The Relationship between Statin and Risk of Age-Related Macular Degeneration: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Ezatollah Memarzadeh, Saeid Heidari-Soureshjani

“…The OR of AMD in those that received statins was 0.92 (95% CI; 0.75–1.13, P=0.440) in case-control studies, 0.95 (95% CI; 0.82–1.09, P=0.458) in cohort studies, 0.951 (95% CI; 0.59–1.53, P=0.831) in cross-sectional studies, 0.94 (95% CI; 0.80–1.10, P=0.468) in North America, 0.81 (95% CI; 0.54–1.21, P=0.308) in Europe, 1.05 (95% CI; 0.94–1.18, P=0.362) in Asia, and 0.52 (95% CI; 0.26–1.04, P=0.125) in Australia. …”
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Russia and the West: Clash of energy interests through the lens of realist and liberal approaches by Yu. V. Borovsky

“…Substantial disagreements arose on all major issues of the agenda, from the views on the prospects for the Russian fuel and energy complex development and participation of foreign capital in it, to the implementation of concrete gas transportation projects and to assessments of opportunities for legal and institutional regulation of energy relations in Europe and the world. The Russian military operation in Ukraine in 2022 has greatly exacerbated all these tensions, rendering virtually impossible any form of cooperation in the energy sector. …”
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Signaling, Constraining and Coercing in US sanctions policy towards Russia in the context of the Ukraine crisis by O. I. Rebro

“…Utilizing the approach of Francesco Giumelli, who developed a system of factors to explain the logic of a sanctions policy, the author shows that the US sanction policy towards Russia was framed by the desire to demonstrate the ability to mobilize international community and reaffirm its commitments to the security of the Eastern Europe. Low profile of the Ukraine issue on the US foreign policy agenda as well as low political cost of the escalation towards Russia resulted in sanctions becoming a substitute for a foreign policy strategy and were not accompanied by the analysis of the situation, determination of goals and the parameters for evaluating the success of the policy. …”
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Russian University Cities: Expectations vs. Reality by I. D. Turgel, K. D. Bugrov, A. D. Oykher

“…As a result of the study, the authors establish the specifics of the spatial distribution of universities in Europe, the USA and the Russian Federation; and substantiated the choice of Tomsk, Novosibirsk and Yekaterinburg as the relevant research sample for the Russian Federation. …”
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Microscopic and molecular detection of Cytauxzoon spp. in cats in Mosul city, Iraq by Sura S. Aghwan, Enas S. Hussein, Salam A Esmaeel

“…The phylogenetic tree was constructed, and it was discovered that the local sequence LC775709.1 is very closely related genetically to the sequences from Europe and the USA while showing some genetic differences with the sequences from Brazil and South Africa.…”
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« L’épopée » des clandestins by Zied Hadfi

“…The survey takes various Then from an external angle, we will deal with globalization that has opened new horizons and ambitions among some youth lured by the mirage of Europe. We are interested obviously to highlight this new culture of migration, based on the dream, the fascination and idealization, nurtured and maintained daily by the illusion and false advertisements. …”
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CECILIA Regional Climate Simulations for Future Climate: Analysis of Climate Change Signal by Michal Belda, Petr Skalák, Aleš Farda, Tomáš Halenka, Michel Déqué, Gabriella Csima, Judit Bartholy, Csaba Torma, Constanta Boroneant, Mihaela Caian, Valery Spiridonov

“…In project CECILIA, two RCMs were used to provide climate change information for regions of Central and Eastern Europe. Models RegCM and ALADIN-Climate were employed in downscaling global simulations from ECHAM5 and ARPEGE-CLIMAT under IPCC A1B emission scenario in periods 2021–2050 and 2071–2100. …”
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“Rights and Liberties” in Pylyp Orlyk’s Constitution through the Prism of Renaissance Interpretations of Justice by S. B. Ivanov

“…XVIII century, has demonstrated the desire of its authors and the people to establish the principles of constitutionalism, law and order over the ideas of absolutism, which prevailed in Europe at that time. In this regard, the Constitution makes an unequivocal choice against the Russian autocracy, which was canceled previous agreements, in favor of the protection and restoration of violated rights and liberties, and as a consequence – the construction of an independent Ukraine. …”
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Prevalence of Squamous and Basal Cell Carcinomas in African Albino Skin Cancer Lesions: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Proportion by Nnaemeka T. Onyishi, Samuel R. Ohayi

“…To estimate the prevalence of cutaneous SCC and BCC in all histologically confirmed skin cancer lesions in African albinos.The following five databases are as follows: African Journals Online (AJOL), PubMed, Europe PMC, and Google Scholar were searched for relevant articles. …”
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Sing A Song for Home: How Displaced Iranian Song-Writers in LA Conceive of Home and Homeland by Pouya Morshedi, Lisa-Jo K. van den Scott

“…Many of them moved to Europe and North America. We analyzed songs from 1979 to 1999, produced in Los Angeles, as the heart of Iranian pop music after the revolution, focusing on the concept of “home.” …”
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Phylogenetic study documents different speciation mechanisms within the Russula globispora lineage in boreal and arctic environments of the Northern Hemisphere by Miroslav Caboň, Guo-Jie Li, Malka Saba, Miroslav Kolařík, Soňa Jančovičová, Abdul Nasir Khalid, Pierre-Arthur Moreau, Hua-An Wen, Donald H. Pfister, Slavomír Adamčík

“…In this study we performed a multi-locus phylogenetic study based on collections from boreal, alpine and arctic habitats of Europe and Western North America, subalpine collections from the southeast Himalayas and collections from subtropical coniferous forests of Pakistan. …”
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Environment of European Last Mammoths: Reconstructing the Landcover of the Eastern Baltic Area at the Pleistocene/Holocene Transition by Ivan Krivokorin, Anneli Poska, Jüri Vassiljev, Siim Veski, Leeli Amon

“…The Eastern Baltic area stands out as a unique location due to the finds of Europe’s youngest dated mammoth remains (12.6–11.2 ka cal BP). …”
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Modeling of investment attractiveness of countries using entropy analysis of regional stock markets by H. Danylchuk, N. Chebanova, N. Reznik, Y. Vitkovskyi

“…The countries with high, middle or low income in Europe, Central Asia, East Asia, the Pacific, and North America were selected for the study. …”
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Antibiotic use on crops in low and middle-income countries based on recommendations made by agricultural advisors by Philip Taylor, Robert Reeder

“…Results Within our data all WHO regions of the world are using antibiotics on crop plants with the exception of Africa (no data for Europe) and the main crop on which they are used is rice. …”
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Multimodal, transmedial, and trans-European perspectives for online language teaching and learning: II YUFE – Ukraine seminar by Joanna Winska, Iryna Shevchenko

“…Young Universities for the Future of Europe is a European University alliance of 10 higher education institutions. …”
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LEGAL MIGRATION – RIGHTS AND BENEFITS IN THE EUROPEAN SOCIAL SECURITY SYSTEM by Nicoleta ANDRICA, Andreea-Florina FORA

“…The countries implement the European interoperability for social security institutions, to make easier the electronic exchange between the institution from all Europe. Using this type of communication, mandatory for all members countries, gradually will be removed the documents on paper support by electronic one. …”
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Beyond Finance: Enhancing Support for New Technology Start-Up Founders by Pawel Ziemianski, Katarzyna Stankiewicz, Jan Wyrwinski, Sylwiusz Retowski, Bartosz Lipnicki

“…Using a qualitative research design, the conducted study involved semi-structured interviews with 22 technology start-up founders across Europe to explore their unique challenges, demands, and support needs. …”
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Charge heterogeneity of therapeutic monoclonal antibodies by different cIEF systems: views on the current situation by Alessandro Ascione, Marcello Belfiore, Jaana Vesterinen, Mihaela Buda, Wolf Holtkamp, Francesca Luciani

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Comparison of External Ureteral Catheter and Double-J stent as Drainage Methods for Tubeless Percutaneous Nephrolithotomy: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Clarissa Tania, Edwin Tobing, Christiano Tansol

“…Materials and Methods: We conducted a detailed literature search using relevant key words on Google Scholar, Europe PMC, Medline, and Scopus databases. Continuous variables were combined using mean difference (MD), while binary variables were analysed using risk ratio (RR) with 95% confidence intervals through random-effects models. …”
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PHILOSOPHY OF WAR AND PEACE: IN SEARCH OF NEW EUROPEAN SECURITY STRATEGY by O. O. Bazaluk, D. B. Svyrydenko

“…The contemporary European social and cultural landscape feels the pressure of security challenges. It is true, that Europe has a strategy of overcoming the possible challenges, but it has sense to review ones strategy abilities to be effective at the face of new manifestations of aggression. …”
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