The financialization of healthcare by Norberto Montani Martins, Carlos Ocké-Reis

“…These firms provide healthcare coverage alongside the functioning of the Unified Health System (SUS), constituting an avenue for the accumulation of capital. …”
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Arsenic leakage crisis in supply chain of battery storage materials: Water quality footprint of cobalt mining demands action by Anna C. Schomberg, Wolf von Tümpling, Ellen Kynast

“…In such a scenario, this single mine's water quality footprint would constitute up to 0.15 % of Morocco's annual water availability, concerning all electric cars produced annually with cobalt from this mine, and would take up half the annual capacity of one seawater desalination plant. …”
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Creating Dissonance: Self-Tracking Devices and their Effects on Users by Xenia Schmidli

“…Based on theories of the extended embodied self (Fuchs, 2018) and the extended mind (Clark & Chalmers, 1998), I have argued before for tracking devices as being able to constitute an extension of the self by becoming part of a coupled system between the user and the tracking device with said coupled system then carrying out the cognitive task of gaining new self-knowledge (Schmidli, unpub.). …”
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EFFECT OF GREEN HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT ON CORPORATE SUSTAINABILITY IN THE INSURANCE SECTOR by Adelugba Iyabode Abisola, Eze Benneth Uchenna, Olojede Paul, Eyanuku Julius Paul

“…The population of this study comprised 20,000 employees and agents of insurance firms in Nigeria, which constituted the element of observation of this study. …”
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Seepage Damage Statistical Model of Filled Fractured Rock considering Structural Surface and Failure Characteristic by Xinyu Liu, Yuan Tian, Zhende Zhu

“…This paper mainly studies the rationality and feasibility of using this new constitutive model to describe the seepage failure process and damage characteristics of filled fractured rock. …”
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London’s Great Starfish: The Construction of Mid-Victorian Suburban Fiction by Tamara Silvia Wagner

“…What was new and different about Victorian suburbia and how the cultural fictions that have shaped our understanding of what constitutes ‘suburbanism’ were created are rarely addressed issues. …”
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Däbrä Aron: A Rock-cut Monastic Church, Mäqet District of Northern Ethiopia by Tsegaye Ebabey Demissie

“…It has a complex layout constituting different parts – elongated anteroom, aisles, nave, tripartite sanctuary and compartmented chapels – separated by unevenly shaped columns with rough capitals and arches. …”
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EPPTA: Efficient partially observable reinforcement learning agent for penetration testing applications by Zegang Li, Qian Zhang, Guangwen Yang

“…Effectively managing the intrinsic uncertainties via partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs) constitutes a persistent challenge within the realm of pen‐testing. …”
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Modern Scientific Approaches on Defining an Administrative Offense by O. V. Panaciuk

“…Nowadays, legal science defines several types of them: constitutional and legal misdemeanor, civil misdemeanor, administrative misdemeanor, disciplinary misdemeanor, tax misdemeanor. …”
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The language of law as a unique direction of human communication (theoretical legal and philosophical reflections) by V. V. Lazariev

“…Attention has been drawn to the fact that in foreign political and legal opinion, the statement is gaining more and more strength that if the goal of the law is really unlimited access of citizens to their constitutional rights to information and non-degradation of any gender, then the simplification of legal communication and gender-neutral writing should be its main goal.…”
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Characterization of rectum-colon cancer in Cienfuegos province from 1995 to 2000. by Itengré Ouédraogo, Julio Pablo Miñoso Andina, Juan E. Domínguez Suárez

“…There is an incidence around 11 000 new cases per year in Cuba, and it constituted the third cause of death in Cienfuegos province from 1988 to 1997. …”
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Induction of stigma-like structures in saffron (Crocus sativus L.): Exploring factors and metabolite analysis. by Parvaneh Mahmoudi, Ahmad Moieni, Mojtaba Khayam Nekouei, Mohsen Mardi, Ghasem Hosseini Salekdeh

“…As a triploid spice with vegetative propagation from the Iridaceae family, the three-branch style of C. sativus flowers, known as saffron, constitutes the most economically valuable part of the plant, renowned for its diverse medicinal properties. …”
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Understanding Service Providers’ Competency in Knowledge-Intensive Crowdsourcing Platforms: An LDA Approach by Biyu Yang, Xu Wang, Zhuofei Ding

“…In this network, the service providers (SPs) constitute the backbone of the KIC platform and play an important role in connecting the platform and service requesters. …”
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EFFECT OF GREEN HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT ON CORPORATE SUSTAINABILITY IN THE INSURANCE SECTOR by Adelugba Iyabode Abisola, Eze Benneth Uchenna, Olojede Paul, Eyanuku Julius Paul

“…The population of this study comprised 20,000 employees and agents of insurance firms in Nigeria, which constituted the element of observation of this study. …”
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A phenomenological model of non-genomic variability of luminescent bacterial cells by S. I. Bartsev

“…Since in the process of division all cells go through the stage of release of all regulatory molecules from the DNA molecule, the resulting distributions can be attributed not only to luciferase, but also to other proteins of constitutive (and not only) synthesis.…”
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Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Risk in Physical Exercise Program Users by José Ander Asenjo Alarcón

“…<br /><strong>Results:</strong> the most frequent risk factors in the study were altered abdominal girth in women (96.8 %) and men (78.9 %), decreased HDL-C (58 %) and obesity (50.9 %); the prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus was 42.9 %; obesity constitutes 2.28 times the risk for this condition; the population etiological fraction indicates that obesity and altered female abdominal girth contribute to 35.09 % and 53.2 % of diabetes cases in the study population, respectively. …”
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Foreigner in contemporary Japanese state discourse: Constructing differences between the nation and the Other by D. S. Alekseev

“…Researchers note that Japanese national identity has been shaped by the nihonjinron ideology, which defines the country as culturally unique and mono-ethnic, thus constituting a divide between Japan and the rest of the world. …”
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Policy Fragmentation, Women’s Land Rights and Governance in Zimbabwe by Newman Tekwa

“…Methodology: A multi-method approach involving qualitative review of literature complemented by primary data collection through interviews. Thematic analysis constituted the main data analysis technique used to analyse the results presented in the paper. …”
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Chemical profiling, antioxidant, and antimicrobial activities of the essential oil of Matricaria recutita (Chamomile) by Ram Prasad Baral, Rameshwar Adhikari, Achyut Adhikari

“…Limonene, methyl salicylate, and -bisabolol oxide-B also constituted the lowest area percentages at 1.36%, 1.59%, and 1.62%, respectively. …”
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COMPARISON OF METHODS FOR OBTAINING GENETIC DIVERSITY FOR BREEDING WINTER-HARDY WHEAT IN SIBERIA by V. E. Kozlov

“…The harder was the selection for the duration of deep rest in «gibberellic» lines, the higher proportion of them was constituted by highly frost-resistant forms that survived under conditions of poor snow cover in the steppe. …”
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