"CYCLIST ON THE MARSH": LESSONS AND PROSPECTS OF THE LAST EU ENLARGEMENT by A. I. Tevdoy-Bourmouli

“…Specific historic experience of the applicants pre-determined a considerable specialty of west-European fashioned democratic regimes in those countries, weakness of consensus and tolerance culture which has already rooted itself in the West-European society, and which has to a considerable degree secured stable development of Western Europe over the last decades. This constellation resulted particularly in the renaissance on the level of European establishment of the nationalist phobia and memories deeply buried decades ago. …”
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The Retrospective View and Desire for Stability; A Critique on the Book The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin by Reza Nasiri Hamed

“…The book “Reactionary Mind” has formed and studied the dimensions of this idea especially in Western Europe and the United States with the main claim that the idea of conservatism has always been based on dealing with the revolutionary currents, especially from the left tradition. …”
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Landscape architecture education and democracy by Zydi Teqja, Albert Karaj

“…Until the mid- seventies several new landscape architecture programs started in Western Europe. From the mid-seventies to the end of the eighties existing programs increased their number of staff members and students. …”
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The Fall of Fertility in Tasmania, Australia, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by Helen Moyle

“…Despite Tasmania’s location on the other side of the world, the fertility decline had remarkable similarities with the historical fertility decline in continental Western Europe, England and other English-speaking countries. …”
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Bilateral Total Hip and Unilateral Knee Arthroplasties in a Young Adult with Arthropathy-Associated Intestinal Epithelial Dysplasia (Tufting Enteropathy) by Colin Ng, Kurt Magri, Ryan Giordmaina, Duncan Whitwell

“…Low prevalence rates of 1 in 100,000 live births in Western Europe exist, with higher rates in North Africa and Middle Eastern countries. …”
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From Territorical Swath to Line - Border: the Alteration of Border Conception in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in 14th-16th Centuries by Tomas Čelkis

“… According to the Poland and Western Europe historians' research works and empirical material, this article is an attempt to reconstruct the conception and vicissitude of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania’s (GDL) western border in the 14th-16th centuries. …”
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Minorités linguistiques autochtones des Alpes italiennes  by Ernst Steinicke, Judith Walder, Roland Löffler, Michael Beismann

“…More than any other area in Western Europe, the Alps, especially the Italian Alps, are home to great ethno-cultural diversity: there, no less than seven autochthonous linguistic minorities coexist side by side with the respective official majority. …”
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<i>The Woman as Wolf</i> (AT 409): Some Interpretations of a Very Estonian Folk Tale by Merili Metsvahi

“…The article introduces the content of the tale, the origin of the first records from the early 19th century, and the dissemination area of the tale, which remains outside Western Europe: apart from the Estonian versions there are Sami, Karelian, Vepsian, Livonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian versions. …”
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Formation of National Identity in Slovakia by M. V. Vedernikov

“…Along the integration into Western Europe there was a departure from the nationalist discourse in Slovakia, although its rejection was never complete. …”
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Autochthonous Linguistic Minorities in the Italian Alps: by Ernst Steinicke, Judith Walder, Roland Löffler, Michael Beismann

“…More than any other area in Western Europe, the Alps, especially the Italian Alps, are home to great ethno-cultural diversity: there, no less than seven autochthonous linguistic minorities coexist side by side with the respective official majority. …”
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Ethical Issues in Pharmacologic Research in Women Undergoing Pregnancy Termination: A Systemic Review and Survey of Researchers by Christelle Gedeon, Alejandro A. Nava-Ocampo, Gideon Koren

“…The majority of studies were completed by international groups and not in North America or Western Europe. Conclusions. While a majority of respondents to the survey felt that, although research in women undergoing a pregnancy termination is ethically acceptable, 40% stated that it is not likely to be approved by institutional review boards of most North American medical institutions.…”
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To the question of ethno-cultural policy of contemporary states by E. S. Karsanova

“…At the end of 2010 - beginning of 2011 political leaders of Germany, Great Britain and France made statements for «a multiculturalism failure» that became a significant event in socio-political and ethnocultural life of Western Europe. Certainly, leaders of three leading countries of the European Union didn’t put into question the need of harmonious coexistence of representatives of various ethnocultures and religions in one state. …”
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Research of defects of hot-rolled steel having rolling nature of formation of the rolling shop no. 1 of rolling mill 850 at OJSC «BSW – Management Company of Holding «BMC» by I. A. Kovaleva, Yu. A. Potapenko

“…Rolling is the final stage of the metallurgical cycle and has a great influence on the quantity and quality of products, as well as on various technological and economic indicators of the plant.The OJSC « BSW – Management Company of Holding «BMC» is working on the development and supply of hot-rolled round products for the automotive industry in Western Europe.The increasing requirements for the quality of the surface of hot-rolled steel are a powerful incentive to improve the technology of its production, which is impossible without the use of modern methods of control and proper identification of detected defects.The article presents the results of the study of defects of hot-rolled products of rolling mill № 1 850, having the rolling nature of formation.Metallographic study was conducted on the basis of: visual inspection of defects, in some cases with the preparation of a template for the study of macrostructure and location of defects; analysis of images of the microstructure of the cross section of the sample in the area of defects. …”
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Unequal ageing: the quality of life of senior citizens in the EU before and after COVID-19. A multidimensional approach by Elżbieta Roszko-Wójtowicz, Klaudia Przybysz, Agnieszka Stanimir

“…In particular:Northern and Western Europe: seniors in these regions generally experienced improved overall life quality over the observed period. …”
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The authority of the printed word in the Lithuanian village of the XIX century by Džiuljeta Maskoliūnienė

“…Despite obvious unfavorable circumstances, which emerged in Lithuania in the 19th century as well as in Western Europe, both society and culture started to democratize. …”
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Analysis of the sexual dimorphism of metric variables of the cranial base: Archaeo-anthropological and forensic implications by Alexandra Boucherie

“…., occipital, temporal bones and bony labyrinth) using a corpus of 611 skulls and 121 bony labyrinths from identified individuals – both immature and adult – from Western Europe. The study shows how the expression of this sexual dimorphism becomes more marked on the temporal bone as from the pubertal growth peak. …”
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Actualité de la pensée de Georges Millardet en linguistique et dialectologie romanes à travers sa contribution à la RLaR by Jean Léo Léonard

“…This vigorously controversial piece of scholarship confronts the ideas in vogue at the time in Romance dialectology, especially linguistic geography, held by Jules Gilliéron and his followers, in the light of methods used in general linguistics, which is still incipient in France and Western Europe. With other contributions from the same author in the RLaR, these two major papers from Georges Millardet are both an Opera aperta (as Umberto Eco coined it, i.e. an inexhaustible source of knowledge and insights) and a mirror of the pre- and post-WWI epoch, and of the current challenges met by the paradigms of Romance linguistics and dialectology, at any time.…”
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Unia Europejska wobec narodowych aspiracji Katalończyków by Roman Szul

“…Catalans distinguish between the concepts of "nation" and "state," according to which there can be a nation without a state as well as a nationality residing in more than one state, while mostly in Western Europe these concepts are not distinguished: states are nations and nations without a state do not exist. …”
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Socioeconomic Inequalities in Diabetes Prevalence in Europe by Sahar Sidahmed, Siegfried Geyer, Johannes Beller

“…Overall diabetes prevalence in Europe was reported to be 6.12%, and was higher in participants from Eastern and Southern Europe than in Northern and Western Europe. Additionally, men in Western and Northern Europe had a higher risk of reporting having diabetes compared to women. …”
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The impact of self-employment on the economic integration of immigrants: Evidence from Germany by Jan Brzozowski, Anke Lasek

“…Therefore, in many popular destinations in Western Europe and Northern America, policies encouraging the self-employment of immigrants have been proposed. …”
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