Contribution of <i>AGTR</i> 1 Promoter Region Polymorphism to the Progression and Outcome of Sepsis in Patients with Various Comorbidities by A. G. Chumachenko, E. K. Grigoriev, V. M. Pisarev

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The Role of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation in Chronic Shoulder Pain: A Scoping Review by Roberto Tedeschi, Federica Giorgi, Danilo Donati

“…Functional improvements were generally observed, though not consistently superior to sham interventions. …”
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Las debilidades de la etnología marxista by Laura Ibarra

“…In this article it is suggested that Marxist analysis suffers from various deficiencies when it attempts to explain prehispanic thought. In general, Marxist analysis concentrates on the concerns which the ancient Mexicans articuiated in their worldview, and the function that these concerns fulfilled in their socio-economic system. …”
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Memory State Feedback Control for Time-Varying Delay Switched Fuzzy Systems by Le Zhang, Meiyu Jia, Hong Yang, Gang Wu

“…The designed controller whose parameters are solvable can introduce past state information and reduce the system conservativeness. The more general Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional is selected and the switching law is designed in order to analyze the open-loop system stability, and the memory state feedback controller is designed for the closed-loop system and the criterion for its asymptotic stability. …”
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Wireworms in Florida Sugarcane by R. H. Cherry, M. Karounos

“…More studies are needed, but the current information suggests substantial percentages (e.g. 40% or more) of wireworms could be killed by flooding but, in general, the flood duration had to be at least 4 to 5 weeks at water temperatures above 24 °C. …”
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Wireworms in Florida Sugarcane by R. H. Cherry, M. Karounos

“…More studies are needed, but the current information suggests substantial percentages (e.g. 40% or more) of wireworms could be killed by flooding but, in general, the flood duration had to be at least 4 to 5 weeks at water temperatures above 24 °C. …”
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Berkeley’s Best System: An Alternative Approach to Laws of Nature by Walter Ott

“…Contemporary Humeans treat laws of nature as statements of exceptionless regularities that function as the axioms of the best deductive system. …”
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Discourse “Declaration of Love”: Problem of Automatic Identification (Works of A. P. Chekhov») by L. G. Babenko, A. V. Elston-Biron

“…Chekhov follows in describing the process of declaring love, an open space filled with plants, birds, etc. was revealed. In the general cognitive-discursive set of declarations of love, the nuclear and satellite zones were identified and analyzed, the lexical components of which belong to certain functional-semantic classes and functional-semantic groups.…”
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Quality of life in elderly patients with osteoarthrosis concurrent with osteopenic syndrome by Natalya Viktorovna Shatrova, T A Raskina

“…Anthropometric indicators, the duration of the disease, and the degree of functional failure were estimated and joint X-ray study and densitometry were made in all the patients. …”
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Lead-induced hypertension and cognitive dysfunction: brain amyloid pathology by Yunbo Zhang, Yao Xu, Yanling Song, Yachun Wang, Minghui Chen, Xinbo Ji, Yunyun Lin, Shenhong Gu

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Evolution of free indirect speech structures in English, American, and Russian literature by A.D. Alimova

“…Changes that free indirect speech underwent in English, American, and Russian literature during the 20th century were investigated. Both general and more specific (qualitative and quantitative) trends in the free indirect speech development were discussed. …”
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Cardiac Sarcoidosis or Giant Cell Myocarditis? On Treatment Improvement of Fulminant Myocarditis as Demonstrated by Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging by Hari Bogabathina, Peter Olson, Vikas K. Rathi, Robert W. W. Biederman

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Cholecystomegaly: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Mohammad Bagher Jahantab, Vahid Salehi, Saadat Mehrabi, Lotfolah Abedini, Mohammad Javad Yavari Barhaghtalab

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Effect of non-invasive brain stimulation on post-stroke cognitive impairment: a meta-analysis by Jing Zhao, Qian Meng, Shuo Qi, Hongfei Zhao, Ling Xia

“…The extracted study data were entered into STATA 12.0 software for statistical analysis.ResultsThis meta-analysis provides evidence that both rTMS and tDCS have a positive impact on general cognitive function in PSCI patients [immediate effect of rTMS: standard mean difference (SMD) = 2.58, 95% confidence interval (CI) = 1.44 to 3.71; long-term effect of rTMS: SMD = 2.33, 95% CI = 0.87–3.78; immediate effect of tDCS: SMD = 2.22, 95% CI = 1.31–3.12]. …”
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Kernel Density Estimation for Joint Scrambling in Sensitive Surveys by Alvan Caleb Arulandu, Sat Gupta

“…We also give consistent, unbiased estimators for a general class of estimands including the mean. For the cumulative distribution function, this estimator is more computationally efficient with asymptotically lower mean squared error than existing approaches. …”
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The encoding of prominence relations in supra-laryngeal articulation across speaking styles by Doris Mücke, Lena Pagel, Simon Roessig

“…Speakers modify their supra-laryngeal articulation on the one hand as a function of prosodic prominence and on the other hand as a function of speaking style. …”
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Effect of doped wax on the rheological properties and chemical structure of ultraviolet aged bitumen by Mingyuan Chen, Jiuguang Geng, Leilei He, Huaxin Chen, Yongju Hu

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A Clinical Update on Delirium: From Early Recognition to Effective Management by Joaquim Cerejeira, Elizabeta B. Mukaetova-Ladinska

“…Predisposing factors render the subject more vulnerable to a congregation of precipitating factors which potentially affect brain function and induce an imbalance in all the major neurotransmitter systems. …”
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Threshold Effects, Sacrifice Ratio and Government Debt The Smooth Transition Regression Approach by sara ghobadi

“…The optimal monetary policy is obtained by minimizing the social loss function according to the constraints of the monetary transmission mechanism. …”
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"An impediment to living life": why and how should we measure stiffness in polymyalgia rheumatica? by Sarah Louise Mackie, Rodney Hughes, Margaret Walsh, John Day, Marion Newton, Colin Pease, John Kirwan, Marianne Morris

“…Stiffness is closely related to function and often regarded as interchangeable with pain. …”
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