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The Banality of Organizational Wrongdoing: A Reading on Arendt’s Thoughtlessness Thesis
This paper proposes that Hannah Arendt’s book Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil furnishes both philosophical and empirical elements to understand not only the Nazi crimes but also cases of w...
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Cadmium (Cd) Accumulation in Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) Crop** Systems—A Review
Cadmium (Cd) is a trace element of great interest due to its mobility in the soil-plant-water system and the potential toxicity for humans. The main anthropogenic Cd inputs into the soil are industrial and min...
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Open AccessAuthor Correction: High p16 expression and heterozygous RB1 loss are biomarkers for CDK4/6 inhibitor resistance in ER+ breast cancer
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Open AccessHigh p16 expression and heterozygous RB1 loss are biomarkers for CDK4/6 inhibitor resistance in ER+ breast cancer
CDK4/6 inhibitors combined with endocrine therapy have demonstrated higher antitumor activity than endocrine therapy alone for the treatment of advanced estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer. Some of these ...
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Synthesis of regioselective chitosan copolymers with β-cyclodextrin and poly(N-isopropyl acrylamide)
This work aimed to design a synthetic route under mild conditions allowing the main chitosan chain to be grafted with β-cyclodextrin (β-CD) and poly(N-isopropyl acrylamide) (PNIPAm), at C2 and C6 positions, respe...
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Antioxidant and antimicrobial activity of Agave angustifolia extract on overall quality and shelf life of pork patties stored under refrigeration
Agave plants contain different bioactive compounds that are related to different biological activities; however, the application of Agave as a food additive has rarely been evaluated. The objective of this study ...
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Open AccessRestrained Th17 response and myeloid cell infiltration into the central nervous system by human decidua-derived mesenchymal stem cells during experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis
Multiple sclerosis is a widespread inflammatory demyelinating disease. Several immunomodulatory therapies are available, including interferon-β, glatiramer acetate, natalizumab, fingolimod, and mitoxantrone. A...
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Risk factors and prognosis of vertebral compressive fracture in pyogenic vertebral osteomyelitis
To analyse the clinical, microbiological and radiological characteristics, and to identify risk factors of vertebral compressive fracture (VF) in spontaneous pyogenic vertebral osteomyelitis (VO).
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Pharmacokinetics of anidulafungin during albumin dialysis
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Host–guest complexation of antioxidative caffeic and ferulic acid amides with a functionalized cyclophane
Host−guest complexation has been studied by 1H NMR on the benzyl and phenethyl amides of ferulic and caffeic acids as the guests in chloroform and acetonitrile; the counter host is a cyclophane which integrates f...
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Human Action Recognition Based on Tracking Features
Visual recognition of human actions in image sequences is an active field of research. However, most recent published methods use complex models and heuristics of the human body as well as to classify their ac...
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Theoretical study in gas phase of linear and nonlinear optical properties of the ortho-, meta- and para-nitrophenol isomers
The linear (α), and nonlinear (β, γ) optical NLO properties of ortho-, meta- and para-nitrophenol (ONP, MNP and PNP) isomers have been calculated in gas phase by using ab initio (HF, MP2 a...
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A Memory-Based Particle Filter for Visual Tracking through Occlusions
Visual detection and target tracking are interdisciplinary tasks oriented to estimate the state of moving objects in an image sequence. There are different techniques focused on this problem. It is worth highl...
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Spectral transformations of measures supported on the unit circle and the Szegő transformation
In this paper we analyze spectral transformations of measures supported on the unit circle with real moments. The connection with spectral transformations of measures supported on the interval [−1,1] using the...
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Spectral properties of edge-emitting semiconductor laser subject to optical feedback from extremely short external cavity
We experimentally and theoretically study the impact of optical feedback from an extremely short external cavity (tens of μm) on the spectral behavior of edge emitting lasers (EELs). We are able to investigate...
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Christoffel Transforms and Hermitian Linear Functionals
In this contribution we are focused on some spectral transformations of Hermitian linear functionals. They are the analogues of the Christoffel transform for linear functionals, i. e. for Jacobi matrices which...
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The role of anions in oxygen reduction in neutral and basic media on gold single-crystal electrodes
Oxygen reduction on well-defined single-crystal electrodes in different basic and neutral media has been studied using the im**ing jet system. The results obtained with this system in 0.1 M NaOH are comparab...
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Fine-needle percutaneous transhepatic parenchymal portal venography by using carbon dioxide: a pilot study in pigs
Our purpose was to evaluate the feasibility and safety of carbon dioxide (CO2) in fine-needle percutaneous transhepatic parenchymal portal venography and its potential clinical applications. Three Belgian landra...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Embedded Fuzzy Control System in an Open Computerized Numerical Control: A Technology Transfer Case-Study
In order to improve machining efficiency, the current study is focused on the design and implementation of an intelligent controller in an open computerized numerical control (CNC) system. The main advantages ...
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Tectonics of an extinct ridge-transform intersection, Drake Passage (Antarctica)
New swath bathymetric, multichannel seismic and magnetic data reveal the complexity of the intersection between the extinct West Scotia Ridge (WSR) and the Shackleton Fracture Zone (SFZ), a first-order NW-SE t...
