“O melhor e mais obediente filho” by Tiago Viúla de Faria

“…From about 1412, infante Duarte, Portugal’s heir apparent, took on a large portion of the roles expected of a king, until 1433, the year he finally came to the throne. For two decades, his father, King João I – already a seasoned sovereign – had come to rely on the firstborn to assist him in the everyday management of royal administration, justice, and certain economic matters. …”
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CORRELATION BETWEEN TECHNOLOGICAL READINESS AND BUSINESS SOPHISTICATION IN GLOBAL COMPETITIVENESS by Gama Harta Nugraha Nur Rahayu

“…That is why during the past decade, scholars, policy makers and even business leaders throughout the world put a very serious attentions to the issue. …”
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Peter the Great’s “heirs”: power and administration in post-Petrine Russia by N. A. Omelchenko

“…The article examines the evolution of the power and governance system in the first decade after the death of Peter the Great, one of the most dramatic periods of Russian history, commonly referred to in the historical literature as the “ epoch of palace coups”. …”
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Germ granule-mediated mRNA storage and translational control by Hoang-Anh Pham-Bui, Mihye Lee

“…RNA granules compartmentalize cellular components, selectively enriching specific factors and modulating biochemical reactions. Over recent decades, various types of RNA granules have been identified in germ cells across species, with extensive studies uncovering their molecular roles and developmental significance. …”
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Ethnographic methods in libraries revisited by Philip Hider, Simon Wakeling, Jane Garner

“…We report here an analysis of the extent and nature of its use in library studies research over the past decade. Method. Our study adapts and extends a content analysis of library studies literature conducted by Khoo et al. (2012), using a systematic search process to identify potentially relevant studies published since 2011. …”
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Mechanisms Underlying Tolerance after Long-Term Benzodiazepine Use: A Future for Subtype-Selective GABAA Receptor Modulators? by Christiaan H. Vinkers, Berend Olivier

“…Despite decades of basic and clinical research, our understanding of how benzodiazepines tend to lose their efficacy over time (tolerance) is at least incomplete. …”
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Kary cielesne – kontestacja a rzeczywistość by Ewa Jarosz, Cezary Kurkowski

“…The most important ones are reviewed in the paper as well as some global initiatives that are being undertaken especially in the last decade. The other face of the problem is a practice of the everyday upbringing of children which can still be described as violent, a practice where parents still approve some violent behaviours and still behave violently towards their children. …”
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Assessment of hydromorphological conditions of the river using the MQI method (Case study area: JAJROOD River) by Maryam Ilanloo, Amir Karam

“…For this reason, during the recent decades and because of human manipulations, the JAJROOD River basin and its margins have been heavily affected. …”
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Strategies for preventing the decline of peripheral areas by Martin Boesch, Erich Renner, Dominik Siegrist

“…It remains to be seen what is likely to happen in regions that have been substantially and structurally weakened by decades of depopulation; regions where investors prefer not to venture to develop resources that are still available. …”
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Strategies to Overcome Antileishmanial Drugs Unresponsiveness by Shyam Sundar, Anup Singh, Om Prakash Singh

“…The loss of efficacy of antimonials such as sodium stibogluconate in the Indian subcontinent which has been the mainstay of treatment for more than six decades has raised concern to save the other drugs. …”
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A Novel Image Encryption Scheme Based on PWLCM and Standard Map by Yucheng Chen, Chunming Tang, Zongxiang Yi

“…In the past decades, considerable attention has been paid to the chaos-based image encryption schemes owing to their characteristics such as extreme sensitivity to initial conditions and parameters, pseudo-randomness, and unpredictability. …”
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La désobéissance civile aux Etats-Unis contemporains : triomphe incomplet du libéralisme sur la gauche, routine et réactivation par les mouvements sociaux de l’immigration by Mathieu Bonzom

“…Secondly, drawing on examples from the immigrant mobilizations of the 2000 and 2010 decades, with a counterpoint to the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 60s, the article shows how the diversity of civil disobedience practices is structured by cyclical mutations, between routinization and defusing on the one hand, revival and reactivation on the other, where reactivation depends on the taking of certain forms of risk which is then turned against the authorities by drawing on mass mobilization.…”
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L’individualisation des politiques socioéducatives : famille sous assistance ou famille sous surveillance ? Le cas des « parcours individualisés de Réussite éducative » by Stéphanie Goirand

“…If public policies are strongly interested in youth and family issues during these last decades, it is mainly a response to a social question. …”
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Os Xetá e seus acervos: memória histórica, política e afetiva (Paraná, Brasil) by Edilene Coffaci de Lima, Lilianny Rodriguez Barreto dos Passos, Rafael Pacheco

“…In the middle of the last century, the Xetá, speakers of a Tupi-Guarani language of southern Brazil, were contacted and rapidly decimated, losing 70% of their population in the course of a decade. During those years, vast amounts of documentation about the group were collected (films, artefacts, sound recordings…), covering a wide range of fields (ethnomusicology, archaeology, linguistics…). …”
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‘Soltanto le montagne non si incontrano’. Buone pratiche per il recupero di colture/culture locali fra tradizione e innovazione by Laura Bonato

“…In the last decades of the 20th century, the Alpine areas have witnessed a remarkable process of depopulation: the effects on the environment caused by the abandonment of agro-pastoral practices have extended beyond the local scale, changing the characteristics of the landscape and cultural traditions and transforming these areas into marginal lands. …”
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Immunotherapeutic Approaches in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer: State of the Art and Future Perspectives by Karima Oualla, Loay Kassem, Lamiae Nouiakh, Lamiae Amaadour, Zineb Benbrahim, Samia Arifi, Nawfel Mellas

“…In this article, we tried to explain the rationale and mechanisms of targeting the immune system in TNBC, to report the results from recent clinical trials that put immunotherapy as a new standard of care in TNBC in addition to ongoing trials and future directions in the next decade.…”
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The current distribution of pond slider Trachemys scripta (Reptilia: Emydidae) in Croatia by Toni Koren, Ana Štih, Ivona Burić, Katarina Koller, Boris Lauš, Mladen Zadravec

“… The pond slider Trachemy scripta was one of the most commonly exported turtles until the last decade and often released into the wild outside its native range. …”
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Gigantic Tellegen responses in metamaterials by Qingdong Yang, Xinhua Wen, Zhongfu Li, Oubo You, Shuang Zhang

“…Abstract Tellegen medium has long been a topic of debate, with its existence being contested over several decades. It was first proposed by Tellegen in 1948 and is characterized by a real-valued cross coupling between electric and magnetic responses, distinguishing it from the well-known chiral medium that has imaginary coupling coefficients. …”
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Special Issue “Digital Twin Technology in the AEC Industry” by Jisong Zhang, Lihua Zhao, Guoqian Ren, Haijiang Li, Xiaofei Li

“…Sustainable building design has become a hot topic over the past decades. Many standards, databases, and tools have been developed for achieving a sustainable building. …”
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Sporadic Dips from Extended Debris Transiting the Metal-rich White Dwarf SBSS 1232+563 by J. J. Hermes, Joseph A. Guidry, Zachary P. Vanderbosch, Mariona Badenas-Agusti, Siyi Xu, Malia L. Kao, Antonio C. Rodriguez, Keith Hawkins

“…Six low-resolution spectra collected at various transit depths over two decades show no evidence of significant changes in the observed elemental abundances. …”
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