NATURE-USE AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT by V. A. Gorbanyov

“…The relationship of the concept of rational nature-use, developed by Soviet scientists in the mid-twentieth century, and the concept of sustainable development, suggested by Western scientists is studied. …”
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The Use of a Novel Quantitative Marker of Echogenicity of Pleural Fluid in Parapneumonic Pleural Effusions by Charalampos Varsamas, Alexandros Kalkanis, Konstantinos I. Gourgoulianis, Foteini Malli

“…Demographics, laboratory measurements, and clinical data were collected prospectively and recorded in all subjects. Results. Twenty-four patients with PPE were included in the study. …”
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Creative tourism and residents: interactions in the context of artistic residencies in the Center region of Portugal by Inês Almeida, Carlos Cardoso Ferreira, Luís Silveira

“…In approximately twenty years of research on creative tourism, the relevance of including residents in the creative tourism experience has been mentioned but not investigated in depth. …”
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Clinical Profile of Unilateral Proptosis in a Tertiary Care Centre by Susan Dsouza, Pooja Kandula, Gurudutt Kamath, Manjunath Kamath

“…Its diagnosis is usually a combined effort of the ophthalmologist, otolaryngologist, neurosurgeon, and radiologist. A clinical study of twenty-five cases with unilateral proptosis were studied in different age groups over a period of about 3 years under different headings like distribution, clinical features, radiological features, histopathological aspects, management, and outcomes of diseases. …”
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Histopathological investigation of the effect of coenzyme q10 on intestinal mucosa and tight junction proteins in experimental colitis model by Saadet Ozen Akarca Dizakar, Murside Ayse Demirel

“…<p> <b>Materials and Methods:</b> Twenty-four,10-week-old female Wistar albino rats were used in the study and divided into 3 groups; Control(n=4), Colitis (n=10) and Colitis+ CoQ10 (n=10). …”
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CroALa by Neven Jovanović

“…Croatiae auctores Latini (CroALa), a text collection first published in 2009, makes freely accessible Latin texts written by or about people of Croatian origin from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century. The collection is intended primarily for scholars of Latin and neo-Latin literature and language and of Croatian history and culture. …”
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Laparoscopic Surgery for Recurrent Crohn's Disease by Antonino Spinelli, Matteo Sacchi, Piero Bazzi, Nicoletta Leone, Silvio Danese, Marco Montorsi

“…Laparoscopy has been widely applied over the last twenty years in colorectal surgery and was associated with lower postoperative pain, shorter hospitalization, faster return to daily activities, and better cosmetic results. …”
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“Epystemologically Different Worlds”: from J. Uexküll to G. Vakariu by Egor V. Falev

“…The research deals with the concept of “epistemologically different worlds” introduced by Gabriel Vacariu and its background in European science and philosophy, since the beginning of the twentieth century. It is shown that the accusation of plagiarism made by Vacariu against Marcus Gabriel is groundless, firstly, because Gabriel’s concept of “semantic fields” ( Sinnfeld ) is not identical to the concept of epistemologically different worlds, and secondly, because in the twentieth century, similar concepts appeared, starting with the concept of “Umwelt” by Jakob Uexküll (1909). …”
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Effect of Folic Acid Supplementation in Pregnancy on Preeclampsia: The Folic Acid Clinical Trial Study by Shi Wu Wen, Josee Champagne, Ruth Rennicks White, Doug Coyle, William Fraser, Graeme Smith, Dean Fergusson, Mark C. Walker

“…A web-based randomization system and electronic data collection system provide the platform for participating centers to randomize their eligible participants and enter data in real time. To date we have twenty participating Canadian centers, of which eighteen are actively recruiting, and seven participating Australian centers, of which two are actively recruiting. …”
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Desclasificación de sectores urbanísticos: los informes pormenorizados como instrumento clave para la toma de decisiones en la administración urbanística by Izaskun Iriarte Irureta

“…This paper presents the experience of the Vitoria-Gasteiz City Council of including the declassification of twenty-five sectors in the initial approval agreement of the revision of its General Urban Development Plan, a reasoned decision founded in law, based on the detailed and individualised reports on each of the sectors, and an external legal opinion of contrast.…”

STUDENT SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY IN THE FIELD OF AVIATION AND COSMONAUTICS (1910-1920s) by Mikhail N. Okhotchinskiy

“…The article describes the activities of two student scientific associations that existed in 1920B1920s: the Circle for the study of Aeronautics and the Section of interplanetary connections, organized with an interval of twenty years in St. Petersburg (Leningrad) Institute of communications engineers. …”
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From the Competence Model of a Specialist Engineer to STEAM Education, or … Going Ahead to the Past? by N. G. Bagdasaryan, R. M. Petruneva, V. D. Vasilyeva

“…The special acuteness of the modern formulation of this problem is due to the new format of the geopolitical life of the Russian Federation and the associated restructuring of many social institutions of the country, in particular, science and education.The article raises the question of the leading paradigm of domestic engineering education, considered in the prism of a specialist-engineer model that meets the requirements of the modern stage of society.Education standards have changed dramatically and repeatedly in their target characteristics over the past twenty years. The article considers the features of the competence model of specialist presented in the modern version of the Federal State Educational Standards of higher education (FSES HE). …”
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Full-Thickness Retinochoroidal Incision in the Management of Central Retinal Vein Occlusion by San-Ni Chen, Ya-Chi Huang

“…Patients were followed up for at least 1 year. Results. Twenty-eight eyes (14 ischemic and 14 nonischemic CRVO) were included. …”
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Myeloid dendritic cells and periodontal disease association: integrated study of single-cell sequencing and Mendelian randomization analysis by ChengJi Shi, XinYi Ou, XiaoXu Lei, LiJuan Huang, ShuHao Xu, Wei Li, Xi Zhao

“…MR analysis identified twenty-six significant genes, with LIMA1 (LIM domain and actin-binding 1) demonstrating a robust causal association with the progression of periodontal disease. …”
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Deep analysis of the major histocompatibility complex genetic associations using covariate analysis and haploblocks unravels new mechanisms for the molecular etiology of Elite Cont... by Myriam Rahmouni, Sigrid Le Clerc, Jean-Louis Spadoni, Taoufik Labib, Maxime Tison, Raissa Medina-Santos, Armand Bensussan, Ryad Tamouza, Jean-François Deleuze, Jean-François Zagury

“…Results Two thousand six hundred twenty-six SNPs were associated with EC (p<5.10-8), all located within the Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) region. …”
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The clinical utility of tissue polymerase chain reaction, tissue culture and tissue histology in blood culture-negative infective endocarditis in South Africa – insights from the G... by W Endres, P Mkoko, M Ntsekhe

“…BCNIE patients had a mean (standard deviation) age of 40.2 (13.4) years, and 41 (71.9%) were male. Twenty-seven of the 57 BCNIE patients underwent cardiac surgery and had tissue analysis performed. …”
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Battling time restrictions with collective discourse: collaborative quizzes in a condensed human anatomy course by Zi Guo, Natascha Heise

“…During the four collaborative quizzes, medical and medical masters student groups rotated through twenty dissected donor stations, each containing a short clinical or anatomy-related multiple-choice question formatted in NBME style. …”
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Économie politique du développement minier à Madagascar : l’analyse du projet QMM à Tolagnaro (Fort-Dauphin) by Bruno Sarrasin

“…This paper will analyse an industrial development project in the south eastern part of the Malagasy region. For the past twenty years, the QIT Madagascar Minerals S.A. (QMM) corporation has been studying the feasibility of mining high-grade ilmenite mineral sands close to Tolagnaro. …”
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Bone Morphometric Evaluation around Immediately Placed Implants Covered with Porcine-Derived Pericardium Membrane: An Experimental Study in Dogs by Ryo Jimbo, Charles Marin, Lukasz Witek, Marcelo Suzuki, Nick Tovar, Ioana Chesnoiu-Matei, Irina Florentina Dragan, Paulo G. Coelho

“…To investigate whether porcine-derived bioresorbable pericardium membrane coverage enhances the osseointegration around implants placed in fresh extraction sockets. Study Design. Twenty-four commercially available endosseous implants were placed in the fresh extraction sockets of the mandibular first molar of mature beagles (). …”
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Comparative evaluation of allograft particulate bone and cortical bone blocks combined with xenograft bone for labial bone defects in the aesthetic zone: a prospective cohort study by Li-Rong Huang, Yong-Jin Zhong, Xiao-Qing Zhang, Ze-Ru Feng, Yan-Cheng Lai, Hong-Kun Wu, An-Chun Mo

“…Materials and methods Twenty-four patients with bone defects were divided into two groups based on defect severity (Terheyden 1/4 and 2/4 groups). …”
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