Shh Signaling from the Injured Lung Microenvironment Drives BMSCs Differentiation into Alveolar Type II Cells for Acute Lung Injury Treatment in Mice by Mengyu Wu, Jing Liu, Shu Zhang, Yi Jian, Ling Guo, Huacai Zhang, Junwei Mi, Guoxin Qu, Yaojun Liu, Chu Gao, Qingli Cai, Dalin Wen, Di Liu, Jianhui Sun, Jianxin Jiang, Hong Huang

“…Direct differentiation into AT2 cells from bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (BMSCs) is a promising approach to treating acute lung injury (ALI). …”
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Nature’s Song under the Bombs: Pastoral Echoes in some Scottish War Poems by Stéphanie NOIRARD

“…Scotland has a great tradition of nature writing, but by the end of the 19th century, glens, bens, lochs, bracken and quiet clachans seemed to have become the essential props of any would-be Scottish author, solidly rooted in his homeland, as part of a made-up romanticized tradition. …”
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Exploring a Chemotactic Role for EVs from Progenitor Cell Populations of Human Exfoliated Deciduous Teeth for Promoting Migration of Naïve BMSCs in Bone Repair Process by Lin Luo, Steven J. Avery, Rachel J. Waddington

“…One-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) with a post hoc Turkey test was performed for statistical analysis. SHEDs-derived EVs collected from 24 h, 48 h, and 72 h time points, namely, EV24, EV48, and EV72, were mainly secreted as exosomes and tended to reform into smaller size as a result of sonication indicated by NTA results. …”
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Extreme Temporalities in Experimental Electroacoustic Music and Sound Art by Blake Stevens

“…This essay explores the pedagogical value of teaching forms of electroacoustic music and sonic art such as drone composition and site-specific sound installations that exceed human perceptual capacities and that resist attempts at documentation and representation. …”
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Rugged Resonances: From Music in McCarthy to McCarthian Music by Julius Greve, Markus Wierschem

“…This essay explores the contact zone between the two worlds of music and literature, or sound and fiction, in the context of Cormac McCarthy’s works. It teases out the stylistic idiosyncrasies of McCarthy’s fiction in terms of a sonic register, by tracing its connections to the film scores of movie adaptations like All the Pretty Horses (2000) and The Road (2009), and to the works of a diverse set of musicians and bands directly inspired by McCarthy’s fiction, including acts like Buddy and the Huddle, Horatio Clam, Ben Nichols, Earth, and Neurosis. …”
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Soundwalking in virtual urban ambiances. Applying Game Engine Technologies in soundscape study by Valerio Signorelli

“…Nevertheless, in urban planning practices and current regulations the sonic environment is often considered in term of pollutant (noise pollution) that need to be treated by applying quantitative approaches such as noise control strategies. …”
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Impact of Nano-Fuel Additives and Nano-Lubricant Oil Additives on Diesel Engine Performance and Emission Characteristics by Dipakkumar Chimangiri Gosai, Ashishkumar Jashvantlal Modi, Anil Kumar Gillawat

“…It is very important to improve the energy level of the engine in the field of automobiles, and this will be shown in the heat balance sheet of diesel engines. An attempt has been made to fulfill the above requirement by adding CuO and ZnO nano-additives to pure diesel fuel and Al2O3 and ZnO nano-lubricant additives to SAE 15W-40 engine lubricant oil by sonication process. …”
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A Broken Idyll: Post-Pastoralism in the Works of George Crumb by Kristina KNOWLES

“…The article ends with a close reading of George Crumb’s chamber work, An Idyll for the Misbegotten, examining the ways in which this musical text sonically evokes post-pastoral sentiments.…”
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Spherical Accretion in the Schwarzschild Spacetime in the Newtonian Analogous Construct by Shubhrangshu Ghosh, Souvik Ghose, Kalyanbrata Pal, Arunabha Bhadra, Tapas K. Das

“…The velocity-dependent Newtonian analogous potentials (NAPs) corresponding to general relativistic (GR) spacetimes accurately capture most of the relativistic features, including all classical tests of GR, effectively representing spacetime geometries in Newtonian terms. …”
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Everyday Urban Sounds: Ben Katchor’s Julius Knipl Radio Cartoons by Benjamin Fraser

“…Already very “sonic” in itself, this American comic strip is saturated with the sounds of modern life, and develops a particular use of speech, particularly in terms of linguistic rhythm, which lends itself well to acoustic adaptation. …”
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Le Remix comme forme littéraire : essai sur les publications récentes de Caroline Bergvall by Vincent Broqua

“…Bergvall’s recent books (Meddle English and Drift) are remixes in terms of their structure, of their individual texts, but above all in terms of their remediation as podcasts, performances, shows, printed material. …”
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Exploitation Feminism: Trashiness, Lo-Fidelity and Utopia in She-Devils on Wheels and Blood Orgy of the Leather Girls by Kristina Pia Hofer

“…Taking the potential of trashy (sonic) textures seriously on their own terms, I will discuss the particular critical impulses such materially excessive exploitation feminisms can provide for a feminist reception of Girl Gang exploitation cinema today.…”
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Playing in Tongues: The Hammond Organ and Black Pentecostal Instrumentality by Braxton D. Shelley

“…Woven into a suite of idiomatic keyboard techniques, Clark’s idiom, and the broader performance practice she represents, deploys the 88 8888 888 drawbar registration that is explicitly discouraged in Hammond organ user manuals as a timbral telos—a defined ecstatic threshold that orients the sonic trajectory of an organ solo. …”
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Multilingual Singing in Nigeria: Examining Roles, Meaning, and Function in Wazobia Gospel Music by Adekunle Oyeniyi

“…Furthermore, I provide a detailed description and analysis of the textual and sonic contents of Wazobia gospel music, emphasizing its roles, meanings, and functions in the Lagos congregations context. …”
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Freins et leviers pour l’installation de jardins en bord de voies by Grégoire Chelkoff, Magali Paris

“…Sensed from a personnal vehicule or from public transport, roadside natures, and in particular the domestic nature of allotment gardens, form unprecedented landscapes : chaotic, colored, textured, precarious, changing through seasons and years, patinated by time… How are they experienced from inside by those who model them day by day and also by those taking a walk though and around the gardens ? …”
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Exploring dual-lidar mean and turbulence measurements over Perdigão's complex terrain by I. L. Coimbra, J. Mann, J. M. L. M. Palma, V. T. P. Batista

“…Forty-six days of results from three VMs (VM1 on the SW ridge, VM2 in the valley, and VM3 on the NE ridge) were compared against sonic readings (at 80 and 100 <span class="inline-formula">m</span> a.g.l.) in terms of 10 <span class="inline-formula">min</span> means and variances to assess accuracy and the influence of atmospheric stability, vertical velocity, and sampling rate on VM measurements. …”
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Le prédateur inconnu : engagement et distanciation dans les prédations marines by Estienne Rodary

“…The connections between humans and non-human animals have become a teeming field of research and media focus in recent years, in which the place of predators occupies a special position (Rodary, 2019). …”
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“Liikumisega” vene laulude kultuurilisi tähendusi Udmurdimaa Debjossõ rajooni Varni külas by Svetlana Tolkachova

“…At the same time, a trend of assimilating Russian “songs with movement” has emerged in the traditional musical culture of the Northern Udmurts, to the extent that some of them have acquired a sacral meaning. These trends in the existence of round dance and dance songs in Russian in the Northern Udmurt dialect traditions are linked to a collective, unifying element, the festive atmosphere, and the perception of Russian round dance songs as a “borderline” genre. …”
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Differentiation of Rat Adipose-Derived Stem Cells into Parathyroid-Like Cells by Ping Zhang, Hao Zhang, Wenwu Dong, Zhihong Wang, Yuan Qin, Changhao Wu, Qi Dong

“…We aimed at establishing a protocol for differentiating adipose-derived stem cells into parathyroid-like cells for treating hypoparathyroidism. …”
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OPTIMIZATION OF EXTRACTION CONDITIONS FOR PHENOLIC COMPOUNDS FROM LEAVES OF CAMELLIA DALATENSIS LUONG, TRAN & HAKODA by Huỳnh Đình Dũng, Lữ Hoàng Trúc Linh, Lương Văn Dũng, Nguyễn Thị Tố Uyên, Trịnh Thị Điệp

“…The extraction conditions of polyphenols from Camellia dalatensis leaves were optimized by experimental design with five variables using Design-Expert V11.1.0.1 software. …”
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