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Lessons from Brecht: a Brechtian approach to drama, texts and education [PDF]
, 1999 In this piece the authors seek to re-read Brecht in terms of his contribution to drama education and pedagogic thought, rather than viewing him in conventional terms as a cultural icon and ‘great practitioner’ of theatre.
Franks, Anton, Jones, Ken
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FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.The inhibition of mitochondrial dihydroorotate dehydrogenase (DHODH) impairs syncytialization and induces cellular senescence via mitochondrial and endoplasmic reticulum stress in human trophoblast stem cells, elevating sFlt1/PlGF levels, a hallmark of placental dysfunction in hypertensive disorders of pregnancy.
Kanoko Yoshida +6 more
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FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.Erythropoietin administration suppresses hepatic soluble epoxide hydrolase (sEH) expression, leading to increased CYP‐derived epoxides. This is associated with a shift in hepatic macrophage polarization characterized by reduced M1 markers and increased M2 markers, along with reduced hepatic inflammation, suppressed hepatic lipogenesis, and attenuated ...
Takeshi Goda +12 more
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Chinese Gift-Giving, Anti-Corruption Law, and the Rule of Law and Virtue [PDF]
, 2016 This Article addresses the question of whether virtuous giftgiving in China can be used in the fight against corruption. Giftgiving, ubiquitous in Chinese familial, business, and official practices, has been under fire by both laws outside and within ...
Szto, Mary
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What Do We Mean When We Talk About Performance?: A Metacritical Overview of an Evolving Concept [PDF]
, 2011 It is fair to state that performance is one of the most contested terms in our field, clearly evolving and emerging in the last few decades as one of the most significant terms in a wide range of academic disciplines and in society in general. This essay
Larson, Catherine
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Screening and epitope characterization of Nidogen‐2‐specific nanobodies
FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.Camel immunization and phage display were employed to generate high‐affinity VHH nanobodies against Nidogen‐2. After library construction, biopanning, ELISA screening, sequencing, and recombinant expression, selected nanobodies were purified and characterized, leading to the preliminary exploration of a nanobody‐based sandwich ELISA for specific ...
Jianchuan Wen +9 more
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Arbitrary-Shaped Text Detection With Adaptive Text Region Representation
IEEE Access, 2020 Text detection/localization, as an important task in computer vision, has witnessed substantial advancements in methodology and performance with convolutional neural networks. However, the vast majority of popular methods use rectangles or quadrangles to
Xiufeng Jiang +3 more
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Critical issues in microbusiness finance and the role of donors . [Version Sept. 1977] [PDF]
, 1997 In the early 1990s, a consensus emerged among the leading experts in the field of small and micro business finance. It is based on three elements: The focus of projects should be on improving the entire financial sector of a given developing country; a ...
Schmidt, Reinhard H. +1 more
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FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.Matrix metalloproteinase‐9 (MMP9) drives ovarian cancer progression. Using MMP9‐null cells (M9‐KO) created from ovarian cancer cells, we found MMP9 loss did not block Epidermal Growth Factor (EGF)‐driven E‐cadherin dissolution or EMT but delayed and reduced EGF‐driven membrane protrusions. Transient MMP9 re‐expression drove membrane protrusion.
Claire Strauel +8 more
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The Post-2015 Global Agenda: A Framework for Country Diagnostics [PDF]
, 2014 With the 2015 deadline for the current Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) drawing near, the global community is shaping a new set of international development goals for the longer term.
Hans Lofgren +2 more
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