The Mushroom Agaricus blazei Murill Elicits Medicinal Effects on Tumor, Infection, Allergy, and Inflammation through Its Modulation of Innate Immunity and Amelioration of Th1/Th2 I... by Geir Hetland, Egil Johnson, Torstein Lyberg, Gunnar Kvalheim

“…These effects are mediated through the mushroom's stimulation of innate immune cells, such as monocytes, NK cells, and dendritic cells, and the amelioration of a skewed Th1/Th2 balance and inflammation.…”
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Galectin-3 Is a Potential Mediator for Atherosclerosis by Ziyu Gao, Zhongni Liu, Rui Wang, Yinghong Zheng, Hong Li, Liming Yang

“…Gal-3 has been demonstrated in recent years to be a novel inflammatory factor participating in the process of intravascular inflammation, lipid endocytosis, macrophage activation, cellular proliferation, monocyte chemotaxis, and cell adhesion. This review focuses on the role of Gal-3 in atherosclerosis and the mechanism involved and several classical Gal-3 agonists and antagonists in the current studies.…”
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A Division of Character: From Fernando de Rojas’s Celestina to Shakespearean Protagonists by Bogdan Groza

“…This article takes into account Fernando de Rojas’s La Celestina and compare some of the core features of the homonymous protagonist with some Shakespearean characters, examples mainly taken from The Tempest and A Midsummer’s Night Dream. …”
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Racoleus, a new genus of sterile filamentous lichen-forming fungi from the tropics, with observations on the nomenclature and typification of Cystocoleus and Racodium by D.L. Hawksworth, R. Santesson, L. Tibell

“…In addition, the nomenclature and typification of the monotypic genera Cystoco/eus and Racodium are reviewed, and lectotypes selected for the type of each. …”
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Infrastructure planning for climate change adaptation based on land development and surface temperature typology by Rini Erma Fitria, Rahayu Paramita, Werdiningtyas Ratri, Hadiani Rintis

“…This rapid growth of built-up land is synonymous with the phenomenon of urban sprawl, which contributes to climate change. …”
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Kitsch as Experience of the World by Darío Hernández Guerra

“…The term ‘kitsch’, widely laden with negative connotations, has often been used to designate worthless art, synonymous with artistic failure. However, there is something in kitsch that, beyond its apparent poor quality, distinguishes it from other art forms as something novel, peculiar, and even profoundly interesting. …”
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L'e-santé en France : déclinaisons et implications territoriales by Joy Raynaud

“…E-health is synonymous with great promise: improving access, quality, and efficiency of care. …”
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Ici, c’est Noël tous les jours : nostalgie de l’âge d’or et recherche du travail vivant dans le pays de Bitche by Arnaud Kaba

“…The Centre International d'Arts Verriers (International Center for Glassmaking Arts), a public structure for the preservation of glassmaking know-how and experimentation, has achieved success beyond its means by marketing Christmas baubles presented as metonyms of the vanished working-class culture. By examining the friction between local policies to promote know-how and resistance from below for freer, more egalitarian working conditions, the article explores the question of living work as a desire to reproduce a craft without reproducing its logic of domination.…”
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« La peur du désir » : A Mummer’s Wife et Esther Waters de George Moore by Fabienne Gaspari

“…Such fear—paradoxically both of excess and of exhaustion—leads to a form of retribution and to the expulsion (often synonymous with death) of the character who has gone beyond the pale.…”
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L'emploi hypothétique de AND dans Everyman et en moyen-anglais by Fabienne Toupin

“…The driving force behind the process would have been a metonymical semantic shift from the temporal senses of the conjunction in the late twelfth or in the early thirteenth century. …”
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Matières à produire l’espace. Une histoire environnementale des grandes infrastructures depuis 1945 by Nelo Magalhães

“…By examining their material flows, and by multiplying the points of view (from soils, laboratories, worksites, or quarries), we show that it is synonymous with Capitalocene, extractivism, disembedding, industrialization, and waste recovery. …”
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Cartographie du vide : les "non-lieux" de l’espace américain dans The Informers de Bret Easton Ellis by Nathalie Vincent-Arnaud

“…Published in 1994, The Informers is a collection of thirteen short stories which aim to explore the various facets of a certain Los Angeles social microcosm in the nineteen-eighties.The first-person narration, based on a deliberately minimalist paratactic structure which involves recurrent snatches of dialogue, moves through an endless succession of toponyms (Palm Springs, Melrose etc.) and cultural clichés (trendy places, music or clothing) which all seem to trap people and places within an imprisoning landscape—most aptly metaphorized by the Sunset Boulevard.Both huge and confined to the specific landmarks or "non-places" of an interlope society, this landscape provides an ambivalent area in which people are cast adrift, wandering like ghosts in some kind of existential nowhere described by Michel de Certeau as "un théâtre de passants".…”
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Teaching Architecture in Palermo by Andrea Sciascia

“…As a whole, the overall image that results is, at the same time, the survey and the design of the Faculty of Architecture, whose legacy is merged into the homonymous Department and, as regards the teaching activity, in the five-year degree course in Architecture.…”
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Autour de la pensée raciale et raciste en Italie (1850-1945) by Aurélien Aramini, Elena Bovo

“…The first moment corresponds to the introduction of the Aryan myth in the peninsula, when Indo-European philology provided the scientific grounds to buttress an anticlerical campaign, synonymous with cultural and literary progress. The second moment arrived with the birth of criminal anthropology in the last third of the nineteenth century. …”
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L’occitan et le développement socio-économique et culturel du territoire : l’exemple du PNR Aubrac by Caroline Calvet

“…Significant examples of the productivity and exploitation of this ethnosociolinguistic richness are presented based on a toponymic survey, a sociolinguistic survey and a corpus of interviews carried out in 2022 within the PNR Aubrac. …”
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Core-shell Nanoparticles Based on Polystyrene and Poly(n-butyl acrylate) Functionalized with Itaconic Acid for Baroplastic Processing by Fernanda Furtado de Melo Albino, Jacira Aparecida Castanharo, João Batista Lourenço Neto, Marcos Antonio da Silva Costa

“…The addition of itaconic acid as functional monomer in the core polymerization was carried out in order to study its influence on polymer processing and mechanical properties. …”
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Kinetic Studies of Atom Transfer Radical Polymerisations of Styrene and Chloromethylstyrene with Poly(3-hexyl thiophene) Macroinitiator by Nattawoot Rattanathamwat, Jatuphorn Wootthikanokkhan, Nonsee Nimitsiriwat, Chanchana Thanachayanont, Udom Asawapirom

“…The kinetics of these ATRP systems were studied as a function of monomers to the macroinitiator molar ratio. It was found that all of the three types of ATRP systems led to first order kinetics with respect to monomers. …”
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Chemical Polymerization Kinetics of Poly-O-Phenylenediamine and Characterization of the Obtained Polymer in Aqueous Hydrochloric Acid Solution Using K2Cr2O7 as Oxidizing Agent by S. M. Sayyah, A. B. Khaliel, Ahmed A. Aboud, S. M. Mohamed

“…The effects of potassium dichromate, hydrochloric acid, and monomer concentrations on the polymerization reaction were investigated. …”
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Preparation, Thermal Properties and Decomposition Course of Highly Resistant Potato Starch Graft Poly(Cinnamyl Methacrylate) Materials by Marta Worzakowska

“…The “grafting from” method and different ratios of starch to methacrylic monomer were used. The copolymers with the maximum grafting percent (G: 55.3% ± 0.4) using a ratio of starch to methacrylic monomer of 1:3 were obtained. …”
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Absorbed Pb2+ and Cd2+ Ions in Water by Cross-Linked Starch Xanthate by Kai Feng, Guohua Wen

“…Factors that can influence absorbency were investigated, such as the ratio of matrix to monomers, the amount of initiator and cross-linker, pH, and the concentration of metal ions. …”
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