Impact of glucocorticoids on patients’ quality of life: a qualitative study assessing face validity and feasibility of the Steroid PRO in patients with inflammatory gastroenterolog... by Shaney L Barratt, Emma Dures, Mwidimi Ndosi, Michelle Sharp, Sebastian E Sattui, Jill Dawson, Susan M Goodman, Sarah L Mackie, Tom Creed, Catherine L Hill, Joanna C Robson, Pamela Richards, Susan Bridgewater, Christine A Silverthorne, Jen Orme, Anne-Marie T Sweeney, Elizabeth Arthurs, Genevieve Osborne, Giles Dunhill, Richard P Ramonell, Timothy Patton

“…Patients reported that the four domains of the Steroid PRO had relevance to them and that it was validating to see their concerns represented: ‘It’s obvious you guys know what you’re talking about—these are my issues. …”
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Study on the Static Stiffness of the Flexible Composite Connecting Rod by Zong Hao, Yin Xunmin, Ding Chunhua, Sheng Guibin, Xing Lifeng

“…The experimental results prove the validity of the theoretical calculation and finite element simulation calculation. …”
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四川唐家河自然资源保护与管理初论 by 谌利民

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Review the principle of trust in the marketing of investment-linked insurance products (PAYDI) in bancassurance by Cindy Indudewi Hutomo, Agus Yudha Hernoko, Trisadini Prasastinah Usanti, Zahry Vandawati Chumaida

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How university governance affects education service quality: insights from Ethiopian public universities by Bekele Atanaw, Ashebir Bezabih Estifanos, Habtamu Gezahegn Negash

“…Academic leaders and staff of public universities should therefore practice academic freedom, transparency, and autonomous decision-making through implementing university governance principles in their respective public universities in Ethiopia.…”
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High Quality GaAs Epilayers Grown on Si Substrate Using 100 nm Ge Buffer Layer by Wei-Cheng Kuo, Hung-Chi Hsieh, Wu Chih-Hung, Huang Wen-Hsiang, Chien-Chieh Lee, Jenq-Yang Chang

“…The quality of the Ge buffer layer is the key of III–V/Si tandem cell. Therefore, the high quality GaAs epilayers that grow on virtual substrate with 100 nm Ge buffer layers is suitable to develop the low cost and high efficiency III–V/Si tandem solar cells.…”
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The differences in symptom networks of depression, anxiety, and sleep in college students with different stress levels by Wei Li, Shuhui Huo, Fei Yin, Zhengyu Wu, Xueqi Zhang, Zhengjun Wang, Jianqin Cao

“…Conclusion Stress exacerbates depression, anxiety, and sleep problems among college students, with differences in core symptoms and bridging symptoms of depression, anxiety, and sleep disturbances at varying levels of stress. Therefore, precise interventions can be implemented based on the core and bridge symptoms of the three networks, further improving university students’ physical and mental health.…”
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University International Cooperation: Project Based Translation Training by E. Yu. Novikova, V. A. Mityagina, St. Walter

“…These papers describe didactic models in teaching different types of translation and discourse-dependent translation strategies. The theoretically substantiated methodological principles forming the basis for the didactization of tourism texts are studied in the article. …”
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A Critique on the Book The Oxford Handbook of Iranian History by Behzad Karimi

“…The type of collection of articles with a common theme has a single agenda in terms of form and content, but this collection lacks such a feature in various ways. …”
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Measurement of strange particle femtoscopic correlations at the CMS experiment by Pradhan Raghunath

“…The strong interaction scattering parameters are extracted from ΛKS0 ⊕ Λ¯KS0 and ΛΛ ⊕ Λ¯Λ¯ correlations using the Lednicky- Lyuboshits model, and compared with other experimental and theoretical results.…”
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Mnemonic diplomacy in Russian-Serbian relations: The limits of the possible by A. M. Ponamareva

“…Memory policy is an important tool in creating and maintaining this affinity because it enables formulation of unifying historical narratives and shared vision of the key events in the common history, thereby providing underpinning for assessments of current developments and for creating an image of the desired future. …”
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Talk About Crime Among Young People in Northern Mexico: The Impact of Drug Trafficking in the Neighborhood by Ariagor Manuel Almanza Avendaño, Martha Romero-Mendoza, Anel Hortensia Gómez San Luis

“…A total of 48 group interviews were carried out with young people in junior high, high school, and universities and analyzed for thematic content using MAXQDA 20 software. The main changes pointed out by the young people were the intensification of insecurity, the expansion of drug dealing in the community, mental health problems (especially addictions), the restriction of mobility on the streets, and changes in the relationship with security institutions. …”
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4 3 2 1: A Listening by Priyanka Deshmukh

“…Scholarly studies dedicated to Paul Auster’s works over the past decade have tended to focus on his storytelling, addressing, for the most part, thematic and formal concerns. The relatively small amount of scholarship on Auster’s stylistic and linguistic maneuvers is perhaps due to the fact that he uses an apparently prosaic and conventional style: grammatically sound sentences do not draw attention. …”
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WiFi and WiMAX Secure Deployments by Panagiotis Trimintzios, George Georgiou

“…One serious concern in the rapidly developing wireless networking market has been the security of the deployments since the information is delivered freely in the air and therefore privacy and integrity of the transmitted information, along with the user-authentication procedures, become a very important issue. …”
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Berberine Protects against Palmitate-Induced Endothelial Dysfunction: Involvements of Upregulation of AMPK and eNOS and Downregulation of NOX4 by Ming Zhang, Chun-Mei Wang, Jing Li, Zhao-Jie Meng, Sheng-Nan Wei, Ji Li, Richard Bucala, Yu-Lin Li, Li Chen

“…Moreover, berberine upregulated the protein expression of AMPK and p-AMPK in palmitate-treated HUVECs, but had no effect on the levels of Akt. Therefore, berberine ameliorates palmitate-induced endothelial dysfunction by upregulating eNOS expression and downregulating expression of NOX4. …”
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“I feare to prefixe to these few poems a long epistle”: Dedications, Addresses to the Reader and Generic Influences by Béatrice Chaix Rouchon

“…This article takes a corpus of sonnet collections as a case study to measure how the formal and thematic evolutions of a genre can influence the liminary pages.…”
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Management and sustainability of ground-mounted solar parks requires consideration of vegetation succession as an omnipresent process by Markus Zaplata

“…I reveal a connection with a supposedly not equally contemporary theme: ecological succession. Understanding succession provides the background for interrelationships, and explains why, in large solar parks, the occurrence of large operational disruptors, such as trees, cannot be sustainably countered with the usual maintenance measures. …”
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Autologous Bone Marrow-Derived Chondrocytes for Patients with Knee Osteoarthritis: A Randomized Controlled Trial by Mir Sadat-Ali, Abdallah S. AlOmran, Sulaiman A. AlMousa, Hasan N. AlSayed, Khalid W. AlTabash, Mohammed Q. Azam, Tarek M. Hegazi, Sadananda Acharya

“…Group I had 5 million of intra-articular ABMDC in the affected joint, and Group II continued the nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) and physical therapy as needed. Before the treatment, patients were meticulously examined and data were entered for age, sex, Body Mass Index (BMI), Visual Analogue Scale (VAS), Modified Knee Society Score-Short Form (MKSSSF), and QOL. …”
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Representing 9/11: Alejandro González Iñárritu’s short film in 11'09"01: September 11 by Marie-Christine CLEMENTE

“…Similar flashes soon sporadically burst through the black screen and, as these visions have an extremely fleeting quality to them, room is left for the viewer to wonder whether he truly saw ‘jumpers’. …”
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Continuous Sliding Mode Control of Flow-Induced Vibrations by A. Baz

“…In the present study, emphasis is placed on the development of theoretical models that describe the interaction between the flexible structures, the flow-induced excitation, and the CSM controller. …”
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