MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS OF UNIVERSITIES IN RUSSIA AND ABROAD by Alisa V. Melikyan

“…The uniqueness of the Academy lies in its extensive territorial structure uniting educational institutions of different levels,located in 53 regions of the country. …”
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La diversità linguistica d'Europa oggi: tra patrimonio e identità culturale by Cecilia Robustelli

“…Partant de ces principes, l’EFNIL aborde chaque année au cours du colloque qu’elle organise un thème lié à l’usage actuel des langues européennes, contribuant de la sorte à faire connaitre les politiques linguistiques de chaque pays.…”
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Quand des pesticides empoisonnent la recherche, la réglementation et la démocratie : by Louise Vandelac

“…To oppose opacity and lies, they therefore shed light on the Monsanto Papers (U.S. …”
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Traditional funeral and burial rituals and Ebola outbreaks in West Africa: A narrative review of causes and strategy interventions by Chulwoo Park

“…Funeral rituals include several actions, such as washing and cleaning the body, washing one’s hands in a common bowl after touching the face of the deceased, and lying over the corpse of a prominent person. Although Ebola-affected countries created national Ebola response and communication strategies in 2014, the efforts at the government level were not sufficiently effective to contain the disease’s outbreak. …”

Digital twin as a tool of the real-time enterprise management mechanism by Oleksandr Bazyk, Tetiana Grynko

“…The value of the research lies in the development of a new concept of creating digital duplicates of enterprises based on a holistic approach based on the unification of the accounting of all enterprise assets and their presentation in the form of a multi-layered multigraph. …”
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Impact of Personal Values on School Engagement Among Chinese Adolescents: Mediating Effects of Achievement Goals by Tingyu Gu, Xiaosong Gai

“…The practical value of this study lies in demonstrating that promoting self-improvement and self-transcendence values, particularly self-improvement values, fosters positive achievement goal orientations, such as mastery approach goals, which in turn enhance school engagement.…”
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Spatio-temporal patterns of the construction and development of urban open spaces in Macau from 1889–2020 by Jitai Li, Fan Lin, Yile Chen

“…The originality of the research lies in its comprehensive analysis of Macau’s urban spatial patterns, focusing on the unique typology of “Largo” spaces, which are integral to Macau’s urban form and cultural identity. …”
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Characterising the Thematic Content of Image Pixels with Topologically Structured Clustering by Giles M. Foody

“…This may, for example, provide a means to target efforts in training data acquisition for supervised classification as the most useful training cases may have a tendency to lie within specific sub-areas of feature space.…”
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Fast and High-Precision Human Fall Detection Using Improved YOLOv8 Model by Ahlam R. Khekan, Hadi S. Aghdasi, Pedram Salehpour

“…Human falls refer to a sudden, accidental, unintentional, involuntary, and traumatizing action of a person losing stability and ending up lying down (often on the ground). These incidents of collapsing, tripping, crashing, tumbling, falling, etc. cause major harm and injuries to the elderly in our society. …”
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Distinguishing collaboration from related elements of crime by O. V. Pletnov, Ye. V. Kovalenko

“…The difference between the creation of illegal paramilitary formations and collaborative activities lies in the object of the crime. In addition, the crime provided for in Part 7 of Article 111-1 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine is committed in the conditions of the Ukrainian territory occupation as a result of the invasion of the aggressor state troops. …”
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Enhanced Image Retrieval Using Multiscale Deep Feature Fusion in Supervised Hashing by Amina Belalia, Kamel Belloulata, Adil Redaoui

“…The hallmark of MDFF-SH lies in its ability to combine low-level structural features with high-level semantic context, synthesizing robust and compact hash codes. …”
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‘Bottom-up securitization’: A visual turn in security studies by M. A. Kucherov, M. V. Kharkevich

“…The authors argue that the key to addressing these issues lies in a more active use of artificial intelligence technologies and social networks.…”
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Exploring benefits of a collaborative Scottish university-organization alternative credentials approach to re-skilling by Christopher J. M. Smith, Constantinos Choromides, Alicia Clyde, Fiona Stewart-Knight

“…It is recognized that credit-rating of learning co-creates value for the participants, and future research and opportunity lies around exploring this further. Credit-rating of learning has great potential to support national priorities, but this service needs to be better understood by companies and employers for it to reach its potential.…”
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Materiality Level in the Audit of Financial Statements and Its Impact on the Auditor's Professional Judgment by Yuliia Ostapenko

“…It was revealed that the complexity of determining materiality lies in that each user has their own interests, which determine what material is to them in the financial information received. …”
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DIGITAL HUMANISM IN THE AGE OF THE INTERNET AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: CHALLENGES, OPPORTUNITIES, AND PROSPECTS FOR DEVELOPMENT by Mykyta Slyusar, Vitaliia Nikitenko, Valentyna Voronkova

“…The relevance of this research topic lies in the evolving nature of digital humanism, a multifaceted and complex process aimed at achieving an optimal balance between the advancement of digital technologies and the preservation of human values and dignity. …”
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The Role of Great Britain in Forming of EU’s Foreign and Security Policy in the Context of Leading Theories of Eurointegration by A. V. Groubinko

“…Great Britain conceptual approaches to forming EU's CFSP lie traditions of pragmatical and functional realistic approach with the elements of federalist co-operation, externalism and minimum of institucialism. …”
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COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE IMPACTS OF RISKS ON BONDED AND UNBONDED CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS by Ayodeji OKE

“…Construction bond was introduced as an instrument to protect or indemnify its recipients against risks and problems associated with construction projects but the challenge over the years lies in the practical enforcement of bonding conditions and its overall benefits to the construction industry. …”
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Pro-Peace vs. Pro-War Conceptualizations in the Language of Hungarian Propaganda by Marcin Grygiel

“…The interest in mental processes such as conceptualization lies at the very center of cognitive linguistics and the study of cognitive mechanisms responsible for various types of conceptualizations is of high priority in cognitively driven approaches to language. …”
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Building a Framework for Visual Question Answering Systems by Maya Abu Hamoud, Wasim Safi

“…The significance of these systems lies in their ability to interpret and analyze images in a manner similar to human comprehension, making them applicable to a wide range of critical fields. …”
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Numerical Investigation of the Coupling Effects of Pulsed H₂ Jets and Nanosecond-Pulsed Actuation in Supersonic Crossflow by Keyu Li, Jiangfeng Wang

“…The innovation of this study lies in proposing and exploring a potential method to address inadequate combustion under high-speed inflow conditions, which couples NS-SDBD with pulsed hydrogen jets.…”
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