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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Kazan scientific school of journalism: Definition of paradigmatic boundaries by D.V. Tumanov, A.S. Bik-Bulatov, S.K. Shayhitdinova

“…Based on the obtained results, the following paradigmatic principles of the Kazan school have been formulated: 1) the principle of humanism, which determines the priority of the “human situation” over technologies; 2) the principle of personality prevalence (a personalized approach to the historiography of journalism); 3) the principle of dialogic journalism, which ensures the unity of different models, discursive practices of journalism, and media processes in general; 4) the principle of media culture, which determines the coherent connectivity of situationality and processuality of the object of research, its genesis and actual existence, metaphysics and pragmatics.…”
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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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A bibliometric analysis of metonymy in SSCI-indexed research (2000–2023): retrospect and prospect by Yi Sun, Mocheng Lin

“…Predictive modeling, including ARIMA and LSTM approaches, was used to forecast future research topics based on keyword trends.ResultsThe analysis identified 11 key research clusters, highlighting the central role of cognitive and conceptual linguistics in metonymy research, along with its applications in semantics, pragmatics, and multimodal contexts. Predictive modeling suggested the emergence of seven new research themes for 2024–2028, including the interaction between metonymy and discourse, its role in multimodal communication, and its application in social and cultural narratives.DiscussionThis study underscores the interdisciplinary nature of metonymy research, bridging linguistic, cognitive, and social dimensions. …”
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Religious Groups and Their Influence on Interstate Relations (The Case of U.S.-Israel Relations) by I. Istomin

“…Despite the fact that leaders of both group often use theological reasons to justify their support for Israel, the real motivation of the most regular members is primarily humanitarian and pragmatic. The diversity of the Pro-Israeli groups promotes bipartisan support of cooperation between the two countries, and enabled creation of both Democratic and Republican lobby on this issue. …”
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The importance of organisational culture for health system resilience: A qualitative analysis of factors that supported health care workers in Germany during the COVID-19 pandemic. by Heide Weishaar, Megan Evans, Souaad Chemali, Eloisa Montt Maray, Rike Böttcher, René Umlauf, Susan Abunijela, Nadine Muller, Barbara Buchberger, Brogan Geurts, Hanna-Tina Fischer, Charbel El Bcheraoui

“…The need to improvise and develop pragmatic solutions to deal with COVID-related challenges offered ample opportunities for participation, self-determination, innovation, and alternative work processes. …”
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