Overview of hepatocarcinogenesis focusing on cellular origins of liver cancer stem cells: a narrative review by Jong Ryeol Eun

“…Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) accounts for 85% to 90% of primary liver cancers and generally has a poor prognosis. The hierarchical model, which posits that HCC originates from liver cancer stem cells (CSCs), is now widely accepted, as it is for other cancer types. …”
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Proceso de paz entre gobierno colombiano y las FARC-EP: camino hacia la reincorporación de combatientes by Ghina Alexandra Castrillón Torres, Helver Javier Cadavid Ramirez

“…De esta manera, el punto dos del acuerdo se enfoca en la participación política y la ampliación democrática, exponiendo la pertinencia de revisar los lineamientos generales pactados en dicho acuerdo para la creación y adecuación de instituciones que se encarguen de acompañar y vigilar la reincorporación política de los excombatientes; así como también de la puesta en marcha del tránsito a la vida, identificando así los retos a los que se enfrentan los excombatientes y las medidas que se deben tomar…”
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LIQUIDITY AND PERFORMANCE: EVIDENCE FROM THE DEPOSIT MONEY BANKS IN NIGERIA by Celestine Toluwa Oladele, Rihanat I Abdulkadir, Peters Ade Sanni

“…The analytical method employed to analyze the data was the System Generalized Method of Movement (GMM) estimator. The empirical results showed that among the proxies for liquidity (liquidity ratio, cash reserve ratio, loan to deposit ratio), only cash reserve ratio was significant and consistent on both dimensions of performance. …”
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YOUTHS PROTEST IN NIGERIA: THE ENDSARS IN PERSPECTIVE by Felix Ikalewumi

“…While many researches had looked into youth protests mostly in the advanced countries, Africa generally, only a few assessed youth protests in Nigeria so far. …”
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Antinomias y paradojas de la sociedad civil global by Edwin Cruz Rodríguez

“…En términos normativos, existe una paradoja pues la sociedad civil global no representa ciudadanos o intereses generales sino cuerpos con intereses particulares vinculados a la necesidad de gobierno o gobernanza global. …”
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Object identity representation occurs early in the archerfish visual system by Svetlana Volotsky, Ronen Segev

“…Building on this unique behavior, it was recently shown that archerfish can be trained to distinguish between different object categories by generalizing from examples. Analysis of the archerfish’s behavior revealed that the fish visual system relies on a small set of visual features for categorization and is more sensitive to object contours than to textures. …”
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De la force illocutionnaire de l’énoncé comme potentialité de performativité dans l’interaction verbale by Abdelhadi Bellachhab, Olga Galatanu

“…Le cadre de cette recherche est celui de la sémantique de l’(inter)action verbale – la SIV, développement d’une théorie plus générale du sens linguistique, de ses potentialités discursives et sémantiques, la Sémantique des Possibles Argumentatifs. …”
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Dhat Syndrome: Epidemiology, Risk Factors, Comorbidities, Diagnosis, Treatment, and Management by Yukino N. Strong, Angel Li, Michael E. White, Abrahim N. Razzak, Danyon J. Anderson, Alan D. Kaye, Edwin W. Herron, Nazih P. Khater, Elyse M. Cornett, Ivan Urits

“…For patients with Dhat syndrome, it becomes important to appreciate how generalized depression and anxiety may persist alongside the disorder and those symptoms can be common and non-specific. …”
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Aplicación de la entrevista cognoscitiva y de la entrevista judicial a un testigo víctima del delito de hurto by Déborah Johanna Manrique Pérez

“…En este trabajo investigativo se estudia un método alternativo para obtener el testimonio, propuesto por autores como Geiselman y Fisher (1994), denominado entrevista cognoscitiva; este método agrupa cuatro técnicas generales de memoria, más unas estrategias complementarias para el recuerdo de detalles específicos. …”
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OUTSOURCING OF R&D AND INNOVATION ACTIVITIES IN SMEs: EVIDENCE FROM SLOVENIA by Barbara Bradač Hojnik, Miroslav Rebernik

“…As the results of these activities enable companies to achieve and sustain competitive advantage, it is crucial to manage them properly. As SMEs generally lack internal resources to perform R&D and innovation activities internally, is the outsourcing of these activities a viable solution for them? …”
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A SYSTEM DYNAMICS MODEL TO DETERMINE THE VALUE OF INVENTORY HOLDING COST by BABATUNDE OMONIYI ODEDAIRO, EMILOLA HELEN ALABA, INYENEOBONG EDEM

“…However, due to the absence of a generally acceptable methodology, many practitioners still determine this percentage based on estimates, benchmarks and intuition. …”
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The Relevance of the Practice of Ifá Divination in Ola Rotimi’s The Gods are not to Blame by Olusegun Olu-Osayomi, Babatunde Adebua

“… The custom of Ifá divination is common among the Yorùbá of Western Nigeria, and among Africans generally. This paper attempts an evaluation of the relevance of the practice of Ifá divination in the selected play of Ola Rotimi to Yorùbá culture and metaphysics. …”
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THE POLITICS OF OIL EXPLORATION AND THE CHALLENGES OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA: THE ISSUE OF BAYELSA STATE by FRANK FUNKEYE SAPELE, AYOOLA BABATUNDE FADOLA

“…Nigeria joined oil producing nations on 3rd august 1956 when oil was first discovered in commercial quantities in the Oloibiri of Bayelsa State and today Nigeria ranked as the leading oil and gas producer in Africa and the 6th largest exporter in the world. The area is generally referred to one of the most important wetland and marine system in the world. …”
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Deep Learning Based DDoS Attack Detection by Xu Ziyi

“…In order to improve detection accuracy and generalization, this research suggests a deep learning-based detection model that combines the Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) network architecture with Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN). …”
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Opioids in Urology: How Well Are We Preventing Opioid Dependence and How Can We Do Better? by Danyon J. Anderson, David Y. Cao, Jessica Zhou, Matthew McDonald, Abrahim N. Razzak, Jamal Hasoon, Omar Viswanath, Alan D. Kaye, Ivan Urits

“…In this article, we review the extent of opioid use in pediatric urologic procedures, vasectomy, endourologic procedures, penile implantation, urogynecologic procedures, prostatectomy, nephrectomy, cystectomy, and scrotal/testicular cancer surgery. Generally, we have found that institutions do not have a standardized protocol with a set regimen to prescribe opioids, resulting in more opioids being prescribed than needed and patients not properly disposing of their unused prescriptions. …”
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Universal slip detection of robotic hand with tactile sensing by Chuangri Zhao, Yang Yu, Zeqi Ye, Ziyang Tian, Yifan Zhang, Ling-Li Zeng

“…By combining frequency with time domain features, the network achieves a computation time of only 1.26 ms and an average accuracy of over 97% on both the validation and test datasets, demonstrating strong generalization capabilities. Furthermore, we validated the proposed USDConvNet-DG in real-time grasp force adjustment in real-world scenarios, showing that it can effectively improve the stability and reliability of robotic manipulation.…”
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Representaciones sociales de los alimentos orgánicos entre consumidores de Chiapas by Cynthia Gutiérrez Pérez, Esperanza Tuñón Pablos, Fernando Limón Aguirre, Helda Morales, Ronald Nigh Nielsen

“…Este artículo expone los resultados de un estudio sobre los factores generales que organizan la representación social de los alimentos frescos orgánicos en tres grupos de consumidores en San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas. …”
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NF-κB Inhibitory Activity of the Di-Hydroxy Derivative of Piperlongumine (PL-18) by Yael Schlichter Kadosh, Subramani Muthuraman, Ariel Kushmaro, Rajendran Saravana Kumar, Jacob Gopas

“…While acute inflammation generally protects against harmful stimuli, prolonged and chronic inflammation have detrimental effects and disrupts tissue homeostasis. …”
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Preparations of the Shipping Company “Żegluga Polska SA” for the Second World War by Jordan Siemianowski

“…Moreover, the company entered into a conflict with the Ministry of Industry and Trade regarding the mobilisation of seamen, ship handling and management staff, which created a serious risk of immobilisation of the shipowner’s ships. Generally, the preparations of „Żegluga Polska SA” to the war included communication (radio and optical), coordination of ship traffic with units of other shipowners and the activities of the Navy, as well as protection of ships against possible acts of sabotage. …”
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Effects of gastrointestinal parasites on fecal glucocorticoids and behaviour in vervet monkeys (Chlorocebus pygerythrus). by Pooja Upadhayay, Colin A Chapman, Gabriela F Mastromonaco, Valerie A M Schoof

“…Parasites can influence host hormonal microenvironment and behaviour through "sickness behaviours" that generally conserve energy. Using a parasite removal experiment, we examined the effects of gastrointestinal parasites on fecal glucocorticoid metabolites (fGC) and behaviours of vervet monkeys (Chlorocebus pygerythrus) at Lake Nabugabo, Uganda. …”
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