Baczko, Rousseau and Polish Republicanism by Anna Grześkowiak-Krwawicz

“…Starting from an in-depth knowledge of secondary literature and Polish sources, including the dossier provided to Rousseau by Count Michal Wielhorski, the author shows how Baczko succeeded in offering an innovative reading of this text of Rousseau, understood not so much as an attempt to apply the theories of the Social Contract to Polish reality, but as an encounter of idées-forces, images and social dreams, an encounter based on the reciprocity of an exchange that affects the interlocutors, the conservative Polish nobility and the theorist of popular sovereignty. …”
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Le corps du monstre sans-papiers by Jean-Jacques Lecercle

“…The essay seeks to account for the contrast between the prosthetic body of the posthuman and the suffering body of the illegal immigrant. …”
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A COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR ANALYZING CONCRETE MIXTURE EXPERIMENTS BASED ON OSADEBE’S REGRESSION MODEL by IFEANYI AGWUOCHA, UCHECHUKWU COLLINS ANYA, CHIOMA TEMITOPE GLORIA AWODIJI, LAWRENCE ETTU

“…The % differences for all other parameters studied were close to zero showing little contrast in the predicting ability of MIX-PRE when compared to the direct use of the Osadebe’s regression model. …”
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CONSTRAINTS OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT IN THE NIGERIAN CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY by LATEEF AKINTOLA, OLUFIKAYO ADERINLEWO, SUNMBO AKANDE

“…After applying the Relative Importance Index and Severity Index methods, it was established that the rankings of the critical factors that hamper contract job completion were significantly different, thus underscoring their respective importance. …”
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The clinical value of computed tomography Hounsfield unit for diagnosing palpable inguinal lymph node metastasis in patients with penile cancer by Yu Li, Yu Chen, Gansheng Xie, Gang Li, Huming Yin

“…They all performed 5-mm layer pelvic contrast-enhanced CT (CE-CT) before treatment. The palpable ILNs were matched with CT image. …”
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Filters Effect on Image Quality of 177Lu-DOTATATE SPECT Images for Neuro-Endocrine Tumors Scanning by Hussein Dakhil, Mohammad Reza Deevband, Mahasti Amoui, Ahmad Mostaar, Mahdi Ghorbani, Mohsen Khosroabadi, Mohammad Ali Ghodsirad

“…Seven parameters were considered, including the contrast/noise ratio, injection activity, uptake duration, acquisition time per injection, frame time, measuring time, and type of filters. …”
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Study on Strength and Permeability of Silt Soils Improving by Tung Oil and Sticky Rice Juice by Xiao-Wu Tang, Yue Yu, Li-Pei Zhou, Min-Liang Fei, Guo-Ping Sun

“…In order to meet the aesthetic requirements of earthen sites conservation, the surface color contrast tests were used to measure the color change induced by the two additives. …”
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Inter-reader agreement for diagnosing thymic cysts on chest MRI in two tertiary referral centers by Yura Ahn, Sang Min Lee, Chu Hyun Kim, Sehee Kim, Jooae Choe, Joon Beom Seo, Ho Yun Lee

“…A total of 76 anterior mediastinal lesions (≤ 30 mm) from two tertiary referral hospitals (55 from Institution A and 21 from Institution B) who underwent chest CT and contrast-enhanced chest MR were included. Internal and external reading sets consisted of different combinations of MR sequences (pre- and post-contrast T1-weighted, T2-weighted, subtracted images, and diffusion-weighted imaging [DWI]/apparent diffusion coefficient [ADC] map) and CT. …”
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“I lock myself in my room and cry in frustration”: an analysis of adolescent behaviors of child-to-parent violence by Shirley Arias-Rivera, Barbara Lorence, Barbara Lorence, Jesus Maya

“…Finally, in the third phase, in addition to apologizing, adolescents attempted to talk with their parents, gave them a hug, or committed to not repeating the behavior. In contrast, 8% of adolescents normalized their behavior, joked about it, or justified their actions. …”
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Risk Probability Assessment of Annual Extreme Precipitation in Fujian by Yang Xinyu, Zhang Rongyan, Xu Hong, Wu Dixi

“…During the early flood season, extreme precipitation is primarily concentrated in mountainous regions of northwest Fujian. In contrast, during the typhoon season, extreme precipitation events occur most frequently in the eastern coastal areas. …”
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Intracardiac Echocardiography as a Guide for Transcatheter Closure of Patent Ductus Arteriosus by Hironaga Yoshimoto, Maeda Yasuto, Tadashi Inoue, Yoshiyuki Kagiyama, Yozo Teramachi, Ryuta Takase, Yusuke Koteda, Yoshihiro Fukumoto, Motofumi Iemura, Kenji Suda

“…In phase 2, we compared the demographics, fluoroscopic time, contrast volume, and complications of the TC-PDAs between 10 adult patients with ICE guidance and 16 without it. …”
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Haematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Trends in Pakistan: Activity Survey from Pakistan Bone Marrow Transplant Group by Natasha Ali, Raheel Iftikhar, Muhammad Ayaz Mir, Syed Waqas Bokhari, Jehanzeb Ur Rehman, Uzma Zaidi, Shahzad Nasir, Salman Naseem Adil, Tariq Satti, Qamar Un Nisa Chaudhry, Muhammad Farhan, Tasneem Farzana, Tariq Ghafoor, Bushra Ahsan, Azhar S. Khan, Farrukh Ali Khan, Syeda Itrat Fatima, Shafaq Abdul Samad, Aliya Batool, Hafiz Muhammad Nadeem, Syed Nasir Abbas Bukhari, Saqib Hussain Ansari, Parvez Ahmed

“…Allogeneic HSCT constituted 595 (73.8%) of all the transplants; this is in stark contrast to Western data, where autologous HSCT accounts for the majority of transplants. ß-thalassemia major and aplastic anemia were the commonest indications for allogeneic HSCT, in contrast to Western data, where acute leukemia is the leading transplant indication. …”
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A Case of Ileocecal IgG4-Related Sclerosing Mesenteritis Diagnosed by Endoscopic Ultrasound-Guided Fine Needle Aspiration using Forward-Viewing Linear Echoendoscope by Yuichi Takano, Fumitaka Niiya, Takahiro Kobayashi, Eiichi Yamamura, Naotaka Maruoka, Tomoko Norose, Nobuyuki Ohike, Masatsugu Nagahama

“…Contrast imaging of the ileus tube showed extrinsic compression of the ileocecal region. …”
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Relationship between Ca2+ and cAMP as second messengers in ACTH-induced cortisol production in bovine adrenal fasciculata cells by Masahiko Kutsukake, Naoko Kuwabara, Yoshikazu Miyate, Kenzo Kudo, Shoko Goto, Eiichi Taira, Eiichi Tachikawa

“…Incubation of the cells with 100 pM ACTH in Ca2+-containing (normal) medium for 1 h increased cortisol production without affecting cAMP content. In contrast, treatment of the cells with the peptide at a higher concentration (1 nM) significantly augmented both cortisol production and cAMP content. …”
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Single Center Retrospective Analysis of Conventional and Radial TIG Catheters for Transradial Diagnostic Coronary Angiography by Marc Vorpahl, Till Koehler, Jason Foerst, Spyridon Panagiotopoulos, Heinrich Schleiting, Klaus Koss, Gunda Ziegler, Hilmar Brinkmann, Melchior Seyfarth, Klaus Tiroch

“…Overall, the amount of contrast was greater in TIG (56±13 mL) versus CONV (48±3 mL; p=0.0003). …”
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Clinical application of third-generation dual-source CT-based dynamic imaging reconstruction for pulmonary embolism imaging by Kai Liao, Biao Ye, Xi Li, Wei Liu, Tongtong Jia, Zongbao Han, Ziyi Liang, Yongli Duan, Xiaoli Sun, Jianmei Zhang, Rengui Wang, Jiao Gong

“…Results The DCTA group had a lower contrast dose than the SCAT group, but the vessel CT value, IN, CNR, and SNR were significantly higher in the DCTA group compared with the SCTA group. …”
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Squared diffusion-weighted imaging for improving the detection of clinically significant prostate cancer by Birte Valentin, Lars Schimmöller, Matthias Boschheidgen, Tim Ullrich, Thomas Andreas Thiel, Alexandra Ljimani, Jan Philipp Radtke, Thomas Benkert, Peter Albers, Gerald Antoch, Hans-Jörg Wittsack, Michael Quentin

“…Abstract Aim of this study was to proof the concept of optimizing the contrast between prostate cancer (PC) and healthy tissue by DWI post-processing using a quadrature method. …”
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Caracterización de pacientes en aislamiento por COVID-19 en la Universidad de Ciencias Médicas. Cienfuegos, 2021 by Alexis Díaz Brito, Vivian Hernández Monzón, Manuel Fernández Urquiza, Yannis Manuel Martín Rosales, Claudia Cruz González, María Isabel Mantecón Ledo

“…<br /><strong>Conclusiones:</strong> el aislamiento de contacto y sospechosos como medida de contención de la pandemia representa una estrategia de impacto. …”
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Evaluation of Tumor Viability for Primary and Bone Metastases in Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer Using Whole-Body Magnetic Resonance Imaging by Hiromichi Iwamura, Yasuhiro Kaiho, Jun Ito, Go Anan, Nozomi Satani, Tomonori Matsuura, Ryo Tamura, Kazuhiro Murakami, Kaneki Koyama, Makoto Sato

“…In contrast to bone scan and computed tomography (CT), which depend on osteoblastic response to detect bone metastasis, whole-body magnetic resonance imaging (WB-MRI) may be able to directly detect viable tumors. …”
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Gradual Colonic Impaction of a Chicken Bone Associated with Inflammatory Pseudotumor Formation and Nonocclusive Colon Ischemia by Stefania Fosi, Simone Altobelli, Alessio Bindi, Massimo Villa, Flavio De Sanctis, Mauro Montuori, Edoardo Ricciardi, Piero Rossi, Giuseppe Petrella, Giovanni Simonetti

“…Our experience shows how contrast-enhanced CT is feasible and can be strongly recommended as a first-line imaging tool on suspicion of colon ischemia and also how it can easily identify the underlying cause, in our case a FB sealed perforation of the sigma with pseudotumoral mass formation.…”
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