De la retórica a la ficción by Leonardo Funes

“…The conventional acceptance of textual citation words pronounced by historical characters was included in the "historiographical" pact (the public accepts the poetical or rhetorical license as an expression of the most profound dimension of historical truth).However, when Alphonsine and Post-Alphonsine chroniclers began to incorporate dialogues in direct speech, this convention was a challenge for the claim to truth made by chronicle narratives.This article aims to trace the evolution of the use of direct speech from Alphonsine historiography to the historiography of John II of Castile, in order to evaluate its impact on the historical and fictional narrative forms.…”
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Evaluating the Resistance Performance of the VAEPC and the PAFRC Composites against a Low-Velocity Impact in Varying Temperature by Gwang-Hee Heo, Jong-Gun Park, Chung-Gil Kim

“…It is also known that while the VAEPC composite and the plain mortar were destroyed in a form of being perforated, the specimens of PAFRC composite were observed to some extent to suppress the perforation failures. …”
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The study of oat varieties (Avena sativa L.) of various geographical origin for grain quality and productivity by V. I. Polonskiy, N. A. Surin, S. A. Gerasimov, A. G. Lipshin, A. V. Sumina, S. Zute

“…Vavilov All-Russian Institute of Plant Genetic Resources) oats samples of different origin, mainly from Siberia. The hulled samples formed grains with β-glucan content from 2.9 to 5.2 %, while the naked ones, from 3.7 to 4.8 %. …”
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Measurement of Coherence Bandwidth in UHF Radio Channels for Narrowband Networks by Jaroslaw Sadowski

“…The coherence bandwidth values were estimated from a power delay profile obtained by recording CDMA2000 forward channel signals during real-field measurements in various environments: medium city, flat terrain, and hilly terrain in northern Poland. …”
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Marking Contrastive Topics in a Topic Shift Context: Contrastive Adverbs versus Emphatic Pronouns by Jorina Brysbaert, Karen Lahousse

“…We analyse the choice between these markers in one specific syntactic position, i.e. when they occur between the subject and the finite verb, in different corpora consisting of formal written, informal written and spoken French. …”
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Analysis of the focal relationship of level five leadership with school organizational excellence by Hosein Majooni, Siroos Ghanbari

“…Dimensions of manager's personality traits; Choosing competent employees, then setting the goal; disciplinary culture; the use of technology and the force density dimension has a positive and significant effect on the organizational excellence variable of schools at the level of 0.01. …”
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The ABC transporter Opp imports reduced glutathione, while Gsi imports glutathione disulfide in Escherichia coli by Lisa R. Knoke, Maik Muskietorz, Lena Kühn, Lars I. Leichert

“…As a redox couple, consisting of reduced glutathione (GSH) and its oxidized form, glutathione disulfide (GSSG), it is crucial for the maintenance of the cellular redox balance. …”
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B-doped nano-hydroxyapatite facilitates proliferation and differentiation of osteoblasts by Qiao Kang, Wenhao Wang, Shengtao Wu, Ganggang Hu

“…B-nHAp significantly facilitated the proliferation of hBMSCs, and significantly more mineralized nodules formed in the B-nHAp group. B-nHAp significantly upregulated the expressions of marker molecules related to hBMSC proliferation and differentiation. …”
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Digital Transnational Dissidence and State Control: A Conceptual Reflection on the Practice and Limits of Digital Transnationalism by Hüsrev Tabak, Cenk Beyaz

“…Hence, in forms of digital transnationalism and transnational dissidence, irrespective of the connection of the articulator to the target country, people around the world criticise governmental politics and shape public perceptions in one country from abroad. …”
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Correlation of precisely fabricated geometric characteristics of DNA-origami nanostructures with their cellular entry in human lens epithelial cells by Yexuan Guo, Tianze Xiong, Hong Yan, Rui Xue Zhang

“…Ensembled DONs included the rods, ring, triangle, and octahedron with defined geometric parameters of accessible surface area, effective volume, compactness, aspect ratio, size and vertex number. Atomic force microscopy and agarose gel electrophoresis showed that four DONs self-assembled within 3.5h with up to 59% yield and exhibited structural intactness in cell culture medium for 4 h. …”
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MFG-E8 Knockout Aggravated Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis by Promoting the Activation of TLR4/NF-κB Signaling in Mice by Jun Hu, Hui Du, Yinglin Yuan, Peipei Guo, Junxia Yang, Xinru Yin, Jin Liu, Shengwang Wu, Jingyuan Wan, Xia Gong

“…In vitro experiment, the TLR4 specific antagonist TAK-242 rescued palmitic acid- (PA-) primed lipid formation and inflammation in MFG-E8 knockout primary murine hepatocytes. …”
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LIQUIDITY TRAP IN THE UNITED STATES, THE EURO AREA AND JAPAN by Piotr Misztal

“…The aim of the research is to verify the empirical hypothesis of the liquidity trap in three of the largest economies in the world, formerly known as the Global Triad (i.e. the USA, the euro zone and Japan), after the 2008 financial crisis. …”
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Psicanálise e saúde: a circulação da palavra na saúde ocupacional by Sidney de Oliveira

“…A análise da palavra deve ser feita em conteúdos e formas. Este trabalho foi realizado tendo como ponto investigativo os problemas entre profissionais da saúde e pacientes em um centro de saúde pública. …”
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Autaptic Modulation of Electrical Activity in a Network of Neuron-Coupled Astrocyte by Shengli Guo, Jun Tang, Jun Ma, Chunni Wang

“…This new network model can give potential understanding about self-adaption of neuron to external forcing when the coupling of astrocyte and autapse is considered.…”
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No Chattering and Adaptive Sliding Mode Control of a Fractional-Order Phase Converter with Disturbances and Parameter Uncertainties by Karthikeyan Rajagopal, Riessom Weldegiorgis, Anitha Karthikeyan, Prakash Duraisamy, Goitom Tadesse

“…Using forward and backward continuation, various coexisting attractors and the property of multistability are discussed. …”
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The tuna keel is a mechanosensory structure by Júlia Chaumel, Dylan K. Wainwright, Jacqueline F. Webb, Connor F. White, George V. Lauder

“…These observations suggest that the bilateral tuna keels act as flow sensing structures, perhaps providing information on tail beat frequency, amplitude, force, and water flow dynamics over the caudal region of the tuna body axis during locomotion.…”
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Reduced Fascicle Area Demonstrated in Ilioinguinal Nerves Resected from Primary Inguinal Herniorrhaphy Patients as Evidence of Compression Neuropathy by Robert Wright, Donald E. Born, Troy Sanders, Jordan Landes, Troy Salisbury, Anjali S. Kumar, Makena Horne

“…This may be due to hernia-related pressure on the canal portion of the ilioinguinal nerve, a form of compression neuropathy. The ilioinguinal nerve of 30 patients was resected near the external inguinal ring during herniorrhaphy and histologically characterized to investigate the underlying cause of the size discrepancy. …”
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Effect of endoscopic sinus surgery on eustachian tube function in adult patients with chronic rhinosinusitis by Mahmoud Atef Abdelghaffar Youssef, Nassim Talaat Nassim, MohamedNourEddin Bashir Alkeeb, Tareq Muhammad Algarf

“…ET function was reevaluated 6 weeks post-operative in the form of an ETDQ-7, Valsalva maneuver, and tympanogram. …”
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Helfen EU-Klimazölle, um China und die USA stärker in die Verantwortung zu nehmen? by Sonja Peterson

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El desafío de la escritura académica utilizando herramientas virtuales by Verónica Patricia Simbaña Gallardo, Lilian Mercedes Jaramillo Naranjo, Santiago Fernando Vinueza Vinueza

“…En este escenario Scrivener y Evernote son herramientas digitales para la escritura académica, permiten insertar notas escritas, notas de voz, resúmenes, documentos, imágenes, citas de autores, audios, links, entre otros. La formulación del problema parte de la necesidad de incrementar investigaciones en todos los niveles educativos de forma fácil y automatizada. …”
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