Independent State, Federal State, or Unitary State? Age, Gender, and Regional Differences Among Anglophone Cameroonians by Elvis Nshom

“…For the past 8 years, Cameroon has been witnessing a deadly conflict between anglophone separatist fighters and the Cameroon military over the form of governance. This study seeks to highlight anglophone attitudes and preferences towards forms of governance, as well as the differences between men and women and between northwesterners and southwesterners, i.e., the inhabitants of the two English-speaking regions in Cameroon, with respect to this question. …”
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Digital Camouflage Pattern Design Based on the Biased Random Walk by Yuanying Gan, Chuntong Liu, Zhenxin He, Hongcai Li, Zhongye Liu

“…Digital camouflage is a common countermeasure against military reconnaissance. In the face of high-tech imaging reconnaissance, battlefield detection means tend to be automated and refined. …”
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«Вот скажем лицом я в Китае». Стереотипы и имаготипы Китая, китайца и китайского в практике обращения к чужому в геопоэтике и геоэстетике Дмитрия Пригова... by Rainer Grübel

“…These phenomena and their historical development are of special interest in the present context of the Russian war against Ukraine, the Western sanctions against Russia and the growing political, economic and military approximation of Russia to China. In its analytic design the article discerns in Prigov’s China-text a broader geo-esthetical from a smaller geo-poetical horizon and distinguishes the theme- and sense-orientated phenomenon of stereotype, reducing (the concept of) a culture or a nation to special, often discrediting it, semantic features (as topoi), from the phenomenon of the imagotype, which is orientated to the poetical and/or esthetical construction of an artifact and relates the specialty of the other to certain sounds, intonations, colors, textures. …”
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L’agglomération secondaire de Famars/Fanum Martis (Nord) durant l’Antiquité tardive : d’un pôle commercial au centre militaire by Raphaël Clotuche, Bérangère Fort, Julie Donnadieu, Nicolas Tisserand, Annick Thuet

“…However, several artefacts indicate a military presence well before. The fortification will be occupied until Carolingian times, when finally the urban centre is transferred to Valenciennes.…”
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Tankette of the Сountry of Soviets — from ideas to implementation of the project. 1918–1932 by M. S. Novikov

“…This work reflected the difficult economic and geopolitical situation of the USSR setting the military to develop tactical and operational measures to counter the Entente army and the Entente expeditionary forces, the emphasis was on the mobility and low cost of equipment designed to support cavalry and infantry units, as well as autonomous operations. …”
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Hamiltonian Neural Network 6-DoF Rigid-Body Dynamic Modeling Based on Energy Variation Estimation by Fei Simiao, Huo Lin, Sun Zhixiao, Wang He, Lu Yuanjie, He Jile, Luo Qing, Su Qihang

“…The findings of our research hold significant potential for the kinematic modeling of time-varying energy systems, parallel system state prediction and control, inverse motion inference, and autonomous decision-making in military applications.…”
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GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURES WITHOUT GROWTH: THE CASE OF TURKEY by Orçun Söylemez, Özkan Zülfüoğlu

“…Five important variables that might affect government expenditures from different angles are evaluated regarding their contributions to the out-of-sample predictions of government expenditures using random forest methodology. Military expenditures are estimated as primarily important for determining the government expenditures in Turkey in the last fifty years, while tax collections happened to be the second most important factor affecting the ups and downs of government expenditures around a time-varying average line. …”
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Historical Chinese Microdata. 40 Years of Dataset Construction by the Lee-Campbell Research Group by Cameron D. Campbell, James Z. Lee

“…More recently, we have turned to the construction and analysis of datasets on civil and military officials and other educational and professional elites, especially their social origins and their careers. …”
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Protecting Compressive Ghost Imaging with Hyperchaotic System and DNA Encoding by Jingru Sun, Mu Peng, Fang Liu, Cong Tang

“…As computational ghost imaging is widely used in the military, radar, and other fields, its security and efficiency became more and more important. …”
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Physical Activity among Veterans and Nonveterans with Diabetes by Erin D. Bouldin, Gayle E. Reiber

“…Respondents who reported ever serving on active military duty were classified as veterans. Based on self-report, we calculated the average minutes per week of moderate, vigorous, and total activity. …”
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Evaluation of Face Stability for Mega Tunnel Under Varying Ground Strength Parameters by Deshpande Shilpa, Hedaoo Namdeo

“…Transportation demands in developing countries necessitate the use of underground infrastructure, notably tunnels, which also serve as storage spaces for vehicles and military equipment, expanding their utility. Mega Tunnels, defined as those with a diameter exceeding 10m, offer diverse functionalities, including facilitating the storage and movement of large equipment and establishing comprehensive operational systems for urban areas. …”
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TWO-POINT BOUNDARY PROBLEM SOLUTION BY NON-GRADIENT RANDOM SEARCH METHOD by V. A. Malkin

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Transforming Alliances: A 20-Year Overview of Singapore-US Relations under Lee Hsien Loong by TRUONG HUE

“…Over the past two decades, their bilateral ties have been strengthened through collaboration in defense, trade, and security, with key agreements like the 2005 Strategic Framework Agreement and the renewal of the 1990 Memorandum of Understanding on U.S. military access to Singaporean facilities. These agreements have cemented Singapore’s role as a crucial partner in U.S. …”
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OGPU organs and Soviet aviation (1928–1934) by A. S. Stepanov

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THE IMPLICATIONS OF TERRORISM ON FOOD PRICES IN NIGERIA by LILIAN NNENNE AKHANOLU, HEZEKIAH AMAMIZO OGUNNUBI

“…In view of these occurrences , this paper examines the implications of terrorism on the recent prices of food and our empirical results shows that terrorism has a negative effect on the prices of food in the country .The study adopted the descriptive analysis of secondary data to examine the effects of terrorism on food prices in the nation .The study will examine the topic in detail and based on this ,the following policy recommendations will be put forward which includes government providing securities for farmers by using the non-biased military to silent the insurgents, adopt a registration data of herders with government which will capture all operating herders in Nigerian states for easy tracking of any misbehavior, provide employment for our jobless youths who had become instruments in the hands of terrorist promoters, and  above all, Nigerian government should adopt State police for a better protection of our rural areas and communities. …”
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Does Turkey have a Central Asian Project? by Ali Emre Sucu, O. I. Iskandarov, R. B. Mahmudov, D. N. Chernov

“…However, it has limited influence on regional security and military affairs, which Russia dominates. Turkey is only a secondary non-regional actor in Central Asia. …”
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Angers/Iuliomagus, cité des Andécaves, et Le Mans/Vindinum, cité des Cénomans : deux capitales, deux modes de déploiement urbain by Pierre Chevet, Martin Pithon

“…Whatever the political or military motives, they apparently did not apply in Le Mans, where more local demographic and economic needs undoubtedly predominated.…”
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THE SYSTEM OF ENTITIES USING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES IN THE FIELD OF LIFE SAFETY: ADMINISTRATIVE, LEGAL AND ECONOMIC PRINCIPLES OF EFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING by Dmytro Bondar

“…However, in light of the escalating natural, man-made, social and military threats, there is an imperative to establish a unified information and telecommunications system for civil protection. …”
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KEY AREAS OF INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF SHANGHAI COOPERATION ORGANISATION by O. U. Kolegova

“…Analysis of the key areas of cooperation showed that the greatest prospect projects are in the areas of interaction such as infrastructure construction, transport, energy, technology, agriculture, humanitarian, cultural, and military cooperation. However, the article implies that the economic cooperation within the SCO is the weakest area of activity of the organization, the multilateral economic projects successfully implemented, in fact, are not yet available, as the bilateral cooperation is often implemented without the SCO (despite the fact that the SCO will promote its activation). …”
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Risk Factors for Child Mortality in the Kassena-Nankana District of Northern Ghana: A Cross-Sectional Study Using Population-Based Data by Michael N. K. Babayara, Bright Addo

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