Disability and Human Diversity: A Reinterpretation of Ẹni-òòṣà1 Philosophy in Yorùbá Belief by Omotade Adegbindin

“… As an exercise in African philosophy, this paper examines and demonstrates the limitations of the two popular extremes in disability studies, namely, the medical and social models of disability. While the former is essentialist in rendering disability as a fixed condition and as an individual problem to be confronted with medical intervention, the latter identifies it as a social problem that requires social intervention. …”
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Text and Its Context: The Critical Discourse Analysis of the Third Development Plan of Iran (1962-1967) According to Baldwin’s Monography by Hojatolloh Rahimi

“…Finally, the article by analyzing the political and cultural context of the plan showed that the production of the plan as a text, instead of following a rational-scientific process, has mainly been influenced by ideological-discursive formulations seeking to maintain specific relation of power among key actors and geographical spaces through text.…”
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Prospects for the use of sharing mechanisms in the tourism industry of Ukraine by Hanna Haponenko, Olena Yevtushenko, Irina Shamara, Valeriya Annenkova

“…The sharing economy is constantly expanding its boundaries, offering not only traditional accommodation options, but also new forms, such as housing on wheels, tree houses and other unique objects. …”
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Characterization of the Porous Structure of HPLC Packings Based on Di(-Acrylic Phenyl)Sulphone and DVB by B. Gawdzik, W. Majewski, T. Jabłońska-Pikus, J. Osypiuk, W. Charmas, B. Podkościelna

“…The porous structure was characterized by the nitrogen adsorption method, inverse exclusion chromatography and atomic force microscopy. To describe the tendency of the microspheres to swell, the swelling propensities and the swellability coefficient were also determined. …”
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Chemical Engineer George L. Standart – between Science and Ideology by Věra Dvořáčková

“…Standart and his wife spent in Prague nevertheless provides an opportunity to trace their personal and academic lives, the development of their attitudes shaped by their ideology and idealism and, partially, also the process by which the Czechoslovak security and intelligence services were established from the close of the 1940s to the late 1960s and the view they took of foreign nationals. …”
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Regeneration of Zebrafish CNS: Adult Neurogenesis by Sukla Ghosh, Subhra Prakash Hui

“…We intend to discuss our current understanding of the cellular and molecular mechanism(s) that allows formation of proliferating progenitors and controls neurogenesis, which involve changes in epigenetic and transcription programs. …”
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Determination of 19 polyphenolic compounds in tea by ultra-high performance liquid chromatography combined with quadrupole-time of flight mass spectrometry by Jian Li, Junmei Ma, Yan Zhang, Lei Zheng

“…Tea samples were extracted by 50% (V/V) ethanol, then separated by Waters Acquity BEH C18 column using a binary solvent system composed of acetonitrile and water (0.1% formic acid) by gradient elution. The analytes were determined by Q-TOF MS in TOF MS and information dependent acquisition (IDA)-MS/MS mode. …”
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Cu-32.02% Zn-2.30% Pb alloy surface superhydrophobicity induced by an arachidate layer by Aniedi E. Nyong, Godwin J. Udoh, Joachim J. Awaka-Ama, Joshua F. Effiong, Ifiok Ekwere, Clement Obadimu, Pradeep Rohatgi

“…Equally from the XRD and FT-IR tools, it was confirmed that the arachidates of zinc and lead were the products formed after the chemical modification. These products existed in various nanostructural forms on the copper alloy surface. …”
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Research of the Calculation Method of the Gear Time-varying Mesh Stiffness based on FEM by Zhang Bobo, Cai Li, Fang Jie, Zheng Yuan, Wang Tao, Xiong Yangshou

“…The spur gear single tooth stiffness formula is obtained by least square method and the time-varying mesh stiffness formula of any tooth number meshing is derived. …”
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Revisión teórica sobre la innovación educativa: análisis de perspectivas académicas contemporáneas by Luis Mauro Sujatovich, Débora Brocca

“…El artículo concluye con una llamada a redefinir la innovación educativa más allá de los enfoques técnicos, proponiendo una visión que abarque un cambio significativo en la práctica pedagógica y en la formación docente.…”
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Youthful Choices: A Secondary Analysis of the NFHS-5 Data to Examine Tobacco Use in Indian Adolescent Girls and Young Women by Jobinse Jose, Aditi Chaudhary, Abhishek Ghosh, Sonu Goel

“…The research investigated determinants of current tobacco use, encompassing any tobacco use in any form, smoked and smokeless tobacco (SLT). Independent variables include demographics, religion, caste, region, education, occupation, body mass index, wealth index, alcohol consumption, and media exposure. …”
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Analysis of the Effects of Livestock Economics on the Sustainability of Rural Settlements, Case Study: Eastern Gavdool District, Malekan by Mohammad Valaei, Abdollah abdollahi, Aghil Khaleghi, eynaz skandarzadeh

“…According to the Cochran formula, 283 households were selected as the statistical sample of the research. …”
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Mitochondrial ATP-Sensitive K+ Channel Opening Increased the Airway Smooth Muscle Cell Proliferation by Activating the PI3K/AKT Signaling Pathway in a Rat Model of Asthma by Min Gao, Qinran Sun, Qingfa Liu

“…This study aimed to assess whether mitochondrial ATP-sensitive K+ (mitoKATP) channels regulated the proliferation of ASMCs by regulating the phosphoinositide 3-kinase/protein kinase B (PI3K/AKT) pathway in asthmatic rats. Forty-eight Sprague Dawley rats were immunized with ovalbumin-containing alum to establish the asthma models. …”
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Resilient Distribution Network Practice of Cities Under the Demand for Safe and Reliable Power Supply by ZHENG Kaiyuan, YU Xijuan, YANG Yuxi, GAO Yang, WANG Liyong, LIU Qingshi, CHEN Ping, LIU Chongru

“…This study first expounds on the basic concept and characteristics of grid resilience and then reviews the main achievements and lessons drawn from domestic and foreign resilience research， as well as resilience enhancement measures and key technologies. …”
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Coreografies de la mirada. Un projecte de recerca-creació en dansa by José Ignacio Lorente

“…La atención a los procesos frente a los productos de la creación no consiste solamente en una opción meramente metodológica o estética, sino que representa un pensamiento en acto cuya performatividad implica cuestiones políticas, éticas y discursivas, relativas a la forma de configurar y definir los objetivos y el interés de la investigación, los valores implicados y el posicionamiento del sujeto en relación con las tensiones y conflictos presentes en los contextos en que habita, y frente a los cuales se compromete y actúa. …”
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Blocking REDD1/TXNIP Complex Ameliorates HG-Induced Renal Tubular Epithelial Cell Apoptosis and EMT through Repressing Oxidative Stress by Lin Mu, Nan Chen, Yakun Chen, Zhifen Yang, Huandi Zhou, Shan Song, Yonghong Shi

“…In addition, HG could induce endogenous REDD1 and TXNIP to form a powerful complex. In summary, our findings demonstrate that blocking the REDD1/TXNIP complex can prevent HG-induced apoptosis and EMT by inhibiting ROS production, highlighting REDD1 as a valuable therapeutic priority site for DN.…”
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Evaluating Summer Neutral Temperature and Land Surface Temperature Trends Over Three Decades in Tetuan, Morocco Using Thermal Comfort Questionnaires by Ahsissene Safae, Rhziel Fatima Zahrae, Raissouni Naoufal

“…The unique juxtaposition of subjective thermal perceptions and objective data not only maps the adaptability of urban populations to changing climates but also aids in formulating strategies to enhance thermal comfort in Mediterranean urban settings.…”
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Quadriptyque narratif autour de la Seconde Guerre mondiale by Joëlle Ginestet

“…Four works of fiction about the Second World War published by the Institut d’Etudes Occitanes between 1951 and 1978 fostered the renewal of the narrative form in Occitan fictionalized writings. Shifting from metaphorical terms to historical references and realistic effects, the different points of view of R. …”
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Changes in the Order of Family Life Events in 20th-Century Europe: A Cross-Regional Perspective by Reto Burgin, Reto Schumacher, Gilbert Ritschard

“…In Eastern Europe where family event sequences have become less standardized and where a particular sequence characterized by the reversal of the traditional order between leaving home and family formation has been observed, the hypothesized transition is still in its very beginning. …”
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Rockburst in Sandstone Containing Elliptic Holes with Varying Axial Ratios by Yang Wang, Manchao He, Dongqiao Liu, Yubing Gao

“…Tensile cracks are the dominant crack types formed during rockburst and account for over 70% of all cracks in the samples. …”
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