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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An Apos Investigation into Students’ Understanding of Logical Algebraic Connectives by Idowu Oluwaseun Longe, Aneshkumar Maharaj

“…Students struggled to connect their understanding of truth tables to algebraic form, demonstrating challenges with connector properties (particularly de Morgan's) and errors in bracket applications, which are centered on students not having appropriate mental structure at the object and schema level. while correct precision and knowledge that mathematical symbolism serves both an instrumental role and a communicative function indicate some sort of schema.…”
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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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La esfera interfuerzas en Argentina : notas sobre el estudio de la problemática militar by Ricardo J. Laleff Ilieff

“…A partir de una revisión crítica del concepto “control civil”, este trabajo propone su redefinición, con el objetivo de avanzar hacia la búsqueda de un instrumental analítico adecuado para indagar en aquellas áreas descuidadas por los estudios tradicionales. …”
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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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Nyadran and Paguyuban Budiluhur in Caring for Inter-Religious Harmony by Anif Musyafa’ah Harnianti, Fina Farikhatun Nurul Maqfiroh, Khozinatul Mabruroh, Abdul Najib, Muhammad Syihabuddin Alawy

“…The findings indicate that social actions lean towards instrumental rationality, as the Nyadran tradition has been institutionalized in the village's annual agenda, and Paguyuban Budiluhur has become an established foundation. …”
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Lansia Aktif dan Berdaya: Studi Perilaku Prososial pada Kader Surabaya Hebat by Widya Annisa Royani, Cicilia Larasati Rembulan

“…Metode penelitian yang digunakan adalah kualitatif dengan desain studi kasus instrumental. Partisipan dipilih menggunakan teknik purposive sampling. …”
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Diagnosis and treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma with pelvic metastasis expressing AFP: a case report by Legang Huang, Zijie Wang, Jiankuan Lu

“…The combination of PET-CT imaging and pathological biopsy is instrumental in improving the detection rate of HCC metastases, enabling more accurate treatment planning for patients.…”
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From union clout to corporate couture: Unveiling the impact of trade unions on corporate social responsibility. by Anshul Mandliya, Jatin Pandey, Shrihari Suresh Sohani, Rayees Ahmad Sheikh

“…This study explores the roles of trade unions, management, and shareholders in influencing environmental, social, and governance (ESG) controversies and CSR reporting. Drawing on instrumental stakeholder theory, we argue that while management and shareholders typically focus on governance, profitability, and operational efficiency, trade unions act as critical relational stakeholders advocating for employee welfare and social sustainability. …”
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