Le Kivu dans la guerre : acteurs et enjeux by Roland Pourtier

“…In spite of the United Nation’s mission (MONUC) that tries to put an end to the turmoil in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo, an other conflict has popped up in the heart of the African continent. …”
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Optimal Design of Grid-Connected Solar Photovoltaic System Using Selective Particle Swarm Optimization by Habtemariam Aberie Kefale, Elias Mandefro Getie, Kassaye Gizaw Eshetie

“…The renewable energy potential of Bahir Dar, Ethiopia, especially solar power is abundant and needs a mechanism to give a response for electricity demand in the country and city other than expecting from the national grid. The solar photovoltaic system interconnection in radial feeders may bring a solution for power interruption and network performance. …”
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Dental Service Quality and Patient Satisfaction: Insights From Anutapura General Hospital, Palu City by Sudirman Sudirman, Herlina Yusuf, Nurhidayati Nurhidayati, Maya Ariandini

“…Emphasizing health as a fundamental human right, the research aligns with national objectives for comprehensive healthcare efforts. …”
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Distributional impact assessment of policy changes to old-age pensions, social benefits and taxes in Lithuania (2021–2024) by Jekaterina Navickė, Vitalija Gabnytė-Baranauskė

“…We examine the impact of recent policy changes to old-age pensions, social benefits and direct taxes following the Covid-19 pandemic, focusing on key distributional indicators, such as the at-risk-of-poverty rate (AROP), income inequality (measured by the inter-quintile ratio (S80/S20) and the Gini coefficient), and a nationally applied measure of absolute poverty. The analysis utilizes the tax-benefit microsimulation model EUROMOD. …”
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Design, implementation and evaluation of value-based payment models: a Delphi study by Diogo L. L. Leao, Lise A. M. Moers, Henricus-Paul Cremers, Dennis van Veghel, Wim Groot, Milena Pavlova

“…The Delphi technique was used to reach consensus among a panel of (inter)national experts on these factors. Methods An expert panel of 15 members participated in a three-round Delphi study. …”
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Seasonality, Interannual Variability, and Linear Tendency of Wind Speeds in the Northeast Brazil from 1986 to 2011 by Alexandre Torres Silva dos Santos, Cláudio Moisés Santos e Silva

“…In this study, we used wind speed data from records of Universal Fuess anemographs at an altitude of 10 m from 47 weather stations of the National Institute of Meteorology (Instituto Nacional de Meteorologia-INMET) from January 1986 to December 2011. …”
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TYPOLOGY AND ANALYSIS OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITY OF RUSSIAN UNIVERSITIES by Alisa V. Melikyan

“…The cluster analysis of 362 universities and 28 branches was conducted on the basis of indicators that evaluate the state of their international educational activity: the number of foreign undergraduate, graduate and mobile students and the number of double-degree international programs.The cluster analysis has identified five groups of higher education institutions with similar characteristics: «outsiders», «recruiters of international students», «diversificators», «strategists» and «national leaders». The study confirmed the absence of a direct relationship between university’s activity is in realizing international educational activities and the income that it receives from this practice. …”
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Infiltration of Small Arms and Light Weapons into Benue Valley and Its Impact on the Conflict Between Pastoralists and Farmers by Paulina Ada Akpa, Terver Akpar, Samson Aondowase Fada

“… One of the challenges confronting nation states is the proliferation of small arms and light weapons. …”
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Adaptation Of The Food Craving Questionnaire-Trait Into Turkish by Sadiye Akkurt, Gizem Kose, Aslihan Donmez

“…Sample group includes students-teachers who are at 18-65 age range, have different occupational groups and generally serve at Ministry of National Education and of school administrations. The questionnaires used comprise form of demographical data, food craving scale (including 39 articles) and eating attitudes test (including 40 articles). 39 articles and 9 sub-dimensions of Food Craving Scale were studied by confirmatory factor analysis and it was determined that factor loads and error variances of all articles are proper but fit indexes are not at allowable levels. …”
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Digital participation: category conceptualization in foreign practice of civic engagement by S. B. Abramova

“…It is shown that the practice-oriented understanding of digital participation is based on a number of provisions in the documents of international organizations (the United Nations, the European Union) and is based on the assessment through various international indices. …”
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How the Internet is Transforming the Bombay Poetry Scene by Manon Boukhroufa-Trijaud

“…All in all, the contemporary Indian poetry scene has immensely benefited from the new proximity the Internet allowed, which remapped the notion of “local” within those of “national” and “global,” subsequently making it possible for new forms of poetry to emerge.…”
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COMPARATIVE CLIMATIC CHARACTERISTICS BETWEEN THE WINTER OF 2011–2012 AND THE WINTER OF 1953–1954 IN THE SOUTH OF ROMANIA by ION MARINICĂ, ANDREEA FLORIANA MARINICĂ, OCTAVIA BOGDAN

“…The first two warm winter months, which had lasted until January the 24th 2012, were followed by truewinter weather between January 25 and February 15, when temperatures dropped below -20°C, associated with heavy snowfalls, snowstorms and strong winds (70–80 km/h) that blew and drifted the snow with disastrous effects for Romania’s south-east counties, in particular. National losses: disrupted traffic of all types, snow-blocked households and animal shelters, black-outs, closed schools,difficulties in conducting supply and salvage operations for the population, etc. …”
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Assessing the MODIS Crop Detection Algorithm for Soybean Crop Area Mapping and Expansion in the Mato Grosso State, Brazil by Anibal Gusso, Damien Arvor, Jorge Ricardo Ducati, Mauricio Roberto Veronez, Luiz Gonzaga da Silveira

“…The area estimates were compared to official agricultural statistics from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) and from the National Company of Food Supply (CONAB) at different crop levels from 2000/2001 to 2010/2011. …”
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Introducing the Canadian Thoracic Society Framework for Guideline Dissemination and Implementation, with Concurrent Evaluation by Samir Gupta, Christopher Licskai, Anne Van Dam, Louis-Philippe Boulet

“…The framework describes the development of a web-based repository and communication forum to inventory existing KT resources and to facilitate collaboration and communication among implementation stakeholders through an online discussion board. A national forum for presentation and peer-review of proposed KT projects is described. …”
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FINANCIAL-ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF FRUIT AND VEGETABLE PRODUCER GROUPS IN POLAND, AND CONDITIONS FOR THE FUNCTIONING OF PRODUCER GROUPS by Dawid Olewnicki, Ewa Sabała, Dagmara Stangierska

“…The large number of small-sized farms has been one of the problems of Polish agriculture for years.National and EU financial help has increased interest in associating producers into groups. …”
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Methods of long-term planning of corporate financing by V. V. Prokhorov, I. P. Rozhnov

“…The analysis of application of bond interest rate planning methods applied by enterprises of different national industries has been made. The analysis has been carried out in the spheres of mechanical engineering, generation, transmission and sales of electric power, ferrous metals production, transportation and logistics, foodstuffs production, and information transmission provision. …”
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DEMOCRACY AND THE FIGHT AGAINST LEADERSHIP CORRUPTION IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA: IMPLICATION FOR CONTINENTAL DEVELOPMENT by TAIWO FRANCIS AYOMOBA

“…For example, the African Union has adopted a set of continental anticorruption protocols to help member nations combat the rising tide of corruption and its ramifications for human security. …”
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Supporting Homeownership and Naturalizing Debt<subtitle>The Housing Discourse in Swedish Newspapers 2005–2022</subtitle> by Chiara Valli, Neil Dunne

“…We analyze the media discourse around the Swedish housing market drawing on selected articles from the five main national newspapers. To gain insights into how ideological shifts within the housing market are constructed, we explain how homeownership, price rises, and debt have been normalized in public debate, and whose voices on these topics are given space in the Swedish media discourse.…”
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Understanding cannabis use in Singapore: profile of users and drug progression by Doris Xin Yi Chia, Charis Wei Ling Ng, Pezhummoottil Vasudevan Nair Asharani, Sabina Au Yong, Jun Wen Tan, Noor Azizah Bte Zainuldin, Samuel Kee Guan Chua, Lambert Tchern Kuang Low, Christopher Cheng Soon Cheok, Gomathinayagam Kandasami

“…Methods: A total of 450 participants who had used cannabis at least once in their lifetime were recruited from the National Addictions Management Service, prisons, the Community Rehabilitation Centre and halfway houses from August 2017 to May 2018. …”
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Research on dynamic evaluation method of individual scientific impact under multiple key nodes by Shuang Ma

“…This paper focuses on scientists at universities in Shanghai who obtained their first key programmes from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) from 2011 to 2015. …”
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