Social Media as a Digital Communication Tool for Academic Library Marketing: A Systematic Literature Review by Wathsala Athukorala, Chaminda Chiran Jayasundara

“…The review underscores the importance of user-centred strategies, targeted communication, and linguistic adaptability including politeness strategies and register variation to optimize digital outreach. …”
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THE EMERGENCE OF DEWAN SYARIAH KOTA SURAKARTA: A Precondition by Yusuf Rohmat Yanuri, Wildan Rahmat Hidayat

“…<p><strong>Abstract:</strong> This study analyses the social, intellectual, and political history of Dewan Syariah Kota Surakarta (DSKS, The Surakarta Sharia Council), the group that is a forum for many smaller Islamist groups in Solo. …”
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La construcción de un estado neo-colonial: el encuentro nicaragüense con la diplomacia del dólar by Michel Gobat

“…Asimismo, efectos inesperados de esta política imperialista, le permiten al autor mostrar cómo el análisis de la situación económica y social hecho por un sector privilegiado de la población encubre o no refleja necesariamente las condiciones de existencia de otros sectores, al presentar su propia situación como general.This article describes the political and economic practices that characterized the dollar diplomacy in Nicaragua. …”
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A manifesto for a globally diverse, equitable, and inclusive open science by Sakshi Ghai, Rémi Thériault, Patrick Forscher, Yuichi Shoda, Moin Syed, Arathy Puthillam, Hu Chuan Peng, Dana Basnight-Brown, Asifa Majid, Flavio Azevedo, Leher Singh

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Students from all Layers of Society. Study Grants, Parents and the Education of their Children, 1815-2015 by Wouter Marchand

“…The grant system has been a subject of ongoing political debate during the last few decades, since the grants’ effect on upward social mobility has been called into question. …”
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Towards a stakeholder model for the co-production of the public-sector information system by Zita P. Correia

“…</b> Success in adopting the proposed model may depend on pre-existing characteristics and conditions of each socio-political context, including existing levels of social capital, as much as on the implementation of technology to improve public service delivery. …”
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PRIVREDE ZEMALJA ZAPADNOG BALKANA ‒ MESTO I ULOGA SRBIJE by Stevan Rapaić

Global sustainable development programs: Challenges to the achievement of the goals by V. P. Vasiliev

“…It is noted that the process of implementing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is currently facing a number of serious obstacles, both economic and socio-political in nature. Meanwhile, failure to implement the SDGs is fraught with a sharp aggravation of the problems of global inequality, food security and climate migration, especially dangerous for the most vulnerable groups of the population. …”
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Angers/Iuliomagus, cité des Andécaves, et Le Mans/Vindinum, cité des Cénomans : deux capitales, deux modes de déploiement urbain by Pierre Chevet, Martin Pithon

“…One hypothesis could be based on clear support or strong pressure from the Roman central administration that could have favoured or imposed such a restructuring on Angers. Whatever the political or military motives, they apparently did not apply in Le Mans, where more local demographic and economic needs undoubtedly predominated.…”
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Forgeries of the Seals of the Kalmyk Rulers by Bembya L. Mitruev

“…These seals, as well as other seals, the impressions of which have been preserved on archival documents, are interesting as monuments of the political history of the Kalmyk people. Until recently, the fact of the existence of forged seals of the Kalmyk Khan Ayuka, his heir Chagdordzhab and the owner of Lubzha remained unknown. …”
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Spatiotemporal evolution of hedging effects in Asia-Pacific countries amid Sino-US competition: Insights from massive event data. by Qiyue Hu, Lihua Yuan, Bin Liu

“…If implemented, these strategies could impact relationships between countries and lead to political instability. Owing to a lack of theoretical evaluation frameworks and methods, few studies have examined the implementation effects of hedging strategies adopted by Asia-Pacific countries amid Sino-US competition. …”
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Avatares discursivos de la estatidad en la prensa gráfica by Norma Fatala

“…It is argued that the very nature of the written material produced over this period, including all the written press and local papers, regardless their own reading contract, generate some kind of construction of the nation State and the Political community which, in spite of any attempts to be objective, is heralds the establishment of a new institution.…”
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Analyzing Forest and Land Fire Disaster Prevention Programs in Riau, Indonesia by Ahmad Fadhillah, Moses Glorino Rumambo Pandin, Toetik Koesbardiati

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Peace Building and Social Media in a Cosmopolitan Society by I. Omotayo Adeshina

“…Peace is built on social, political, economic and ecological foundations that serve the welfare of the people. …”
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The Use of Blogs Among Students: Shifts in Utilization, Pragmatism, and Critical Literacy by Rahma Sugihartati, Arya Wardhana, Nadia Egalita

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Ubuntu as a Dramaturgical Tool for Building Community in Protests by Refiloe Lepere, Tebogo Radebe

“…Methodologically, dramaturgy of everyday life framework is used to analyse the songs sung during the #FeesMustFall protest, emphasising their role in shaping political agency and fostering community. Songs analysed are “Jikijela” by Letta Mbulu, along with its reworked version by Thandiswa Mazwai, the decolonised “Nkosi Sikelela iAfrika,” and the title song from Mbongeni Ngema’s play Asinamali. …”
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Enoch Olujide Gbadegesin, Yunusa Kehinde Salami and Kola Abimbola (eds.) Exploring the Ethics of Individualism and Communitarianism. Harvest Day Publications ,2016,365p. by Adeshina Afolayan

“…This is a herculean task because Gbadegesin’s philosophical outputs straddles philosophy of culture, bioethics, social and political philosophy, ethics, and African philosophy. …”
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Dialysis Service in the Embattled Tigray Region of Ethiopia: A Call to Action by Ephrem Berhe, Will Ross, Hale Teka, Hiluf Ebuy Abraha, Lewis Wall

“…Access to haemodialysis is further curtailed in areas of active conflict and political instability. Haemodialysis in the Tigray region of Ethiopia has been dramatically affected by the ongoing civil war. …”
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Some Episodes from E. Turauskas' Life and Activities by Aldona Vasiliauskienė

“…Edvardas Turauskas was director of the political department of the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry, the plenipotentiary minister of Lithuania for Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, and Romania, Lithuania's delegate at the Union of Nations, the counsellor of the Embassy in Berne, Switzerland, the director of the ELTA who served the longest term in this office in inter-war Lithuania, a participant of international conferences, the editor of the daily „Rytas" and co-worker of numerous newspapers and magazines, a scholar, a person with deep Christian beliefs, an activist of the Ateitininkai movement (the first to write its history), and a member of the LCAS. …”
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Alice’s Non-Anthropocentric Ethics: Lewis Carroll as a Defender of Animal Rights by Anna Kérchy

“…Focusing on pragmatic, political stakes of Victorian animal allegory I unveil in the Alice tales references to Carroll’s support of animal rights, including his anti-vivisectionist commitment explicitly spelt out in his pamphlets and gaining fictional manifestations in his seemingly apolitical fantasies.…”
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