EU, Eastern Europe and Values Imperialism by S. White

“…This paper proposes an idea of'values imperialism'as a helpful way of conceptualising the relationship between the EU and the states that came within its sphere of influence after the end of the Cold War, particularly its 'neighbours' in Eastern Europe. Values imperialism places its emphasis on the 'superstructure', including norms, laws and social practices. …”
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Restricting Diversity to Promote Democracy: Community Literacies and Playing Across Spaces by Owen Samantha

“…In 1965 a Nigerian mother commented that volunteering on a care rota in a playgroup in a housing estate in west London gave her the confidence to greet her neighbours when she saw them on the street. To Ilys Booker, the community development worker assigned to the area, this was also a marker of significant change and an indication of success. …”
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BALTIC ETHNOCRACIES BETWEEN RUSSIA AND THE EU: IN SEARCH OF CONSENSUS UNDER CONDITIONS OF THE ECONOMIC CRISIS by V. V. Vorotnikov

“…Natural necessity to abandon previous one-sided Euro-Atlantic foreign political and foreign economic orientation in favor of more balanced approach towards relations with Eastern neighbours (primarily with Russia) has become the issue of key importance that turned out to be a stumbling block for main political parties (ruling parties, opposition, so called ‚Russian‘ parties) in the Baltic states. …”
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An Educational Approach to Higgs Boson Hunting Using Machine Learning Classification Algorithms on ATLAS Open Data by Ayşe Bat

“…This article also compares the performance of these classification algorithms, including Linear Support Vector Machines (SVM), Radical SVM, Logistic Regression, K-Nearest Neighbours, XGBoost Classifier, and the AdaBoost Classifier. …”
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Microbial Diversity Reduction in Soil by Long-Term Climate Warming by Mayank Dave, Kartika Panwar, Itika Dadhich, Yagya Sharma, Anupriya Malodia, Nagaraju Shaik

“…Because soil microorganisms govern how nutrients vary, feed nutrients to plants, allow neighbours to cohabit, and manage plant populations, changes in how soil microorganisms and plants interact may have a significant impact on the sorts of plants in an ecosystem and how it operates. …”
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Leader-Following Multiple Unmanned Underwater Vehicles Consensus Control under the Fixed and Switching Topologies with Unmeasurable Disturbances by Zheping Yan, Yi Wu, Yibo Liu, Hongliang Ren, Xue Du

“…For unmeasurable disturbances consisting of unknown model uncertainties and external disturbance for each UUV, we design the distributed extended state observer (DESO) to estimate the disturbances using the UUV position information relative to its neighbours. Moreover, leader-following multi-UUVs consensus control algorithm that enables all following UUVs to track the leader UUV state information based on the estimation state information from the DESO is proposed for two types of topologies, the fixed and switching topologies. …”
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Writer identification and writer retrieval based on NetVLAD with Re‐ranking by Shervin Rasoulzadeh, Bagher BabaAli

“…Also, a novel re‐ranking strategy is introduced for the task of identification and retrieval based on the k‐reciprocal nearest neighbours, and it is shown that the pipeline can benefit tremendously from this step. …”
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İran-Irak Savaşı: Türkiye Sınırlarında Terörizme Etkisi by Seçil ÖZDEMİR

“…Turkey was affected by the war between its border neighbours and its outcomes from many aspects. During the war, terrorism developed on the east and southeast borders of Turkey. …”
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Canadian Junior Public Markets Health Check: Surprising Resilience Thus Far, Some Concerns Looking Forward by L. Daniel Wilson

“…Yet, the Canadian junior capital markets fill a critical role in the Canadian economy, in particular because of the lower level of access to institutional private capital for startup and growth-stage businesses in Canada compared to our American neighbours. This paper conducts a health check on the Canadian junior public markets. …”
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POLAND’S “EASTERN POLICY”: FROM “UKRAINE, LITHUANIA, BELARUS” TO THE «EASTERN PARTNERSHIP» by Anna V. Chernova

“…The article deals with the evolution of Poland’s foreign policy towards its closest eastern neighbours: independent Ukraine, Lithuania and Belarus. …”
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Prediction of Epileptic Seizure by Analysing Time Series EEG Signal Using k-NN Classifier by Md. Kamrul Hasan, Md. Asif Ahamed, Mohiuddin Ahmad, M. A. Rashid

“…To accomplish the target research, we extract various epileptic features namely approximate entropy (ApEn), standard deviation (SD), standard error (SE), modified mean absolute value (MMAV), roll-off (R), and zero crossing (ZC) from the epileptic signal. The k-nearest neighbours (k-NN) algorithm is used for the classification of epilepsy then regression analysis is used for the prediction of the epilepsy level at different ages of the patients. …”
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TRENDS IN CHILD MARRIAGE IN AKURE METROPOLIS, ONDO STATE, NIGERIA by Justina Olufunke, Gbemisola Hannah ADEOBA

“…Using Key Informants Interviews (IKIs), the study shows the common trend is that of the parents or relatives promising in marriage their under-aged daughters or girls to their family-friends, neighbours, or associates as young wives to repay debts, settle disputes, or seal social, economic, and political alliances in order to deepen friendly relations with associates. …”
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Enhancing Heart Attack Prediction with Machine Learning: A Study at Jordan University Hospital by Mohammad Alshraideh, Najwan Alshraideh, Abedalrahman Alshraideh, Yara Alkayed, Yasmin Al Trabsheh, Bahaaldeen Alshraideh

“…Various artificial intelligence techniques, namely, random forest, SVM, decision tree, naive Bayes, and K-nearest neighbours (KNN) were explored with particle swarm optimization (PSO) for feature selection. …”
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LASSO-mCGA: Machine Learning and Modified Compact Genetic Algorithm-Based Biomarker Selection for Breast Cancer Subtype Classification by Nimisha Ghosh, Sankar Kumar Mridha, Rourab Paul

“…To identify such biomarkers, initially LASSO in association with four machine learning models such as Random Forest (RF), Support Vector Machine (SVM), K-Nearest Neighbours (KNN) and Naive Bayes (NB) are applied on the dataset to find the initial reduced set of genes as well as the best learning model based on classification accuracy; SVM in this case. …”
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Traditional Donors in Information and Communi- cation Sector Development Assistance by Z. E. Gomboin

“…For Japan and the Republic of Korea the key partners and recipients in the ICTs sector include their closest neighbours — the Southeast Asian countries (Vietnam, Sri Lanka, etc.) …”
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Suretyship in the Teaching of Ben Sira (Sir 29:14–20) by Andrzej Piwowar

“…However, influenced by abuses of that practice (cf. 29:16–19), he urges his disciple to be cautious and become surety only for acquaintances – neighbours (cf. 29:14a, 20a), not to risk and become bankrupt (cf. 29:16a, 17a, 20b) or be forced to leave the home country in case the borrower (cf. 29:18), for whom one had vouched, does not pay the obligations to the creditor. …”
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Rough Set Approach toward Data Modelling and User Knowledge for Extracting Insights by Xiaoqun Liao, Shah Nazir, Junxin Shen, Bingliang Shen, Sulaiman Khan

“…The technique has used different rough set algorithms such as K-nearest neighbours (KNN), decision rules (DR), decomposition tree (DT), and local transfer function classifier (LTF-C) for an experimental setup. …”
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Social role performance and self-identity among breast cancer patients in Lagos, Nigeria by Samuel Ojima Adejoh, Deborah Tolulope Esan, Adeola Adejayan

“…Our findings showed that breast cancer diagnosis and treatment may alter role performance of women in their families, workplaces and community in which they live, and may affect negatively their self-identity, due to negative self-image and self-perception, and due to fear to be socially stigmatised by neighbours. However, women with such diagnosis may find support within their religious circles, as spirituality might be an important coping mechanism for this patient popolution. …”
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Knowledge of and Attitude Towards Epilepsy Among Women in Ile-Ife, Nigeria by Funmito O. Fehintola, Samuel A. Olowookere, Caleb A. Adegbenro, Temitope O. Afolabi, Victor Oladapo, Akinyele O. Oladimeji, Opeyemi E. Oladipo, Olayinka R. Olagunju, Ademola A. Olajide

“…Results: Most respondents (99.3%) were aware of the disease with their main sources of information from their parents, friends, and neighbours. Only 15.3% of respondents had good knowledge of epilepsy, while 35% had positive attitude to epilepsy. …”
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NIGERIA'S FOREIGN POLICY AND TRANSBORDER CRIME: AN OVERIEW by OWUDA RASHIDA LAMIDI

“…Nigeria works with neighbours and friends to stop the spread of weapons and fight terrorism. …”
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