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DiagnosticsDesmosine and isodesmosine (DID) are elastin-specific crosslinking amino acids that play a critical role in maintaining the structural integrity of elastic fibers, and their levels in body fluids may serve as biomarkers for alveolar wall injury.
Jerome Cantor
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ReS Futurae, 2016 In Houellebecq’s work, whether the element is the alienated society empowered by money, market and information technology or human beings disturbed by the materialization of their “Corps”, “Utopia” is always the major theme that bonds all those elements.
Hua Hu
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Da utopia à distopia: a influência de aspectos culturais e históricos
Outra Travessia, 2020 Desde a publicação da obra Utopia, de Thomas More, o termo utopia tem sido usado para designar a representação de um local perfeito, sem conflitos e igualitária.
Cláudio Marcos Veloso Júnior
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Utopia: roteiro de um conceito
Revista Espaço Acadêmico, 2016 O texto apresenta um roteiro introdutório sobre algumas das configurações principais do conceito de utopia, sumariando, para tanto, a discussão de seus pressupostos, críticas implicadas e diferentes caracterizações ao longo da história.
Paulo Denisar Fraga
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What England Is and What It Claims to Be: Orwell on National Identity
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This article suggests that George Orwell's body of work offers a rather unique and insightful two‐part conception of national identity in the context of England, made up of a moral inheritance—the values of liberty, fairness and decency—and a lived sensibility—the fluid, experiential quality of collective life expressed in shared customs ...
Sam Taylor Hill
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Communication, 2008 If human communication difficulties can constitute the bedrock of a number of utopias, these utopias develop long before 1942. Moreover, the communicational utopia so minutely an analysed by P.
Éric Dacheux
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The Origins of the Human Rights Act: A ‘British Bill of Rights’ the First Time Around
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This article reconstructs the first initiatives for a British Bill of Rights from the late 1960s to the mid‐1980s and argues that their failure shaped the eventual form of the Human Rights Act. Proposals for a Bill of Rights emerged across the political spectrum, but commanded most support on the right as a means of restraining trade unions ...
Marco Duranti, Christopher Hilliard
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CommoditiesProperty Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) programs finance energy efficiency and renewable energy improvements to residential and commercial properties with a special tax assessment added to property taxes. This paper surveys the literature and documents the
K. Thomas Liaw
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John Gray: ‘Americanism’ and the Perversion of Post‐liberalism
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This article will make the case for John Gray's inclusion in the canon of post‐liberals despite his protests to the contrary, and will argue that his peculiar post‐liberalism is important for its challenges to the dominance of liberalism as both a political culture and way of theorising the ends of politics based on the model of the American ...
Paul Kelly
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On Constructing Finite, Finitely Subadditive Outer Measures, and Submodularity
International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences, 2008 Given a nonempty abstract set 𝑋, and a covering class 𝒞, and a finite, finitely subadditive outer measure 𝜈, we construct an outer measure 𝜈 and investigate conditions for 𝜈 to be submodular. We then consider several other set functions associated with 𝜈
Charles Traina
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