THE (UN)SILENT ENEMY: HOW INDONESIAN PUBLIC OPINION IS UNDERMINING NATIONAL DEFENSE by Febry Triantama, Tafarel Sebrio Indradi Abdul, Avelitra Fitrianni Rayasti

“…The inadequate state of Indonesia's defense posture appears to be an open secret that has been known to the public for decades. Indonesia's weak defense posture is not only caused by the quantity of defense equipment owned, which is not aligned with the needs, but it is also caused by the large number of Indonesian defense equipment aged over 30 years. …”
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Mechanical and fractured surface characterization of epoxy/red mud/fly ash/aluminium powder filled hybrid composites for automotive applications by K. C. Anil, A. B. Hemavathi, A. Adeebpasha

“…In recent decades, one can observe a great increase in the replacement of traditional materials with polymer composites in high-strength and lightweight applications. …”
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Safety behaviors and degradation mechanisms of aged batteries: A review by Shuguo Sun, Jun Xu

“…Particularly, battery aging has been reported to significantly impact major battery safety behaviors, including the internal short circuit (ISC) and thermal runaway (TR). Over the past decade, despite considerable research into the thermal hazards of aged batteries, the complexity of battery aging and TR mechanisms, along with the challenges posed by extreme experimental conditions, necessitates a systematic understanding. …”
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Du savoir savant au savoir enseigné, analyse de l’exposition des connaissances en cours magistral de physique : une étude de cas by Cécile de Hosson, Adry Manrique, Leslie Regad, Aline Robert

“…Teaching practices at university level have been the target of a wide range of research over the last two decades. In this paper these practices are considered as objects to be understood before becoming objects to be transformed. …”
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Resource- Based Conflict and Rural Poverty in Benue State by W. Yio Benjamin

“…Consequently, the struggle over some of these resources in the region especially agricultural land and water resources between Farmers and Pastoralists in the last two decades has led to a sustained violent conflict in the area leading to a large displacement of farmers, damage to infrastructure, institutions, production and brake up of communities and social networks therefore exacerbating poverty in the region. …”
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Systematic coarse-graining of sequence-dependent structure and elasticity of double-stranded DNA by Enrico Skoruppa, Helmut Schiessel

“…However, research over the past decade has highlighted the substantial impact of DNA sequence even at the kilobase pair scale. …”
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Future Prospects in the Diagnosis and Management of Localized Prostate Cancer by Ahmet Tefekli, Murat Tunc

“…Introduction of serum PSA as a highly specific biomarker for prostatic diseases has led to a dramatic increase in the diagnosis of early stage PCa in last decades. Guidelines underline that benefits as well as risks and squeals of early diagnosis and treatment should be discussed with patients. …”
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Effect of Silver Nanoparticles on Tropical Freshwater and Marine Microalgae by Thanh-Luu Pham

“…The increase in synthesis and application of silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) in the last decade has resulted in contamination of AgNPs in the aquatic environment. …”
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Compound electron acceleration at planetary foreshocks by Xiaofei Shi, Anton Artemyev, Vassilis Angelopoulos, Terry Liu, Lynn B. Wilson III

“…The proposed model of electron acceleration addresses a decades-long issue of the generation of energetic (and relativistic) electrons at planetary plasma shocks. …”
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Private Elementary School Teachers' Perceptions of Character Education Practice in Indonesia by Rigia Tirza Hardini, Sri Wening

“…Though character education has been taught for decades, character and the moral problem still happened in our society. …”

Ketogenic Diet: A Review of Composition Diversity, Mechanism of Action and Clinical Application by Dominika Malinowska, Małgorzata Żendzian-Piotrowska

“…The purpose of this article is to review the diversity of composition, mechanism of action, clinical application and risk associated with the KD. In the last decade, more and more results of the diet’s effects on obesity, diabetes and neurological disorders, among other examples have appeared. …”
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Mohammad Taghi Ghiasi and New Criticism by Hassan ZOKHTAREH

“…By writing several books during three decades, Mohammad Taghi Ghiasi can be said to stand among those who have tried to make the Persian speaking community acquainted with the French New Criticism. …”
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Herbal Use among Presurgical Patients in Turkey: A Cross-Sectional Study by Fulya Yilmaz, Hazal Ezgi Çifci

“…Their use declined in most developed western countries during the last century’s industrialization and urbanization. But, the last two decades have witnessed a new resurgence of interest in herbal and alternative medicines. …”
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Brand Image as a Strategic Lever for Mergers and Acquisitions in the Financial Services Sector in South Africa by Ridwaan Asmal, Marlini Moodley

“… There were a number of mergers and acquisition (M&A) and hostile take overs in South Africa over the past decade and half. Companies in a M&A are in most instances preoccupied in pursuit of increasing the shareholder value and securing the biggest market share through effective branding. …”
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Evolution of the Danube River's islands on the Bulgaria-Romania border over the last century. by Gabriela Ioana-Toroimac, Marina Vîrghileanu

“…(ii) At the scale of the last decades, we noticed the slow formation of bars by lee deposition due to sediment excess and then migration of alluvial bars until merging with an island or with the bank, followed by stabilization due to vegetation recruitment. …”
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Images of the Self and the Other in the Columns by Jordi Soler in the Spanish and Mexican Press by Emmy Poppe, Dagmar Vandebosch

“…It does so in two corpora of columns set in two specific temporal and geographic settings: on the one hand, Mexico in the period between 1990 and 1995, the years in which the much-debated North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) between Canada, the USA and Mexico was being negotiated and implemented; and Europe in the increasingly ‘global era’ of the first decade of the 21st century, on the other hand. More particularly, it analyses the way Soler’s identity as enunciator is constructed in relation to that of a cultural ‘other’ represented by the United States, and how this relation between the Self and the US ‘other’ evolves over time, showing a strong shift with respect to the role of the image of the other in the construction of ethos. …”
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Corporate governance and organizational Performance: A case of Institut Polytechnique De Byumba, Rwanda. by Bonaventure, Twagirumugabe

“…The performance of firms and the way they are governed worldwide have attracted great deal of attention in the past decades owing to corporate failures. This study was examined the relationship between corporate governance and organizational performance. …”
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Co-operative and saving societies (SACCOS) and poverty reduction in Lango and Kigezi sub-regions of Uganda: A comparative empirical study by Eton, Marus, BC, Basheka, Fabian, Mwosi

“…In contrast, in Lango sub-region, saving culture is associated with response to government programs that were aimed at reconstructing northern Uganda after the two decades of insurgency. The provision of more financial services would contribute to poverty reduction and training of households on the utilization of financial credit.…”
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KATALIKŲ BAŽNYČIOS KAITA LIETUVOJE TRANSFORMACIJŲ LAIKOTARPIU by Valdas Pruskus

“…The attitude of the Catholic Church with respect to the state within the last decade may be characterized with three essential factors. …”
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Prevalence of common diarrheagenic enterobacteriaceae in Iran (2000–2023): a systematic review and meta-analysis by Mozhgan Derakhshan-Sefidi, Fereshteh Eidy, Somayyeh Nadi-Ravandi, Sareh Bagheri-Josheghani, Maryam Mirfakhraei

“…This study aimed to investigate the prevalence of common diarrheagenic Enterobacteriaceae in Iran over the past two decades, from 2000 to 2023. Methods A comprehensive systematic search was conducted across multiple databases, including EMBASE, HINARI, MEDLINE, PubMed, Google Scholar, and the Cochrane Library. …”
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