Local Council’s competencies and Principles Shaping the Enhanced Performance in I.R. Iran: Case Study on City and Village Islamic Councils by gholamabbas Darabi, علی اکبر گرجی ازندریانی

“…Iran, such institutions have manifested in many forms, most importantly, in forms of City and Village Islamic Councils functioned in all levels and representatively. Drawing on a qualitative content analysis and using library and documentary data, this paper argues that local institutions competencies stipulated by the Constitution may allow for identifying the leading principles shaping the enhanced performance in I.R. …”
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International codes of archival ethics: an analytical comparative study by Ashraf Maklad

“…Ethical control for archivists and workers in records and information is an important step towards properly performing the functions of records units and archival entities. The codes of professional ethics are supposed to be a constitution between archivists and users that defines the duties and rights of each party to prevent blackmailing of users or Damage archives. …”
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Las galerías drenantes de la provincia de Almería by Jorge Hermosilla Pla, Emilio Iranzo García, Juan Antonio Pascual Aguilar, Miguel Antequera Fernández, Alejandro José Pérez Cueva

“…The cultural heritage constitutes one of the research lines with more projection among geographers. …”
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The Contemporary System of German Economic Diplomacy by R. O. Raynkhardt

“…The article deals with the description and analysis of functioning of the German national system of economic diplomacy. …”
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The systemic and financial legal bases of health care in Poland – selected issues by Elżbieta Feret

“…The first one is related to the functioning of public authorities in the area of healthcare at state and local government level, related to the definition of organizational and legal forms operating within the public finance sector. …”
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ABC gene expression profiles have clinical importance and possibly form a new hallmark of cancer by Pavel Dvorak, Martin Pesta, Pavel Soucek

“…Adenosine triphosphate–binding cassette proteins constitute a large family of active transporters through extracellular and intracellular membranes. …”
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Short-term WB-EMS in Cancer Patients: Positive Effects After 2 Weeks of Exercise—A Single-arm Trial by Jane Kersten MSc, Timo Niels PhD, Annika Tomanek MSc, Freerk T. Baumann PD/ Habil

“…Moreover, a pre-post measurement of the patients’ perceived body constitution was conducted in every exercise session. …”
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Throughout Seven Elements of Communication of Language on Martin Luther King’s Speech: A Discourse Analysis by Siti Maisyaroh Jumiati

“…Until the passage of the 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1865, slavery in the United States was legal. …”
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New Modes of Ventilation Realized in the Servoventilator Chirana by P. Torok

“…In his first part, the author describes and analyzes the so-called two-level ventilation 2-level+PS, which constitutes one of the progressive ventilation modes, at some other ventilators called as BiPAP, Bilevel, BiPAP-SIMV. …”
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The reaction specificity of mammalian ALOX15B orthologs does not depend on the evolutionary ranking of the animals by Eda Gündem, Sabine Stehling, Astrid Borchert, Hartmut Kuhn

“…To address this question, we systematically searched the public databases for ALOX15B genes, expressed selected enzymes, and characterized their functional properties. We found that functional ALOX15B genes frequently occur in Prototheria and Eutheria but orthologous genes are rare in Metatheria. …”
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Comparative reactivity of hypohalous acids with proteins: Chemistry, biological effects and consequences by Els A. Hartsema, Helen Hemmling, Clare L. Hawkins

“…Proteins are highly abundant in biological systems and constitute key targets for HOX. These reactions lead to the modification of amino acid side chains, together with protein unfolding, fragmentation and aggregation, which have significant structural and functional effects. …”
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Plant Secondary Metabolites, Their Classification and Biological Roles: A Review by Enas Naji, Hiba Fouad Abdulfatah, Khader AlZawi

“…Plants constitute an indispensable reservoir of chemical compounds possessing diverse biological attributes that can be exploited by humans for their benefit. …”
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A novel system of polymorphic and diverse NK cell receptors in primates. by Anne Averdam, Beatrix Petersen, Cornelia Rosner, Jennifer Neff, Christian Roos, Manfred Eberle, Fabienne Aujard, Claudia Münch, Werner Schempp, Mary Carrington, Takashi Shiina, Hidetoshi Inoko, Florian Knaust, Penny Coggill, Harminder Sehra, Stephan Beck, Laurent Abi-Rached, Richard Reinhardt, Lutz Walter

“…While KIR represent the most diverse group of NK receptors in all primates studied to date, including humans, apes, and Old and New World monkeys, KLR represent the functional equivalent in rodents. Here, we report a first digression from this rule in lemurs, where the KLR (CD94/NKG2) rather than KIR constitute the most diverse group of NK cell receptors. …”
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TFAP2A drives non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) progression and resistance to targeted therapy by facilitating the ESR2-mediated MAPK pathway by Ding-Guo Wang, Jian Gao, Jing Wang, Kun-Chao Li, Zhi-Bo Wu, Zhong-Min Liao, Yong-Bing Wu

“…Transcription factors (TFs) constitute a class of structurally and functionally intricate proteins. …”
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Role of extracellular vesicles in the pathogenesis of mosquito-borne flaviviruses that impact public health by Pedro Pablo Martínez-Rojas, Verónica Monroy-Martínez, Blanca H. Ruiz-Ordaz

“…The available evidence suggests that extracellular vesicles mediate diverse functions between hosts, constituting novel effectors for understanding the pathogenic mechanisms of flaviviral diseases.…”
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Research and Application of Smoke Flavorings in Aquatic Products Processing by Guanliang SONG, Shaofeng CHENG, Qiancheng ZHAO, Meng LI, Shengcong LIU, Yongsheng MA

“…This paper reviews the preparation process of smoke flavorings and analyzes their main chemical components and functional activities. Carbonyl compounds, organic acids and phenolic compounds constitute the main components of smoke flavorings, which give them functional activities such as flavor, color, antibacterial and antioxidant. …”
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Age-related disturbances in rest-activity rhythms and integrity of the hippocampal network: An exploratory study by Aurore Jouvencel, Bixente Dilharreguy, Marion Baillet, Karine Pérès, Jean-François Dartigues, Hélène Amieva, Willy Mayo, Gwenaëlle Catheline

“…The deterioration of rest-activity rhythms was correlated with a lower anterior hippocampal volume (p corrected <0.05) while no correlation with functional connectivity was observed.These findings suggest that a degradation of rest-activity rhythms in people over 70 years old could constitute a factor of hippocampal vulnerability. …”
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Natural killer cell cytokine response to M. bovis BCG Is associated with inhibited proliferation, increased apoptosis and ultimate depletion of NKp44(+)CD56(bright) cells. by Damien Portevin, Douglas Young

“…In summary, we observed that M. bovis BCG is modulating the functions of CD56(bright) NK cells to drive this subset to produce IFN-γ before subsequent programmed cell death. …”
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Biofilm associated with pigmented areas on a waterproofing coating surface by Clotilde Maestri, Ronan L. Hébert, Patrick Di Martino

“…Waterproofing coatings are composite materials made of different layers with complementary functionalities. They may suffer damage that can modify their aesthetic appearance and/or their functionality. …”
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The application of irreversible genomic states to define and trace ancient cell type homologies by Oleg Simakov, Günter P. Wagner

“…Our proposal is that such evolutionarily irreversible, and thus synapomorphic, functional genomic states can constitute a criterion for the timing of the origin of deep evolutionary cell type homologies. …”
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