KGB Struggle with Antisoviet Manifestation in Lithuania and Abroad: People's Discreditation by Kristina Burinskaitė

“…In a struggle with inner enemies, KGB used the method of discreditation, which aims to damage authority, good name of an opponent, and trust of society in him by leaking out or interpreting negatively the facts of his life and activity in order to suppress their activity, lower the number of supporters and to justify the repression. …”
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Réformer l’hôpital comme une entreprise. Les errements de trente ans de politique hospitalière (1983-2013) by Jean-Paul Domin

“…This article sets out to understand why, for the last thirty years, hospital reform has met with fierce opposition from staff. …”
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Chaosmos Against the Metaphysics of One, or a Defence Against Badiou’s Criticism on Deleuze by Zülfükar Emir Özer

“…For Badiou, the reason why Deleuze’s understanding falls back to a metaphysical point is its strong affiliation with Stoic philosophy throughout all his works. …”
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S + V + O : Ordres marqués et non marqués en italien by Sandra Augendre

“…We will focus on the case of Italian, where the construction of the sentence is relatively free, in order to show that claiming there is a canonical or basic structure (SVO for Italian) for descriptive purposes does not reflect the real use which is made of this language. Indeed, the opposition between a basic or unmarked form and its so-called ‘marked’ variants does not seem to fit in a more detailed analysis of linguistic use. …”
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Etyczne podstawy polityki zrównoważonego rozwoju by Mariusz Ciszek

“…Unfortunately, this ethical discipline is not a monolith, because it is possible to find it’s other streams witch tries to answer a question: why should we protect the nature? Especially two opposition streams deserve notice anthropocentric and biocentric position, witch differently comprehend purpose and bases of protection of nature, the anthropocentrism has on respect goods of the person but biocentrism goods of whole nature, witch one of the many elements is a man. …”
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HIF-3α-Induced miR-630 Expression Promotes Cancer Hallmarks in Cervical Cancer Cells by Forming a Positive Feedback Loop by Qiaohui Gao, Zhenghua Ren, Shengyuan Jiao, Juan Guo, Xia Miao, Jin Wang, Junye Liu

“…We conducted RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) and chromatin immunoprecipitation sequencing (ChIP-seq) experiments to investigate the targets of HIF-3α or miR-630. …”
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SPECULATIVE REALISM IN THE SEARCH OF LOST INDEPENDENT OBJECTS by Ігор КАРІВЕЦЬ

“…All these sub-ontologies of speculative realism demonstrate semantic shifts in the understanding of object and existence, but they recognize the existence of objective reality or the reality of objects, regardless of what they mean by the latter, which they try to ground it, in order to give it a fundamental meaning. …”
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CAMELLIA THUANANA (CAMELLIA SECT. CHRYSANTHA) – A NEW SPECIES FROM THE CENTRAL HIGHLANDS, VIETNAM by Thanh Truong Hoang, Hong En Le, Thi Lieu Nguyen

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The 500-year Cultural & Economic Trajectory of Tobacco: A Circle Complete by Christopher A. Jones, Amanda Wassel, William Mierse, E. Scott Sills

“…Who smokes, and why do they do it? What factors discourage and otherwise reward or incentivize smoking? …”
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Reading the diplomatic reports of Petras Klimas from Paris by Algis Kasperavičius

“…Klimas used the opportunity to express his independent opinion, which sometimes contradicted the politics and propaganda of the official Lithuanian authority. …”
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The effects of different carbon-fiber plate shapes in shoes on lower limb biomechanics following running-induced fatigue by Yufan Xu, Chengyuan Zhu, Yufei Fang, Zhenghui Lu, Zhenghui Lu, Zhenghui Lu, Yang Song, Chen Hu, Dong Sun, Yaodong Gu

“…The activation level of the tibialis anterior (TA) was significantly higher when wearing “Curve” in pre-fatigue compared to “Flat”, whereas the opposite was observed post-fatigue. …”
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The Lukan periplus of Paul's third journey with a textual conundrum in Acts 20:15 by M. Wilson

“…A textual conundrum in Acts 20:15 is discussed as it relates to an anchorage opposite Chios. A lexical discussion of ???????? ???? …”
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Adaptive Coverage Path Planning for Underwater Sonar Scans in Environments with Changing Currents by Jonghoek Kim

“…We planned the AMS’s coverage path so that the tow fish’s heading is opposite to the current’s changing direction, while covering the entire workspace. …”
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Analysis of Fractional Thin Film Flow of Third Grade Fluid in Lifting and Drainage via Homotopy Perturbation Procedure by Mubashir Qayyum, Farnaz Ismail, Syed Inayat Ali Shah, Muhammad Sohail, Kanayo Kenneth Asogwa, Fatema Tuz Zohra

“…Analysis of thin film flows is an important topic in fluid dynamics due to the large number of industrial applications such as food processing, chip manufacturing, irrigation, oil refining process, painting finishing, etc. …”
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Perancangan dan Perencanaan Mesin Pemipih Emping Jagung Skala Industri by Gilang Gerry Garnida, Rudy Yuni Widiatmoko, Syahrul Ariq Ismail, Donny Firli Ardiawan, Nuha Desi Anggraeni, Budiana Ruslan

“…<p>UKM XYZ is a corn chips processing business that still uses the traditional method which requires a lot of time and effort. …”
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Towards a Smart Encapsulation System for Small-Sized Electronic Devices: A New Approach by Sebastian-Tim Schmitz-Hertzberg, Rick Liese, Carsten Terjung, Frank F. Bier

“…Miniaturized analytical chip devices like biosensors nowadays provide assistance in highly diverse fields of application such as point-of-care diagnostics and industrial bioprocess engineering. …”
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Non-Indigenous Species (NIS) Know No Geopolitical Borders—An Update of NIS in the Aegean Sea by Argyro Zenetos, Alper Doğan, Ahmet Kerem Bakir, Georgios Chatzigeorgiou, Maria Corsini-Foka, Ertan Dağli, Athanasios Evangelopoulos, Engin Meriç, Maria Stoumboudi, Ergun Taşkin, Mehmet Baki Yokeş, Marika Galanidi

“…The opposite pattern was observed in ship-transferred NIS. …”
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The sport and Lithuanian national identity by Ingvaras Butautas, Rasa Čepaitienė

“…A characteristic example is the first in Europe impeached President Rolandas Paksas, who during his election campaign successfully played on his acrobatic flying qualifications, thus refreshing a strong association in historical consciousness connected with the interwar period Lithuanian heroes S. …”
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High Glucose Induces Endothelial COX2 and iNOS Expression via Inhibition of Monomethyltransferase SETD8 Expression by Jie Qi, Qichao Wu, Qian Cheng, Xiangyuan Chen, Minmin Zhu, Changhong Miao

“…Mechanistically, we showed that H4K20me1, a downstream target of SETD8, and SP1 were enriched at the ESE-1 promoter region by ChIP assay. Luciferase reporter assays indicated that SETD8 overexpression attenuated ESE-1 promoter activity and augmented the inhibitory effect of siSP1 on ESE-1 promoter activity. …”
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SUMO modified ETV1 promotes M2-polarized tumor-associated macrophage infiltration and cancer progression by facilitating CCL2 transcription in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma ce... by Tianci Han, Xiaoqi Guo, Junwei Xie, Wei Tong, Liang Zhang

“…Overexpression of ETV1 promoted ESCC cell proliferation in vitro and xenograft tumor growth in nude mice, while ETV1 knockdown elicited the opposite effects. …”
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