Multiparameter body composition analysis on chest CT predicts clinical outcomes in resectable non-small cell lung cancer by Yilong Huang, Hanxue Cun, Zhanglin Mou, Zhonghang Yu, Chunmei Du, Lan Luo, Yuanming Jiang, Yancui Zhu, Zhenguang Zhang, Xin Chen, Bo He, Zaiyi Liu

“…The quantity and distribution of body composition can contribute to unraveling the adiposity paradox. Graphical Abstract…”
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The hidden crisis: double burden of malnutrition among refugee children in South Asia – a systematic review and meta-analysis from observational studies by Pooja Panchal, Mohd Usman, Tajung Longkumer, Reshma Susan Babu, Mahalaqua Nazil Khatib, Shariza Abdul Razak, Kavitha Menon

“…Time trend analysis of the prevalence of malnutrition showed a decreasing trend in underweight, an increasing trend for stunting and wasting, and overweight including a rising prevalence of dual burden of under-and overnutrition.DiscussionThe study indicates a high prevalence of undernutrition and a rising prevalence of overnutrition -the Asian paradox of the double burden of malnutrition in refugee children living in South Asia. …”
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The Form and Functioning of the Union of Czechoslovak Writers in the Late 1940s and Early 1950s in the Context of Czech Literature by Michal Bauer

“…The destruction of private publishing houses and the grouping into large, state-owned ones, is examined and analysed. The paradoxical role of writers and artists after 1948, i.e. to serve and to lead at the same time, is also discussed. …”
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Spirituality: sense and gist. On meaning, God and being by C. Lombaard

“…Rather than continuingly pointing this out, two advances are suggested in this article: That the impossibility of a precise definition of spirituality is accepted, as is the case with many other important aspects of life, and that the inherently paradoxical nature of spirituality is more fully explored as a way of coming to a deeper understanding of this phenomenon. …”
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VALENCIA, Adrián Soteia; MARTINS, Carlos Eduardo (org.) (2009). A América Latina e os desafios da globalização: ensaios dedicados a Ruy Mauro Marini. Rio de Janeiro/São Paulo:... by Vamberto Spinelli Júnior

“…Os textos que constituem a obra A América Latina e os desafios da globalização: ensaios dedicados a Ruy Mauro Marini buscam no seu conjunto, e de maneira mais geral, contornar uma situação certamente paradoxal no campo das ciências sociais brasileiras: o fato de um pensador da envergadura de Ruy Mauro Marin] ser "pouco conhecido do leitor brasileiro" e, ao mesmo tempo, como registram Carlos Eduardo Martins e Adrián SoteIo Valencia na apresentação da obra, possuir "extraordinária importância no desenvolvimento das ciências sociais latino-americanas" (p. 11). …”
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How to Protect Future Generations' Rights in European Governance by Maja Göpel, Malte Arhelger

“…In the case of the European Union, reference to intergenerational justice can be found in various fundamental legal texts, but, paradoxically, no institutions exist to defend it. The structural short-termism inscribed into representative democracies means that present interests easily trump future concerns. …”
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Organizing Integration in the Swedish Labor and Housing Markets by Susanne Urban, Emma Holmqvist, Vedran Omanović

“…The actual outcomes show that some contradictions and paradoxes among the various spheres and geographical levels have not been resolved by state policy reorganization (decentralization or centralization).…”
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In love with the desert by R. Wheeler

“…How the absent feminine paradoxically “appears” in stories and sayings of the tradition can, however, provide an antidote to the otherwise male-centred character of this literature. …”
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Style adaptacji uczniów do szkoły. Inspiracje dla nauczycieli wczesnej edukacji by Anna Babicka-Wirkus

“…In the text, school is defined as an institution which strives to subjugate the subjects operating within it while, paradoxically, giving them conditions for resisting the imposed rigours. …”
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Discernment: the message of the Bhagvad-Gita by K. Perumpallikunnel

“…Human beings often stood perplexed and mystified as they confronted paradoxical situations in life that demanded action. …”
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JEREMIAH 51:15-19 (MT): by M D Terblanche

“…YHWH has the power to execute his plan to destroy Babylon. 51:15-19 did, however, attain a distinct identity through its close connections with the oracles against Babylon. It paradoxically functions as a link between these oracles and those against Judah. …”
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The European Degree by Sara Cardona Rubio

“…Analysing the European Diploma from a sociological perspective reveals its paradoxical nature. The Diploma seeks to be inclusive and to foster European identity, yet it is intrinsically exclusive. …”
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HOMILETIC CONTOURS FOR PREACHING TO LISTENERS WHO FEAR THE DISASTROUS CONSEQUENCES OF CORRUPTION, WITH AN EMPHASIS ON COGNITIVE DISTORTIONS

“…It explores the normative vantage points of seeing, fearing God and the paradoxical nature of hope. The role of people’s ability to view reality seems to be pivotal for the experience of meaningfulness. …”
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Acting “out-of-the-box” in Montessori teachers’ narratives – research report by Jarosław Jendza

“…One of the main results of the research is quite paradoxical. A teacher wanting to act “out-of-the-box”, needs to be consistent with one of the most important Montessori principles, which is following the child. …”
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Kenya’s 2022 General Elections and Nigerian’s 2023 General Elections: Any Lessons for Democratic Consolidation in Africa? by Godwin Ojanyi Agbiloko, Gerald Ifeanyi Okafor

“…A credible election not only confers legitimacy on political leadership, but it is also crucial to the sustenance of democratic order. Paradoxically, the electoral process in Africa has been characterized by violence. …”
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Interrogating the Contestations in Zimbabwe’s New Marriage Law and Arbitration in Family Disputes by Bernard Pindukai Humbe, Fortune Sibanda

“…Using Alternative Dispute Resolution as a conceptual framework and in-depth interviews, observation and documentary analysis of print and electronic media to gather data, the study established that the new Act promotes paradoxes over marriage dispute resolution because the customary law and decisions have been submerged. …”
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CHICAGO FADE : trazendo o corpo do pesquisador de volta ao jogo by Loïc Wacquant

“…Mas, ainda assim, essa profusão de trabalhos em múltiplas áreas apresenta uma característica notável e paradoxal que é esconder da vista corpos “verdadeiramente existentes” através da sua substituição por um corpo quase completamente virtual formado por signos, portador de códigos, e receptáculo passivo (ou recalcitrante) de forças sociais consideradas externas a ele, em resumo, um corpo mais ou menos reduzido ao nível de outro texto sujeito a uma tratamento essencialmente hermenêutico.…”
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Quantitative Examination of Dialectal Perception in the Vicinity of the Kaunas Lagoon by Žydrūnas Šidlauskas

“…When these indicators of dialecticism were compared with the categorised dialectal perception data, a (paradoxical) reality was determined: there is a mismatch between dialectal perception and actual usage. …”
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Deconstructing the map of the paradigm struggle: tracing a nationwide debate on “I do not get it” in Art Magazine (Meishu) by Nan Li, Dawei Lu

“…While each paradigm has paradoxical issues for understanding the “contemporaneity” of contemporary Chinese art, they may still be able to coexist.…”
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1+(no)1=3, and more by Carmen García

“…While  an approach to transformational change through paradoxical thinking and the creativity of the absurd is not new, it doesn’t seem to have produced news of difference, since binary thinking seems to persist, with ethical implications for the praxis of systemic therapy and its education and training. …”
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