AN APPRAISAL OF NIGERIA’S FOREIGN POLICY THRUST FROM 1960-2023 by SUNNY MENE PIATE, EMMANUEL SUNDAY, BARILEDUM KIA

“…The utility of the power approach to the discourse is that states in international relations are always possessed by the national interest which nations attain only by improving upon the element of their national power relative to other states.  …”
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EVALUATION OF SUITABILITY FACILITIES FOR ACTIVE FIRE PROTECTION IN PT DOK DAN PERKAPALAN SURABAYA (PERSERO) by Anisa Karyati, Erwin Dyah Nawawiwetu

“…Dok dan Perkapalan Surabaya (Persero) need to be evaluated to ensure that the active fire protection facilities are always in good condition. Purpose: The purpose of this research was to evaluate the application of active protection means in PT. …”
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Accurate Diagnosis and Treatment of Painful Temporomandibular Disorders: A Literature Review Supplemented by Own Clinical Experience by Adam Andrzej Garstka, Lidia Kozowska, Konrad Kijak, Monika Brzózka, Helena Gronwald, Piotr Skomro, Danuta Lietz-Kijak

“…While pain is the most common reason why patients decide to seek help, TMD is not always painful. Pain is often described by patients as a headache, prompting patients to seek the help of neurologists, surgeons, and ultimately dentists. …”
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Specifics of combating corruption at higher education institutions in the context of integrity policy by O. S. Bondarenko

“…Corruption in education does not always have a monetary form, but more often takes the form of benefits, privileges and non-monetary services. …”
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Achievement emotions in kindergarten: the association of solution accuracy with discrete joy, sadness, and surprise by Traci Shizu Kutaka, Pavel Chernyavskiy, Tara Hofkens

“…This study serves as a critical first step in clarifying how emotions contribute to problem-solving behavior as we grapple with how to respond to the sometimes intense, but always present emotions of young learners in ways that are affirming, as well as mathematically productive and generative.…”
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Quantum distance approximation for persistence diagrams by Bernardo Ameneyro, Rebekah Herrman, George Siopsis, Vasileios Maroulas

“…However, computing the distance between two persistence diagrams involves finding an optimal way to match the points of the two diagrams and may not always be an easy task for classical computers. Recently, quantum algorithms have shown the potential to speedup the process of obtaining the persistence information displayed on persistence diagrams by estimating the spectra of persistent Dirac operators. …”
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Design and Experimental Validation of a Model-Free Controller for Beam Stabilization in Adaptive Optics Systems by Sicheng Guo, Tao Cheng, Kangjian Yang, Lingxi Kong, Chunxuan Su, Shuai Wang, Ping Yang

“…Stabilization of optical beams has always been a key factor affecting the performance of many optical systems. …”
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The Wandering Character in the Coen Brothers’ Films: When the Southern Gothic Meets the Western by Julie Assouly

“…Dishonest preachers, traveling salesmen or runaway prisoners have replaced cowboys and bounty hunters in the Coens’ Southern films, but their whereabouts are always used as a pretext to discover American regionalisms. …”
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Respectful Pruning Improves Grapevine Development: A Case Study in Young Vineyards by Mónica Galar-Martínez, Nazareth Torres, Bárbara Sebastián, Julián Palacios, Ignacio Arzoz, Nahiara Juanena, Ana Villa-Llop, Maite Loidi, Coralie Dewasme, Jean Phillippe Roby, Luis Gonzaga Santesteban

“…“Tempranillo” vineyard for four consecutive pruning seasons: (i) respectful (RESP), where pruning cuts were always made leaving protection wood between the cut and vine perennial structures, and the preferential sap flow path was chosen; (ii) aggressive (AGGR), where no protection wood was left and, when possible, the nonpreferential sap flow path was followed; and (iii) winegrape grower (WIN), where the common practices used in the area were followed, which corresponds to an intermediate style between RESP and AGGR. …”
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Musculoskeletal Conditions in the Health Personnel of the Comprehensive Area of COVID-19 by Melba Esperanza Narváez Jaramillo, Cinthya Lizeth Pantoja Narváez, Julio Rodrigo Morillo Cano, Olga Mireya Alonzo Pico

“…<br /><strong>Results:</strong> 86 % said they almost never felt discomfort when doing their work, 57 % reported having discomfort that has prevented them from carrying out their work normally and the same percentage reported almost always feeling pain in the neck, shoulder, back, arms and hands. 43 % recognized that the discomfort felt is a consequence of their workday. …”
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Teilhard de Chardin’s Vision of Science, Religion and Planetary Humanity: A Challenge to the Contemporary World by Ursula King

“…Throughout his life, but especially towards its end, he was much interested in the future of planetary humanity and he always stressed the importance of seeing, of having a vision that pulls us forward and upward. …”
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Building Application-Related Patient Identifiers: What Solution for a European Country? by Catherine Quantin, François-André Allaert, Paul Avillach, Maniane Fassa, Benoît Riandey, Gilles Trouessin, Olivier Cohen

“…Hashing produces a strictly anonymous code that is always the same for a given individual, and thus enables patient data to be linked. …”
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Reliability of tooth cementum rings to age bighorn sheep: a blind test by John D. Wehausen, Christopher J. O’Brien, Dale R. McCullough

“…Tests of this approach have used samples of known ages, but to ensure objectivity this needs to be carried out as truly blind tests. That has not always been the case, including for North American wild sheep in studies that concluded that cementum ring aging provided highly accurate ages. …”
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Socio-demographic characteristics of patients with negative and positive symptoms in schizophrenia by Yu.A.  Kushnir

“…Psychiatrists of different countries draw attention to the fact that these descriptions do not always coincide. Socio-demographic factors can be considered as factors affecting the prognosis of the course and outcome of schizophrenia. …”
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The fate and transport of pesticide seed treatments and its impact on soil microbials by Kaiye Li, Qing Cheng, Chao Zeng, Hong Shen, Chensheng Lu

“…The highest level of TMX in the profile soil were 0.068 and 0.036 μg·g−1 during the elongation and seedling stages, respectively, while DFZ was always below the limit of detection. The soil bacterial abundance and community structure at the early growth stages of maize were affected by the seed treatment, but not the diversity. …”
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A Review on Inverse Kinematics, Control and Planning for Robotic Manipulators With and Without Obstacles via Deep Neural Networks by Ana Calzada-Garcia, Juan G. Victores, Francisco J. Naranjo-Campos, Carlos Balaguer

“…Classical approaches to all these problems, such as numeric or analytical methods, can produce precise results but take a high computation time and do not always converge. Learning-based methods have gained considerable attention in tackling the IK problem, as well as motion planning and control. …”
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Political and Party System of Germany after Elections to the Bundestag (2014-2015) by E. P. Timoshenkova

“…Elections in Hamburg and Bremen have always had special features. People in these lands are more eager to support social democrats, which was proved by the 2015 elections. …”
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Assessing the approaches to nausea and vomiting in pregnancy: insights from a nationwide survey of Italian gynecologists (PURITY light) by Romolo Di Iorio, Paola Bianchi, Elena Casolati, Elena Piccolo, Mario Mangrella

“…Statistical analysis assessed the effect of demographic characteristics on clinical behavior.ResultsData from 157 participants, mainly women (72.61%) and professionals from the Public Health System (63.69%), were analyzed. 77.71% always checked NVP during the first visit, based on patients’ reports (84.71%). 54.78% prescribed medication in mild cases, mainly the doxylamine/pyridoxine combination (64.97%).DiscussionThe results show varied practices influenced by demographic and professional factors. …”
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The Impact of Misdiagnosing Celiac Disease at a Referral Centre by Federico Biagi, Paola I Bianchi, Jonia Campanella, Giovanni Zanellati, Gino R Corazza

“…Although it should be obvious that celiac disease must be investigated with duodenal biopsies and celiac antibody testing, this well-known strategy is not always followed, probably resulting in an incorrect diagnosis.…”
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Liquefiable Ground Treatment Using Cruciform Section Probe Resonant Compaction Method: A Case Study in the Xitong Expressway, Eastern China by Guangyin Du, Han Xia, Jun Cai, Huangsong Pan, Changshen Sun

“…The foundation treatment of liquefiable soil has always been an important part of construction. Sand liquefaction decreases the foundation capacity and can cause severe building, highway, or bridge engineering accidents. …”
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