Comprehensive treatment experience of anal squamous cell carcinoma from a tertiary cancer center in South China by Yan Yuan, Wei‐Hao Xie, Rong‐Zhen Li, Hui Chang, Zhi‐Fan Zeng, Yuan‐Hong Gao, Qiao‐Xuan Wang, Wei‐Wei Xiao

“…The goal of our study was to analyze the treatment outcome and prognostic factors of ASCC in South China in the past half‐century. Methods This study retrospectively included 59 patients with ASCC admitted from 1975 to 2018 in Sun Yat‐sen University cancer center. …”
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Time-frequency analysis framework for understanding non-stationary and multi-scale characteristics of sea-level dynamics by Xindan Liang, Xindan Liang, Yinyi Lin, Yinyi Lin, Renguang Wu, Gang Li, Nicole Khan, Rui Liu, Rui Liu, Hua Su, Shan Wei, Shan Wei, Hongsheng Zhang, Hongsheng Zhang

“…The results show that the relative sea level (RSL) in Hong Kong has experienced roughly 2.5 cycles of high-to-low sea-level transition in the past half-century. The periodic amplitude variation of tides is related to Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) and El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO). …”
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Exito reproductivo de plantas ornitócoras en un relicto de selva subtropical en Argentina Reproductive success of bird-dispersed plants in a subtropical forest relict in Argentina by NORBERTO H. MONTALDO

“…Seed germination, recruitment, and seedling traits of these plants were also determined. During the last half century the weeds heavily invaded the forest, presently constituting a serious threat to the survival of this natural community. …”
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Meta-Analysis of Dengue Severity during Infection by Different Dengue Virus Serotypes in Primary and Secondary Infections. by Kuan-Meng Soo, Bahariah Khalid, Siew-Mooi Ching, Hui-Yee Chee

“…INTRODUCTION:Dengue virus (DENV) infection is currently a major cause of morbidity and mortality in the world; it has become more common and virulent over the past half-century and has gained much attention. Thus, this review compared the percentage of severe cases of both primary and secondary infections with different serotypes of dengue virus. …”
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Advances in the Theory of Compact Groups and Pro-Lie Groups in the Last Quarter Century by Karl H. Hofmann, Sidney A. Morris

“…Next is from Hilbert’s Fifth Problem in 1900 to its solution in 1952 by Montgomery, Zippin, and Gleason and Yamabe’s important structure theorem on almost connected locally compact groups. This half century included profound contributions by Weyl and Peter, Haar, Pontryagin, van Kampen, Weil, and Iwasawa. …”
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Multi-decade biomass dynamics in an old-growth hemlock-northern hardwood forest, Michigan, USA by Kerry D. Woods

“…While aboveground living biomass at this study site shows no strong aggrading or declining trend over the last half-century, this remains a modest span in the innate time-scale of late-successional forest. …”
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ENTRE O ESTADO REVOLUCIONÁRIO E O EXÍLIO: invenção e re-construção da memória do povo cubano by Fernando Luís González Mitjáns

“…Fed by the migration exodus that has occurred in this half century, this counter-memory recognizes other values, characters and historical moments which are omitted, denied or depreciated by the official voice of the government. …”
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An overview of worldwide and regional time trends in total mercury levels in human blood and breast milk from 1966 to 2015 and their associations with health effects by Brij Mohan Sharma, Ondřej Sáňka, Jiří Kalina, Martin Scheringer

“…Objectives: To support a future effectiveness evaluation of the convention, this study assesses worldwide and regional time trends of total mercury levels in human blood and breast milk across different population sub-groups in the last half-century prior to entry-into-force of the Minamata Convention. …”
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Bacteroides dorei dominates gut microbiome prior to autoimmunity in Finnish children at high risk for type 1 diabetes. by Austin G Davis-Richardson, Alexandria N. Ardissone, Raquel eDias, Ville eSimell, Michael T. Leonard, Kaisa M Kemppainen, Jennifer C. Drew, Desmond eSchatz, Mark A. Atkinson, Bryan eKolaczkowski, Jorma eIlonen, Mikael eKnip, Jorma eToppari, Noora eNurminen, Heikki eHyöty, Riitta eVeijola, Tuula eSimell, Juha eMykkänen, Olli eSimell, Eric W. Triplett

“…The incidence of the autoimmune disease, type 1 diabetes (T1D), has increased dramatically over the last half century in many developed countries and is particularly high in Finland and other Nordic countries. …”
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History of the geographic distribution of the western blacklegged tick, Ixodes pacificus, in the United States by Lars Eisen, Megan E.M. Saunders, Vicki L. Kramer, Rebecca J. Eisen

“…In contrast to Ixodes scapularis (the blacklegged tick) in the eastern US, there is no evidence for a dramatic change in the geographic distribution of I. pacificus over the last half-century. Field surveys in the 1930s and 1940s documented I. pacificus along the Pacific Coast from southern California to northern Washington, in the Sierra Nevada foothills, and in western Utah. …”
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Forest Growth Responses to Drought at Short- and Long-Term Scales in Spain: Squeezing the Stress Memory from Tree Rings by J. Julio Camarero, Antonio Gazol, Gabriel Sangüesa-Barreda, Alejandro Cantero, Raúl Sánchez-Salguero, Raúl Sánchez-Salguero, Angela Sánchez-Miranda, Elena Granda, Xavier Serra-Maluquer, Ricardo Ibáñez

“…Here we use dendrochronology to quantify the radial growth of different forests subjected to contrasting climatic conditions in Spain during the last half century. Particularly, we considered four climatically contrasting areas where dominant forests showed clear signs of drought-induced dieback. …”
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Parenthood and neurosurgery in Europe a white paper from the European Association of Neurosurgical Societies’ Diversity in Neurosurgery Committee Part I – Family Planning and Pract... by Pia Vayssiere, Marike Broekman, Claudio Cavallo, Doortje Engel, Uri Pinchas Hadelsberg, Gökce Hatipoglu Majernik, Anke Hoellig, Tijana Ilic, Claudia Janz, Hanne-Rinck Jeltema, Dorothee Mielke, Ana Rodríguez-Hernández, Yu-Mi Ryang, Saeed Fozia, Nikolaos Syrmos, Kristel Vanchaze, Silvia Hernandez-Duran

“…Introduction: Family and work have immensely changed and become intertwined over the past half century for both men and women. Additionally, alongside to traditional family structures prevalent, other forms of families such as single parents, LGBTQ + parents, and bonus families are becoming more common. …”
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Interaction between Simian Virus 40 Major Capsid Protein VP1 and Cell Surface Ganglioside GM1 Triggers Vacuole Formation by Yong Luo, Nasim Motamedi, Thomas G. Magaldi, Gretchen V. Gee, Walter J. Atwood, Daniel DiMaio

“…IMPORTANCE The DNA tumor virus SV40 was discovered more than a half century ago as a contaminant of poliovirus vaccine stocks, because it caused dramatic cytoplasmic vacuolization of permissive host cells. …”
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The Long-Term Detection of Suspended Particulate Matter Concentration and Water Colour in Gravel and Sand Pit Lakes through Landsat and Sentinel-2 Imagery by Nicola Ghirardi, Monica Pinardi, Daniele Nizzoli, Pierluigi Viaroli, Mariano Bresciani

“…Over the past half century, the demand for sand and gravel has led to extensive quarrying activities, creating many pit lakes (PLs) which now dot floodplains and urbanized regions globally. …”
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Achievements, challenges, and recommendations for waterbird conservation in China's coastal wetlands by Zhijun Ma, Chi-Yeung Choi, Xiaojing Gan, Jing Li, Yang Liu, David S. Melville, Tong Mu, Theunis Piersma, Zhengwang Zhang

“…Large-scale and high intensity human activities have resulted in serious loss and degradation of coastal wetlands over the past half century, causing population declines in many waterbirds. …”
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The effect of angiotensin II on blood pressure in patients with circulatory shock: a structured review of the literature by Laurence W. Busse, Michael T. McCurdy, Osman Ali, Anna Hall, Huaizhen Chen, Marlies Ostermann

“…Despite its discovery and use in clinical and experimental settings more than a half-century ago, angiotensin II (Ang II) has only been recently evaluated as a vasopressor in distributive shock. …”
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Control Shift by Theodora Chatzi Rodopoulou

“…Despite widely employed in the last half century, Industrial Heritage Reuse still remains particularly challenging and highly confusing, hiding internal and external risks. …”
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Inferring upper mantle rheology from numerical modeling of experimental and geodetic observations by Masuti, Sagar

“…While the deformation of olivine and olivine bearing rocks has been extensively researched over the past half century, not all aspects of olivine rheology are well understood. …”
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Functional outcomes and quality of life following tumour-related hemipelvectomy - a decade of HUSM experience by Sharifudin, Mohd Ariff, Wan, Zulmi, Wan Ismail, Wan Faisham Numan, Mat Zin, Nor Azman, Mohamed Amir, Nawaz Hussain

“…Introduction: Although great advancements in survival over the last half century have been made with adjuvant therapies and current surgical techniques, pelvic resections as the surgical treatment for pelvic tumours continue to have significant associations with morbidity and complications. …”
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The Irish in Leicester, c.1841 to c.1891: a study of a minority community in the East Midlands by Danaher, Nessan

“…The central aim of this thesis is to pioneer an in-depth study of the Irish in the largely unstudied East Midlands town of Leicester, and to do so across the half-century c. 1841-9 1. The Irish migrant and settler experience in Leicester is contextualised against current historiographical debates about the Irish in nineteenth century Britain; and the Leicester Irish experience is contrasted with that of Irish settlers elsewhere, including where relevant the wider diasporic framework. …”
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