The Arab Spring and Russia's Middle East Policy by Ali Samir Merdan, Halit Hamzaoğlu

“…Russia first considered the Arab Spring as a regional domestic issue, but this perspective changed as outside influences became involved in the events. The Western powers viewing the Arab Spring as a new regional political configuration influenced the overall framework of this change. …”
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Gazetecilik Yıllarında Bülent Ecevit ve Anti-Komünizm (1950-1961) by Ferit Salim SANLI

“…Ecevit also evaluated communism as a problem against the values of Western culture and civilization. Ecevit, who undertook the spokesmanship of the pole described as the "free world" under the leadership of the United States against communism, believed that democracy is as important as military measures in the fight against communism, and that the state should provide social justice and welfare to the citizens in order to eliminate the ground that may cause communism to be favored. …”
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MUNICH CRISIS: BEHIND – THE SCENE HISTORY by A. Y. Borisov

“…Much of today’s policies of the leading Western powers, primarily the United States, echo their actions during the preparation and implementation of the Munich conspiracy. …”
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Integrated Evaluation of the Ecological Security Pattern in Central Beijing Using InVEST, MSPA, and Multifactor Indices by Xiaodan Li, Haoyu Tao, Jing Wang, Bo Zhang, Zhen Liu, Zhiping Liu, Jing Li

“…The results show the following: (1) Central Beijing contains 157 ecological sources, primarily distributed in the western, northern, and eastern regions, with woodland as the dominant land type. (2) A total of 439 ecological corridors were extracted, including 317 key ecological corridors and 122 inactive ecological corridors. (3) The identified ecological pinch points are mainly the Jingmi Diversion Canal and the West Moat. (4) The identified ecological barriers are spread throughout the entire study area. …”
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"He Has Rescued Me from Danger" by Sarah Bishop

“…Finally, I make suggestions on how to enhance mental health care in culturally-relevant ways in a religious society such as in Ethiopia, as well as draw out cross-cultural implications for mental health care in the western system. …”
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The Environmental Impact of a Wave Dragon Array Operating in the Black Sea by Sorin Diaconu, Eugen Rusu

“…The present work describes a study related to the influence on the shoreline dynamics of a wave farm consisting of Wave Dragon devices operating in the western side of the Black Sea. Based on historical data analysis of the wave climate, the most relevant environmental conditions that could occur were defined, and for these cases, simulations with SWAN spectral phase averaged wave model were performed. …”
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Goat Production in El Salvador: A Focus on Animal Health, Milking Hygiene, and Raw Milk Quality by Kristina Linderot de Cardona, Abelardo De Gracia Scanapieco, Peggy G. Braun

“…The survey was submitted in western and central parts of the country: 191 goat owners were interviewed on animal management and production, 434 goats underwent a basic clinical exam, and raw milk samples were taken from 60 lactating does. …”
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The Development of Sex Reassignment Surgery in Thailand: A Social Perspective by Prayuth Chokrungvaranont, Gennaro Selvaggi, Sirachai Jindarak, Apichai Angspatt, Pornthep Pungrasmi, Poonpismai Suwajo, Preecha Tiewtranon

“…Transsexual individuals are only apparently integrated within the Thail society: the law system of Thailand in fact, does not guarantee to transsexuals the same rights as in other Western countries; the governmental healthcare does not offer free treatments for transsexual patients. …”
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A Target Domain-Specific Classifier Weight Partial Transfer Adversarial Network for Bearing Fault Diagnosis by Yin Bai, Xiangdong Hu, Kai Zheng, Yunnong Chen, Yi Tang

“…Finally, five mainstream deep neural network methods are taken for comparison using the data from Western Reserve University and the motor-magnetic brake test designed by us. …”
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Progressive scale implementation for personal income tax as a necessary condition for ensuring social justice by N. Z. Zotikov

“…In the context of the current unfavorable demographic situation and external challenges due to Western sanctions, it is necessary to strengthen motivation to work, considering foreign positive experience to introduce a real and workable progressive scale of personal income taxation.…”
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The impact of ecological civilization construction on the resilience of green technology innovation: evidence based on double dual machine learning by Cunlin Li, Cunlin Li, Shiyu Zhang, Shiyu Zhang, Baojun Yang, Baojun Yang

“…We also conduct an analysis of heterogeneity based on geographical locations and levels of policy support, and the results show that the impact of ECDZs on urban green innovation resilience is mainly observed in western, inland, and strongly policy-supported regions. …”
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The impact of virtual exchange on East–West social relations: lessons from a China-Portugal foreign language exchange by Rienties Bart, Rets Irina

“…At the same time, few studies have looked at collaboration patterns between Asian and Western students, while using robust mixed methods research design (i.e., pre-post TPACK, foreign language competence, diaries) and social network analysis. …”
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MicroRNA-877-5p Inhibits Cell Progression by Targeting FOXM1 in Lung Cancer by Zhiguang Liu, Xinlian Wang, Liqiang Cao, Xiaowei Yin, Qian Zhang, Lan Wang

“…The downstream targets of miR-877-5p were predicted by Bioinformatics software. RT-qPCR and western blot were employed to analyze the gene levels. …”
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Investigation into the Early Cracking Behavior of High-Geothermal Tunnel Lining Concrete Based on Thermal–Mechanical Coupling Model by Si Xie, Dan Zhao, Peng Yi, Qian Chen, Wei Liu

“…As a typical extreme environment, a high-geothermal environment poses severe challenges to tunnel construction in western China. In this paper, a thermal–mechanical coupling model was formulated to evaluate the cracking behavior of lining under high-geothermal conditions, considering the early property evolution of concrete. …”
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Liver-Specific Overexpression of Gamma-Glutamyltransferase Ameliorates Insulin Sensitivity of Male C57BL/6 Mice by Yang Long, Dan Jia, Libin Wei, Yumei Yang, Haoming Tian, Tao Chen

“…Increased GGT activity had no effect on the glucose tolerance but could facilitate blood glucose lowering after intraperitoneal insulin administration. The results of Western blotting showed that increased GGT activity enhanced insulin-induced AKT phosphorylation at Ser473. …”
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Islamic Sosialisme According to Mustafa al-Siba‘i by Mohd Hatib Ismail, Ahmad Sunawari Long, Siti Rohani Jasni

“…The ideology of socialism has emerged among Western thinkers to create a society based on social justice. …”
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Die uitbeelding van die vroulike rol in advertensies in Suid-Afrikaanse vrouelydskrifte by Angela Petersen

“…For this purpose it was necessary to review the role of women in Western Society and to determine which historical factors had influenced this role. …”
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Non-metric variations in individuals who died during the perinatal period in past populations: recording protocol and comparative data by Caroline Partiot, Dominique Castex, Valérie Delattre, Bruno Maureille, Mark Guillon

“…No significant population-based difference was found between the Nubian and the Western European samples. Frequencies in the perinatal sample were compared with those of samples including juvenile and adult individuals from other chrono-geographical contexts.…”
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A Comprehensive Updated Review of Pharmaceutical and Nonpharmaceutical Treatment for NAFLD by Newaz Hossain, Pushpjeet Kanwar, Smruti R. Mohanty

“…Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the most common liver disease in the western world with prevalence of 20–33%. NAFLD comprises a pathological spectrum. …”
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Study on Varying Characteristics of Temperature Field and Moisture Field of Shallow Loess in the Freeze-Thaw Period by Hui Zhang, Bin Zhi, Enlong Liu, Tiehang Wang

“…In this regard, the coupled calculation model is proposed in this paper to simulate the dynamic variation of temperature and moisture in shallow soil in Bin County located in Western China under natural conditions, compare the calculation value with the measurement value, and further verify the rationality of the numerical calculation method and parameter selection. …”
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