership on the Income of Grocery Traders in Malang by Wara' Geffa Az Zahra, Fitria Dina Riana, Novi Haryati, Sujarwo Sujarwo

“…It is suspected that this happened because the income obtained did not match the expectations of fundamental food traders. …”
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AN ANALYSIS OF SPEECH FUNCTION AT TRADITIONAL SHOPPING CENTER IN LANGSA by Irma Dewi Isda

“…It means questions always happened in the traditional shopping center to give demand and information. …”
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A Mechanistic, Stochastic Model Helps Understand Multiple Sclerosis Course and Pathogenesis by Isabella Bordi, Renato Umeton, Vito A. G. Ricigliano, Viviana Annibali, Rosella Mechelli, Giovanni Ristori, Francesca Grassi, Marco Salvetti, Alfonso Sutera

“…Heritable and nonheritable factors play a role in multiple sclerosis, but their effect size appears too small, explaining relatively little about disease etiology. …”
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Rhyme or Reason: Three Patterns of Poetic Interference in the British Crime Novel by Camille Fort-Cantoni

“…In Colin Dexter’s The Way Through The Woods, a detective builds up a poem in order to display its object – a corpse. This interpretation happens to be faulty, yet the poem states the truth insofar as it expresses another murderer’s confession – unknown to his author and the murderer. …”
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A Robust Method to Suppress Jamming for GNSS Array Antenna Based on Reconstruction of Sample Covariance Matrix by Yanyun Gong, Ling Wang, Rugui Yao, Zhaolin Zhang

“…In antijamming application of satellite navigation system, if active jamming is received from array antenna main-lobe, main-lobe distortion happens when the adaptive filtering algorithm forms main-lobe nulling. …”
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Greening for meaning: Sense of place in green citizen initiatives in the Netherlands by Mellany N.C. van Bommel, Marthe L. Derkzen, Lenneke Vaandrager

“…Participation in green citizen initiatives appears to create meaning across and beyond the three dimensions of sense of place – place attachment, place identity and place dependence – and, additionally, a broader societal meaning of place. …”
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Effect of Low Dose Aspirin in Low Risk Pregnant Ladies with Abnormal Uterine Artery Doppler Results, and the Evaluation of Maternal and Fetal outcomes: A Randomized Clinical Trial by Parzhin Jalal Ali, Chro Najmaddin Fattah

“…Conclusion: Doppler study of the uterine artery at 16 weeks or higher in low risk pregnant women appears to be useful as a screening test and low dose of aspirin therapy at early stage of pregnancy will decrease the incidence of preeclampsia.   …”
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Sensorimotor environment but not task rule reconfigures population dynamics in rhesus monkey posterior parietal cortex by Hao Guo, Shenbing Kuang, Alexander Gail

“…We conclude that sensorimotor remapping to implement an abstract task rule happens within the existing repertoire of neural dynamics, while compensation of perturbed sensory feedback requires exploration of independent neural dynamics in parietal cortex.…”
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Design, Modeling, and Analysis of a Novel Hydraulic Energy-Regenerative Shock Absorber for Vehicle Suspension by Junyi Zou, Xuexun Guo, Lin Xu, Gangfeng Tan, Chengcai Zhang, Jie Zhang

“…To reduce energy consumption or improve energy efficiency, the regenerative devices recently have drawn the public’s eyes. In this paper, a novel hydraulic energy-regenerative shock absorber (HERSA) is developed for vehicle suspension to regenerate the vibration energy which is dissipated by conventional viscous dampers into heat waste. …”
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Kindness and happiness at work by Oliver Scott Curry, Chloe San Miguel, Mehmet Necip Tunç

“…Previous research has shown that kindness is a cause and a correlate of happiness in general, and that kinder companies have happier employees. Here we build on this research by using a new measure—the The Kindness Questionnaire (KQ)—to look at the relationship between kindness to and from specific individuals at work, and workplace happiness. …”
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Influence of hoop restraint on damage evolution, ions diffusion and multi-scale mechanical properties in concrete exposed to external sulfate attack by Jierong Cao, Liping Xu, Gang Xu, Ming Jin, Qingjun Ding, Jiaping Liu, Chuansheng Xiong, Zuquan Jin

“…This paper presents a systematic study on the influence of the hoop restraint effect of steel tubes on the damage evolution, ions diffusion and multi-scale mechanical properties changes in concrete specimens under the external sulfate attacks (ESA). …”
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Development and functional evaluation of a psoralen-conjugated nucleoside mimic for triplex-forming oligonucleotides by Yu Mikame, Haruki Toyama, Chikara Dohno, Takehiko Wada, Asako Yamayoshi

“…The pyrimidine-base interruption in the consecutive purine base sequence drastically decreases the thermodynamic stability of the corresponding triplex, which hampers the TFO application. Here, we propose a design of the Ps-TFO for stable triplex formation with target DNA sequences containing pyrimidine-base interruptions under physiological conditions. …”
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Influence of the Addition of Selected Spices on Sensory Quality and Biological Activity of Honey by Aleksandra Wilczyńska, Joanna Newerli-Guz, Piotr Szweda

“…The addition of spices had no significant effect on texture and appearance. All tested samples showed the ability to inhibit the growth of bacteria and, contrary to the assumptions, the addition of spices did not cause an increase of antimicrobial activity. …”
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