Festivalising Heritage in the Borderlands: Constituting Ethnic Histories and Heritages under the Rule of the Finn Forest Republic by Stein R. Mathisen

“…The character of the festival and the cultural heritage it celebrates implies historical references to the immigrant border culture, as well as to conflicts with the other dominant national majority cultures of the area. These cultural relations are presented in sincere as well as humorous ways, and allows for a wide range of identifications with the project of building a Finn Forest cultural heritage.…”
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An Unintended Effect of Financing the University Education of the Most Brilliant and Poorest Colombian Students: The Case of the Intervention of the Ser Pilo Paga Program by Pablo Medina, Natalia Ariza, Pablo Navas, Fernando Rojas, Gina Parody, Juan Alejandro Valdivia, Roberto Zarama, Juan Felipe Penagos

“…Every year, 10,000 new students were chosen from the best applicants in the top decile of the population in the entrance exam to higher education in Colombia that also came from families that live under the level of poverty according to a national survey. Our approach, based on an intensive study of the changes in the statistical distributions of the exam scores during these four years, provides evidence of student performance improvements not only of the beneficiaries of the program, but also of the whole student population. …”
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Analisis Bibliometrik Perkembangan Penelitian Preservasi Naskah Kuno di Perpustakaan by Clarissa Prameswari, Tamara Adriani, Frans Asisi Datang, Muhamad Prabu Wibowo

“…Preserving manuscripts is crucial to maintaining a nation's cultural heritage and historical knowledge. …”
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The lowest canonical denominator: electronic literary texts, and the role of the information professional by Claire Warwick

“…Should collections policy for electronic resources be organised on a national level, or left to individual institutions? …”
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Formation of the International Trade Community Based on Resource Dependence and Network Theory by Mostafa Heidari Haratemeh

“…Therefore, the research aimed to form an international trade community based on network theory and resource dependence.Methodology: Twenty countries were selected as a sample from the countries that engage in international trade based on the data available from the Comtrade database of the United Nations from 2005 to 2019.Findings: The results showed: 1) the trading partner factor has a positive effect on the formation of international trading communities, that when a country cooperates with a large number of trading partners or has a dominant position in the international trade network, the probability of the country forms the same community with other countries is higher, 2) when a country considers itself dependent on the resources of other countries, the possibility of forming a similar community with other countries increases accordingly and 3) network position plays positive role in regulating the relationship between resource dependence and the international trade community.Originality/Value: Countries that can boost resource trade based on the economic freedom and diversity of the importing country can reduce their dependence on other countries.…”
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Information system for the management of scientific production of the University of Medical Sciences of Cienfuegos by Osmel Domingo Medina Martínez, Marle Pérez de Armas, Filiberto Toledo Álvarez, Anay Carrillo Ramos, Raúl Jesús Rosales González, José Antonio Trujillo Arteaga

“…<br /><strong>Results:</strong> the system allows the generation of online digital curricula of university professors from any health institution in the province, where their scientific work is highlighted, in addition to the automated calculation of indicators and absolute frequency values at the individual level, career and institution based mainly on parameters of the National Accreditation Board of the Ministry of Higher Education of Cuba. …”
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Heberferón®’s economic feasibility in patients with high-grade brain tumors without therapeutic options by María Margarita Ríos Cabrera, Iraldo Bello Rivero, Javier Cruz Rodríguez

“…<br /><strong>Objective:</strong> to demonstrate the economic feasibility of the interferons (Heberferón®) combination compared to other products approved or under study in the national and foreign contexts in the patients treatment with high-grade brain tumors without therapeutic options.…”
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Dynamics of deforestation in the northwest of the Chaco between 1995 and 2018 by Fernando Bonfanti, Matías Sánchez

“…The present paper presents the analysis of deforested areas in the northwestern Chaco, considering the current National and provincial legislation on the subject, and the state of art literature as a basis. …”
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Impurity, Moral Substantiality, and Social Control: A Gender Perspective by Alice Van den Bogaert

“…The notion of impurity is identified in numerous belief systems, ranging from certain religions to nationalisms. Understanding its nature and functioning beyond its concrete objects is therefore a fundamental anthropological question. …”
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Treatment of Community-Acquired Pneumonia: Are All Countries Treating Children in the Same Way? A Literature Review by Daniele Donà, Dora Luise, Liviana Da Dalt, Carlo Giaquinto

“…In the last 10 years, many national and international guidelines on the treatment of pediatric CAP have been published, in order to optimize the prescription of antibiotics and limit their cost and side effects. …”
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Access to the Highest Administrative Courts: between the Right of an Individual to Have a Case Heard and the Right of a Court to Hear Selected Cases by Wojciech Piątek

“… Hearing a dispute by a court in a reasonable time is one of the crucial conditions for the existence of an effective judicial system as imposed by the European law and national legal orders. That requirement is contrary to the expectations of individuals to question the judgments of lower courts before the courts of the highest instance. …”
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Active Fault-Tolerant Control for Wind Turbine with Simultaneous Actuator and Sensor Faults by Lei Wang, Ming Cai, Hu Zhang, Fuad Alsaadi, Liu Chen

“…The effectiveness of the design strategy is verified by implementing the controller in the National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s 5-MW nonlinear, high-fidelity wind turbine model (FAST) and simulating it in MATLAB/Simulink.…”
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The Arctic and Antarctic Sea-Ice Area Index Records versus Measured and Modeled Temperature Data by Nicola Scafetta, Adriano Mazzarella

“…Here we study the Arctic and Antarctic sea-ice area records provided by the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC). These records reveal an opposite climatic behavior: since 1978 the Arctic sea-ice area index decreased, that is, the region has warmed, while the Antarctic sea-ice area index increased, that is, the region has cooled. …”
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The voice of people’s perspective on the future of health resilience post pandemic hits: A numerically scaled survey in 19 provinces in Indonesia by Nurlaila Ika, Amalya Dewi Meta

“…Overall, our data show that people are optimistic and confident in health resilience at the national level because they are aware of how to manage pandemics, and they have faith in the government to handle health crises.…”
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Study on current climate change issues and response strategies by Li Jiayu, Tao Chongshuo, Zhang Yixian

“…In the future, global attention to and research on climate change must be continuously strengthened, and response strategies need to be constantly improved. Nations should further increase their investments in clean energy development, ecosystem protection, and technological innovation, faithfully fulfil international cooperation agreements, and jointly work to slow down the pace of climate change.…”
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Impact of the contextual factors regarding the COVID-19 pandemic on bereavement: an integrative review of the literature from a bioethical perspective by Luciana Soares Rosas, Mary Rute Gomes Esperandio

“…This is a study with a qualitative approach, integrative review, whose article data collection was carried out in the following databases: Biblioteca Virtual de Saúde (BVS), Portal Brasileiro de Publicações e Dados Científicos em Acesso Aberto (Oasisbr), United States National Library of Medicine (PubMed), Scientific Electronic Library (SciELO) and Web of Science. …”
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The Impact of High-Level Teacher Questioning on Elementary School Students’ Achievement, Retention and Attitude in Science by Halil Ibrahim Akilli, Sevgi Kingir

“…Students in both groups were taught electricity concepts through student centered activities aligned with the national elementary school science curriculum. Difference between the two groups was the type of questions used by the teacher during the instruction. …”
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Addressing limited access to water sanitation and hygiene in Gaza strip shelters during conflict by Samer Abuzerr, Kate Zinszer

“…Recent data from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) and the World Health Organization (WHO) reveal that approximately 200,000 civilians are displaced, with only 30% of shelters having access to potable water and even fewer possessing functional sanitation infrastructure. …”
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Utilization of In-Hospital Care among Foreign-Born Compared to Native Swedes 1987–1999 by Björn Albin, Katarina Hjelm, Jan Ekberg, Sölve Elmståhl

“…Data from Statistics Sweden (SCB) and the National Board of Health and Welfare Centre for Epidemiology, covering the period 1970–1999, was used. …”
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AUSTRALIA’S PARTICIPATION AND PERFORMANCE AT THE EVIAN CONFERENCE: INTEGRITY OR SHAME? by P. R. Bartrop

“…His record at the conference, lauded by many of the officials who were present, was one of the least humanitarian of any that can be attributed to Australian statesmen—hardly a ringing endorsement of Australia’s record at this crucial gathering in which the Commonwealth sought, at an early stage, to express itself as an autonomous nation on the international stage.…”
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