The intersection of intimate partner violence with sexual reproductive health in the Pacific: findings from a Kiribati population study by Anneliese Spiteri-Staines, Luz Viviana Sastre Gomez, Jess Letch, Anna Bornemisza, Kristin Diemer

“…Women who had experienced IPV from their partner in the last 12 months were significantly less likely to show unmet need for spacing or limiting (46.5%) than women who had not experienced any IPV (53.5%) and were more likely to be using a modern method of contraception (31%) than women who had not experienced IPV (26%). …”
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The Great Vietnamese Famine of 1944-45 Revisited by Geoffrey Gunn

“…The deaths stemming from the great famine of 1944-45, which reached its zenith in March-April 1945 in Japanese-occupied northern Vietnam, eclipsed in scale all human tragedies of the modern period in that country up until that time. …”
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The assessment of the use of vehicles with different types of drive in car-sharing systems by Ewelina Sendek-Matysiak

“…The proposed method serves as a decision-making guide for implementing or modernizing fleets in car-sharing systems, which can be used by car-sharing operators to organize their vehicle fleets, as well as by city authorities in selecting car-sharing service providers whose fleet meets their expectations. …”
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Probing the Relationships Between Mandaeans (the Followers of John the Baptist), Early Christians, and Manichaeans by Brikha H. S. Nasoraia

“…Mandaean culture and the Mandaic Aramaic language was of high report in the so-called Patristic period covered by this Special Issue, even in the Arabian Peninsula up until the rise of Islam (634 CE onward), and Mandaeans were honored as a third “People of the Book”—the Sabians (<i>Ṣābeʾun; or ṣobba</i> in modern Iraqi Arabic)—in the Qur’an (2:62; 5:69; 22:17); in the Muslim world, many Mandaic speakers switched language to colloquial Iraqi Arabic and (Arabicized) Persian. …”
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Disease-associated genetic variants in the regulatory regions of human genes: mechanisms of action on transcription and genomic resources for dissecting these mechanisms by E. V. Ignatieva, E. A. Matrosova

“…Dissecting the regulatory roles of polymorphic loci have been impossible without close integration of modern experimental approaches with computer analysis of a growing wealth of genetic and biological data obtained using omics technologies. …”
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„Dobrá památka“, pohřební kázání a starší dějepisectví. Německé pohřební kázání nad kardinálem Harrachem z roku 1667 by Radmila Pavlíčkova

“…Hier drängt sich die Frage auf, inwieweit die Prediger in ihrer Konstruktion und Interpretation des Lebens eines Verstorbenen erfolgreich waren – ob und auf welche Weise die Leichenpredigten als eine relevante historische Quelle durch die zeitgenössische und moderne Historiographie rezipiert worden sind. Die Analyse der Leichenpredigt von Pfaltz (die gründliche Passagen über die Familie Harrachs, das Geschlecht, das Jugendalter und die Karriere enthält) und der Vergleich mit der Monographie über Harrach von F. …”
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Highly Sensitive Non-Dispersive Infrared Gas Sensor with Innovative Application for Monitoring Carbon Dioxide Emissions from Lithium-Ion Battery Thermal Runaway by Liang Luo, Jianwei Chen, Aisn Gioronara Hui, Rongzhen Liu, Yao Zhou, Haitong Liang, Ziyuan Wang, Haosu Luo, Fei Fang

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A Reconstruction of the Shrine of the Prophet Nahum: An Analysis of 3D Documentation Methods and Data Transfer Technology for Virtual and Augmented Realities by Karel Pavelka, Karel Pavelka, Lukáš Běloch

“…This article focuses on modern methods of documentation and visualization for a historic object. …”
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Individualized brain radiomics-based network tracks distinct subtypes and abnormal patterns in prodromal Parkinson's disease by Lin Hua, Canpeng Huang, Xinglin Zeng, Fei Gao, Zhen Yuan

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Advances in the pilot point inverse method: Où En Sommes-Nous maintenant? by White, Jeremy, Lavenue, Marsh

“…The paper ends with newly developed applications of the PPM, given modern machine learning capabilities, and some foreshadowing as to where the PPM might evolve.…”
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Mini Worldlit: A Dataset of Contemporary Fiction from 13 Countries, Nine Languages, and Five Continents by Andrew Piper, David Bamman, Christina Han, Jens Bjerring-Hansen, Hoyt Long, Itay Marienberg-Milikowsky, Tom McEnaney, Mathias Iroro Orhero, Emrah Peksoy, Pallavi Rastogi, Sebastian Rasmussen, Roel Smeets, Alexandra Stuart, Mads Rosendahl Thomsen

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In Vitro Antibacterial and Antioxidant Activities, Pharmacokinetics, and In Silico Molecular Docking Study of Phytochemicals from the Roots of Ziziphus spina-christi by Hadush Gebrehiwot, Urgessa Ensermu, Aman Dekebo, Milkyas Endale, Tariku Nefo Duke

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SCIENTIFIC PARADIGM SHIFT AS THE BACKGROUND OF LANGUAGE EDUCATION by V. D. Tabanakova

“…Philosophical conceptualization of a modern paradigm of scientific linguistic knowledge allows to draw a conclusion on the need of fundamental linguistic education support at the high level on behalf of preservation, realization and full development of all unique functions of a natural language as means of thinking and communication, a tool of information technologies and a sign system, and, at last, as a cultural phenomenon.…”
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Digitalisation of Professional Education: Prospects and Invisible Barriers by L. M. Andryukhina, N. O. Sadovnikova, S. N. Utkina, A. M. Mirzaahmedov

“…Nowadays, digital education is one of the priorities of state policy in modern Russia. The Federal Institute for the Development of Education has developed a draft didactic concept of digital education to maximise the potential of digital technology (DT) in vocational training. …”
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Professional Self-Determination and Professional Identity of Students-Teachers in the Conditions of Individualisation of Education by E. G. Belyakova, I. G. Zakharova

“…In the context of increasing transfessionalism of labour market and growing socio-economic uncertainty, modern students, including future teachers, should not only master the chosen specialty, but also be ready for meaningful entry into the profession. …”
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Phygitalization of educational technologies in Russia: directions, examples, problems by Andrey I. Kapterev

“…Problem statement . The modern social and communicative situation requires fundamental changes in didactic models, educational engineering and pedagogical design. …”
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Pre-sowing treatment of vetch hairy seeds, viсia villosa using ultraviolet irradiation by A. Semenov, T. Sakhno, O. Hordieieva, Y. Sakhno

“…BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Aiming to increase crop yield the antimicrobial/bacterial or fungicidal pre-sowing seed treatment received more attention in modern agronomy. Ultraviolet-C irradiation of pre-sowing seeds is an environmentally friendly method that became of great importance in recent years. …”
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Undang-Undang No. 1 Tahun 1974 Tentang Pernikahan (Perkawinan) di Tinjau dari Maqashid Syariah by Nurhadi Nurhadi

“… Abstrak Zaman modern serta globalisasi digitalisasi mengantarkan manusia pada era baru, sehingga godaan demi godaan yang datang sebagai ujian dan kadang malapetaka bagi pelaku pernikahan. …”
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Engineering Soil Quality and Water Productivity Through Optimal Phosphogypsum Application Rates by Anrong Luo, Jun Li, Yanan Xiao, Zijian He, Jiaping Liang

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Idea občana – válečníka a „moderní“ maskulinní identita: modelová studie z dějin Spojených států by Jiří Hutečka

“…This represents not only interesting insight into contemporary thinking, but, somewhat more importantly, yet another example that modern civic society, as established in 19th century, is only a little more sophisticated incarnation of traditional warrior society.…”
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