South African Electoral Commission’s mobile app for voters: Data privacy and security dimensions by Nawal Omar, Scott Timcke

“…In addition, the presence of advertising and analytics trackers suggested third-party data-sharing, raising concerns about transparency and user consent. The study draws attention to the need for the IEC to take action to address the app’s security and privacy weaknesses. …”
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Designing and implementing foundation courses for allied health science students employing Kern’s six steps: a narration of perspective by Neeti Bhat, Aashma Dahal, Satish Kumar Deo, Jayendra Bajracharya

“…Through this perspective paper, we aim to highlight the importance of foundational courses in undergraduate programs and also draw the attention of policy-makers to the need of innovational strategies for easy transitioning and adjustmentof students from higher secondary to undergraduate level. …”
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Temporal legacies of coal mining in the West Coast, New Zealand: path-dependency or path-creation? by Sean Connelly, Etienne Nel, Alison Floyd

“…The legacy and heritage of coal mining has since shaped efforts at diversification and revitalization, highlighting the tensions between path-dependency and new path creation in the shaping of the future of Blackball. We draw on concepts from evolutionary economic geography to highlight how iterative processes of path creation and path dependency have played out and identify the important role of community agency and external support in mediating those processes. …”
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Covert marketing in films and series by Dimitrijević Ljiljana, Gojković Marija, Kolar Janez

“…Its influence is growing, and through advertising through celebrities, who immediately draw attention to a certain brand or service, its attractiveness is growing. …”
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Challenges and insights of transferring animal maze studies principles to human spatial learning research by Piruza Manukyan, Elizaveta Romanova, Alexander Latanov, Pavel Shlepnev, Anastasia Sharapkova, Naida Garabova, Vladimir Kasatkin, Vera Tolchennikova

“…A virtual maze was developed, and two types of instructions were provided to the participants: (1) to collect coins; (2) to interact with the maze in order to draw its structure after the game. The results indicate that a more structured instruction with a clear attainable goal (“collect”) prompted more in-depth exploration and engagement with the key elements of the maze, eliciting processes similar to those of animals. …”
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Wpływ emisji energii z terenów zurbanizowanych i szlaków komunikacyjnych na zmiany w rozwoju ekosystemów w ich otoczeniu by Urszula Kaźmierczak, Andrzej Kulczycki

“…This article aims to draw attention to the hitherto unexplored and scarcely noticed the problem of the effects of the consumption of increasing amounts of energy to human health and ecosystems exposed to emissions processed in the phase of energy consumption. …”
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Using guest lectures to enhance student employability: pedagogical considerations by Dennis Gabriel Pepple, Godbless Onoriode Akaighe, Aliyu Sambo, Ololade George-Aremu, Genevieve Bosah, Hana Trollman

“…Although the literature underscores the importance of graduate employability, the significance of guest lectures in meeting this goal – and strategies for convening it – has received limited attention. This study draws on the Self-determination theory (SDT) and pedagogical considerations to propose a framework for setting up impactful guest lectures that bolster student employability. …”
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Research on the Indoor Thermal Environment of Industrial Architectural Heritage Based on Human Thermal Comfort—A Case Study in Hefei (China) During Winter by Qiguo Li, Yao Zhang, Chao Wen

“…This paper compares the neutral temperature, comfortable temperature range, and duration of thermal comfort at different times for the research objects; analyzes the reasons for the differences in the results; and draws conclusions from the comparative analysis, providing a theoretical basis for the practice of comfortable environment transformation of industrial architectural heritage.…”
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Reread a History: Another Narration from the Biography of Aga Mohammad Khan Qajar A Critique on the Book "Iran's History in the Qajar Period: The Aga Mohammad Khan Era" by Alireza Mollaiy Tavany

“…He has attempted to alter this picture with a critical reading of sources and documents and to draw completely different figures. A person who is not only rumors about his cruelty, especially the blindness of the people of Kerman or the Caucasus, but also the opposite, was the only one among the claimants of power, including Lotfali Khan Zand, who completely thought about Iran and the revival of its historical realm. …”
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Training soft skills in Russian language classes with foreign students of economic specialties by Natal’ya O. Il’ina

“…The work also analyzes the importance of teamwork, which helps to create the most comfortable atmosphere that facilitates free exchange of opinions and the active participation of all students in classroom activities. The paper draws attention to one of the most effective techniques for developing soft skills, namely, gaming technology. …”
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G. VATTIMO HERMENEUTINIS NIHILIZMAS by Rita Šerpytytė

“…The weak thinking reveals itself as a hermeneutic nihilism. The author draws the conclusion that namely the nihilistic type of the weak thinking distinguishes it among other anti-foundational forms of thinking (French postmodernism and especially Derrida deconstructional thinking). …”
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SOME ASPECTS OF IMPLEMENTATION OF INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW STANDARDS IN THE FIELD OF CAPTIVITY OF WAR IN RUSSIAN LEGISLATION AT THE PRESENT STAGE by Oleg S. Kiritsa

“…Continuing research into the dynamics of the process of implementing the norms of international law in the field of military captivity into Russian legislation, a comprehensive study of the issue of legal implementation of the implemented norms will allow us to find ways to solve problems in this area, as well as draw a conclusion regarding the further development of legal norms relating to military captivity in our country.…”
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Higher Entrepreneurship Education: Guidelines for the Formation and Mitigation of Restrictions by Yu. B. Rubin, D. P. Mozhzhukhin

“…In this conceptual context, the prospects for the implementation of the «Startup as a Diploma» program are considered.It is noted that in the absence of agreement on the recognition of entrepreneurship as an independent direction of higher education in the Russian Federation, universities are forced to search for non-standard ways to build entrepreneurship education programs aimed at the formation of necessary competencies by graduates. The authors draw attention to the possibility for graduates to obtain professional qualifications simultaneously in two types of professional activity as a result of mastering educational programs on entrepreneurship in universities, which traditionally have an industry orientation.The current results of the activities of the Federal Innovative Educational Platform created for the development of models of continuous entrepreneurship education have shown inexpediency of compulsory inclusion of entrepreneurship programs in bachelor’s and master’s degrees in management. …”
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International organisations on national politics: Council of Europe effects on political party in Turkiye by Selçuk Kahraman, Önder Kutlu

“…Having examined the effects of the Council the paper draws a clear line of relations as far as the eight categories are concerned.…”
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Results of the dental treatment in children with bruxism by Kirenia Pieri Silva, Clotilde de la Caridad Mora Pérez, Ivelise Álvarez Rosa, Boris Abel González Arocha, Beatriz García Alpízar, Lilliam Morales Rosell

“…The results present itself in draw of numbers and percentages. <br /><strong>Results:</strong> the bigger affectation predominated in the female sex from 6 to 11 elderly years and the psychological diagnosis of severe disorders. …”
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Changements climatiques, changements du littoral et évolution de la vulnérabilité côtière au fil du temps : comparaison de territoires français, canadien et sénégalais by Sebastian Weissenberger, Mélinda Noblet, Steve Plante, Omer Chouinard, Julie Guillemot, Mélanie Aubé, Catherine Meur-Ferec, Élisabeth Michel-Guillou, Ndickou Gaye, Alioune Kane, Coura Kane, Awa Niang, Aichetou Seck

“…The synergy between these different transformations of the coastal zone and the new element of climate change draw the portrait of a constantly evolving vulnerability.…”
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Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) for Journalism Studies: Making Sense of Journalists’ Sense-Making of Digital Disruptions by Amira Firdaus, Iffat Ali Aksar, Jiankun Gong, Muhammad Zaiamri Zainal Abidin, Haroon ur Rasheed Baloch, Edward Gomez

“…Despite the field’s interdisciplinary nature, academic specialization and the academic norm of in-field referencing have limited the scope of possibility that journalism studies may draw upon fields not part of its interdisciplinary repertoire. …”
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COVID-19 AND LONG-DISTANCE COACH SERVICES IN EUROPE: THE IMPACT OF CHANGING PASSENGER BEHAVIOR by Michał TARACHA, Laurent GUIHÉRY

“…The analysis allowed us to draw conclusions about the impact of excess mortality, public sentiment, population density, and infrastructure quality on the number of long-distance FlixBus coach departures. …”
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Mortality Reimagined: Going through Deleuze’s Encounter with Death by Sariyar Murat

“…This implies that we are always already embedded in processes that draw us into larger becomings, dissolving fixed identities. …”
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Exploring Student Acceptance and Perceptions of AI-Assisted PowerPoint Creation by Svetoslav Georgiev, Joseph Tinsley

“…., presentation slides generated by Microsoft PowerPoint Designer). The study draws its sample from one of the top transnational universities in China. …”
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