Barriers and facilitators regarding the implementation of policies and programmes aimed at reducing adolescent pregnancy in Ghana: an exploratory qualitative study by Melissa Kang, Bright Opoku Ahinkorah, Lin Perry, Fiona Brooks

“…Effective implementation of community by-laws, youth involvement, use of available data, and collaboration and effective coordination between stakeholders were the perceived facilitators.Conclusion Political leaders and community members should be actively engaged in the implementation of adolescent sexual and reproductive health policies and programmes. …”
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The last Spencerians. Towards a canon of the first Ecuadorian sociology by Philipp Altmann

“…However, this particular theory, which assumed that society evolved according to fixed natural laws and which granted elites a key role in promoting social progress; helped legitimize the discipline and provided a link with the then dominant ideas of political liberalism. …”
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Damage Evolution of Steel-Polypropylene Hybrid Fiber Reinforced Concrete: Experimental and Numerical Investigation by Lihua Xu, Cuimei Wei, Biao Li

“…This paper presents an experimental investigation on the stress-strain behavior and damage evolution of steel-polypropylene hybrid fiber reinforced concrete (HFRC) with different fiber types, volume fractions, and aspect ratios. The damage evolution laws of HFRC were obtained using uniaxial cyclic compression and tension tests. …”
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Les humanistes français, le roi et le tyran. Débats autour du tyrannicide au sein du milieu humaniste français, 1ère moitié du XVe siècle by Lucie Jollivet

“…Louis was a would-be tyrant, so his murder was both lawful and good. This assertion seems to be an echo of the debates surrounding tyranicide raging amoung the Italian humanists for half a century. …”
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TAX PLANNING AND THE TIMELINESS OF FINANCIAL REPORTING IN LISTED MANUFACTURING FIRMS IN NIGERIA by Ikponmwosa Michael Igbinovia, Amaka Nkiru Unamma

“…The study recommends that Managers take full advantage of tax avoidance and tax planning within the context of relevant tax laws, as they do not dampen firms’ ability to produce timely financial reports. …”
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Minimizing Honey Bee Exposure to Pesticides by James D. Ellis, Jeanette Klopchin, Eileen Buss, Frederick M. Fishel, William H. Kern, Catharine Mannion, Eugene McAvoy, Lance S. Osborne, Michael Rogers, Malcolm Sanford, Hugh Smith, Phillip Stansly, Lukasz Stelinski, Susan Webb

“…This publication is written (1) to help assure the sustainability of both bees and agriculture by informing beekeepers, pesticide users, and the general public about the often complex relationship between pollinators (specifically bees) and pesticides, (2) to offer guidance for improved communication between beekeepers and pesticide users, (3) to offer pollinator risk-reducing strategies for growers and other applicators when using pesticides, and (4) to provide clarity in laws, labeling, and associated definitions. This 14-page fact sheet was written by J. …”
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The Dark Side of Multinational Corporations in Africa by Tryson Yangailo

“…It is strongly recommended that governments embrace multinational corporations in order to develop their countries and, at the same time, develop and implement strong strategic reforms, policies, legal frameworks, labour laws, and international accountability in order to curb and manage these impunities.…”
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Minimizing Honey Bee Exposure to Pesticides by James D. Ellis, Jeanette Klopchin, Eileen Buss, Frederick M. Fishel, William H. Kern, Catharine Mannion, Eugene McAvoy, Lance S. Osborne, Michael Rogers, Malcolm Sanford, Hugh Smith, Phillip Stansly, Lukasz Stelinski, Susan Webb

“…This publication is written (1) to help assure the sustainability of both bees and agriculture by informing beekeepers, pesticide users, and the general public about the often complex relationship between pollinators (specifically bees) and pesticides, (2) to offer guidance for improved communication between beekeepers and pesticide users, (3) to offer pollinator risk-reducing strategies for growers and other applicators when using pesticides, and (4) to provide clarity in laws, labeling, and associated definitions. This 14-page fact sheet was written by J. …”
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Inference Attacks on Genomic Data Based on Probabilistic Graphical Models by Zaobo He, Junxiu Zhou

“…With this method, the adversary can predict the unobserved genomes or traits of targeted individuals in a family genomic dataset where some individuals’ genomes and traits are observed, relying on SNP-trait association from Genome-Wide Association Study (GWAS), Mendel’s Laws, and statistical relations between SNPs. Existing genome inferences have relatively high computational complexity with the input of tens of millions of SNPs and human traits. …”
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Sexual violence victimisation and response among university students in sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review protocol by Sylvia Kaaya, Rehema Chande Mallya, Marie Lindkvist, Ester Steven Mzilangwe, Faustine Kyungu Nkulu Kalengayi

“…However, no review has been retrieved from the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) Database, Cochrane Library or Ovid examining evidence synthesis on prevalence, risk factors, victims and perpetrators, policies, laws and universities responses to SV in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). …”
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An Experimental Study on the Slippage Effects of Sandstone under Confining Pressure and Low Pore Pressure Conditions by Zhengdai Li, Jianping Zuo, Yue Shi, Fei Xu, Meilu Yu, Changning Mi

“…This study examined the variation laws of sandstone specimens under changing rates of confining and pore pressures after high-temperature heat treatments. …”
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Fusion Features-Based Entity Recognition Method for Safety Knowledge of Non-Coal Open-Pit Mine by Ziji Ma, Rui Zhao, Jianhua Huang, Shicheng Liu, Feilong Wang, Zhikang Shuai

“…Knowledge graph technology that provides important information and data support for improving the level of safety production, brings together related laws, regulations and construction methods of non-coal open-pit mining production. …”
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Study on Creep Characteristics and Constitutive Relation of Fractured Rock Mass by Maotong Li, Kesheng Li, Deng Zhang, Chuanxiao Liu, Depeng Ma

“…In order to effectively describe the whole creep process of fractured rock mass, triaxial unloading creep tests were carried out on prefractured coal samples using constant axial pressure and graded unloading confining pressure, and the axial and lateral creep laws of fractured coal samples with different dip angles were studied. …”
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Measures taken by the Soviet government to create the social infrastructure of aviation industry enterprises in the 1950-ies and 1960-ies by V. B. Romanova, N. N. Kabytova

“…An important role was assigned to industrial enterprises, which acted as a guarantor of social benefits determined by decrees, laws, decisions of the government and local authorities. …”
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Coverage and Values of Legal Deposit in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1945–1995) by Lejla Hajdarpašić

“…Approach/methodology/design: By researching the previous literature and reviewing official publications, that is examining the titles and full texts of published regulations in the printed editions of official publications, the relevant regulations related to the legal deposit in Yugoslavia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, federal and republican decrees, decisions, orders, laws for legal deposit were mapped. Results: The analysis of the mapped sixteen regulations, indicates the expansion of legal deposit coverage on a continuous basis, and reveals changes in the perception of the legal deposit values. …”
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Three-Dimensional Seismic Response Analysis of Zhubi Reef in the South China Sea by Xin Bao, Jingbo Liu, Shutao Li, Fei Wang

“…In addition, the 3D topographic effect on the seismic response of Zhubi Reef is studied through a comparative analysis between two-dimensional (2D) and 3D reef models. The distribution laws of the peak response in the middle region of the reef flat calculated by the 2D and 3D models agree well with each other, and the differences are obvious in the edge areas where the local 3D topographies change drastically.…”
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Multilayer Shielding Design for Intermediate Radioactive Waste Storage Drums: A Comparative Study between FLUKA and QAD-CGA by Wenqian Li, Xuegang Liu, Ming Li, Yilin Huang, Sheng Fang

“…To ensure that the outside dose rate of waste package is below the limitation of national laws and regulations, based on the standard 200L drum, a new drum with inner shielding was proposed for intermediate-level radioactive waste (ILW) storage. …”
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Physics-Informed Denoising Model for Dynamic Data Recovery of Power Systems by Jian Li, Guoqiang Lu, Yongbin Li, Dongning Zhao, Huaiyuan Wang, Yucheng Ouyang

“…By integrating the powerful learning capabilities of ML with the rigorous constraints of physical laws, the noisy data recovered by PIDM can better satisfy the dynamic equations. …”
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Les politiques de formation professionnelle en région : un processus lent et complexe de construction de l’action publique régionale by Jean-Paul Géhin

“…As said in the early decentralization laws in 1982, expanded in 1993, completed in 2004, the transfert of powers in vocational training matters to régional councils is now largely committed. …”
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Feasibility of Using an Electrolysis Cell for Quantification of the Electrolytic Products of Water from Gravimetric Measurement by Samuel Melaku, Zewdu Gebeyehu, Rajeev B. Dabke

“…Experimentally determined decrease in mass (53.7 g/Faraday) agreed with that predicted from Faraday’s laws of electrolysis (53.0 g/Faraday). The efficacy of the cell was tested to quantify the acid content in household vinegar samples. …”
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