Related Pentacyclic Triterpenes Have Immunomodulatory Activity in Chronic Experimental Visceral Leishmaniasis by Jéssica Adriana de Jesus, Márcia Dalastra Laurenti, Leila Antonangelo, Caroline Silvério Faria, João Henrique Ghilardi Lago, Luiz Felipe Domingues Passero

“…The therapeutic activity of both triterpenes was associated with the elevation of IFN-γ and/or iNOS expression in infected treated animals. …”
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Genome Survey and SSR Analysis of Camellia nitidissima Chi (Theaceae) by Yu Bai, Lin Ye, Kang Yang, Hui Wang

“…The CNC genome sequences were assembled into 9,399,197 scaffolds, covering ∼2,910 Mb and an N50 of 869 base pair. …”
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The Geopolitics of Nordic Noir by Dodds Klaus, Hochscherf Tobias

“…The “golden age” of Scandinavian television has often been associated with Nordic Noir crime dramas, yet many of the acclaimed serials also engage with geopolitical themes such as migration, cross-border crime, military conflicts, and global terrorism. …”
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Advances in PIWI-piRNA function in female reproduction in mammals by Lv Xiaolong, Zhang Hongdao, Wu Ligang

“…PIWI-interacting RNAs (piRNAs), which associate with PIWI clade Argonaute proteins to form piRNA-induced <sc>silencing</sc> complexes (piRISCs) in germline cells, are responsible for maintaining genomic integrity and reproductive function through transcriptional or post-transcriptional suppression of transposable elements and regulation of protein-coding genes. …”
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Pentecostal Churches and Capitalism in a South African Township: Towards a Communism of the Market? by Thibaut Dubarry

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Robert Duncan, Kabbalah, and “The Dominion of the Poetic Mind” by Norman Finkelstein

“…For Duncan, the language magic of Kabbalah is an important model of poetic language – which is in itself magical. “By associations, by metaphor, by likeness of the part, by fitting as part of a larger figure, by interlinking of members, by share, by equation, by correspondence, by reason, by opposition, by pun or rhyme, by melodic coherence,” Duncan, as he writes in The H.D. …”
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Morphological evidence supports splitting of species in the North Atlantic Sebastes spp. complex. by Ingrid Marie Bruvold, Agneta Hansen, Arve Lynghammar, Hannes Höffle, Tanja Hanebrekke, Caroline Aas Tranang, Kjell Nedreaas, Einar Nilssen, Atal Saha, Torild Johansen

“…The morphology of genetically assigned fishes from Norwegian and Greenland waters was investigated using traditional morphometric methods, applying Linear Discriminant Analysis and Random Forest classification procedures to identify and evaluate the performance of descriptive characters. …”
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Surgical Management and Outcomes of Extremity Vascular Trauma by Madhur Kumar, Anubhav Gupta

“…Early graft failure was significantly associated with limb loss.…”
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De L’Histoire véritable au boulet de Jules Verne : une histoire science-fictionnelle des paradigmes astronomiques by Estelle Blanquet, Éric Picholle

“…We propose to reread it in the light of the history of science fiction, to examine how the latter may have contributed to destabilizing the astronomical paradigms of the past ; we will also attempt to identify some of the didactic issues associated with these conceptual changes. SF authors offer those who know how to spot them situations that make it easier for students to identify choices linked to paradigmatic simplifications that have never been questioned ; it’s then up to the teacher to build a system that enables them to better understand these choices, so as to overcome arguments of authority and better accept the proposed paradigm shifts. …”
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Virginia Woolf’s “New School of Biographies” and Eighteenth-century Life-Writing: a Sense of Kinship by Maryam Thirriard

“…The assessment of the relation these New Biographers’ maintained with the previous centuries shows that their hostility towards the Victorian age was not an indiscriminate loathing of the past. …”
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Hugo Chavez : le renouveau du populisme vénézuélien ? by Olivier Folz

“…Thanks to this technique, Chavez could drew the attention of the poor and the deceived people of the system asserting he was the candidate of the rupture, of the change in favour of a participative democracy and a return to the golden age, inspired by Bolivar, judged more able to lead Venezuela towards a better future. …”
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Transition versus Continuous Slope Walking: Adaptation to Change Center of Mass Velocity in Young Men by Yoon No Gregory Hong, Jinkyu Lee, Choongsoo S. Shin

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Anaerobic Codigestion of Food Waste and Polylactic Acid: Effect of Pretreatment on Methane Yield and Solid Reduction by Shakira R. Hobbs, Prathap Parameswaran, Barbara Astmann, Jay P. Devkota, Amy E. Landis

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Categorical Nature of Consumer Price Estimations of Postharvest Bruised Apples by Yasushi Kyutoku, Naoko Hasegawa, Ippeita Dan, Hiroaki Kitazawa

“…While abundant studies have been conducted to objectively index the severity of such damage, how consumers subjectively assess the severity of damaged apples has been understudied. …”
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Bile Reflux Gastritis: Insights into Pathogenesis, Relevant Factors, Carcinomatous Risk, Diagnosis, and Management by Xiaolan Shi, Zijiao Chen, Yi Yang, Su Yan

“…Besides, researches have established that BRG is closely associated with the development of precancerous lesions and gastric cancer. …”
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Novel CT Features of an Abdominal Gossypiboma in a Female Dog by Mylene Auger, Shelly Olin, Federica Morandi

“…A well-defined, heterogeneously contrast-enhancing, cavitary, soft tissue attenuating, non-organ associated abdominal mass was identified caudal to the right kidney. …”
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Profesoři Hermenegild a Karel Škorpilové působící v Bulharsku by Ludvík Skružný

“…He is also the founder of several natural science, archeological and museum associations. Since his arrival in Bulgaria he has been working on a textbook on the geography of Bulgaria, researching Plovdiv waters, working on the geological map of southern Bulgaria, paying attention to speleology, natural mysteries (petrified forest near Varna, moving sands called Golden Sands) and others. …”
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Investigation of the relationship between intraocular pressure and ultrasonographic examination of anterior and posterior segment of the eye in dogs by Özgür Erkan, Kurtuluş Parlak, Mustafa Arıcan

“…<p> <b>Materials and Methods:</b> The study materials of different age, race, sex and eye diseases without distinction as only the right eyes of 50 clinically healthy dogs were assessed at Selcuk University Veterinary Faculty, Department of Veterinary Surgery. …”
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Tatar historiography of the epic “Idegey” by Mukhametzianova L.Kh.

“…The novelty of the research is a reliable interpretation of the historiography of “Idegey” in the light of new scientific requirements, systematization of assessments, characteristics, and revision of a whole range of previous views on the declared topic. …”
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The relationship between epistemic curiosity and creativity: Research status and educational implications by Yadan Li, Merbiya Emin, Qianzhu Zhou, Jing Zhang, Weiping Hu

“…Additionally, we have discussed the shared characteristics of EC and creativity as well as the cognitive and neural mechanisms associated with them. Then, we have proposed several practical suggestions to fostering and promoting EC as a means to enhancing creativity. …”
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