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Microtubule Inner Protein CFAP77 Contributes to Sperm Motility and Male Fertility in Mice
Andrology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Sperm motility is essential for male fertility, and its regulation is dependent on the structural integrity of the axoneme. The axoneme consists of a conserved “9+2” microtubule arrangement and is supported by microtubule inner proteins. However, the functional significance of many microtubule inner proteins remains unclear.
Haoting Wang +4 more
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Out There No One Has a Right to Die
Bioethics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The eventual goal of space exploration is to colonize exoplanets and their moons outside our solar system. This is a dangerous and immoral endeavour. The extraterrestrial life forms encountered would be hostile, vulnerable or both, and the descendants of the original pioneers would be involuntarily exposed to hazardous conditions and ...
Matti Häyry
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A reformation model of compliance to improve the property tax revenue generation in Malaysian local governments [PDF]
, 2016 This study is aimed at proposing an extension on Fisher’s model of compliance behavior based on empirical findings on property tax revenue generated in Malaysian local government.
Kasim, Rozilah
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The Legendary Legacy: Crunching 600 Years of Saga Manuscript Data [PDF]
, 2017 The research project “Stories for all time”, which ran from 2011 to 2014, had as its aim to survey the entire transmission history of the Fornaldarsögur Norðurlanda, a group of Icelandic sagas often referred to in English as “mythical-heroic” or ...
Driscoll, Matthew
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Regional impacts of international tourism boycott: A China—Japan conflict
Economic Inquiry, EarlyView.Abstract We examine the regional impacts of the Sino–Japan dispute over the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands that sparked a Chinese consumer boycott of travel to Japan from August 2012. This boycott caused significant and varied regional impacts across Japan.
Theresa M. Greaney, Kozo Kiyota
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Scotland Emergent Part III: The Dream of the Rood to the Norse Sagas [PDF]
, 2017 No abstract ...
Riach, Alan
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Translating the Medieval Icelandic Romance-Sagas [PDF]
, 2014 This short note surveys recent work done on translating romances composed in medieval Iceland into English, focusing on translations produced at the University of Leeds.
Hall, ATP
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Golden weapons and golden fetters: From the gold standard to the new geopolitics
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract This paper explores the historical relationship between monetary regimes, security concerns, and geopolitical tensions, particularly focusing on the role of gold. Throughout history, monetary systems have been deeply intertwined with international state systems and security provisions.
Harold James
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Inventing a saga form: The development of the kings’ sagas
Filologia GermanicaThis study concerns form and the aesthetics of the Kings’ Sagas, a subject that has been somewhat neglected by previous kings’ saga scholars. Among the formal categories that will be given particular attention are the role of anecdotal material and ...
Armann Jacobsson
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Guðbrandur Vigfússon as an editor of Old Norse-Icelandic literature [PDF]
, 2016 Guðbrandur Vigfússon, an Icelander born in Galtardalur, Dalasýsla, was without doubt one of the most influential scholars of Old Norse studies of his day.
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