Recent advances in organic fluorophores as anti-counterfeit agents: an up-to-date review by N Akshaya, Annette Thomas, Glanish Jude Martis, Santosh L. Gaonkar

“…Abstract The problems of counterfeiting and duplicating valuable products such as confidential papers, banknotes, passports, nationality cards, and other vital documents have been increased exponentially. …”
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Using citizen science Raspberry Shake seismometers to enhance earthquake location and characterization: a case study from Wellington, New Zealand by Bethany Hughes, Finnigan Illsley-Kemp, Eleanor Mestel, John Townend, Chantujan Chandrakumar, Raj Prasanna

“…We explore the integration of Raspberry Shake citizen seismometers with the national GeoNet seismic network to improve the precision of earthquake locations in Wellington, New Zealand. …”
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L’Empire en question : origines et développement d’un débat américain contemporain by Céline Letemplé

“…Even though members of the Bush administration have declared that the United States is not an Empire, the 2002 National Security Strategy has neo-imperialist overtones that have triggered anti-imperialist reactions across the American political spectrum. …”
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Observed Baseline and Future Projection of Royal Belum State Park by Zin Zafirah Husna Mohd, Ju Neng Liew, Kumaran Jayaraj Vijaya, Leong Marieanne Christie

“…RBSP was gazette under the Enactment of National Forestry Act 1984. RBSP is notably rich in biodiversity and is home to endemic species for various flora and fauna that are susceptible to climate change. …”
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Adopting Best Practices from Team Science in a Healthcare Improvement Research Network: The Impact on Dissemination and Implementation by Frank Puga, Kathleen R. Stevens, Darpan I. Patel

“…Key components of the research network infrastructure were mapped to a team science framework and evaluated in terms of their effectiveness and impact on a national study of nursing operations. Results from this study revealed an effective integration of the team science principles which facilitated the rapid collection of a large dataset. …”
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Martialling Peace: How the Peacekeeping Myth Legitimises Warfare by Nicole Wegner by Abdul Wasay Khan Mandokhail

“…Focusing primarily on Canada, the book explores how peacekeeping aligns with national identity and state-building, reinforcing a martial ideology that extends to military and police institutions. …”
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Ontological and intercultural anthropology of health among the shuar peoples of Zamora-Chinchipe by Christian Tym

“…It is concluded that an interculturality is required that does not mean the ethnicization of public policies, but rather their localization and adaptation to the preferences of people in every distinct zone within national territories.…”
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Logiques touristiques en station de haute-montagne : quelles évolutions possibles vers la durabilité ? by Laurent Arcuset

“…This text starts from the teachings stemming from an evaluation of the tourist practices in the light of sustainable tourism principles, realized in 2004 within the framework of a national network piloted by the French Agency of Touristic Engineering (today ODIT France), for the ski resort of Valloire, first-generation resort in the Maurienne, which development and modernization in the 2000s kept pace with a vast real estate program. …”
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Does Chinese policy banks' overseas lending favor Belt Road Initiative countries? by Xin Chen, Heyang Fang, Yun Liu, Yifei Zhang

“…Overall, our study highlights the supportive role played by Chinese policy banks in implementing a national globalization strategy.…”
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Using SaTScan to identify and map nightlife areas in Philadelphia, PA by Eliza W. Kinsey, Kathryn M. Neckerman, James W. Quinn, Michael D. M. Bader, Stephen J. Mooney, Gina S. Lovasi, Dirk Kinsey, Andrew G. Rundle

“…While entertainment districts can boost economic growth, they can also contribute to public health risks including violent crime, traffic accidents, and other harms. With data from the National Establishment Time Series (NETS) business database, we developed methods to use SaTScan cluster detection software to identify entertainment districts, and applied the method in a case-study of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. …”
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TRAINING OF PERSONNEL FOR PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION OF THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA: TRADITION AND DIGITAL FUTURE by M. Yu. Zakharov

“…To this end, the author considers two main historically established systems in the field of traditional management that have been used in order to complete the national task of selecting, training, retraining, educating of public officials: recommendation and control system and system of specialized educational institutions. …”
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Notes on the Nests and Prey of Six Species of Pison in Australia (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae) by Howard E. Evans, Robert W. Matthews, Allan Hook

“…Voucher specimens have been deposited in the Australian National Insect Collections, Canberra, and at the University of Queensland, Brisbane. …”
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Conceptualizing RRI from a Global South perspective through Indigenous innovation practices in Aotearoa New Zealand’s high-tech science sector by Maria Amoamo, Katharina Ruckstuhl

“…We present a case study of New Zealand’s high-tech science sector whereby local Indigenous (Māori) knowledge, expressed in a specific national policy called Vision Mātauranga (VM) is driving RRI in practice. …”
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Cross-Border Cooperation and the European Administrative Space – Prospects from the Principle of Mutual Recognition by Joachim Beck

“…Representing at the same time a specific transnational pattern of the European Administrative Space (EAS), however, its practical functioning is still hindered by various factors amongst which the diverging national legal and administrative framework conditions of the participating actors represent the major obstacle with regards to the development of effective cross-border governance regimes. …”
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Development of End Plug Welding Technique for SFR Fuel Rod Fabrication by Jung Won Lee, Jong Hwan Kim, Ki Hwan Kim, Jeong Yong Park, Sung Ho Kim

“…In Korea, R&D on a sodium-cooled fast reactor (SFR) was begun in 1997, as one of the national long-term nuclear R&D programs. As one fuel option for a prototype SFR, a metallic fuel, U-Zr alloy fuel, was selected and is currently being developed. …”
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The law of the single price within one country: the example of Benin by N.C.C. Vikou

“…The checking of the hypothesis was carried out empirically and is based on unit root tests for panel data on consumer prices at the national level of Benin. Special attention is paid to the review of the most relevant unit root tests used for the analysis of the Panel data. …”
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Metropolitan Regions: Challenges for Sustainability and Governance of Periurban Areas in Brazil. by Prof. Dr. Martin Coy, Dr. Simone Sandholz, Dr. Tobias Töpfer, Dr. Frank Zirkl

“…Overcoming these challenges is a remarkable task for the municipal, regional and national level. Based on a classification of different phases of peri-urban development that can be distinguished since the 1960s this paper analyses the development of Brazil’s metropolitan areas. …”
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Tertúlia geográfica pelo Rio Madre de Dios by Ricardo José Batista Nogueira

“…This article is the result of a field research funded by CNPQ (National Council for Scientific Research and Development) to investigate the border dynamics between Brazil, Bolivia and Peru. …”
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State-Granted Practice Authority: Do Nurse Practitioners Vote with Their Feet? by John J. Perry

“…Using data from the National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses and a dataset of state-level nurse practitioner prescribing authority, a multivariate estimation is performed analysing the impact of greater practice authority on the probability of a nurse practitioner moving from a state. …”
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Las guerras civiles: consideraciones teóricas desde las Ciencias Sociales by Eduardo González Calleja

“…The end of the bipolar system unmasked some revolutionary wars of national liberation that were, simply, civil wars. …”
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