The colonial policy of Morocco and Mauritania in Western Sahara: geopolitical and military aspects by M. S. Novikov, S. V. Novikov

“…In the mass consciousness, the colonial policy is associated with the activities of Spain, England, Belgium, France and other European countries that had overseas possessions. …”
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Editorial: ticks & tick-borne parasites and diseases by Ala E. Tabor, Ala Tabor

“…The articles also include authors from most continents globally with first author contributions from Australia, Bangladesh, Brazil, Czech Republic, Germany, India, Mexico, Pakistan, South Africa, Spain, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, USA and Zambia. …”
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Online Algebraic Estimation of Parameters and Disturbances in Brushless DC Motors by David Marcos-Andrade, Francisco Beltran-Carbajal, Alexis Castelan-Perez, Ivan Rivas-Cambero, Jesús C. Hernández

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Modern Trends in Public Funding of Higher Education by M. De Martino, G. F. Tkach, S. A. Kovalenko

“…This paper discusses the main mechanisms of financing higher education systems and analyzes the structures and features of these mechanisms using the examples of the largest countries of Western Europe and Asia – Germany, Spain, Italy, France, and China.Materials and methods. …”
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Beyond words: the relevance of autonomy-supportive language in university syllabi by Dora Herrera, Aranza Lira-Delcore, Aranza Lira-Delcore, Benjamín Lira Luttges

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Genetic diversity of bread wheat (<i>Triticum aestivum</i> L.) in the allelic composition of HMW-GS (a review) by M. V. Chebatareva

“…Wheat cultivars from Poland, Germany, France, Spain, Portugal, Turkey, Iran, Pakistan, India, China, and Algeria (Group I) had the average Nei index of 0.59, and those from the U.S., Mexico, Argentina, Russia, Kazakhstan, Ethiopia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Bulgaria, Afghanistan, and North Korea (Group II) had 0.42. …”
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Health Tourism: Conceptual Framework and Insights from the Case of a Spanish Mature Destination by Antonio Padilla-Meléndez, Ana-Rosa Del-Águila-Obra

“…Empirical data from a web and telephone based questionnaire conducted on a randomly selected sample of health tourism establishments of a selfdeveloped data set, and some personal interviews, have been analysed to describe health tourism in the Costa del Sol, a mature Mediterranean destination in the south of Spain. This paper contributes to the literature by showing the complexity of the several practices included in the conceptual umbrella of health tourism in a mature destination, and the main enablers and barriers for cooperation between tourism and health companies. …”
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Education for sustainable development: analyzing research trends in higher education for sustainable development goals through bibliometric analysis by Mestawot Beyene Tafese, Erika Kopp

“…Regarding publication volumes, China, Spain, and Germany are the leading countries. Thematic analysis revealed a predominant emphasis on the environmental and economic dimensions of sustainable development, with a comparatively less focus on social sustainability. …”
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Bilingual Education Programs in Primary Education: What Do Parents Think? by Martina Soledad Ramírez-Orduña, Daniel Rodríguez-Rodríguez, Francisco Javier Batista-Espinosa, Laura Barboyon Combey

“…Therefore, the objective of this research is to determine parental opinions on bilingual (English-Spanish) programs used in schools in the monolingual Autonomous Community of Extremadura (Spain). Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 136 parents of students in the final stage of Elementary Education to gather their perceptions of bilingual education programs. …”
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Harnessing virtues for educational success: introducing the Positive Development and Assessment Competencies Theory (PDAC) by Pedro Vazquez-Marin, Pedro Vazquez-Marin, Samantha Curle, Samantha Curle, Maria del Carmen Gil Ortega, Luis Medina-Gual, Andrés Sandoval-Hernández

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Informative architectures and citizen participation: a comparative study between the digital platforms Decidim and Rousseauv by Eli Borges Junior, Bruno Madureira Ferreira

“…This article looks at this question using a comparative study between two digital informative architectures: the Five Star Movement’s (originally in Italian “Movimento 5 Stelle”) Rousseau platform in Italy, and the Decidim platform, developed after the 15M movement in Spain by a collaboration of entities from different countries. …”
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Exploring the Novel Continuum-Cancellation Leal-Method for the Approximate Solution of Nonlinear Differential Equations by Hector Vazquez-Leal

“…Furthermore, we present the application of CCLM in several examples: Thomas–Fermi singular equation for the neutral atom, magnetohydrodynamic flow of blood in a porous channel singular boundary-valued problem, and a system of initial condition differential equations to model the dynamics of cocaine consumption in Spain. We present a computational convergence study for the proposed approximations resulting in a tendency of the RMS error to zero as the approximation order increases for all case studies. …”
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Almodóvar’s Baroque Transitions in the Early Films (1980–1995) by Frederic Conrod

“…This paper seeks to focus exclusively on the rise of the director’s style in the last two decades of the 20th century that corresponds to Spain’s problematic and somewhat tragic transition from dictatorship to democracy and explore the ‘Baroque transitions’ that led Almodóvar to national, European and international recognition prior to the obtention of the Academy Awards he received for “All about my mother” in 2000. …”
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Modeling Compressive Strength of Self-Compacting Concrete (SCC) Using Novel Optimization Algorithm of AOA by Francisca Blanco, Ye Woo

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Lymphedema in Klippel-Trenaunay Syndrome: Is It Possible to Normalize? by Jose Maria Pereira de Godoy, Angela Río, Paloma Domingo Garcia, Maria de Fatima Guerreiro Godoy

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Possession or position games: What is the key in soccer? by Jose A. Asian-Clemente, Borja Muñoz, Jose Vicente Beltran-Garrido, Bernardo Requena

“…Using a GPS system (WIMU Pro, RealTrack Systems, Almería, Spain), the running demands of 25 professional soccer players were monitored during 18 possession (without a standardized role position) and 18 positional (with a specific role position) games of 9 vs. 9 + 2 floaters. …”
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The Parkinson’s Disease Composite Scale Is Adequately Responsive to Acute Levodopa Challenge by Dávid Pintér, Pablo Martinez-Martin, József Janszky, Norbert Kovács

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Observations of Blue Corona Discharges in Thunderclouds by Lasse Skaaning Husbjerg, Torsten Neubert, Olivier Chanrion, Krystallia Dimitriadou, Dongshuai Li, Martin Stendel, Eigil Kaas, Nikolai Østgaard, Victor Reglero

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Identifying depression subtypes and investigating their consistency and transitions in a 1-year cohort analysis. by Carolin Oetzmann, Nicholas Cummins, Femke Lamers, Faith Matcham, Sara Siddi, Katie M White, Josep Maria Haro, Srinivasan Vairavan, Brenda W J H Penninx, Vaibhav A Narayan, Matthew Hotopf, Ewan Carr

“…A secondary analysis of a two-year cohort study called Remote Assessment of Disease and Relapse in Major Depressive Disorder (RADAR-MDD), which collected data every three months from patients with a history of recurrent MDD in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Spain (N = 619). We used latent class and latent transition analysis to identify subtypes at baseline, determined their consistency at 6- and 12-month follow-ups, and examined transitions over time. …”
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DEVELOPMENT AND USE OF THE COMPETITIVE ELISA-BASED TEST SYSTEM FOR DETECTION OF ANTIBODIES TO GROUP A ROTAVIRUS IN LIVESTOCK SERA by O. P. Bjadovskaya, Ye. A. Bukhon, A. A. Nesterov

“…The test-system was examined for its specificity and sensitivity as compared to those ones of INGENASA test-kit (Spain) by parallel testing of 203 cattle sera. Performed studies resulted in the development of sensitive (92%) and specific (94%) competitive ELISA enabling detection of antibodies against Group A rotavirus in cattle and porcine sera with 92.6% accuracy. …”
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