“A New Ruling Class”. The mayors of Buenos Aires Province during the National Reorganization Process in Argentina by Paula Vera Canelo, Juan Pablo Kryskowski

“…The inquiry led to the following findings: i) this political elite had distinctive features, linked to the wider political and repressive goals of the dictatorship; ii) In a first period a majority of military mayors were appointed in towns considered as a “priority” for repression( densely populated, industrial, seat of important educational institutions or military facilities); iii) the profile of most of these officials was similar to that of other contemporary elites: male, professional, engaged in occupations typical of local public figures and with party affiliations characteristic of “compatible civilian leadership”; iv) the stability of their political careers was favored by traits such as a civilian background, landownership, previous experience in provincial civil service and prior political experience; and v) although the creation of a new ruling class was among the primary goals of the dictatorship, only a few of the Buenos Aires province mayors were able to secure their political survival upon the return of democratic rule.…”
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How to understand the parables of Jesus. A paradigm shift in parable exegesis by R. Zimmermann

“…Zimmermann, Gütersloh 2007), whose methodology and hermeneutics are explained in this article, takes a new route, as can be illustrated in four steps. From a historical perspective, parable exegesis is released from its close relationship to the search for the Historical Jesus and is given new distinction by a paradigm of Jesus “remembered”. …”
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Hydraulic Conductivity of Compacted Laterite Treated with Iron Ore Tailings by Umar Sa’eed Yusuf, Matawal Danladi Slim, Elinwa Augustine Uchechukwu

“…In the present study, soil was admixed with 0–20% IOT and compacted at moulding water content ranging from 10 to 25% using four types of compactive efforts. Hydraulic conductivities of the compacted soil-IOT mixtures were determined using deionized water and municipal solid waste leachate as the permeant fluids, respectively. …”
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The relevance of the Dead Sea Scrolls for New Testament interpretation with a bibliographical appendix by J. Frey

“…After a sketch of the main periods of Qumran research, the author discusses four patterns of relating Qumran with the NT which he considers problematic. …”
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Hardware Efficient Speech Enhancement With Noise Aware Multi-Target Deep Learning by Salinna Abdullah, Majid Zamani, Andreas Demosthenous

“…This paper describes a supervised speech enhancement (SE) method utilising a noise-aware four-layer deep neural network and training target switching. …”
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Differences between the Influence of Observing One’s Own Movements and Those of Others in Patients with Stroke by Takeshi Fuchigami, Shu Morioka

“…We aimed to investigate differences between the influence of observing one’s own actions and those of others in patients with stroke with hemiplegia. Thirty-four patients with stroke who had experienced a right or left hemispheric lesion (RHL: n = 17; LHL: n = 17) participated in this study. …”
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System of subjects ensuring national security and defence of Ukraine by O. V. Nesterenko

“…It has been offered to amend Part 1 of the Art. 12 of the Law of Ukraine “On National Security of Ukraine”, supplementing the four interconnected components of the security and defense sector with a fifth one – leadership in the field of national security and defense. …”
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An integrated DEA-fuzzy AHP method for prioritization of renewable energy sources in India by Jyoti Luhaniwal, Shivi Agarwal, Trilok Mathur

“…This study analyzes various RES in India-solar, geothermal, hydro, biomass, wave, onshore, and offshore wind energy -using an integrated data envelopment analysis (DEA) and fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (Fuzzy AHP) methodology. Four main parameters-technical, economic, environmental, and socio-political -are identified and supported by 19 criteria, with environmental parameters including both desirable and undesirable criteria. …”
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Agricultural Modernization: Process and Influences among the Farmers in Cilacap, 1979-1999 by Tsuroya Firdausi, Yety Rochwulaningsih, Haryono Rinardi

“…This study uses critical historical research methods, which include four steps. First, heuristics, namely collecting relevant historical data or sources. …”
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Biochemical and histopathological profiling of Wistar rat treated with Brassica napus as a supplementary feed by Kazi Md. Mahmudul Hasan, Nasrin Tamanna, Md. Anwarul Haque

“…Male Wistar rats were divided into three groups where each group containing four rats. Group A was considered as control diet group, while Group B rapeseed wild oil group and Group C rapeseed hybrid oil group were considered as experimental diet groups. …”
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Flexural Strength Evaluation of Reinforced Concrete Members with Ultra High Performance Concrete by Baek-Il Bae, Hyun-Ki Choi, Chang-Sik Choi

“…Test was conducted by four-point loading with 2,000 kN actuator for slender beam specimen. …”
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Climate change and water resources in the Himalayas by Joëlle Smadja, Olivia Aubriot, Ornella Puschiasis, Thierry Duplan, Juliette Grimaldi, Mickaël Hugonnet, Pauline Buchheit

“…The investigations that we carried out at four fieldwork sites, which are representative of Nepalese milieus, aimed to find out whether populations noticed any variations in water resources that affected their practices (farming, livestock breeding, tourism) and if they attributed them to climate change. …”
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Evaluating Proton Intensities for the SMILE Mission by Simon Mischel, Elena A. Kronberg, C. P. Escoubet

“…The research segregates the data set into four distinct regions, each analyzed for proton intensity dynamics. …”
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Birleşmiş Milletler Güvenlik Konseyi’nin Reformu Sorunsalı: İtalya’nın Beklentileri ve Stratejileri by Ömer ÇOLAK, İsmail KÖSE

“…In particular, the demands for the expansion of the permanent membership quota of the group of four, consisting of Brazil, Germany, India and Japan, have encouraged their regional rivals to pursue their policies to create their group. …”
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Fabric Designing Dexterity Improvement of Home-Economics Students for Boosting their Finances in Southeast Nigerian Universities by Ugochi Nwanneka Nwike, Ngozi Mary Eze

“…To carry out this research, four research questions were raised and answered using means and mean differences. …”
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Advancing nuclear transfer cloning in zebrafish (Danio rerio) into a translational pathway using interdisciplinary tools. by Sarah Bodenstein, William Poulos, Fermin Jimenez, Michael Stout, Yue Liu, Zoltan M Varga, Jose Cibelli, Terrence R Tiersch

“…Training, for most steps in the SCNT protocol, could be completed within two months; however, steps that involved micromanipulation of eggs required more than four months of training. Dechorionation of embryos and egg micromanipulation were identified as major constraints because the processes were performed manually and required advanced operator manual skills. …”
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A framework to guide future farming research with Indigenous communities by Daniel Hayden, Amber Hayden

“…The knowledge underlying these efforts is not static but dynamic, incorporating contemporary tools in ever changing environments. We highlight four princi­ples of Indigenous farming that are reflected in both practice and cultural traditions: polycultures, seed-keeping, sustainability, and community. …”
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Colorectal Malignancy in a Prospective Irish Inflammatory Bowel Disease Population 15 Years Since Diagnosis: Comparison with the EC-IBD Cohort by Mary Shuhaibar, Colm O’Morain

“…Six patients had extraintestinal malignancy; however, there was no CRC related to IBD noted in our cohort. Four of the 6 identified cases had UC (64%) with a mean age of 54.25 years at the time of cancer diagnosis, whereas the two CD patients had a mean age of 51.5 years at the time of cancer diagnosis. …”
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Clinical Validation of an Office-Based 14C-UBT (Heliprobe) for H. pylori Diagnosis in Iranian Dyspeptic Patients by Fariborz Mansour-Ghanaei, Omid Sanaei, Farahnaz Joukar

“…All of them underwent gastroscopy, and four gastric biopsies (three from the antrum and one from the corpus) were obtained. …”
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Human-Specific Endogenous Retroviruses by Anton Buzdin

“…New polyadenylation signals have been provided to four human RNAs, and a number of potential antisense regulators of known human genes appeared due to human-specific retroviral insertional activity. …”
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