Castleman’s Disease Presenting as a Parotid Mass in the Pediatric Population: A Report of 2 Cases by Sean W. Delaney, Shengmei Zhou, Dennis Maceri

“…At 6 months of follow-up, both had fully intact facial nerve function and no evidence of recurrence. Discussion. …”
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Establishing normal range of fetal renal artery RI and PI values in singleton pregnancies during 18-38 weeks of gestation by Beenish Nadeem, Naushaba Malik, Anam Zahoor

“… INTRODUCTION: Human kidney constitutes an integral organ during the period of embryogenesis. …”
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Reconfigurable Hardware-based Embedded Control System Development using LabView Environment by SZÁSZ Csaba

“…Usually embedded systems are optimized for a particular task and function. They express many advantages in terms of performance, cost-effectiveness, reliability, size-weight, or interfacing versatility over other computing solutions. …”
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Denmark: Portfolio Allocation in the Government and Parliament in the Sphere of Foreign Policy by Oxana V. Grigoreva, Nikita O. Plyusnin

“…The authors conclude that when allocating portfolios in the government, preference is given to "junior" coalition partners, while in parliament - to "senior" ones; the opinion of the Danish People's Party is taken into account by coalition partners without the Party’s inclusion in the government; the choice is given in favour of popular and authoritative politicians constituting the foreign policy elite of Denmark over the past three decades; the functioning of the Foreign Policy Committee provides some kind of balance of power in the Danish Parliament on foreign and defence policy. …”
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DNA Topoisomerases maintain promoters in a state competent for transcriptional activation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. by Jakob Madsen Pedersen, Jacob Fredsoe, Morten Roedgaard, Lotte Andreasen, Kamilla Mundbjerg, Mogens Kruhøffer, Marie Brinch, Mikkel Heide Schierup, Lotte Bjergbaek, Anni Hangaard Andersen

“…In conclusion, our results reveal a hitherto unknown function of topoisomerases during transcriptional activation of genes with a repressible/inducible mode of regulation.…”
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Impact of helicobacter pylori infection on the efficacy of ICIs in gastric cancer by Yuxin Huang, Yi Hu

“…Additionally, infection-associated dysbiosis of the gut microbiota and suppression of T cell function are implicated in diminished ICI efficacy. …”
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Basal metabolic rate shapes the development and progression of hepatocellular carcinoma by Sebastian Maciak, Diana Sawicka, Irena Kasacka, Lech Chyczewski, Halina Car, Marek Konarzewski

“…Abstract Background Among several cancer risk factors, the variation in basal metabolism rate (BMR), which constitutes up to 70% of total energy expenditures in humans, may be causally linked with neoplasm development. …”
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Acceleration of Wound Healing by α-gal Nanoparticles Interacting with the Natural Anti-Gal Antibody by Uri Galili

“…Application of α-gal nanoparticles to wounds and burns induces accelerated healing by harnessing the natural anti-Gal antibody which constitutes ~1% of human immunoglobulins. α-gal nanoparticles present multiple α-gal epitopes (Galα1-3Galβ1-4GlcNAc-R), the carbohydrate ligand of anti-Gal. …”
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Protein-protein interactions in the RPS4/RRS1 immune receptor complex. by Sung Un Huh, Volkan Cevik, Pingtao Ding, Zane Duxbury, Yan Ma, Laurence Tomlinson, Panagiotis F Sarris, Jonathan D G Jones

“…Plant NLR (Nucleotide-binding domain and Leucine-rich Repeat) immune receptor proteins are encoded by Resistance (R) genes and confer specific resistance to pathogen races that carry the corresponding recognized effectors. Some NLR proteins function in pairs, forming receptor complexes for the perception of specific effectors. …”
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Caspase-14-like Proteases: An Epidermal Caspase and Its Evolutionarily Ancient Relatives by Leopold Eckhart, Attila Placido Sachslehner, Julia Steinbinder, Heinz Fischer

“…The latter is expressed exclusively in epithelial cells and constitutively resides in its active form in the cornified layer of the human epidermis. …”
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Advancing Load Frequency Control in Multi-Resource Energy Systems Through Superconducting Magnetic Energy Storage by Ghazanfar Shahgholian, Arman Fathollahi

“…Given the fundamental importance of the power grid in both supply and demand, frequency stability is critical to the reliable and stable function of energy systems. When energy is stored in the system, it mitigates problems caused by various disturbances that interrupt the energy system’s operation. …”
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Oríkì and trending hype performance in Nigeria: an aesthetics of cultural hybridisation for economic purpose by Ifeoluwa Theophilus Akinsola

“…Traditionally, Oríkì, a praise poetic oral genre among the Yorùbá people, serves both socio-cultural (for the praised) and economic (for the performer) functions. Scholars have indicted modernity through colonization and westernization as great threats to the sustainability of its socio-cultural aspect. …”
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ToMCCA: a Toy Monte Carlo Coalescence Afterburner by Maximilian Mahlein, Chiara Pinto, Laura Fabbietti

“…This model can also be extended to heavier nuclei as long as the target nucleus wavefunction and its Wigner function are known.…”
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A Living River” of Çanakkale Sarıçay Region Examination in the Scope by Zekeriye Gök, Alper Sağlık, Merve Temiz Topsakal

“…The aim of the study was to restore the sustainability of Çanakkale Sarıçay and its surroundings to the city and to function it. It is predicted that the study will positively affect the quality of life in the city and the quality of life will increase.…”
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Exploring chest wall deformities in childhood and adolescence: insights from a case-control study by Fedli Emre Kılıç, Osman Küçükkelepçe, Celal Varan, Hüseyin Tanrıverdi, Furkan Bakırhan

“…Abstract Background Chest wall deformities, though relatively uncommon in childhood and adolescence, significantly affect aesthetic perception and can impact cardiac and respiratory function. This study aims to compare individuals with pectus deformities to a healthy control group, shedding light on the condition’s etiology and prognosis. …”
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Maternal thyroid hormone is required to develop the hindbrain vasculature in zebrafish by Marlene Trindade, Nádia Silva, Joana Rodrigues, Koichi Kawakami, Marco A. Campinho

“…This mutation affects the capacity for intracellular transport of the hormone, leading to impaired brain development that constitutes the main pathophysiological basis of AHDS. …”
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Punctuation Patterns in <i>Finnegans Wake</i> by James Joyce Are Largely Translation-Invariant by Krzysztof Bartnicki, Stanisław Drożdż, Jarosław Kwapień, Tomasz Stanisz

“…All these changes take place within Weibull distributions such that the corresponding hazard functions are always increasing. Recent previous research shows that James Joyce’s famous novel <i>Finnegans Wake</i> is subject to such an extreme distribution from the Weibull family that the corresponding hazard function is clearly decreasing. …”
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Eu accession to the ECHR: Enlarging the human rights protection in Europe by Krstić Ivana, Čučković Bojana

“…It is noted that currently the ECtHR has only an indirect constitutional control over the EU's legal order by examining laws of the Member States. …”
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Optogenetics reveals Cdc42 local activation by scaffold-mediated positive feedback and Ras GTPase. by Iker Lamas, Laura Merlini, Aleksandar Vještica, Vincent Vincenzetti, Sophie G Martin

“…We show that Scd2 function is dispensable when the positive feedback operates through an engineered interaction between the GEF and a Cdc42 effector, the p21-activated kinase 1 (Pak1). …”
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Multiple and Bilateral Sporadic Renal Cell Carcinomas: A Surgical Challenge by Antonios Katsimantas, Spyridon Paparidis, Konstantinos Bouropoulos, Nikolaos Ferakis

“…The patient avoided permanent or temporary dialysis and 6 months postoperatively he demonstrated no recurrence on imaging and his renal function remained stable.…”
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