Die eerste dekade van Interkulturele Kommunikasie by H.J. Groenewald

“… The first decade of intercultural communication: An overview of some important books This paper deals with eleven of the more important books on intercultural communication published over the past decade. A basic point of departure is that intercultural communication has become increasingly important due to factors such as technological, economic and political developments. …”
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A travel journal by a preacher during the annual Pentecost prayer meetings in the Dutch Reformed Church: by J.-A. van den Berg

“…These two experiences have, as background, the researcher’s personal and collegial relationship with the receiver of the Festschrift, that conveys the academic research they did together over the past few years. Throughout the course of this article, these descriptions are linked to perspectives arising from a collegial relationship with the work of the receiver of the Festschrift. …”
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Deutsche Bahn: Rail Network Monopoly, Financial Locusts and the State by Thomas Ehrmann, Aloys Prinz

“…Abstract Deutsche Bahn had to pay a total dividend of 2.85 billion euro over the past six years with cumulated annual results of just under 2.35 billion euro. …”
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Introduction by Deborah Hauptmann, Lara Schrijver

“…Over the past fifteen years most advanced education programmes within Schools of Architecture have been questioning the parameters and requirements of doctoral research both in terms of content and form. …”
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Caregivers, Caseworkers, and Biological Parents: Risk Factors for Foster Teen Pregnancy and Ways You Can Make a Difference by Nora Del Giudice, Stephanie Toelle, David C. Diehl, Jody S. Nicholson

“… Many teens exhibit risk-taking behavior. That said, the past experiences of foster care youth in particular make them likely to engage in activity that could cause teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections. …”
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‘Silence is the sentence’: adult learners’ experiences of a co-created curriculum constructed through free writing tasks by Howard Scott, Pete Bennett, Craig A Hammond

“…We outline how our developing praxis situates students’ self-concepts in confronting past biographical experiences of education and empowers them to improved literacy and purpose. …”
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Paper-work: what module guides have to say about assessment practices by Judith Enriquez

“…It bears witness to the past and persistent norms and standards that are shaped by documents, paper-work, control, compliance and surveillance and less by pedagogical and student engagement. …”
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Export Uncertainty and Geopolitics: Why is Regional Integration Not Yet Successful in Central Asia? by Soham Das

“…Central Asia is a fascinating region which has seen a lot of transformations in the past two hundred years. After their inauguration as independent republics in 1991, they faced the prospect of an economic transition. …”
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To Live or to Die: Prosurvival Activity of PPARγ in Cancers by Y. Lynn Wang, Qi Miao

“…In this article, we review and analyze literature from the past decade that highlights the potential proneoplastic activity of PPARγ. …”
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Evaluating the Performance of Cuba's Sugarcane Basic Units of Cooperative Production During Their First Decade by José Alvarez

“…As opposed to what was the norm in the past, comprehensive official data from Cuba's Ministry of Sugar (MINAZ) have recently become available for these cooperatives (MINAZ, 2003). …”
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O pincel e a pena na construção da nação: pintando e narrando um mito político fundacional by Susana Bleil de Souza

“…The nation needed to construct itself as homogeneous, consensual, a meaningful community with a collective project which, based on a past of bravery, could project the nation towards a grand future, to which it was predestinated since the beginning. …”
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A Systematic Review on the Advancement in the Study of Fuzzy Variational Problems by Mansi Verma, Chuei Yee Chen, Adem Kılıçman, Risman Mat Hasim

“…The study of fuzzy variational problems has received significant attention over the past decade due to its successful applications in numerous fields, such as image segmentation and optimal control theory. …”
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Genetics in prenatal diagnosis by Karen Mei Xian Lim, Aniza Puteri Mahyuddin, Arundhati Tushar Gosavi, Mahesh Choolani

“…The options for prenatal genetic testing have evolved rapidly in the past decade, and advances in sequencing technology now allow genetic diagnoses to be made down to the single-base-pair level, even before the birth of the child. …”
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Le discours mémoriel ottoman au musée naval d’Istanbul by Juliette Dumas

“…For more than a decade now, memorial uses of the Ottoman past have grown, hiding the fact that there exists an abundance of historical narratives, still understudied. …”
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“El rostro de los días”: sobre la corporalidad y las almas entre los mayas k’iche’ de Santiago Momostenango by Alonso Zamora Corona

“…The study of ideas regarding corporeality and souls has consolidated itself in recent years as one of the most important subjects in our knowledge of the Maya peoples of the past and the present (Pitarch 1996, 2011; Figuerola Pujol 2010; Velásquez García 2015). …”
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Biosynthesis of Metal Nanoparticles: A Review by Narendra Kulkarni, Uday Muddapur

“…The synthesis of nanostructured materials, especially metallic nanoparticles, has accrued utmost interest over the past decade owing to their unique properties that make them applicable in different fields of science and technology. …”
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Malignant Transformation of Endometriosis in the Ischioanal Fossa by Jordan S. Klebanoff, Shivani K. Shah, Mark G. Cadungog

“…A 28-year-old nulliparous patient with a past medical history of polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) was diagnosed with endometrioid adenocarcinoma in her right ischioanal fossa. …”
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Paese che vai usanza che trovi, tra cosmo e campanile by Pietro Clemente

“…The second one is a general rediscovery of the originality and richness of local cultures inherited from the past, that even today mark not only the sense of places and of belonging to them, but constitute a key resource for the younger generations’ imagination of the future and of their dwelling in it. …”
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A Longitudinal Historical Population Database in Asia. The Taiwanese Historical Household Registers Database (1906–1945) by Chia-chi Lin, Shu-juo Chen, Ying-chang Chuang, Wen-shan Yang, James Wilkerson, Ying-hui Hsieh, Ko-hua Yap, Yu-ling Huang

“…For the past 35 years, the Taiwan Historical Household Registers Database (THHRD) has been significant for historical demographic research on Asia. …”
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Models and Methods for Planning Hydrogen Supply Chain Systems by Han Liu, Jing Ma

“…To identify research gaps in the field, this study reviews models and methods for planning hydrogen supply chain systems that have been employed over the past 15 years. Significant decision aspects and objectives in the hydrogen supply system are presented. …”
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