The Spell of the Ancestors at the “Feast of Victory” (Nemlaay): From Initiation Ritual to Community Blessings by Antonio J. Guerreiro

“…In the month of June 2004, the village of Long Tuyo’—the first village above the rapids in the upper Mahakam area—decided to commemorate the anniversary of its foundation on the site (1904) by celebrating the Nemlaay Festival.The Festival, lasting six days, forms an initiation ritual for the young men and boys, besides a celebration of the warrior group proper. …”
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Profile of STING agonist and inhibitor research: a bibliometric analysis by Xuemei Wang, Qian Wang, Yidan Gao, Lijuan Jiang, Lingli Tang

“…BackgroundSTING is a core signaling hub molecule in the innate immune system, involved in various diseases, including infectious diseases, autoimmune diseases, tumors, aging, organ fibrosis, and neurodegenerative diseases. Its activation has shown great potential in anti-tumor and anti-infective therapies, with STING agonists emerging as a promising approach in cancer immunotherapy in recent years. …”
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Specimen Level and Component Level Simulations of Fatigue Crack Growth Behavior under Cyclic Bending by Suresh Kumar R, B N Rao, Velusamy K, Jalaldeen S

“…Demonstrating Leak-Before-Break (LBB) in the design stage itself plays an important role in ensuring the safety of the Sodium-cooled Fast Reactors (SFR) system. …”
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Sustainability status of amphidromous nike fish, postlarva Gobioidei, in estuarine water by F.M. Sahami, S.N. Hamzah, A.H. Tome, S.A. Habibie, M.R.U. Puluhulawa

“…The multi-dimensional scaling index value of the technology dimension is 84.09, demonstrating its sustainable status. The stress value (0.14 to 0.15) and the coefficient of determination (0.91 to 0.94) in the multi-dimensional scaling calculation showed that the analysis carried out was appropriate.CONCLUSION: The sustainability status of Nike fish in the waters of Tomini Bay, Gorontalo, is less sustainable and highly dependent on the environmental factors that support their life as amphidromous fish. …”
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Co-infection mathematical model for HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis with optimal control in Ethiopia. by Tigabu Kasie Ayele, Emile Franc Doungmo Goufo, Stella Mugisha

“…The co-epidemics of HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis (TB) outbreak is one of a serious disease in Ethiopia that demands integrative approaches to combat its transmission. In contrast, epidemiological co-infection models often considered a single latent case and recovered individuals with TB. …”
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Pigmented Nodular Basal Cell Carcinomas in Differential Diagnosis with Nodular Melanomas: Confocal Microscopy as a Reliable Tool for In Vivo Histologic Diagnosis by Alice Casari, Giovanni Pellacani, Stefania Seidenari, Anna Maria Cesinaro, Francesca Beretti, Patrizia Pepe, Caterina Longo

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Towards a History of Mountain Runaways“Migrants” and the Genealogies of Mountain Rescue and Struggles by Martina Tazzioli

“…It starts with a section on mobile infrastructures of solidarity deployed at the French-Italian Alpine border, retracing its brief history as well as of the sedimented memory of the struggles in the Susa Valley. …”
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A Spectroscopic Methodology to Early Detection of Urinary Tract Infections by Ana F. N. S. Mendes, Nuno Matela, João M. P. Coelho, Joaquim T. Marquês

“…Considering that 15 to 25% of hospitalised patients need to be catheterised during their treatments and most CAUTIs are asymptomatic, it results in a tremendous challenge to provide an early diagnosis of CAUTI and therefore initiate its treatment. The lack of standardised methods as a first step for urine monitoring and early detection of UTIs is the driving force of this work, which aims to explore the potential of absorption and fluorescence spectroscopic methodologies to detect UTIs. …”
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Pseudoaneurysm of the ascending aorta after aortic valve replacement by Osvaldo Valdés Dupeyrón, Geraldo Céspedes Arias, Boris Mederos Osorio, Pedro Pupo Suárez

“…Postsurgical pseudoaneurysms of the ascending aorta are a rare and serious complication of cardiovascular surgery that requires a surgical solution of urgency due to its high complexity. A case of a 40 year old female, white skin color, that due to severe aortic regurgitation underwent surgical treatment for aortic valve replacement. …”
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Numerical Simulation Research on Crack Bifurcation Mechanism of Bidirectional Cumulative Tensile Blasting by Pengfei Guo, Kengkeng Ye, Xiaohu Zhang

“…Shaped energy blasting has been widely used in the field of geotechnical engineering because of its good orientation and high energy utilization. …”
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The MIR181A2HG/miR‐5680/VCAN‐CD44 Axis Regulates Gastric Cancer Lymph Node Metastasis by Promoting M2 Macrophage Polarization by Weijie Zang, Yongpu Yang, Junjie Chen, Qinsheng Mao, Wanjiang Xue, Yilin Hu

“…ABSTRACT Background Lymphatic metastasis in gastric cancer (GC) profoundly influences its prognosis, but the precise mechanism remains elusive. …”
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Atherogenic Risk Factors in Medical Students by Airam Navarro Palacios, Miguel Ángel Serra Valdés, Rafael Comas Valdespino, Girelda Cordero López, Alain Landrian Davis, Adrian Landrian Davis

“…The study and approach of its modifiable risk factors and action on these factors can positively change the health situation. …”
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Comparative Study of Statistical Features to Detect the Target Event During Disaster by Madichetty Sreenivasulu, M. Sridevi

“…Nowadays, twitter is more popular because of its real-time nature. People often interacted with real-time events such as earthquakes and floods through twitter. …”
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O możliwości zastosowania teorii prawa Zygmunta Ziembińskiego w rozstrzyganiu problemów bioetycznych by Łukasz Moniuszko

“…In summing up, the author comes to the conclusion that the concept of Ziembiński’s law can find universal application in bioethics, thanks to its more than subjective practical applicability.…”
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Model Predictive Current Control with Asymmetric Stacked Multilevel Inverter and LCL-Filter Based STATCOM by Mostafa Q. Kasim, Raaed Faleh Hassan

“…LCL-filter was used to connect this setup to the grid, and its resonance was actively damped using the multivariable capabilities of the FCS-MPCC. …”
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Best performance of the UNB modulation VMSK in AWGN channel by YANG Dong-kai, WU Hua-sen, ZHANG Qi-shan

“…VMSK （very minimum shift keying） was taken into account as UNB example. Its performance in AWGN （added white Gaussian noise） channel is analyzed based on the classifier model for signal processing. …”
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Vocational Counseling and Training for Medical Degrees by Belkis Mercedes Vicente Sánchez, Ernesto Vicente Pena, Mabel Rocha Vázquez, Miriam Costa Cruz

“…This paper presents various issues that currently affect vocational guidance and the role of each of the major participants in the process itself.…”
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A modified proximal point algorithm for solving variational inclusion problem in real Hilbert spaces by Thierno M. M. Sow

“…It is proven that the sequence generated by the proposed iterative algorithm converges strongly to the common solution of the convex minimization and variational inclusion problems.…”
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Effect of Four Grape Varieties on the Physicochemical and Sensory Properties of Unripe Grape Verjuice by Najiba Salah Eddine, Sami Tlais, Ali Alkhatib, Rasha Hamdan

“…The significance of verjuice as food product includes but not limited to its richness in antioxidant compounds, its usage as an alternative to lemon and vinegar, and also its production which can reduce the losses of lower quality grapes and waste from grape thinning. …”
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The Rhetoric of the Marked Syntactical Structures in Akhavan-Sales’s Poetry by Naser Gholi Sarli, Bahador Bagheri, Shirin Sadeghi

“…Adopting a qualitative research method and after analyzing of the poetical and syntactical instances, we have demonstrated that Akahavan-Sales how employs a diverse range of marked syntactical structures to deliver his intended messages and meanings, and what a great potentials Persian language bestows to its users in this regard.…”
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