Baltic States in NATO: Results of the Decade by V. V. Vorotnikov

“…Confrontational rhetoric and appeals to "Russian threat" in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, on the one hand, make it possible for their political leaders to constantly demonstrate their importance in the eyes of Western partners and demand more activity of the alliance and, on the other hand, make ground for the political elites to consolidate the electorate, by that ensuring that the right-wing conservative forces remain in power.…”
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Targeted Sanctions: a Tool of Foreign Policy, Unfair Competition or Global Social Engineering? by L. L. Fituni

“…Today such measures have turned into one of the leading forms of external pressure and subsequent coercion, often exceeding the effectiveness of such straightforward instruments as the threat of potential use of force and almost equal to real power actions. Arguably, among those asymmetric and hybrid measures, Western countries assign a key role to the pressure of international sanction upon competitor nations and uncooperative actors on the world arena. …”
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Association of tumour mutation burden with prognosis and its clinical significance in stage III gastric cancer by Ya-Lin Han, Li Chen, Xu-Ning Wang, Mao-Lin Xu, Rui Qin, Fang-Ming Gong, Peng Sun, Hong-Yi Liu, Zhi-Peng Teng, Zhao-Xia Li, Guang-Hai Dai

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Evaluating the effectiveness of handheld ultrasound in primary blast lung injury: a comprehensive study by Shifeng Shao, Zhengbin Wu, Jun Liu, Zhikang Liao, Yuan Yao, Liang Zhang, Yaoli Wang, Hui Zhao

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Masculinité et relations de genre dans la société secrète abakuá by Géraldine Morel

“…Emerging in 1836 in the port of Regla across from Old Havana, the male secret society abakuá is an urban religious phenomenon strictly confined to the western part of the island of Cuba, namely the port cities of Matanzas, Cárdenas and Havana. …”
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Determining The Need for Fire Stations by Backup Double Covering Approach and Location Selection: The Case of Trabzon City by Şeyda Kuku, Ersin Türk

“…The findings of this study indicate that the existing fire station must be preserved at its current location, and that two new fire stations are needed which should be situated at eastern and western parts of the city, and also that the Regulation on Production of Spatial Plans must be amended to cover planning of the fire stations.…”
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A Voice Sweeter than Salt: Toyin Falola and the Construction of Subaltern Narrative Space by Ben Weiss

“…In granting credence to the idea of identity paradox, a close analysis of A Mouth Sweeter than Salt reveals the complexities of African subaltern voice and its dialectic with the forces of modernity. While Spivak might argue that this formulation is tainted by the motives of the West, such an interpretation of Fa­lola's memoir also builds ground to discuss alternatives to the Western archive in the development of African intellectualism. …”
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Effect of miR-144-3p-Targeted Regulation of PTEN on Proliferation, Apoptosis, and Osteogenic Differentiation of Bone Marrow Mesenchymal Stem Cells under Stretch by Shiyong Ling, Xi Luo, Bo Lv, Hua Wang, Mengzhi Xie, Kai Huang, Jingchuan Sun

“…The BMSCs were then continuously stimulated for 24 h using a Flexercell in vitro cellular mechanics loading device, applying a draft force at a frequency of 1 Hz and a deformation rate of 18%. …”
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High-intensity acute noise exposure causes anxiety in female rats by inducing hippocampal neuron apoptosis by Yifei Song, Xiaoni Wang, Haoyu Zhang, Rui Ma, Yiting Kang, Xiaohui Di, Zeguo Feng, Can Ni, Fadong Zhao, Hongwei Zhuang, Jianbao Zhang

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The Fake Diary of a Historical Figure: Klementyna Tańska-Hoffmanowa’s Journal of Countess Françoise Krasińska (1825) by Magdalena Ożarska

“…Hoffmanowa’s novel, begun as a project aimed to educate young girls in modesty and other traditional feminine virtues, soon became a tour-de-force of fake diarising, the first ever psychologically complex presentation of the workings of a young girl’s mind in Polish literature. …”
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Dapagliflozin inhibits ferroptosis to improve chronic heart failure by regulating Nrf2/HO-1/GPX4 signaling pathway. by Jing Zhang, Xuefeng Chen, Shilin Lv, Qingqing Hao

“…Protein expression levels of nuclear factor E2-related factor 2(Nrf2), heme oxygenase-1(HO-1), glutathione peroxidase 4(Gpx4) were detected by Western blot.<h4>Results</h4>In animals with chronic heart failure, Dapagliflozin improved cardiomyocyte hypertrophy, degeneration and necrosis. …”
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Preparation, characterisation, and in vitro cancer‐suppression function of RNA nanoparticles carrying miR‐301b‐3p Inhibitor by Junjie Zhao, Niu Niu, Fan Yang, Haitao Liu, Weibo Qi

“…Diameter, assembly process, and morphology of NPs were observed by Dynamic Light Scattering, Native‐Polyacrylamide Gel Electrophoresis, and Atomic Force Microscopy. Cell internalisation, toxicity, proliferation, migration, invasion, and apoptosis were assayed by confocal laser scanning microscope, CCK8, colony formation assay, Transwell, western blot, and flow cytometry. …”
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An automated platform for simultaneous, longitudinal analysis of engineered neuromuscular tissues for applications in neurotoxin potency testing by Jacob W. Fleming, Molly C. McCloskey, Kevin Gray, David R. Nash, Vincent Leung, Christos Michas, Shawn M. Luttrell, Christopher Cavanaugh, Julie Mathieu, Shawn Mcquire, Mark Bothwell, David L. Mack, Nicholas A. Geisse, Alec S.T. Smith

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CONSTITUTIONAL AND LEGAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES AND PECULIARITGIES OF THE 1987 CONSTITUTION by A. N. Pankov

“…The author mentions how, after the provision of legal independence from the U.S. in 1946, the Philippines went the way of the serious distortion of the principles of "Western democracy". There was a wide gap between the formal democratic constitutional institutions of the Western model and the actual breaking of on the basis of eastern states with traditionally immature social structure, backward productive forces. …”
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Radix Scutellariae Ameliorates Stress-Induced Depressive-Like Behaviors via Protecting Neurons through the TGFβ3-Smad2/3-Nedd9 Signaling Pathway by Fan Zhao, Chenyiyu Zhang, Dong Xiao, Weihua Zhang, Liping Zhou, Simeng Gu, Rong Qu

“…The neuroprotective effect of RS was evaluated with the expression of hippocampal neuron-related markers and apoptosis-associated proteins by Nissl staining, immunohistochemistry, and western blot. Transforming growth factor-β3 (TGFβ3) pathway-related proteins were detected by western blot. …”
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Out-of-phase relationship of Holocene moisture variations between the northeastern and southeastern Tibetan plateau and its societal impacts by Duo Wu, Minmin Ma, Yongxiu Lu, Shilong Guo, Tao Wang, Xuyi Ma, Guanghui Dong

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Astrocytic NLRP3 cKO mitigates depression-like behaviors induced by mild TBI in mice. by Hui-Tao Miao, Jun Wang, Jing-Jing Shao, Rong-Xin Song, Wen-Guang Li, Jian-Kai Sun, Shi-Yan Jia, Dong-Xue Zhang, Xiao-Ming Li, Jian-Yong Zhao, Li-Min Zhang

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Experimental Study on the Shear Strength of Loess Modified by Microbial Precipitation Technology by Bing-Xia Wang, Li-Jun Shi, Jian-Hua Dong, Lu Wang, Wen-Tong Tian

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How the Suboxone Education Programme presented as a solution to risks in the Canadian opioid crisis: a critical discourse analysis by Quinn Grundy, Fiona Webster, Daniel Z Buchman, Sheryl Spithoff, Ross E G Upshur, Abhimanyu Sud, Matthew Strang

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Leptin Modifies the Rat Heart Performance Associated with Mitochondrial Dysfunction Independently of Its Prohypertrophic Effects by Edna Berzabá-Evoli, Cecilia Zazueta, Jarumi Hishel Cruz Hernández, Nancy Patricia Gómez-Crisóstomo, Isela Esther Juárez-Rojop, Erick Natividad De la Cruz-Hernández, Eduardo Martínez-Abundis

“…Homogenates and mitochondria were prepared by centrifugation and analyzed for cardiac actin, STAT3, and pSTAT3 by Western blotting, as well as for mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation, membrane potential, swelling, calcium transport, and content of oxidized lipids. …”
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