THE U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL IN CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL STUDIES by V. V. Pavlov

“…National Security Council is the main advisory body to the President of the United States tasked with helping the head of state to make the right decisions on matters related to national security. NSC system has been constantly evolving for some 70 years, and the NSC staff became a separate 'ministry' of a kind, allowing presidential administrations to focus ever-increasing control over American foreign policy in the White House. …”
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The Others in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre: A Postcolonial-Orientalist and Feminist Reading by Filiz Barın Akman

“…I argue that whereas Brontë, following a feminist reading of her novel, fictively assuages the othered status of British women in the characterization of Jane, who triumphs in resisting society’s rigid class boundaries and women’s subordinate position in terms of legal and financial matters, does not grant a similarly fictive emancipatory view to Bertha as the colonized and racial other. …”
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Por una política de defensa común latinoamericana: la propuesta venezolana by Adriana Suzart de Pádua, Suzeley Kalil Mathias

“…AbstractThe search for integration among Latin American countries is at a unique point, with economic matters transcended in importance by discussion of the creation of defense policies for the region. …”
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Vibrio parahaemolyticus: Exploring its Incidence in Malaysia and the Potential of Streptomyces sp. as an Anti-Vibrio Agent by Ke-Yan Loo, Loh Teng-Hern Tan, Jodi Woan-Fei Law, Priyia Pusparajah, Sunny Hei Wong, Kok-Gan Chan, Learn-Han Lee, Vengadesh Letchumanan

“…Over the years, this foodborne pathogen has been isolated from various sources in Malaysia, mainly from seafood such as shellfish, shrimps, and fish. To make matters worse, there has been an emergence of antibiotic-resistant V. parahaemolyticus worldwide, which is attributed to the uncontrolled use of antibiotics in aquaculture to prevent and treat vibriosis. …”
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Comparison of philosophical foundations and consumption theory in Islamic economy with capitalist economy (Focusing on Keynes' consumption theory) by Rezai Ahmadali

“…The findings of the research showed that the foundations and assumptions of consumer behavior theories in Islamic economy and capitalist economy are different in matters such as anthropological foundations, goals and motivations of consumer, and methods of achieving goals. …”
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Reflections on Korea in 2010: Trials and prospects for recovery of common sense in 2011 by Paik Nak-chung

“…Perhaps it feels that way because the final weeks since the shelling of Yeongpyeong Island on the West Sea of the Korean peninsula on November 23 have been filled with events that evoke grief, anger, and anxiety.As for the Yeongpyeong incident itself, whatever its cause or justification, the fact that North Korea deliberately opened fire on South Korean territory is enough to bring shock and anger. To make matters worse, the incompetence and sloppiness of the South Korean government in its initial response caused uneasiness among the citizens, and its belated displays of toughness and escalation of tension, proclaiming "readiness for a full-scale war," has added to South Korean people's sense of insecurity and even stirred their anger.Taking advantage of the security crisis, members of the ruling Grand National Party (GNP) on December 8 unilaterally and employing physical force rammed through the National Assembly the annual budget and other disputed bills. …”
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The Development of Russian-Chinese Expert Contacts on International Relations by I. A. Safranchuk

“…Additionally the article unveils the proposals by the US experts, concerning the development of Russian-Chinese dialogue on these matters. In 2015 the US experts developed new ideas on the regional issues in Eurasia, they offer to coordinate the Chinese project Economic belt of Silk Road and the US project of New Silk Road. …”
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Respect for Life from the Point of View of Naturalness by Barbora Baďurová

“…However, as the author points out, this can lead to misunderstanding in discussions, especially those regarding ethical matters. This paper relies mostly on philosophical methods of conceptual analysis and synthesis. …”
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Old believers in the 20th century of Lithuania by Grigorijus Potašenko

“…In 1922, Old Believers subordinated their communities to the Centrai Council of Old Beliefs Church in Lithuania in the matters of faith. Old Believers were recognized by the Lithuanian state as a separate persuasion. …”
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POTENTIAL RISKS ASSOCIATED WITH MISMANAGEMENT OF HOSPITAL WASTEWATER IN TANZANIA by Shadrack Mwita Sabai

“…The results show that effluents discharged into water bodies has high concentrations of organic matters and pathogenic bacteria (0.5 – 23 x 106 cfu/100 ml.). …”
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Principles in practice? A policy review of the IOC's environmental sustainability agenda by Alison Cain, Michael Callan

“…The IOC's ES agenda is interpreted as both strategy around ES, as a plan of action to achieve desired outcomes, and policies around ES, as matters of practice and principle to be enacted. This review encompasses each of the IOC's three spheres of activity (as an organisation, as owner of the Olympic Games, and as leader of the Olympic Movement). …”
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SIDOR de cuasi monopolio estatal venezolano a parte de una multinacional latina by RITA GIACALONE

“…Abstract Ten years after the privatization of the Siderurgica del Orinoco (Sidor) in Venezuela, this article analyzes what has happened since then in matters such as production, investments, exports, changes in property, and relationships with the Venezuelan socio-political environment. …”
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“South Africa belongs to all who live in it” by Sarah Helen Chiumbu, Dumisani Moyo

“…We start from the premise that as a social institution, the media play an important role in shaping policies on immigration that have a bearing on these matters. Using theories of media and national identity, the paper examines thematic frames used by the selected newspapers to construct the image of immigrants during three periods of xenophobic violence, in 2008, 2015, and 2017. …”
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Carolina Maria de Jesus e a autorrepresentação literária da exclusão social na América Latina: olhares reversos aos de Eduardo Galeano e Octavio Paz by Larissa Paula Tirloni, Marcelo Marinho

“…The Comparative Literature is aimed at approaching cultural identity matters as well as interethnic or intersocial literary representations. …”
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Uwarunkowania i wyzwania myśli chrześcijańsko-społecznej Karola Wojtyły/Jana Pawła II by Robert Skrzypczak

“…He put together social philosophy with theology of worldly matters, economics with eschatology, ethics with kerygma. …”
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Evaluation of the Performance of Proposed Model of “Service Table” in the Management of Metropolitans from View Point of Urban Good Governance (Case Study of Tehran Metropolitan)... by Tala Hussein, Amir Mahmoudzadeh, Keramatollah Ziyari

“…Also, the most important result obtained from comparative studies is that in the studied metropolises, all matters of governance and urban management are always under the command of one institution and parallel work has been avoided, which should also be considered in Tehran.…”
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Parents/Guardians’ Gender Preferences, Confidence, and Empathy for their Children’s Dentist by Gabrielle Carvalho, Ivana Meyer Prado, Larissa Kelen Moura, Yanna Cardoso-Santos, Talyta Couto Freitas, Raquel Fabiane Nogueira, Iga Carnevalli, Junia Maria Serra-Negra

“…Data collection occurred in the clinical waiting room by applying a questionnaire about sociodemographic information, characteristics of the dentist that most caught parents’/guardians’ attention, whether the child’s dentist’s gender identification matters to parents’/guardians’, and analog scales designed by the research team gauging preferences in dentist's gender, confidence level and empathy level in their child’s dentist. …”
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Gas and Water Seepage of Tight Gas and Its Application in Well Production Analysis by Rui Zhang, Yang Gao, Yanbin Zhang, Peng Zhang, Xiaoli Pan, Wenjing Yang, Ligang Lv, Xingguan Chen

“…Figuring out gas and water seepage behaviors matters a lot for maximizing gas reservoir recovery. …”
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Macro Issues of Urban and Rural Development and Land Use Planning in the Horizon of Iran 1420 with Strategic Future Approach by Aliakbar Jafarloo, Monireh Ghofran, Sahar Nazari

“…This research adopts a futuristic perspective and employs a qualitative-descriptive methodology to investigate these matters. To achieve the research objectives, an extensive review of relevant literature and library studies was conducted, supplemented by consultations with 70 experts across various domains. …”
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LEGO, fishbowls, and collaboration by Rebecca Edgerley, Russell Crawford

“… This article reflects on what matters in collaboration. It is widely recognised that calls for ‘collaboration’ and ‘collaborative ways of working’ abound in research, scholarship, pedagogic practices, and beyond as a desirable student skill set (Veles, 2022; McKay and Sridharan, 2023), and a way to address complexity and problem-solving (Graesser et al., 2018; Scoular et al., 2020). …”
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