Students from all Layers of Society. Study Grants, Parents and the Education of their Children, 1815-2015 by Wouter Marchand

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Belarus’ Sovereignty in Question: Assessing its de facto Sovereign Status in the Shadow of Russia by Arūnas Molis, Sara Pastorello

“… The paper explores state sovereignty by developing a systematic framework for categorising states based on their sovereignty status. …”
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Does Frankie Go to Hollywood? From American influence to articulatory phonetics: the singing pronunciation of 1980s pop artists by Coline Caillol, Emmanuel Ferragne

“…Over the years, this explicit influence has become enregistered as a Pop Song English (PSE) variety in its own right. The aim of this paper is to study this phenomenon with 1980s pop productions since that era marked a turning point in the history of how pop music was produced and commercialized. …”
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Encyclical Laudato si’ on the Question of Progress by Witold Kania

“…Progress is one of the most recognizable characteristics of modern times. The present paper addresses the question of progress as the underlying theme of the encyclical Laudato si'. …”
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Strategic approach to the planning of promotional activities by Cogoljević Vladan

“…Commercial propaganda has a long history, it has been used for different purposes and for different goals, but its implementation has always achieved good results in influencing the target audience. …”
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The Battle over Pastures: The Hidden War in Afghanistan by Liz Alden Wily

“…In many ways, the territorial history of Afghanistan may be written through the lens of ancient and continuing battles between ethnic groups for possession of alpine pastures. …”
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Time and frequency domain models for multiaxial fatigue life estimation under random loading by Andrea Carpinteri, Andrea Spagnoli, Camilla Ronchei, Sabrina Vantadori

“…The former methods require the knowledge of the loading time history, and a large number of experimental tests/numerical simulations is needed to obtain statistically reliable results. …”
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A Sketch on the Balkans as a “Centre of Peripheries” by Raymond Detrez

“…Throughout its history, the Balkan Peninsula has been encompassed within various expansive cultural and historical spheres, as well as state-like political formations. …”
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RUSSIA'S INTEGRATED EXAM FOR MIGRANTS: RESULTS FROM THE FIRST YEAR OF ITS IMPLEMENTATION by Elena V. Kalachinskaya, Natalya V. Koneva

“…The authors summarize the experience of holding the integrated exam by looking into the related activities of a specific regional university. The paper analyzes the geographical composition of exam participants and identifies its regional specificity; compares test results with a breakdown into the various types of the exam and various groups of migrants; shares examples of errors in the content of testing and assessment tools on the Russian language, the history of Russia, and the laws of the Russian Federation; draws conclusions about the need to enhance these tools; shares expert opinions as to the need to change the degree of the exam's complexity; summarizes the methodological and organizational issues in the conduct of testing for migrant workers.…”
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El príncipe modelo reflejado en las obras Relox de príncipes y Enseñanzas de Neagoe Basarab hacia su hijo Teodosio by Andrei Iulian Din

“…In the present paper we intend to put up for discussion the concept of the “ideal prince”, reflected in the works of two important authors in the history of medieval literature, namely Antonio de Guevara’s Dial of Princes and Neagoe Basarab’s The teachings of Neagoe Basarab to his son Theodosie. …”
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Development of a professional ethics code universal model for Internet marketing organisations by R. A. Glaz, E. F. Shamaeva

“…The terms and definitions involved in the research paper have been analysed and divided into two semantic groups. …”
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“A Critical Study on Methods and Protagonists of Literary Criticism by Gino Tellini” by Fatemeh Asgari

“…However, the main flaw of this book, according to this paper, might be the lack of a detailed historical and methodical introduction about theories of literary criticism. …”
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Revitalización sindical y sindicalismo peronista : encrucijadas entre el corporativismo y la política (Argentina, 2003-2012) by Ana Natalucci

“…At this juncture it is possible to understand the dynamics of trade unionism in the history recent.…”
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Collapse Scenarios of High-Rise Buildings Using Plastic Limit Analysis by G. Liu, D. K. Liu, W. K. Chow

“…The incident is regarded as the most severe disaster for high-rise buildings in history. Investigations into the collapse scenarios are still being conducted. …”
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Idiopathic Lymphocele: A Possible Diagnosis for Infraclavicular Masses by Adenauer Marinho de Oliveira Góes Junior, Salim Abdon Haber Jeha

“…Lymphoceles are usually related to trauma or surgery, and its spontaneous development is rare. The aim of this paper is to report an uncommon case of idiopathic lymphocele located on the right infraclavicular region, in a female patient with no previous local trauma or surgery and unremarkable medical history. …”
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A Systematic Review on the Advancement in the Study of Fuzzy Variational Problems by Mansi Verma, Chuei Yee Chen, Adem Kılıçman, Risman Mat Hasim

“…The fuzzy Euler-Lagrange equations provide the necessary optimality conditions for solving fuzzy variational problems explicitly and have been studied under several differentiability conditions. In this paper, we provide a systematic review to recap the history of variational principle in the calculus of variations and compare it with the existing techniques in the fuzzy setting. …”
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A Longitudinal Historical Population Database in Asia. The Taiwanese Historical Household Registers Database (1906–1945) by Chia-chi Lin, Shu-juo Chen, Ying-chang Chuang, Wen-shan Yang, James Wilkerson, Ying-hui Hsieh, Ko-hua Yap, Yu-ling Huang

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Quand Le Caire se révèle copte… by Anne-Sophie Vivier

“…The scope of the present paper is to define the nature of the relation of the Coptic Orthodox community to the space in the city of Cairo, in an attempt to find out in what manner it is influenced by the Coptic Revival Movement (end 19th – 20th c.) and its various aspirations. …”
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Structural Response of Submerged Air-Backed Plates by Experimental and Numerical Analyses by Lloyd Hammond, Raphael Grzebieta

“…This paper presents the results of a series of small-scale underwater shock experiments that measured the structural responses of submerged, fully clamped, air-backed, steel plates to a range of high explosive charge sizes. …”
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Writing about displays of sculpture: historiography and some current questions by Malcolm Baker

“…The current interest in how museums display sculpture forms part of a wider set of questions about how sculpture has been displayed and viewed historically. This paper surveys developments over the past thirty years or so and outlines some questions about the display and viewing of sculpture that we are addressing now. …”
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