Perception Development of L2 English and L3 Polish Coda Obstruent by L1 German Adult Multilinguals by Romana Kopečková

“…Research into L3 phonological acquisition has grown in the past decade, yet perceptual studies remain scarce. Existing studies report complex interactions between the phonetic categories of multilinguals’ L1, L2 and L3, depending on investigated feature and stage of L3 learning. …”
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Classical Universities in the Scientific and Technological Development of the Russian Empire and the USSR: Leaving the Ivory Tower by M. V. Gribovskiy

“…These components include: the work of some departments (primarily the department of technology), the promotion of ideas of industrial development in Russia by the professors, participation in all-Russian manufacturing (art and industrial) exhibitions, and the implementation of research work by universities commissioned by industrial enterprises; It is shown how during the First World War the emphasis on the practical component of higher education activities increased, for which it itself was not quite ready.Particular attention is paid to the profound (and not entirely positive) transformation that universities underwent in the first Soviet decades. In the context of decreasing attention to research activities and the “disaggregation” of universities in the early 1930s their potential has weakened noticeably. …”
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Incidence rate of total knee arthroplasties in eleven European countries: Do they reach a plateau? by Mathieu Le Stum, Myriam Le Goff-Pronost, Eric Stindel, Guillaume Dardenne

“…<h4>Background</h4>From several decades, the evolutions of the Incidence Rate (IR) of Primary Knee Arthroplasties are continuously increasing worldwide and have been widely studied in several countries. …”
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Investigation of Engineering Properties of Cement-Stabilized Calcareous Sand Foundation by Yuan Chai, Dai-Ping Jiang, Fu-Jiang Wang, Hai-Bo Lyu

“…The engineering characteristics of calcareous sand is different from terrigenous sand because of its irregular grain shape, lower particle strength, and internal voids, which have caused many engineering problems in the last decades. Cement-stabilized soil, as a common foundation reinforcement method, can solve these engineering problems and improve the foundation strength effectively. …”
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Nocturnal Light Pollution Synergistically Impairs Glucose Metabolism With Age and Weight in Monkeys by Shuxing Wang, Xuange Cheng, Zihao Liang, Zhenyi Chen, Jiankai Zhang, Qiang Xu

“…Over the past decades, the global prevalence of Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2D) and impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) has been increasing at an epidemic rate, yet the exact cause remains unknown. …”
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STATE-BUILDING PROCESS IN UZBEKISTAN: MANY MILES TO GO by Gürhan Ünal

“…However,after more than two decades, it is difficult to consider Uzbekistan neither asa full democracy nor as a market economy. …”
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Israel in Foreign Policy of the United Arab Emirates: from Confrontation to Normalization by E. S. Melkumyan

“…Strengthening relations with the Arab states during the first decades of the UAE history, participation in the Arab League, which consolidated the states of the Arab world, support of its opposition to Israel were the factors determining the anti-Israeli policy of the Emirates. …”
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A wavelet-based despiking algorithm for large data of structural health monitoring by Yun-Xia Xia, Yi-Qing Ni

“…The last two decades have witnessed a rapid increase in the applications of long-term structural health monitoring technologies to the civil structures. …”
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Dynamique spatio temporelle de l’agriculture urbaine à Ouagadougou : Cas du Maraîchage comme une activité montante de stratégie de survie by Conchita M. G. Kêdowidé, Michel P. Sedogo, Guéladio Cissé

“…The study was specifically interested in the spatial and temporal dynamics for more than a decade. The first studies on truck farming in Ouagadougou took place in 1992 with a spatial inventory in 1996 which also corresponds to the period when the agrarian and land Reform was adopted in Burkina (RAF stands for Réforme Agraire et Foncière). …”
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Investigating the Development of Urban Space in the face of Environmental Hazards (Case Study of Noor County) by Hossein Sharifi, Mehrdad Ramezanipour, Leila Ebrahimi

“…The results showed that the continuous expansion of built areas in recent decades has caused rapid changes in land use and the built areas of the city has increased from 2.43% of the total area in 2010 to 3.68% in 2019. …”
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The Technical University Teacher: What Do Students Value? by T. Yu. Polyakova

“…At present, according to Presidential Address to the Federal Assembly our country has set the task of reforming higher education based on the synthesis of the best practices of the Soviet educational system and the experience of recent decades. This increases the responsibility of technical university teachers, whose competencies have been determined in recent years on the basis of different scientific approaches. …”
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Paysage et intensification de l’élevage en Amazonie brésilienne : De nouvelles dynamiques spatio-temporelles à l’échelle des exploitations agricoles by Sophie Sylvie Plassin, René Poccard-Chapuis, François Laurent, Marie-Gabrielle Piketty, Gustavo Pimentel Martinez, Jean-François Tourrand

“…In the Brazilian Amazon, extensive cattle ranching expansion has been the main driver of deforestation since the last four decades and led to large extent of degraded lands. …”
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Negative spaces of Mumuye figure sculpture—style and ethnicity by Richard Fardon

“…If the artworld took lead responsibility for a catalogue raisonné that reassembled the decade-long outflow from the late 1960s this would enable a more systematic approach to what are currently piecemeal attempts to map formal resemblances in artworks.…”
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Populism in the 21st century: Today, tomorrow, always? by A. V. Glukhova

“…The concept of populism has been known since Antiquity. However, in recent decades it gained new prominence amongst politicians and political experts. …”
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CAR-T CELL THERAPY IN B-CELL ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA by Ugo Testa, Simona Sica, Elvira Pelosi, Germana Castelli, Giuseppe Leone

“…Studies carried out in the last two decades have shown that autologous T cells engineered to express a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR-T) represent an effective technique for treating these patients. …”
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Application of Crisis Management Principles in Earthquake-Stricken Urban Areas by Hamedreza Sobhi, Mahmoud Rahimi, Mehdi Ravanshadnia

“…About three-quarters of the world’s population lives in areas that in recent decades have experienced at least one of the four leading causes of death from crises: earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, or droughts have experienced. …”
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The impact of centralization on structural changes in healthcare: when it works by Sergey Shishkin, Igor Sheiman, Elena Potapchik, Vasily Vlassov, Svetlana Sazhina

“…PurposeAfter a decade of post-Soviet decentralization of the healthcare in Russia the opposite trend has been dominating. …”
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The Anthropocene and the biodiversity crisis: an eco-evolutionary perspective by Jarne, Philippe

“…., climate change) on biodiversity, this representation is used to heuristically show the relevance of an eco-evolutionary perspective: (i) to analyze how biodiversity will respond to the stressors, for example by seeking out more suitable conditions or adapting to new conditions; (ii) to serve in predictive exercises to envision future dynamics (decades to centuries) under stressor impact; (iii) to propose nature-based solutions to the crisis. …”
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The effect of infra low frequency–neurofeedback training on pistol shooting performance and attention in semi-skilled players by Safoura Bakhtafrooz, Maryam Kavyani, Alireza Farsi, Saeed Alboghebeish

“…Endogenous Neuromodulation, characterized by the absence of discrete reinforcers, has emerged over the last two decades with the extension of training into the infra-low frequency regime, i.e., below 0.1 Hz. …”
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Traditional Donors in Information and Communi- cation Sector Development Assistance by Z. E. Gomboin

“…The author assesses the major quantitative parameters of aid flows and their dynamics for the past two decades, examines the distribution of aid across donor and recipient countries, as well as considers the issues of tied aid and conditionality. …”
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