Mechanism Underlying Tissue Cryotherapy to Combat Obesity/Overweight: Triggering Thermogenesis by Suvaddhana Loap, Richard Lathe

“…The current view is that acute local cooling of AT induces adipocyte cell disruption and inflammation (“cryolipolysis”) that lead to adipocyte cell death, with loss of subcutaneous fat being recorded over a prolonged period of weeks/months. A contrasting view is that AT loss via targeted cryotherapy might be mediated by thermogenic fat metabolism without cell disruption. …”
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Impact of Focal Muscle Vibration on Flaccid Upper Limb Motor Paralysis following Acute Brain Disease: A Case Study by Hirotaka Saito, Haruka Kobayashi, Kodai Oba, Yosuke Hamaya

“…However, prior research has been limited by the lack of acute-phase studies and a focus on patients with minimal muscle contraction capability. This report aimed to explore FMV’s efficacy on upper limb motor function in patients with flaccid motor paralysis immediately after acute CNS diseases. …”
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Unilateral baseball pitching: morphological and functional adaptations in the neck muscles by Leila Rahnama, Ceren Acik, Christine Dy, Stefan Keslacy

“…Pitchers exhibited higher neck extensor maximal voluntary contraction compared to controls (p = 0.017, ES = 0.926). …”
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The Natural Science Underlying Big History by Eric J. Chaisson

“…In particular, energy rate density—contrasting with information content or entropy production—is an objective metric suitable to gauge relative degrees of complexity among a hierarchy of widely assorted systems observed throughout the material Universe. …”
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A qualitative study of the knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors of people exposed to diesel exhaust at the workplace in British Columbia, Canada. by Mandy Pui, Anne-Marie Nicol, Michael Brauer, Farshad Palad, Christopher Carlsten

“…These themes were then compared and contrasted with existing grey and research literature in order to reveal strengths, gaps and misperceptions regarding DE exposure.…”
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Roles, challenges, and resiliency during the COVID-19 pandemic: a case of women political leaders in the Philippines by Mark Erana Patalinghug, Ann Mariel P. Majorenos, Rezin I. Tigley

“…Rather than posing a challenge, femininity complemented their leadership roles, with the main obstacles being the risk of contracting COVID-19 and public skepticism regarding the pandemic's seriousness. …”
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Slip Effects on Peristaltic Transport of a Particle-Fluid Suspension in a Planar Channel by Mohammed H. Kamel, Islam M. Eldesoky, Bilal M. Maher, Ramzy M. Abumandour

“…A motivation of the present analysis has been the hope that such theory of two-phase flow process under slip condition is very useful in understanding the role of peristaltic muscular contraction in transporting biofluid behaving like a particle-fluid mixture. …”
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Self-Testing of Vision in Age-Related Macula Degeneration: A Longitudinal Pilot Study Using a Smartphone-Based Rarebit Test by Christina Winther, Lars Frisén

“…Test scores were evaluated on an individual basis, by contrasting observed trends with the clinical status recorded at independently scheduled clinical examinations. …”
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Female Offenders at the Confluence of Medical and Penal Discourses: Towards a Gender-Specific Criminology (1860s-1920s) by Alice Bonzom

“…The birth of male criminology can be contrasted with the emergence of female criminology, at the crossroads between science, eugenics and sexuality. …”
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¿Una nación en bosquejos? Procesos de identificación aymara en Chile durante el periodo transicional, 1990-1993 by Cristina Oyarzo

“…This material was triangulated with information obtained from congresses and relevant regulations and contrasted with a specialized bibliography, following the approach of the history of political languages and everyday nationalism. …”
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Transposable Elements and Genome Size Variations in Plants by Sung-Il Lee, Nam-Soo Kim

“…The mean 1C-value in plants is 2.4 pg, and genome size expansion/contraction is lineage-specific in plant taxonomy. Transposable element fractions in plant genomes are also variable, as low as ~3% in small genomes and as high as ~85% in large genomes, indicating that genome size is a linear function of transposable element content. …”
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Mechanism and Control of Roadway Floor Rock Burst Induced by High Horizontal Stress by Dongming Guo, Xinchao Kang, Zhiying Lu, Qiyu Chen

“…By establishing a numerical model, the evolution law of plastic zone, horizontal stress, and elastic strain energy density of roadway floor with or without support is contrastively analyzed. The results show that the effective means to prevent and control the floor rock burst is to cut off the stress transfer path by weakening the hard floor to reduce floor energy accumulation so as to reduce the floor rock burst risk. …”
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Probiotics: Comprehensive Exploration of the Growth Promotion Mechanisms in Shrimps by Joanna Xuan Hui Goh, Loh Teng-Hern Tan, Jodi Woan-Fei Law, Kooi-Yeong Khaw, Gokhan Zengin, Kok Gan Chan, Vengadesh Letchumanan, Learn-Han Lee, Bey-Hing Goh

“…Treated shrimps demonstrate better appetite and exhibit superior metabolic and growth-related genes profile. Contrasting these recognized mechanisms with antibiotics helps construct the initial framework for designing high-quality probiotics for growth enhancement in farmed animals. …”
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No three productions alike: Lexical variability, situated dynamics, and path dependence in task-based corpora by Shadrova Anna

“…This is of particular relevance to language assessment and other practices of contrastive analysis of speaker productions, e.g., in multilingualism studies.…”
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FEATURES OF TRACE ELEMENT COMPOSITION OF BERYL FROM THE URALIAN IZUMRUDNYE KOPI by A.K. Gavrilchik, S.G. Skublov, E.L. Kotova

“…The content of each element for both crystals coincides in the marginal zones, which have color comparable in intensity and transparency, in spite of different color pattern with a strongly contrasting distribution in the central part. In discriminant diagrams for the identification of emeralds from various world regions, the composition of beryl from the Uralian Izumrudnye Kopi correspond to the field of compositions of the Uralian emeralds or is close to them.…”
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Challenging Discourses of Sexual Violence on X: The Linguistic Representation of Victims and Perpetrators in Kavanaugh’s Confirmation Process by Patricia Palomino Manjón

“…To do so, two datasets of posts (previously known as ‘tweets’) containing the opposing hashtags #KavanaughConfirmation and #NoKavanaughConfirmation were analyzed and contrasted drawing on Corpus-Assisted Discourse Analysis tools (i.e., keywords and concordances) (Partington et al. 2013) and Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis (Lazar 2005). …”
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Bridging the gap: multi-granularity representation learning for text-based vehicle retrieval by Xue Bo, Junjie Liu, Di Yang, Wentao Ma

“…Finally, a multi-granularity contrastive learning approach is implemented to ensure comprehensive semantic coverage, ranging from coarse to fine levels. …”
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Influence of the boreal summer intraseasonal oscillation on temperature and precipitation in South Korea by Yoo‐Rim Jung, Woo‐Seop Lee

“…Suppressed (enhanced) convection to the north of 20°N in the western North Pacific (WNP) promotes the northwestward expansion (eastward contraction) of the WNP Subtropical High in conjunction with a southwesterly (northeasterly) moisture flux anomaly. …”
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Predictive Model for Deformation of Adjacent Pipelines Caused by Tunnel Boring in Twin-Lane Tunnels in Soft Ground Layers by Kezhong Wang, Qianjiang Zheng, Maowen Hang

“…The deformation pattern of the surrounding soil is determined and confirmed through additional numerical simulation, and the discretized prediction model is contrasted with the conventional Winkler foundation beam model and the Pasternak foundation beam model. …”
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Le traducteur et les italiques. Omniscience et redressement dans Madame Bovary by Sophie Sarrazin

“…In this respect, one of the characteristics of the flaubertian style, which would be the call to the reader’s contribution, is truly revealed by contrasting translations of Flaubert’s text.…”
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