Reading the Background: The Textual and the Visual in Steve Tomasula’s The Book of Portraiture by Pawel Frelik

“…Instead, they constitute an important layer of the narrative, whose significance can only be glimpsed when the reader has re-focused their attention from the textual foreground to the visual background.…”
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Application of the Bipotential Theory to a Nonassociated Drucker–Prager Model by Yang-Jing Zhou, Zhi-Qiang Feng, Juan Antonio Rojas Quintero, Jian-Bo Zhou, Hui-Jian Chen

“…With a new description of the implicit flow rules, we propose dual constitutive cones as well as five forms of the bipotential function: the elastic stage in rate form, the plastic stage in rate form, the elastic stage in incremental form, the plastic stage in incremental form, and the elastoplastic stage in incremental form. …”
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An Analytical Solution of the Advection Dispersion Equation in a Bounded Domain and Its Application to Laboratory Experiments by M. Massabó, R. Cianci, O. Paladino

“…We study a uniform flow in a parallel plate geometry to model contaminant transport through a saturated porous medium in a semi-infinite domain in order to simulate an experimental apparatus mainly constituted by a chamber filled with a glass beads bed. …”
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Mechanical properties and damage model of alkali activated polymer solidified soil containing coal gangue powder by Yang Yang, Shengsheng Yu, Aiping Hu, Yanbing Cao, Yangfei Bai

“…By integrating Lemaitre’s strain equivalence principle with a composite power function, a damage constitutive model was derived. …”
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On modelling of the one dimensional pseudoelastic effect of shape memory alloys by Zidane Imade, Meddour Belkacem

“…To exploit these properties in engineering, several constitutive models of were developed. The aim of this work is to build a constitutive model that could describe the pseudoelastic behaviour of shape memory alloys in a simpler and more accurate way. …”
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Why should we be concerned by internalised racism in global health? by Ferdinand C Mukumbang, Shiva R Mishra, Bipin Adhikari, Chanaki Amaratunga

“…Internalised racism constitutes an adoption of beliefs about one’s inferiority, weaknesses or shortcomings as a function of racial hierarchy affecting one’s identity and self-worth, thoughts, emotions and behaviours. …”
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Contrasting Roles of Islet Resident Immunoregulatory Macrophages and Dendritic Cells in Experimental Autoimmune Type 1 Diabetes. by Thomas B Thornley, Krishna A Agarwal, Periklis Kyriazis, Lingzhi Ma, Vaja Chipashvili, Jonathan E Aker, Sarantis Korniotis, Eva Csizmadia, Terry B Strom, Maria Koulmanda

“…The immunoregulatory phenotype and function of IRMs is compromised by TLR4 activation in vitro. …”
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Application of «wide awake» аnesthesia for improvement of results of a tendon–muscular transposition on the hand by А. А. Bezugliy, М. P. Оberemok, S. V. Tymoshenko, А. S. Lysak

“…High efficacy of a «wide awake» аnesthesia in nonvolume function–creating interventions, performed with addition of sliding and active structures and necessitating close intraoperative cooperation with the patient, was proved.…”
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B Cell Activating Factor, Renal Allograft Antibody-Mediated Rejection, and Long-Term Outcome by Haiyan Xu, Xiaozhou He, Renfang Xu

“…The B cell activating factor (BAFF) signal plays a fundamental function in the process of antibody-mediated immune response. …”
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Case Report: long-term misdiagnosis and follow-up of a patient with HNF4A-MODY carrying a new de novo mutation by Jing Luo, Jing Luo, Ai Li, Ai Li, Xiaoli Wang

“…BackgroundHNF4A-MODY constitutes 5%–10% of MODY cases; however, treatment options remain unclearly recommended, and long-term follow-up of patients with HNF4A-MODY is lacking due to limited research. …”
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Parboiled Rice and Glycemic Control: Effects on Postprandial Glucose, Insulin Sensitivity, and Incretin Response in Healthy and Type 2 Diabetic Individuals, a Pilot Study by Sara Alkandari, Tasleem A. Zafar, Suleiman Al-Sabah, Mohammed Abu Farha, Jehad Abubaker, Fahd Al-Mulla

“…Nevertheless, the impact of PBR consumption on insulin sensitivity, β-cell function, and incretin hormone responses remains poorly understood. …”
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Glycine rich proteins of ticks: more than a cement component by Renata Perotto de Souza, Mariana Vieira Dalla Valentina, Bruna Ferreira Leal, Sílvia Dias Oliveira, Carlos Alexandre Sanchez Ferreira, Ala Tabor

“…Glycine-rich proteins (GRPs) are arbitrarily defined as those containing 20% or more glycine residues and constitute a superfamily divided into subfamilies based on their structure and/or function. …”
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Miniinvasive vascular interventions as an alternative surgical method for treatment of the patients, suffering hepatic cirrhosis and portal hypertension by О. F. Dzygal, І. М. Deykalo

“…The decompression operations for portal system in patients with HC prevent the esophago-gastric hemorrhage occurrence in late period of follow-up and guarantee good survival of the patients, suffering compensated and subcompensated hepatic function.…”
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The Growing Power of Judges in Democratic Political Systems: Causes and Manifestations by Bertrand Mathieu

“…The rise of judicial power is one of the major developments in contemporary constitutional law. This is reflected particularly by the multiplication of the courts’ function and the corresponding strengthening of their normative power. …”
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Pharmacophore, syndrome de Noé, tire-veine, and other newcomers in medical terminology. Analysis of official medical neologisms in FranceTerme by Jan Holeš

“…The metaphors detected in the corpus are based both on analogies of form and function, and the most frequently occurring metonymies are based on a cause–effect relationship. …”
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Contradictory Nature of Banks and its Overcoming in Conditions of Today’s Cash System by Yu. A. Kropin

“…As a result the author came to the conclusion that contradictory nature of banks impeding the economic development of the country can be overcome by differentiating them in those, which will form the constitutional element of the cash system of the country and those, which will function as ordinary companies competing with each other in different lines and striving for growth by gaining profits.…”
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Eau et territoire à travers l’expérience des contrats de rivière en Wallonie (Belgique) by Francis Rosillon

“…They will be territories of solidarity and participation, territories of knowledge where the local expertise of the residents and the users of the water is recognized and comes to complete the scientific knowledge, territories of preventive actions through the promotion of best practice of ground occupation and finally territories of integration by the consideration of all the functions of the river of which the landscaped function. …”
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Rôle de la littérature dans le développement de la compétence communicationnelle en cours d’allemand au Burkina Faso by Jean-Claude Bationo

“…The first function of every language is communication. We can support the thesis that teaching German as a foreign language in Burkina Faso pursues as a fundamental objective the development of the learners’ ability to communicate orally and in writing. …”
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Jardins, parcs et paysages dans l’œuvre de Hermann Hesse – ou Par-delà nature et culture by Corinne Fournier Kiss

“…Gardens and landscapes are “in motion” and they become not only true palimpsests overloaded with the writings of multiple places, but also function, for the observer, as a privileged means of confronting his unconscious and gaining a truer knowledge of himself.…”
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‘Our precious quand même’: French in the Letters of Henry James by Daniel Karlin

“…Patterns of usage may be unconscious (determined by certain recurring epistolary ‘situations’) but there are also cases where the use of French constitutes a trenchant and finely-judged stroke of art. …”
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