Sansalone, Gabriele Colangelo, Paolo Loy, Anna Raia, Pasquale Wroe, Stephen Piras, Paolo
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BMC Evolutionary Biology
BackgroundUnderstanding the mechanisms promoting or constraining morphological diversification within clades is a central topic in evolutionary biology. Ecological transitions are of particular interest because of their influence upon the selective forces and factors involved in phenotypic evolution. Here we focused on the humerus and mandibles of ...
Birch, Sara Stilling, Maiken Mechlenburg, Inger Hansen, Torben Bæk
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BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders
BackgroundPain catastrophizing contributes to acute and long-term pain after knee arthroplasty (KA), but the association between pain catastrophizing and physical function is not clear.We examined the association between preoperative pain catastrophizing and physical function one year after surgery, as well as differences in physical function, pain...
Derrick, Roshawnda A.
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Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics
This paper analyzes Junot Díaz’s most recent works The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007. The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao. New York: Riverhead) and This is How You Lose Her (2012. This is how you lose her. New York: Riverhead) by using Muysken’s (2000. Bilingual speech. A typology of code-mixing. Cambridge: CUP) typology of code-switching...
Rosemeyer, Malte Garachana, Mar
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Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics
Este artículo describe el desarrollo histórico de las construcciones lograr/conseguir+inf (p. ej., Pedro ha logrado ganar el premio). Basándonos en el análisis de casi 3000 ocurrencias fechadas entre 1700 y 2005, mostramos que lograr/conseguir+inf han experimentado un proceso de construccionalización, por el cual, desde significados de consecución ...
Innes, Stanley I. Cope, Vicki Leboeuf-Yde, Charlotte Walker, Bruce F.
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Chiropractic & Manual Therapies
BackgroundThis is the second article reporting on a study that sought the views of people with extensive experience in Councils on Chiropractic Education (CCEs) on research that has raised concerns about variability in accreditation standards and processes for chiropractic programs (CPs) and chiropractic practice in general.MethodsThis qualitative ...
Feng, Pan Qin, Danyang Ji, Ping Zhao, Min Guo, Ruolin Berhane, Teklu Merhawit
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EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking
Considering the insufficient global energy consumption optimization of the existing routing algorithms for Underwater Wireless Sensor Network (UWSN), a new algorithm, named improved energy-balanced routing (IEBR), is designed in this paper for UWSN. The algorithm includes two stages: routing establishment and data transmission. During the first sta...
Adhikari, Tara Ballav Rijal, Anupa Kallestrup, Per Neupane, Dinesh
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BMC Psychiatry
BackgroundHarmful use of alcohol is a global public health problem. Differences in alcohol consumption patterns may add valuable information to the design of public health interventions to prevent excessive use of alcohol, which is yet missing in Nepal. Hence, the purpose of the study is to determine the prevalence, patterns of alcohol consumption ...
Rahimzadeh, Amin Khan, Talha Eslamian, Morteza
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The European Physical Journal E
Abstract.In this paper, we experimentally studied the response frequency of oscillations of a sessile water droplet, subjected to horizontal vibrations at varying excitation frequency (5-250 Hz and 40 kHz) and amplitude (0.015 mm to 0.5 mm for low frequencies and 600nm for ultrasonic frequency), as well as static contact angle of the glass substrat...
Jiang, Qiong Xie, Qing Hu, Chengliang Yang, Zhai Huang, Peizhi Shen, Huifan Schachner, Melitta Zhao, Weijiang
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BMC Cancer
BackgroundGliomas account for the majority of primary human brain tumors and remain a challenging neoplasm for cure due to limited therapeutic options. Cell adhesion molecules play pivotal roles in the growth and progression of glial tumors. Roles of the adhesion molecules on glia (AMOG) and L1CAM (L1) in glioma cells have been shown to correlate w...
Allabadi, Hala Probst-Hensch, Nicole Alkaiyat, Abdulsalam Haj-Yahia, Saleem Schindler, Christian Kwiatkowski, Marek Zemp, Elisabeth
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BMC Psychiatry
BackgroundAmong patients suffering from coronary heart disease (CHD) and comorbid depression, women experience a higher burden compared to men. Little is known on the characteristics that differentiate men and women with both diseases and whether these factors mediate gender effects on depression. This study assessed whether women are more likely t...
