The goal-over-source asymmetry in Thai and Korean by Kultida Khammee, Seongha Rhee

“…Drawing upon corpus data, this paper addresses the goal-over-source asymmetry in Korean and Thai from pragmatic and grammaticalization perspectives.…”
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Technical Aspects of Laparoscopic Distal Pancreatectomy for Benign and Malignant Disease: Review of the Literature by T. de Rooij, R. Sitarz, O. R. Busch, M. G. Besselink, M. Abu Hilal

“…For decades, surgeons have tried to prevent these fistulas but to date no strategy has been confirmed to be effective in 2 consecutive randomized studies. Pragmatic multicenter studies focusing on technical aspects of laparoscopic distal pancreatectomy are lacking and should be encouraged.…”
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End-to-End Message Exchange in a Deployable Marine Environment Hierarchical Wireless Sensor Network by César Ortega-Corral, Luis E. Palafox, J. Antonio García-Macías, Jaime Sánchez-García, Leocundo Aguilar

“…We present a pragmatic view of different approaches used to guarantee data delivery in a deployable marine habitat monitoring system, composed of a two-tier dual frequency (2.4 GHz/900 MHz) hierarchical wireless sensor network (WSN). …”
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THE ROLE OF THE UN SECURITY COUNCIL IN MAINTAINING PEACE by I. N. Shcherbak

“…The research article sheds some light on the process of reforms of the UN Security Council and discussions on this issue in the UN , positions of the permanent members of the SC (“P-5”) and different scenarios of the expansion of the composition of the Security Council (permanent and non-permanent members).In contrast to some optimistic assumptions on the perspectives of the reform the author reinforces a pragmatic approach to the issue. Special emphasis is made on the importance of preserving the exclusive position of permanent members of the SC (“P-5”) as the guarantor of global stability and security. …”
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Perioperative Nutrition in Abdominal Surgery: Recommendations and Reality by Yannick Cerantola, Fabian Grass, Alessandra Cristaudi, Nicolas Demartines, Markus Schäfer, Martin Hübner

“…The Nutritional Risk Score is a pragmatic and validated tool to identify patients who should benefit from nutritional support. …”
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Territorial Brands for Rural Development Strategies in Protected Natural Spaces: A Social Demand Analysis by José A. Albaladejo-García, Gonzalo Martínez-García, José M. Martínez-Paz

“…The territorial brand of Sierra Espuña Regional Park (southeastern Spain) was selected as a pragmatic case, with the aim of promoting the production and consumption of sustainable local products. …”
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Using technology to increase reach and optimize consent experience for a large-scale research program by Emma Coen, Daniel P. Judge, Samantha Norman, John T. Clark, Andrew Cates, Randolph Thornhill, Kelly Hunt, Lori McMahon, Leslie Lenert, Caitlin G. Allen

“…The consent process for research studies can be burdensome for potential participants due to complex information and lengthy consent forms. This pragmatic study aimed to improve the consent experience and evaluate its impact on participant decision making, study knowledge, and satisfaction with the In Our DNA SC program, a population-based genomic screening initiative. …”
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Experience on postmortem minimally invasive tissue sampling to ascertain the cause of death determination in South African children: A case for implementing as standard of care by J du Toit, K Storath, I Dunn, P Makekeng, M Moosa, K Mothibi, N Umuneza, C A Rees, D Blau, S Lala, Y Adam, S Velaphi, M Hale, P Swart, J Wadula, L Mothibi, A Wise, V Baba, P Jaglal, S Mahtab, S Madhi, Z Dangor

“…Furthermore, based on the data from CHAMPS, we present three pragmatic algorithmic approaches to the wide array of testing options for cost-effectiveness and scalability of postmortem MITS in South African state facilities. …”
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A Small State with Growing Influence: Balancing Azerbaijan in Global Energy Policy by Suren Tadevosyan

“…The findings illustrate Azerbaijan’s ability to assert agency within asymmetrical power dynamics, reinforcing its energy role with the EU through infrastructure projects like the Southern Gas Corridor, while managing role conflicts with Russia through economic cooperation and pragmatic engagement. This analysis highlights Azerbaijan’s adaptability and strategic positioning, contributing to the broader discourse on small-state agency and the geopolitics of energy diplomacy. …”
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Detecting Source Code Plagiarism in Student Assignment Submissions Using Clustering Techniques by Raddam Sami Mehsen, Majharoddin M. Kazi, Hiren Joshi

“… In pragmatic courses, graduate students are required to submit programming assignments, which have been susceptible to various forms of plagiarism. …”
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The Impact of the Adjustment Concept on the Benchmarks' Height Accuracy by Blaženka Bukač, Ivan Razumović, Nevio Rožić

“…Any kind of correlation between the observations as well as the correlation of fixed heights is often neglected for pragmatical reasons. Also, given heights are usually assumed error-free when in reality they possess a certain level of accuracy. …”
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Improving farm households’ economic status to address food security in Ghana: The role of participation in nonfarm activities by Eli Andrew Akosikumah, Hamdiyah Alhassan, Paul Adjei Kwakwa

“…Understanding highly pragmatic ways of improving the quality of life of farming households by way of ensuring food security among these households has been a topical issue among many researchers. …”
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The role of biodiesel in marine decarbonization: Technological innovations and ocean engineering challenges by D. Christopher Selvam, T. Raja, Beemkumar Nagappan, Vijay J. Upadhye, J. Guntaj, Yuvarajan Devarajan, Ruby Mishra

“…These insights establish biodiesel as a pragmatic, scalable, and ecologically sustainable fuel alternative for the maritime sector while delineating avenues to mitigate technological and operational challenges.…”
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Defending against social engineering attacks: A security pattern‐based analysis framework by Tong Li, Chuanyong Song, Qinyu Pang

“…Moreover, the existing social engineering defence research is highly dependent on manual analysis, which is time‐consuming and labour‐intensive and cannot solve practical problems efficiently and pragmatically. This paper proposes a systematic approach to generate countermeasures based on a typical social engineering attack process. …”
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Mirative focalization: A case study of Mandarin lian-DP dou construction by Yue Xing

“…Support is threefold – pragmatically, lian-DP dou construction denotes contextually similar implicatures as Sicilian mirative expressions do; semantically, the quantifier dou, serving as a maximality operator, imposes exhaustivity over the alternatives available on a scale and therefore forces the lian-DP to move to SpecdouP; and syntactically, the observable weak crossover effects (WCO) manifest that lian-DP movement is inherently focus fronting. …”
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Iran-Saudi Arabia Rivalry and the Yemen Crisis by Ramazan İZOL

“…On the other hand, with the aggressive policy of Saudi Arabia towards them, the Houthis have further developed their relations with Iran for pragmatic and ideological reasons. In essence, the Houthis, which emerged as a result of Yemen's local and social problems, gradually became another denominator in the equation of the Iran-Saudi Arabia rivalry.…”
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Frequency-based salience of dual meanings in conventional metaphor acquisition: Evidence from toddlers in Urban England by Dorota K. Gaskins

“…Contrary to the generic argument that children’s pragmatic reasoning with non-literal uses is impeded by meaning conventionality (Falkum, 2022), my preliminary data suggest that it is influenced by the frequency of exposure to the concrete meanings of conventional metaphors, which leads to a generalised prediction that the most probable interpretation of any new metaphor is concrete (literal). …”
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Towards a new stakeholder-inclusive conceptual framework to strengthen internal corporate image by Yolandi Slabbert

“…Data triangulation by means of one-on-one interviews, focus groups and an open-ended survey was conducted with employees to determine the pragmatic relevance of the proposed framework. The findings culminated in a new generic stakeholder-inclusive conceptual framework to strengthen the internal corporate image by means of the AA1000 Stakeholder Engagement Standard elements and responsible leadership. …”
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Étude qualitative des High Rising Terminals à Dublin : protocole PAC-Prosodie et positionnements énonciatifs by Julia Bongiorno

“…We will highlight how important a continuum in the ecological value of the data is for a thorough study of the different pragmatic functions of intonation. After introducing the PAC Program (Phonologie de l’Anglais Contemporain / Phonology of Contemporary English) and the PAC-Prosody methodology together with its advantages, aims, and utility, we will give a general overview of the various studies on HRTs in several varieties of English before focusing on the South of Dublin. …”
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