Le faune et la sirène : la situation de Cuvier dans l’économie de The Marble Faun, de Nathaniel Hawthorne by Antoine Traisnel

“…Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Marble Faun ends with one character’s polite refusal to satisfy the narrator’s curiosity concerning young Donatello’s possible animality. …”
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Electroacupuncture Regulates Disorders of Gut-Brain Interaction by Decreasing Corticotropin-Releasing Factor in a Rat Model of IBS by Ying Chen, Yan Zhao, Dan-ni Luo, Hui Zheng, Ying Li, Si-yuan Zhou

“…EA treatment can decrease the expression of hypothalamic CRF and CRF-R1, relieve anxiety and depression, meanwhile reduce the expression of CRF-R1 in the gastrointestinal mucosa, increase ZO-1 expression, and adjust tight junctions (TJs) to repair the intestinal mucosal barrier. …”
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Analysis of the Spatial Pattern of Military River Defense on the Ming Great Wall: A Case Study of the Shanxi Section of the Yellow River by Tianlian WANG, Zhe LI

“…These systems are combined through points and lines to form a tight defense network of “waterfront warning−border defense−information transmission−reinforcement and response−military command−logistics support” to jointly realize the construction of a military defense pattern in the river defense space. 2) In terms of spatial distribution and site selection, military defense facilities have formed three geographical spatial distribution patterns under the influence of river morphology and specific natural factors. …”
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Auditory confounds can drive online effects of transcranial ultrasonic stimulation in humans by Benjamin R Kop, Yazan Shamli Oghli, Talyta C Grippe, Tulika Nandi, Judith Lefkes, Sjoerd W Meijer, Soha Farboud, Marwan Engels, Michelle Hamani, Melissa Null, Angela Radetz, Umair Hassan, Ghazaleh Darmani, Andrey Chetverikov, Hanneke EM den Ouden, Til Ole Bergmann, Robert Chen, Lennart Verhagen

“…In this study, we disentangle direct neuromodulatory and indirect auditory contributions to motor inhibitory effects of TUS. To this end, we include tightly matched control conditions across four experiments, one preregistered, conducted independently at three institutions. …”
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Vacuum vaporizer for fabrication of thin films of material by sublimations by A. I. Blesman, R. B. Burlakov

“…Vacuum vaporizer containing tubular element with tightly closed by flat end areas, executed from Та (or Мо) foil by the thickness (0,05–0,1) mm with the high temperature of melting and evaporations and is kept a central region of the radial cross-section with the hole in the manner of the oval situated between flat end areas having variable area of the current section, which decreases toward from the centre of the tubular element to its ends. …”
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Performance of Pier-to-Pier Cap Connections of Integral Bridges under Thermal and Seismic Loads by Siva Avudaiappan, Kinson Prabu, Deban Selvaraj, Kiran Raja, Paul Oluwaseun Awoyera, Erick I Saavedra Flores

“…Mechanical joints are provided at the end of each span, to allow for the expansion of the bridge deck due to shrinkage of concrete, thermal effects, and deflections, among others. …”
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Multi-Scale Robotics: A Numerical Investigation on Mobile Micro-Tweezers for Micro-Manipulation with Extreme Requirements by Ahmet Fatih Tabak

“…In this study, a spherical micro-object composed of super paramagnetic particles tightly packed in a non-magnetic resin is rotated with a combined magnetic field of permanent magnets. …”
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Surgical Treatment of Esophagoenteroanastomosis Leakage after Total Gastrectomy by I. N. Peregorodiev, I. A. Zaderenko, K. A. Batyrov, S. N. Nered

“…An attempt to re-form the esophageal-intestinal anastomosis did not lead to success, despite the early stages of relaparotomy, therefore, in order to relieve purulent complications, it was decided to take the path of “disconnecting” the esophagus, for which the cervical esophagus was transected and brought out in the form of two stomas, and the distal end of the esophagus was sutured tightly. Adequate drainage of the esophageal stump area and disconnection of the esophagus at the cervical level made it possible to avoid purulent complications in the abdominal cavity. …”
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Lipoxin A4 levels correlate with severity in a Spanish COVID-19 cohort: potential use of endogenous pro-resolving mediators as biomarkers by Sergio Sánchez-García, Rafael I. Jaén, Roberto Lozano-Rodríguez, José Avendaño-Ortiz, Alejandro Pascual‐Iglesias, Laura Hurtado-Navarro, Eduardo López-Collazo, Eduardo López-Collazo, Lisardo Boscá, Lisardo Boscá, Patricia Prieto, Patricia Prieto, Patricia Prieto

“…This differential prognosis is tightly related to the inflammatory status of the patient. …”
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The Topographic Relationships and Geographic Distribution of Prevascular Vitreous Fissures and Cisterns Assessed by Ultrawidefield En Face Vitreous Images by Fei Deng, MD, Mengying Tao, MD, Yanjie Zhu, MD, Xiaoyu Xu, MD, Yue Wu, MD, Lisha Li, Ying Lin, MD, PhD, Yan Luo, MD, PhD

“…Financial Disclosure(s): Proprietary or commercial disclosure may be found in the Footnotes and Disclosures at the end of this article.…”
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The Bioethics-CSR Divide by Caio Caesar Dib

“…In the political arena, the end of the Cold War led to an impasse in the discourse concerning human rights,[15] which previously had been split between the defense of civil and political rights on one side and social rights on the other. …”
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Life History of the Camelthorn Gall Leafhopper, Scenergates viridis (Vilbaste) (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae) by Roman Rakitov, Esther Appel

“…The subsequent development takes place inside the tightly closed growing gall, plugged at both ends with a mixture of leafhopper excrement, brochosomes, and crushed exuviae. …”
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