RETRACTED: Biodiversity Loss with Habitat and Risk of New Diseases by Darshit Ram

“…It relates to the variability among living organisms on the Earth, including the variability within and between species and that within and between ecosystems. …”
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Infants of the Spring (1932): Cutting across the Stage of Harlem’s Black Bohemia by Elisa Cecchinato

“…Based on an analysis of the novel Infants of the Spring (1932), this article explores the circulation and metamorphoses of Black and queer cultural identities in the urban space of Harlem (New York) during the 1920s. …”
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De charogne réanimée à séduisante détective : la résiliente humanité du zombie by Nicholas Dion

“…In this article, we examine the ways in which novel, comics and movie writers hesitate to fully dehumanize zombies. …”
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Eternal City or the Stuff of Nightmares? The Characterisation of Rome in Portrait of a Lady and Middlemarch by Hannah Hunt

“…Both Henry James and George Eliot make graphic use of realistic locations within their novels. This practice provides a plausible socio-historical context for their characters and contributes to the development of the genre of “realisms” in the nineteenth century novel. …”
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Studying the Oncolytic Activity of <i>Streptococcus pyogenes</i> Strains Against Hepatoma, Glioma, and Pancreatic Cancer <i>In Vitro</i> and <i>In Vivo</i> by Anna N. Tsapieva, Alexander N. Chernov, Nadezhda V. Duplik, Anastasiya O. Morozova, Tatiana A. Filatenkova, Mariia A. Suvorova, Elena Egidarova, Elvira S. Galimova, Kseniya Bogatireva, Alexander N. Suvorov

“…Results: The <i>in vitro</i> model showed that the live <i>S. pyogenes</i> GUR strain had a strong cytotoxic effect (67.4 ± 1.9%) against pancreatic cancer PANC02 cells. …”
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Des artefacts ironiques ? Relectures de La Possibilité d’une île de Michel Houellebecq by Simon Bréan

“…The Possibility of an Island is a sophisticated display of literary artefacts, confronting a contemporary Frenchman autobiography to commentaries by post- human clones living two thousand years in the future. This paper studies how Michel Houellebecq uses these artefacts to establish, then destabilize his novel’s admissibility, in order to have the reader look into a real form of immortality in the present rather than in the future, in an approach both ironical and respectful toward science fiction.…”
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It’s Hard to Prepare for Task Novelty: Cueing the Novelty of Upcoming Tasks Does Not Facilitate Task Performance by Mengqiao Chai, Ana F. Palenciano, Ravi Mill, Michael W. Cole, Senne Braem

“…Rapidly learning new tasks, such as using new technology or playing a new game, is ubiquitous in our daily lives. Previous studies suggest that our brain relies on different networks for rapid task learning versus retrieving known tasks from memory, and behavioral studies have shown that novel versus practiced tasks may rely on different task configuration processes. …”
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Camins de Viaur dins los romans occitans de Ferran Delèris by Claire Torreilles

“…In his novel Pèire e Marià, Ferran Delèris (1922-2009) born on the Segala plateau that dominates the Viaur valley (Rouergue), depicts a young country couple that the war is going to keep apart in 1917 and 1918. …”
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Book review: Autobiography of my dead brother. Walter Dean Myers (author) and Christopher Myers (illustrator). by Angus Norquay

“…Autobiography of my dead brother portrays the life of teenage Jesse, living in the ganglands of Harlem, downtown New York. …”

Retracted: Design of LoRa Antenna for Wearable Medical Applications by Amer Alsaraira, Omar A. Saraereh, Ashraf Ali, Samer Alabed

“…In this study, we introduce a novel arch-shaped iTDS that takes up the buccal shelf space in the mouth without constricting tongue motions. …”
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Toward Pleomorphic Reconfigurable Robots for Optimum Coverage by S. M. Bhagya P. Samarakoon, M. A. Viraj J. Muthugala, Mohan R. Elara, Selva kumaran

“…Buildings are constructed for accommodating living and industrial needs. Floor cleaning robots have been developed to cater to the demand of these buildings. …”
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Improving the Utility, Safety, and Ethical Use of a Passive Mood-Tracking App for People With Bipolar Disorder Using Coproduction: Qualitative Focus Group Study by Laurence Astill Wright, Matthew Moore, Stuart Reeves, Elvira Perez Vallejos, Richard Morriss

“… BackgroundCoproduction with users of new digital technology, such as passive mood monitoring, is likely to improve its utility, safety, and successful implementation via improved design and consideration of how such technology fits with their daily lives. Mood-monitoring interventions are commonly used by people with bipolar disorder (BD) and have promising potential for digitization using novel technological methods. …”
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Le Paradoxe de la comédienne : Peg Woffington selon Charles Reade by Laurent Bury

“…In 1852, in his play Masks and Faces, or Before and Behind the Curtain and his novel Peg Woffington, Charles Reade chose as his heroine the British actress Margaret Woffington (1714-1760), whom he showed on stage but especially off stage. …”
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SSR-based evaluation of genetic diversity in populations of Agriophyllum squarrosum L. and Agriophyllum minus Fisch. & Mey. collected in South-East Kazakhstan by Y. Genievskaya, D. Karelova, S. Abugalieva, P. Zhao, G. Chen, Y. Turuspekov

“…The development of informative polymorphic DNA markers for poorly studied genera is an important step in population analyses of living organisms, including those that play very important ecological roles in harsh environments, such as desert and semi-desert area. …”
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The Fake Diary of a Historical Figure: Klementyna Tańska-Hoffmanowa’s Journal of Countess Françoise Krasińska (1825) by Magdalena Ożarska

“… This paper discusses a somewhat forgotten diary novel by the first Polish woman writer and educator to make a living from creative writing, Klementyna Tańska-Hoffmanowa (1798–1845). …”
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Effect of a Short, Animated Storytelling Video on Transphobia Among US Parents: Randomized Controlled Trial by Doron Amsalem, Merlin Greuel, Shuyan Liu, Andrés Martin, Maya Adam

“…We observed a significant group-by-time interaction in mean Transgender Stigma Scale scores (F2,1PF1Pd ConclusionsShort, animated storytelling is a novel digital approach with the potential to boost support and affirmation of transgender children, by offering authentic insights into the lived experiences of TGD youth. …”
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New Horizons In The Treatment Of Metastatic Castrate Resistant Prostate Cancer by Zein El Amir

“…If anything, the conditions of anatomy learning, despite the incorporation of novel technologies, are worsening in medical institutions, leading to potentially grave consequences for the future of healthcare. …”
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Anatomy In The Undergraduate Medical Curriculum; Blending The Old And New by Ayesha Yousaf

“…If anything, the conditions of anatomy learning, despite incorporation of novel technologies, are worsening in medical institutions, leading to potentially grave consequences for the future of healthcare. …”
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The Colossus of New York, de Colson Whitehead, petite topographie poétique by Sylvie Bauer

“…The Colossus of New York, by Colson Whitehead, refuses categorization: neither a novel nor a documentary text, it provides the reader with a poetic experience of New York, opening windows onto a myriad fragments of lives in a somewhat enchanted place, both extremely familiar and made uncanny through language. …”
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