Pigeon racing in South Africa: Exploring the socio-economic nature and extent of this 'unknown sport' by Cecilia MOSTERT, Ronnie DONALDSON

“…This research addresses the paucity of academic exploration into pigeon racing, a globally recognized sport with limited scholarly attention. While prior studies focused on ornithology and medicine, this paper pioneers a comprehensive examination from a geographical perspective. …”
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Problems of Legal Regulation of Academic Integrity Compliance in Ukraine by O. V. Bernatskyi

“…However, some aspects of the legal regulation of academic integrity have already been considered in the works of national scholars. However, given the relative novelty of the term of “academic charity” in the current legislation, a number of issues of legal regulation of academic integrity in Ukraine remain relevant and unresolved. …”
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What Drives Innovation and How Its Relevance is Established. A Perspective on Electric Vehicle Promotion in La Rochelle and Gothenburg : 1989-2000 by Marika Rupeka

“…By asking why territories innovate and how they determine the relevance of specific organisational and technological solutions, the aim is to contribute to an historic scholarly debate on the need to study motives that drive territorial innovation as much as the transformation process itself. …”
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Chrudimský Kristus a zázračné souřadnice jeho barokní legendy by Pavel Panoch

“…Early Modern Ages created several opposite theories on its historical origin – the scholars looked for its provenance in the Biblical Era, within the artistic collections of the emperors and Bohemian kings Charles IV. and Rudolf II., or they made a groundless direct connection between the oil-painting and the works of German Renaissance painter Lucas Cranach the Elder. …”
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Empresarios españoles de ida y vuelta  en el México porfiriano y en la España de la Restauración by Carlos Marichal

“…We hope that our study will allow historians, sociologists and other scholars of the life and career of immigrants- who became entrepreneurs- to assess the possibility of extending  case studies to include their career trajectories after return to their countries of origin.…”
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Teaching Academic English Corpus Trough Word-formation by Irina B. Korotkina

“…Understanding the meanings and functioning of these elements can help multilingual scholars cope with disciplinary literature and write for publication and is therefore essential in teaching English for academic and specific purposes. …”
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Implications and Critiques of Quantitative Research: A Systematic Review by Mahendra Sapkota

“…Therefore, the study underscores the need for methodological pluralism, encouraging scholars, researchers, and students in social sciences and related fields to be open-minded and receptive to alternative research approaches and multi-method strategies for a more comprehensive understanding of human behaviour and social phenomena.…”
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Modern features of the cryptocurrency use for terrorist financing, money laundering and other unlawful activities: prospective countermeasures by D. S. Melnyk

“…The novelty of the study is that it analyses the peculiarities of such use of cryptocurrencies in the context of Russia’s full-scale military aggression against Ukraine, which remain poorly understood by scholars. Given the peculiarities of illegal use of cryptocurrencies in Ukraine, the author identifies the need to improve the work of authorized state bodies to counteract their use for illegal purposes, which is especially relevant in the context of incomplete legal definition of their status, imperfect state policy in the field of regulation of cryptocurrency circulation and martial law. …”
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“An Intense Level of Self-regulation”: Technological Opportunities and Limitations of Online Intergroup Dialogue by Grant Jackson, Sarah Schiffecker, Oleksandra Poquet

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Problematic Procedural Issues of Preventing Criminal Offenses on Road Passenger Transport by A. V. Piddybna

“…The author has accomplished a comparative analysis of the current criminal procedural legislation and the provisions of the previous Criminal and Procedural Code of Ukraine of 1960 and the departmental regulatory base on the researched issue. The views of scholars and representatives of various scientific schools on the researched issues have been analyzed. …”
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A CEO's internal communication programme for middle management and its influence on their perception of the corporate reputation by Irma Meyer, Gideon de Wet

“… There seems to be consensus amongst scholars that reputation management rests on a foundation of corporate communication, and it is moreover believed that the chief executive officer (CEO) is the perceived owner and defender of an organisation’s reputation (Hutton, Goodman, Alexander & Genest, 2001: 248 and Gonring 2004: 12). …”
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The Wandering Jew as Monster: John Blackburn’s <i>Devil Daddy</i> by Lisa Lampert-Weissig

“…This article, the first scholarly examination of John Blackburn’s 1972 Wandering Jew novel, <i>Devil Daddy</i>, situates it within the strand of the legend that represents the Wandering Jew as a monstrous source of destruction. …”
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Russian System of Foreign Policy Expertise by A. A. Varfolomeev, O. P. Ivanov, I. V. Surma, Yu. A. Trefilova

“…The North American approach differs in preferences, methodological trends, forms of theoretical ethnocentrism and various forms of social construction. The European scholars and experts in foreign policy analysis use the theory of international relations much more extensively than their North American counterparts.Based on the analysis, we propose to use a comprehensive integrated method, developed in the Russian Diplomatic Academy, using an interdisciplinary approach based on elements of political psychology, sociology of management, international law, structural, functional and institutional approaches, etc. …”
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FROM TRADITION TO TRANSFORMATION: Decontextualization of Dayah in Aceh's Millennial Context by Mohd. Nasir, Syamsul Rizal, Zainuddin Zainuddin, Muhibuddin Muhibuddin, Mulyadi Mulyadi

“…This study highlights three findings: first, an authoritarian relationship between <em>teungku</em> (Islamic scholars) and students hinders meaningful connection and engagement; second, the use of hierarchical teaching methods further reinforces this disconnection, limiting opportunities for collaboration and active learning; third, outdated facilities present challenges in modernising and adapting <em>dayah</em> institutions. …”
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An Artist within, brings out the Drawing in Class: A Creative Approach to Teaching and Learning Engineering Graphics and Design by Siphesihle Eugene Mthethwa

“…This study therefore aimed to explore how an infusion of music in EGD lessons would impact teaching and learning of EGD. Some scholarly findings show that music can deeply provoke emotions, influence mood and affect cognitive performance. …”
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The Typewriter in the 21st Century: Understanding the Nostalgic Aesthetics and Politics of Tyler Knott Gregson’s Instapoetry by Jyoti, Nina Caldeira

“…The paper ends with a conclusion highlighting the importance of Instapoetry with regards to the preservation and continuation of historical literary practices, and with a suggestion encouraging further scholarly exploration on the topic.…”
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La mise en politique des services environnementaux : la genèse du Programme de paiements pour services environnementaux au Costa Rica by Jean-Francois Le Coq, Denis Pesche, Thomas Legrand, Géraldine Froger, Fernando Saenz Segura

“…During the last decade, the notions of environmental services and ecosystem services (ES) experienced a rapid development of attention from scholars and development actors. These notions have been mobilized to develop new instruments to face environmental problems such as deforestation: the Payments for Environmental Services (PES). …”
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The present study answers the research question: A corpus-based analysis of collocate directionality in academic English writing by Abdulaziz B. Sanosi

“…The study used a one-million-token corpus compiled of research articles written by Arab scholars in the field of Applied linguistics, literature, and translation. …”
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Upholding United Nations Global Legitimacy in Human Rights Protection and Humanitarian Assistance within the European Union: A Legal Overview of the EU-UN Natural Partnership by Nives Mazur Kumrić

“…Alongside the examination of the current positive law and corresponding scholarly literature, the paper also provides insight into the best practices of the EU-UN natural partnership on the ground, such as the early recovery of war-affected communities in Ukraine through the UN Development Programme (UNDP). …”
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Multiagent Reinforcement Learning-Based Taxi Predispatching Model to Balance Taxi Supply and Demand by Yongjian Yang, Xintao Wang, Yuanbo Xu, Qiuyang Huang

“…Without macroguidance, the role of the taxi system cannot be fully utilized. Many scholars have studied taxi behaviors to find better operational strategies for drivers, but their researches rely on local optimization methods to improve the profit of drivers, which will lead to imbalance between supply and demand in the city. …”
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