Investigation of Flooding due to Dam Failure: A Case Study of Darlık Dam by Ezgi Selen Tilav, Sezar Gülbaz

“…In this context, it is aimed to contribute to the determination of the areas where measures should be taken by the authorized institutions and to the prevention or reduction of the disasters that will occur due to dam failure. …”
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The role of passive surveillance and citizen science in plant health by Nathan Brown, Ana Pérez-Sierra, Peter Crow, Stephen Parnell

“…Abstract The early detection of plant pests and diseases is vital to the success of any eradication or control programme, but the resources for surveillance are often limited. Plant health authorities can however make use of observations from individuals and stakeholder groups who are monitoring for signs of ill health. …”
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Advances in Transparency and Right to Access Information in The Czech Republic by Jana Janderová

“…Design/methodology/approach: The author studies the crucial provisions of the Act on Free Access to Information. …”
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Involvement of Academic Staff in the Practice of Professional Development by G. Z. Efimova

“…It argues that obtaining additional professional training can be a valuable tool for career growth. The author sees professional development as an integral part of academic growth for scientific and educational workers, along with personal and career development. …”
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A scoping review of substance use brief interventions in Africa. by Florence Jaguga, Sarah Kanana Kiburi, Eunice Temet, Matthew C Aalsma, Mary A Ott, Rachel W Maina, Juddy Wachira, Cyprian Mostert, Gilliane Kosgei, Angeline Tenge, Lukoye Atwoli

“…BIs were defined as those targeting substance use and delivered over 1-4 sessions, or interventions delivered over more than four sessions if the authors referred to them as 'brief'. Results of the review have been summarized descriptively and organized by three broad outcomes: BI effect and feasibility; feasibility and effectiveness of training providers to deliver BIs; Other outcomes i.e. cost-effectiveness, BI adaptation and development, and knowledge attitude and practice of BIs by providers.…”
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Quality Evaluation of Bioactive Ingredients in Lianhua Qingwen Capsule Based on Quantitative Analysis of Multicomponent by the Single Marker Method and the Chemical Recognition Pat... by Qianqian Zhou, Lin Yang, Yiwu Wang, Jiajia Zou, Shuya Li, Lei Dai, Yan Li, Dan He

“…It can provide scientific basis and reference of quality consistency evaluation for the formulation manufacturers and drug regulatory authorities.…”
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Perioperative or neo/adjuvant chemoimmunotherapy versus chemotherapy for resectable non-small cell lung cancer: a systematic review and network meta-analysis by Qiong Zhang, Jia Duan, Yuanmei Zhang, Lei Yang, Duo Li

“…Methods This systematic review and network meta-analysis followed PRISMA guidelines and was registered with PROSPERO. The authors searched PUBMED, Embase, and Cochrane databases for randomized controlled trials (RCTs) involving patients with resectable NSCLC treated with neoadjuvant/adjuvant immunotherapy or chemotherapy. …”
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The right of the wife to maintenance during pregnancy and in the case of living with her child under the age of three by V. Yu. Yevko

“…It was emphasized that the court should assess the husband's ability to provide financial assistance to his wife on the basis of a study of a number of legal facts that characterize his financial situation. The author believes that all types of maintenance of family members and relatives, provided by the family legislation of Ukraine, have the same legal nature and require the same legal regulation. …”
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What made people (more) positive toward the COVID-19 vaccine? Exploring positive and negative deviance perspectives by Mitchell A. M. Matthijssen, Mariëlle Cloin, Florian van Leeuwen, Ien van de Goor, Peter Achterberg

“…Negative deviants did not get vaccinated because they did not perceive the vaccine as appropriate, the disease not as a threat, for religious reasons, or did not trust the authorities. The most important barriers and strategies that were identified that could improve vaccination uptake were unrelated to underlying beliefs and worldviews but related to characteristics of the vaccine such as effectiveness and (potential) side-effects. …”
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Z. Ivinskis: the first objective researcher of St. Casimir's life by Jonas Boruta

“…Casimir was written by an Italian bishop, Zacharias Ferreri, already in the first decade of the 16th century. Later, authors—not excepting even the fairly critical and soberly-thinking famous bishop of Samogitia of the 19th century, Motiejus Valančius—merely repeated the poor information gathered by the first biographer. …”
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Genetic resources of vegetable crops: from breeding non-traditional crops to functional food by Yu. V. Fotev, A. M. Artemyeva, O. A. Zvereva

“…In this review, the authors considered the promising species of vegetable crops for introduction and breeding in the Russian Federation. …”
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Information and Communication Technologies for Development: Evolution of International Discourse by Z. E. Gomboin

“…The final section summarizes the key provisions of critical approaches to ICT4D, which have gained prominence over the last decade. In each section the author examines both conceptual frameworks of the key donors’ policies, and concrete initiatives of international organizations, as well as their financing parameters and modalities. …”
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The inaccurate citation of the “Universal Declaration of Animal Rights” (UDAR) in the scientific literature: a scoping review by Alexandre Azevedo, Martin Whiting, Manuel Magalhães-Sant’Ana

“…Conclusions The misappropriation of the UDAR risks providing a false sense of legitimacy and moral compass to editors, reviewers, and readers regarding animal use and highlights that the authors are unaware of ethical or regulatory frameworks governing the proper use of animals in science. …”
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On Political Islam in Palestine by E. A. Stepkin

“…Abstract: This article deals with analyzing the place and the political Islam occupies on the Palestinian territories. The author tries to prove that despite the “Arab spring” and growing popularity of Islamism in the neighbor Arab countries its popular support among Palestinians is low. …”
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Regulatory and legal basement of decentralization in local self-government according to the legislation of Ukraine and Poland by Shatilo V.

“…Methodology.The methodology consists of legal comparison of scientific-theoretical and regulatory materials. The author used such methods of scientific knowledge: dialectical, systematic, historical methods and methods of analysis, synthesis and analogy. …”
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Robust Prediction of Healthcare Inflation Rate With Statistical and AI Methods in Iran by Mohammad Javad Shaibani, Ali Akbar Fazaeli

“…In this context, a robust approximation of HCIR will be a helpful tool for health authorities and other decision makers. Using monthly time series data of HCIR in Iran, we developed various forecasting techniques based on classical smoothing methods, decomposition ETS (error, trend, and seasonality) approaches, autoregressive (AR) integrated moving average (ARIMA), seasonal ARIMA (SARIMA), and a multilayer nonlinear AR artificial neural network (NARANN) with several training algorithms including Bayesian regularization (BR), Levenberg–Marquardt (LM), scaled conjugate gradient (SCG), Broyden–Fletcher–Goldfarb–Shanno (BFGS) quasi-Newton, conjugate gradient with Powell–Beale restarts (CGB), conjugate gradient with Fletcher–Reeves updates (CGF), and resilient propagation (RPROP) algorithms. …”
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METALANGUAGE AS PEDAGOGICAL PHENOMENON AND ITS ROLE IN LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT OF PERSONALITY AT SCHOOL by Yelena N. Volodina

“…The article reveals the author’s concept of language development and metalanguage as a pedagogical phenomenon, which in the educational semiotics is systemic. …”
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Dynamics of special endurance of athletes aged 13-15 years under the influence of the program of the Cossack duel by Andrij Plokhikh, Gennadij Ogar

“…It is established that for two years of using the author's program the density of shock actions of athletes has increased significantly. …”
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Causes of the exceptionally high number of fatalities in the Ahr valley, Germany, during the 2021 flood by B. Rhein, B. Rhein, H. Kreibich

“…Thus, the main causes for the exceptionally high number of fatalities were the extreme severity of the flood and its underestimation by the population and authorities, as well as inadequate early warning and evacuation. …”
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Optimize the Synthesis Error in an Eight‐Bar Peaucellier–Lipkin Mechanism Using an Objective Function Maximization Approach and Application to Load Lifting by Abdel Axis Bodie Nguemiengo, Frédéric MBA MBA, Alban Fabrice Lionel Epee, Claude Valery Ngayihi Abbe, Charles Hubert Kom

“…The minimum error of Case 1 is compared with the results of authors in the literature on the generation of the right trajectory because the search space is approximately equal. …”
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