Cracks and Fault Lines: Foreign Policy Orientations of Western Balkan Capitals in the Context of the Ukrainian Crisis by E. S. Arlyapova, E. G. Ponomareva

“…This article examines the foreign policy priorities and orientations of Western Balkan capitals within the "five plus one" format states (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and the partially recognized "Republic of Kosovo") in light of the crisis in Ukraine, illustrating the interplay between regional dynamics and international crises.Drawing on a wide range of sources, including official documents and opinion polls on foreign policy, this paper identifies regional discrepancies in the perception and assessment of the ongoing Ukrainian conflict. …”
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Digital Diplomacy in Russian International Studies: Research Methods by A. A. Pavlyuchenko

“…The third section focuses on the scholarly papers drawing on the most time-consuming and demanding method of Big Data (hashtags) processing. …”
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The Factors Affecting Nursing Students’ Career Choices in Turkey: A Cross-sectional Study by Burçin Selçuk, Hatice Serap Koçak, Zeynep Güngörmüş

“…The participants were 2778 nursing students of state universities from seven geographical regions of Turkey who were selected by drawing lots. A sociodemographic form and the vocational choices in entering nursing scale (VCENS) were used to collect the data. …”
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Analysis of Liquid Migration as a Manifestation of Migration-based Lifestyle in the Third Millennium Using a Qualitative Approach by Ebrahim Mohammadpour, Tavakkol Aghayari Hir, Hacı Duran, Mohammad Abbaszadeh

“…For the quantitative component, 116 students from Tabriz University were selected by random sampling. Drawing from previous studies, six factors (economic, social, educational, environmental, political, and demographic) were assessed. …”
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Equity and gender mainstreaming in public policy: A scoping review protocol. by Michelle Amri, Jinny Yang, Geneviève Jessiman-Perreault, Amne Haikal, Kathryn Barrett, Jesse B Bump

“…<h4>Methods</h4>A scoping review will be undertaken by drawing on the PRISMA guidelines for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR). …”
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Exploring medical students’ intention to use of ChatGPT from a programming course: a grounded theory study in China by Chen Wang, Changqi Xiao, Xuejiao Zhang, Yingying Zhu, Xueqing Chen, Yilin Li, Huiying Qi

“…Objective To explore whether medical students can be assisted in learning programming with the help of ChatGPT, it is necessary to investigate their experience and perception of using ChatGPT, and to study which factors influence their willingness to use ChatGPT. Methods Drawing on the grounded theory research paradigm, this paper constructs a research model of the influencing factors of ChatGPT usage willingness for medical students in programming courses through the analysis of interview data from 30 undergraduate medical students. …”
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ANALYSIS OF THE VARIATION OF THE ROUGHNESS OBTAINED DURING TURNING WITH TRANSVERSE FEED DUE TO THE MODIFICATION OF THE FUNCTIONAL GEOMETRY OF THE CUTTING TOOL by Mădălin TOMESCU, Ionela Magdalena ROTARU

“…The role of machining by chipping is to generate surfaces that must correspond to the requirements imposed by the designer through the execution drawing of the part. The quality of the surface of a part is a very complex notion and includes two aspects: the geometry of the superficial layer, which determines the deviations of the real surface from the theoretical surface and the roughness (micro-irregularities) of the real surface and the condition of the superficial layer of the processed surface from a physical point of view (degree of deformation, residual stresses, thermal, chemical, thermochemical treatments, etc.). …”
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Territorialidade e ancestralidade: formação e reconhecimento da comunidade pescadora extrativista do Quilombo do Degredo, Brasil by Lorena Lins, Augusto Cesar Salomão Mozine

“…By February 2016, mining tailings carried by the wind had reached Degredo beach, further affecting the community. Drawing on critical political ecology, this article highlights how Degredo contends with agricultural and industrial exploitation projects while addressing long-standing socio-environmental conflicts. …”
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Brain dynamics and personality: a preliminary study by Francesco Ciaramella, Lorenzo Cipriano, Emahnuel Troisi Lopez, Arianna Polverino, Fabio Lucidi, Giuseppe Sorrentino, Laura Mandolesi, Pierpaolo Sorrentino

“…The present preliminary study explores the dynamic interplay between brain flexibility and personality by taking the dynamic approach to personality into account, thereby drawing from Cloninger's psychobiological model. 46 healthy individuals were recruited, and their brain dynamics were assessed using magnetoencephalography (MEG) during the resting state. …”
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Biography Writing in the Pediatric Palliative Care Context: Review and Feasibility Data by Sarah Potter, Sandra Coombs, Tiina Jaaniste

“…Methods: A narrative review of the literature was conducted, drawing on existing adult biography programs, while noting differences between the pediatric and adult contexts. …”
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Investigating the sigma formation in homogenization treatment of the 309L stainless cast billet by Hung-Yang Chu, Min-Chang Wu, Ren-Kae Shiue, Sheng-Yuan Cheng

“…The presence of the sigma phase is detrimental to the following hot and cold wire drawings of the cast 309L. The sigma formation in the 309L cast billet is strongly related to the cooling rate after homogenization at 1240 °C. …”
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Using Facebook to tell stories of premature ageing and sexual and reproductive healthcare across the life course for women with cerebral palsy in the UK and USA by Julie Taylor, Sonali Shah, C Bradbury-Jones

“…Objective To enhance understanding of the bodily and lifestyle effects of ageing with cerebral palsy (CP) for women, with a particular focus on experiences with sexual and reproductive healthcare (SRH) services in the UK and North America.Design A qualitative study underpinned by feminist disability theory and drawing on digital ethnographies to capture health and healthcare experiences for women with CP.Setting A global community of 140 women with CP, who are members of the closed international Facebook group, Women Ageing with Cerebral Palsy (WACP).Participants Forty-five members of WACP who were based in the UK and North America. …”
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Beyond bronchial thermoplasty – where to now? by Peter B. Noble, David Langton, Chuan T. Foo, Bruce R. Thompson, Alvenia Cairncross, Michael J. Hackmann, Francis Thien, Graham M. Donovan

“…It is anticipated that the next iteration of BT (likely in a drug form) will have an overall greater effect on the health care system by virtue of evoking ASM remodelling as a treatable trait, and after appropriately drawing on lessons learned from the ∼fifteen-year BT saga.…”
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A Postcolonial Conversational Approach to Preaching in Multicultural Contexts by Scott Donahue-Martens

“…This article outlines three inter-related foci for preaching, especially preaching where both the preacher and the congregation have social privilege, to foster healthy multiculturalism. Drawing from the works of Jared Alcántara and Matthew Kim, I recognize the need for preachers and congregations to increase their intercultural competence and hermeneutical tools for recognizing, interpreting, and ethically navigating biblical and modern cultures. …”
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Strategic Stability: Dynamics and Factors of Transformation by K. V. Bogdanov

“…The paper provides a comparative analysis study of the dynamics and mechanisms of the strategic stability transformation both during the Cold War and at present. Drawing on the analysis of the factors affecting strategic stability in different time periods, the author outlines the priorities of this transformation. …”
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The Impact of Energy Cooperation and the Role of the One Belt and Road Initiative in Revolutionizing the Geopolitics of Energy among Regional Economic Powers: An Analysis of Infras... by Wu Hao, Syed Mehmood Ali Shah, Ahsan Nawaz, Ali Asad, Shahid Iqbal, Hafiz Zahoor, Ahsen Maqsoom

“…Several regions such as Central Asia, the Arctic, Eastern Mediterranean, and the South China Sea are offering substantial natural gas and oil reserves and drawing global attention to develop energy cooperation. …”
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Changes in urinary concentrations of contemporary and emerging chemicals in commerce during the COVID-19 pandemic: Insights from the Environmental influences on Child Health Outcom... by Megan E Romano, Jessie P Buckley, Xiuhong Li, Julie B Herbstman, Kurunthachalam Kannan, Sunmi Lee, Susan L Schantz, Leo Trasande, Margaret R Karagas, Frederica Perera, ECHO Cohort Consortium

“…Within the Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) program, a national consortium initiated to understand the effects of environmental exposures on child health and development, our objective was to assess whether urinary concentrations of a wide range of potential endocrine-disrupting chemicals varied before and during the pandemic. Drawing from three racially, ethnically, and socioeconomically diverse ECHO cohorts, we assessed key differences in urinary chemical concentrations related to environmental exposures through food packaging, use of disinfectants, personal care products and air pollutants using repeated urine samples in a subset of 47 participants, who contributed a urine sample prior to the pandemic (between October 2018 and February 2020) and a subsequent urine sample after the pandemic began (between March 2020 and April 2021). …”
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The Role of Oral Fusobacterium nucleatum in Female Breast Cancer: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Fariah I. Gaba, Raquel Carcelén González, Raquel González Martïnez

“…More recently, oral Fusobacterium nucleatum species have been observed in cancerous human breast tissue, drawing attention to the role of microbes in cancer pathogenesis. …”
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A Comparative Analysis of Minority Political Participation from an Islamic Perspective in Indonesia and Singapore by Mujar Ibnu Syarif, Ahmad Tholabi Kharlie, Arip Purkon

“…Data analysis was carried out in four stages: data collection, reduction, presentation, and conclusion drawing. The findings of this study indicate that political participation refers to the actions of citizens to influence government policies, enabling the government to be guided towards issuing egalitarian policies. …”
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Assessing the documentation of publicly available medical image and signal datasets and their impact on bias using the BEAMRAD tool by Maria Galanty, Dieuwertje Luitse, Sijm H. Noteboom, Philip Croon, Alexander P. Vlaar, Thomas Poell, Clara I. Sanchez, Tobias Blanke, Ivana Išgum

“…This study investigates biases stemming from dataset-creation practices. Drawing on existing guidelines, we first developed a BEAMRAD tool to assess the documentation of public Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI); Color Fundus Photography (CFP), and Electrocardiogram (ECG) datasets. …”
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