Clientelism and Ethnicity as Constraints to Party Organization Change: The AKP in Turkey and Change in District Presidencies by Halide Yazgan, Gül Arıkan Akdağ

“…Based on the existing literature, the study tests the relevance of electoral and intra-party alliance concerns on party organization change for the AKP in its 2017 District Congress. We believe that both the electoral and intra-party alliance concerns the party faced in 2017, make it a suitable case to test the basic hypothesis of the study. …”
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Neonatal Surgery Intensive Care Unit: Hacettepe University Experience by Umit Ayse Tandircioglu, Hasan Tolga Celik, Sule Yigit, Murat Yurdakok

“…The term babies, who did not have any surgical diseases were hospitalized for an average of 4.8 days and those with surgical indications for 16.5 days (p<0.05). CONCLUSION: We believe that the neonatal surgery intensive care unit model should become widespread in Türkiye. …”
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Mechanical Analysis of Preventing Reflection Cracks Based on Stress Absorbing Layer by Lingjie Han, Shihao Zhang, Zhengqi Zhang, Taotao Gao

“…The designed void ratio of the mixture is between 1% and 2.5% for the indoor permeability resistance test. We believe that these findings have certain guiding significance for theoretical analysis and engineering application of stress absorbing layer.…”
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The effects of environmental patents on renewable energy consumption by Mihaela Onofrei, Bogdan Narcis Fîrțescu, Florin Oprea, Dana Claudia Cojocaru

“…Based on these results, we believe that policymakers and regulators should pay more attention to the research financing related to the investment and patenting of new environmental technologies, promoting a policy of encouraging and enforcing green technologies, regardless of their scope of application.…”
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Nutritional Habits’ Review of Amateur and Professional Football Players by Fatma Nur Türkoğlu, Orhan Şener, Ahmet Çöndü

“…Clubs, coaches and athletes looking for success on a national and international level should consult and collaborate with a nutritionist. We believe that it will be very useful to train athletes and coaches, with seminars, courses, panels, etc. and to have an expert dietitian in sports clubs, and to emphasize the importance of this issue in written and visual media.…”
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A systematic mapping study of source code representation for deep learning in software engineering by Hazem Peter Samoaa, Firas Bayram, Pasquale Salza, Philipp Leitner

“…However, we also observe that current research does not generally attempt to transfer existing representations or models to other studies even though there are other contexts in which these representations and models may also be useful. We believe that there is potential for more reuse and the application of transfer learning when applying DL to software engineering tasks.…”
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Ecosystem of structural and technological development: restarting growth of firms and entrepreneurial factor by V. V. Spitsin, L. Yu. Spitsina, M. A. Hasanov, S. N. Popova

“…Manager replacement has occurred more frequently in the group of enterprises with the long-term restarting growth compared to the group of enterprises that have not shown it. We believe that new leaders have initiated processes of digital and technological transformation of the business that lead to long-term growth.…”
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Physics and applications of terahertz metagratings by Shreeya Rane, Shriganesh Prabhu, Dibakar Roy Chowdhury

“…Considering the increasing interests in these one-dimensional artificial subwavelength structures, we believe, our article will be useful for the researchers willing to begin work on terahertz subwavelength gratings.…”
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Blockchain‐Enabled Car Sharing: Enhancing Reliability and Vehicle History Management by Chen Ben Tolila, Yarden Hovav, Kiril Danilchenko, Hadassa Daltrophe

“…To demonstrate the feasibility of our approach, we have developed a prototype utilizing a private Ethereum blockchain with Proof of Authority (PoA) consensus. We believe that the architectural design and the practical solution presented here will play an integral role in shaping the future of smart transportation. …”
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The development of chemical approaches to fossil hominin ecology in South Africa by Julia Lee-Thorp, Matt Sponheimer

“…Together they played leading roles in addressing important questions about African fossil heritage. We point to where we believe future progress is required and we suggest that closer attention is paid to the role of plants because, as the basis of all ecosystems, they represent the most important element in the diets of most primates and hominins. …”
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Distribution of Dopamine Receptor 2 DRD2 rs1800497 Polymorphisms in Professional Football Players by Beste Tacal Aslan, Özlem Özge Yılmaz, Tolga Polat, Çisem Şılar, Başak Funda Eken, Canan Sercan Doğan, Korkut Ulucan

“…In our study cohort, the DRD2 rs1800497 polymorphism was found to be dominated by the GG genotype and the G allele. We believe that the DRD2 A allele is associated with addiction and thus with athletic performance. …”
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Mining the Hidden Link Structure from Distribution Flows for a Spatial Social Network by Yanqiao Zheng, Xiaobing Zhao, Xiaoqi Zhang, Xinyue Ye, Qiwen Dai

“…Unlike the previous studies on this topic which only consider abstract networks, we believe that apart from the link structure, different social-economic features and different geographic locations of nodes can also play critical roles in shaping the spreading process, which has to be taken into account. …”
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Occult Perforation of the Esophagus during Removal of an Enteral Feeding Tube: A Case Report and Literature Review by Mohammad Alabdallat, Gustav Strandvik, Ibrahim Afifi, Ruben Peralta, Ashok Parchani, Ayman El-Menyar, Sandro Rizoli, Hassan Al-Thani

“…Although limited case reports of esophageal enteral feeding bezoar formation do exist in the literature, we believe that this is the first case report of esophageal perforation due to the forceful removal of a wedged OGT secondary to esophageal bezoar formation. …”
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The predictive effects of adiponectin and irisin hormones on diagnosis and clinical involvement of Sarcoidosis by Huseyin Kaya, Hasim Boyaci, Serap Argun Baris, Ilknur Basyigit, Ozgur Doga Ozsoy, Hale Maral Kir

“…Although no significant difference was found in our study, we believe that a comprehensive evaluation of adiponectin in sarcoidosis is important.…”
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Assessing the ecological resilience of Ebola virus in Africa and potential influencing factors based on a synthesized model. by Li Shen, Jiawei Song, Yibo Zhou, Xiaojie Yuan, Samuel Seery, Ting Fu, Xihao Liu, Yihong Liu, Zhongjun Shao, Rui Li, Kun Liu

“…<h4>Conclusions</h4>Our findings suggest new ways to effectively respond to potential Ebola outbreaks in Sub-Saharan Africa. We believe that this integrated modeling approach and response analysis provide a framework that can be extended to predict risk of other worldwide diseases from a similar epidemic study perspective.…”
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Development of an Anatomy Attitude Scale for Medical School Students and Analysis of Their Attitudes by Mehmet Ali Can

“…The results obtained from the data showed that the students of ÇOMU Medical School were aware of the importance of anatomy as a fundamental medical science, and the physician candidates who intended to become a specialist in any branch in the future attributed more value to Anatomy. We believe that the "Anatomy Attitude Scale" we have developed as a result of this study will help shape medical education in our country.…”
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Ultrastructural changes in the common carotid artery in terms of age and gender-related in Rat model by Nejat Ünlükal

“…It is clear that the endothelium is subject to accumulated damage with age. We believe that the dissimilarity between males and females is attributed to the estrogen’s proliferative and anti-inflammatory impact. …”
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Targeting the EZH2-PPAR Axis Is a Potential Therapeutic Pathway for Pancreatic Cancer by Jilong Hu, Zhinan Zheng, Jia Lei, Yuxin Cao, Qiyun Li, Zhi Zheng, Chuanjun Chen

“…These results suggest that the combination of bezafibrate and GSK126 has synergistic effects on PC, and the molecular mechanism may be related to the enhanced inhibition of the Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway. We believe that targeting the EZH2-PPAR axis is a potential therapeutic pathway for PC.…”
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The Idea of the Withering Away of Law in the Early Soviet Legal Philosophy (1917–1930) by G. T. Bogatyrev

“…Razumovsky also described the withering away of law only in general and, apparently, saw it as nothing more than an ideological stamp.The inability to formulate a detailed theory of the withering away of law, we believe, demonstrates the stability of the Western tradition in the face of many years of determined attempts to deconstruct it.…”
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Additive Manufacturing Enabled by Electrospinning for Tougher Bio-Inspired Materials by Komal Agarwal, Yinning Zhou, Hashina Parveen Anwar Ali, Ihor Radchenko, Avinash Baji, Arief S. Budiman

“…Free amino groups (NH2) were introduced on the surface of the fibres and membrane via surface treatment to increase the interaction and adhesion among the different layers of membranes. We believe that this represents a preliminary feasibility in our attempt to mimic the 3D helicoidal architectures at small scales, and we still have room to improve further using even smaller fibre sizes of the modeled architectures. …”
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