Mikhail Gorbachev's First Visit to Britain: 30 Years on by K. V. Shlykov

“…Later statements of Lady Thatcher and Gorbachev's critics on the meeting being defining for the foreign policy of the perestroika era should be seen as exaggerated, as the demise of the Communist system and the USSR were not foreseen by anyone in 1984, either in London or in Moscow.…”
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Towards a stakeholder model for the co-production of the public-sector information system by Zita P. Correia

“…This system also comprises four categories of information - on citizenship, economic and social development, policy and administration. <br><b>Method.</b> . A selective literature review was conducted to produce a convergence of perspectives from different fields, to provide the foundations for the stakeholder model. …”
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THE IMPLICATIONS OF TERRORISM ON FOOD PRICES IN NIGERIA by LILIAN NNENNE AKHANOLU, HEZEKIAH AMAMIZO OGUNNUBI

“…In view of these occurrences , this paper examines the implications of terrorism on the recent prices of food and our empirical results shows that terrorism has a negative effect on the prices of food in the country .The study adopted the descriptive analysis of secondary data to examine the effects of terrorism on food prices in the nation .The study will examine the topic in detail and based on this ,the following policy recommendations will be put forward which includes government providing securities for farmers by using the non-biased military to silent the insurgents, adopt a registration data of herders with government which will capture all operating herders in Nigerian states for easy tracking of any misbehavior, provide employment for our jobless youths who had become instruments in the hands of terrorist promoters, and  above all, Nigerian government should adopt State police for a better protection of our rural areas and communities. …”
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Trajectories and political context of grass-roots citizen organizations: The control of corruption in Ecuador by Héctor Manuel Gutiérrez-Magaña

“…COO’s combine delegation of control over public policy to independent watchdog government agencies with a strong involvement of ordinary citizens. …”
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Assessing the impact of energy coaching with smart technology interventions to alleviate energy poverty by Joseph Llewellyn, Titus Venverloo, Fabio Duarte, Carlo Ratti, Cecilia Katzeff, Fredrik Johansson, Daniel Pargman

“…Abstract Energy poverty affects 550,000 homes in the Netherlands yet policy interventions to alleviate this issue are rare. …”
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Employment of Social Workers in the Public Sector: Current Situation, Challenges and Future Prospects by kamil Alptekin, Selami Topuz, Murat Öz

“…Apart from these, low levels of professionalization, recognition of other professions, lack of initiative and self-confidence, lack of recognition, and ongoing neoliberalist policies have also played a role in the contraction of employment in the public sector. …”
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Developing a New Spatial Unit for Macroscopic Safety Evaluation Based on Traffic Density Homogeneity by Chen Wang, Lin Liu, Chengcheng Xu

“…Macrolevel crash modeling has been extensively applied to investigate the safety effects of demographic, socioeconomic, and land use factors, in order to add safety knowledge into traffic planning and policy-making. In recent years, with the increasing attention to regional traffic management and control, the safety effects of macrolevel traffic flow parameters may also be of interest, in order to provide useful safety knowledge for regional traffic operation. …”
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Primary school teachers' lived experience of the challenges and opportunities of electronic education in the framework of the Shad network by zahra Emadi, Zahra sadat Pour Sayyed Aghaei

“…In this research, 2 main themes and 6 sub-themes and 34 semantic units were obtained, the main themes of which were: "Components related to e-learning opportunities in the platform of Shad software" and "Challenges of e-learning in the platform of Shad software".In the present study, elementary school teachers, while enumerating the opportunities created in the happy platform, listed many challenges for it and presented solutions to increase the productivity of e-learning, which will be implemented with the efforts of educational officials and policy makers.…”
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Brain Drain in Nigerian Health Sector: An Unsung Epidemic by Olowolaju OF, Akpor OA, Adeoluwa OA

“…The paper also highlighted various efforts the Nigerian government had put in place to mitigate the effects of brain drain in Nigeria such as implementation of the national health policy increased funding for the health sector and strengthening of healthcare institutions. …”
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Adopting circular economy in construction: a review by Preethi Amrut Rao, Md Motiar Rahman, Saiful Baharin Duraman

“…The outcomes are expected to provide guidance and indication to policy and decision-makers on what needs to be done for wider adoption of CE in construction.…”
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Intra-Department Model of University Teacher’s Motivation Management by E. G. Gutsu, Yu. Yu. Chilipenok

“…In the context of reforming higher education, the problem of developing and implementing a new, effective management policy aimed at attracting, retaining and motivating highly qualified scientific and pedagogical personnel is of particular relevance. …”
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Ecological and Legal Problems of Electrification of Motor Vehicles by I. V. Bryhadyr

“…The article is focused on studying the state policy, legislation and practice of its application in Ukraine regarding the use of electrified motor vehicles – battery vehicles that run on chemical sources of electric current. …”
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Fintech Penetration, Financial Literacy, and Financial Decision-Making: Empirical Analysis Based on Tar by Yi Li, Zhengwang Li, Fan Su, Qiteng Wang, Qian Wang

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Enhancing rural community empowerment for the realization of independent villages: a strategy for Brangsong sub-district by Suharto Suharto, Hardi Warsono, Tri Yuniningsih, Kushandayani Kushandayani

“…Advanced and independent village development requires a rural community empowerment budget. The Village Law policy has several implementing regulations, which state that Village Funds are funds sourced from the APBN, and Villages are also allocated in the Regency APBD in the form of Village In fact, it has been almost eight years since the Village Law was implemented and the DD was distributed, there are still most of the villages in Brangsong Sub-district have not yet achieved Independent Villages. …”
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Event-Trigger Reinforcement Learning-Based Coordinate Control of Modular Unmanned System via Nonzero-Sum Game by Yebao Liu, Tianjiao An, Jianguo Chen, Luyang Zhong, Yuhan Qian

“…The ET-critic neural network (NN) is used to approximate the performance index function, thus obtaining the ETRL coordinate control policy. The stability of the closed-loop system is verified via Lyapunov’s theorem. …”
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Performance Analysis of Identifier Locator Communication Cache Effects on ILNPv6 Stack by Mohsen Kadi, Maher Suleiman, Samih Jammoul

“…The obtained results show that controlling ILCC size through an effective policy strongly enhances ILNP network stack performance.…”
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Autarky and Material Contingencies in Italian Architectural Debate (1936-1954) by Pep Avilés

“…This paper examines the way these interwar debates were shaped by economic policy, political ideology, and material scarcity, and in turn affected architectural production during Italy’s postwar reconstruction.…”
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Consequences appraisal on India’s opting out of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement by L. N. Talalova, Chu Thanh Hang, A. V. Morozova

“…Among the legal reasons that determined opting out of the treaty, the issues of investment policy and intellectual property outside the World Trade Organization frameworks are noted. …”
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High School Students Are a Target Group for Fight against Self-Medication with Antimalarial Drugs: A Pilot Study in University of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo by Ramsès Kabongo Kamitalu, Michel Ntetani Aloni

“…The level of self-prescribing quinine is relatively high among students and is disturbing for a molecule reserved for severe disease in Congolese health care policy in management of malaria.…”
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Text analysis of DNS queries for data exfiltration protection of computer networks by Ya. V. Bubnov, N. N. Ivanov

“…The architecture implies creation of response policy zones for blocking of individual requests, classified as malicious.…”
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