Multi-alignment under "Uneven Multipolarity": India’s Relations with Russia in an Evolving World Order by Nivedita Kapoor

“…It argues that India's perception of the balance of threats has shifted with respect to China, particularly in the Asia-Pacific and Indian Ocean regions, which are crucial to India's national security and future power projection ambitions. In the current context of uneven multipolarity, the capabilities of the US and China exceed those of weaker major powers, such as India, Russia, and Japan, without tipping the system into explicit bipolarity. …”
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Economic Impact of Changes in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Ventilation Strategies with the Advent of New Noninvasive Ventilation Techniques: A Review and Proposed Assessment Framew... by Jan B. Pietzsch, Abigail M. Garner, Michael McQueen

“…**Results:** The constructed model projected expected cost savings of $2,317 for the HFT strategy for the base case. …”
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Experimental Study on Shield Tunneling Control in Full Section Water-Rich Sand Layer of Collapsible Loess by Yuan Mei, Xinyue Zhang, Shumin Zhang, Rong Wang, Tong Yang, Yuhang Zhang

“…Based on the statistical analysis results, a reasonable range for the cutter head torque, cutter head speed, chamber pressure, bentonite injection volume, and advanced speed in the water-rich sand layer can provide a construction control basis for similar projects and provide data support for the compilation of relevant specifications.…”
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Dynamic Fracture Toughness and Dynamic Tensile Strength of the Rock from Different Depths of Beijing Datai Well by Ke Man, Xiaoli Liu

“…With an increasing depth, the dynamic tensile strength has much more influence on the dynamic fracture toughness, as which it is much liable to bring out the unexpected catastrophes in the engineering projects, especially during the excavation at deep mining. …”
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Semantic transfers in the domain of FOODSTUFFS by Aleksandra Zofia Kowalczyk

“…Most frequently, the process discussed here involves the projection of attributive features and values, sometimes positive, yet most frequently negative ones, associated with members of the macrocategory foodstuffs onto the macrocategory human being. …”
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DEVELOPMENT OF THE EXTERNAL ENERGY POLICY OF THE EUROPEAN UNION by N. Y. Kaveshnikov

“…Decision on exchange of information about bilateral energy agreements between Member States (MSs) and third countries may deprive producers of opportunity to differentiate terms of infrastructure projects and energy supply in different MSs. European Commission participation in MSs negotiations with third countries as a guardian of energy market provisions will inevitably increase negotiation power of MSs. …”
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Regeneration of subalpine conifer species is inhibited by bark-stripping deer in a Betula forest by Takuo Nagaike, Hayato Iijima

“…Identifying the limiting demographic processes controlling tree distribution is key to projecting future range shifts. A preference by herbivores for stripping the bark of tree species undergoing range shifts could inhibit tree range shifts. …”
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Tracing embodied knowledge in the history of science and medicine: expanding the role of film in historical research by Paul Craddock, Anna Harris

“…We suggest that film can be an important research method to: a) trace the research process; b) enhance collaboration especially in group projects; c) analytically help researchers to amplify sensorial details, through the possibility to rewind, freeze and focus on embodied action; and d) as a means of sharing research instead of text. …”
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More Than Numbers: The Relationship Between Belonging and Engagement in an Introductory Statistics Course by Catherine Pressimone Beckowski, Benjamin M. Torsney

“…In these courses, active learning, collaborative projects, and relatable content can help to support student learning, belonging, and engagement. …”
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Readiness of Sub-Saharan Africa Healthcare Systems for the New Pandemic, Diabetes: A Systematic Review by Bernardo Nuche-Berenguer, Linda E. Kupfer

“…We identified pilot projects to enhance these capacities. The scale-up of these pilot interventions and the integration of diabetes care into existing robust chronic disease platforms may be a feasible approach to begin to tackle the upcoming pandemic in diabetes. …”
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Le Brésil et ses Indiens : une réconciliation impossible ? by François-Michel Le Tourneau

“…This paper analyzes the current situation and what is at stake with the many legislative projects under review. To that end, we first sketch a rapid history of how indigenous rights were considered throughout Brazilian history. …”
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Cycle Intersection for SOp,q-Flag Domains by Faten Abu Shoga

“…A real form G0 of a complex semisimple Lie group G has only finitely many orbits in any given compact G-homogeneous projective algebraic manifold Z=G/Q. A maximal compact subgroup K0 of G0 has special orbits C which are complex submanifolds in the open orbits of G0. …”
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Demographics of Physician Associates (PAs) in Obstetrics and Gynecology: Where They Work and How They Compare to Other PAs by Melissa A. Rodriguez, Roderick S. Hooker, Kasey K. Puckett, Andrzej Kozikowski

“…With the reduction of obstetrician-gynecologists, the relative growth of PAs in this area of medicine and surgery is a natural part of the solution to the projected obstetrical physician deficit.…”
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Managing Co-Authorship as a Competence of Academic Writing: Organizational and Legal Points by M. A. Safonova, A. A. Safonov

“…Working on projects in co-authorship rather than individually is becoming an increasingly attractive option for many members of the Russian academic community. …”
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Effect of Adjusting for Particle-Size Distribution of Cement on Strength Development of Concrete by Daegeon Kim

“…The massive construction projects such as nuclear power plants and gas storage plants operate their own batch plants for appropriate supply of a massive amount of ASTM Type I cement. …”
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Population, consumption and climate colonialism by Patrick Hassan

“…Those environmental risks become much greater given developing nations’ projected population increases in the coming century. …”
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Global Dynamics of Shaft Lines Rotating in Surrounding Fluids Application to Thin Fluid Films by David Lornage, Georges Jacquet-Richardet

“…The whole flexible wheel/shaft assembly and the influence of specific fluid film elements are considered in a full threedimensional model. A modal projection associated with a grid located at the interface of the fluid and structural domains provides an efficient and adaptable coupling. …”
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Cycle-based formulations in Distance Geometry by Liberti, Leo, Iommazzo, Gabriele, Lavor, Carlile, Maculan, Nelson

“…We present a new modelling technique for this problem where, instead of deciding vertex positions, the formulations decide the length of the segments representing the edges in each cycle in the graph, projected in every dimension. We propose an exact formulation and a relaxation based on a Eulerian cycle. …”
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Responsible finance: application and challenges for society, governments and corporations by V. I. Pyatanova, I. A. Pyatanov

“…Governments also have a role to play, as they support private initiatives and reconsider a huge variety of their projects to account for these additional factors that eventually impact population’s welfare. …”
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Forest Ecological Diversity Change Prediction Discrete Dynamic Model by Jingxia Li, Aijun Zhou, Yongfeng Liao, Zixin Zhao, Xiaoli Mao, Shuoxin Zhang

“…The results show that under the promotion of policies and research projects, China’s forestry development has realized the double growth of forest area and volume, and the forest coverage rate has reached a new level.…”
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