Elections to the European Parliament as a form of civic expression by Anatoly A. Kanunnikov

“…The author concludes that since the three main proEuropean groups – the European People’s Party, the Socialists and Democrats and the Renewal of Europe – retained their majority in the European Parliament, there is every reason to believe that the European Parliament will take into account the interests of civil society, expressed by its organizations during the election campaign, in its legislative work.…”
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Lexicalized elements in khiva and urganch oghuz dialects by Mustafa

“…Lexicalization refers to the situation in which elements of a language enter the dictionary for various reasons. This situation is realized in various ways. …”
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Mixed-frequency VAR: a new approach to forecasting migration in Europe using macroeconomic data by Emily R. Barker, Jakub Bijak

“…Our results indicate reasonable in-sample performance of migration forecasts, especially in the short term, although with varying levels of accuracy. …”
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Study on the Distribution of Cycloidal Gear Forming Grinding Temperature Field by Ke Qingxun, Deng Xiaozhong, Su Jianxin, Nie Shaowu

“…The simulation results are of great value in predicting the temperature distribution of the cycloidal gear tooth surface under wet grinding conditions and the reasonable selection of the parameters of wet grinding teeth.…”
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Language and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Practice Paper-Literature Review and Case Example by Satwant Singh

“…Global migration is a common phenomenon and mainly occurs for economic reasons or threat of violence. This paper has been drawn from the results of a literature review on first and second languages and therapy. …”
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The effects of detraining period on female basketball team players aged 10-12 by Emrah Atay, Gülsev Kayalarlı

“…According to the findings it can be concluded that, a break period for 20 days from trainingaffects the performance negatively For this reason, high-level performance aimed at primary school teams willneed to continue training during the semester break.…”
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Copula-Based Probabilistic Hazard Assessment Model for Debris Flow Considering the Uncertainties of Multiple Influencing Factors by Mi Tian, Yuan Shen, Long Fan, Xiao-Tao Sheng

“…Results show that the developed V–RI–AL probabilistic model can provide reasonable estimates of debris-flow volume in Taiwan for a specific probability level of 0.94, and show better predictive performance than the empirical relationships by using an independent debris-flow dataset in Taiwan for validation. …”
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Deciphering antioxidant interactions via data mining and RDKit by Lucas B. Ayres, Justin T. Furgala, Carlos D. Garcia

“…While most consumer products contain antioxidants, the most efficient strategy is to incorporate combinations of two or more compounds, boosting the total antioxidant capacity. Unfortunately, the reasons for observing synergistic / antagonistic / additive effects in food samples are still unclear, and it is common to observe very different responses even for similar mixtures. …”
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La recolocación de monumentos dentro del juego de pelota como mecanismo de activación ritual durante el periodo Clásico maya by Octavio Quetzalcóatl Esparza Olguín, Rogelio Valencia Rivera

“…The reuse of stelae, located at special positions inside this architectonic context, mainly at the corners of the ballcourts and visible to the spectator, indicates that this relocation did not have a random or economical reason, such as reuse of these highly valuable materials as simple construction elements. …”
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2020 Constitutional Reform as the Problem of Legitimacy Theory by A. N. Medushevskiy

“…He exposes the reciprocal interconnections between legitimacy and constitutionalism, regarding such items as positive and negative law-making impulses; substantive and instrumental aspects of reform; national, regional and local dimensions; constitutional and meta-constitutional parameters of the legitimization process as well as declared and undeclared reasons, motives, arguments and political technologies of amending process. …”
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Starting with the Digital Doesn’t Make it Easier by Amanda Boczar

“…Intertwined within this discussion is an additional discourse over the need to carefully curate our digital spaces not only for practical cost reasons, but due to the environmental costs of massive data storage solutions. …”
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Research on Path Planning and Trajectory Generation of Hoists for Lifting Sluice Gates by Hou Chunyao, Fang Zifan, Zhou Yi, Zhang Yu, Dong Yuanfa

“…The simulation and test results show that the hoist completes the lifting gates operation according to the expected plan, and the swing angle of the gate swings within a reasonable range. The method is suitable for the unmanned automatic operation environment of the hoist of hydropower stations and lays a theoretical foundation for the realization of the intelligence of hoists.…”
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Investigation of Phosphate Removal from Aqueous Solutions Using Zinc Extraction Waste by Feride Naime Türk

“…Although the disposal of these residues often requires special technologies, hazardous wastes are left to the environment or landfills due to the expense of these technologies and the inadequacy of legal sanctions in some cases. For this reason, it is important from an economic and environmental perspective to evaluate these residues and bring them into the industry. …”
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Die Rosenkreuzer als imaginäre Gesellschaft by Ralph Häfner

“…Intellectually close to Friedrich Schleiermacher he aimed at reconciling religiousness and science within the spirit of the mediation theology of his time. The reasons for the increasing interest in Johann Valentin Andreae’s character and work since the end of the 18th century have to be understood in the context of multiple motivations. …”
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So to Speak: A Computational and Empirical Investigation of Lexical Cohesion of Non-Literal and Literal Expressions in Text by Alexis Palmer, Caroline Sporleder, Linlin Li

“…We also show that an automatically computable semantic relatedness measure based on search engine page counts correlates well with human intuitions about the cohesive structure of a text and can therefore be used to determine the cohesive structure of a text automatically with a reasonable degree of accuracy. This investigation is undertaken from the perspective of computational linguistics. …”
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Implications of noncoding RNAs for cancer therapy: Are we aiming at the right targets? by Amil Shah

“…Because of the crucial role of the altered ncRNAs in tumorigenesis, targeting them may be a reasonable therapeutic strategy.…”
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MANAGING QUALITY ON CONSTRUCTION SITES IN SOUTH AFRICA: AN EASTERN CAPE STUDY by Fidelise EMUZE, Christopher MHLWA

“…The study that was descriptive in nature shows that lack of skilled general workers and artisans contribute to poor quality control and management processes; while defects and rework form the main reason for project quality deviations on the sampled sites. …”
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Cross-Layer Greedy-Based Routing in VANETs: Virtual Multibackbones Approach by Mohamed Nabil, Said El Kafhali, Abdelmajid Hajami, Abdelkrim Haqiq

“…These protocols still suffer from the growth of the data packet delivery delay, the lost data packets, and the control packets. For this reason, we propose a novel cross-layer routing protocol, which is the first that uses virtual multibackbones and combines them with the quality of the link to choose the next forwarder vehicle. …”
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News Topic Detection Based on Capsule Semantic Graph by Shuang Yang, Yan Tang

“…In addition, the current mainstream probability methods and graph analysis methods for topic detection have high time complexity. For these reasons, we present a news topic detection model on the basis of capsule semantic graph (CSG). …”
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Data normalization in machine learning by V. V. Starovoitov, Yu. I. Golub

“…To select the most accurate function, it is reasonable to normalize several functions and to compare their estimates on a single scale. …”
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