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Abandoned Hypothesis

Failed in aging? Queering in living with dementia

Valerie Keller · 2023 · Frontiers in Sociology

This article explored the ways in which living with dementia brings potentials to queer the concept of “successful aging” and associated notions of being human. Regarding the progressive development of dementia, it can be assumed that…

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Succession if the reorganization of corporation is failed

Arsenii Ivanovich Alekseev · 2024 · Право и политика

The article analyzes the consequences of the failed reorganization of the corporation and the recognition by the court of the reorganization of the corporation as invalid by referring to the nature and content of such categories as the…

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Zionism as a Failed Cultural Revolution

Oded Nir · 2023 · Minnesota Review

This article argues that Mao’s writing on contradiction and cultural revolution allows us to understand Zionism in a unique Marxist perspective, as a failed cultural revolution. The author first presents Mao’s writing on contradictions,…

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Management of Failed Spinal Anesthesia

Wiji Hastuti · 2026 · Jurnal Komplikasi Anestesi

The management of failed spinal anesthesia is a significant challenge in surgical procedures. Spinal anesthesia failure can occur either partially or totally, often leading to conversion to general anesthesia, which adds clinical risks and…

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessPhysics

Intrinsic Redshifts in QSOs Near NGC 6212

M. B. Bell, S. P. Comeau · 2003 · arXiv

The high number of QSOs around NGC 6212 allows a correlation analysis to be carried out between their redshift distribution and the redshift distributions predicted by intrinsic redshift models. We find no correlation between the QSO redshift distribution and the intrinsic redshifts predicted by Karlsson's log(1+z) = 0.089 relation. However, we find that the QSO redshift distribution is correlated with the intrinsic redshifts predicted by the relation z_{iQ} = 0.62[N-0.1M_{N}], for N = 3. We also find evidence that the observed redshifts of the QSOs contain a small cosmological redshift compon

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GENDER ISSUE IN TOEFL TEST: DOES IT MAKE SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE?

Ida Muliawati · 2020 · JETLi: Journal of English Teaching and Linguistics

Gender issue has been noted as a debatable issue over decades in second language learning, including in TOEFL test which is recognized throughout the world as a certified foreign language test. The focus of this paper is to explore and to…

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Stillbirth after failed Zavanelli manoeuvre

Svetlana Frandsen, Pernille Ravn · 2024 · Ugeskrift for Læger

Shoulder dystocia is a serious obstetric complication, where one or both shoulders of a child are trapped after the head is born during vaginal delivery. The situation is life-threatening for the child and requires quick management with…

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Diagnostic accuracy of tuning fork weber test and audiometric weber test in school-aged children with conductive hearing loss.

Peng, Nik Othman, Zakaria et al. · 2026 · European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

While the application of tuning fork Weber (TFW) test in adult is well-documented, its accuracy in the paediatric population remains uncertain although conductive hearing loss is frequently identified in children. Similarly, the…

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A Failed Project: The Ponto-Armenian Federation, 1919-1920

Bestami S. Bi̇lgi̇ç · 2011 · Belleten

The conventional wisdom says that Ottoman Armenians and Rums had collaborated against the Ottoman government during the First World War and its immediate aftermath, and then the Ankara government after 1920. They may have joined forces…

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Failed MitraClip-procedure with pull out of the anterior leaflet

Michael Gross, Ursula Wilkenshoff, Susanne Rutschow · 2014 · ScienceOpen Research

Abstract: MitraClip is an attractive and less invasive alternative to mitral valve surgery in serve mitral regurgitation in patients with moderate or severe risk for operation. It has been described to be effective and safe in functional…

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On the relationship between failed states and terrorism

Gülise Gökce · 2025 · Brazilian Journal of Business

Following the September 11, 2001 attacks, the concept of "failed states" quickly gained prominence in international security literature, particularly under the influence of the United States. The 2002 U.S. National Security Strategy…

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessComputer Science

Reducing Transducer Equivalence to Register Automata Problems Solved by "Hilbert Method"

Adrien Boiret, Radosław Piórkowski, Janusz Schmude · 2018 · arXiv

In the past decades, classical results from algebra, including Hilbert's Basis Theorem, had various applications in formal languages, including a proof of the Ehrenfeucht Conjecture, decidability of HDT0L sequence equivalence, and decidability of the equivalence problem for functional tree-to-string transducers. In this paper, we study the scope of the algebraic methods mentioned above, particularily as applied to the equivalence problem for register automata. We provide two results, one positive, one negative. The positive result is that equivalence is decidable for MSO transformations on uno

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