Behavioral Activation (BA) in the Management of Depression in an Adolescent with Down Syndrome in Dubai by Sidra Shadan, Sarah Almarzooqi, Meshal A. Sultan

“…Depression has been commonly treated with psychotherapy and/or pharmacotherapy for several decades. Ongoing research in the field has suggested promise for behavioral activation (BA), a form of psychotherapeutic intervention, as a means of increasing engagement in adaptive activities and developing skills to counter avoidance in individuals suffering from depression. …”
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Analysing the effectiveness of migrants’ protection and integration through the applicability of the European Union’s directive on long-term residents by Ana Filipa NEVES, Carlos NOLASCO

“…Only in 2011, was this specific regime also applied to refugees. Two decades after its entry into force, it was time to analyse the impact of this legal avenue in the lives of long-term migrants living in Portugal. …”
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Immobilization of Cd, Zn, and Pb from Soil Treated by Limestone with Variation of pH Using a Column Test by Sung-Wook Yun, Chan Yu

“…Decades of mining in South Korea have resulted in the contamination of large amounts of soil by metals. …”
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Comparison of Forensic Virtual Autopsy and Conventional Autopsy Findings in China: A 10-year Retrospective Study by Ya-Wen Liu, Zhuo-Qun Wang, Zhi-Ling Tian, He-Wen Dong, Yuan-Yuan Liu, En-Hao Fu, Jiang Huang, Dong-Hua Zou, Ning-Guo Liu

“…Aims and Objectives: The aim was to assess virtopsy’s effectiveness by comparing it with traditional autopsies in 322 cases from the Academy of Forensic Science in China over a decade, focusing on various anatomical regions and tissues. …”
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The Private Lives of Mariners’ East Asian Objects by Bogdana Marinac, Maja Veselič

“… This article examines the domestic lives of East Asian objects brought by seafarers from Slovenian lands in the second half of the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th, mostly men serving in the Austro-Hungarian War Navy. …”
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Wealth: A Family Matter by Céline Bessière, Maude Pugliese

“…Research framework: Over the past decade, social science research has been profoundly renewed by the measurement of socioeconomic inequalities, which no longer takes into account only socio-professional status, labor income, or qualifications, but also wealth. …”
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The European Central Bank: From a Price Stability Paradigm to a Multidimensional Stability Paradigm by Lucia Quaglia, Amy Verdun

“…., its “ideational” evolution over the past two decades. When the ECB was set up in 1999 its institutional design and epistemic outlook were very much inspired by the legacy of the German central bank, the Bundesbank. …”
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Water Stress Influence For Tomato (Solanum Lycopersicum) Production by Rusnam Rusnam, Ridho Adi Surya, Muhammad Makky

“…Tomato production in Indonesia has decreased over five decades. This lack of production is caused by the limitation of water supply during the dry season as to effect of its rooting. …”
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Spatial analysis of the agricultural sustainability gap based on the TOPSIS-GIS approach by Morad Ebrahimi, Hasan Afrakhteh, Hamid Jalalian

“…Abstract Although decades have passed since the introduction of a sustainable agricultural approach in the country, But the agricultural system is based on the use of non-native technologies, use of chemical inputs and Excessive exploitation of nature and Therefore, the formation and development of sustainable agriculture has faced major challenges. …”
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Miniaturized Mechanical Antennas: Advances, Challenges, and Future Directions by Hao Ren

“…Abstract In the past decade, miniaturized mechanical antennas have become a research focus. …”
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Mistakes in the diagnosis and treatment of atopic dermatitis by Monika Marko, Rafał Pawliczak

“…Atopic dermatitis (AD) is defined as a chronic inflammatory dermatosis that is characterized by periods of remission and relapse. Over the last decade, the incidence of AD has increased in industrialized countries, becoming a socio-economic burden because it affects not only patients but also reduces the quality of life of the entire family. …”
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Réconciliation nationale et compensation en Algérie et au Maroc by Yazid Ben Hounet

“…Algeria, after its policy of clemency (1995) and civil concord (1999), implemented, following a referendum (2005), the measures of the charter for peace and national reconciliation; the ultimate policy, to date, to settle the accounts of a murderous decade (1990s) opposing the state and armed Islamic groups. …”
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Analysis of Web Server Log Files: Website of Information Management Department of Hacettepe University by Mandana Mir Moftakhari

“…Over the last decade, the importance of analysing information management systems logs has grown, because it has proved that results of the analysing log data can help developing in information system design, interface and architecture of websites. …”
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Socio-Legal Strategies against a Total Abortion Ban in El Salvador: Alliances in Hostile Contexts by María Angélica Peñas Defago, Violeta Cánaves

“…The article focuses on the evolution of socio-legal mobilization regarding abortion in El Salvador over the last two decades. This evolution is presented through three moments: the first centers on the legal actions that feminist movements orchestrated in the mid-2000's around the Beatriz case. …”
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Building irregularity issues and architectural design in seismic areas by Valerio Alecci, Mario De Stefano

“…A frequent plan-wise irregularity arises when earthquake resistant structures, such as cores and shear walls, are concentrated on one side of the building plan, while vertical irregularity often arises from the presence of soft stories especially located at the ground level or, less frequently, at an intermediate level. In the last decades, some trends in architectural design, such as Deconstructivism and other contemporary theories, worked in pursuing architectural solutions based on the concept of �deconstruction� in place of �construction�, favoring non-rigid schemes, non-regular shapes and, more generally, avoiding geometric rules and classical canons of symmetry and regularity. …”
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Late Onset Atypical Pantothenate-Kinase-Associated Neurodegeneration by Natalie Diaz

“…It most commonly begins in the first two decades of life but should be considered in the differential diagnosis of patients at any age with an atypical progressive extrapyramidal disorder and cognitive impairment. …”
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A Survey on High-Order Internal Model Based Iterative Learning Control by Miao Yu, Sheng Chai

“…Iterative learning control (ILC) has been developed for decades and is mainly used to solve the repetitive control tasks. …”
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Function of Simile in Symphony “The Dead” by Alireza Asadi, Sara Hosseini

“…Romance symphony “The Dead” is one of the outstanding works of the 1360s and considered that after a few decades, it is still attractive for the readers. A review of the effect of similarity and its role in the normalization of the novel, shows that we are faced with a tragic novel and grief-ridden atmosphere. …”
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Places and Cultures of Capitalism: Histories from the Grassroots by Elsa Devienne, Andrew Diamond

“…Over the past decade or so, the concept of capitalism has exploded within the domains of popular culture and mainstream political discourse in the United States, a phenomenon driven forward by the visibility of anticapitalist movements like Occupy Wall Street, the appearance of bestselling books like Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century and blockbuster movies like The Big Short, and the meteoric rise of nationally prominent democratic socialist politicians like Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. …”
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Rugose spiraling whitefly Aleurodicus rugioperculatus Martin (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) by Vivek Kumar, Cindy L. McKenzie, Catharine Mannion, Ian Stocks, Trevor Smith, Lance S. Osborne

“…Being a fairly new species to science – identified less than a decade ago, not much information is available about this pest. …”
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