Membrane Currents in Airway Smooth Muscle: Mechanisms and Therapeutic Implications by Luke J Janssen

“…The resultant influx of calcium ions contributes to contraction as well as to refilling of the internal calcium ion pool. …”
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Les revenants et leurs liens avec les êtres et les objets « transitionnels » by María Dolores Muñoz Jiménez

“…He presents himself as a transitional entity who, in this particular model, will allow the renewal of the contract between the living and the dead, and the redefinition of the nocturnal reality of the village. …”
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Cugoano on Redressing Slavery: The Demands of Liberty by Iziah C Topete

“…Clarkson developed a social contract theory, claiming that mentality endows all humans with liberty as a natural right. …”
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« Fruitières comtoises » by Alain Mélo

“…Farmers, cheese co-operatives, traditional companies and businesses built a set of charters (Appellation d’Origine Protégée Comté, “campaign plans”, “contracts”). They developed a production system controlled by the stockbreeders in a defined territory which is one of the major components of this cheese-making industry. …”
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Is There a Diversity of Dependent Capitalisms in Latin America? by Ilán Bizberg

“…The state structure (federalism and centralization) and the political system; and finally 6. the social contract/ the wage regime that results of the interaction of the former five dimensions.…”
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The Security of Student Information Management System Based upon Blockchain by Mingfeng Yang, Jianying Wang

“…In recent years, with the development of science and technology, as an emerging data security technology, blockchain has been widely used in all walks of life by virtue of its immutability, uniqueness, smart contract, and decentralized organization. Examples include industry, services, and education. …”
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“Fruitières comtoises” (Franche-Comté, France) by Alain Mélo

“…Farmers, cheese co-operatives, traditional companies and businesses built a set of charters (Appellation d’Origine Protégée Comté, “campaign plans”, “contracts”). They developed a production system controlled by the stockbreeders in a defined territory which is one of the major components of this cheese-making industry. …”
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Vericiguat: A New Hope for Heart Failure Patients by Raquel Chiles, Rami A. Al-Horani

“…Heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) is the inability of the heart to adequately contract or eject blood. This heart is unable to produce adequate cardiac output to perfuse vital tissues. …”
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Study on Water Repellency Modification of Strongly Expansive Soil by DING Junhao, CHAI Linchun, ZHANG Jianjun

“…To study the inhibition effect of water-repellent sand on the expansion rate of expansive soil,this study takes the strongly expansive soil of weathered slopes as an example and adds octadecylamine into sand as water repellent agents to improve the expansive soil.The expansion rate tests are carried out on the ring-knife samples with 27 times of compaction,and the expansion and contraction characteristics of modified expansive soil under the optimal water content are revealed.The results indicate that the natural soil changes from hydrophilic to water-repellent upon the addition of water-repellent sand into expansive soil,and the water repellency is significantly enhanced.The optimal water content of the five modified expansive soils decreases with the increase in water repellency,and the expansion rate is reduced from 35% to 9%,which means the expansion characteristics are greatly inhibited.It is feasible to restrain the expansion and seepage of strongly expansive soil by adding water-repellent sand (octadecylamine content of 0.04%).…”
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Data management based on blockchain and edge computing for Internet of things by Guanjie CHENG, Zhengjie HUANG, Shuiguang DENG

“…The popularity of smart devices has driven the development of the application of Internet of things (IoT) technology,and the resulting massive amount of IoT data has brought challenges to traditional centralized data management methods,such as performance,privacy,and security.Therefore,a data management framework of IoT based on blockchain and edge computing was proposed to support the distributed IoT data management.The distributed storage and access control could be provided by the framework for the IoT data.At the same time,a set of the built-in encryption scheme was designed to protect the data security and privacy and safeguard the data ownership.By introducing edge computing,the scalability bottleneck of the blockchain the system was relieved.The processes of data storage and data access based on this framework were given,and the algorithm of the system implementation based on the smart contract technology was explained in detail.Experiments show that the IoT data management system based on this framework outperforms the traditional cloud-based data management systems.…”
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Trente ans d'exil en Suisse. José Herrera Petere (Genève, 1947-1977) by Rose Duroux

“…In 1946, the writer José Herrera Petere (Guadalajara, 1909-Geneva, 1977), in exile in Mexico, accepted a lucrative contract as civil servant of ILO (International Labour Organization). …”
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L’œuvre en devenir by Jean-Paul Fourmentraux

“…Through the construction and distribution of this editorial content and the reading practices that make them actual, the article questions the mechanisms (frames, interfaces) and the concrete modalities of this digital sociability (contracts, rituals).…”
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Enhancing Ikeda Time Delay System by Breaking the Symmetry of Sine Nonlinearity by Xiaojing Gao

“…In the present contribution, an asymmetric central contraction mutation (ACCM) model is proposed to enhance the Ikeda time delay system. …”
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La réhabilitation énergétique au défi du patrimoine universitaire des années 1960 : deux études de cas by Grégory Azar

“…Finally, the effects of this type of procedure resulting from "global performance contracts" on the preservation of the university heritage of the 1960s are analyzed.…”
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Wound-healing activity of solvent fractions and antiinflammatory activity of crude extract and solvent fractions of Acokanthera schimperi Schweinf (Apocynaceae) leaves in mice mode... by Workineh Woldeselassie Hammeso, Tesfaye Yimer, Getnet Tadege, Wakuma Wakene Jifar, Dejen Nureye

“…The excision model was utilized to estimate wound contraction and epithelization time, whereas the incision model was utilized to measure tensile strength. …”
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The dynamin-related protein PfDyn2 is essential for both apicoplast and mitochondrial fission in Plasmodium falciparum by Alexander A. Morano, Wei Xu, Francesca M. Navarro, Neeta Shadija, Jeffrey D. Dvorin, Hangjun Ke

“…We also show that these organellar fission defects prevent successful individualization of the schizont mass and the formation of new daughter cells, or merozoites because the basal complex, the cytokinetic ring of Plasmodium, cannot fully contract in PfDyn2-deficient parasites, a phenotype secondary to physical blockage by undivided organelles occluding the ring. …”
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Examining the Effects of Construction Project Delays on Costs from the Perspective of Stakeholders Using a System Dynamics Approach: Insights from a Commercial Complex Project in Q... by Amirhosein Saffarinia, Hamidreza Yazdani

“…The project schedule is established and approved after signing the contract and designing the plans, however, most of the project managers cannot complete the project on time and projects often overrun their scheduled completion dates. …”
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Right ventricular mechanical pattern in patients undergoing mitral valve surgery: a predictor of post‐operative dysfunction? by Márton Tokodi, Endre Németh, Bálint K. Lakatos, Erika Kispál, Zoltán Tősér, Levente Staub, Kristóf Rácz, Ádám Soltész, Szabolcs Szigeti, Tamás Varga, János Gál, Béla Merkely, Attila Kovács

“…RVEF was slightly decreased after MVR [52 (50–55) vs. 51 (46–54)%; P = 0.001], whereas RV contraction pattern changed notably. Before MVR, the longitudinal shortening was the main contributor to global systolic RV function [LEF/RVEF vs. …”
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Effect of Acupuncture Exercise Therapy On Isokinetic Muscle Strength and Exercise Ability of Patients after Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction by Wen YAN, Jiaying MURONG, Shuyi CUI, Wanwen HE, Xun ZHUANG

“…After getting Qi (bring about the desired sensation), the patients were given active knee flexion training, isometric contraction training and closed-chain squat training, and the training method was the same as that of the control group. …”
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Family case of cardiac achalasia by Yu. V. Yevsyutina, A. S. Trukhmanov, V. T. Ivashkin

“…Cardiac achalasia is idiopathic disease, caused by inflammation and degeneration of myenteric plexus resulting in loss of postganglionic inhibitory neurons, essential for relaxation of the lower esophageal sphincter and peristaltic contractions of the esophagus. Main symptoms of achalasia are: dysphagia, regurgitation, chest pain and weight loss. …”
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