Interdecadal Changes in the Freeze Depth and Period of Frozen Soil on the Three Rivers Source Region in China from 1960 to 2014 by Siqiong Luo, Xuewei Fang, Shihua Lyu, Qi Jiang, Jingyuan Wang

“…The results showed the following. (1) A continuous, accelerated decreasing trend in freeze depth appeared in the TRSR during the 1985–2014 and 2000–2014 periods, compared with that during the 1960–2014 period. (2) The freeze first date had been delayed and the freeze last date had been advanced significantly. …”
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Examination of the Anaerobic Growth of Campylobacter concisus Strains by Hoyul Lee, Rena Ma, Michael C. Grimm, Stephen M. Riordan, Ruiting Lan, Ling Zhong, Mark Raftery, Li Zhang

“…An oral C. concisus strain was found to express a number of putative virulence proteins and the expression levels of these proteins were not affected by H2. The levels of H2 appeared to affect the optimal growth of C. concisus. …”
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Omega-3 Fatty Acids and Vitamin D in Cardiology by Norbert Güttler, Kirila Zheleva, Mariana Parahuleva, Ridvan Chasan, Mehmet Bilgin, Christiane Neuhof, Mehmet Burgazli, Bernd Niemann, Ali Erdogan, Andreas Böning

“…Vitamin D deficiency appears to be related to an increase in parathyroid hormone levels and can predispose to essential hypertension and left ventricular hypertrophy, increased insulin resistance, and eventually to atherosclerosis and adverse cardiovascular events. …”
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The Religious Work of Beverly Jenkins’s Black Historical Romance by Jeania Ree V. Moore

“…From Maria Stewart to Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and beyond, Black chroniclers have written Black history with the sacred aim of rehabilitating Black historical consciousness: rewriting the past to empower the present and reimagine the future. …”
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(Im)mobile phones by Alette Schoon, Larry Strelitz

“…In our study, mobile phones were seen to amplify a communal sociability where privacy is largely absent from the densely contiguous neighbourhood where life happens on the streets for all to see. This study demonstrates how, in a particular context, mobile phones and the mobile Internet do not necessarily facilitate a mobile world where individual networks allow an escape from local norms and structures, but may instead facilitate communal networks that bind users to the local and the co-present and so facilitate “stuckness”, a term we use to reflect social immobility and the inability to escape the disciplinary surveillance of the co-present. …”
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“Anão de jardim”: o “conto total” de Lygia Fagundes Telles by Nilton Resende

“…En este artículo, valiéndose principalmente de la teorización de Kayser (2003) sobre “lo grotesco”, de los estudios de Kappler (1994) sobre “los monstruos” y, aún de las interpretaciones simbólicas de Chevalier & Gheerbrant (2005), se defiende “Anão de jardín” como un “cuento total”, siendo Kobold (el narrador del texto) un ser diabólico / escindido en el que se condensan los personajes lygianos y sus dramas. …”
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Research on the Evolution Mechanism of Congestion in the Entrances and Exits of Parking Facilities Based on the Improved Spatial Autoregressive Model by Hongru Yu, Shejun Deng, Caoye Lu, Yucheng Tang, Shijun Yu, Lu Liu, Tao Ji

“…This paper can provide theoretical guidance for alleviating traffic congestion in the entrance and exit areas of parking facilities and has theoretical and empirical significance.…”
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Mast Cell Interaction with Neutrophils in Human Gastric Carcinomas: Ultrastructural Observations by Antonio Ieni, Valeria Barresi, Giovanni Branca, Rosario Alberto Caruso, Giovanni Tuccari

“…In addition, we found normal-appearing or early apoptosis showing neutrophils. Conclusion. …”
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Exploring motivation, goals, facilitators, and barriers to adopt health behaviors at retirement age: a focus group study by Paula Collazo-Castiñeira, Rocío Rodríguez-Rey, Gisela I. Delfino, Alfonso J. Cruz-Jentoft, Eva Topinková, Peter J. M. Weijs, Josje D. Schoufour, Macarena Sánchez-Izquierdo

“…Additionally, health management appeared as a significant goal, where autonomous motivation can develop even if the behavior initially arises from controlled motivation or external triggers, such as medical advice.…”
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Local Gene Transfer of OPG Prevents Joint Damage and Disease Progression in Collagen-Induced Arthritis by Qingguo Zhang, Weiming Gong, Bin Ning, Lin Nie, Paul H. Wooley, Shang-You Yang

“…Histological assessment demonstrated that OPG gene transfer dramatically protected mice from erosive joint changes compared with LacZ controls (P<0.05), although treatment appeared less effective on the local inflammatory progress. …”
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Ex Vivo Restimulation of Human PBMC Expands a CD3+CD4-CD8-γδ+ T Cell Population That Can Confound the Evaluation of CD4 and CD8 T Cell Responses to Vaccination by B. J. Sedgmen, L. Papalia, L. Wang, A. R. Dyson, H. A. McCallum, C. M. Simson, M. J. Pearse, E. Maraskovsky, D. Hung, P. P. Eomois, G. Hartel, M. J. Barnden, S. P. Rockman

“…During the assessment of cell-mediated immunity (CMI) in subjects participating in a large-scale influenza vaccine trial, we identified the expansion of an IFN-γ-producing CD3+CD4-CD8-γδ+ T cell population in the peripheral blood of 90/610 (15%) healthy subjects. The appearance of CD3+CD4-CD8-γδ+ T cells in the blood of subjects was transient and found to be independent of the study cohort, vaccine group, subject gender and ethnicity, and ex vivo restimulation conditions. …”
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Delay in the Detrended Fluctuation Analysis Crossover Point as a Risk Factor for Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus by Manuel Varela, Luis Vigil, Carmen Rodriguez, Borja Vargas, Rafael García-Carretero

“…Patients were then followed up every 6 months for a mean of 17.5 months, controlling for the appearance of T2DM diagnostic criteria. The time to crossover point was a significant predictor risk of developing T2DM, even after adjusting for other variables. …”
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Charles, the Prince of Wales at the Court of Philip IV of Spain: the «Incognito» Trip and the Problem of Exchanging Gifts by P. Yu. Kosheleva

“…The article claims that Prince Charles’ trip «incognito» changed the traditional procedure of exchanging gifts: the exchange happened before the prince’s departure and was initiated by the Spanish side. …”
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Seborrheic Keratoses as the First Sign of Bladder Carcinoma: Case Report of Leser-Trélat Sign in a Rare Association with Urinary Tract Cancer by Aline Stollmeier, Bernardo Augusto Rosario, Bruna Loise Mayer, Gibran Avelino Frandoloso, Francisco Luiz Gomide Mafra Magalhães, Gustavo Lenci Marques

“…Although rarely observed, the sudden appearance and/or rapid increase in number and size of seborrheic keratoses can be associated with malignant neoplasms, known as the sign of Leser-Trélat. …”
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Industrial Sludge Valorization in Soil Application by Jarmila Trpčevská, Gréta Maruškinová, Martina Laubertová, Klaudia Kundráková, Dušan Oráč

“…The quality of the soil in which it grew can be seen from the appearance of its leaves. The period of monitoring the growth of leaf lettuce was 35 days, while the length of the leaves was measured on different days (Days 7, 14, 21, 28, and 35). …”
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Centralized Management For Effective Public Diplomacy: Case of Hasabara by V. V. Kabernik

“…The following paper is the first in the series dedicated to review and analysis of cases of centralization of public diplomacy affairs management for better promoting the agenda of the state. …”
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Determination of the incidence of embryonic death by means of real-time ultrasound scanning in ewes by M. Kemal SARIBAY, Hüseyin ERDEM

“…Of these embryonic mortalities, 2 on day 22, 4 on day 26 and 1 on day 34 happened.<p> As a result, there is noticeable significant embryonic loss in late embryonic period. …”
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Entre precariedade e resistência: a cidade como espaço de produção e luta no capitalismo cognitivo by Carolina Salomão Corrêa

“…Therefore, contemporary production happens, extrapolating the otherwise confined factory spaces, disseminating through the entire social fabric in a cooperation between networks and streets. …”
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Satellite Observations of the Seasonal Evolution of Total Precipitable Water Vapour over the Mediterranean Sea by J. L. Palau, F. Rovira, M. J. Sales

“…Furthermore, these satellite observations constitute strong empirical evidences that, (a) from late May to early October, contrary to what happens in the Eastern Mediterranean Basin (EMB), there is a net accumulation of TPW on the Western Mediterranean Basin (WMB) that favours the instability of the atmosphere, (b) there is a seasonal anticorrelation between the seasonal variability of the TPW column over the two Mediterranean subbasins, (c) solar radiation can not be the only driver for the annual variability of the TPW column over the Mediterranean Sea, and (d) both previous features are seasonally dependent and, therefore, their effects on the TPW column are attenuated by annual variability.…”
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Pax6 regulates neuronal migration and cell proliferation via interacting with Wnt3a during cortical development by Bichao Zhang, Meihua Hou, Jiayan Huang, Yunfei Liu, Ciqing Yang, Juntang Lin

“…In this study, we found that Pax6 overexpression increased the cortical thickness, especially in the intermediate zone of the cortex, which conflicts with the report of Manuel et al. Pax6 overexpression appears to detain neurons in the intermediate zone while promoting cell proliferation. …”
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