The Golden Age and the Reversal of the Myth of Good Government in Plato’s Statesman. A Lesson on the Use of Models by Fulvia de Luise

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Determination of reference values and frequency of occurrence of patella alta in German shepherd dogs: a retrospective study by Anna Łojszczyk-Szczepaniak, Piotr Silmanowicz, Renata Komsta, Zbigniew Osiński

“…A high prevalence of patella alta was observed in the group of German shepherd dogs. A correlation was demonstrated between the classification of dogs’ joints in the patella alta group and the multiplied risk of canine hip dysplasia (CHD) through the estimation of odds ratios. …”
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Geometric morphometric analysis of cranium of wolf (canis lupus) and german shepherd dog (canis lupus familiaris) by İftar GÜRBÜZ, Ahmet İhsan AYTEK, Yasin DEMİRASLAN, Vedat ONAR, Özcan ÖZGEL

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Identification and validation of quantitative trait loci (QTL) for canine hip dysplasia (CHD) in German Shepherd Dogs. by Lena Fels, Ottmar Distl

“…To identify common alleles associated with CHD, we genotyped 96 German Shepherd Dogs affected by mild, moderate and severe CHD and 96 breed, sex, age and birth year matched controls using the Affymetrix canine high density SNP chip. …”
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Christopher J. Shepherd: Haunted Houses and Ghostly Encounters: Ethnography and Animism in East Timor, 1860–1975 by Lúcio Sousa

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[recensione / review] Lynn Shepherd, "Tom-All-Alone's / The Solitary House", London, Corsair Books, 2012 by Sylvie Gautheron

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Micah’s shepherd-king (Mi 2:12–13): An ethical model for reversing oppression in leadership praxis by Blessing O. Boloje

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Disseminated aspergillosis in a German shepherd mixed breed dog with unusual initial localization to the iliac wing by Sara Del Magno, Marta Gruarin, Armando Foglia, Veronica Cola, Chiara Agnoli, Roberta Galuppi, Francesco Dondi, Luciano Pisoni

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Honest shepherd case (Forms, possibilities and reception of romantic prose examplified on Štefan Marko Daxner’s text) by Jana Pácalová Piročšáková

“…The article analyses Štefan Marko Daxner´s short prose called Statočný valach (Honest shepherd, 1843, in manuscript titled O drahom barancovi, Of an expensive ram), in which the writer used and creatively adjusted the narrative techniques and language typical of humorous folk genres. …”
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Genetic Characterization of the Yugoslavian Shepherd Dog – Sharplanina, a Livestock Guard Dog from the Western Balkans by Dimitrijević Vladimir, Savić Mila, Tarić Elmin, Stanišić Ljubodrag, Stanimirović Zoran, Tabaković Aleksandar, Aleksić M. Jelena

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Investigation of Changes in Biochemical Factors in the Serum of the Persian Shepherd Dogs due to Consumption of Thymus daenensis Extract by Saeed Omid Salary, Saam Torkan, Mohsen Jafarian Dehkordi

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Massive attack by honeybees in a German shepherd dog: description of a fatal case and review of the literature by Mudassar Niaz Mughal, Ghazanfar Abbas, Muhammad Saqib, Ghulam Muhammad

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Case report: Surgical removal of an intradural and intramedullary brainstem foreign body in a young German Shepherd by Oscar Thamar-Torres, Andy Shores

“…A young, female German Shepherd was presented for evaluation of a progressive, mildly ambulatory tetraparesis with severe neck pain. …”
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Wellbeing, quality of life, presence of concurrent diseases, and survival times in untreated and treated German Shepherd dogs with dwarfism by Stefanie Kitzmann, Katrin Hartmann, Yury Zablotski, Anna Rieger, Ralf Mueller, Astrid Wehner

“…<h4>Background</h4> Pituitary dwarfism (PD) in German Shepherd dogs (GSD) is a rare endocrinopathy. Cause and inheritance of the disease are well characterized, but the overall survival time, presence of concurrent diseases, quality of life (QoL) and influence of different treatment options on those parameters is still not well investigated. …”
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STYLE FEATURES OF VIKTOR ASTAFEV STORY “PASTUKH I PASTUSHKA” ("SHEPHERD AND SHEPHERDESS"): ORGANIZING SUBTEXTUAL AND TRANSTEXTUAL MEANINGS by L. K. Olyander

“…Astafev story “Pastukh I Pastushka” which lead to organizing (genesis) subtextual and transtextual meanings, the so-called intentions, are identified. Images/codes (a shepherd and shepherdess, a huge man with a burning torch behind, the German general-suicide, and others) that perform the functions of organizing subtextual and transtextual (intentional) meanings are examined. …”
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The first evidence for vertical transmission of [i]Babesia canis[/i] in a litter of Central Asian Shepherd dogs by Ewa J Mierzejewska, Renata Welc-Falęciak, Małgorzata Bednarska, Anna Rodo, Anna Bajer

“…In Autumn 2011, cases of babesiosis were diagnosed in a litter of 6-week-old puppies of a Central Asian Shepherd dog. Immediately following the first case of infection, blood samples were collected from all the pups in the litter (n=10) and from the female. …”
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Effect of Plasma-Activated Water (PAW) on the Postharvest Quality of Shepherd’s Purse (<i>Capsella bursa-pastoris</i>) by Lingming Xiong, Lei Feng, Meimei Nie, Dajing Li, Zhongyuan Zhang, Chunquan Liu, Zhuqing Dai, Yadong Xiao, Yayuan Xu

Subjects: “…shepherd’s purse…”
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Bifid phallus with complete duplication and a separate scrotum in a German shepherd dog: a case report by M. Karabagli, B. Karan, U. Ugurlu, Z. Mutlu, F. Yildirim, I. Firat, A. Baran, A. Ucur, A. Bayrak, S. Ozturk

“…The present case concerned a 4-year old intact male German shepherd dog. The patient presented with a complaint of paraphimosis. …”
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When Shepherds Mine Mountains: The Impact of Artisanal Mining on Agropastoral Systems in Kyrgyzstan. Case Study of Naryn Province by Irène Mestre

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Effects of Shepherd’s Purse (Capsella bursa pastoris (L.) Medic.) on the Chemical Composition of Lucerne (Medicago sativa L.) by Tsvetanka Dimitrova, Plamen Marinov-Serafimov

“…A study was conducted in a pure stand of lucerne (variety Viktoria) under natural weed infestation with shepherd’s purse (Capsella bursa pastoris (L.) Medic.) on a slightly leached chernozem soil under nonirrigated conditions in the experimental field of the Institute ofForage Crops – Pleven during the 2006-2007 period. …”
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