Policies, programmes and research on adolescent and youth sexual and reproductive health in South Sudan: a systematic scoping review by Neha S Singh, Jessica Crawford, Chirrilo Madut, Chol Bak, Zack Wol

“…Data were extracted from all eligible articles using an established data extraction tool. The authors identified overarching themes from the extracted data and results were synthesised based on those themes.Results We screened 728 articles, resulting in 52 articles included in the review (19 peer-reviewed, 33 grey literature). …”
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Hikaya as a literary genre (based on A. Eniki's literary works of the 1940s–1960s) by V.R. Amineva

“…The distinctive feature of poetics is a particular type of subjective architectonics (the story is narrated on behalf of the character, who is similar to a lyrical subject, or such a method of creating the sphere of the character is used as substituted direct speech, in which the proximity of the character to the author is emphasized). In the epic hikayas, a strong dramatic trend is manifested, but the dramatic elements are subordinated to the author's setting for the objectification of what is represented and contributed to the actual epic features of the genre. …”
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International Experience in Assessing Economic Security: Basic Approaches and Opportunities for Ukraine by D. O. Koshikov

“…This monitoring of the state of economic security of the country should be carried out by obtaining and studying certain factual data that allows to make a conclusion about the effectiveness of joint efforts of the authorized state agencies in the direction of national economic security. …”
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The concept and significance of registration and permit-licensing procedures in the activities of the National Police by О. А. Bud

“…The implementation of the outlined tasks is aimed at achieving the goal, which consists in forming the author’s definition of the concept of “registration and permit-licensing procedures in the activities of the National Police” and clarifying their significance for ensuring the functioning of the permit system. …”
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Design of High-Speed Multiway Merge Sorting Networks Using Fast Single-Stage N-Sorters and N-Filters by Robert B. Kent, Marios S. Pattichis

“…When the multiway merge sorting networks utilize the single-stage <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$N$ </tex-math></inline-formula>-sorters recently defined by the authors, they are considerably faster than Batcher&#x2019;s networks. …”
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Bibliometric and visual analysis of suicide in aged people over the past 20 years by Shao-Kui Kan, Ying-Li Zhang, Xue-Xia Bai, Bo Peng

“…The country is home to institutions leading in both publication and citation metrics. Prominent authors contributing significantly to this domain include Conwell Yeates, Van Orden Kimberly A., and Waern Margda. …”
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“The Founder and Father of his Empire”: Voltaire on the Peace of Nystad and the Imperial Status of Russia by S. A. Mezin

“…The purpose of the paper is revealing the peculiarities of Voltaire’s views on the last stage of the Northern War, ended by the Treaty of Nystad, as well as presenting the specific character of the great enlightener’s evaluation of the Russian empire and its historical role. The author finds out, why Voltaire, condemning fascination with the history of wars and kings, in his two works: «The History of Charles XII» and «The History of the Russian Empire under Peter the Great» paid great attention to the Northern War and Peter I’s participation in it.The reasons of the French historian interest to the named subject are viewed in terms of the modern methods of historical analysis, «philosophical» basis of his views on war and civilization, features of historical presentation.The paper shows Voltaire’s change in attitude on interpretation of the military historical subjects, first covered in «The History of Charles XII» and then in «The History of the Russian Empire under Peter the Great». …”
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Crisis response strategies of universities during the ongoing war: Beyond experience and responsibilities by Oleksandr Spivakovsky, Serhii Omelchuk, Daria Malchykova

“…The opinions expressed herein are the authors’ own and do not necessarily express the views of either the Bridge USA or American Councils.The authors express their gratitude to the vice-presidents, deans of faculties, and academic and non-academic staff of Kherson State University who participated in the development of institutional documents that implement crisis management decisions presented in this paper and form a crisis response strategy for the university during martial law.…”
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The European Union’s Policies Towards Iraq (2014–2020) by L. D. Oganisyan

“…However, these efforts have not yet been explored in depth by the Russian experts, who traditionally focus on the EU relations with the Southern Mediterranean countries.The author aims to reveal the logic behind the evolution of the European Union’s policy towards Iraq since 2014, as well as its impact on the EU assistance programmes to this country. …”
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The Essence and Approaches to the Interpretation of Law in the Works of Domestic Scholars by V. K. Antoshkina

“…The author outlined the material in chronological order on the topics of scientific works, their main directions, indicating the main views on the nature of legal interpretation or its individual components. …”
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Implementation of the state policy for innovative development of the heat supply sector by Yu. O. Bakrunov, V. V. Glazkova

“…The theoretical basis of the research is the works of Russian and foreign authors on the issues of development, modernization, technical re-equipment of the heat supply sector and its innovative development. …”
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The Specificity of Afghan Identity in the Context of Globalization by Georgy G. Machitidze

“…For almost 20 years, Western attempts to introduce liberal democratic values into Afghan society have failed. The author highlights the fact that Afghan society has remained wary of elements of globalization for fear of losing its cultural and religious identity. …”
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“We Argued for a Long Time — Until the Tears of Stress…” (Scientific Controversy in the Community of Russian Logicians on the Pages of Public Press in the Early 20th Century)... by N.Kh. Orlova

“…The paper discusses some aspects of logics development in Imperial Russia from the point of communication within the academic community. The author analyzes the tradition of writing critic books in response to the works of colleagues. …”
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Clinicopathological Features and Prognoses of Patients With Splenic Metastases From Breast Cancer: A Single-Centre, Retrospective Study by Xiaofeng Xie MD, Mingrui Ma MD, Xue Bai BS, Jing Hu MD, Haijie Zheng MD, Xiongqi Guo BS, Jiayi Huang MD, Xuelian Chen PhD, Liping Chen BS, Xiaofeng Lan BS, Lin Song BS, Caiwen Du PhD

“…As such, the present retrospective study explored the clinicopathological characteristics and prognoses of patients with SMBC at the breast care centre of the authors’ hospital. Methods Data from patients newly diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer (MBC) between June 2017 and June 2022 were extracted from medical records at the authors’ hospital. …”
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Etiopathogenic theories of nervous system diseases in Vilnius in the early 19th century: “insanity and epilepsy exacerbate when the moonlight shines” by E. Sakalauskaitė-Juodeikienė

“…However, in the medical writings of the Vilnius University (VU) authors of that time, the brain was already called the “noblest organ of the human body”, the seat of the soul, the centre of external senses, and the primary beginning of all bodily movements. …”
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Point-of-care tests in the emergency medical services: a scoping review by T. H. M. Moore, S. Dawson, K. Kirby, R. Body, A. Thompson, Y. O. Adepoju, R. Perry, H. Nicholson, J. Dinnes, K. Mitchell, J. Savović, S. Voss, J. R. Benger

“…Methods We searched three databases to April 2023 using comprehensive terms for POCTs. One author screened titles and abstracts, full-text papers and extracted data with a second author checking the data. …”
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Muslim Bank as a Historical Category: Creating Credit Institutions for Muslims In the First Half of the 20 ^th Century by R. I. Bekkin

“…According to the author, the very creation of Islamic banks, as well as their convergence with conventional (non-Islamic) credit institutions, which we observe today, is a natural result of a change in the economic interests of the ruling class both in the countries of the spread of Islam and in the Western world.The article examines the history of the creation of Muslim banks in Bosnia and Herzegovina and in British India. …”
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Kazakh khans of the 15th–17th centuries in the scientific heritage of Shigabutdin Marjani by Atygayev N.A.

“…Velyaminov-Zernov, as well as famous historical works by Muslim authors of the Middle Ages, written in Persian and Turkic languages. …”
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Critical analysis of doctrinal approaches to the definition of “biological terrorism” by О. V. Shamsutdinov

“…With the purpose of formulating a universal definition of the “biological terrorism” concept, the author clarifies the content and features of the generic concept of “terrorism”. …”
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Integration of field data and application of machine learning methods to assess the condition of the near-wellbore zone of carbonate reservoirs by Andrey V. Soromotin, Dmitriy A. Martyushev

“…To perform the task of classifying clusters based on source data, the authors have used a machine learning technique – support vector machine and constructed differentially the regression models for each cluster. …”
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