China’s Economic Engagement in the Middle East by Dana M.D Sajadi, Waqar Ahmad

“…Nonetheless, the instability of the US special program in the Middle East posed a fresh challenge to the future progress of bilateral relations. …”
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Trauma-Induced Double-Seronegative Ocular Myasthenia Gravis: A Case Report by Mohammad Ali Khalid, Muhammad Jawad Awan, Ambreen Gull, Nida Hafeez, Bushra Ali, Fuad Ahmad Khan Niazi

“…Thorough history and examination remain of prime importance which can provide adequate clues to lead us to the diagnosis of ocular myasthenia gravis. …”
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Nonlinear Programming to Determine Best Weighted Coefficient of Balanced LINEX Loss Function Based on Lower Record Values by Fuad S. Al-Duais, Mohammed Alhagyan

“…However, this methodology is not efficient because there is no guarantee ensures that one of the chosen values is the best. This encouraged us to look for mathematical method that gives and guarantees the best values of the weighted coefficients. …”
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The position of two recently described endemic taxa in the system of the genus Saussurea (Asteraceae) by Daniil V. Yusupovsky, Elizaveta A. Pyak

“…Salsae (to which S. salsa, S. turgaiensis and S. daurica belong) in this section raises, in particular, obvious doubts. This prompted us to undertake an investigation of the aforementioned species, with a view to clarifying their systematic position, based on an analysis of the ITS1-5.8S-ITS2, rsp16-trnQ, ndhF-rpl32, ycf4-cemA regions and a comparative morphological analysis. …”
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THE MEANING OF SEMANTIC ANALYSIS WITHIN SONG’S LYRICS “A HEAD FULL OF DREAMS” ALBUM BY COLDPLAY by Lilis Sholihah

“…Then, the five song lyrics in a head full of dreams album by Coldplay tell us about human social life which contained about love, sadness, happiness, spirit and adventure of life.   …”
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Factors of Building and Developing an Academic Career: Systematic Theoretical Analysis by A. V. Pesha

“…The conducted research allows us to form a model of key factors in the development of an academic career, including 4 main, equivalent groups – personal, reputational, systemic factors and factors of social capital, as well as the luck factor, which is highlighted in a number of studies as influencing the quality and speed of building a career trajectory in the field under study. …”
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Wreathing, discrete gauging, and non-invertible symmetries by Julius F. Grimminger, William Harding, Noppadol Mekareeya

“…We present a prescription for refining the index with respect to the fugacities associated with the Abelian discrete symmetries that are subgroups of G. This allows us to study sequential gauging of various subgroups of G and construct symmetry webs. …”
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Unity of tradition and innovation as a sustainable development factor of digital society by Yu. A. Chernavin

“…The specifics of its implementation are determined by specific historical conditions that allow us to distinguish three stages of development – with the dominance of tradition, the predominance of innovation, the unity of tradition and innovation. …”
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SELF-DETERMINATION OF THE KURDES IN SYRIA: ORIGINS, FORMS AND INTERNATIONAL PROSPECTS by M. Dyurre

“…This political force is in contact with the official Syrian authorities and, at the same time, receives US support. Created by the efforts of the “Democratic Union” the Kurdish autonomy in the north of the country provides stability in territories with the Kurdish and mixed populations, and also performs socio-economic functions. …”
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The State-Dependent Impulsive Model with Action Threshold Depending on the Pest Density and Its Changing Rate by Ihsan Ullah Khan, Sanyi Tang, Biao Tang

“…With the help of Lambert W function, the Poincaré map is constructed for the phase set, which can help us to provide the satisfactory conditions for the existence and stability of the semitrivial periodic solution and interior order-1 periodic solutions. …”
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Application of Principal Component Analysis for Steel Material Components by Miran Othman Tofiq, Kawa Muhammad Jamal Rasheed

“…To minimize the dimensionality of a data set that included a large range of connected variables while yet keeping as much variance within the data set as possible, we employed a method called principal component analysis (PCA). This allowed us to analyze eleven steel components. This is accomplished by reworking the unique variables into a brand new set of uncorrelated variables known as principal components (PC). …”
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Enhancing Awareness of Physical Activity Guidelines among Saudi College Students: The 150 Minutes Program by Mohammed Alshehri

“…Initiated as part of the national “Sports for All Challenge,” this program targets college students to improve their understanding of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ physical activity guidelines. …”
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OGPU organs and Soviet aviation (1928–1934) by A. S. Stepanov

“…The author comes to the conclusion that the materials of the special services, despite the need for critical perception of some of their conclusions, allow us to get an objective idea of the problems of Soviet aviation during its quantitative and qualitative growth (1928–1934).…”
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THE INSTITUTIONAL SYSTEM OF THE COMMON SECURITY AND DEFENCE POLICY (CSDP) OF THE EUROPEAN UNION: STRUCTURE AND MECHANICS by M. S. Fedorov

“…First, it is the exclusively intergovernmental nature of the CSDP and the veto-power of EU member states in this field. Second, the EU-US and the EU-NATO relations have also influenced the shape of the CSDP organizational structures. …”
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COVID-19 death toll predictions show that triggering counterfactual thinking deteriorates judgmental performance by Matthias Seifert, Jeeva Somasundaram

“…Methods Based on 6731 incentivized daily forecasts collected over 377 days (from April 2020–May 2021), we investigate the role of triggering counterfactual thinking when interpreting public information regarding the daily US death toll from COVID-19. Results Here we show that individuals who engaged in thinking about “interventions that could have led to an alternative evolution of the death toll” prior to making forecasts exhibit greater judgmental bias in their predictions compared to the control group. …”
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The Struggle for Influence on the Roof of the World by E. M. Kozhokin

“…It also attracts the most active, young, educated citizens of Tajikistan to US for permanent residence. Of all countries, China has the most consistent and effective investment strategy, which includes the allocation of investment loans to Tajikistan, the creation of infrastructure facilities through these loans by Chinese companies and labor. …”
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Two Cases of Acute Cholecystitis and Symptomatic Choledocholithiasis in Two Women Less than 40-Years-of-Age with Hormonal Intrauterine Devices by Helen M. Shields, Hasrat Sidhu

“…Our experiences with these two patients led us to believe that patients with risk factors for gallstone disease, such as a positive family history, ethnic predisposition, or obesity, should be warned of possible problems, not only with gallbladder disease, but also of common duct stones.…”
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Degradation Data-Driven Remaining Useful Life Estimation in the Absence of Prior Degradation Knowledge by Yong Yu, Changhua Hu, Xiaosheng Si, Jianxun Zhang

“…However, the fast development of science and technology provides us with many kinds of new systems, and we just have the real-time monitoring information to analyze the reliability for them. …”
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Into the clinic: Talimogene laherparepvec (T-VEC), a first-in-class intratumoral oncolytic viral therapy by Ann W. Silk, Howard L. Kaufman, Hasan Rehman, Michael P. Kane

“…However, the adoption of T-VEC by the U.S. oncology community has been slow, and so far has been largely limited to specialized cancer centers. …”
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Dancing to the Bhangra in New York City by Anjali Gera Roy

“…Born in London and raised in Queens and Long Island, Brooklyn based DJ Rekha, who is credited with pioneering bhangra, had been invited to perform at events like P.S. 1’s Warm Up Series, Central Park’s Summerstage, Prospect Park’s Celebrate Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum’s First Saturdays, and the annual flagship Loving Day celebration held in New York City, recognized by Newsweek as one of the most influential South Asians in the US and received accolades from The New York Times, CNN, The Fader, The Village Voice, and The Washington Post.  …”
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