Assessing the Role of Soft Power in India-Russia Relations by Rashmi Doraiswamy

“…However, with the fall of the Soviet Union and geopolitical reorientations, Russia had to focus on rebuilding its economy before engaging with soft power. Similarly, India liberalized its economy in the 1990s and adapted to changing political equations in the international order.Soft power, as defined by Joseph Nye, includes cultural resources, political values, and foreign policies that can be used to influence others. …”
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Vilnius as a Center of the Jewish Bund by Arūnas Vyšniauskas

“…The essence of this break was expressed perhaps most explicitly by M. Goldman (Liber). He urged his associates to give up cosmopolitanism and to focus on their Jewish identity on the basis of the Yiddish language. …”
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Origen and Plato on the Superiority and Perfection of the Soul by Zhimeng Lin

“…He emphasized that the perfection of the soul requires liberation from the dominance of the senses, using Plato’s dialectical method and drawing inspiration from the Holy Spirit to achieve comprehensive knowledge and spiritual maturity. …”
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Perception and treatment of melancholy in the writings of Hildegard of Bingen (c. 1098-1179) by Eglė Sakalauskaitë-Juodeikienë

“…In this paper, I analyze Hildegard’s book Liber subtilitatum diversarum naturarum creaturarum (Book of Subtleties of the Diverse Nature of Creatures), compiled around 1151-1158 and consisting of two books: Physica and Causae et curae. …”
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Marriage by Proxy: A Remedy to Divorce and Single Parenting as Presented in Ifá Ogbèdí Divination Poetry by Samuel Kayode Olaleye

“…However today, some people have attributed the problem of marriage breakup to abandoned culture and modernity through Western education, foreign culture, and religions, while others premise it on women’s liberation. Yet, the latter argument may not be strong enough since many prominent women were successful in their business enterprises and marriage even in times of the gods such as Ajé who had 200 slaves that helped her to take her wares to the market. …”
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THE REALIST PARADIGM OF ENERGY DIPLOMACY IN THE RUSSIAN SCIENTIFIC TRADITION AND ITS PRACTICAL APPLICABILITY by R. О. Reinhardt, S. V. Pronichkin

“…However, most of the existing works do not specify the selected political theory paradigms, such as, for instance, realism, liberalism or constructivism. With no intention to conduct a comparative analysis of the aforementioned concepts, the authors of the article outline the key theoretical findings of political realism as the most suitable paradigm for explaining, analyzing and eventually forecasting the recent trends and phenomena given the current geopolitical and economical juncture. …”
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Older adults do not consistently overestimate their action opportunities across different settings by Isabel Bauer, Milena S. Gölz, Lisa Finkel, Maddalena Blasizzo, Sarah E. M. Stoll, Jennifer Randerath

“…The older participants showed significantly more liberal judgments in tasks with distal boundaries. …”
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Critical thinking about health and treatments in the United States: a cross-sectional assessment of parents and undergraduate college students by Vanesa A. Mora Ringle, Astrid Dahlgren, Sarah Rosenbaum, Amanda Jensen-Doss

“…Parents with higher educational attainment had lower critical thinking about health, and college students who reported a liberal political affiliation had higher critical thinking scores. …”
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Endobronchial One-Way Valve Therapy Facilitates Weaning from Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation in a Patient with ARDS and Persistent Air Leak by Alessandro Ghiani, Matthias Hansen, Konstantinos Tsitouras, Claus Neurohr

“…During the following two weeks, the patient was weaned from vvECMO, and after another three weeks, complete liberation from mechanical ventilation was accomplished. …”
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High-Precision prediction of curling trajectory multivariate time series using the novel CasLSTM approach by Yanan Guo, Jing Jin, Hongyang Zhao, Yu Jiang, Dandan Li, Yi Shen

“…The proposed technique liberates data-driven curling stone trajectory prediction from sole reliance on analytical models and tackles key challenges of long sequence forecasting. …”
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Large N limit of the Yang–Mills measure on compact surfaces II: Makeenko–Migdal equations and the planar master field by Antoine Dahlqvist, Thibaut Lemoine

“…Our result on the torus justifies the introduction of an interpolation between free and classical convolution of probability measures, defined with the free unitary Brownian motion but differing from t-freeness of [5] that was defined in terms of the liberation process of Voiculescu [67]. In contrast to [20], our main tool is a fine use of Makeenko–Migdal equations, proving uniqueness of their solution under suitable assumptions, and generalising the arguments of [21, 33].…”
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The Phenomenon of «Islamic State» by A. V. Fedorchenko, A. V. Krylov

“…The crisis of "secular ideologies" (primarily Western liberalism and communism), greatly contributed to the success of "Islamic boom", including the creation of the ISIS. …”
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An Environmentally Friendly Flow Injection-Gas Diffusion System Using Roselle (Hibiscus sabdariffa L.) Extract as Natural Reagent for the Photometric Determination of Sulfite in Wi... by Preeyaporn Reanpang, Teerarat Pun-uam, Jaroon Jakmunee, Supada Khonyoung

“…When a standard solution or sample solution was injected into an acidic donor stream, the liberated sulfur dioxide diffuses through a gas-permeable membrane of the GD unit into the acceptor solution, causing color fading of the reagent. …”
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Ground-Level Geriatric Falls: A Not-So-Minor Mechanism of Injury by Simon Parker, Arash Afsharpad

“…Trauma patients with reduced cognitive function should undergo full ATLS assessment, and a prospective trial is required to see if age should be incorporated as a criteria for trauma team activation. More liberal use of advanced imaging such as a full body CT-scan may be beneficial.…”
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Autocratización a fuego lento: el caso de Nicaragua (2000-2024) by Macià Serra, Daniel Rodríguez Suárez, Salvador Martí i Puig

“…The first, from 2000 to 2006, during which a liberal democratic regime begins to shift due to spurious political interests; the second, from 2006 to 2011, when the system acquires elements of a hybrid regime and authoritarian elections are introduced; the third, from 2011 to 2019, when the modus operandi—based on co-opting the country’s most influential economic and social actors—abruptly and improvised shifts (following protests) to influence a highly repressive authoritarian system; and a fourth period in which the government deploys a legal framework aimed at curtailing and repressing any form of dissent, hollowing out all state institutions and establishing a closed authoritarian regime. …”
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Experimental characterization of chemical mineral composition and morphology of titanium in carbonized slag particles by Jianxin Wang, Dong Yue, Liangying Wen, Liwen Hu, Xueming Lv

“…According to the analysis of the occurrence state of titanium element using SEM-EDS and mineral liberation analyzer (MLA), the results indicate that almost all titanium in the titanium-bearing blast-furnace slag exists in the CaTiO3 phase, which is transformed into TiCxOy phase during the process of carbonization reduction to make the carbonized slag. …”
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Towards a fully automated underwater census for fish assemblages in the Mediterranean Sea by Kilian Bürgi, Charles Bouveyron, Diane Lingrand, Benoit Derijard, Frédéric Precioso, Cécile Sabourault

“…In conclusion, utilising a minimal-human-input video method liberates the data acquisition from limiting factors (i.e. meteorological and logistical) and automation of this video analysis significantly reduces the labour and time required. …”
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Neopragmatism and speculative realism by A. V. Morozov

“…The similarity of the utopias built by Rorty and Meillassoux allows us to conclude that Meillassoux’s project is very close in his spirit to liberal ideology…”
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Effects of Fungi-Mediated Solid-State Fermentation on Phenolic Contents and Antioxidant Activity of Brown and White Teff (Eragrostis tef (Zucc.) Trotter) Grains by Yoseph Asmelash Gebru, Desta Berhe Sbhatu

“…Such changes are suggested to be attributed to activities of fungal enzymes such as amylases, xylanases, and proteases that induce structural breakdown of grain components including cell walls leading to the liberation or synthesis of a variety of phenolic compounds. …”
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II. DÜNYA SAVAŞI SONRASINDA DÜNYA SİYASETİNDE YAŞANAN KIRILMALARIN TÜRKİYE’NİN DEMOKRATİKLEŞME SÜRECİNE İLK ETKİLERİ: İNSAN HAKLARI BAĞLAMINDA BİR DEĞERLENDİRME... by Burcu Değirmencioğlu

“…Türk kamuoyundaki tartışmaların da kuşkusuz etkisiyle, söz konusu gelişmeler Türkiye’nin Batılı liberal değerleri benimseme ve içselleştirme yoluna girmesine olanak sağlamıştır. …”
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