Varför ska jag inte berätta? by Jonas Asklund

“…In an intervention study based on a series of book discussions of an easy reader novel, I investigated the cooperation between a group of Swedish language learners aged 16 to 19, their teacher in the introduction program for newcomers, and the school librarian. Based on my function as a teacher educator, and drawing on the current research in literature didactics, I planned and carried out six discussions where different reading strategies and methods were used. …”
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Frequentare l’Università, tra dovere e diritto allo studio by Giovanna Farinelli

“…The university as a place of personal, relational and organizational well-being implies the recognition of the need for attendance and participation not only as a right to study but above all as a duty, as stated in the second paragraph of article 4 of the Italian Constitution: “Every citizen shall have the duty, according to personal potential and individual choice, to perform any activity or function contributing to the material or spiritual progress of society”. …”
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Seeing the Ice. An Overview of Alpine Glacier Tourism Sites, Between Post- and Hyper-Modernity by Emmanuel Salim, Christophe Gauchon, Ludovic Ravanel

“…The analysis of the way various sites function demonstrates that these practices can be related to the different forms of tourism that exist in the scientific literature: modern, post-modern and hyper-modern tourism. …”
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Stem Cell Therapy—New Approach and Effective Treatment for Psoriasis by Hanan Hassan Ahmed, Mohamed J. Saadh, Radhwan Abdul Kareem, Suhas Ballal, Shilpa Sharma, J. Guntaj, G. V. Siva Prasad, Waam Mohammed Taher, Mariem Alwan, Mahmood Jasem Jawad, Atheer Khdyair Hamad

“…Importantly, malfunctions across diverse stem cell types may constitute a central mechanism underlying the dysregulated inflammatory processes that characterize this condition. …”
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Śladami Jezusa ku Cezarei Filipowej (Mt 16,13; Mk 8,27) – u stóp Hermonu i u źródeł Jordanu by Ryszard Zawadzki

“…The scene of dialogue between Jesus and His disciples at that place (Mk 8:2730; Mt 16:13-20) constitutes a turning-point in the way of Jesus and also in the composition of both gospels. …”
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Mankind’s Relationship with the Environment in Jeff VanderMeer’s Annihilation by Hossein Mohseni

“…Accordingly, this failure constitutes the study’s purpose in that it shows conventional paradigms of mankind’s knowledge bodies could not delve into the cognizance and intentions of an amoral and un-registrable environment. …”
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Role of ABO secretor status in mucosal innate immunity and H. pylori infection. by Sara Lindén, Jafar Mahdavi, Cristina Semino-Mora, Cara Olsen, Ingemar Carlstedt, Thomas Borén, Andre Dubois

“…The fucosylated ABH antigens, which constitute the molecular basis for the ABO blood group system, are also expressed in salivary secretions and gastrointestinal epithelia in individuals of positive secretor status; however, the biological function of the ABO blood group system is unknown. …”
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Nonlinear Viscoelastic-Plastic Creep Model of Rock Based on Fractional Calculus by Erjian Wei, Bin Hu, Jing Li, Kai Cui, Zhen Zhang, Aneng Cui, Liyao Ma

“…Based on fractional calculus theory, this paper explores the creep curve characteristics of the creep elements with the fractional order change, constructs a nonlinear viscoelastic-plastic creep model of rock based on fractional calculus, and deduces the creep constitutive equation. By using a user-defined function fitting tool of the Origin software and the Levenberg–Marquardt optimization algorithm, the creep test data are fitted and compared. …”
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Reconstruction of pelvic ring, using the metal polymer еndoprosthesis after radical internal resection of pelvis by А. G. Diedkov, V. Yu. Коstiuk

“…Median index of the lower extremity function in accordance to the MTS scale after resection have constituted (61.06 ± 15.83)%. …”
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A positive feedback loop between SMAD3 and PINK1 in regulation of mitophagy by Mingzhu Tang, Dade Rong, Xiangzheng Gao, Guang Lu, Haimei Tang, Peng Wang, Ning-Yi Shao, Dajing Xia, Xin-Hua Feng, Wei-Feng He, Weilin Chen, Jia-Hong Lu, Wei Liu, Han-Ming Shen

“…Therefore, PINK1 and SMAD3 constitute a positive feedforward loop in control of mitophagy. …”
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Intestinal Microbiota as an Alternative Therapeutic Target for Epilepsy by Jiaying Wu, Yuyu Zhang, Hongyu Yang, Yuefeng Rao, Jing Miao, Xiaoyang Lu

“…It is also believed that, in addition to influencing digestive system function, symbiotic microbiota can bidirectionally and reversibly impact the programming of extraintestinal pathogenic immune responses during autoimmunity. …”
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Critical sliding surface location method for anisotropic slope based on anisotropic yield criterion and optimization algorithm by Zhenfu Zhang, Yongjun Zhang, Sijia Liu, Mingzhong Gao, Fei Liu, Jintao Wang

“…This method is grounded in a generalized soil anisotropic constitutive model and establishes a global equilibrium framework. …”
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Research on over-the-horizon air combat guidance method based on dynamic RCS by SONG Shaomei, YU Yifei, LI Gai, YANG Qiming, ZHANG Jiandong

“…Firstly, the influence of dynamic RCS is considered to obtain the optimal attack situation, and then the situation evaluation function considering dynamic RCS constraints is established. …”
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Valvular Heart Disease in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease by Konstantina Kipourou, Jamie M O’Driscoll, Rajan Sharma

“…With regard to treatment, the existing 2017 European Society of Cardiology/European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery guidelines on the management of VHD addressing patients with normal kidney function are also applied to patients with CKD/ESRD.…”
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Vehicle-routing problem for low-carbon cold chain logistics based on the idea of cost–benefit by Yan Liu, Fengming Tao, Rui Zhu

“…Abstract In the low-carbon economy, the fresh industry constitutes an “impossible triangle” in products, prices and services. …”
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The effect of confinement on thermal convection and longitudinal macrosegregation in directionally solidified dilute succinonitrile–camphor alloy by Mota, Fatima L., Fabietti, Luis M., Bergeon, Nathalie, Trivedi, Rohit

“…The experiments and corresponding analyses performed in this work constitute an experimental characterization of convection effects as a function of sample thickness.…”
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Reverse supply chain service process model for the iron and steel industry by WANG Lei, XIA Xu-hui, XIONG Ying-qing, LIU Jun-wei, ZHOU Min

“…In the space, the first hierarchical service response constituted by the three stages of service programme matching and decision-making, and the second hierarchical service response constituted by the two stages of service function realization are accomplished. …”
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Molecular regulatory mechanism of LILRB4 in the immune response by Haiyin Liu, Jun Yang, Jing Zhang, Peiyue Zhang, Mengting Zhang, Chaojun Yang, Li Liu, Cuiyuan Huang, Wei Wang, Yuhong Zhai, Jian Yang

“…The present review intends to expound the structure and function of LILRB4, as well as its regulators and receptors in the immune cells, so as to provide a theoretical basis for immune disease therapy.…”
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Feedforward Nonlinear Control Using Neural Gas Network by Iván Machón-González, Hilario López-García

“…A state feedback control is implemented by estimation of the state variables based on the local transfer function that was provided by the local linear model. …”
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PCR-mediated repeated chromosome splitting in Saccharomyces cerevisiae by Minetaka Sugiyama, Shigehito Ikushima, Toshimasa Nakazawa, Yoshinobu Kaneko, Satoshi Harashima

“…These observations indicate that the PCS method provides an efficient tool to engineer the yeast genome and may offer a possible approach to identify minimal genome constitutions as a function of culture conditions through further splitting, followed by combinatorial loss of minichromosomes.…”
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