Evidence that flocking behavior is rewarded by singing, flock mates, and mu opioid receptors in the nucleus accumbens. by Alyse N Maksimoski, Taviah A Levenson, Changjiu Zhao, Lauren V Riters

“…This indicates that the act of singing in flocks is associated with a positive affective state and raises the possibility that reward induced by song in flocks may play a role in flock maintenance. …”
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Financing of capital investments by budgetary and autonomous institutions: modern tendencies by I. I. Kokhanovskaya, Ya. V. Nazarenko

“…The institution in this case acts on behalf of the public (municipal) authority. …”
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Ways of forming the socio-psychological competence of sociology students in the course of training in higher education institutions by Ya. V. Chernikova, R. A. Ashurbekov

“…Educational institutions at the same time act as one of the main factors that influence socialisation and formation of the psychological culture of a sociology student during their education.…”
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De la haine au crime by Charles de Lespinay, Frank Alvarez Pereyre

“…By the moment the very notion of difference gives ground to criminal acts, one has to better understand what is actually called stereotypes and prejudices, and how law should find its way when facing such developments. …”
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Finding a model for contrastive lexical semantics: A look at verbal communication verbs by Åke Viberg

“…Searle’s classification of speech acts serves as an important starting point but is not directly concerned with lexical structure, which is a major concern for the two theories that are compared in this study. …”
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Growth and metabolic activities of cowpea seedlings exposed to artificial pond wastewaterâtreated soil by F. I. Achuba, M. N. Oshiokpu

“…Conclusion The major effects of APWW on plants were stimulation of growth parameters, increase in concentration of macromolecules as well as increase in activities of starch-metabolizing enzymes, and peroxidase activity with no adverse effect on antioxidant, respiratory and drug-metabolizing enzymes, thus, suggesting that artificial pond wastewater has positive effect on cowpea seedlings and can act as organic fertilizer for cowpea cultivation.…”
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Chrudimský Kristus a zázračné souřadnice jeho barokní legendy by Pavel Panoch

“…The picture came to Chrudim a bit later and in 1648 it played a lead role in the brutal vituparation acted by Swedish Lutherans. The result of this physical iconoclastic disgrace made on the artwork was an ineffaceable bloody hack on the temple of St. …”
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Development of the Japanese Environmental Security Concept by V. I. Danilova

“…Thus, particular attention is paid to the Japanese government's turn to deliberate, systematic, long term activity on environmental conservation, which includes special legislative acts elaboration, pre- and postwar economic growth policy review. …”
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Administrative and Legal Status of the Assessment and Disciplinary Board of Prosecutors by V. Yu. Tsebinoga

“…Thus, the administrative and legal status of the Assessment and Disciplinary Board of prosecutors is a complex and multifaceted category that determines the place and role of the Assessment and Disciplinary Board of prosecutors among other subjects of law, and its elements are clearly regulated and defined in regulatory legal acts. Considering the above, we note that the changes that are currently taking place in the prosecutor’s office are aimed at improving the activities of the latter, which should contribute to the creation of a qualitatively new basis for the activities and organization of the prosecutor’s office in accordance with European standards, as well as the construction of a new model of the prosecutor’s office, designed to effectively fulfill its constitutional functions.…”
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FACTORS OF FORMATION OF UNIVERSITY GRADUATES’ CAREER TRAJECTORIES by L. V. Temnova, O. A. Lizunova

“…The authors have analyzed the social practices and identified the groups of factors that shape the graduates’ career trajectories on three levels: 1) personal (key types of literacy and basic skills of the 21st century, the level of awareness (assessment of what is happening, personal motives, resources, skills, knowledge, understanding the context of situation, self-esteem); self-development (the ability to explore, show interest, initiative), the ability to make various choices (evaluation of the importance of choice, awareness of choice), the ability to act purposefully (the ability to implement ideas, skill planning, managing internal and external resources), the ability to inform others on the results of one’s work (reflection, evaluation, etc.), 2) institutional (educational organization, the system of additional education for advanced training, the system of higher education, Federal state educational standards, the National Qualifications Framework, the Register of Professional Standards, various national and international recruitment agencies, employment centers, vocational guidance centers for testing and training, etc.) and 3) the social level (mobility, movement of labor resources, migration, social, resource and natural risks, etc.). …”
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Digitalización e inteligencia artificial en el seguro: manifestaciones y encaje legal by María Luisa Muñoz Paredes

“…En fin, también se estudia el efecto que puede tener la aplicación de la EU Data Act en los seguros telemáticos. …”
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CONSTITUTIONAL AND LEGAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES AND PECULIARITGIES OF THE 1987 CONSTITUTION by A. N. Pankov

“…The article analyzes the stages of constitutional development of the Philippines, the principles and characteristics of the various constitutional acts adopted in the American colonial period and after the country's legal independence. …”
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¿<i>Dónde Vive la Ciencia en su Comunidad?</i>: How a Community Is Using Photovoice to Reclaim Local Green Spaces by Espacio: Familias y Comunidad

“…Establishing shared green spaces emerged as an act of epistemic disobedience and resistance for sustaining community health and cultural identity. …”
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Motives and features of cross-platform self-presentation of Russian students by M. I. Krishtal, A. V. Shchekoturov

“…Social networks increasingly act as a full-fledged tool in the process of expressing one’s identity and self- presentation. …”
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The role of epigenetics in plant pathogens interactions under the changing environments: A systematic review by Wenhao Wu, Guoqiang Fan

“…Small RNAs (miRNAs) and long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) act as post-transcriptional regulators, orchestrating immune signaling and pathogen counter-defense strategies. …”
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Flavour deconstructing the composite Higgs by Sebastiano Covone, Joe Davighi, Gino Isidori, Marko Pesut

“…At the TeV scale, the gauge groups SU(2) R and U(1) B−L are assumed to act in a non-universal manner on light- and third-generation fermions, while the Higgs emerges as a pseudo Nambu-Goldstone boson of the spontaneous global symmetry breaking Sp(4) → SU(2) L × SU 2 R 3 $$ \textrm{SU}{(2)}_R^{\left[3\right]} $$ , attributed to new strong dynamics. …”
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Competition authority in a trap? A few (bitter) words on making public policy by counteracting an unfair use of a contractual advantage in agri-food sector in Poland by Agata Jurkowska-Gomułka

“…A point of reference for considerations is a Polish regulation dated from December 2016 - Act on Counteracting the Unfair Use of Contractual Advantage in the Trade in Agricultural and Food Products. …”
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The Ambit of Terms and Conditions of Employment in Equal Pay Claims Under Section 6(4) of the EEA: Lessons from International Labour Law by Shamier Ebrahim

“… Section 6(4) of the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998 (hereafter the EEA) seeks to provide an explicit basis for three types of equal pay claims. …”
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What is the implementation practice of schools as learning organisations from the perspective of local governments? by Inese Lusena-Ezera, Gunta Siliņa-Jasjukeviča

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Susceptibility to Aneuploidy in Young Mothers of Down Syndrome Children by Lucia Migliore, Francesca Migheli, Fabio Coppedè

“…Multiple risk factors are likely involved in chromosome nondisjunction; they act at different times in the meiotic process and can be of genetic or environmental (epigenetic) origin. …”
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