The Concept of Sovereignty in the US International Studies at the Turn of the 21st Century by A. D. Katkov

“…For instance, it was a predominant assumption among the neoliberals and constructivists as well as the most part of the neorealists that a limitation of sovereignty was inevitable. Some experts pointed out that the processes of globalization and integration necessarily led to a ‘dilution’ of state sovereignty. …”
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Fire Retardancy Properties and Thermal Degradation of Three Timber Species Overlayed by Sengon Wood Charcoal by Joko Sulistyo, Sri Nugroho Marsoem, Tomy Listyanto, Yus Andhini Bhekti Pertiwi Bhekti Pertiwi

“…This research was carried out to develop carbon-based fire-retardant materials (CFR) overlay on three timber species. …”
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Access to mass media and teenage pregnancy among adolescents in Zambia: a national cross-sectional survey by David Mukunya, Daniel Mwamba, Quraish Sserwanja, Abigail Sitsope Sepenu

“…We therefore examined the association between access to mass media and teenage pregnancy in Zambia.Design Cross-sectional.Setting Zambia.Participants Weighted sample of 3000 adolescents aged 15–19 years.Outcome measure Teenage pregnancy that included adolescents who were currently pregnant or had had an abortion or had given birth in the last 5 years preceding the survey.Results Out of 3000 adolescents, 897 (29.9%, 95% CI: 28.1% to 31.3%) were pregnant or had ever been pregnant. …”
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Reasonable Scope of Kilometer Drilling in Lower Layer of Extrathick Coal Seam: A Case Study of Tingnan Coal Mine, China by Delong Zou, Xiang Zhang

“…The maximum depth of goaf damage is calculated theoretically, and the Flac3D numerical simulation of the failure deformation of the 205 working face floor is carried out. It is found that the maximum depth of plastic failure of the lower layer is about 13 m. …”
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Relation of Vitamin D levels with positive and negative symptoms of schizophrenia – A hospital based cross-sectional comparative study by Soumitra Ghosh, Bikashita Deka

“…Materials and Methods: The study, a hospital-based cross-sectional comparative study was carried out in the Department of Psychiatry, in a hospital in Assam over a period of 1 year. …”
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Sublingual Buprenorphine and Methadone Maintenance Treatment: A Three-Year Follow-Up of Quality of Life Assessment by Salvatore M. Giacomuzzi, Markus Ertl, Georg Kemmler, Yyvonne Riemer, Alexander Vigl

“…Urine tests were carried out randomly to detect additional consumption. In the first study period, 53 opioid-dependent subjects were enrolled and 25 could be reached after 3 years. …”
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Relationship of Workload with Work Stress among Nurses during The Covid-19 Pandemic in East Lombok District by Agusnawadi Alipurman, Sastrawan Sastrawan

“…Background: Nurses as the front line in dealing with COVID-19 are at risk of contracting COVID-19 along with the current increase in COVID-19 cases. Nurses is carrying out their work because they have pressures that have an impact on their physical, mental and social conditions, causing work stres. …”
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Burnout Syndrome among Healthcare Workers in Lithuania as a Former Soviet Country by Aušra Deksnytė, Ramūnas Aranauskas, Vytautas Kasiulevičius, Lukas Aranauskas, Alvydas Navickas, Rugilė Jurkytė, Karolina Palinauskaitė, Diana Zlotnikovienė

“…The respondents were asked to fill out an anonymous online questionnaire which included information on their gender, age, years of work experience, specialty, work hours per week, the average number of patients per day, salary, healthcare chain, and the healthcare sector they are working at. …”
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“The advice? Think bigger”: Community perspectives on dairy farming, including surplus calves—An Australian focus group study by Sarah E. Bolton, Bianca Vandresen, Marina A.G. von Keyserlingk

“…The aim of this study was to attain an in-depth understanding of Australian public attitudes toward sustainability and animal welfare in dairy production, as well as early-life killing of surplus dairy calves and cow-calf separation, issues commonly identified as being out of step with public values. We conducted 3 focus group sessions, each with 8 Australians who varied in age, gender identity, income, and frequency of consumption of dairy products. …”
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Integrative review protocol for Indigenous youth participation in health equity promotion by Janice Linton, Darrien Morton, Andrew R Hatala

“…The literature search is anticipated to be carried out in July–August 2022. We will search online databases Scopus, Ovid MEDLINE, Embase and PsycINFO along with several interdisciplinary databases indexed in EBSCOhost and ProQuest. …”
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The effect of feeding fresh swine manure, poultry waste, urea, molasses and bakery by-products ensiled for lambs by Fernando Martínez San Pedro, Ignacio A. Domínguez Vara, José Luis Bórquez, Manuel Gonzalez-Ronquillo

“…Methods Four silagesâPWBB, SMBB, SMM and UMâ were prepared, the chemical composition of the silages was determined (n = 3), silages and concentrate ratio (60:40) as fresh matter were given to growing lambs over 21 days as total period, and the collection of samples to determine intake and digestibility was carried out for the last 7 days, in a 4 9 4 Latin square design, with a significance level P.05. …”
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An Experimental Study on the Basic Mechanical Properties and Compression Size Effect of Rubber Concrete with Different Substitution Rates by Yanli Hu, Xuewei Sun, Aiqun Ma, Peiwei Gao

“…An experimental study was carried out on the uniaxial compression, uniaxial splitting, pure shear, and compression size effect of rubber concrete with 5 different substitution rates by applying hydraulic servo and direct shear apparatus. …”
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Scoping review of the applications of peptide microarrays on the fight against human infections. by Arthur Vengesai, Maritha Kasambala, Hamlet Mutandadzi, Tariro L Mduluza-Jokonya, Takafira Mduluza, Thajasvarie Naicker

“…The findings were from the investigation of viral (45.6%), bacterial (32. 0%), parasitic (23.3%) and fungal (2. 0%) infections. Out of the serological studies, IgG was the most reported antibody type followed by IgM. …”
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Nurses’ Knowledge Regarding FoodDrug Interaction in the Intensive Care and Emergency Hospitals by Samir Y Lafi, Aram Salih Mohammed Amin Kamali, Bayan Omar Sharif

“…The validity of the questionnaire was given to a panel of 7 experts, a pilot study was carried out to check the reliability of the questionnaire which determined through the use of stability reliability (test-retest) approach which was estimated as r = 0.81.  …”
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Epidemiological and clinical variables’ behavior in patients with stroke of Villa Clara by Bettsy Bell Bosch Rodriguez, Arlet López Quintanilla, Mercedes Bordón Hernández, Marbelys Guevara Rodríguez, Eldis Daniel Rodríguez León, Amalia Inés Luna Capote

“…<br /><strong>Methods</strong>: descriptive and cross-sectional study, carried out in Arnaldo Milián Castro Hospital’s Neurology service from Villa Clara, Cuba, which included all patients with a clinical diagnosis of cardioembolic or atherothrombotic stroke, admitted to the ward during 2019. …”
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Scientific provision of an effective development of soybean breeding and seed production in the Russian Far East by V. T. Sinegovskaya

“…Chaika” and biotechnologists carry out the selection of pairs for crossing using biotechnological methods to assess their polymorphism, instead of long-term selection for phenotypic features in the field. …”
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Microperimetric Biofeedback Training Improved Visual Acuity after Successful Macular Hole Surgery by Tomoko Ueda-Consolvo, Mitsuya Otsuka, Yumiko Hayashi, Masaaki Ishida, Atsushi Hayashi

“…Statistical analysis was carried out using paired Student’s t-test. Results. PRT was chosen on the nasal side of the closed MH fovea in 8 patients. …”
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Microencapsulation of β-Carotene by Spray Drying: Effect of Wall Material Concentration and Drying Inlet Temperature by Luiz C. Corrêa-Filho, Maria M. Lourenço, Margarida Moldão-Martins, Vítor D. Alves

“…Thus, the objective of this work was to study the microencapsulation process of β-carotene by spray drying, using arabic gum as wall material, to protect it against adverse environmental conditions. This was carried out using the response surface methodology coupled to a central composite rotatable design, evaluating simultaneously the effect of drying air inlet temperature (110-200°C) and the wall material concentration (5-35%) on the drying yield, encapsulation efficiency, loading capacity, and antioxidant activity. …”
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Value of Systematic and MRI‐Ultrasound Fusion Prostate Biopsy in Different Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) Levels by Solmaz Ohadian Moghadam, Mohammad Haddadi, Erfan Amini, Seyed Ali Momeni, Masoud Bitaraf, Mohammad Reza Nowroozi

“…Further, cancer cases were divided to < 10 and ≥ 10 PSA groups and the pathology results, obtained by each method, were compared. Out of 195 men, 36 were diagnosed with prostate cancer (PCa). …”
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Research into the Possibilities of Improving the Adhesion Properties of a Locomotive by Vadym Ishchuk, Kateryna Kravchenko, Miroslav Blatnický, Alyona Lovska, Ján Dižo

“…This in turn has a favorable effect on the adhesion of the wheel with the rail. It was found out that the newly designed sanding system has a significant positive economic effect regarding saving sand. …”
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