Was Grand Duchy of Lithuania a Federation? by Zenonas Norkus

“…Halecki, the territorial form of government in the GDL was federal in the late XV-early XVI century. …”
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Von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) inactivation in sporadic clear cell renal cancer: associations with germline VHL polymorphisms and etiologic risk factors. by Lee E Moore, Michael L Nickerson, Paul Brennan, Jorge R Toro, Erich Jaeger, Jessica Rinsky, Summer S Han, David Zaridze, Vsevolod Matveev, Vladimir Janout, Hellena Kollarova, Vladimir Bencko, Marie Navratilova, Neonilia Szeszenia-Dabrowska, Dana Mates, Laura S Schmidt, Petra Lenz, Sara Karami, W Marston Linehan, Maria Merino, Stephen Chanock, Paolo Boffetta, Wong-Ho Chow, Frederic M Waldman, Nathaniel Rothman

“…Risk of having genetic VHL inactivation was inversely associated with smoking due to a higher proportion of wild-type ccRCC tumors [former: OR = 0.70 (0.20-1.31) and current: OR = 0.56 (0.32-0.99); P-trend = 0.04]. …”
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Research of the Nutrition Problem: Methodological Approaches and Daily Practices by A. V. Noskova

“…In the last thirty years in this area, some special sociological theories were formed: sociology of nutrition, sociology of food, sociology of menu, etc. …”
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Synthesis and Advanced NMR Characterization of Ordered 3D Reticular Materials with PolySilicate Nodes and Hydrophobic OrganoSilicone Linkers by Jelle Jamoul, Sambhu Radhakrishnan, Maarten Houlleberghs, C. Vinod Chandran, Aline Vits, Pasquinel Weckx, Sam Smet, Daniel Arenas Esteban, Sara Bals, Johan A. Martens, Eric Breynaert

“…With dicyclopentyl linkers, the addition of dimethyldichlorosilane was essential to enable the formation of a reticular network. The resulting materials contained mixed, dimeric silicone linkers, i.e., Si₈-O-Si(Me₂)-O-Si(Cp₂)-O-Si₈.…”
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Effect of different speed and time of centrifugations on decontamination of Leptospira spp. cultures from rat’s kidney by Budi Prasetyo, Arif Mulyanto, Kusnanto Mukti Wibowo, Kurniawan, Farida Dwi Handayani

“…The centrifugal force in the centrifuge is able to change the surface properties of bacterial cells and the inner structure, including DNA, so that it can damage bacterial cells. …”
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Les stratégies spatiales de la population haïtienne à Miami by Cédric Audebert

“…The Haitian migratory pattern took on the form of an international migratory field linking the source country with Miami, where the population from Haitian ancestry has recorded a rapid growth. …”
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Isaiah Berlin, Friedrich Hayek y Milton Friedman pasean por villa miseria. Los límites de la concepción liberal de la libertad by Jorge Polo Blanco

“…Anclada en una dimensión más limitada (por ser sólo negativa), consideraremos de forma polémica que esa libertad entendida en un sentido liberal apenas podría dar cuenta de lo que sucede, por tomar un ejemplo paradigmático de exclusión social y pobreza, en una villa miseria.…”
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Les conversations entre les militaires franquistes et les gouvernements républicains en exil, septembre 1946 - avril 1947 by Bruno Vargas

“…This article will firstly present the factual content of the archives before setting out an analysis of the factors contributing to the failure of the Spanish Republican forces in exile.…”
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Caregiver worry about COVID-19 as a predictor of social mitigation behaviours and SARS-CoV-2 infection in a 12-city U.S. surveillance study of households with children by Steven M. Brunwasser, Tebeb Gebretsadik, Anisha Satish, Jennifer C. Cole, William D. Dupont, Christine Joseph, Casper G. Bendixsen, Agustin Calatroni, Samuel J. Arbes, Jr, Patricia C. Fulkerson, Joshua Sanders, Leonard B. Bacharier, Carlos A. Camargo, Jr, Christine Cole Johnson, Glenn T. Furuta, Rebecca S. Gruchalla, Ruchi S. Gupta, Gurjit K. Khurana Hershey, Daniel J. Jackson, Meyer Kattan, Andrew Liu, George T. O'Connor, Katherine Rivera-Spoljaric, Wanda Phipatanakul, Marc E. Rothenberg, Max A. Seibold, Christine M. Seroogy, Stephen J. Teach, Edward M. Zoratti, Alkis Togias, Tina V. Hartert

“…Caregivers collected household nasal swabs on a fortnightly basis and peripheral blood samples at study conclusion to monitor for SARS-CoV-2 infections by polymerase chain reaction and serology. …”
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¿Autoempleados a falta de algo mejor? Crítica del discurso sobre la precariedad laboral desde la experiencia de un grupo de independientes by Ducange Medor Bertho

“…A partir de datos obtenidos de una investigación a base de entrevistas semiestructuradas y de observación con emprendedores o independientes de las tecnologías informáticas y del audiovisual, muestra la limitación de dicha noción para dar cuenta de la condición laboral de estos profesionales, toda vez que vinculan el trabajo con valores otros que los de estabilidad, seguridad y buena remuneración otrora puntales del empleo industrial fordista. Valores “posmaterialistas” como la horizontalidad, la camaradería, el share, la autonomía, la cooperación, la colaboración, etc., configuran la visión y la relación de estos individuos con el trabajo.…”
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State of Lung Cancer in Egypt: Moving Towards Improved Guidelines for Prevention, Screening, Treatment, and Clinical Care Programs by Nagla Abdel Karim, MD, Ahmed Magdy Rabea, MD, Philip C. Mack, PhD, Janakiraman Subramanian, MD, Ehab Khalil, MD, Mai Sherif, MD, Radwa Marawan, MD, Tagrid Gaafar, MD, Lobna Shash, MD, Kei Suzuki, MD, Manmeet Ahluwalia, MD, Hisham Wahba, MD, Salma Aboelela, MSc, Asrar Al Ahmadi, MD, Hamed Al Husaini, MD, Nada Mohsen, MD, Rana Khaled, MD, Neemat Kassem, MD, Hussein Khaled, MD, Noha El Said, MD, Nadia Zakhary, MD, Dina Shoukry, MD, Alaa Abdullah ElSadieque, MSc, M. Yasser Alsedfy, MSc, Shaheen Islam, MD, Hend ElSherbiny, MD, Mervat El Deftar, MD, Noha Awad, MD, Abdel Rahman Mohamed, MD, David Gandara, MD, Karen Kelly, MD, Triparna Sen, PhD

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Microstructure development, mechanical properties and underlying mechanism of micro-TiN-reinforced AlSi10Mg composites fabricated by selective laser melting by Huang X., Wang L., Huang W.-D., He D.-D., Cheng X.-H., Xu X.-P., Chen X.-X., Qin S.-S., Huang L.-H.

“…The TiN particles are uniformly distributed and wetted by the AlSi10Mg matrix, forming a graded interfacial layer. The TiN particles refine the matrix grains and significantly reduce the prevalence (001) texture by promoting a heterogeneous nucleation process. …”
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Medical Assistance in Dying for Persons Suffering Solely from Mental Illness in Canada by Chloe Eunice Panganiban, Srushhti Trivedi

“…Yet despite these worldwide efforts, many argue through the theory of utilitarianism that the inability to see long-term consequences renders MAiD a premature solution, particularly for those who are unable or unwilling to seek other forms of potentially healing treatment or for those who may undergo MAiD only for a technological innovation or biomedical advancement to later come along as a potential cure.[30] While it is true that MAiD does not prevent these “premature deaths,” it is also true that it does not claim to.[31] MAiD provides an option to alleviate intolerable suffering. …”
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2D Fast Vessel Visualization Using a Vessel Wall Mask Guiding Fine Vessel Detection by Sotirios Raptis, Dimitris Koutsouris

“…This provides a chart of likely Vessel Wall Pixels (VWPs) yielding a form of a likelihood vessel map mainly based on gradient filter's intensity and spatial arrangement parameters (e.g., linear consistency). …”
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De la resistencia a la transformación: una revisión de la resiliencia en el deporte by Ricardo A. Jaramillo-Moreno, Julio Cesar Rueda Cantor

“…Se encontró que la investigación y aportes de la resiliencia en el deporte son numerosos y aplicados a una gran diversidad de modalidades deportivas y a nivel de actividad física, deporte formativo y competitivo. Se encontraron predominantemente estudios cuantitativo-descriptivos; sin embargo se destacan diversos enfoques metodológicos. …”
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Management of Glyphosate Isopropylamine-Resistant Goosegrass (Eleusine indica) Biotypes Through Pre- and Post-Emergence Herbicides by Koko Tampubolon, Edison Purba, Mohammad Basyuni, Diana Sofia Hanafiah

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A Comparative Study of the Oxygen Reduction Reaction on Pt and Ag in Alkaline Media by Alexander Rampf, Michael Braig, Stefano Passerini, Roswitha Zeis

“…RRDE measurements attributed the polarization loss observed for Pt catalysts to increased peroxide formation in this potential region triggered by the desorption of oxygenated species. …”
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La séparation des Églises et de l’État aux États-Unis : origines et évolution by Mokhtar BEN BARKA

“…The democratic principles set forth in the federal Constitution are not rooted in any particular religion. …”
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Role of Neuroinflammation in Adult Neurogenesis and Alzheimer Disease: Therapeutic Approaches by Almudena Fuster-Matanzo, María Llorens-Martín, Félix Hernández, Jesús Avila

“…Furthermore, neuroinflammation has been demonstrated to affect important processes in the brain, such as the formation of new neurons, commonly known as adult neurogenesis. …”
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Low light reduces saffron corm yield by inhibiting starch synthesis by Weijing Yang, Weijing Yang, Xin Li, Xin Li, Fei Chang, Fei Chang, Xue Qiu, Xulong Huang, Xulong Huang, Zhan Feng, Zhan Feng, Jie Yan, Jie Yan, Qinghua Wu, Qinghua Wu, Feiyan Wen, Feiyan Wen, Jin Pei, Jin Pei, Tao Zhou, Tao Zhou

“…The mechanisms by which low light modulates source-sink dynamics, affecting starch synthesis and formation of underground storage organs in geophyte, remain unclear. …”
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