Pulmonary parenchyma becomes a self-organized dissipative structure in lung cancers and pulmonary inflammatory diseases. [PDF]
Physiol RepAbstract Far‐from‐equilibrium thermodynamics were studied in patients with either lung cancer or pulmonary inflammatory diseases. Histological and mechanical activities were due to myofibroblasts. A study on isolated lung fragments treated with the Huxley formalism showed that mechanical abnormalities were similar in both groups: maximum velocity ...
Lecarpentier Y +7 more
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Spastic Quadriplegia Resulting From a Pathogenic Variant in the <i>SPAST</i> Gene: A First Report. [PDF]
Case Rep Neurol MedBackground The SPAST gene encodes spastin, a microtubule‐severing protein. Pathogenic variants in this gene are commonly associated with autosomal dominant Spastic paraplegia type 4 (SPG4), a neurodegenerative disorder presenting with progressive lower limb spasticity. Severe phenotypes involving more extensive neurological impairment are rare.
Kostopoulou E +5 more
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Far-from-equilibrium thermodynamics of the human uterus: A self-organized dissipative structure. [PDF]
Physiol RepAbstract The aim of this study was to know how the human uterine muscle behaves from a thermodynamic point of view in pregnant and non‐pregnant states. According to far‐from‐equilibrium thermodynamics, an open system is far‐from‐equilibrium when its thermodynamic force varies non‐linearly with its thermodynamic flow.
Lecarpentier Y +6 more
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Correlation between coronavirus conspiracism and antisemitism: a cross-sectional study in the United Kingdom [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2023 This article presents the findings of a survey of UK-resident adults ( $$n$$ n = 1790) carried out in December 2021 and designed to test for a relationship between antisemitism and coronavirus conspiracism. Antisemitism was measured using the Generalised
Daniel Allington +2 more
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A Critical Review on the Book Xenophon’s Socratic Discourse [PDF]
پژوهشنامۀ انتقادی متون و برنامههای علوم انسانی, 2022 Leo Straus with his writing on Xenophon revives this classical writer’s fame and station, as a Socratic writer, in relation to Plato. According to Straus, we must see Xenophon as more important than Plato as a source for learning about historical ...
Hassan Fathi
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«Domostroy» by Xenophon and the model of an effective manager [PDF]
Омский научный вестник: Серия "Общество. История. Современность", 2022 The relevance and value of Xenophon’s «Domostroy» lies in the fact that it has an applied orientation and acts as a theoretical basis for the development of modern management. Xenophon’s «Domostroy» laid the foundations of the theory of management, it
V. M. Fedorov
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Analysis of Ancient tradition of punishments in Sparta
Журнал Белорусского государственного университета: История, 2022 The article discusses the system of punishments used in Sparta for two offenses: for refusing to marry and for cowardice shown in battle. Ancient authors, especially Xenophon and Plutarch, give a list of punishments for these offenses.
Лариса Гаврииловна Печатнова
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Herodotus’ past – Thucydides’ present – Xenophon’s future (ἀρχή, ἡγεμονία and imperialist tendencies in Classical Greece through the eyes of three great historians) [PDF]
Античный мир и археология, 2023 The article deals with some topics connected with imperialist tendencies in Greece of the last half of the 5th and the first half of the 4th century BC and with treatment of these developments in the work of the authors mentioned in the title ...
Surikov, Igor Evgenyevich
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Tyrtaeus, the king of Assyria: Xenophon’s “Cyropaedia” and education of warriors in Sparta [PDF]
Hypothekai, 2020 The article proposes that the oration of the king of Assyria in Xenophon’s Cyropaedia (III, 3, 44-45) can contain the allusion to, or rather a parody on, one of the elegies of Tyrtaeus (fragm. 8 Prato, vv. 11-20).
Zoia А. Barzakh
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The influence of Xenophon’s didactic writings on the military leadership practice of Alexander the Great [PDF]
Hypothekai, 2021 The article examines the influence of Xenophon’s didactic works on the military activi-ties of Alexander the Great. It is revealed that messages from ancient sources containing direct indications of the fact that Alexander was familiar with Xenophon’s ...
Аlexander Kleymeonov
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