Tendencies in defense expenditure of NATO countries by D.M. Vyhivskyi

“…The article examines the basic principles of NATO’s functioning (indirect contributions – expenditures of the member states of the Alliance, which constitute the most significant part of the funding; direct contributions to support budgets and finance the development of capabilities and the implementation of programs that allow the Alliance to work on achieving its goals and priorities; contributions to NATO budgets according to an agreed distribution key based on their gross national income). …”
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The morphogenesis-related NDR kinase pathway of Colletotrichum orbiculare is required for translating plant surface signals into infection-related morphogenesis and pathogenesis. by Sayo Kodama, Junya Ishizuka, Ito Miyashita, Takaaki Ishii, Takumi Nishiuchi, Hideto Miyoshi, Yasuyuki Kubo

“…Furthermore, copag1 deletion impaired CoCbk1 phosphorylation, suggesting that CoPag1 functions via CoCbk1 activation. Searching for the plant signals that contribute to appressorium induction via MOR, we found that the cutin monomer n-octadecanal, degraded from the host cuticle by conidial esterases, functions as a signal molecule for appressorium development. …”
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Proline-specific aminopeptidase P prevents replication-associated genome instability. by Nicola Silva, Maikel Castellano-Pozo, Kenichiro Matsuzaki, Consuelo Barroso, Monica Roman-Trufero, Hannah Craig, Darren R Brooks, R Elwyn Isaac, Simon J Boulton, Enrique Martinez-Perez

“…Genotoxic stress during DNA replication constitutes a serious threat to genome integrity and causes human diseases. …”
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The winding road to platelet α-granules by Andrea L. Ambrosio, Santiago M. Di Pietro

“…Platelets are anucleate cellular fragments derived from megakaryocytes (MKs) and α-granules constitute their most numerous membrane-bound compartments. …”
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Clinical-cognitive Characterization of Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 2 by Alberto Caballero Laguna, Luis Velázquez Pérez, Alián Pérez Marrero

“…<br /><strong>Conclusions:</strong> between the two evaluations there was a progression of cerebellar manifestations and a deterioration of cognitive functions was evidenced, giving an important role to the cerebellum in both functions by this study.…”
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fHMM: Hidden Markov Models for Financial Time Series in R by Lennart Oelschläger, Timo Adam, Rouven Michels

“… Hidden Markov models constitute a versatile class of statistical models for time series that are driven by hidden states. …”
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Pascal ve Sağduyunun Çağrısı: İnanmanın Rasyonelliği/Pascal and the Call of Common Sense: The Rationality of Belief by Bayram Çınar

“…While the argument in question does not constitute definitive proof of God's existence, it functions as a mechanism that motivates individuals toward belief. …”
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Make America Great Again as White Political Theology by S. Romi Mukherjee

“…This article investigates how MAGA functions as white political theology both within the White House and amongst Trump’s base. …”
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Quand le paysage ouvre un horizon politique : Aix-Marseille-Provence métropole et le sentier métropolitain GR2013 by Sylvie Salles

“…It constitutes a step towards considering the political dimension of contemporary vernacular landscapes.…”
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How did vocal communication come to dominate human language? A view from the womb. by Alexis Hervais-Adelman, Simon W Townsend

“…Here, we revisit this conundrum, championing recent methodological advances in human neuroimaging (specifically, in utero functional magnetic resonance imaging) as a window into the role of the prenatal gestational period in language evolution, a critical, yet currently underexplored environment in which fetuses are exposed to, and become attuned to, spoken language. …”
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Predicting electrocatalytic urea synthesis using a two-dimensional descriptor by Amy Wuttke, Alexander Bagger

“…Increasing research focuses on value-added chemicals like the indispensable fertilizer urea, which also constitutes a study case for electrochemical CN-coupling. …”
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Revisiting Southern Gallo-Romance from a complexity theory standpoint: Occitan by Jean Léo Léonard

“…After sketching the canonical classifications of the Occitan geolinguistic space (Bec, Ronjat), providing the “eponymous dialects”, we explore the deep patterns of this diasystem, bringing to light a hierarchy of systemic entities constituting an array of “invisible dialects”, corresponding to entities of various size and functions (macrodialects, dialects, subdialects, varieties, hubs, small worlds, buffer zones, default dialects). …”
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Diagnóstico do estado geoambiental da área urbana do município de Cubatão (SP) / Geoenvironmental conditions diagnosis of the urban area of Cubatão, São Paulo, Brazil by Leandro de Godoi Pinton, Cenira Maria Lupinacci da Cunha

“…In such context, obtaining data on regulating capacity of the landscapes’ geocological functions according to the anthropic intervention degree in its natural components constitutes as an aid instrument to the environmental planning. …”
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Social Media Engagement & Listening by Nestor Tyrovouzis

“… Until now, academic literature has described public diplomacy and strategic communication as two distinct; analogous; connected; occasionally conflicting or incompatible; constitutive or subordinate to the other concepts. Still, their correlation has yet to be clearly defined. …”
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Cloning of cryptogein gene and construction of its plant expression vector by JIANG Dong-hua, KONG Shi-hai, GUO Ze-Jian

“…This promoter may exhibit a potential to inhibit the infection of pathogen from epidermal tissues. Meanwhile, for functional interaction with the membrane binding sites in transgenic plants, cryptogein protein must be exported to the outside of cell. …”
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ENHANCING THE COMPETITIVENESS OF ENTERPRISES IN THE FACE OF CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES AND TRENDS WITH THE USE OF BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGY by Marta Wiśniewska, Jakub Grabowski

“…At the same time, it was found that large enterprises in Poland do not perceive the capabilities of blockchain-based technology, which may result from insufficient knowledge of its operation and functionality. Low awareness of the complexity and versatility of blockchain technology applications in the corporate sector may constitute a barrier to further disseminating this technology.…”
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Protocol and Architecture to Bring Things into Internet of Things by Ángel Asensio, Álvaro Marco, Rubén Blasco, Roberto Casas

“…Both CTP and IoT gateway constitute a middleware content-centric architecture presented as the mechanism to achieve a balance between the intrinsic limitations of things in the physical world and what is required from them in the virtual world. …”
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There Isn't an App for That: Analogue and Digital Politics in the Age of Platform Capitalism by Robert Hassan

“…An analogue engendered political process continues to exist, but it functions at the elite levels of business and government; whereas the digitally-created ‘lightness’ of the virtual sphere constitutes the political process for the growing millions. …”
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The origin of glucocorticoid hormone oscillations. by Jamie J Walker, Francesca Spiga, Eleanor Waite, Zidong Zhao, Yvonne Kershaw, John R Terry, Stafford L Lightman

“…This constitutes a novel mechanism by which the level, rather than the pattern, of CRH determines the dynamics of glucocorticoid hormone secretion.…”
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Les artisans et la terre : réflexions sur les concessions foncières aux artisans altomédiévaux (ixe‑xie siècles) by Alexandre Beaudet

“…Artisans' relationship to land asset is a structuring element of their production relations and, therefore, constitutes a privileged field of study in labour history. …”
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