Comparative Study on the Efficiency of Islamic Banks and Conventional Banks During the COVID-19 Outbreak by Naima Lassoued, Imen Khanchel, Wiem Saidani

“…This study investigates the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the efficiency of Islamic and conventional banks, focusing on Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) countries. Analyzing a sample of 134 banks across 10 MENA nations from 2011 to 2021, we evaluate technical efficiency scores (including global technical efficiency, pure technical efficiency, and scale efficiency) utilizing Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) followed by Tobit random effect regression. …”
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RESEARCH SCHOOLS AS ORGANIZATIONAL SYSTEM FOR TRAINING OF PHD STUDENTS by Boris I. Bednyi, Victor B. Kazantsev, Evgeny V. Chuprunov

“…The article presents an analysis of the general approaches to designing structured programs for the training of PhD students adopted by the European Union countries in the framework of the third cycle of the Bologna process. …”
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Evaluating Pharmaceutical Care Services in Promoting Public Health Outcomes within the Community by Lusine Nazaryan, Anush Barseghyan, Marta Simonyan

“…In developing countries, consumer awareness about self-medication risks is low. …”
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Genome sequence of Vibrio sp. OULL4 isolated from shellfish by Vengadesh Letchumanan, Wen-Si Tan, Wai-Fong Yin, Kok-Gan Chan

“…Vibrio cholerae, Vibrio parahaemolyticus and Vibrio vulnificus are among the few recognized as a major, worldwide cause gastroenteritis, particularly in countries where seafood consumption is high. The control of these vibrios has been a hurdle due to the rising numbers of antibiotic resistant strains in the environments. …”
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Liberal Barış İnşası ve Geleneksel Çatışma Çözme Yaklaşımlarının Hibrit Barış Modeli Oluşturma Potansiyeli: Ubuntu Üzerine Bir Değerlendirme by Ayça EMİNOĞLU, Bahar KÖSE

“…Despite the successful aspects of the peacebuilding approach in question, the attempt to build a uniform peace everywhere by ignoring the ontological structure of different geographies caused it to achieve unsuccessful results in many countries and draw the arrows of criticism. In this direction, it has been frequently emphasized that alternative approaches to liberal peace should be developed. …”
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MORAL RIGHTS IN ROMANIAN AND IN FOREIGN CASE LAW by Ruxandra VIȘOIU

“…Moral rights have always been a rather controversial subject in the field of copyright. Imposed in most countries around the world through the Berne Convention, recognized in most jurisdictions to certain degrees, but also partially rejected in others (most importantly, the US), moral rights have often been seen as the `black sheep` of intellectual property. …”
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Intellectual Property Management: European Universities Experience by A. Yu. Kalinin, Yu. V. Nechepurenko

“…A comparative analysis of policies in the field of intellectual property (IP) of universities in leading European countries: Switzerland, the UK and the Netherlands. …”
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Faire connaissance avec une mulier religiosa dans les Pays-Bas méridionaux du xiiie siècle by Anne-Laure Méril-Bellini delle Stelle

“…In the thirteenth-century Southern Low Countries, the mulieres religiosae played an important part in religious life and were fervently wanted to be met, since they were well known for being great thaumaturgists or intercessors “sending God” to anybody. …”
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Supply chain innovation and financial performance in ASEAN manufacturing firms: The moderating role of organisational innovation by Minh Hue Nguyen, Hang Thu Hoang, Dung Van Nguyen, Canh Huynh Quang Trinh

“…The results confirm the important role of supply chain innovation in improving firms’ financial performance in ASEAN countries. Moreover, organisational innovation significantly moderates the relationship between supply chain innovation and firms’ financial performance.…”
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Pacifismo y vínculos transnacionales entre feministas en el continente americano en los años 1930: encontrar una solución a la guerra del Chaco by Maria Elvira Alvarez Gimenez

“…Thanks to the links created between feminists of the continent in these years, a broad transcontinental mobilization of women took place, which placed women and feminists at the forefront of the public sphere in their respective countries.…”
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Twin Deficits: Evidence From Portugal, Italy, Spain and Greece by Konstantinos P. Panousis, Minoas Koukouritakis

“…Abstract Since the mid-2000s, internal and external imbalances have increased in many EU countries. This contributed to the debate over whether government budget deficits affect current account deficits, known as twin deficits hypothesis. …”
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Automatic Income Tax Refunds to Relieve Low Incomes by Tobias Hauck, Luisa Wallossek

“…Abstract Germany is one of more than 30 countries worldwide where employees are exempt from the obligation of filing a tax return. …”
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Monitoring Pesticide Residues in Surface and Ground Water in Hungary: Surveys in 1990–2015 by András Székács, Mária Mörtl, Béla Darvas

“…Over 2000 surface, ground and raw drinking water samples have been analyzed in the frame of different monitoring projects in Hungary and watercourses in neighboring countries between 1990 and 2015. Effects of pesticide contamination on ecological farming and drinking water supply have been assessed. …”
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Acute Schistosomiasis in Brazilian Traveler: The Importance of Tourism in The Epidemiology of Neglected Parasitic Diseases by Diego Averaldo Guiguet Leal, Regina Maura Bueno Franco, Maria Francisca Neves, Luciana Franceschi Simões, Letícia Aparecida Duart Bastos, Silmara Marques Allegretti, Eliana Maria Zanotti-Magalhães, Luiz Augusto Magalhães

“…This form of schistosomiasis is frequently misdiagnosed due to its temporal delay and its nonspecific presentation and might occur even in countries where the disease is endemic, such as in Brazil. …”
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ISSUES OF FORMING PERSONNEL CAPACITY IN THE CONTEXT OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ISLAMIC BANKING SECTOR IN THE REPUBLIC OF TAJIKISTAN by Sh. S. Sharipov

“…For the purpose of a comprehensive assessment of the situation, the experience of individual countries in this area of activity, as well as the experience of previous research, ware studied. …”
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Nuclear Power Sustainability Path for China from the Perspective of Operations by Tao Zhang, Shengzhi Liu, Weiwei Pan, Tian Wan, Chenhui Dong

“…It serves as a model for other countries with a labor-centered nuclear power operation mode and an aging society seeking to achieve carbon neutrality through the use of nuclear power around the world.…”
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Tuberculosis of the Thyroid Gland Presented as a Rapid Enlargement of a Preexisting Goiter by Ibtissem Oueslati, Imen Sakka, Olfa Ismail, Ines Akrout, Adel Marghli, Melika Chihaoui

“…Thyroid involvement with tuberculosis is an uncommon condition even in endemic countries. As its clinical presentation is not specific, diagnosis is often difficult and requires histopathological confirmation. …”
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Contraintes spatiales et enjeux territoriaux d’une déclinaison régionale de la transition énergétique : l’exemple de la région Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur by Maximin Chabrol, Loïc Grasland

“…The question of energy transition now arises at regional and local scales, while the problem of supply and energy transport remained until there a national responsibility in most countries. Energy transition involves reconsidering the links between energy production and consumption and evaluating potential production and implementation of renewable energy and energy efficiency. …”
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The Impact of the Financial and Economic Crisis on Public Private Partnerships by Matej Švigelj, Nevenka Hrovatin

“…Measures adopted to help the PPP market in the analysed countries reveal that they mostly involve some form of government support. …”
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Mobile devices as support for students with special educational needs by Sylwia Galanciak, Anna Weiss, Marek Siwicki

“…The article presents partial results of research conducted among forty eight teachers from four European countries, using tablets to work with students with special educational needs (SENs). …”
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