REVISITING THE MECHANISMS OF FUNCTIONING OF THE ARTISTIC SPACE OF AN OLD EGYPTIAN PRIVATE TOMB by Fedor I. Kulikov

“…The purpose of the burial and the mechanism of functioning of the system to a great extent determined the themes and content of the plots, which contributes a special relevance to the study. …”
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Fungal chemical warfare: the role of aflatoxin and fumonisin in governing the interaction between the maize pathogens, Aspergillus flavus and Fusarium verticillioides by Timothy R. Satterlee, Jaci A. Hawkins, Trevor R. Mitchell, Qijian Wei, Jessica M. Lohmar, Anthony E. Glenn, Scott E. Gold

“…This work gives insight into the ecological roles of mycotoxins and why these fungi may produce them as weapons in the interspecies battle for resource acquisition.…”
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STRATEGY FOR THE PREVENTION OF WORLD WARS IDEAL POLITICAL MAP OF THE WORLD, FROM 195 TO 21 MEGA-FEDERATIONS by Luca DIACONESCU, Angelica NECȘULEA

“…This research aims to develop a conceptual framework, based on five principles: historical, linguistic, religious, cultural and geopolitical, through which to create a theoretical direction, a map of the world close to the ideal IPMW (Ideal Political Map of the World). …”
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Can Your Smartphone Make You a Tourist? Mine Does: Understanding the Consumer’s Adoption Mechanism for Mobile Payment System by Irfan Hameed, Muhammad Shujaat Mubarik, Kamran Khan, Idrees Waris

“…The study employs the constructs operationalized from coping theory, unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT 2), and innovation resistance theory (IRT). …”
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Simulation Experiment of Constraint Force in the Spatial RCCR Mechanism with three pairs of Force Transmitting Rods by Zhuang Sen, Han Bo, Liu Zhongyi, Huang Xiaolei, Cui Chao

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Biopsy with the New Essen Biopsy Forceps by Peter G. Traine, Katharina J. E. Schedler, Mariuccia G. S. Brusa, Eduardo B. Rodrigues

“…Ultrasound revealed the diagnostic suspicion of uveal melanoma. Therefore, biopsy with the Essen biopsy forceps using a sutureless 23-gauge three-port vitrectomy system was performed. …”
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Baicalein Restores the Balance of Th17/Treg Cells via Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor to Attenuate Colitis by Chang Liu, Yanyang Li, Yanping Chen, Shaowei Huang, Xiaojing Wang, Shuang Luo, Yulin Su, Lian Zhou, Xia Luo

“…As one of the ligands of aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR), baicalein, isolated from Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi, has been proved to exert potential therapeutic effects on ulcerative colitis (UC), but its therapeutic mechanism remains obscure. …”
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Antona Czechowa spojrzenie na bieg historii by Andrzej Ksenicz

“…Among the issues, themes and contributions which Anton Chekhov undertook in his works, one may also find the broadly-understood issue of an individual's place in the course of historical events. …”
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Compass, oceans and world politics. Book review of the collective monograph ‘International relations: Facets of the present and the future’ by A. V. Belinsky

“…The book under review differs from numerous recent Russian and foreign publications on the matter by a truly broad thematic scope and comprehensive approach. The monograph touches upon both the ‘classical’ factors of international relations (military power, energy, trade) and a number of new ones, which have acquired particular importance as the international system entered a period of profound transformation. …”
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Frequency of Drug Resistance Gene Amplification in Clinical Leishmania Strains by C. Mary, F. Faraut, M. Deniau, J. Dereure, K. Aoun, S. Ranque, R. Piarroux

“…Gene amplification is therefore a common phenomenon in wild strains concurring to Leishmania genomic plasticity. …”
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Imiter Ovide et le signaler dans les romans grecs ? L’exemple d’Achille Tatius et la question des marqueurs d’intertextualité by Florence Klein

“…Mais on peut également suggérer qu’il thématise sa propre réticence à citer son modèle latin : que ce soit dans l’aveu mi-déguisé mi-assumé d’un recours à l’ars (/Ars) amatoria ou dans la dialectique entre dissimulation et reconnaissance, le romancier signale de manière ludique et sophistiquée, tout en feignant de vouloir les cacher, ses reprises de l’œuvre ovidienne.…”
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Experimental Study on Type I Fracture Toughness and Compressive Strength of Compacted Clay by LIU Hui, JIN Songyang, ZHANG Haoyu

“…Whether in engineering or in nature, clay is mostly under compression, which is commonlysuffered with shear compression failure. Therefore, the research on the type I fracture toughnessand compressive strength of compacted clay is of great significance to the engineering structuredesign. …”
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Exploiter un corpus de données textuelles sans post-traitement : l’écriture burlesque de la Fronde by Karine Abiven, Jean-Baptiste Tanguy, Gaël Lejeune

“…We thus show the specificity, in the burlesque writing of the Fronde, of some literary motifs or rhymes. The aim is therefore to present the approach of a corpus in all the steps of the process: from the selection of data, their acquisition, and their transformation into a corpus, to their statistical and algorithmic exploitation, and their interpretation through text mining.…”
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Las metáforas comestibles en los rituales mexicanos by Danièle Dehouve

“…Starting from the idea that, in a ritual nothing is unpredictable and everything has a sense, it introduces a reflection about the categories of metaphor and metonymy conceived as two founding mechanisms of the human mind, at the same time distinct and closely linked, which express themselves in a verbal and material manner. Difrasismos, often considered to be linguistic techniques typical of ritual mesoamerican speeches, are considered here to be particular cases of « definition by extension », which forms « metonymical series ». …”
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Exploring scholarly perceptions of preprint servers by Shir Aviv-Reuven, Jenny Bronstein, Ariel Rosenfeld

“…The data collected from these interviews underwent thematic content analysis using ATLAS.ti software. …”
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Hydrate-Based Methane Storage in Biodegradable Hydrogels Absorbing Dilute Sodium P-Styrenesulfonate Solution by Fangzheng Hua, Kang Tan, Jingyu Lv, Fei Wang, Mengting Sun

“…Hydrogels or dilute SS solutions (1–4 mmol L⁻¹) had weak or even no promoting effects on hydrate formation kinetics, while the combination of them could synergistically promote methane hydrate formation. …”
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Fault Diagnosis of Bearings with Small Sample Size Using Improved Capsule Network and Siamese Neural Network by Jarula Yasenjiang, Yang Xiao, Chao He, Luhui Lv, Wenhao Wang

“…Experimental results demonstrate that this method can accurately identify faults under conditions of limited samples and high noise, thereby improving diagnostic accuracy and reducing transfer time.…”
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Primary Bilateral Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma of the Adrenal Gland Presenting as Incidental Adrenal Masses by Christopher Rizzo, David James Camilleri, Alexandra Betts, Andre’ Gatt, Stephen Fava

“…The patient was started on systemic chemotherapy, but her disease progressed with neurological involvement which responded to second-line therapy. Her adrenal disease however was refractory to further therapy.…”
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Living in the Making of History! Two Victorian Female Travellers’ Representations of the 1879 Anglo-Zulu War by Ludmila Ommundsen

“…If the Zulus were being erased from history, their narratives, recording their experiences on the controversial terrain in South Africa, tried to prevent them from being erased by history. Evolving around the notion of threat that is at the heart of war, the unjustifiable nature of the conflict is ingeniously conveyed in its displacement and complexification.…”
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一千二百种生物将于1988年灭绝 by 杨晓明

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