Surgical Firework Injury of the Thumb: Injury Pattern and Treatment Algorithm by David Cardenas, BS, Muhammad Harirah, MD, Anca Dogaroiu, MS, Brandon Bruce, BS, Andrei Odobescu, MD, PhD, Douglas Sammer, MD, Andrew Y. Zhang, MD

“…Purpose: Firework blast trauma most commonly affects the hands and occurs along a spectrum of severity ranging from minor burns to mangling injuries. …”
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THE SOUTHERN FRAGMENT OF THE SIBERIAN CRATON: “LANDSCAPE” HISTORY OVER TWO BILLION YEARS by Arkady M. Stanevich, Irina M. Mashchuk, Anatoly M. Mazukabzov, Anatoly A. Postnikov, Tatiana A. Kornilova

“…Research results on sediments, bio-stratigraphy and geodynamics of the southern fragment of the Siberian craton (SSC, Fig. 2) provide for more or less reliable assessments of the status and evolution of ancient landscapes and biotas from the Lower Proterozoic to the Cenozoic.In the Lower Proterozoic, the geodynamic regime of the Urik-Iyskiy graben was similar to those of the westernpacific island-arc systems, which resulted in the orogen formation and established post-orogen granitoids of 1.86 bln years of age. …”
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Surviving Persecution: Ismailism and Taqiyyah in the Centuries after the Mongol Invasion by Shafique N. Virani, Seddigheh Kardan, Zeinab Farokhi

“…“Hiding the Imam” discusses a recently discovered and unpublished passage in a manuscript that describes how the first post-Alamut Ismaili Imam, Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad, resorted to taqiyyah and how later Ismaili sources depicted the taqiyyah of the post-Alamūt Imams. …”
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Les techniques de construction du second forum de Bavay (Nord) : utilisation, origine et datation des matériaux en terre cuite by Xavier Deru, Christine Louvion

“…As a result, it is possible to quantify the volumes of masonry in general and in particular, of architectural terracotta.The terracotta materials used at Bavay include covering tiles (tegula and imbrex) and square and rectangular bricks; where the latter are more abundant with rather irregular metrology. The bricks present artisans’ trademarks; 437 specimens were recorded for 35 types, with ATAB, ATIL, CVS, FAL, HAMSIT or TRPS being the most frequent. …”
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Etiologic Characteristics of Influenza Epidemics on the Territory of Russia in the Period of Pandemic COVID-­19 in 2020–2023 by P. A. Petrova, N. I. Konovalova, A. Y. Boyarintseva, D. M. Danilenko, A. D. Vasilieva, T. N. Shelepanova, A. V. Prokopets, M. Y. Eropkin

“…Isolation of influenza viruses from PCR+-clinical materials (nazo-pharingeal swabs and post-mortem tissue samples) in the cell lines MDCK and MDCK-Siat1; antigenic analysis by means of the reaction of hemagglutination-inhibition (HI) and micro-neutralization (MN) with the cell-ELISA detection using the post-infectious ferret antisera and rat polyclonal antisera; antigenic cartography. …”
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Wisdom of the Established Pattern by Joel Janhonen

“…Attaining an exhaustive comprehension of the complex interactions of natural and social worlds is impossible, so we have evolved to operate by relying on a built-in navigation system. Most of our choices we do not base on precise rational modeling but on a far more ancient response mechanism. …”
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