Investigating the Pass-Through Effect of Global Oil Price Shock on Domestic Inflation in Selected African Countries by Lukman O. Oyelami, Babatunde S. Adekunle, Ademisola M. Oluwakemi

“…Efforts to minimize the impact of international oil shocks in these countries should center around investment in renewable energy and stabilization of the economy’s supply side through proactive and effective macroeconomic management.…”
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Pedagogical Support of Foreign Students’ Sociocultural Adjustment: The Experience of Implementation by G. P. Ivanova, O. K. Logvinova, N. N. Shirkova

“…Scientific interest to this theme is caused by the processes of  internationalization of higher education, the need to solve new tasks coming from intensification and expansion of international educational contacts. The authors specify the concept “pedagogical support” as applied to sociocultural adjustment of foreign students and characterize it in relation to interaction of different resources (personal, institutional, environmental). …”
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Clival Ectopic Pituitary Adenoma Mimicking a Chordoma: Case Report and Review of the Literature by Constantine L. Karras, Isaac Josh Abecassis, Zachary A. Abecassis, Joseph G. Adel, Esther N. Bit-Ivan, Rakesh K. Chandra, Bernard R. Bendok

“…On MRI it involved the entire clivus, extended laterally to the petroclival junction, and invaded the cavernous sinuses bilaterally, encasing both internal carotid arteries, without direct extension into the sella. …”
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Size Effect of Concrete Specimens on the Acoustic Emission Characteristics under Uniaxial Compression Conditions by Jianbo Wu, Enyuan Wang, Xuekun Ren, Mingwei Zhang

“…The research results have some guiding significance to AE-based monitoring of internal stress evolution of coal, rock, and concrete materials and thereby enable assessment of their stability.…”
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Dal dono al souvenir. Pratiche del dare e avere tra economia del turismo e cultura dell’ospitalità by Lucilla Rami Ceci

“…The anthropologist who critically recalls  his role is seen as  internal into business and symbolic practices belonging representative and cultural objects. …”
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ILO Convenstions and Migrant Workers: Construction of Protection in National Labor Law by Shohib Muslim, Khrisna Hadiwinata, Rizqi Khoirunnisa, Shinta Hadiyantina, Zainal Amin Ayub

“…The International Labor Organization has clearly regulated that human rights such as the right to work must be upheld and guaranteed. …”
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A data-driven latent variable approach to validating the research domain criteria framework by S. K. L. Quah, B. Jo, C. Geniesse, L. Q. Uddin, J. A. Mumford, D. M. Barch, D. A. Fair, I. H. Gotlib, R. A. Poldrack, M. Saggar

“…A curated subset of 37 maps with a balanced representation of RDoC domains constitute the training set, and the remaining held-out maps form the internal validation set. External validation is conducted using 36 peak coordinate activation maps from Neurosynth, using terms of RDoC constructs as seeds for topic meta-analysis. …”
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The Bergen Facebook addiction scale: a reliability generalization meta-analysis by Jian-Ling Ma, ZhengCheng Jin, Chang Liu

“…We performed a reliability generalization meta-analysis involving 173,641 participants across 127 articles, which reported 147 Cronbach’s alpha values for internal consistency. The random-effects model revealed that the pooled Cronbach’s alpha values were 0.8535 (95% CI [0.8409, 0.8660]) for the BFAS and 0.8248 (95% CI [0.8116, 0.8380]) for the BSMAS. …”
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Informal networks of corruption in contemporary Lithuania: Between practice and interpretation (an attempt to study evolution of blat) by Donatas Brandišauskas

“… Over the past decade, the corruption has become a popular concern, the subject of considerable investigation, and the target of international efforts in Lithuania. In a period of communism, role blat as one form of corruption plays a major role in explaining the everyday economic practices of Soviet society. …”
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Chinese guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of human immunodeficiency virus infection/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (2024 edition) by Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Professional Group, Society of Infectious Diseases, Chinese Medical Association; Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Wei Zhao

“…This edition of the Guidelines aims to assist clinical physicians in making informed decisions in the diagnosis, treatment, and management of HIV/AIDS and will be periodically revised and updated based on domestic and international research progress.…”
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A Novel Method Combining Radial Projection with Simultaneous Multislice Imaging for Measuring Cerebrovascular Pulse Wave Velocity by Jeong-Min Shim, Chang-Ki Kang, Young-Don Son

“…Here, we proposed a radial projection method that can reduce signal interference between the blood vessels and aimed to verify the theoretical and practical effects of this method. A dataset from the internal and common carotid arteries (ICA and CCA) was used for both projection methods. …”
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Development and Validation of a Simple Model to Predict the Risk of Nonmelanoma Skin Cancer on Screening Total Body Skin Examination by Rebecca I. Hartman, Yun Xue, Ryan Karmouta, Elizabeth Tkachenko, Sara J. Li, David G. Li, Cara Joyce, Arash Mostaghimi

“…This epidemiologic assessment utilized data from a prospective, multicenter international study from primarily academic outpatient dermatology clinics. …”
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Farmers’ adaptation practices in climate-stressed coastal Bangladesh: a systematic review by Md Ashik Ur Rahman, Sadhon Chandra Swarnokar, S M Nayem Ahasan, M Mohibbullah, Sadia Islam Mou, Animesh K Gain

“…The dominance of foreign-funded projects in publishing research shows the vital role of international collaboration in improving research quality and global knowledge exchange. …”
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Central nervous system B-cell lymphoma in a patient diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic inflammation with pontine perivascular enhancement responsive to steroids: A case report by Evangelos Koumasopoulos, Evangelia-Anna Spiteri, Aigli G Vakrakou, Panagiotis Toulas, Georgios Velonakis, George Stranjalis, Leonidas Stefanis, Maria-Eleptheria Evangelopoulos, Maria Anagnostouli

“…The patient had been diagnosed as having probable chronic lymphocytic inflammation with pontine perivascular enhancement responsive to steroids, according to international criteria. Afterward, regular clinical and imaging examinations and blood tests were performed. …”
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Growth models and comparative political economy in Latin America by Nikolas Passos, Guilherme Spinato Morlin

“…It also highlights how the growth models evolved in tandem with changing international conditions. Finally, the paper opens a research agenda for the political economy of stagnation in Latin American economies.…”
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Improvement of the TEB Algorithm for Local Path Planning of Car-like Mobile Robots Based on Fuzzy Logic Control by Lei Chen, Rui Liu, Daiyang Jia, Sijing Xian, Guo Ma

“…It uses the narrowness and turning complexity of the trajectory as inputs to dynamically adjust the weights of TEB’s internal objectives to obtain stable and high-quality trajectories in different environments. …”
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Load-Bearing Characteristics of Large-Diameter Rock-Socketed Piles Based on Ultimate Load Tests by Xueying Liu, Xiaoyu Bai, Mingyi Zhang, Yonghong Wang, Songkui Sang, Nan Yan

“…As part of a large converter project in Shandong Province, vertical static load tests and internal force tests were conducted on three large-diameter rock-socketed piles, their load transfer mechanism was clarified, and the ultimate side resistance and ultimate resistance performance characteristics of the rock-socketed sections were analyzed. …”
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Bearing Capacity of Light-Steel Compound Section and Steel Columns under Axial Compression by Jianwen Li, Xiaoyu Wang, Li Chen, Wenbo Lu

“…In the international trend of vigorously developing low-carbon economy and green buildings, environmental protection and conservation have received increased attention in the construction field. …”
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A state-of-the-art review of research on the use of calcined bauxite aggregate in civil engineering by Yalin Liu, Chengze Li, Ya Wei, Linbing Wang

“…This study describes in detail the macroscopic and microscopic properties of CB aggregates, analyzes and summarizes the current research status of CB aggregates in many aspects: 1) review the technique related to the manufacture of ultra-high performance concrete (UHPC) with CB aggregate, and systematically explain its mechanism in affecting the mechanical properties of UHPC; 2) clarify the potential and advantage of CB aggregates as internal curing agents, and elaborate the shrinkage reduction mechanism and the influence law when used in UHPC; 3) summarize the evaluation index system of CB aggregate in abrasion and skid resistance of pavement materials, as well as introduce related research and engineering applications of high friction surface treatment; 4) discuss the advantages of CB aggregate in preparation of high-impact resistant cementitious materials and its influence mechanism. …”
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Caregrief scale confirmatory factor analysis in a sample of portuguese caregivers by J. Vasconcelos-Raposo, A. Ribeiro, A. Silva, B. Santos, C. M. Teixeira

“…Subsequently, we used the exploratory factorial analysis that suggested a unifactorial model, which confirmatory factorial analysis showed was more adequate for the study sample, with values of: χ² / df = 2.023; CFI = .970; GIF = .923; RMSEA = .083; AIC = 110.724. The internal consistency analysis indicated a Cronbach alpha of .936, and the Composite Reliability was .934. …”
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