La participación ciudadana en las políticas públicas de lucha contra la corrupción: respondiendo a la lógica de gobernanza by Luisa Fernanda Cano Blandón

“…Dentro de las políticas públicas que se han planteado en la región para el control de la corrupción, la participación de los ciudadanos se ha convertido en un elemento indispensable, el cual, en términos generales, se encuentra inserto dentro de una lógica de acción pública que en años recientes asumió la denominación de gobernanza, esto es, la necesidad de comprender el gobierno como un proceso y no como un sujeto directivo, lo cual implica una multiplicidad de actores y de centros de decisión difusos. …”
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Ambientes Enriquecidos, Sujetos Geriátricos Y Procesos De Memoria; Un Acercamiento a los Procesos Cognitivos en la Edad Adulta by Andrés G Vanegas, Julián A Messa, Diosimar Cardoza T., José R Tovar, Álvaro A Ocampo

“…Los resultados demostraron que aquellos participantes pertenecientes a un ambiente rico en estimulación cognitiva obtuvieron mejor rendimiento en tareas relacionadas con memoria y funciones cognitivas generales. Por otro lado, los sujetos que no cuentan con un nivel de educación formal en su ambiente, pero son expuestos a actividades de la vida diaria, obtuvieron también un buen rendimiento. …”
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White Garden Snail, Theba pisana (Mueller) (Gastropoda: Helicidae) by Jane E. Deisler, Lionel A. Stange

“…It is the most frequently intercepted foreign land snail (Hanna 1966, Mead 1971), generally arriving in shipments from the Mediterranean countries. …”
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Chunking a Transcription of a Lecture to Help Students at EAP Courses Improve their Listening Comprehension Skill(S) by Janusz Badio

“…Students' proficiency levels in these skills generally range from 5.0 to 6.5. One significant challenge faced by foreign students is in the area of listening skills. …”
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Optimization Analysis of Pretreatment Device Structural Parameters for Low-Concentration CBM Utilization by Lu Xiao

“…In order to ensure the safe and stable operation of the CBM utilization device, the gas mixing unit is used to stabilize the concentration of feed gas. Generally, the resistance of the gas mixing unit is not higher than 500 Pa and the uniformity of gas is not less than 90%. …”
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Diplomacia en transición. La República Popular China frente a la dictadura cívico-militar en Chile by Pablo Ignacio Ampuero Ruiz

“…El artículo indaga por qué la República Popular de China (RPC) no rompió relaciones con el régimen de Pinochet en Chile como lo hizo la Unión Soviética y, en términos más generales, en qué aspectos esta situación representa un cambio fundamental en la política exterior de la RPC. …”
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Mechanical Effects of Solid Water on the Particle Skeleton of Soil: Mechanism Analysis by Xiaomeng Duan

“…It is generally accepted that the adsorbed water layer on the surface of the mineral particle has significant effects on the mechanical properties of soils. …”
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Nano-Sized Ultrasound Contrast Agent: Salting-Out Method by Margaret A. Wheatley, John Lewandowski

“…Tumor imaging by ultrasound is greatly enhanced by the use of ultrasound contrast agents (UCAs), stabilized, gas-filled bodies. They are generally less than 7 μm to pass freely through the capillary bed. …”
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Identifying unregulated fisheries seasonality through commercial landings and local fishers’ knowledge by Abdulrahman Ben-Hasan, Mohammad E. Al Mukaimi

“…Landings influenced seasonal mean prices, with higher landings generally meant lower prices and vice versa. Further, we found that months identified by local fishers as being the “best fishing seasons” are consistent with months of peak landings for most stocks, though fishing seasons for a few stocks diverged widely from seasonality in commercial landings. …”
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Reconnecting Alaska: Mexican Movements and the Last Frontier by Sara V. Komarnisky

“…Powerful imaginaries are associated with places: Alaska, and 'the north' more generally, and Latin America, and Mexico specifically. …”
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A Comparative Kinetic Study of Acidic Hydrolysis of Wastes Cellulose from Agricultural Derived Biomass by Ajani AO, SE Agarry, OO Agbede

“…The results showed that the rate of hydrolysis by virtue of glucose yield generally increased with increase in temperature and acid concentration for all the four agricultural wastes used. …”
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Geohazard mapping and mitigations along the road corridor Gasera–Indeto, Southeast Ethiopia by Chalachew Tesfa

“…Slope and aspects show the most frequent landslide hazards in >40, 30–40°, and east, and northeast respectively. Generally, the study found that lithology, slope, and aspect were the main factors contributing to slope instability in the study area. …”
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Effect of Aquatic Exercises on Strength and Quality of Life in Sarcopenia Older Individuals by Aslı Nur Menteş, Büşra Çetin

“…Among them, the European Working Group on Sarcopenia in Older Persons (EWGSOP) has defined sarcopenia as "a syndrome characterized by progressive and generalized loss of skeletal muscle mass and strength, which carries the risk of unwanted consequences such as physical disability, poor quality of life and death". …”
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Simulating X-ray beam energy and detector signal processing of an industrial CT using implicit neural representations by Edwin Blum, Moritz Burmeister, Florian Stamer, Gisela Lanza

“…However, its poor performance on the test dataset highlights limitations in generalization beyond the training data. Potential methods to address these shortcomings are discussed. …”
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Weber’s Law as the emergent phenomenon of choices based on global inhibition by Marcin Penconek

“…Weber’s Law states that the ability to recognize the difference in intensity values is proportional to the reference intensity. The law is often generalized to the ratio principle which states that the proportionality also holds above the discrimination threshold. …”
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In Vitro Evaluation of the Cytotoxic Potential of Environmental Contaminant Mixtures Present in Water for Human Use by Israa J. Hakeem, Ngiste Amare

“…On the other hand, we have been able to show that the quantitative estimate of the anticipated cellular responses generally does not adjust precisely to the observed effect through the analysis of the prediction of the combined effect using mathematical models. …”
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Cohesión social y espacio de aparición: el papel de los espectadores en el concepto de ciudadanía de Hannah Arendt by Alejandro Mesa Arango, Ruth Elena Quiroz Posada

“…El artículo parte de consideraciones generales sobre el concepto de ciudadanía en Arendt a fin de adentrar al lector en el espacio de aparición, compartido por actores, pero sobre todo por espectadores, cuya preponderancia sobre lo social cristaliza en la trama plural de historias tejidas acerca de los hechos en el espacio común en que se aparecen unos a otros, equivalente al “entre”, base del ejercicio de la ciudadanía con sus consecuentes implicaciones para el concepto mismo y para los planes y programas emergentes de educación para la ciudadanía y de formación ciudadana.…”
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Sanitary and hygienic issues in the design of individual heat supply systems by A. L. Toropov

“…It is advisable to apply these engineering solutions at the design stage.Materials and methods. Based on the generalization of data from scientific sources and published cases of mass diseases, the main types of pathogenic bacteria occurring in individual water and heat supply systems were identified. …”
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Is hyaluronan deposition in the stroma of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma of prognostic significance? by Florian Gebauer, Marius Kemper, Guido Sauter, Peter Prehm, Udo Schumacher

“…In contrast, HABP staining was generally confined to the extracellular matrix and was completely abolished by hyaluronidase pretreatment. …”
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Patient's Attitudes Towards the Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Finland: an Ethnomedical Insight Based on Cancer Narratives by Piret Paal

“…According to the official record, the majority of ethnomedical treatments were declared marginal and generally useless and the state began to support the construction of hospitals. …”
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