Presence and Absence in Margaret Atwood’s Dearly by Pilar Sánchez-Calle

“…In Morning in the Burned House (1995), Margaret Atwood includes a sequence of elegiac poems mourning the process of her father’s illness and death. …”
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Tropical Fruit Pest Management Strategic Plan (PMSP) by Mark A. Mossler, Olaf Norman Nesheim

“…Finally, insect problems are often specific to a crop, except for pests such as scales and mealybugs, which have wide host ranges, and are recognized as problems for most of the tropical fruits. …”
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A conformação dos grupos de pesquisa em biotecnologia da cana de açúcar na região norte-fluminense: a perspectiva do "novo sistemismo" by Adelia Maria Miglievich Ribeiro, Fabricio Monteiro Neves

“…We give particular emphasis to Campos dos Goytacazes, where the groups of research are settled, hosted at Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense (UENF) and at Universidade Federal Rural do Rio De Janeiro (UFRRJ). …”
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INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC SECTOR ACCOUNTING STANDARD (IPSAS 24): ITS EFFECT ON PUBLIC SECTOR BUDGET PERFORMANCE IN KWARA STATE, NIGERIA by Salaudeen Ibrahim, Abdul-Hakeem Shuaib, Mubaraq Sanni

“…The targeted population were 50 made up of all 24 members of the Kwara State House of Assembly and 26 Controllers of finance in the state. …”
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Rescuing the Jews in Lithuania during World War II: Practices of Creating a Lithuanian Museum Narrative by Rūta Šermukšnytė

“…The analysis of four cases (Vilna Gaon Museum of Jewish History, ‘Sugihara House’ in Kaunas, The Ninth Fort of Kaunas, ‘Lost Shtetl’ museum under construction in Šeduva) is used to answer these questions. …”
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The interplay of geology, climate and tectonics on river incision: the example of the High Verdon Gorges, Southwestern French Alps by Cardinal, Thibaut, Petit, Carole, Rolland, Yann, Schwartz, Stéphane, Valla, Pierre Gaston, Scalabrino, Bruno, Audin, Laurence, Bertauts, Maxime, Zerathe, Swann, Thiéblemont, Denis, Braucher, Régis, Team, ASTER

“…To shed new light on these issues, we chose to study the “Hautes Gorges du Verdon” (High Verdon Gorges or HVG), located in the foreland of the Southwestern Alps. …”
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From overtourism to undertourism... and back? The struggle to manage tourism regrowth in post-pandemic Amsterdam by Lola Kuenen, Robert Fletcher, Tom Jakobs, Martijn Duineveld, Ko Koens

“…These problems include nuisance, crowdedness, rising housing prices and economic dependence on tourism. …”
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Yaoundé (capital de Camerún) by Carlos García-Monzón Martín

“…The image, taken on July 23, 2023 as part of a cooperation stay with a Cameroonian educational center, shows a view of the city in which the precariousness of the housing and unpaved streets contrasts with the beauty of the natural surroundings. …”
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Role of E-cadherin in epithelial barrier dysfunction: implications for bacterial infection, inflammation, and disease pathogenesis by Peter Lialios, Peter Lialios, Stella Alimperti, Stella Alimperti

“…Clinical implications of E-cadherin perturbations in host pathophysiology are emphasized; downregulation, proteolytic phenomena, abnormal localization/signaling and aberrant immune reactions are linked with a broad spectrum of pathology beyond infectious diseases. …”
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The unique activity of the bone morphogenetic protein TGH4 affects the embryonic development of Trichinella spiralis and the establishment of vaccine protection by Wenjie Shi, Yi Liu, Yan Liu, Xue Bai, Yue Liang, Yaming Yang, Fangwei Wu, Mingyuan Liu, Ning Xu

“…Stripping protein activity can enhance immune protection and host resistance to T. spiralis. Our findings demonstrate that the TGH4 mutant is an important vaccine candidate antigen that blocks embryonic development, kills larvae, and provides insight into parasite vaccine research.…”
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Diethyldithiocarbamate-copper complex ignites the tumor microenvironment through NKG2D-NKG2DL axis by Daciana C. Dumut, Daciana C. Dumut, Marian Hajduch, Marian Hajduch, Amanda M. Zacharias, Qingling Duan, Qingling Duan, Ivo Frydrych, Zuzana Rozankova, Zuzana Rozankova, Miroslav Popper, Miroslav Popper, Dusan Garic, Radu Alexandru Paun, Radu Alexandru Paun, Amanda Centorame, Amanda Centorame, Juhi Shah, Martin Mistrik, Martin Mistrik, Petr Dzubak, Petr Dzubak, Juan B. De Sanctis, Juan B. De Sanctis, Danuta Radzioch, Danuta Radzioch, Danuta Radzioch, Danuta Radzioch

“…Advanced metastatic colorectal cancer (CRC) with deficient DNA mismatch repair (MMR-d), or immune-hot CRCs, show significantly improved clinical outcomes compared to MMR-proficient (MMR-p), or immune-cold CRCs. …”
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Effects of Annealing on the Structural and Optical Properties of Silver Thin Films by O. Osanyinlusi, A.B. Alabi, K.A. Yusuf, M.M. Orosun

“…The thin films were annealed at different temperatures of 100 and 200oC for 1hour. The samples, as-prepared and annealed were  characterized using X-ray diffractometer (XRD) and Uv-Vis  spectrophotometer. …”
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Probiotics Addition Potential to Increase Body Weight, Feed Consumption and Feed Conversion on Pre-Layer Laying Hens by Sukmawati Lailatul Jannah, Mirni Lamid, Mohammad Sukmanadi, Mohammad Anam Al Arif, Sri Hidanah, Sri Chusniati

“…Probiotics are all forms of microbial cell preparations or components of microbial cells that have a beneficial effect on the health and life of the host. Some feed additives such as the Antibiotic Growth Promoter (AGP) hormone have been banned. …”
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Interventional real-time molecular MRI for targeting early myocardial injury in a pig model by Timo Heidt, Simon Reiss, Julien Thielmann, Christian Weber, Alexander Maier, Thomas Lottner, Heidi R. Cristina-Schmitz, Timon Bühler, Diana Chiang, Claus Jülicher, Carolin Wadle, Ingo Hilgendorf, Dennis Wolf, Gavin Tumlinson, Luis Hortells, Dirk Westermann, Michael Bock, Constantin von zur Mühlen

“…We used a closed-chest model of I/R by temporary coronary balloon-occlusion, real time 3T MRI-guided coronary injection of MPIO-based contrast agents, as well as injury, edema and iron-sensitive MRI. Within the first hours after I/R, we found T1 mapping to be most sensitive for tissue injury, with no changes in edema-sensitive MRI. …”
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Electrical and Thermal Conductivity of Complex-Shaped Contact Spots by Beguin, Paul, Yastrebov, Vladislav A.

“…This paper explores the electrical and thermal conductivity of complex contact spots on the surface of a half-space. Employing an in-house Fast Boundary Element Method implementation, various complex geometries were studied. …”
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Tropical Fruit Pest Management Strategic Plan (PMSP) by Mark A. Mossler, Olaf Norman Nesheim

“…Finally, insect problems are often specific to a crop, except for pests such as scales and mealybugs, which have wide host ranges, and are recognized as problems for most of the tropical fruits. …”
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Effectiveness of Nigerian Bamboo Activated with Different Activating Agents on the Adsorption of BTX by FT Ademiluyi, O Braide

“…A series of activated carbons was prepared from Nigerian bamboo, carbonized at 400oC – 500oC and impregnated with different concentrations of four acids at 800oC in a muffle furnace for 2 hours. The resultant products were further adsorbed into BTX in aqueous and vapour phases. …”
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Load recognition method based on convolutional neural network and attention mechanism by ZHAO Yitao, LI Zhao, LIU Xinglong, LUO Zhao, WANG Gang, SHEN Xin

“…Non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) of residential houses is an important research content of the user demand side of smart grids, and the energy consumption analysis and power consumption management of residential loads are key steps in achieving energy conservation, emission reduction, and sustainable development. …”
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Yaoundé (capital de Camerún) by Carlos García-Monzón Martín

“…The image, taken on July 23, 2023 as part of a cooperation stay with a Cameroonian educational center, shows a view of the city in which the precariousness of the housing and unpaved streets contrasts with the beauty of the natural surroundings. …”
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Spatial proteomics identifies a CRTC-dependent viral signaling pathway that stimulates production of interleukin-11 by Benjamin J. Ravenhill, Marisa Oliveira, George Wood, Ying Di, Joanne Kite, Xinyue Wang, Colin T.R. Davies, Yongxu Lu, Robin Antrobus, Gill Elliott, Nerea Irigoyen, David J. Hughes, Paul A. Lyons, Betty Chung, Georg H.H. Borner, Michael P. Weekes

“…Viral sensors and their downstream signaling components thus provide a crucial first line of host defense. Many of them exhibit subcellular relocalization upon activation, resulting in the expression of interferon and antiviral genes. …”
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