“Looking for a Better Future”: Examining African Portuguese-Speaking Students’ Motivation to Study in Portuguese Higher Education by Catarina Doutor, Natália Alves

“…Opting to study in Portugal is seen as a chance for African students to access quality higher education and to obtain an academic degree with significant recognition in the country of origin, with anticipated positive impacts on the personal, social, and professional aspects of their lives. …”
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Characterization of paleodrainages in desert regions of Saudi Arabia multisatellite images with field based study by Mashael M. Al Saud

“…Abstract In Saudi Arabia, a number of linear geomorphological features with uncertain origin have been observed from space, but they do not belong to any existed drainage systems. …”
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Time-Dependent Transportation Network Design considering Construction Impact by Yi He, Ziqi Song, Lihui Zhang

“…We also solve the T-DNDP model with data from the Sioux Falls network, which contains 24 nodes, 76 links, and 528 origin-destination (O-D) pairs. Computational results for the problem are also presented.…”
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Disruptively regional: How women in Regional, Rural and Remote communities ‘imagine’ with and through digital and social media by Tara BRABAZON, Jacqueline EWART

“…We explore how technology provides new opportunities to share stories of women’s strength and capacity to build new pathways between information and citizens.  Using original interviews, we investigate how women in these locations use the internet and digitization to share stories of their communities and culture to metropolitan environments in the absence of truly local news outlets, bypassing traditional news media and taking control of how their stories are told. …”
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NATIONAL ROMANTICISM IN WALT WHITMAN POEMS by Tomi Arianto

“…Thus, the representation of romantic ideas originating from Western Europe of the 18th century has penetrated into the 19th century America which is reflected in the works that carried Whitman. …”
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Como os desembargadores reagem a derrotas? by Mateus Morais Araújo, Lucas Fernandes Magalhães

“…A partir de uma base de dados original contendo uma amostra de acórdãos do Tribunal de Justiça de São Paulo e do Tribunal de Justiça do Rio Grande do Sul, observou-se que, dos 30 desembargadores analisados, 24 se afastaram do seu posicionamento inicial em pelo menos uma decisão, e que, dos 233 votos contabilizados, 86 foram deferentes. …”
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Revitalizing Art with Technology: A Deep Learning Approach to Virtual Restoration by Nurrohmah Endah Putranti, Shyang-Jye Chang, Muhammad Raffiudin

“…We compiled datasets categorized by art styles and conditions to achieve accurate restorations without altering original reference materials. Various paintings were degraded, including those with a yellow filter, to create effective training datasets for CycleGAN. …”
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The last Spencerians. Towards a canon of the first Ecuadorian sociology by Philipp Altmann

“…Academic sociology in Ecuador started in 1915 with the establishment of the sociology chair at the Central University of Ecuador. This original moment entrenched a certain way of thinking about society, which included a canon of accepted classic authors. …”
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The Sacred Architecture of Josep Lluís Sert by Iñigo Ugalde-Blázquez, Ricardo Gómez-Val, Cinta Lluis-Teruel, Pilar Moran-García

“…This study is based on Sert’s original drawings, as well as specific bibliographic sources and articles from specialized journals. …”
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Implementation of evidence-based parenting programs under real-world conditions: Protocol for a scoping review. by Rita Pinto, Catarina Canário, Orlanda Cruz, Maria José Rodrigo

“…The proposed scoping review follows the framework originally described by Arksey and O'Malley, Levac and colleagues, and the Joanna Briggs Institute: (1) identifying the research questions; (2) identifying the relevant studies; (3) study selection; (4) charting the data; (5) collating, summarizing, and reporting the results; (6) consultation. …”
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Quality of Life from a Transhumanist Perspective by Zlatica Plašienková, Martin Farbák, Eva Smolková

“… The issue of quality of life has been a subject of major interest in the course of history, even though it was originally related to a specific philosophical question of a good life. …”
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Mémoires et patrimonialisation d’un passé antéislamique : Mubârak al-Mîlî et l’ethnogenèse du peuple algérien by Aomar Hannouz

“…His Histoire de l’Algérie dans les temps anciens et modernes, written at the end of the 1920s, deals with the Maghreb’s classic and pre-Islamic history, exposing a peculiar and original viewpoint. Contrary to nationalist historiography, imposed following independence, al-Milî’s work bears witness to the crystallisation of parallel and competing narratives for the ethnogenesis and cultural history, this very process being the consequence of social and political rivalry. …”
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Identifying and Evaluating Chaotic Behavior in Hydro-Meteorological Processes by Soojun Kim, Yonsoo Kim, Jongso Lee, Hung Soo Kim

“…The time series in the period of approximately one year were extracted from the original series using the wavelet transform. The generated time series from summation of sine functions were fitted to each series and used for investigating the hypotheses. …”
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GENDER STRATEGIES AND POLITICAL LEADERSHIP by N. V. Кhamitov, D. D. Dandekar

“…Constructiveness here means not only gender equality, but also gender partnership. Originality. In the context of modern gender anthropology and androgyny-analysis, it is found that as a result of the implementation of the strategy of existential sexism and existential hermaphroditism, political leadership becomes authoritarian, and sometimes also totalitarian, while the strategy of androgynism associated with gender partnership gives rise to constructive political leadership. …”
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Therapeutic Strategies for Neuropathic Pain: Potential Application of Pharmacosynthetics and Optogenetics by Gum Hwa Lee, Sang Seong Kim

“…Chronic pain originating from neuronal damage remains an incurable symptom debilitating patients. …”
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Higher Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by A. V. Rezaev, A. M. Stepanov, N. D. Tregubova

“…This paper considers a broader question: what fundamental problems and challenges does the penetration of AI technologies into human lives originate for higher education? The authors offer a working definition of what it means to give/receive higher education in the age of AI. …”
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Les « terroirs » maritimes revisités by Marie-Christine Cormier-Salem, Adama Mbaye

“…This paper intends to revisit the notion of marine “terroir”, based on empirical studies, particularly in Senegal in the 1980s and an analysis of the international literature in the social sciences, and re-exploring the concept from diverse fieldworks, in West Africa and in the light of recent discources and mecanisms regarding the sea policies.This concept of terroir, typically French and even Africanist, was originally used to designate portions of territory which rural communities depend for their livelihoods. …”
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Ethnographic Theology: Integrating the Social Sciences and Theological Reflection by Gerardo Martí

“…My modest goal, therefore, is to further equip theologically-oriented scholars to produce original, social-scientifically conscientious, yet substantively rich and responsible works that further innovate the use of social science methodology among theologians. …”
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Dynamic Sensor Scheduling for Thermal Management in Biological Wireless Sensor Networks by Yahya Osais, F. Richard Yu, Marc St-Hilaire

“…In order to obtain the optimal policy in a lesser amount of time, two specific types of states are aggregated to produce a considerably smaller MDP model equivalent to the original one. Numerical and simulation results are presented to show the validity of the model and superiority of the optimal policy produced by it when compared with two policies one of which is specifically designed for biological wireless sensor networks.…”
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Cross-Layer Throughput Optimization in Cognitive Radio Networks with SINR Constraints by Miao Ma, Danny H. K. Tsang

“…Since the formulation is in the forms of mixed integer nonlinear programming (MINLP), which is generally a hard problem, we develop a heuristic method by solving a relaxation of the original problem, followed by rounding and simple local optimization. …”
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