‘Poor little princess’: Queen Victoria’s Court as a Site of Imperial Conquest by Chandrica Barua

“…Gouramma had found herself in 1850s England, displaced from her homeland and culture, anglicized and Christianized, pruned and displayed as the glorious civilizational project of the Empire, and yet never truly being an inhabitant of Victorian interiors. …”
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Investigation on Mechanical and Microstructure Properties of Steel Fiber Reinforced Concrete by Qinyuan Zhang, Wenwen Xu, Yichen Sun, Yongcheng Ji

“…The finite element software Abaqus was used to simulate and analyze the freeze-thaw cycle and mechanical test of concrete, which verified the rationality of the test results. …”
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Predictors of Crowd Effect in Football: Evidence From Five Major Football Leagues of Europe by Abdullah Yiğit Güngör, Tuncer Gövdeli

“…In this study, panel data analysis was used among quantitative research methods. …”
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Vascular Calcification in an Adolescent Treated with Long-Term Peritoneal Dialysis by Mesiha Ekim, Suat Fitoz, Z. Birsin Ozcakar, Fatos Yalcinkaya

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Estimation Strategy for the Adhesion Coefficient of Arbitrary Pavements Based on an Optimal Adaptive Fusion Algorithm by Zhiwei Xu, Jianxi Wang, Yongjie Lu, Haoyu Li

“…A relationship between the mechanical tire characteristics and peak adhesion coefficient is established by using the Burckhardt model’s analogy between the adhesion coefficient and peak adhesion coefficient, and the UKE algorithm completes the estimation. …”
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Adult Renal Transplantation in a Patient 28 Years after Heart Transplantation as a Neonate for Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome by Joseph Licata, Shane Michael Roberts, Piotr Janicki, Dmitri Bezinover

“…This patient represents as one of the longest pediatric cardiac graft recipients living without any significant functional limitations.…”
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Enhancing Asphalt Mix Performance through the Incorporation of Crumb by Herish Jaf, Asmaa Abdulmajeed Mamhusseini

“…A comprehensive comparative analysis was conducted between conventional and modified asphalt concrete mixtures, focusing on parameters such as Marshall Stability, Flow value, and other volumetric characteristics. …”
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NLRP3 Inflammasome Simultaneously Involved in Autophagy and Phagocytosis of THP-1 Cells to Clear Aged Erythrocytes by Qin Li, Fengyong Zhao, Jiamin Zhang, Ying Yang, Zhonghui Guo, Chen Wang, Qixiu Yang, Ying Sun, Ziyan Zhu

“…We constructed a stable and low-NLRP3 expression THP-1 cell line using CRISPR/Cas9 technology. The analysis of erythrocyte clearance and autophagy of THP-1 cells with low NLRP3 expression showed that autophagy changes together when THP-1 engulfs aged RBCs. …”
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Understanding the Integration of Socio-Technical Actors for Sharing and Sustainable Urban Mobility by Carlos Henrique T. Pereira, Minelle E. Silva

“…Interviews were conducted with the protagonist ST-actors, and documents were analyzed focusing on shared urban mobility. We observed that the initiative implementation integrates ST-actors through public-private partnerships. …”
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Selected Aspects of Protectionism of EU Member States in the EU Agri-Food Market by Renata Grochowska, Adam Ambroziak

“…The presented mechanisms are related to three situations: (a) hindering the market entry through retargeting of consumer demand; (b) promotion of own products contrary to the fair rules of competition; (c) limiting economic activity of foreign companies. The analyses carried out allowed to identify economic activity areas, where negative effects could reveal and to state that the potential result of these activities may be selective reduction of trade or change of its directions.…”
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Self-administered active versus sham acupressure for diarrhea predominant irritable bowel syndrome: a nurse-led randomized clinical trial by Maha Gamal Ramadan Asal, Ahmed Abdelwahab Ibrahim El-Sayed, Samira Ahmed Alsenany, Zahraa Hassan Ramzy, Rasha Fathy Ahmed Dawood

“…Psychological outcomes, including anxiety and depression, also improved significantly in the active group. …”
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Research on the Geostatic Stress Field Procedure under Complex Conditions by Xue-yan Wang, Yi-li Yuan, Chang-ming Hu, Yuan Mei

“…In this paper, based on finite element method (FEM) software ABAQUS, failure reasons of four commonly used methods for the geostatic stress field are studied. According to the analysis results, a new set of methods, which can provide reasonable displacement and stress field results under complex conditions, is proposed. …”
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Mitigation of environmental impacts in ornamental rock and limestone aggregate quarries in arid and semi-arid areas by M.A. Peñaranda Barba, V. Alarcón Martínez, I. Gómez Lucas, J. Navarro Pedreño

“…Analysing these measures, it has been observed that 90% of the measures applied to control the different negative environmental factors in this type of quarry are the same.CONCLUSION: Open-pit mining extraction systems have a series of similar characteristics that allow a systematic approach to be established when analysing the impacts. …”
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Role and mechanism of dexmedetomidine in regulating bone metabolism in tail-suspended osteoporotic rats by GUO Yunliang, WANG Can, ZHANG Xinyu

“…Conclusion‍　‍Dex exerts anti-bone loss effect in tail-suspended rats, which may be associated with its stimulation on osteoblast-mediated bone formation. …”
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TĖVŲ, AUGINANČIŲ VAIKĄ SU AUTIZMO SPEKTRO SUTRIKIMAIS, PATIRIAMI SUNKUMAI by Lina Astrauskienė, Ilona Kupčikienė

“…Tyrimui atlikti pasirinktas kokybinio tyrimo metodas, kurio metu duomenys rinkti naudojant pusiau struktūruotą interviu. Tyrimo duomenų analizė atskleidė, kad tyrime dalyvavę tėvai, auginantys vaiką / -us su autizmo spektro sutrikimais, patiria įvairius sunkumus. …”
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Ranging Method for Navigation Based on High-Speed Frequency-Hopping Signal by En Yuan, Wangdong Qi, Peng Liu, Li Wei, Longliang Chen

“…Finally, we formed a time–frequency matrix, so that a high UMR could be guaranteed without any harmful consequences on the ranging accuracy in the middle to high levels of the signal-to-noise ratio. …”
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Late-Onset Isolated Corticotrope Deficiency in a Woman with Down Syndrome by Ibtissem Oueslati, Marwa Ben Jemaa, Meriem Yazidi, Fatma Chaker, Melika Chihaoui

“…The thyroid function was normal and anti-thyroperoxidase antibodies were negative. The peak of cortisol level in response to the insulin-induced hypoglycemia test was 9.4 μg/dl. …”
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PRÁCTICAS DE CUIDADO Y MODELOS EMERGENTES EN LAS RELACIONES DE GENERO. LA EXPERIENCIA DE ALGUNOS VARONES MEXICANOS by Juan Guillermo Figueroa Perea, Natalia Flores Garrido

“…En un primer momento se presentan algunos conceptos básicos sobre la manera en que estamos conceptualizando el cuidado, y sobre la forma en que éste organiza y da lugar a ciertas relaciones sociales en las que se concretan vínculos y antagonismos por género y clase. Posteriormente, presentamos la evidencia empírica de un grupo de varones que realizan actividades de cuidado al interior de sus familias, debido a reacomodos asociados a separación, viudez o bien a que la pareja hace el trabajo extradoméstico. …”
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A Case of a 34-Year-Old Female with Acute Hypoxemic Respiratory Failure and Proximal Muscle Weakness by Alex Diaz, Surit Sharma

“…After discussion with the CDC, she was given equine serum heptavalent botulism antitoxin. Laboratory analysis later confirmed our suspicion. …”
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When customers strike back: examining the impact of psychological contract violation on customers' switching behaviour by David Amani

“…Data were collected using a structured questionnaire and analysed using structural equation modelling. The findings reveal that psychological contract violation influences customers' switching behaviour when mediated by customer-brand disidentification. …”
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