Using information technology to communicate about health and wellbeing, assessment and review: audio computer assisted self-interviewing (A-CASI) by Murray Davies

“…The development and growth of information technology in the past decade has changed the face of communication at both a personal and an organisational level. …”

NORTHERN IRISH ADOLESCENTS’ ATTITUDES TOWARDS LEARNING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE: WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM THEM? by Udi Samanhudi

“… Over the last few decades, scholars concerned with language and education have studied the relationship between adolescents’ attitudes and foreign language learning. …”
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One-Dimensional SnO2 Nanostructures: Synthesis and Applications by Jun Pan, Hao Shen, Sanjay Mathur

“…Nanoscale semiconducting materials such as quantum dots (0-dimensional) and one-dimensional (1D) structures, like nanowires, nanobelts, and nanotubes, have gained tremendous attention within the past decade. Among the variety of 1D nanostructures, tin oxide (SnO2) semiconducting nanostructures are particularly interesting because of their promising applications in optoelectronic and electronic devices due to both good conductivity and transparence in the visible region. …”
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“Fulfilling, but demanding” – Swedish recordkeeping in transition by Anneli Sundquist, Hilde Lange

“… In recent decades, records management has undergone profound changes due to technological developments as well as political and organisational changes. …”
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Construction of Eu3+ Ion-Selective Electrode Based on 1,2-Diaminopropane-N,N,N',N'-tetraacetic acid by Mohammad Reza Abedi, Hassan Ali Zamani

“…This electrode has a wide linear dynamic range from 1.0×10-6 to 1.0×10-2 M with a Nernstian slope of 19.7±0.5 mV per decade and a low detection limit of 7.2×10-7 M in the pH range of 2.5–9.1, while the response time was rapid (<10 s). …”
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Mutations institutionnelles et recompositions des territoires urbains en Afrique : une analyse à travers la problématique de l’accès à l’eau by Catherine Baron

“…As a second step, we show how the measures advocated within the International Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation Decade of the eighties corresponded to the will to homogenise cities. …”
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The presence of absence. Towards and anthropology of the posthumous life of the disappeared in Peru by Dorothée Delacroix.

“…It is a product of recruit-ment and armed conflicts between guerrilla groups and law enforcement agencies and paramilitary groups during the decades of 1980 and1990. This sense of rupture is regained through the continual presence of the absent, expressed in a particular concept of posthumous life which extends beyond the death of the person who has disappeared. …”
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Promoting Agricultural Research and Development to Strengthen Food Security in South Asia by Ghose Bishwajit

“…Despite a period of marked economic growth averaging 6% a year over the past two decades, it remains the world's second poorest region contributing a mere 2.2% in global annual GDP. …”
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La déprédation marine depuis le Parc naturel marin d’Iroise (Bretagne) : enseignements du volet d’enquêtes ethnographiques du programme scientifique pluridisciplinaire INPECMAM-Iro... by Émilie Mariat-Roy, Claire Laspougeas

“…This article offers a retrospective look at the ethnographic survey component of the INPECMAM-Iroise multidisciplinary scientific program (INteractions PÊChe MAMmifères marins) in the Iroise Marine Natural Park in light of the "oceanic turning point" that has been affecting research in the human and social sciences over the last decade. A better understanding of the state of the marine environment and human-nature relationships is a common objective for managers and users of professional fishing. …”
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Leadership crisis in African higher education in the 4IR: lesson(s) for the future by Chinaza Uleanya

“…African higher education has experienced different challenges in the past decade with regard to embracing and incorporating the practices of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. …”
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Localized wrinkling of metal films on elastic and liquid substrates by Yi Sun, Liping Yan, Benyong Chen, Wei Song, Filippo Berto

“…Global and localized wrinkling phenomena in films/substrates have been widely studied by means of experiment and theoretical analyses in the past two decades. They have shown broad application prospect in microstructure manufacture. …”
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Dynamic Performance Evaluation of Concrete Building Using Low-Yield Point Steel Shear Panels by Nima Marzban, Parisa Esmaeiltabar Nesheli

“…It has been of special interest to structural engineers for the reinforcement of steel buildings for the recent decades. Its unique features have attracted more attention, and its features are economical, easy to implement, light weight compared to similar systems, high ductility, fast installation, high energy absorption, and a significant reduction in residual stress in the structure. …”
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Bees in the City by Małgorzata Falencka-Jabłonska

“…The practice of establishing beehives in the cities of Europe and other countries around the world has been observed for several decades now, and in Poland it has a tradition of several years. …”
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Atypical Bilateral Posterior Semicircular Canalolithiasis – A Case Series by Ajay K Vats, Shreya Vats, Sudhir Kothari, Nishant Aswani

“…Barany Society includes bilateral typical posterior semicircular canal benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (PSC-BPPV) in its classification of multicanal subtype. In the past decade, less-common and atypical subtypes of PSC-BPPV, like short-arm and non-ampullary arm posterior semicircular canalolithiasis, have emerged, requiring the conduct of conventional and auxiliary positional tests on both sides to uncover their bilaterality. …”
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The Highs and Lows of an Unknown Pheochromocytoma in an Elderly Patient by Christina N. DiMaria, Lorena I. Rasquin, Wikien A. Hung Pinto

“…The incidence of these tumors is estimated to affect 0.8 per 100,000 person-years and is most common in the fourth to fifth decade of life with equal prevalence in men and women. …”
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Religious Based Learning as a Form of Cultivating Character Values in Children with Special Needs at SDLB Jenangan, Ponorogo by Vivi Vellanita Wanda Damayanti, Restiana Irniasari

“…The application of character education has been carried out in public schools for more than a decade. In character education, the divinity value became the first value that was crucially determined and applied. …”

PROTECTING THE HARMONY – THOUGHTS ON THE MARGIN OF ANGI ISTVÁN’S BOOK ABOUT AESTHETIC PIETY (ANGI ISTVÁN: A HARMÓNIA MARAD, PARTIUM KIADÓ, NAGYVÁRAD, 2013) by Attila FODOR

“… Seems like it was only yesterday, when we have celebrated the 70th birthday of the restless and prolific music esthetician from Cluj-Napoca, Angi István, with the presentation of his book edited by the Polis Publising, entitled The models of the musical beauty. Since then a decade has gone, but not in vain, since the author contributed consistently with Romanian and Hungarian works to the domestic literature of music aesthetics, otherwise not too abundant. …”
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The book relations between the University of Lithuania and France by Nijolė Lietuvninkaitė

“…It intensified in the second decade of the University’s work (1932-1940). The mutual cooperation had the greatest influence on the Faculty of Humanities. …”
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Promoting HIV/AIDS Prevention through Soap Operas by William Brown, Steven Kiruswa, Steven Kiruswa, Benson P. Fraser Benson P. Fraser

“… In the past three decades television soap operas have been used as a means of health education and persuasion. …”
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Recent Advances in the Surgical Treatment of Differentiated Thyroid Cancer: A Comprehensive Review by Raghunandan Venkat, Marlon A. Guerrero

“…While surgery has remained the cornerstone of management of these tumors, the surgical approach has seen numerous innovations over the past few decades. The use of video-assistance and robotics has revolutionized thyroid surgery. …”
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