Decline of post-neoliberal regionalism in South America: Weaknesses of “pink tide” political leadership on Defense policies by Emilse Eliana Calderón

“…The article explains the reasons why it was so easy for participant Governments to abandon post-neoliberal regionalism, as soon as the so-called “pink tide” receded. …”
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The Influence of Creatine Use on Performance of Swimmers by Hakan Acar, Erkut Tutkun, Osman İmamoğlu, Tülin Atan

“…There were also studies which did not report any effect of creatine on performance. One of the reasons why such studies did not report any effects is insufficient creatine loading. …”
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Experimental Study and Numerical Study on Shear Bearing Capacity of Shear Key Joints of Reinforced Concrete Open-Web Sandwich Plates by Hongna Lu, Huagang Zhang, Kejian Ma, Qin Wu, Lan Jiang

“…The finite element analysis (FEA) further verifies that the restricted condition of shear section proposed in this paper is reasonable and necessary.…”
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Effect of Wrapping on Post-Tensioned Beams Strengthened with Natural Sisal and Jute FRP Using Finite Element Analysis by D. P. Archana, H. N. Jagannatha Reddy, R. Prabhakar, M. U. Aswath, Basavaraju Paruti

“…Many available reinforced concrete buildings across the globe are in desperate need of rehabilitation, repair, or replacement owing to degradation caused by a variety of reasons such as corrosion, lack of detailing, and failure of beam-column bonding, among others. …”
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Argument-based validation of Chulalongkorn University Language Institute (CULI) test: a Rasch-based evidence investigation by Apichat Khamboonruang

“…Overall, the Rasch-based evidence reasonably contributes to the validity argument for the CULI test. …”
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Comprehensive Utilization Pattern of the Bohai Rim Coastline Using the Restrictive Composite Index Method by Yun Zhang, Tong Wu, Yuanzhi Ye

“…Coastlines play an important role in human activity and economic development. Reasonably allocating shoreline resources and addressing contradictions between ecological protection and development are critical issues. …”
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Application of the Modified Basic Life Support Training Model in Improving Community Residents’ Rescue Willingness in Nantong City in China by Yu-Fei Qian, Yu-Qin Ren, Li Wang, Rong-Qian Sun, Dan-Feng Li

“…A total of 93.62% of the residents considered the modified BLS training model easier to learn and acceptable than the traditional model, and 92.55% of them thought the training content and teaching arrangement were reasonable. Conclusion. The modified BLS training model could improve the community residents’ rescue willingness and skill mastery rates, enhance their first-aid skills and awareness, reduce the risk of disease transmission to a certain extent, and improve the success rate of prehospital first aid to ensure the safety of rescuers and patients.…”
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Potential Role of Synaptic Activity to Inhibit LTD Induction in Rat Visual Cortex by Matthew R. Stewart, Hans C. Dringenberg

“…Interestingly, LFS is highly effective in eliciting LTD in vitro, but much less so under in vivo conditions; the reasons for the resistance of the intact brain to express LTD are not well understood. …”
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WID approach in teaching research writing to engineering postgraduate students by Elena I. Shpit

“…The totality of possible reasons proves the complexity of the research writing phenomenon and implies that the improvement of disciplinary skills in academic writing require continuous and systematic practice not only in the postgraduate program but throughout the university studies as well.…”
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Development of Integrated Choice and Latent Variable (ICLV) Models Using Matrix-Based Analytic Approximation and Automatic Differentiation Methods on TensorFlow Platform by Jie Ma, Xin Ye, Kun Huang

“…Integrated with the composite marginal likelihood (CML) estimation approach, the ICLV model based on high-dimensional integration can be estimated accurately within a reasonable time. In this study, some three-alternative and four-alternative ICLV models are simulated to examine their abilities to recover model parameters. …”
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Type B non-Hodgkin lymphoma in a patient with acquired immunodeficiency virus with no detected viral load. Case report by Edwin Marcelo Miranda Solìs, Juan Fernando Orozco Herrera

“…Cancer is a common presentation in people living with this virus and represents the main cause of death in this population in most Latin American countries. For these reasons, we present the case of a 58-year-old patient, diagnosed with acquired immunodeficiency virus in the year 2000, who in the last ten years presented adequate clinical, virological, and pharmacological control. …”
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TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY IN POLITICAL FINANCING IN TURKEY by Mehmet Karakaş

“…Mehmet KARAKAŞ*AbstractIncreasing financial resource needs of political parties has become a pressing issue incontemporary politics, which can be attributable a number of reasons including development of sophisticated information technologies, undertaking professional assistance for public opinion surveys, the importance of visuality. …”
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Nonindustrial Family Forest Landowners' Stated Willingness-to-Participate in Forest Cooperatives in Southern China by Lifei Yang, Yali Wen, Francisco X. Aguilar

“…Forest landowner cooperatives have emerged as a formal institution capable of fostering professional forest management. There are many reasons to motivate participation in forest cooperatives. …”
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Optimal Timing of Percutaneous Transhepatic Gallbladder Drainage in High-Risk Acute Cholecystitis Patients and Its Impact on Elective Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy by Sakarie Mustafe Hidg, Hannan Samatar

“…Thirty cases were included in the early intervention group le2 days and 36 cases in the late intervention group gt2 days. The reasons for tube placement tube placement-related complications surgical difficulty and postoperative pathological findings were compared between the two groups.Results There were no statistically significant differences between the two groups in terms of age at admission or comorbidities. …”
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Agrarian Reform in the Middle East (1945-1965) by Behçet Kemal YEŞİLBURSA

“…However, most governments instituted agrarian reform for political reasons, with not all of them being as successful as they may have hoped. …”
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Inspired by Harold Conklin by Gerard A. Persoon, Jan van der Ploeg, Merlijn van Weerd

“…They have done so for various reasons but land shortage is certainly one of them. …”
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Study on Optimization of Delay Method of Wedge Cut Blasting in Tunnel by Wenle Gao, Zhicheng Liu, Yanping Wang, Zhenwei Yan, Zehua Zhang

“…The wedge cut blasting footage obtained by numerical simulation was basically consistent with the field results, which proved that the model is reasonable and effective. This study intuitively and accurately demonstrated the process of cut blasting, the superposition curve of vibration velocity and the vibration reduction results under different delay times, and the effect of cut blasting. …”
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Numerical Analysis on the Structure Type and Mechanical Response of Tunnel Crossing Active Reverse Fault by Xianmin Han, Wenjiang Li

“…In this paper, antidislocation structural measures such as reasonable segment length of articulated lining, cross-section shape, and thickness of lining are discussed through the numerical simulation. …”
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An intelligent system for lung CT image denoising using a hybrid WT-NLM filter by S.L. Soniya, T. Ajith Bosco Raj

“…The proposed study offers a straightforward method for removing noise to attain better visual quality in a reasonable period. The efficacy of the proposed denoising approach is proven by comparing it with traditional denoising approaches such as Morphological filtering, Mean Filter, Median filter, Adaptive median filter and Non-Local Means (NLM) upon two public datasets such as Public LIDC database and in-house clinical ICCN database. …”
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The Simplified Reference Tissue Model with F-Fallypride Positron Emission Tomography: Choice of Reference Region by Kenji Ishibashi, Chelsea L. Robertson, Mark A. Mandelkern, Andrew T. Morgan, Edythe D. London

“…Our results do not support the use of the visual cortex as a reference region in 18 F-fallypride studies and suggest that white matter may be a reasonable alternative to the cerebellum as it displays similar statistical and kinetic properties.…”
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