The EU Public Diplomacy in the United States under the D. Trump Administration: Challenges, Key Projects and Outcomes by A. N. Marchukov

“…Public diplomacy is one of the key foreign policy instruments of the European Union for strengthening its international stance. …”
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Machine-Vision-Based Intelligent Manufacturing by Fine-Grained Point Cloud Identification by Yinhai Li, Fei Wang, Yang Jiang

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Communication Skills Health Sciences Studies by Juan Francisco Tejera Concepcion, Miriam Iglesias León, Manuel Cortés Cortés, Gisela Bravo López, Norma Mur Villar, Juan Virgilio López Palacio

“…<strong>Background:</strong> skills, as cognitive-instrumental components of individuals` performance, have been widely studied in the educational field in order to strengthen the specific teaching of Health Sciences, thus teaching students how to establish an appropriate communication. …”
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THE PREFERENCE OF FOREIGN-BASED (MIGRANT) PLAYERS OVER HOME-BASED PLAYERS IN THE SUPER EAGLES OF NIGERIA: A COLORATION OF ‘COLONIAL MENTALITY’ by JOSEPH OKECHUKWU NWOKE

“…Also, home-based players can be instrumental to performance of the team as was displayed in the 1990 and 2013 African Cup of Nations.This study recommends that a law should be passed forcing the coach to include at least four home-based players on the field of play whenever the team is in action. …”
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Measurement Of Umbilical Venous Lactate Levels For Predicting Poor Neonatal Outcomes by Maria Habib, Maliha Akhtar Qureshi, Irum Sohail

“…Result: Umbilical venous lactate levels were found to be highest in instrumental deliveries (48.7%) and lowest in those delivered by elective cesarean section (25.7%). …”
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Unilateral Laryngeal Pacing System and Its Functional Evaluation by Taiping Zeng, Zhiping Zhang, Weiwei Peng, Fei Zhang, Baker Y. Shi, Fangyi Chen

“…To establish a reliable instrumental system for synchronized reactivation of a unilaterally paralyzed vocal fold and evaluate its functional feasibility. …”
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After a Hand Was Lent: Sporadically Experiencing Multisensory Interference During the Rubber Hand Illusion Does Not Shield Against Disembodiment by Julia Eck, David Dignath, Andreas Kalckert, Roland Pfister

“…The current study addressed this phenomenon and drew inspiration from the partial reinforcement extinction effect in instrumental learning which suggests that behavior is more resistant to extinction when reinforcement is delivered irregularly. …”
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Measuring Vertical Integration in the Technology Sector: Indonesia, the US, and the EU in Unfair Competition by Anna Maria Tri Anggraini, Ahmad Sabirin, Maria Silvya Elisabeth Wangga, Sharda Abrianti, Serena Ortigosa Fernandez

“…The criteria utilized include the concepts of unfair business competition and public harm, as these terms are instrumental in determining the impacts of violations concerning vertical integration. …”
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Quality Characteristics, Nutraceutical Profile, and Storage Stability of Aloe Gel-Papaya Functional Beverage Blend by Pushkala Ramachandran, Srividya Nagarajan

“…Periodic analysis was carried out up to five months for various physicochemical parameters, sugar profile, bioactive compounds, microbial quality, instrumental color, and sensory acceptability. The SAGPB exhibited superior quality characteristics compared to SPB both in fresh and in stored samples. …”
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A AGRESSIVIDADE NA PERSPECTIVA DE JOVENS ATLETAS, DE SEUS FAMILIARES E TREINADORES by Matheus Pinheiro, Alberto Filgueiras, Carlos Eduardo Nórte

“…Diante da análise dos temas gerados a partir das entrevistas, pôde-se assumir que os entrevistados tinham noções prévias a respeito da diferença entre agressividade hostil e instrumental, tendo a maioria deles demonstrado aversão à hostilidade. …”
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Transnationalization of science and technology policies in Central America. A network analysis 1955-2020 by Ronny Viales-Hurtado, Ronald Sáenz-Leandro, Marco Garita-Mondragón

“…ICAITI, with the help of foreign aid programs sponsored by western powers, was instrumental in establishing the scientific development policies that became dominant in Central America. …”
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Effects on Quality Properties of Pork Sausages Enriched with Sea Buckthorn (Hippophae rhamnoides L.) by Anna Marietta Salejda, Agnieszka Nawirska-Olszańska, Urszula Janiewicz, Grażyna Krasnowska

“…The ethanolic extract of sea buckthorn fruit (SBE) incorporated at the highest level (3%) significantly affected the pH, weight losses, and instrumental color parameters of sausages. The SBE deteriorated organoleptic properties of sausages like juiciness, overall appearance, texture, and taste; however the sausages manufactured with 1.5% SBE were scored higher for color and almost the same as control for smell acceptance. …”
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‘I roll my cigarette, and cycle to my club’: Playing with Stereotypes and Subverting Anti-Feminism in New Woman Writers’ Contributions to Punch by Katy Birch

“…Punch magazine was instrumental in shaping the figure of the New Woman in the popular imagination. …”
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Electronic role of biosemiconductors with C=O bonds by Mikio Fukuhara, Tomonori Yokotsuka, Tetsuo Samoto, Chika Saito, Nobuhisa Fujima, Toshiyuki Hashida

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MARCAS DA REFORMA UNIVERSITÁRIA DE 1968 E NOVOS DESAFIOS PARA A UNIVERSIDADE BRASILEIRA by Silke Weber

“…O estudo mostra que o debate sobre universidade no Brasil tem tido como horizonte implícito ou explicito a modernização do pais e que esse caráter instrumental, em detrimento de seus elementos finalísticos, explicaria por que politicas de Governo não tem logrado firmar-se como politica de Estado. …”
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The influence of spousal care on the health of middle-aged and older adult caregivers in China—empirical analysis based on CHARLS data by Rui Wang

“…This paper attempts to explore the effects of caregiving on the health of caregivers from the perspective of spousal care.MethodsUsing China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) database, this paper constructs a panel data fixed effect model to explore the effects of spousal care on the health of middle-aged and older adult caregivers. Further, instrumental variables (IV) estimation and propensity score matching (PSM) are used to minimize the impacts of endogeneity.ResultsSpousal care has no significant effect on the physical health of middle-aged and older adult caregivers, but it has a significant negative effect on their mental health. …”
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The Main Characteristics of Dialogic Interaction (Defining the Actual Tasks of Pedagogic Dialog by Y. V. Yermolayeva

“…Two main directions of dialogic pedagogy are outlined – the instrumental and ontological. Within the framework of the first direction, the dialog is considered to be the main means or instrument of effective teaching used for communication skills development. …”
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Research status and development trends of dust concentration monitoring technology by ZHANG Yongqi, WANG Jie, ZHOU Yuhao, YANG Junni, DENG Bin

“…The paper also delves into the continuous separation technologies and standards for respirable dust particles on a global scale and systematically examines the challenges that current dust concentration continuous monitoring technologies face in terms of instrumental measurement precision, reliability, stability, environmental adaptability, intelligent automatic calibration, and power consumption optimization. …”
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Teacher and Pupil: Happiness of Interaction by O. A. Donskikh, L. Yu. Logunova

“…Knowledge may have terminal and instrumental meanings, but its main purpose is to serve the formation of personality, and not to serve the existence and needs of controllers.…”
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Integrating environmental issues in the policy agenda by the ruling parties in East Java, Indonesia by Syahirul Alim, Verdy Firmantoro, Angga Sukmara Christian Permadi

“…The results show that within political parties, sustainability considerations are largely reactive, oriented towards short-term goals, and mainly used for instrumental purposes. Despite the existing literature, parties that are more likely to survive electorally are in areas where voters are highly concerned about environmental issues and have different party strategies in terms of general policy. …”
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