The Digital Euro: Functionality and Critical Appraisal by Friedrich Thießen

“…Another goal should be the independence of European payments from third-party intervention, as was the case in the Iran-U.S. conflict. …”
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Tomorrow’s Ethics in a Globalizing World

“…They are as follows: firstly, from the ethics of obedience to an ethic of creative commitment; secondly, from a primary concern with micro-ethics to an equal and even greater concern with macro-ethics; thirdly, from a cluster of regional value systems to a cooperatively created global ethic; in the fourth place, from a conceptual base in western philosophy and theology to an academic base in the social and natural sciences; and in the fifth place, from dependence on religion in important parts of the world, including ours, to what I want to call a relationship with religion characterized by cooperative, critical and creative independence for ethics. …”
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The libraries of Kaunas university faculties and their subunits by Nijolė Lietuvninkaitė

“…The libraries of the faculties operated independently until 1940. They assisted the Central Library of Kaunas University in providing its readers with literature necessary for studies. …”
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La Somalie en mauvais État by Alain Gascon

“…Under the pressures of the Arab League and of the African Union the United Nations have constantly refused to recognize the independence of Somaliland, a former British colony, despite its separatist government has brought peace on all their territory, rebuilt equipments and held fair elections. …”
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Piecing the Broken Golden Bowl: Dislocation and Diplomacy in Nixon in China by John Adams and Alice Goodman by Mathieu Duplay

“…In the opera, enjambments function first and foremost as literary devices; as such, they emphasize the text’s autonomy and its independence from its musical setting. On a meta-operatic level, the resulting discrepancy between words and music draws attention to the various modes of dislocation at play in an opera whose plot hinges on the acceptance of irreconcilable differences. …”
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Comparative Economic Analysis Between Bioenergy and Forage Types of Switchgrass for Sustainable Biofuel Feedstock Production: A Data Envelopment Analysis and Cost–Benefit Analysis... by Muhammad Umer Arshad, David Archer, Daniel Wasonga, Nictor Namoi, Arvid Boe, Rob Mitchell, Emily Heaton, Madhu Khanna, DoKyoung Lee

“…Results showed that two energy‐type cultivars—“Independence” and “Liberty”—were superior economically to the forage cultivars. …”
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Malnutrition risk, weight loss, and subsequent survival in patients listed for heart transplantation by Tae Kyung Yoo, MD, MS, Satoshi Miyashita, MD, Ariella Stein, MSCIS-HI, Michael Wu, BS, MPH, Lauren Parsly Read-Button, MPH, RD, LDN, Masashi Kawabori, MD, Greg S. Couper, MD, Edward Saltzman, MD, Amanda R. Vest, MBBS, MPH

“…As a continuous variable, GNRI at HT listing was independently associated with subsequent mortality.…”
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Epicardial Adipose Tissue and Left Ventricular Hypertrophy in Hypertensive Patients With Preserved Ejection Fraction: A Multicenter Retrospective Cohort Study by Runze Zhu, Wenxian Wang, Yan Gao, Junchuan Liu, Bowen Li, Rongxue Shan, Runjie Xue, Xianshun Yuan, Xi‐Ming Wang

“…These findings imply that EAT is independently linked to LVH in hypertensive patients. …”
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High Serum Asprosin Levels Are Associated with Presence of Metabolic Syndrome by Tao Hong, Jiao-Yang Li, Ya-Di Wang, Xiao-Yan Qi, Zhe-Zhen Liao, Poonam Bhadel, Li Ran, Jing Yang, Bin Yan, Jiang-Hua Liu, Xin-Hua Xiao

“…In multiple linear regression, asprosin was independently and positively correlated with triglyceride and HOMA-IR (P<0.05). …”
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FIRMS’ FINANCIAL AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE CHARACTERISTICS ASSOCIATION WITH EARNING MANAGEMENT PRACTICES: A META-ANALYSIS APPROACH by Fatima Abdul Hamid, Chaabane Oussama Houssem Eddine, Abdullah Mohamed Ayedh, Abdelghani Echchabi

“… This paper aims to investigate the association between firm’s corporate governance and financial attributes (namely, board of directors’ size, board of directors’ independence, chief executive officer (CEO) duality, ownership structure, audit type, firm’s size, firm’s return and leverage) with earnings management practices. …”
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Amplitude and Frequency Control: Stability of Limit Cycles in Phase-Shift and Twin-T Oscillators by J. P. Dada, J. C. Chedjou, S. Domngang

“…The main advantage of the proposed circuits is that both the amplitude and frequency of the waveforms generated can be independently controlled. Analytical, numerical, and experimental methods are used to determine the boundaries of the states of the oscillators. …”
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The Failure of Orthogonality under Nonstationarity: Should We Care About It? by Jose A. Campillo-García, Daniel Ventosa-Santaulària

“…We consider two well-known facts in econometrics: (i) the failure of the orthogonality assumption (i.e., no independence between the regressors and the error term), which implies biased and inconsistent Least Squares (LS) estimates and (ii) the consequences of using nonstationary variables, acknowledged since the seventies; LS might yield spurious estimates when the variables do have a trend component, whether stochastic or deterministic. …”
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Die rol van kommunikasie in die nywerheid by J. H. van der Walt

“… Effective communication within the South African industrial context is vitally important if the objectives of industry are to: contribute to satisfactory national economic growth provide adequate job appreciation distribute economic activity to provide for sensible geographical development improve the social well-being of the community improve acceptable economic independence from external economic and political influences. …”
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La préparation et le passage du recensement du Soudan 2008 by Eric Denis, Julien Dupuy

“…The census results are extremely waited as they will determine the petrol dividend sharing, the parlement election of 2009 and the independence referendum of 2011. So much stakes, identity and ressources access, control and redistribution conflicts at all scales and in every sudanese margin are pushing the census to catalyse and finally reveal the tragical limits of an ethnocratic governance.…”
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Combining Body Mass and Shape Indices in Clinical Practice by Jesse C. Krakauer, Nir Y. Krakauer

“…In a series of 282 patients, BMI and ABSI were close to being independently distributed, supporting the value of considering both indices. …”
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BALANCE PROBLEMS OF INTERRELATIONS OF THE INSTITUTIONS OF THE NATIONAL INNOVATION SYSTEM OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION by Y. Danilina

“…The resources that the state expands on the imposition of standard actions to develop innovative competencies for the subjects of the innovation system was proposed to redirect on the institutionalization of independently emerging horizontal links between them, and on the analysis and dissemination of positive experience in establishing «innovative links» at all levels.…”
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Interdisciplinary approaches among the subjects Surveillance and Vector Control and History of America by Bárbara Cecilia Eguiguren Ferrer, Reina Ysabel Hernández Cedeño, Valia Caminero Chávez, Miriam Olano Rivalta, Enma de la Caridad Díaz Hernández

“…The way to carry out this relationship through the concrete civilization historical analysis and independence development is explained, including not only settlements, culture, but epidemiological and typical health situations of these civilizations as well. …”
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Effect of Concrete Age and Creep on the Behavior of Concrete-Filled Steel Tube Columns by HaiYang Wang, XiaoXiong Zha, Wei Feng

“…Then, the proposed formulas are validated independently by comparing their predictions with existing test results performed by other researchers. …”
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Nest Relocation and Colony Founding in the Australian Desert Ant, Melophorus bagoti Lubbock (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) by Patrick Schultheiss, Sebastian Schwarz, Antoine Wystrach

“…After the mating flight, the queens found new colonies independently and singly. Excavation of these founding colonies reveals first insights into their structure.…”
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L'île d'Anjouan figure de la balkanisation de l'archipel des Comores by François Taglioni

“…Union of the Comoros is experiencing chronic political instability since its independence in 1975. From coups attempts to coup, from constitutional developments to national reconciliation, the Union is fragile and tries to resist with an endemic balkanization. …”
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