Science diplomacy as a tool for promoting the interests of Czechia in Africa by Mikhail V. Vedernikov

“…The institutional structure of Czech science diplomacy at the present stage is analyzed, and the main actors involved in this activity are identified. Its main instruments on the Black Continent have been studied – concluding official agreements with local partners, involving national businesses in promoting Czech science, advertising Czech higher education, and conducting scientific diplomacy through official development assistance. …”
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Investigating interactions of alpha-hydroxy acids with sodium benzoate for advanced formulation and translational applications: An ultrasonic approach by Ashpinder Kaur Gill, Nabaparna Chakraborty, K.C. Juglan

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Household Waste Management Strategy in Upper Middle Housing by Susan Rendra Utama, Mei Ahyanti

“…Targeting households with heads of families as respondents, the research encompassed a sample of 120 housing units selected through systematic random sampling. Instruments developed by the researcher were employed for data collection. …”
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A Novel Robust Fuzzy Rough Set Model for Feature Selection by Yuwen Li, Shoushui Wei, Xing Liu, Zhimin Zhang

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Relationship between Burnout, Quality of Life, and Work Ability Index—Directions in Prevention by Mirjana Arandjelovic, Maja Nikolic, Slavisa Stamenkovic

“…The questionnaires tested are reliable instruments in the Serbian region. Burnout, quality of life, and work ability are significantly interrelated categories in food manufacturing workers. …”
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Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) counseling as non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) intervention for students by Afra Hasna, Nurul Fajri

“…By using the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation (DERS) instrument, the results obtained in the baseline phase (A1) are an average score of 99.6; intervention phase (B) obtained an average score of 80.9; and at baseline (A2) an average score of 63.8 is obtained. …”
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THE INSTITUTIONAL SYSTEM OF THE COMMON SECURITY AND DEFENCE POLICY (CSDP) OF THE EUROPEAN UNION: STRUCTURE AND MECHANICS by M. S. Fedorov

“…Third, the CSDP institutional system embodies a specific approach towards crisis management, elaborated by the EU - a combination of both military and civil instruments of peacemaking (the so-called "civil-military synergy"). …”
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Domestication of Arabo-Islamic Words in the Ilọrin Dialect of Yorùbá by Abdulrazaq Mohammed Katibi

“…With the introduction of Islam to many parts of the world, Arabic becomes the instrument to convey its concepts. Some of these concepts are either adopted as a loan word or being literally translated. …”
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Analysis of money management skills as a character building of responsibility and creativity in elementary school students by Prihatin Sulistyowati, Sudarmiatin Sudarmiatin, Rosyid Al Atok

“…Data collection by survey by giving instruments in the form of questionnaires 12 questions for individuals and 1 question for groups. …”
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Extraction of a low grade zinc ore using gravity and froth flotation methods by Alabi Oladunni Oyelola, Dalhatu Aboki Abdu, Abere Dare Victor, Magnus T Igonwelundu, Bala Meshack Bosan, Araoye Babatunde Oyebode

“…Resulting products (concentrate and tailing) from these processes were analyzed using instrumentation method. Percentage recovery of each applied process was calculated. …”
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Trace Measurements of Ethylene Oxide Using Cavity-enhanced Absorption Spectrometry near 3066 cm−1 by Manish Gupta, Andrew P. Chan, Michael N. Sullivan, Rupal M. Gupta

“…Deliberate ambient EtO releases demonstrate the instrument’s utility in rapidly detecting hazardous conditions. …”
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Evaluation of the Drought Situation Using Remote Sensing Technology, an Applied Study on a Part of North Wasit Governorate in Iraq by A. J. Dakhil, E. K. Hussain and F. F. Aziz

“…For the period from 1993 to 2023, drought intensity maps were generated utilizing NDVI-based VCI and the Geographic Information System (GIS), an extremely effective spatial data management instrument. NDVI results evidenced that the vegetation cover area was the highest in 1993 and 1998 and declined until it reached the lowest levels in 2023. …”
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THE IMPLICATIONS OF TERRORISM ON FOOD PRICES IN NIGERIA by LILIAN NNENNE AKHANOLU, HEZEKIAH AMAMIZO OGUNNUBI

“…In view of these occurrences , this paper examines the implications of terrorism on the recent prices of food and our empirical results shows that terrorism has a negative effect on the prices of food in the country .The study adopted the descriptive analysis of secondary data to examine the effects of terrorism on food prices in the nation .The study will examine the topic in detail and based on this ,the following policy recommendations will be put forward which includes government providing securities for farmers by using the non-biased military to silent the insurgents, adopt a registration data of herders with government which will capture all operating herders in Nigerian states for easy tracking of any misbehavior, provide employment for our jobless youths who had become instruments in the hands of terrorist promoters, and  above all, Nigerian government should adopt State police for a better protection of our rural areas and communities. …”
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Analysis of Loss of Essential Power System Reported in Nuclear Power Plants by Andrija Volkanovski, Miguel Peinador Veira

“…This system provides electrical power to the essential instrumentation and control systems of the nuclear power plant when all alternate current power sources are lost. …”
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Astor Piazzolla’s compositional and interpretive styling of his Tango Adiós Nonino across four decades of his career – insights into the emergence of Nuevo Tango by Gina-Mihaela Pavel

“…Compositional structure, rhythmic and melodic motifs, distinctive techniques (fraseo, golpe de gaja), instrument arrangements, collaboration formats are reviewed. …”
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Stator Current-Based Model Reference Adaptive Control for Sensorless Speed Control of the Induction Motor by Workagegn Tatek Asfu

“…The sensorless vector control operation has been verified by simulation on Matlab and experimentally using Texas Instruments HVMTRPFCKIT with TMS320 F28035 DSP card and 0.18 kw AC IM.…”
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Unleashing green technology innovation in agribusiness: traditional environmental regulations, carbon trading, or synergies? by Wei Wang, Yanan She, Yue Peng, Yunqiang Liu

“…It was found that: (1) Although both traditional environmental regulatory tools and carbon trading provide incentive effects, the former tends to exhibit more pronounced direct effects, making it more suitable for adoption by local governments, while the latter demonstrates stronger spatial spillover effects, making it more appropriate for application in a national market context. (2) Command-and-control environmental regulatory instruments and carbon trading are complementary policy mixes, and other environmental policy mixes are to be used as appropriate in the context of the actual situation. (3) The incentive effects of environmental policies are more significant in eastern regions, non-heavily polluting, and state-owned agribusinesses, but not in the basic agricultural sector. …”
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Arm Propulsion in Front Crawl Stroke by Cristian Romagnoli, Vincenzo Bonaiuto, Giorgio Gatta

“…Data were collected using a Spectro instrument to measure the drag and 3D video analysis for kinematic of upper limbs movement. …”
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Evaluation of Negative Cognitions in Children and Adolescents: Children’s Automatic Thoughts Scale by Derya Atalan ERGİN, Emine Gül KAPÇI

“…Test-rest reliabilities with two weeks interval demonstrated that the Children’s Automatic Thoughts Scale is a reliable instrument(r=.90). Cronbach Alpha was found to be and .94. …”
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Optimized Super-Twisting Sliding Mode Control with Parameter Estimation for Autonomous Vehicle Longitudinal Motion on Downhill Road by Kbrom Lbsu Gdey, Woo Young Choi

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