Demographic Oases in Shrinking Rural Areas: Exploring Trends in Galicia (Spain) and Northern Portugal by Alejandro Otero Varela, Inês Gusman, Carlos Alberto Patiño Romarís

“… Despite their similar characteristics and shared challenges, Galicia and Northern Portugal are integrated into distinct national urban systems and have followed different territorial cohesion approaches. …”
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How Do Defaults Affect Behavior of Individual Retirement: Evidence from Ankara by Fahriye Öztürk, Havva Serim

“…Turkey is one of the few countries that has introduced national-level automatic enrollment in private pension systems to encourage people to save for retirement. …”
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Le Temple, le Portugal et l’Orient latin by Philippe Josserand

“…The Templars were certainly not the only agents of this relationship, but they played a crucial role, which undermines the national character so readily lent to their order in the land of Fernando Pessoa and of an ever-lively Templarism.…”
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Cost–effectiveness of cetuximab combined with radiotherapy versus radiotherapy alone in locally advanced head and neck cancer in Spain by Ruth Alvarez Cabellos, Jon Cacicedo, Susana Redondo Capafons, Heidi De los Santos Real, Miriam Brines Julian, Dario Rubio-Rodriguez, Carlos Rubio-Terres

“…Methods: A probabilistic Markov model (second-order Monte Carlo simulation) with a five-year time horizon and quarterly Markov cycles was performed from the perspective of the Spanish National Health System (NHS). Results: The additional cost and quality-adjusted life-year (QALY) gain per patient receiving radiotherapy in combination with cetuximab compared with radiotherapy alone was €4356 (95% CI: €4350–4362) and 0.2380 (95% CI: 0.2370–0.2391) QALY, respectively. …”

Hadrien Saiag, Le trueque argentin au prisme de la dette : une socioéconomie des pratiques monétaires et financière by Hadrien Saiag

“…It is based on both the reconstitution of the history of the main national trueque networks (meso-level) and the observation of the monetary and financial practices of their participants, carried out through an ethnographic field work (micro-level). …”
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Application of Time Study Model in Rice Milling Firm: A Case Study by AO Odior, FA Oyawale

“…Rice is a very important nutritional diet for over half the world's population and as a result rice milling firm has occupied a significant position in small, medium and large scale enterprises of many nations. The study reveals that the time it takes to mill a 50 kilograms bag of rice is directly proportional to the number of production stages involved and the time spent at each of these production stages. …”
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Heritage Multimedia and Children Edutainment: Assessment and Recommendations by Naif A. Haddad

“…Despite the rising commodification of heritage sites and practices, children engagement in their own cultures remains incredibly low, greatly endangering the future preservation of nations’ unique nonrenewable resource. Considering children’s very early engagement with cultural attitudes and identities, it is increasingly critical to develop a deeply rooted culture of responsibility and conservation from the earliest years, ensuring that children naturally feel invested in their surroundings. …”
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A systematised review and evidence synthesis on the broader societal impact of vaccines against Salmonella by Ezgi Dilek Demirtas, Rosanna Barnard, Jungseok Lee, Mark Jit

“…Despite variations in study design, methodology, and study quality, salmonellae infections were largely associated with negative broader societal impacts, including detriments in childhood physical development (very weak association), childhood educational development (strong to very strong association), household security (moderate association), public health spending (moderate association), and national income (moderate to strong association). Study quality was low for all impacts except childhood physical development. …”
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Constructing RBAC Based Security Model in u-Healthcare Service Platform by Moon Sun Shin, Heung Seok Jeon, Yong Wan Ju, Bum Ju Lee, Seon-Phil Jeong

“…Healthcare information systems can contribute to the improvement of the nation’s healthcare quality and the reduction of related cost. …”
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Safe Handling of Food and Water in a Hurricane or Related Disaster by Ronald H. Schmidt, Keith L. Schneider, Renée M. Goodrich, Amarat Simonne, Douglas L. Archer

“…These recommendations have been adapted from those developed under National Recommendations for Disaster Food Handling, a multi-state grant involving Cooperative Extension collaborators from Tennessee, Florida, and Missouri as well as the American Red Cross and Tennessee Department of Agriculture. …”
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Evolving consensus around Moroccan-Israeli normalisation: a political space analysis by Alfonso Casani, Francesco Colin

“…On the other, this decision revitalized the advocates for the Palestinian cause, mainly gathered around the “National Front in Support of Palestine and Against Normalization”. …”
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Major Achievements and Prospect of the ATLAS Integral Effect Tests by Ki-Yong Choi, Yeon-Sik Kim, Chul-Hwa Song, Won-Pil Baek

“…As the demand for integral effect tests is on the rise due to the active national nuclear R&D program in Korea, the future prospects of the application of the ATLAS facility are also discussed.…”
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Marine debris surveys on four beaches in Rizhao City of China by C. Zhou, X. Liu, Z. Wang, T. Yang, L. Shi, L. Wang, L. Cong, X. Liu, J. Yang

“…In this paper, the abundance, composition and source of beached marine debris, and debris collection system and frequency as well as dustbins’ conditionwere investigated in Duodaohai, Wanpingkou, Shanhaitian and National Forest Park beaches of Rizhao City from June 1 to 10, 2013. …”
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Collaborative Documentary Photo Projects: from Techno-utopia to Imagined Community by Karine Chambefort-Kay

“…This study shows the limits of a technology-oriented approach to the collaborative documentary and proposes to direct attention to the social, political and historical context of the three projects and to their contents: instead of mere experiments in collaborative photographic practices, the archives may be construed as public spheres for collective self-imagining, and in particular for imagining the national community.…”
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'Gelukkig hij die uw kinderen zal grijpen' by H. G. L. Peels

“…This imprecatory prayer, which still forms one of the most troublesome dimensions of Scripture for modern Bible-readers, is usually explained very negatively as a human but intolerable expression of personal or national rancour/hostility, and as such put in sharp contrast with the New Testament message of love for the enemy. …”
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Bisphenol A and Metabolic Syndrome: Results from NHANES by Srinivas Teppala, Suresh Madhavan, Anoop Shankar

“…We examined 2,104 participants from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2003–2008. …”
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Short- and long-term complications of bariatric surgery by Miguel Licea Videaux, Roberto Santana Caballero, Jesús Javier Sánchez Mata, Isabel García Morales, Dania Piñeiro Pérez, Daryl Rodríguez Denis

“…A bibliographic review of case reports and series, as well as bibliographic reviews was carried out; in English, Spanish and Portuguese, published from January 2005 to November 2022, in national and international journals indexed in recognized databases. …”
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Distinguer entre savoir critique et opinion critique : quelle posture de neutralité pour l’enseignant en EMC ? by Gaid Andro

“…All of the CNESCO (National Council for the Evaluation of the School System) reports and teacher surveys on the pedagogical implementation of moral and civic education (EMC) in the classroom establish the same observation: there is a notable discrepancy between the political and civic investment in this subject expressed by the institution and the reality perceived by teachers and pupils regarding the learning actually carried out. …”
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A strategic development mechanism to improve the competitiveness and sustainability of metallurgical enterprises by O. A. Velikaya

“…The increase of competitive advantages contributes to the development of the national economy of industrial metallurgical enterprises, as their products are used in many industries of the real sector of the economy. …”
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Australian compilation of seismic-derived bathymetry by Ulysse Lebrec, Victorien Paumard, Juliette Denudt, Catherine Du Réau, Simon C. Lang, Julien Bailleul

“…Abstract This article presents a national seismic-derived bathymetric compilation based on the integration of 253 3D seismic surveys. …”
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