THE NIGERIAN OIL RESOURCEAND SOVEREIGN WEALTH FUND: AN INTERROGATION by Joshua DANJUMA

“…Nigeria has actively engaged in oil exploration for about six decades and is the largest producer of oil resources on the African continent. …”
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Brottsprevention i straffvälfärdspolitikens tid – Samverkanstankens historiska rötter by Paula Wahlgren

“…Dating back to the post-war decades, cooperation between authorities in an effort to tackle youth crime has also been in line with David Garland’s concept of penal welfarism. …”
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APPLICATION OF ATTACHEMENT THEORY TO EQUINE-FACILITATED THERAPY by Aviva Vincent, Kathleen J. Farkas

“…Over the past two decades there has been a growing body of evidence, clinical and anecdotal, that equine-facilitated therapy (EFT) is a powerful tool for social workers and mental health clinicians. …”
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Santarém, entre la Amazonia de los ríos y la Amazonia de las carreteras by Rubén Valbuena

“…A strong dynamics of appropriation facilitated the incursion of new human and financial resources into the Amazonian hinterland, especially during three last decades, when the realization of a ground network articulated the right bank of the big river.This network restructured the regional space, until then dominated by the rivers and a weak network of populated places, formed by small settlements at the edge of the inland waterways. …”
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Wilno mityczne we współczesnej prozie litewskiej by Audinga Peluritytė-Tikuišienė

“… The myth of the founding of the city of Vilnius became particularly important in Lithuanian art in the decade of the restoration of independence. After a long period of occupation, the capital of Lithuania became not only a catalyst for new formulations of national and civic identity, but also a symbol of freedom. …”
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Infrared Thermal Image Gender Classifier Based on the Deep ResNet Model by Alyaa J. Jalil, Naglaa M. Reda

“…Gender classification from human face images has attracted researchers over the past decade. It has great impact in different fields including defense, human-computer interaction, surveillance industry, and mobile applications. …”
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Quelles politiques foncières pour le logement dans l’agglomération franco-valdo-genevoise ? by Michèle Tranda-Pittion

“…For decades the trans-frontier conurbation of Geneva has suffered from a recurring housing shortage, and the supply of land has been clearly recognized by local professionals as one of the main factors in a resolution of this problem. …”
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Toolbox of Theory and Understanding of Political Concepts by Ali Ashraf Nazari

“…Theory is considered an “approach” as a toolbox for constructing and experimentally examining questions and concepts. In recent decades, the debate over the status of theory has always been the subject of debate and intellectual debate. …”
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Globalisation and media ethics in Africa by Isaac Phiri

“…It was envisioned by many that the media would reject the ethos prevailing under hegemonic rule and adopt international norms. But nearly two decades later, media people and their organisations in sub-Saharan Africa are still entangled in a labyrinth of ethical dilemma. …”
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Reading scripture through a mystical lens by Celia Kourie

“… In addition to the unprecedented interest in spirituality in recent decades, both at a popular level and also as an academic discipline, there has also been a resurgence of research dealing with spirituality and scripture. …”
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Refugees, Labour and Sectarianism in Syria under the French mandate (1921-1950) by Seda Altuğ

“…It demonstrates how these refugee groups, with diverse histories of past violence and present dispositions, participated in pro-French colonial order and negotiated their terms of belonging to French-Syria in different ways in the decade following their arrival. It explores the centrality of the refugee question in the making of Syriannness both for the locals and the newcomers. …”
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Les ATSEM, les activités manuelles et la raison graphique by Fabienne Montmasson-Michel

“…While they were contained in the margins of educational activities, they entered classrooms in the last decades of the twentieth century and acquired pedagogical skills. …”
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El viaje urbano en tranvía como práctica (re)creativa en evocaciones literarias de voces masculinas by Elisabet Prudant

“…This approach can be reassessed to the extent that the historical analysis in its crossroads with literature, in which allows us to identify other ways of giving meaning to the urban route from a gender identity perspective The article analyzes literary evocations of male voices about tram travel, the most significant means of public transportation in Santiago de Chile during the period between the end of the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th. The sources give us some deeper meanings on childhood and youth yearnings, accounting for the prerogatives of the bodies of men belonging to middle and upper strata in their experience of daily displacement as an instance of recreation and artistic creation. …”
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The Reluctant Islamophobes: Multimedia Dissensus in the Hollywood Premodern by Elena Furlanetto

“…This paper contributes to the theorization of how Orientalism has evolved after 9/11 and in the first two decades of the twenty-first century. I specifically address the multimediality of films and propose that post-9/11 Orientalism has fragmented into more digestible, more complex micronarratives dispersed throughout the interplay of different media which constitute the film experience. …”
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Within-Day Diversity Change, Neighborhood Social Cohesion, and Fear of Crime by Chris Hess, Youngmin Yi, Gregory Sharp, Matt Hall

“…Research on neighborhood social organization and crime typically conceptualizes neighborhood change on the order of decades, even though the local social contexts that individuals experience change daily through mobility for work, errands and recreation. …”
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From Savage to Sublime (And Partway Back): Indians and Antiquity in Early Nineteenth-Century American Literature by Mark Niemeyer

“…One of the main motivations behind the associations between Native Americans and the Ancient World made in the early decades of the nineteenth century was to “elevate” Indians in order to transform them into worthy symbols of the recently established United States. …”
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Farming of Plant-Based Veterinary Vaccines and Their Applications for Disease Prevention in Animals by Pit Sze Liew, Mohd Hair-Bejo

“…Plants have been studied for the production of pharmaceutical compounds for more than two decades now. Ever since the plant-made poultry vaccine against Newcastle disease virus made a breakthrough and went all the way to obtain regulatory approval, research to use plants for expression and delivery of vaccine proteins for animals was intensified. …”
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Enhancing drought tolerance in horticultural plants through plant hormones: a strategic coping mechanism by Shanxia Huang, Songheng Jin

“…Plants have significant susceptibility to drought stress, resulting in a marked decline in production during the last several decades. The development of effective strategies to mitigate drought stress is essential for sustainable agriculture and food security, especially considering the continuous growth of the world population. …”
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Epidemiology of gastric cancer: global trends, risk factors and prevention by Prashanth Rawla, Adam Barsouk

“…While strides in preventing and treating H. pylori infection have decreased the overall incidence of gastric cancer, they have also contributed to an increase in the incidence of cardia gastric cancer, a rare subtype of the neoplasm that has grown 7-fold in the past decades. A better understanding of the etiology and risk factors of the disease can help reach a consensus in approaching H. pylori infection. …”
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Social Innovation: A Study of International Scientific Publication through Network Analysis by Jaiarys Capa Bataglin, Elder Semprebon, Ana Carolina Vilela Carvalho, Melody Porsse

“…Research on social innovation has grown significantly in the last decade. The objective of this study is to map the international scientific production on social innovation, in order to identify and cluster the variables of social innovation, through network analysis. …”
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