The Islamic Republic of Iran in Search of its Foreign Policy Identity: Revolutionary Innovation or Continuity? by N. A. Kozhanov, A. S. Bogacheva

“…Despite many discussion, the Iranian political elite has not only failed to find a single definition of its foreign policy selfhood, but has produced several more formulas of its own identity, which often contradict each other, although they coexist. The events of 1979, when the new leadership that came to power in the course of revolutionary upheavals announced the rejection of the traditions of the Shah's Iran and the building of a new "revolutionary" nation with its own special foreign policy identity, had a significant impact on the process of forming the Iranian selfhood. …”
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COVID-Subsidiarity as A New Political Phenomenon by S. P. Arteev

“…The economic, social, and political problems were entwined in tight contradictions. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on international and national political issues has been the focus of attention of academia around the world since early 2020. …”
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Regulatory and Juridical Reflections on the Employment and Additional Benefits of 'Employment Status' for Disabled Veterans by Morteza Motaharifard

“…The legislative approaches show internal contradictions and lack a satisfactory alignment with wisdom in legislation. …”
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Conservative Women and Feminism in the United States: Between Hatred and Appropriation by Françoise Coste

“…Pour ces intellectuelles conservatrices, le féminisme est devenu obsolète car l’égalité hommes-femmes a été conquise aux Etats-Unis. Les contradictions internes à l’antiféminisme féminin au sujet de la dichotomie supériorité/égalité entre les sexes sont donc évidentes…”
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The Pacifying Power of Wages in the Domestic Work Domain by Vuyo Gama

“…As an integral part of the oppressive nature of the domestic work domain, this article investigates the contradictions associated with the admirable act of employers paying their domestic workers more than recommended minimum wage in Eswatini. …”
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Determining the Diagnostic Value of DWIBS in the Diagnosis of Breast Lesions Compared to Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced MRI: A Retrospective Observational Study by Maryam Farghadani, Safura Mozafari, Maryam Riahinejad, Mashid Haghighi, Reza Eshraghi Samani, Amir Mohammad Taravati, Koushan Rostami, Seyedeh Ghazal Shahrokh, Arezoo Sadeghian

“…Conclusion: DWIBS can be used as an effective alternative for breast CE-MRI in cases of contradictions of IV contrast injection.…”
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Optimizing Spectrum Trading in Cognitive Mesh Network Using Machine Learning by Ayoub Alsarhan, Anjali Agarwal

“…For such spectrum sharing paradigm, maximizing the revenue is the key objective of the PUs while that of the SUs is to meet their requirements. These complex contradicting objectives are embedded in our reinforcement learning (RL) model that is developed and implemented as shown in this paper. …”
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Grossschutzgebiete in den slowakischen Karpaten als Kompensation urbaner Verdichtung by Heino Meessen, Juraj Švajda, Thomas Kohler, Vladimíra Fabriciusová, Dobromil Galvánek, Miroslav Buraľ, Marcela Káčerová, Ján Kadlečík

“…In this paper, we discuss current challenges of LPA management with a particular focus on contradictions between local people’s views and nationally to internationally determined sectoral planning strategies. …”
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Problems of the conceptual and terminological apparatus of the procedure for initiating forensic examination in criminal proceedings by A. V. Kovalenko

“…It has been found that the specified procedures have at least nine different legally established names, which contradicts the requirements of the principle of legal certainty and may lead to confusion in practice. …”
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The Development and Competition of Cinemas in Jakarta, 1950-1966 by Ghesa Ririan Mitalia

“…Imported films were deemed not in accordance with the nation’s character and contradicted to the revolution’s spirit so they needed to be banned. …”
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Review on the Role of Host Immune Response in Protection and Immunopathogenesis during Cutaneous Leishmaniasis Infection by Teshager Dubie, Yasin Mohammed

“…This could be correlated with excessive inflammatory reaction and ultimately resulted in tissue destruction and development of immunopathogenesis. Thus, there are contradictions regarding the role of immune responses in protection and immunopathogenesis of CL disease. …”
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Cortical direction selectivity increases from the input to the output layers of visual cortex. by Weifeng Dai, Tian Wang, Yang Li, Yi Yang, Yange Zhang, Yujie Wu, Tingting Zhou, Hongbo Yu, Liang Li, Yizheng Wang, Gang Wang, Dajun Xing

“…Recent studies have suggested that direction selectivity is re-established at multiple stages throughout the visual hierarchy, which contradicts the traditional assumption that direction selectivity in later stages largely derives from that in earlier stages. …”
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Investigating the Impact of Spatial Habitat and Environmental Quality on Improving Satisfaction of Citizens from Localities (Case study: Keshavarz District 6th District of Tehran) by Elmira Azimi, hosin Mobara, maryam farzadmanesh

“…., the full satisfaction of all parts of life, if this kind of satisfaction does not develop among residents, more serious problems such as intra-urban migration, severe class contradictions and the problem of uplifting and down-town faces Accepts. …”
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Natural Human Freedoms as the Basis of Legal Regulation by Yu. G. Izotov

“…It is concluded that the existing concepts are based on assumptions, many of their provisions are outdated and often contradict each other, and the content of the natural human rights themselves is not disclosed. …”
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The Czechoslovak Crisis of 1948 in the Perception of American Diplomats and Media by A. V. Zorin

“…It was considered as a part of growing Soviet-American contradictions and international tension. Despite the fears of a communist coup in Czechoslovakia expressed back in 1947, American experts could not accurately predict the onset time of the crisis and its nature. …”
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Meta's Challenge with Olives and Watermelon: The Case of Blocking Posts About Gaza by Nuran Kızmaz Öztürk

“…As a result of this process, users have tried to overcome this situation with visuals such as watermelons and olives, symbols associated with Gaza. Contradicting the idea that alternative new media creates a libertarian space, it created great disappointment and damaged the trust of users. …”
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Air Transportation Direct Share Analysis and Forecast by Xufang Zheng, Chia-Mei Liu, Peng Wei

“…In most of the previous research and applications, it is commonly assumed that direct share is a fixed ratio, which contradicts the air transportation practice. In the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Terminal Area Forecast (TAF), the O&D direct share is forecasted as a constant based on the latest observation of direct share on the O&D. …”
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Law Enforcement Activity of the National Guard of Ukraine on Ensuring Public Security and Order: Problems and Ways of Their Solution by K. O. Chyshko

“…The consequences should be the delineation of the NGU’s area of competence for ensuring public security and order, and eliminating contradictions between the laws of Ukraine “On the National Guard of Ukraine” and “On the National Police” and amending administrative and tort legislation and the Law of Ukraine “On the National Guard of Ukraine”. …”
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Archiver l’ethnographie ? Entre impossibilité et nécessité by David Zeitlyn

“…On se retrouve face à des contradictions d’ordre éthique, car certaines règles suggèrent de détruire les données après un certain temps, et d’autres de les conserver à long terme. …”
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Constructing method of opaque predicate based on type conversion and operation of floating point numbers by Qingfeng WANG, Hao LIANG, Yawen WANG, Genlin XIE, Benwei HE

“…With the increasing complexity of software functions and the evolving technologies of network attacks, malicious behaviors such as software piracy, software cracking, data leakage, and malicious software modification are on the rise.As a result, software security has become a focal point in industry research.Code obfuscation is a common software protection technique used to hinder reverse engineering.It aims to make program analyzing and understanding more difficult for attackers while preserving the original program functionality.However, many existing code obfuscation techniques suffer from performance loss and poor concealment in pursuit of obfuscation effectiveness.Control flow obfuscation, particularly opaque predicate obfuscation, is widely used to increase the difficulty of code reverse engineering by disrupting the program’s control flow.A method was proposed to address the limitations of existing code obfuscation techniques.It utilized the phenomenon of precision loss that occurred during type conversion and floating-point number operations in computers.Under certain conditions, this method produced operation results that contradict common sense.By performing forced type conversion, addition, and multiplication with selected decimal numbers, a series of opaque predicates can be constructed based on the statistical analysis of their operation results.This approach achieved code obfuscation with high concealment, good generality, reversibility, and low overhead compared to traditional opaque predicates.Experimental verification demonstrates that this method significantly slows down attackers’ reverse engineering efforts and exhibits good resistance to dynamic analysis techniques such as symbolic execution.…”
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