Public Agency Capabilities and Transformational Challenges of the 21st Century by Richard Sturn

“…Coping with those challenges is a necessary condition for forwardlooking public policies.…”
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In Vivo Assessment of Healing Potential of Ointments Containing Bee Products, Vegetal Extracts, and Polymers on Skin Lesions by Calin Vasile Andritoiu, Cristina Lungu, Camelia Elena Iurciuc (Tincu), Corina Elena Andriescu, Corneliu Havarneanu, Marcel Popa, Magdalena Cuciureanu, Liliana Mititelu Tarţău, Bianca Ivanescu

“…<b>Background/Objectives:</b> The present experiment aimed to formulate four ointments that included mixtures of plant extracts (<i>Hippophae rhamnoides</i>, <i>Calendula officinalis</i>, <i>Arctium lappa</i>, and <i>Achillea millefolium</i>), apitherapy products (honey, propolis, and apilarnil) and natural polymers (collagen, chitosan, and the lyophilisate of egg white) in an ointment base. …”
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Contribuições ao debate sobre autonomia e liberdade de expressão em tempos de convergência e Educação Aberta by Andrea Cristina Versuti, Marco Aurélio R. da Cunha e Cruz, Carlos Costa

“…This paper aims to present a contribution of new forms of communication, expression, interaction, collaboration and integration for the potential construction of knowledge, through open educational resources, in the current culture of mobility and convergence. …”
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Evolution-Operator-Based Single-Step Method for Image Processing by Yuhui Sun, Peiru Wu, G. W. Wei, Ge Wang

“…The Perona-Malik-type of anisotropic diffusion schemes is incorporated in the LSEK for image denoising. A forward-backward diffusion process is adopted to the LSEK for image deblurring or sharpening. …”
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Ab initio machine-learning unveils strong anharmonicity in non-Arrhenius self-diffusion of tungsten by Xi Zhang, Sergiy V. Divinski, Blazej Grabowski

“…With the aid of a bespoke machine-learning interatomic potential, the temperature-dependent vacancy formation and migration Gibbs energies of the prototype system body-centered cubic (BCC) tungsten are shown to be strongly affected by anharmonicity. …”
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Turkish validation of a resilience scale from older people’s perspectives: resilience scale for older adults by Seher Palanbek Yavaş, Caner Baysan

“…Convergent validity is supported by a strong positive correlation (r = 0.657, p < 0.001) between the Resilience Scale for Older Adults and the Quality of Life in Older Adults Scale—Short Form. Reliability measures include a Cronbach’s alpha internal consistency coefficient of 0.93 and a Guttman split-half reliability coefficient of 0.723. …”
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Memórias de tempos sombrios by Regina Zilberman

“…En la década de 1960, Hans Robert Jauss propuso la renovación de la historia de la literatura, a formularse desde la perspectiva del lector, lo que impulsó la corriente teórica llamada estética de la recepción. …”
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Does sociality affect evolutionary speed? by Socias-Martínez, Lluís, Peckre, Louise Rachel

“…These studies conceive social interactions as knitting forces of an environment with specific selection pressures. …”
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Protective Effect of Conditioned Medium of Immortalized Human Stem Cells from Exfoliated Deciduous Teeth Against Hair Graying Caused by X-Ray Irradiation via Its Antioxidative Acti... by Yasuhiro Katahira, Eri Horio, Natsuki Yamaguchi, Jukito Sonoda, Miu Yamagishi, Satomi Miyakawa, Fumihiro Murakami, Hideaki Hasegawa, Izuru Mizoguchi, Takayuki Yoshimoto

“…Recently, we demonstrated that a CM of an immortalized stem cell line from human exfoliated deciduous teeth (SHED) has protective effects against a mouse model of ulcer formation via antioxidative and angiogenic activities mediated by HGF and VEGF. …”
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Magnetic field based finite element method for magneto-static problems with discontinuous electric potential distributions by Bénard, Sabrina, Cappanera, Loic, Herreman, Wietze, Nore, Caroline

“…We introduce two finite element formulations to approximate magneto-static problems with discontinuous electric potential based respectively on the electrical scalar potential and the magnetic field. …”
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Places and Cultures of Capitalism: Histories from the Grassroots by Elsa Devienne, Andrew Diamond

“…Over the past decade or so, the concept of capitalism has exploded within the domains of popular culture and mainstream political discourse in the United States, a phenomenon driven forward by the visibility of anticapitalist movements like Occupy Wall Street, the appearance of bestselling books like Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century and blockbuster movies like The Big Short, and the meteoric rise of nationally prominent democratic socialist politicians like Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. …”
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Dobroczynność w Rosji w świetle publikacji w czasopismach i almanachach literackich pierwszej połowy XIX wieku by Magdalena Dąbrowska

“…The article presents the publications in the periodical “Zhurnal Imperatorskogo chelovekolubivogo obshchestva” and the literary almanac Podarok bednym in the light of the development of charity in Russia (motives, forms, results): 1. The publications of Alexander Sturdza (About social charity, About private charity), Pyotr Shalikov etc.; 2. …”
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Probability-Lowering Causes and the Connotations of Causation by Andrés Páez

“…El artículo argumenta que la connotación evidencial sólo implica una forma epistémicamente relativizada de atribución causal y no la causalidad misma, y que hay casos claros de explicación y razonamiento instrumental que deben apelar a factores negativamente relevantes. …”
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சங்க இலக்கியங்களில் மகளிர் அணிகலன்கள் / Women's Ornaments in Sangam Literature by முனைவர் மு. ரா. மஜிதா பர்வின் / Dr. M. R. Majitha Burvin

“…However, social values and various types of beliefs also form the reasons for wearing ornaments in many cultures. …”
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The potential of spatial economic theories in studying municipalities’ economic well-being by Elizaveta A. Belousova

“…Methodologically the study relies on a host of theories forming the foundation of spatial economics. The methods include the abstract logical method, deduction and induction. …”
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Umbrella review of adjuvant photodynamic therapy for cholangiocarcinoma palliative treatment by Hanhan Chen, Honglin Li, Huijie Li, Zhen Zhang

“…The findings indicated that combining PDT with stenting or chemotherapy can significantly improve overall survival in patients with cholangiocarcinoma and reduce mortality rate, without increasing the risk of adverse events (AEs) such as cholangitis or abscess formation. For extrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma, adding PDT to stenting demonstrated a notable improvement in the 2-year survival rate. …”
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Desenvolvimentismos: entre a epistemologia inflexível e o relativismo absoluto by Leonardo Alves Corrêa, Marcelo Riceputi Alcântara

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Los ingenios mixtos en Tucumán durante el primer peronismo (1943-1955) by Julieta Bustelo

“… En la década de 1920, al calor del auge del cooperativismo agrario a nivel nacional, los cañeros de Tucumán formaron ingenios en los cuales procesar su propia materia prima, el Marapa y el Ñuñorco. …”
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Rumbos para la investigación-intervención de trabajo social ambiental en la gestión comunitaria del agua by Yurica Gutiérrez Cuellar, Julian David Calderón Núñez

“…Se concluye que la gestión colectiva del agua, la gestación de procesos de educación ambiental y la conformación de organizaciones comunitarias, fortalecidas por el componente político, son ejercicios interventivos fundamentales para el manejo equitativo del recurso hídrico. …”
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Análisis de habilidades y percepciones sobre mHealth en el manejo de pacientes crónicos por profesionales de atención primaria by Daniel Monasor Ortola, José Joaquín Mira Solves, Antonio Esteve Ríos

“…Mediciones: Se creó un formulario ad hoc anonimizado dividido en dos apartados: datos sociodemográficos y 7 preguntas sobre el uso de tecnologías de salud móvil e internet. …”
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