THE INFLUENCE OF IRANIAN SCHOLARSHIPS ON ISLAMIC EDUCATION IN KANO, 1979-2015 by Abdulaziz Mamuda, Salihu Zubairu Mustapha

“…Through the Fudiyyah schools, the Islamic Movement in Nigeria stands a better chance of attracting more patronage and legitimacy among Muslims in Kano, restricting their members from attending other schools and especially given the development of the group’s competitions with its Sunni rivals, the Fudiyyah schools served as check-mate to the similar Islamiyya school system operated by the Sunnis. …”
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Two-stage oxidation of petrogenic organic carbon in a rapidly exhuming small mountainous catchment by Wan-Yin Lien, Chih-Tung Chen, Yun-Hsuan Lee, Chih-Chieh Su, Pei-Ling Wang, Li-Hung Lin

“…Abstract Globally, the oxidative flux of petrogenic organic carbon rivals the drawdown by silicate weathering and burial of biospheric carbon. …”
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Newspaper “Rech” in the July Crisis of 1914 by B. S. Kotov

“…Reflecting the foreign policy program of the Kadet party, "Rech" supported the idea of the alliance with France and England and considered Germany and Austria-Hungary as the main rivals of Russia for influence on the Balkans and the Middle East. …”
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Inevitable Choice for Survival: The Last Ottoman Grand Strategy by Murat TOMAN, Fikrettin YAVUZ

“…Last but not least this study presents an analysis of the attempt to reshape the empire’s late period grand strategy aim to outmanoeuvre stronger rivals in an anarchic international order shaped by European great powers. …”
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The Electoral History of the Post-Soviet Crimea: from UkSSR to Russia by A. A. Tokarev

“…After 2002, Donetsk and Luhansk regions provided 70-100% of support to ”Party of Regions“ and its leader. While their main rivals always received minimum points from the Donbass. …”
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Reputation-Based Leader Selection Consensus Algorithm with Rewards for Blockchain Technology by Munir Hussain, Amjad Mehmood, Muhammad Altaf Khan, Rabia Khan, Jaime Lloret

“…The performance analysis is performed by using Hyperledger Fabric v2.1 and the results show that it performs better in terms of throughput, latency, CPU utilization, and communications costs than its rivals Trust-Varying Algo, FP-BFT, and Scalable and Trust-based algorithms.…”
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From Isolationism to Interventionism. Book Review of ‘The U.S.-German Relations, 1938–1941: Politics, Diplomacy, Priorities’ by O.V. Petrosyants by D. V. Rodin

“…The reviewer concludes that this research is especially relevant and worthy of attention in the current international context since it points to the need for an objective and unbiased study of the foreign policy of past and present Russia’s rivals as a key to a better understanding of their current goals.…”
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Software requirement selection using a combined multi‐objective optimisation technique by Wathiq H. Dukhan, Marghny H. Mohamed, Ali A. Amer, Elnomery Allam Zanaty, Omar Reyad

“…Results indicate that HGABC does not just outperform its rivals, yet also gives better Pareto solutions in terms of diversity and quality for almost all the instances of this problem.…”
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INTERNATIONAL RIVALRY IN THE ENERGY SECTOR: THE EASTERN EUROPEAN MARKET OF ATOMIC ENERGY IN FOCUS by Y. V. Borovsky

“…However, they are also political rivals that consider the nuclear power industry generating billions of dollars and supplying energy to many countries as one of important geopolitical resources.…”
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Predicting Solar Energetic Particle Events with Time Series Shapelets by Omar Bahri, Peiyu Li, Soukaïna Filali Boubrahimi, Shah Muhammad Hamdi

“…We demonstrate that our approach rivals state-of-the-art SEP prediction, offering superior interpretability and the ability to predict SEP events before their parent eruptive flares.…”
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The Small Wars Doctrine of the US Marine Corps and Colonial Experience of the European Powers by S. G. Malkin

“…The author concludes that in the interwar period the US law enforcement agencies pragmatically implemented the relevant experience of global empires in Latin American countries within the framework of the Monroe Doctrine, while regarding European powers as political rivals. It is noted that conflicting imperatives of asymmetric and conventional threats to US national security urge researchers and practitioners to revisit after a post-Vietnam period of neglect the approaches of colonial empires to the conduct of small wars and to adapt them to modern conditions. …”
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The Bullseye: HST, Keck/KCWI, and Dragonfly Characterization of a Giant Nine-ringed Galaxy by Imad Pasha, Pieter G. van Dokkum, Qing Liu, William P. Bowman, Steven R. Janssens, Michael A. Keim, Chloe Neufeld, Roberto Abraham

“…The overall size of this galaxy rivals that of known giant low surface brightness galaxies (GLSBs) such as Malin I, lending credence to the hypothesis that CRGs can evolve into GLSBs as their rings expand and fade. …”
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Les effets paradoxaux du transfert des forces de sécurité en Tunisie (juin 1955-mars 1956) by Khansa Ben Tarjem

“…Although they held the reins of the Tunisian government, the Bourguibists depended on French tutelage and police resources to repress their rivals while negotiating with France the conditions for Tunisia's emancipation.To explain this paradox, this article puts forward the hypothesis that the Yussefist opposition to the internal autonomy treaty contributed not only to the transfer of the law enforcement apparatus but also to the acceleration of independence. …”
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Analyzing the discourse of tourism development with a justice-oriented and moderate approach by Mostafa Ghodrati, Mehraban Hadipeykani, Reza Ebrahimzadeh

“…He considered his discourse of moderation different from other previous discourses and even his election rivals. Rouhani believed that the 11th government is the government needed by the Islamic Republic of Iran because progress in the economy, prosperity of business and creation of employment in the country requires the normalization of relations with neighbors and international forums, and the government has a very high ability in foreign and international relations (Mirzaei & Rabbani Khorasghani, 2015). …”
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Philosophical Identities in Market for University Education by Denis, Sekiwu, Nicholas, Itaaga, Anthony Mugagga, Muwagga

“…using grounded theory to filter the voices of 12 participants, the first phase of study, which was qualitative, revealed that a rival (contestable) market of University education in Uganda.…”
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French Сolonizers on “Other” Сolonizers: Britain and Germany in Narratives of Paul Leroy‑Beaulieu and Jules Ferry by Taisiia M. Demicheva

“…That colonizer appeared as a malicious, suddenly appearing on the colonial arena rival, who made a number of mistakes. Thus, France’s main competitors were presented in very different ways: Great Britain as an equal rival, and Germany as a petty, suddenly appeared opponent, from whom one could not know what to expect.…”
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A Rational Model for Agroecology as a Science by Luis Fernando Gómez-Echeverri, Leonardo Alberto Ríos-Osorio, María Luisa Eschenhagen-Durán

“…However, any of them can explain its change or difference with its rival theories in a rational manner that allows assessment of its success. …”
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Dualitat grafica e ensenhament de l’occitan provençal by François Courtray

“…One of the characteristics of the Provençal Occitan is that it can be spelt according to two rival written standards, i.e. the classic and Mistralian orthography. …”
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Methods for Solving Generalized Nash Equilibrium by Biao Qu, Jing Zhao

“…The generalized Nash equilibrium problem (GNEP) is an extension of the standard Nash equilibrium problem (NEP), in which each player's strategy set may depend on the rival player's strategies. In this paper, we present two descent type methods. …”
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Classification, Diagnosis and Treatment of Sinusitis: Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines by Arnold Noyek, David Brodovsky, Stephen Coyle, Martin Desrosiers, Saul Frenkiel, Michael Hawke, James D Kellner, David A Kirkpatrick, Sigmund Krajden, Donald E Low, Lionel Mandell, Bernard Marlow, Gerald F Martin, Richard Rival, Lalitha Shankar, David Vaughan, Ian J Witterick

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