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Beyond Boundaries: Ecological Assemblage in The Country of the Pointed Firs

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Employing assemblage theory, this article furthers the ecocriticism of Jewett’s works by exploring the complex ecological network of humans, the natural environment, and nonhumans created in The Country of the Pointed Firs.
Hui Lyu
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The prevalence of diabetes and thyroid related autoantibodies in Sri Lankan children with type 1 diabetes and their unaffected siblings – The utility of a new screening assay

Frontiers in Endocrinology, 2023
BackgroundThere is limited information about diabetes and thyroid related autoantibodies in children with type 1 diabetes (T1D) or their siblings in Sri Lanka.ObjectivesTo assess in T1D children and their unaffected siblings the prevalence of ...
Navoda Atapattu, Marie Amoroso, Michael Powell, D. G. Harendra de Silva, K. Shamya H. de Silva, Jadwiga Furmaniak, Bernard Rees Smith, Lakdasa D. Premawardhana   +7 more
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Intrauterine activation of the fetal immune system in response to maternal COVID-19

Акушерство, гинекология и репродукция, 2023
Introduction. During pregnancy COVID-19 poses a serious threat to both maternal health and health of paired unborn child. Pregnant women have a high probability of complications due to respiratory viral infections followed by developing critical ...
N. R. Gashimova, L. L. Pankratyeva, V. O. Bitsadze, J. Kh. Khizroeva, N. A. Makatsariya, M. V. Tretyakova, A. S. Shkoda, K. N. Grigoreva, V. I. Tsibizova, J.-C. Gris, F. E. Yakubova, D. V. Blinov, A. D. Makatsariya   +12 more
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Amniotic fluid interleukin-6 and neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin for predicting fetal inflammatory response syndrome based on histological chorioamnionitis and funisitis

Taiwanese Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, 2023
Objective: We aimed to analyze the predictive efficacy of amniotic fluid interleukin-6 (IL-6) and neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (NGAL) for fetal inflammatory response syndrome (FIRS)-related infection.
Daisuke Katsura, Shunichiro Tsuji, Kaori Hayashi, Shinsuke Tokoro, Takako Hoshiyama, Nobuyuki Kita, Takashi Murakami   +6 more
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Nomenclatural notes on the Mediterranean firs (Abies, Pinaceae)

, 2022
Ferrer-Gallego, P. Pablo, Laguna, Emilio, Ferrer-Gallego, Raúl (2022): Nomenclatural notes on the Mediterranean firs (Abies, Pinaceae). Phytotaxa 549 (1): 31-50, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.549.1.
Ferrer-Gallego, P. Pablo, Ferrer-Gallego, Raúl, Laguna, Emilio   +2 more
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The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Tax Compliance and the Fight Against Corruption in Nigeria

, 2023
Purpose: The study seeks to investigate has the FIRS done to improve tax compliance and understand the effects of FIRS reforms had on tax compliance and the fight against corruption in Nigeria's tax system.   Theoretical Framework: This study is situated
Momoh, Zekeri, Jooji, Innocent, Oyekan, Margaret, Onuh, Samuel   +3 more
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E-tax system effectiveness in reducing tax evasion in Nigeria [PDF]

Problems and Perspectives in Management, 2021
This study examined how electronic tax system (E- tax system) reduces tax evasion in Nigeria. The survey sample was drawn from Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) staff and small and medium-scale enterprise taxpayers registered in F.C.T., Abuja ...
Adegbola Olubukola Otekunrin, Tony Ikechukwu Nwanji, Damilola Felix Eluyela, Henry Inegbedion, Temitope Eleda   +4 more
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Trees’ Deep Incarnation

Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry, 2020
In a context of ecological calling forth, with regard both to human impacts on other kind and the agency of more than humans, this essay situates firs and their active relation to appeal/prayer in Peter Larkin's 'praying // firs \\ attenuate' in the ...
Anne Frances Elvey
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Levels of matrix metalloproteinase-9 and tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinase-1 are related to cardiopulmonary injury in fetal inflammatory response syndrome [PDF]

Clinics, 2020
OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the diagnostic value of matrix metalloproteinase-9 (MMP-9), tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinase-1 (TIMP-1), and the MMP-9/TIMP-1 ratio in fetal inflammatory response syndrome (FIRS), and determine a possible association with the
Yiwei Yan, Lian Jiang, Mei Li, Huifen Zhang, Ying Shen, Wenhao Zhang, Wenting Zhang   +6 more
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Glacial Expansion or Interglacial Expansion? Contrasting Demographic Models of Four Cold-Adapted Fir Species in North America and East Asia

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022
Understanding and forecasting species’ response to climate change is a critical need for future conservation and management. Two expansion hypotheses, the glacial expansion versus the interglacial expansion, have been proposed to interpret how cold ...
Yi-Zhen Shao, Zhi-Liang Yuan, Yan-Yan Liu, Feng-Qin Liu, Rui-Chen Xiang, Yuan-Yuan Zhang, Yong-Zhong Ye, Yun Chen, Qian Wen   +8 more
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