Gestational exposure to environmental chemical mixtures and cognitive abilities in children: A pooled analysis of two North American birth cohorts by Jagadeesh Puvvula, Wei-Ting Hwang, Lawrence McCandless, Changchun Xie, Joseph M. Braun, Ann M. Vuong, Youssef Oulhote, Enrique F. Schisterman, Russell T. Shinohara, Linda Booij, Maryse F. Bouchard, Kristin Linn, Michael M. Borghese, Jean R. Seguin, Angelika Zidek, Christine Till, William Fraser, Kimberly Yolton, Kim M. Cecil, Jillian Ashley-Martin, Tye E. Arbuckle, Bruce Lanphear, Aimin Chen

“…Results: Using quantile g-computation, we observed overall null associations between the chemical biomarker mixture and cognitive outcomes among preschool-age children. Although statistical significance was not attained for child sex as an effect modifier, our stratified analysis unveiled a moderate divergence in association trends. …”
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Characteristics of cardiopulmonary exercise capacity in adults with different degrees of obesity by Shukun Deng, Shengrui Mei, Qunyan Zhou, Wenjun Zhi, Wenjun Wu, Junyan Cai, Peng Yuan

“…Spearman correlation analysis was used to analyze the correlation between BMI and various indicators.ResultsThere was no statistical significance in gender composition, age, height, and exercise habit of the five groups of participants (P > 0.05). …”
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The Influence of Fiber Length and Concentration on the Physical Properties of Wheat Husk Fibers Rubber Composites by Maged S. Sobhy, M. T. Tammam

“…The adhesion status between the WHF and rubber matrix is lacked in general, but it started to reinforce the matrix at higher WHF contents where a higher restriction to molecular motion of the macromolecules with uniformed stress distribution of the fibers is produced. …”
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The Existence of Invariant Tori and Quasiperiodic Solutions of the Nosé–Hoover Oscillator by Yanmin Niu, Xiong Li

“…By applying a version of twist theorem established by Liu and Song in 2004 for reversible mappings, we find infinitely many invariant tori whenever a is sufficiently small, which eventually turns out that the solutions starting on the invariant tori are quasiperiodic. The discussion about quasiperiodic solutions of such 3-dimensional system is relatively new.…”
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Sovereignty and Responsibility in a Multilevel System: Subsidiarity as the Guiding Principle? by Michael Hüther, Markus Vogel

“…Above all, subsidiarity must start at home, it can be strengthened in the EU if it does not erode in the member states. …”
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Initiatives citoyennes de transition soutenable et diffusion : formes et fonctions de la mise en réseaux territorialisés by Nassima Hakimi Pradels, Jean-Baptiste Grison, Kirsten Koop, Pierre-Antoine Landel

“…Nevertheless, the crucial question of the capacity of such local initiatives to transform territories on a larger scale has not yet been addressed. In this article, we start with the hypothesis that the consolidation and dissemination of alternative values and practices within territories depends on the weaving of links between the actors of alternative projects and their networking. …”
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Le bâtiment routier du col de Montgenèvre (Hautes-Alpes) : fouille archéologique et patrimonialisation d’une traversée alpine by Philippe Leveau, Patrick Reynaud

“…Extending to an exploration of the question of road traffic in the province of the Cottian Alps, the article highlights the effects of the heritage process that makes this pass the starting point for the Via Domitia, and proposes a re-interpretation.…”
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The Stability of the Model and Simulation, Control Issues for Ship System, Education, and Research by Nguyen Cong Danh

“…Some control methods require the author to specify control parameters before the operation of the system can be started. Therefore, the survey of the article is useful for the above problem. …”
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«The Muslim Brotherhood» and prospects of the political process in contemporary Egypt by M. Z. Razhbadinov

“…The country has just started to move in the way that Turkey did a few decades ago…”
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Généalogie générique du monologue dramatiquebrowningnien ; et du monopolylogue by Yann Tholoniat

“…But in order to reassess Robert Browning’s achievement, one might trace a line starting with Aristophanes’ dramatic use of the parabasis, evolving with the Roman satire, and going through John Donne’s game with the reader, conceived of as a silent auditor. …”
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Reversible Vitamin B12 Deficiency Presenting with Acute Dementia, Paraparesis, and Normal Hemoglobin by Hani Almoallim, Fahtima S. Mehdawi, Mohammed M. Cheikh, Fahmi Al-dhaheri, Abdullah Mahir Aqeel

“…Intramuscular injection of cobalamin was started, and the patient showed significant improvement.…”
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New experimental investigation of 3D defects propagation in mortar under tension loading by Mohamed Guesmi, Kamel Guesmi

“…We propose in this paper an experimental study of the propagation of 3D internal defects in the mortar for different dosages and their effects on the tensile strength of the mortar. We start by deter- mining the tensile strength of a non-cracked specimen for five different dosages. …”
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Las músicas amerindias del Chaco argentino entre la hibridación y la exotización by Silvia Citro, Soledad Torres Agüero

“…Starting from the musical piece Qom Llalec (« Son of the Qom ») of Toba or Qom musician Romualdo Diarte (Formosa, Argentina), which became the first CD of indigenous music produced by the Culture Department of this province, we discuss the impact of recent cultural policies in the music of these peoples. …”
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Late-Onset Neutropenia after Rituximab Treatment for Adult-Onset Nephrotic Syndrome by Mayuko Yamazaki, Hidekazu Sugiura, Yosuke Iwatani, Mizuki Kyoda, Hirohiko Nokiba, Nobuyuki Amemiya, Kosaku Nitta, Ken Tsuchiya

“…Although remission was achieved with administration of prednisolone (PSL) and cyclosporine, the nephrotic syndrome recurred. She was also started on rituximab (RTX). She developed late-onset neutropenia after RTX treatment (R-LON) and improved 17 days later. …”
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Fallen Women in George Eliot’s Early Novels by Alain Jumeau

“…This paper deals with this form of moral and sexual deviance as it is represented in the early novels of George Eliot. It starts with two minor works, Scenes of Clerical Life and Silas Marner, where the theme is only given secondary importance, before considering the fall of Hetty Sorrel in Adam Bede, and of Maggie Tulliver in The Mill on the Floss. …”
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‘Here gather daily those young eaglets of glory’: Robert Louis Stevenson, the Savile Club and the Suicide Club by Robert-Louis Abrahamson

“…The Savile Club prided itself in being more relaxed and friendly than most other gentlemen’s clubs in London in the second half of the nineteenth century, welcoming ‘men of promise’ at the start of their careers. Robert Louis Stevenson, one of these young men of promise, relished the social opportunities of the club, especially the company of fellow bohemians but was also aware of the limitations of the club, and its potential for complacency and false posturing. …”
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‘Art Happens not in Isolation, But in Community’: The Collective Literacies of Media Fandom by Jenkins Henry

“…Using this occasion as my starting point, I will discuss here the ways that the literacies associated with fandom may be understood as illustrative of the new forms of expression that have taken shape in a networked era.…”
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Body Perception and Action Following Deafness by M. S. Houde, S. P. Landry, S. Pagé, M. Maheu, F. Champoux

“…These investigations have mostly focused on visual capacities. We are only now starting to investigate how the deaf experience their own bodies and body-related abilities. …”
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Translation as secondary communication. The relevance theory perspective of Ernst-August Gutt by K. Smith

“… Ernst-August Gutt started one of the greatest translation debates of the past ten years when he suggested that relevance theory holds the key to providing a unified account of translation. …”
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A 41-Year-Old Patient with a Rare Cause of Severe Abdominal Sepsis Misdiagnosed as PID by Anastasia Mikuscheva, David Becker, Mark Thompson-Fawcett

“…In a patient who has not completed family planning, the diagnosis is often made with a low threshold and treatment started on a low suspicion of diagnosis to avoid a negative impact on fertility. …”
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