The House of European History: Pöttering’s Elite-Level Impact in shaping European Identity by Jennifer Ostojski

“…While European Parliament President Hans-Gert Pöttering receives credit for originating the museum, little scholarship speaks to his ideas regarding European Union integration, community, and its identity – even though, elite leader ideas are recognized in nationalism studies as instrumental in the making of an identity. This article fills this gap and shows how Pöttering’s ideas influenced the broad and generalized narrative the House of European History espouses today. …”
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The explananda in North Germanic Tonogenesis by Tomas Riad

“…The developments of a postposed definite article and epenthetic vowels, processes that are always mentioned as instrumental in demonstrating the lexical distinction (B) do not directly bear on tonogenesis as such. …”
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MOKSLO IR POLITIKOS SĄSAJOS J. HABERMASO SOCIALINĖJE FILOSOFIJOJE by Aldis Gedutis

“…Key words: Habermas, science, politics, ideology, instrumental and communicative rationality. …”
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The effect of shielding gas composition on the toughness and crack growth parameters of AlMg4,5Mn weld metals by Prokić-Cvetković R., Kastelec-Macura S., Milosavljević A., Popović O., Burzić M.

“…Also, the weld metal toughness was estimated, using the instrumental Charpy impact testing system, followed by estimating the crack initiation energy, crack growth energy and the fracture mechanics parameters. …”
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Cardiovascular Activities of of the bradykinin system by Jagdish N. Sharma

“…In recent years, numerous observationsobtained from clinical and experimental models of diabetes, hypertension, cardiacfailure, ischemia, myocardial infarction, and left ventricular hypertrophy have suggestedthat the reduced activity of the local kallikrein-kinin system may be instrumental for theinduction of cardiovascular-related diseases. …”
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Dépasser l’analogie, écouter les opprimé·es : patriarcat et blanchité dans le discours antispéciste by Myriam Bahaffou

“…These two literatures have substituted analogy for other methods of reasoning that enable us to take responsibility towards the subjects involved, outside a reifying and instrumental discourse.…”
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Psychospołeczna perspektywa adaptacji szkolnej dzieci – konceptualizacja zjawiska by Renata Michalak

“… Regardless of the theoretical perspective, the school adaptation is treated in an instrumental way and identifies with the concept of adaptation, adjustment, fitness, and is considered as the basic problem of the student’s educational functioning. …”
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Placeres a la carta: consumo de pornografía y constitución de géneros by Carlos Eduardo Figari

“…Se discute además la crítica a favor y en contra de la pornografía que discurre entre la postura abolicionista, las praxis que intentan una reapropiación semántica en términos de responder/generar otros gustos y aquéllas que incluso postulan el uso instrumental de lo pornográfico para resignificar subversivamente los roles de género.…”
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Sociabilidade e cidadania: os espaços públicos de Salvador como entrelaçamento do concreto, do simbólico e do imaginário by Cíntia San Martin Fernandes

“…For this purpose, the author chose Salvador, in the state of Bahia, Brazil, as a constitutive example of a city that builds its sociability, its daily interlacement, not on instrumental rational relationships (ruled by objective and regulating ends and means), but on sensitive reason (ruled by sensitivities, such as art, aesthetics, the body and gestures). …”
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CCD Standard Curve Fitting for Microarray Detection Base on Multi-Layer Perceptron by Zhenhua Gan, Dongyu He, Peishu Wu, Baoping Xiong, Nianyin Zeng, Fumin Zou, Feng Guo, Qin Bao, Fengyan Zhao

“…However, the standard curve is critical to the highly accurate measuring of the instrument. In view of the poor curve fitting performance of LSA, Weighted Least Squares (WLS), and Penalized Least Squares (PLS), as well as the small dataset, this paper proposes the Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP) neural network algorithm with the minimization of relative error as the constraint, which is applied to the standard curve fitting of the scanner. …”
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Measuring. Monitoring. Management. Control by S.V. Logunov, E.V. Blagodyrenko, I.S. Gerasimenko, N.A. Kupriyanov

“…This made it possible to consider the area of instrumental error of the optical means for each measurement as a new boundary of the confidence interval of a random variable having a distribution with parameters corresponding to the end of the forecast section. …”

The moderating role of social support on the impact of adverse childhood experiences on life satisfaction and mental health in adulthood by Muath Aldomini, Jerry W. Lee, Anna Nelson, Rhonda Spencer Hwang, Khulud K. Alharbi, Tassnym H. Sinky, Baraa S. Quronfulah, Wahaj A. Khan, Mohamed O. Elamin, Mohamed O. Nour

“…Conclusions: When predicting both mental health and life satisfaction following ACEs, potential protective effects of PSS (mainly instrumental support) and debilitating effects of NSS (rejection) were noted. …”
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How does the first index mode of birth in public or private hospitals predict subsequent births? A 16-year Australian population-based linked data study by Soo Downe, Hannah G Dahlen, Ank de Jonge, Lilian Peters, Michiel de Boer

“…Modes of the index birth and subsequent modes of second and third births (ie, spontaneous vaginal, instrumental vaginal elective/emergency caesarean birth) were registered. …”
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"... Y hasta en el cielo, señor…” El tondero: hacia una compresión de la dualidad del género by Virginia Beatriz Yep Lenginnam

“…En Piura, el tondero es la danza tradicional y la banda, el conjunto instrumental más representativo. Este artículo presenta un análisis de este género en sus dos variantes: el tondero de los criollos, cantado y con acompañamiento de guitarras y cajón; y el tondero de banda, interpretado por la banda de músicos según los patrones establecidos por el estilo de banda. …”
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Réplica social frente al sismo del 19 de septiembre de 2017 en Morelos, México by Rodrigo Flores Reséndiz, Rafael Monroy-Ortiz, Giovanni Marlon Montes Mata

“…Para hacer un uso instrumental de dichas categorías, se revisan las políticas de mitigación y se caracteriza el funcionamiento del centro de acopio universitario de la Universidad Autónoma de Morelos.…”
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The need for the teaching of Biblical Studies in the RSA with special reference to the Giyani high schools by S. B. Hlungwani, I. J. Henning, G. A. Lotter

“…All respondents (teachers, learners, principals, parents and ministers of Christian religions) agree that Biblical Studies plays a role in the school curriculum as it is instrumental in: • solving life problems experienced by learners in the society; • establishing norms whereby learners can judge the situations in which they are involved, and • enhancing the spiritual and academic growth of learners and young people. …”
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Drawing Theory. An Introduction by Marc Schoonderbeek, Stefano Milani

“…Even though the role of drawing is nowadays still regarded as the most common act of architecture, this understanding of drawing is hardly subject to critical inquiries, and, unfortunately, mostly limited to its instrumental role within the representation of the project.A common characteristic in all of the papers in this issue of Footprint is that a specific character of the theoretical field generated by drawing is the elaboration of the correlation between two epistemic regions. …”
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Virtual Simulation-Based Training and Person-Centered Care by Christen Page, Morgan Blaydes, Leah Simpkins, Casey Humphrey, Kellie Ellis

“… Person-centered care is instrumental in the treatment of individuals with dementia.  …”
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Review of Rome-IV criteria for the irritable bowel syndrome: are there any basic changes? by A. A. Sheptulin, M. A. Vize-Khripunova

“…It causes the need of the limited laboratory and instrumental investigation of the patients. The new drugs (rifaximin, lubiprostone, linaclotide etc.) are included in the treatment modes. …”
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