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Consumer Protection in the Retail and Financial Services Sectors against the Practice of Exoneration Clauses

Journal of Consumer Sciences, 2022
The rapid development of the business world has resulted in several changes to business actors in carrying out their business activities. This encourages the emergence of standard agreements as practicality in conducting transactions. This study aims to
Anna Maria Tri Anggraini, Megawati Simanjuntak, Arief Safari, Rizal E. Halim, Slamet Riyadi   +4 more
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Consumer Protection

, 2013
Consumer defense and protection has gone beyond schemas, how can a legislation of this nature deal with consumer contracts or abusive clauses? How many questions have been raised by a consumer legislation that “dared,” for example, to regulate issues related to banking and financial services?
Baca Oneto, Víctor, Baca Oneto, Víctor
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GMO Genetic Elements Thesaurus (GMO-GET): a controlled vocabulary for the consensus designation of introduced or modified genetic elements in genetically modified organisms

BMC Bioinformatics, 2021
Background Various databases on genetically modified organisms (GMOs) exist, all with their specific focus to facilitate access to information needed for, e.
Paulien Adamse, Emilie Dagand, Karen Bohmert-Tatarev, Daniela Wahler, Manoela Miranda, Esther J. Kok, Joachim Bendiek   +6 more
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Case report: change of dominant strain during dual SARS-CoV-2 infection

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2021
Background The dual infection with SARS-CoV-2 is poorly described and is currently under discussion. We present a study of two strains of SARS-CoV-2 detected in the same patient during the same disease presentation.
Andrei E. Samoilov, Valeriia V. Kaptelova, Anna Y. Bukharina, Olga Y. Shipulina, Elena V. Korneenko, Stepan S. Saenko, Alexander V. Lukyanov, Antonina A. Grishaeva, Antonina A. Ploskireva, Anna S. Speranskaya, Vasiliy G. Akimkin   +10 more
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Development of a 6 GHz RF-EMF Exposure System for Investigating Human Skin Temperature Responses: Characterization, Integration, and Pilot Testing

IEEE Access, 2023
We developed a radiofrequency electromagnetic field (RF-EMF) exposure system to investigate human skin temperature responses to localized exposures. The system was designed to project a 6 GHz RF-EMF beam with enough energy to rapidly increase peak local ...
Abdelelah Alzahed, Eric Lemay, Mykola Zhuk, Gregory B. Gajda, James P. Mcnamee, Gregory W. Mcgarr   +5 more
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Development of Reliability Indices for Electric Distribution Network in Egypt

Renewable Energy and Sustainable Development, 2017
Reliability indices (RIs) are the elemental benchmark used by Egyptian Electricity Holding Company (EEHC), and the Electric Utility and Consumer Protection Regulatory Agency (Egypt ERA) to evaluate the continuity and compliance of supply, which surpasses
Eman Ahmed, Sherein Abdualla, Kamelia Youssef, Hatem Waheed   +3 more
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Pathogen Screening for Possible Causes of Meningitis/Encephalitis in Wild Carnivores From Saxony-Anhalt

Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2022
Inflammation in meninges and/or brain is regularly noticed in red foxes and other wild carnivores during rabies control programs. Despite negative rabies virus (RABV) results, the etiologies of these cases remain unknown.
Jennifer Höche, Robert Valerio House, Anja Heinrich, Annette Schliephake, Kerstin Albrecht, Martin Pfeffer, Christin Ellenberger   +6 more
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Development and Validation of a P-35S, T-nos, T-35S and P-FMV Tetraplex Real-time PCR Screening Method to Detect Regulatory Genes of Genetically Modified Organisms in Food

CHIMIA, 2014
In routine analysis screening methods based on real-time PCR (polymerase chain reaction) are most commonly used for the detection of genetically modified (GM) plant material in food and feed.
Albert Eugster, Petra Murmann, Andre Kaenzig, Alda Breitenmoser   +3 more
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Surface analysis of gold nanoparticles functionalized with thiol-modified glucose SAMs for biosensor applications.

Frontiers in Chemistry, 2016
In this work, Time of Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (ToF-SIMS), Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS) have been used to characterize the surface chemistry of gold substrates before and after ...
Valentina eSpampinato, Valentina eSpampinato, Mariaantonietta eParracino, Mariaantonietta eParracino, Rita eLa Spina, Francois eRossi, Giacomo eCeccone   +6 more
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Changes in miRNA Expression Profiling during Neuronal Differentiation and Methyl Mercury-Induced Toxicity in Human in Vitro Models

Toxics, 2014
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are implicated in the epigenetic regulation of several brain developmental processes, such as neurogenesis, neuronal differentiation, neurite outgrowth, and synaptic plasticity. The main aim of this study was to evaluate whether miRNA
Giorgia Pallocca, Marco Fabbri, Silvia Nerini-Molteni, Francesca Pistollato, Dimitra Zagoura, Maria Grazia Sacco, Laura Gribaldo, Susanne Bremer-Hoffmann, Anna Bal-Price   +8 more
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