Multicultural heritage in historical towns: the problems of conservation and interpretation by Rasa Čepaitienė

“…The actuality of multicultural traditions and experiences of the unique concord in the Great Duchy of Lithuania, considering the present circumstances of a global world, is emphasized. …”
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The Lithuanian historian Jerzy Orda by Sigitas Jegelevičius

“…He was well known both as an expert in the history of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, the history and architecture of Vilnius, and a Lithuanian archivist and archeographer. …”
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Comparison of intubating conditions in two different head elevations for direct laryngoscopy in stretcher – A prospective randomized controlled study by Tejasri Ketireddy, Kavitha Jayaram, Singam Geetha, Archana Pathy, Padmaja Durga

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Antioxidant Properties of Berberis aetnensis C. Presl (Berberidaceae) Roots Extract and Protective Effects on Astroglial Cell Cultures by Agata Campisi, Rosaria Acquaviva, Roberta Bonfanti, Giuseppina Raciti, Andrea Amodeo, Silvana Mastrojeni, Salvatore Ragusa, Liliana Iauk

“…Presl (Berberidaceae) is a bushy-spiny shrub common on Mount Etna (Sicily). …”
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A Reliability Check of Privilege Summaries Printed by Balthasar Moretus I (1610-1641) by Kristof Selleslach

“…Previous research has proved in one instance that the Antwerp printer Balthasar Moretus I (1574-1641) printed a summary which reflected his own desires rather than the terms of the privilege itself: he extended its territorial scope from the Duchy of Brabant to the entire Habsburg Netherlands, and he even cited his mother as a grantee. …”
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Ninety days of solitary confinement: Prison experience of the 'pervodumtsy' (First Duma deputies) convicted of signing the Vyborg Appeal by D.M. Usmanova, S.V. Shebalkov

“…As the result of the action carried out by the former deputies in Vyborg (Grand Duchy of Finland), 167 people were sentenced to 3 months of imprisonment and deprivation of the political rights. …”
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Nailfold Capillaroscopy Using Dermatoscope As a Tool to Assess Correlation of Vasculopathy in Nailfolds with Retinopathy in Diabetes Mellitus Patients by Abhirut Thakur, Gurkim Kaur, Nancy Sharma, Devraj Dogra, Suman Kotwal

“…Non-significant mild positive correlation was seen with HbA1c (%), gender, meandering capillary, bushy capillary, neoangiogenesis, capillary dropout and bizarre capillary. …”
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Unconventional Biomarkers in Dementia Trough Neurological Examination: A Literature Review by Salazar-Londoño, Salomón, Pérez-Foucrier, Valeria, Tengonó-Guarín, María José, Franky-Escobar, Isabella, Iragorri, Angela

“…Depression, anxiety, and apathy are three potential indicators, assessable through clinical expertise, scales, or new technologies. …”
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Searching through the shelves of the «storia» of Francesco II Maria della Rovere’s library by Elisa Tosi Brandi

“…The selection of books covered by the descriptions and thoughts proposed here, identified thanks to the fifth volume dedicated to the Storia, edited by Simona De Gese and Fiammetta Sabba, of the work conceived by Alfredo Serrai and edited by Fiammetta Sabba on the Biblioteca di Francesco Maria II Della Rovere, was intended to connect the personal interests of Francesco Maria II with the national and international political events that involved the Duchy of Urbino in a period of great changes that were also reflected in the choice of books for the libraria. …”
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MycoNews 2023: Editorial, news, reports, awards, personalia, and book news by David L. Hawksworth

“…The Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute Awards for 2023 were made to Andrey Yurkov and Cathie Aime and the citations to those awards are provided. …”
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The Lithuanianisation of Adam Mickiewicz by Viktorija Šeina

“…Mickiewicz was born to a family of Polish-speaking nobles in a predominantly Belarusian part of the former Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Because his historically themed works had an impact on the Lithuanian national movement, Lithuanian intellectuals sought ways to attribute Mickiewicz to Lithuanian culture. …”
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Relationships between Cognitive Function and Odor Identification, Balance Capability, and Muscle Strength in Middle-Aged Persons with and without Type 2 Diabetes by Manabu Midorikawa, Hiroaki Suzuki, Yasuhiro Suzuki, Kazuyoshi Yamauchi, Hiroyuki Sato, Kiyotaka Nemoto, Yoko Sugano, Hitoshi Iwasaki, Motohiro Sekiya, Shigeru Yatoh, Naoya Yahagi, Yasushi Hada, Tetsuaki Arai, Hitoshi Shimano

“…Cognitive function was assessed by the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA), Trail Making Test parts A and B (TMT-A/-B), Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST), Quick Inventory of Depressive Symptomatology Self-Report (QIDS), and Starkstein Apathy Scale (SAS). Multiple linear regression analyses were performed. …”
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L’ attirail d’un magicien rangé dans une cave de Chartres/Autricum by Dominique Joly, Richard Gordon, Jonathan Simon, William Van Andringa, Stéphane Willerval

“…These objects were hidden in the tiny cellar of a domus collapsed after a fire at the turn of the 1st and 2nd century AD.This set includes three snake-vases, a broad-bladed knife, two oil lamps, fifteen entire vessels (bottles, flasks, plates and jars), a small assortment of carbonised animal bones and smelt glass sherds. …”
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(Auto)pathography, Photography, Trauma in Aleksandar Hemon’s The Lazarus Project by Angeliki TSETI

“…This paper wishes to discuss photo-textual autopathography as a narrative model that testifies to the ways in which, as per Cathy Caruth, “one’s own trauma is tied up to the trauma of another” (Unclaimed Experience 8), and may thus respond to the challenges of addressing an allegedly unrepresentable traumatic experience, while establishing a nexus of affiliations between different traumatized subjects irrespective of spatiotemporal specificities. …”
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Possible bi-directional link between ETA receptors and protein kinase C in rat blood vessels by A. M. Northover, B. J. Northover

“…ET-3 (10−8 M) had a significant, albeit small, effect only when the gut was still attached to the mesentery. Inthis latter preparation ET-1 and DOPPA increased the permeability of villi microvessels to colloidal carbon in the perfusate. …”
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Assessment of the Relationship between Diabetic Retinopathy and Nailfold Capillaries in Type 2 Diabetics with a Noninvasive Method: Nailfold Videocapillaroscopy by Seyit Uyar, Ayşe Balkarlı, Muhammet Kazım Erol, Bayram Yeşil, Abdullah Tokuç, Doğan Durmaz, Süheyla Görar, Ayhan Hilmi Çekin

“…Capillaroscopic findings including tortuosity (p<0.001), bushy capillary (p<0.001), neoformation (p<0.001), bizarre capillary (p<0.001), microhemorrhage (p=0.001), capillary ectasia (p=0.002), and aneurysm (p=0.004) were significantly higher in diabetic group than control group. …”
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Рrevention of contrast-induced nephropathy during interventional treatment of acute coronary syndrome by L.O. Miakinkova, T.I. Yarmola, G.L. Pustovoit, Iu.A. Kostrikova, B.O. Pysana, V.V. Talash

“…Among them, 56.45% have diabetic nephropathy, 21% – hypertensive nephro­pathy, 19.35% – chronic pyelonephritis, 3.2% – gouty nephropathy. …”
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Comparative evaluation of TNM staging systems (eighth vs. ninth edition) for the non-surgical treatment of localized and locally advanced anal squamous cell carcinoma: Prognostic s... by Aihong Zheng, Hong'en Xu, Yiming Tao, Bingchen Chen, Jieni Ding, Tao Song, Yanwei Lu

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Nûriyye Melâmîleri Divanlarında Yer Alan Bestelenmiş İlâhîler by Elif Sena Avlar, Serbülend Arpa

“…Bu divanlar Abdurrahîm Fedâî, Ali Örfî, Ömer Lütfî, İştipli Hacı Salih Rıf’at, Abdulmâlik Hilmî, Hulûsi Maksud, Hüseyin Şemsi Ergüneş, Hasan Fehmi Tezdoğan, Üsküplü İsmail Hakkı, Hafız Ahmet Fethî, Hüseyin Sabri Soyyiğit, Ahmet Soyyiğit, Yaşar İhsan Gülver ve Dâvud Yılmaz’a ait divanın arasından 8 tanesinde yer alan 97 adet ilahinin notaya alındığı tespit edilmiştir. …”
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The Destruction and Reconstruction of North Korea, 1950 - 1960 by Charles Armstrong

“…The majority of those killed were in the North, which had half of the population of the South; although the DPRK does not have official figures, possibly twelve to fifteen percent of the population was killed in the war, a figure close to or surpassing the proportion of Soviet citizens killed in World War II.This article assesses both the destruction and the reconstruction of North Korea in the 1950s.…”
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