Sculpture africaine. Blessures et altérité by Gaetano Speranza

“…Beyond the notion of « injury » for the object, the author dwells on cultural traumatisms resulting from the meeting between African sculpture and the western world. …”
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Early onset neonatal bloodstream infections in South African hospitals by Genevieve Theron, Adrie Bekker, Larisse Bolton, Andrew Whitelaw, Arnoldus Engelbrecht, Louisa Erasmus, Aaqilah Fataar, Chandre Geldenhuys, Marlize Kunneke, Dave Le Roux, Natasha O’Connell, Kessendri Reddy, Natasha Rhoda, Lloyd Tooke, Mark Wates, Thandi Wessels, Angela Dramowski

“…Methods We retrospectively analysed blood culture-confirmed EO-BSI episodes at nine neonatal units from three central and six peripheral hospitals in the Western Cape Province, South Africa between 1 January 2017 and 31 December 2018. …”
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Renal Tissue-Derived Exosomal miRNA-34a in Diabetic Nephropathy Induces Renal Tubular Cell Fibrosis by Promoting the Polarization of M1 Macrophages by Shuai Zheng, Yi Zeng, Liqing Chu, Taiyang Gong, Sihong Li, Min Yang

“…Q-PCR and western blot were undertaken to detect related RNA and proteins. …”
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Public Sector Reform from the Post-New Public Management Perspective: Review and Bibliometric Analysis by Marko Ropret, Aleksander Aristovnik

“…Furthermore, we have shown that such evaluation of governance and related doctrines may be biased in favour of subjective, pluralistic Western ideas about governance, presumably limiting their impact within the CEE and several other regions. …”
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Tendon-Derived Stem Cell Differentiation in the Degenerative Tendon Microenvironment by Chang Liu, Jing-wan Luo, Ke-ke Zhang, Long-xiang Lin, Ting Liang, Zong-ping Luo, Yong-qing Zhuang, Yu-long Sun

“…TDSCs were isolated from rat Achilles tendons and were grown on normal and degenerative (prepared by stress-deprived culture) decellularized tendon slices (DTSs). Immunofluorescence staining, H&E staining, real-time PCR, and Western blot were used to delineate the morphology, proliferation, and differentiation of TDSCs in the degenerative microenvironment. …”
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PPARβ/δ Agonism with GW501516 Increases Myotube PGC-1α Content and Reduces BCAA Media Content Independent of Changes in BCAA Catabolic Enzyme Expression by Caroline N. Rivera, Jason S. Hinkle, Rachel M. Watne, Trent C. Macgowan, Andrew J. Wommack, Roger A. Vaughan

“…Metabolic gene and protein expression were assessed via quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR) and western blot, respectively. Media BCAA content was assessed via liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry (LC/MS). …”
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Elevation of Circulating miR-210 Participates in the Occurrence and Development of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and Its Complications by Xi Chen, Feng Tian, Zhilian Sun, Guoqing Zeng, Ping Tang

“…Meanwhile, the expression of carbohydrate responsive element binding protein (ChREBP) and hypoxia-inducible factor 1α (HIF-1α) was measured by western blotting. Results. The miR-210 level in exosomes from serum was obviously elevated in the BMI>24 group compared with the BMI≤24 group. …”
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Tumor organoids in cancer medicine: from model systems to natural compound screening by Rong Cong, Can Lu, Xinying Li, Zhijie Xu, Yaqin Wang, Shusen Sun

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Cobalt Protoporphyrin Downregulates Hyperglycemia-Induced Inflammation and Enhances Mitochondrial Respiration in Retinal Pigment Epithelial Cells by Peng-Hsiang Fang, Tzu-Yu Lin, Chiu-Chen Huang, Yung-Chang Lin, Cheng-Hung Lai, Bill Cheng

“…ARPE-19 cells cultured in NG media displayed different cell morphology than those cultured in HG media. …”
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Musikalisches Zitat als kulturelle Assoziation. Die ästhetische Bedeutung des musikalischen Zitats in der koreanischen Musik des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts by Hee Sook Oh

“…Moreover, it is noteworthy that in Korean works, quoted targets were often selected from musical elements which were very familiar to Korean cultural ones. In this respect, the quotation technique which has been shown to embody not only culture and human, but also history and society, plays a significant role in reflecting the identity as a Korean composer.…”
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Blood pressure variation and hypertension rates in a pre-modernized Bedouin population: data from tribes of the Sinai Peninsula (Egypt) by Hani Monk-Vitelson, Israel Hershkovitz, Eugene Kobyliansky

“…During the 20th century Bedouin society has shifted from semi-nomad pastoralism toward a more Western life style, whilst accumulating risk factors for life threatening diseases. …”
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Low IL-6, IL-10, and TNF-α and High IL-13 Cytokine Levels Are Associated with Severe Hepatic Fibrosis in Schistosoma mansoni Chronically Exposed Individuals by Mable M. Mutengo, Takafira Mduluza, Paul Kelly, James C. L. Mwansa, Geoffrey Kwenda, Patrick Musonda, James Chipeta

“…Cytokines were measured in S. mansoni egg stimulated whole blood culture supernatants using the BD Cytometric Bead Array kits. …”
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THE COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF GUY DE MAUPASSANT’S TWO FRIENDS AND ARTURO ARIAS’ TOWARD PATZUN by Kristiawan Indriyanto

“…It is hoped that this paper can contribute toward questioning the privileged status of Western literary works compared to the non-Western author. …”
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Towards sovereign international rela- tions studies? Book review of ‘Liberal values in theory and practice. On the issues of intellectual decolonization of Russia’ by L.S. Voronkov... by V. V. Kochetkov

“…It is shown that, along with economic and political instruments, Western elites do not disdain practices of cultural hegemony, arising from the colonialism and neocolonialism. …”
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Why Breast Cancer Patients Seek Traditional Healers by Mazanah Muhamad, Sharan Merriam, Norhasmilia Suhami

“…These factors work together and are strongly influenced by the Malaysian cultural context. The issue with the Western health system is common in a developing country with limited health facilities.…”
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From margins to mainstream: decolonizing science and promoting diversity for the future of STEM by Roksana Khalid, Isaiah J. Ting

“…Decolonizing science is essential for dismantling entrenched biases that privilege Western methodologies and marginalize valuable contributions from non-dominant regions. …”
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Presenting the model of realizing the right to the city based on the network analysis process (ANP) in the raw-towns of West Mazandaran by Reza Soltanmaleki, Masoud Elahi, Zohreh Davodpour

“…It is trailed by the economic dimension (0.1725) and the social and cultural dimensions (with a final weight of 0.0847). …”
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Curcumin administration alleviates seminal vesicle damage in type 1 diabetic rats by promoting AQP8 expression through AR activation by Dawei Ni, Kun Liu, Ning Wu, Bin You, Baibing Yang, Wei Wu, Yutian Dai

“…After 48 h of intervention, the fructose concentration in the culture medium was measured, and the expression of AR and AQP8 in the control, HG, and HG-CUR-20 µM groups was determined via Western blotting and PCR. …”
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Constructing Identities: Amos Tutuola and the Ibadan Literary Elite in the wake of Nigerian Independence by Mackenzie Finley

“…Yet if education represented a rather concrete, institutionalized divide between the elite and the everyday Nigerian, this paper will suggest that the resulting epistemological difference served as a more fluid, ideological divide. Both Western epistemology, rooted in Western academic spaces, and African epistemology, preserved from African traditions like proverbs and storytelling, informed the elite and Tutuola’s worldviews. …”
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Inflammatory adhesion mediates myocardial segmental necroptosis induced by mixed lineage kinase domain-like protein in acute myocardial infarction by Lijiang Wei, Naifu Wan, Wentong Zhu, Chenchen Liu, Zeyu Chen, Wuwei Rong, Lujun Zhang, Meifeng Xie, Yueqi Qin, Ting Sun, Qing Jing, Ankang Lyu

“…In a macrophage-cardiomyocyte co-culture system, MLKLM−KO attenuated hypoxia-induced MSN and inhibited macrophage-mediated inflammatory adhesion. …”
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