Bolivia at a Crossroads: Is Consolidation of a ‘Divided Society’ Feasible? by T. A. Vorotnikova

“…The author shows how the regime of Evo Morales managed to reach an internal balance and maintain it for quite a long time through complex balancing, concessions, and compromises. …”
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Une concertation restreinte pour définir l’intérêt général des espaces forestiers. Regard sur un paradoxe by Jacqueline Candau, Philippe Deuffic

“…It was observed that the discussions in connection with forest multifunctionality were mainly managed by forest actors. For as much, the problems resulting from the deliberative process do not confine the forest in a role of production. …”
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Design, Implementation, and Performance Evaluation of a Web-Based Multiple Robot Control System by U. U. Samantha Rajapaksha, Chandimal Jayawardena, Bruce A. MacDonald

“…The initial experiments were conducted with simple instructions and then changed to manage multiple instructions using a state transition diagram. …”
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The Effectiveness of Schema Therapy on Emotional Inhibition and Response to Stress in Young Girls with Symptoms of Generalized Anxiety Disorder by Hossein HabibiManesh, Negin Abjadian, Fatemeh Zeinali, Azadeh Tork, Mahin Gharaei

“…Conclusions: The results generally indicate that schema therapy has the capacity to assist individuals in producing more suitable reactions to stressful situations and managing their emotional state through the modification of their cognitive processes and interpretation of events.…”
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Identifying industrial buildings as a spatial resource for sustainable urban regeneration in high-density post-industrial metropolitan in Asia by Miao Sun, Tan Qin, Yuanxiao Kuang, Jianchang Lv

“…The results demonstrate that the identification of typical characteristics can discover the scale, distribution, and surrounding built environment of industrial buildings in Shanghai’s Central City, providing valuable data for managing industrial spatial resources from lot to building granularity, implementing a systematical and comprehensive re-planning, and popularizing adaptive reuse strategy, with the goal of leading a shift in policies and paradigms of urban regeneration for improvement of efficiency, balance, and green transformation in high-density post-industrial metropolitan in Asia.…”
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Heterogeneity of Intermediate Care Organization Within a Single Healthcare System by Aaron S. Case, MD, MHS, Chad H. Hochberg, MD, MHS, Binu Koirala, PhD, MGS, BSN, RN, Eleni Flanagan, DNP, MBA, Souvik Chatterjee, MD, William N. Checkley, MD, PhD, Ayse P. Gurses, PhD, MS, MPH, David N. Hager, MD, PhD

“…Surveys were completed by nurse managers from 12 (86%) of 14 IC settings. Six IC settings (50%) were embedded within acute care wards, four (33%) were stand-alone units, and two (17%) were embedded within an ICU. …”
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QUALITY OF LIFE OF PEOPLE WHO PRACTICE BALLROM DANCE by Zenite Machado, Gabriella Roberta dos Santos, Adriana Coutinho de Azevedo Guimarães, Sabrina Fernandes, Amanda Soares

“…Ballroom dance seems to be an instrumentfor improving/managing quality of life on the four diff erent domains (physical,psychological, social and environmental). …”
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INTERACTION OF IRREGULARITIES IN THE STANDARD OF SURVEYING AND CARTOGRAPHIC DOCUMENTATION WITH RAIL TRANSPORT PROBLEMS: A CASE STUDY by Arkadiusz KAMPCZYK, Katarzyna ROMBALSKA

“…The authors’ position on the irregularities was forwarded to an infrastructure manager. The irregularities that occur significantly contribute to the limitations of surveying and cartographic documentation harmonization, and these have an impact on fully functional rail transport. …”
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Real and Pseudoaccommodation in Accommodative Lenses by Ioannis G. Pallikaris, Georgios A. Kontadakis, Dimitra M. Portaliou

“…In the attempt to manage presbyopia, different intraocular lens designs have been proposed such as monofocal IOLs with monovision or multifocal IOLs. …”
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TAPAS: Building a TEI Publishing and Repository Service by Julia Flanders, Scott Hamlin

“…When completed, the TAPAS service will enable its contributors to upload, manage, and publish their TEI data, and it will offer a publication interface through which both individual project collections and the TAPAS collection as a whole can be read, searched, and explored. …”
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Philip Massinger et le théâtre historique : trouver la bonne distance by Gilles Bertheau

“…Twelve years later, censorship was at work again in Believe as You List, a play originally devised to evoke the fate of a pretender to the throne of Portugal whom Spain managed to pursue and kill. Massinger was forced to alter it and transposed the play into the Roman Republic. …”
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Ausweis, Exil, Flucht und Migration by Patrice Djoufack

“…Faking such a document therefore appears as a survival strategy by means of which refugees manage to get by as they are faced with a state apparatus intent on maintaining order, lacking humanity and subjecting them to perpetual police harassment. …”
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Contaminated Waters: A Comprehensive Review of Heavy Metal Pollution in Marine Fish and Its Health Risks by Kurniasih Titin, Panigoro Novita, Panigoro Husain, Waryat, Ediwarman, Sutisna Ena, Fitria Yuliana, Arianto

“…This article also emphasizes the necessity for further research to address existing knowledge gaps and develop more efficient technologies and policies for managing heavy metal contamination in marine environments.…”
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Caffeine supplement, inflammation, and hepatic function in cirrhotic patients: A randomized, placebo- controlled, clinical trial by Seyed Ali Abbas-Hashemi, Zahra Yari, Behzad Hatami, Amir Anushiravani, Shadi Kolahdoozan, Ali Zamanian, Nadia Akbarzadeh, Azita Hekmatdoost

“…Aim: We investigated the possibility of caffeine supplementation for managing the inflammation, and hepatic function in cirrhotic patients. …”
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Migratory trajectory and recomposing of Alpine societies by Thierry Amrein

“…On the one hand, we questioned the motivations behind the ever-increasing number of migrants settling over the past two or three decades in 14 villages situated in the Bagnes and Entremont valleys, as well as a commune in the Rhône plain, and the way in which they have managed to become “social actors” and put down roots in their respective communities. …”
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Biodegradation of aflatoxin B1 by a novel mined aldo–keto reductase from Meyerozyma guilliermondii AF01 by Wan Zhang, Xiaojiao Chang, Yangying Han, Tiantian Li, Jianpeng Dou, Wen Du, Wenfu Wu, Wei Wang, Zhongjie Zhang, Changpo Sun

“…Biocontrol is an effective technology for managing mycotoxin contamination in food, and the improvement of its application depends largely on revealing the degradation mechanisms at the molecular level. …”
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Utilization of TiN and the Texture of Bionic Pangolin Scales to Improve the Wear Resistance of Cast Steel 20Mn Metal by Wenwen Zhang, Mingyuan Zhang, Xingliang Dong, Yuanzhe Huang, Shukun Cao

“…The results demonstrate that the laser texturing technology and TiN coating managed to reduce the friction coefficient of the sample surface by 20% and 30.9%, respectively. …”
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Tracking Control of Wave-Adaptive Modular Unmanned Surface Vehicle Using Time-Delay Zeroing Neural Network by Pengfei Guo, Wenyue Zhang, Zheng Li, Zheng Zheng

“…We conduct a series of simulations, and the results demonstrate the effectiveness and advantages of our higher-order tracking controller based on the multiple ZNN model with time delay in managing the tracking control challenges of the WAMV-VMD system.…”
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A Brief Report of West Nile Virus Neuroinvasive Disease in the Summer of 2012 in Hamilton, Ontario by Lei Jiao, Cheryl Main

“…According to the clinical and laboratory criteria published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, five cases were diagnosed as encephalitis, one case as meningitis and one case as meningomyelitis. Patients were managed supportively. Forty-three percent (three of seven) presented with rash, 71% (five of seven) did not report headache despite exhibiting neurological symptoms, 43% (three of seven) did not have fever on presentation and 37.5% of cerebrospinal fluid samples exhibited a neutrophil predominance. …”
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A Review of Factors Influencing the Banking of Collected Umbilical Cord Blood Units by David Allan, Tanya Petraszko, Heidi Elmoazzen, Susan Smith

“…Public umbilical cord blood banks face the challenge of building inventory while managing limited resources and are faced with decisions regarding which units can be stored and which units that have been collected should be discarded or used for other endeavours such as research. …”
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