Committed care in the shadow of fear: The experiences of emergency medical services staff encountering with COVID-19 patients by Mehdi Amirkhani, Mahmoudreza Peyravi, Camellia Torabizadeh, Mohammad T. Iman, Majid N. Kalyani

“…Results: Data analysis contributed to the extraction of 783 primary codes, 15 subclasses, 4 classes, and 2 main themes, including “committed care” (with two classes of “respect to the personal identity of the patient” and “facilitators to adhere to care”) and “the bottleneck of care in the shadow of fear” (with two classes of “the fine line between fear and responsibility” and “the sacrifice in care”). Conclusions: Although there was a fear of encountering COVID-19 patients among the EMSs staff, they provided devotional and committed care to patients considering moral values and human principles. …”
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Noninvasive Monitoring of Pneumococcal Meningitis and Evaluation of Treatment Efficacy in an Experimental Mouse Model by Jagath L. Kadurugamuwa, Kshitij Modi, Jun Yu, Kevin P. Francis, Carlos Orihuela, Elaine Tuomanen, Anthony F. Purchio, Pamela R. Contag

“…Moreover, it avoids the need to sacrifice the animals for CSF sampling and the potential manipulative damage that can occur with other conventional methods.…”
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Three-Dimensional Microwave Imaging for Concealed Weapon Detection Using Range Stacking Technique by Weixian Tan, Pingping Huang, Zengshu Huang, Yaolong Qi, Wenqin Wang

“…For the 3D image reconstruction under two-dimensional (2D) planar aperture condition, most of current imaging algorithms focus on decomposing the 3D free space Green function by exploiting the stationary phase and, consequently, the accuracy of the final imagery is obtained at a sacrifice of computational complexity due to the need of interpolation. …”
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Estimating wolf abundance with unverified methods by Adrian Treves, Francisco J. Santiago-Ávila

“…Recently, several US jurisdictions have departed from those proven methods to explore alternatives that are believed to be less expensive for wolf populations estimated >1000 individuals. The new methods sacrifice precision but are believed to retain adequate accuracy and sensitivity to changing conditions for reliable decision-making. …”
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Hybrid Movie Recommendation System With User Partitioning and Log Likelihood Content Comparison by Yongmao Yang, Kampol Woradit, Kenneth Cosh

“…However, when dealing with an original rating matrix, the ALS method may inadvertently sacrifice some information, leading to increased error rates. …”
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Masculinité et relations de genre dans la société secrète abakuá by Géraldine Morel

“…Indeed, its organization and its system of recruitment based on individual merit are at odds with that of people practising Santería or Palo Monte because these other Afro-Cuban cults are an exchange between gods and humans (trance, sacrifice or divination) and have an influence on everyday life problems.In fact, being abakuá implies a hyper-masculine, machismo gender construction. …”
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Shaping a Collective Identity through Self-Representation: Early Suffrage Autobiographies and the Militant Experience by Chloé Clément

“…The reproduction of imprisonments, hunger strikes or other militant actions assert defining characteristics of militant experience and contribute to emphasise a collective identity built upon self-sacrifice, devotion, and martyrdom. While these autobiographies demonstrate how the self-representation of individual experiences had a collective purpose and influence over a community, they also describe how notions of self-representation and collective identity are reciprocal. …”
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«Only anarchy can give us the opportunity to defeat the Soviet government»: a memorandum by General M. K. Dieterichs to the leadership of the ROVS (1930) by S. V. Smirnov

“…The text of the memo shows the discrepancy between the author’s realistic assessment of the international situation in the Far East, the situation in the Far Eastern regions of the USSR, where there was an increase in discontent with the activities of the Soviet government, as well as the state of White emigration in China and the presentation of the prospects of the anti-Soviet movement based on Dieterichs’ belief in the exclusively repressive and spiritually alien Russian people essence of Soviet power and readiness a significant part of the ordinary military emigration to sacrifice in the overthrow of the «Bolshevik yoke». …”
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Preventative Effects of Vitamin E on Testicular Damage and Sperm Parameters in the First-Generation Mice Pups due to Pre- and Postnatal Mancozeb Exposure by Esmaeil Saddein, Tahereh Haghpanah, Seyed Noreddin Nematollahi-Mahani, Fatemeh Seyedi, Massood Ezzatabadipour

“…The left testes and epididymides were removed following the sacrifice of the pups. Then, they were weighed, and sperm parameters including number, viability, motility, and morphology and testis structure were evaluated. …”
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WELTKRIEGSPHILOSOPHIE AND SCHELER'S PHILOSOPHICAL ANTHROPOLOGY by V. Y. Popov, E. V. Popova

“…The basis of the Weltkriegsphilosophie by Max Scheler is the philosophical comprehension of the war in which the thinker tries to see the high sacral meaning, where the sacrifices that the nation brings to the altar of victory are not in vain: the nation is rallying this sacrifice, its readiness for it. …”
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Nurses’ health and work experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic in Swedish prehospital and hospital care: a deductive content analysis through the lens of the swAge model by Cicilia Nagel, Petra Nilsson Lindstrom, Albert Westergren, Sophie Schon Persson, Kerstin Nilsson

“…Nurses were prepared to sacrifice their health for the well-being of their patients, with many still facing the repercussions. …”
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Ultra-high electrostriction and ferroelectricity in poly (vinylidene fluoride) by ‘printing of charge’ throughout the film by Ningyi Zhang, Xiaobing Dong, Shihui He, Zhao Liang, Weipeng Li, Qihao Qian, Chao Jiang

“…Generally, traditional methods to improve the electrostriction of PVDF either sacrifice other crystalline-related key properties or only influence minimal regions around the surface. …”
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A Single-Inductor Bipolar-Output DC-DC Converter With Tunable Asymmetric Power Distribution Control (APDC) for AMOLED Applications by Wei-Ting Yeh, Meng-Xun Cai, Chien-Wu Tsai, Chien-Hung Tsai

“…This work implements the APDC technique to deliberately sacrifice the transient performance of the negative voltage within acceptable limits to depress the over/undershoot voltage magnitude of the positive voltage. …”
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The Role of Silymarin in Mitigating Inflammation and Cognitive Impairment Induced by Ovariectomy in Wistar Rats by Razieh Moalefshahri, Hossein Javid, Fatemeh Gheybi, Somaye Fallahnezhad, Seyed Isaac Hashemy

“…Brain and liver tissues were analyzed for inflammatory factors (IL-1β, TNFα, and IL-6) and oxidative stress markers (CAT, SOD, and MDA) after sacrifice. Results. Silymarin improved spatial memory and fear learning compared to the sham group (P≤0.05 to P≤0.001). …”
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வா. மு. கோமு சிறுகதைகள் காட்டும் பண்பாட்டு மீறல்கள் / Cultural Violation shown in the Short Stories of Vaa. Mu. Komu... by அ. சதிஸ்குமார் / A. Sathishkumar

“…By influencing and changing certain customs in sacrifice in temple festivals due to economic growth, the caste ideology created for the marginalized people by people belonging to higher caste avoids significant customs and rituals in view of chaotic situations that arise in family life and accept modernized language and dress. …”
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Evaluation of Protective Effects of Aqueous Extract of S. Maydis on Liver Cytoarchitecture of Wistar Rats Induced with Carbonated Herbal Alcoholic Beverages (Orijin Bitters) by A. Agbortai, G. I. Eze, S. B. Olukayode, S. O. Innih

“…Oral administration lasted for 60 consecutive days. After sacrifice, the livers were harvested, fixed in 10% neutral buffered formalin, and processed for histological assessment using haematoxylin and eosin staining. …”
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The Antifibrosis Effects of Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor δ on Rat Corneal Wound Healing after Excimer Laser Keratectomy by Yun Gu, Xuan Li, Tiangeng He, Zhixin Jiang, Peng Hao, Xin Tang

“…The agents were subconjunctivally administered twice a week until sacrifice. The cellular aspects of corneal wound healing were evaluated with in vivo confocal imaging and postmortem histology. …”
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Necriphysiphilia as a psychopathology of the anthropocene epoch and, a dissoanalytic political psychology perspective on the transformation of individual trauma to social trauma by Erdinc Ozturk

“…Within this manifesto, Ozturk's "Dissoanalytic Political Psychology" analyzes necriphysiphiliacs -who sacrifice their freedoms for pleasure, interests, and luxury- through the lens of "dysfunctional mass psychology". …”
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Multiple isolated spinal aneurysms – A rare condition with uncertain treatment strategies: A case report and literature review by F.M.C. Lioi, D. Dahlberg, J. Sundseth, K.B. Olsen, H.L. Lilleby, B. Nedregaard, M.K.H. Wiedmann

“…Due to the common fusiform shape, parent vessel sacrifice may be necessary, and should include IONM and ICG-VA to minimize complications. …”
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Cutting-edge technologies: Biofuel innovations in marine propulsion systems to lower black carbon emissions by Sivasubramanian Manikandan, Sundaram Vickram, Yuvarajan Devarajan

“…This study reviews some engineering-oriented biofuel applications that seem to effectively minimize BC emissions from marine propulsion systems without sacrifice of the operational performance metric. Biofuels (hydrotreated vegetable oil [HVO] and biodiesel from algae or other processing routes) show the potential to reduce BC emissions by 50–80 % under controlled conditions in medium-speed diesel engines. …”
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