Role of Vitamin D in Cardiometabolic Diseases by Chaoxun Wang

“…However, it has become apparent in recent years that adequate vitamin D levels are also important for optimal functioning of many organs and tissues throughout the body, including the cardiovascular system. …”
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Breast Cancer in Men. Case report by Dianarelys Villafuerte Delgado, Olga Lidia Rodríguez Infanzón, Rubén Sánchez Abdala

“…It is presented the case of a male patient with apparent healthy history who comes the consultation due to palpating a "ball" in the left breast, this patient went to the Imaging Department for conducting a mammography as well performing a study with oblique craniocaudal views and a middle lateral of both nipples. …”
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Migration des femmes et fécondité dans la ville de Marrakech (Maroc) by Samia R’Kha, Abdellatif Baali

“…Within the women who where born in the country but live in the city, fertility if influenced by the place where they spent their childhood and also by the length of time spent in the city. It became apparent that life in the modern city is responsible for changes in fertility within women populations originating from the countryside.…”
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MICROWAVE MANUFACTURE OF GLASS FOAM BY COMBINED USE OF GRAPHITE AND CALCIUM CARBONATE AS FOAMING AGENTS by LUCIAN PAUNESCU, SORIN MIRCEA AXINTE, MARIUS FLORIN DRAGOESCU, BOGDAN VALENTIN PAUNESCU, FELICIA COSMULESCU

“…The main characteristics of the optimal product were apparent density of 0.39 g/cm3, thermal conductivity of 0.088 W/m·K and compressive strength of 3.6 MPa, being usable in fields that requires resistance to mechanical stress and relatively difficult environmental conditions. …”
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Den betingede accept by Torsten Kolind

“…It is argued that while this interaction and the apparent re-acceptance of the ex-prisoner appear unproblematic on the surface, they are nonetheless ruled by what the author calls conditional acceptance. …”
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Locke’s Knowledge of Ideas: Propositional or By Acquaintance? by Shelley Weinberg

“…This paper shows the conflict to be only apparent. Looking at Locke’s philosophy of language in relation to the Port Royal logic, I argue, first, that Locke allows that we have non-ideational mental content that is signified only at the linguistic level. …”
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Crisis-tested Europe — Towards a Patchwork Union? by Heinz Handler

“…Although the crises seem to have strengthened the solidarity among the core of the EU, differences between member states have also become more apparent, as exemplified by the Brexit. The goal of a full-fledged political union is now a long way off, and it is therefore worth aiming for secondbest solutions, such as some form of differentiated further integration. …”
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Short Stature on a Boy: Mosaicism with an Isodicentric Y Chromosome by Catarina Silvestre, Juliette Dupont, Rosário Silveira Santos, Brígida Robalo, Carla Pereira, Maria Lurdes Sampaio

“…The phenotypic variability of 45,X/46,XY mosaicism extends from Turner syndrome to apparently physically normal males. We present a case of a 14-year-old adolescent with short stature and delayed puberty, who was admitted in a Paediatric Endocrinology outpatient clinic. …”
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Uterine Fibroids: Pathogenesis and Interactions with Endometrium and Endomyometrial Junction by Andrea Ciavattini, Jacopo Di Giuseppe, Piergiorgio Stortoni, Nina Montik, Stefano R. Giannubilo, Pietro Litta, Md. Soriful Islam, Andrea L. Tranquilli, Fernando M. Reis, Pasquapina Ciarmela

“…Uterine leiomyomas (fibroids or myomas) are benign tumors of uterus and clinically apparent in a large part of reproductive aged women. …”
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Phosphorous Acid and Phosphoric Acid: When all P Sources are not Equal by Asha M. Brunings, Lawrence E. Datnoff, Eric H. Simonne

“… While growers are familiar with phosphorus-containing fertilizer, the abundance of terms, apparently similar (such as phosphoric acid and phosphorous acid), may create some confusion on the actual content and efficacy of these products. …”
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Facial Expressions and Parkinson’s Disease by P. Madeley, A. W. Ellis, R. H. S. Mindham

“…We conclude that although patients with PD have reduced facial expressiveness, there is no apparent diminution in their comprehension of facial expressions or their day-to-day experience of emotion.…”
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Study on the Convective Term Discretized by Strong Conservation and Weak Conservation Schemes for Incompressible Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer by Peng Wang, Bo Yu, Jianyu Xie, Yu Zhao, Jingfa Li, Qianqian Shao

“…Especially in the computation regions with sharp gradients, the advantages of strong conservation scheme become more apparent.…”
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De qui est-ce ? Médiapoétique d’un roman-surprise dans L’Express en 1955 by Marie-Ève Thérenty

“…It turns out that, while this novel is apparently part of a long media genealogy that anchors it in the 19th century and in an elitist literary culture, it above all reveals L'Express's conversion to a commercial conception of literary value exemplified by the notion of the best seller. …”
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Who calls the shots in Naomi's life? Reading the Naomi-Ruth story within the African religio-cultural context

“…Basing one’s arguments on the apparent resemblances between the world view in which the narrative of Ruth is embedded and the African (Northern Sotho) world view, how may it be far-fetched to argue that the dead (males) called the shots in Naomi’s life? …”
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Blastomyscosis Acquired by Three Children in Toronto by Stacey Bernstein, Hermine I Brunner, Richard Summerbell, Upton Allen, Paul Babyn, Susan E Richardson

“…Three paediatric cases of blastomycosis, apparently acquired in or near Toronto, Ontario, a region not known to be endemic for this disease, are described. …”
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Effect of Maltodextrins on the Rheological Properties of Potato Starch Pastes and Gels by Lesław Juszczak, Dorota Gałkowska, Teresa Witczak, Teresa Fortuna

“…The results showed that medium-saccharified maltodextrin (DE = 18.4) gave the strongest effect, manifesting itself as a considerable reduction in the viscosity at pasting, a decrease in apparent viscosity during flow, and a decrease in the storage and loss moduli. …”
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Deformation of the Juan de Fuca Plate Beneath the Central Cascadia Continental Margin (44°-45°N) in Response to an Upper Plate Load by Anne M. Tréhu, Kathy Davenport, Christopher B. Kenyon, Suzanne M. Carbotte, John L. Nabelek, Douglas R. Toomey, William S. D. Wilcock

“…A spatial correlation is observed between downward deflection of the crust of the subducting Juan de Fuca plate, inferred from inversion of PmP arrivals to image the Moho surface, and the high velocity (and consequently high density) anomaly underlying the Yachats Basalt. Apparent subsequent rebound of the subducting plate at greater depth suggests a primarily elastic response of the subducting plate to this load. …”
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Adaptation of VegSyst-DSS for N, P and K recommendations for grafted tomato grown in perlite in Mediterranean greenhouses by M. Gallardo, J.M. Cedeño, J.J. Magán, M.D. Fernández, R.B. Thompson

“…The recalibrated model was then used to simulate N, P and K uptake in crop dry matter. The apparent nutrient retention in or loss from perlite was calculated. …”
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Epidemiology of Avian Tuberculosis in Selected Districts of Oromia Region, Ethiopia by Tesfaye Debelu, Fufa Abunna, Gezahegne Mamo Kassa, Gobena Ameni

“…Generally, the study revealed an overall increment of the apparent prevalence of avian tuberculosis with decreasing altitude. …”
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Isolation and function of a human endothelial cell C1q receptor by M. R. Daha, L. Dunn, R. van den Berg, Y. Muizert-de Lange, A. Gerritsen, L. A. van Es

“…C1qR filtered at an apparent molecular weight of 60 kDa. Purified C1qR exhibited an apparent molecular weight of 55–62 kDa in the unreduced state and a molecular weight of 64–68 kDa in reduced form. …”
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