"SOFT POWER": THE DARK SIDE (ON THE CASE OF GERMANY) by M. M. Lebedeva, L. R. Rustamova, M. V. Sharko

“…Despite of the fact that numerous researches on the concept of soft power were conducted by Russian as well as by foreign scholars, negative aspects of soft power, especially concerning actors that implement it, were almost disregarded. …”
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On Sequences of J. P. King-Type Operators by Tuncer Acar, Mirella Cappelletti Montano, Pedro Garrancho, Vita Leonessa

“…King who defined them, and they have been a source of inspiration for many scholars. In this paper we try to take stock of the situation and highlight the state of the art, hoping that this will be a useful tool for all people who intend to extend King’s approach to some new contents within Approximation Theory. …”
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THE CONCEPT OF LAND DISPUTES IN LAND LAW 2013 by Lê Thị Bích Chi

“…Based on researching the practical resolution of land disputes in recent years, current relating regulations, and scholars’ opinion on the concept of land disputes and disputes over a land use right, we will provide our points of view on these notions.…”
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Tamactún-Acalán: interpretación de una hegemonía política maya de los siglos xiv-xvi by Andrés Ciudad Ruiz, Alfonso Lacadena García-Gallo

“…At the same time, there is no agreement among scholars about whether the ancient Maya were politically organized in decentralized states of segmentary nature, or in regional centralized states. …”
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Nursing Leadership in a Rapidly Aging Society: Implications of “The Future of Nursing” Report in Japan by Harue Masaki, Hiroko Nagae, Megumi Teshima, Shigeko Izumi

“…The recent US Institute of Medicine (IOM) report about the future of nursing highlights the areas where nurses can serve, contribute, and move forward to improve health care in the United States. Japanese nursing scholars examined the IOM report for its implications in the Japanese context and explored the future of nursing in Japan. …”
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American Weed: A History of Cannabis Cultivation in the United States by Nick Johnson

“…Understanding how the US became one of the premier cannabis-growing regions of the world in the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries will help scholars pinpoint major themes in the world history of cannabis, such as its adoption and distribution by marginalized peoples, its transnational appeal in a globalized capitalist system, and how the plant embeds itself within the urban and rural ecology of human civilization. …”
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Institutional Framework and Practice of Russian Science Diplomacy by R. O. Reinhardt, V. A. Mozebakh

“…A distrust in communication between scholars and diplomats further aggravates the uneven support for scientists across Russian diplomatic missions. …”
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Theory and Application of Gob-Side Entry Retaining in Thick Three-Soft Coal Seam by Junchao Shen, Ying Zhang

“…With the characteristic of less roadway excavation and high resource recovery, gob-side entry retaining (GER) technology is a safe and efficient green mining technology. Many experts and scholars have done extensive research on its principle and application. …”
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Rhetorical Mixture: Hermogenes and Hybridity in English Renaissance Literary Criticism by Javiera Lorenzini Raty

“…Through an examination of work by scholars and poets such as George Puttenham, George Chapman, William Scott, and William Carew, this article demonstrates that Hermogenes both shapes and sheds light on these authors’ main discussions on literary hybridity, informing alternative and radical understandings of poetic form.…”
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Investigating Soil Adhesion and Antiadhesion Performance of Nonsmooth Subsoiler Surfaces by Jinguang Li, Hongyan Qi, Yunhai Ma, Peng Gao, Baoguang Wu

“…Soil adhesion is one of the main factors affecting the working resistance and energy consumption of agricultural machinery. Many scholars have been doing much research on the method of soil antiadhesion, but the conditions for the occurrence of adhesion need to be further discussed. …”
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Decolonizing the Study of Religions:Muslim Intellectuals and the Enlightenment Project of Religious Studies by Abdulkader Tayob

“…Abduh (he diedin 1905) to recent scholars like Na?r ??mid Ab? Zayd (he diedin2010) have used religion as a critical term to develop a critique of tradition and modernity, and a strategy for renewal. …”
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Law and Politics in FCPA Prosecutions of Foreign Corporations by Elizabeth Acorn

“…Abstract The expansive reach of US prosecutions addressing corporate and economic crimes has piqued the interest of many commentators and scholars. This is perhaps nowhere more evident than in the enforcement of the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (“FCPA”) against non-American corporations. …”
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The lowest canonical denominator: electronic literary texts, and the role of the information professional by Claire Warwick

“…This issue should concern not only literary critics, but also information professionals. Humanities scholars need diverse resources, rare texts and multiple editions of works. …”
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Water insecurity is human: why social science must be at the core of water security research and practice by Amber Wutich

“…Many water scholars believe we are at an inflection point in which new approaches to water research and management are needed, and I agree. …”
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A Night at the Pictures : A Christmas Carol et la séduction du simulacra by Florent Christol

“…A Christmas Carol, which stands as one of the most popular works of Dickens, is not highly ranked by literary critics and scholars. The main reason for this somewhat paradoxical fate is that Dickens is known for his contribution to the novel, a genre preoccupied with issues of realism and the denunciation of social ills. …”
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The use of research by public relations practitioners by Albert Anani-Bossman, Fortune Tella

“… The importance of research by public relations practitioners has been highlighted by leading scholars in most developed countries. However, studies show that the use of research by practitioners is more talked about than actually done. …”
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Numerical Simulation of a Class of Hyperchaotic System Using Barycentric Lagrange Interpolation Collocation Method by Xiaofei Zhou, Junmei Li, Yulan Wang, Wei Zhang

“…Although many kinds of numerical methods of the system have been announced, simple and efficient methods have always been the direction that scholars strive to pursue. Based on this problem, this paper introduces another novel numerical method to solve a class of hyperchaotic system. …”
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MILITARY INTERVENTIONSAND THE NIGERIA FOURTH REPUBLIC: A REFLECTION DISCOURSE by Stella Ughulu Eghoikhunu, Ihaza Kayode

“…Military interventions in Nigeria’s civil matters have been vehemently kicked against by many scholars due to its negative effects on the society. …”
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The mirage of a triune rainbow by E.M. Conradie

“…Rian Venter, one of the senior scholars contributing to this debate. It is written in the form of an “academic letter” that assumes the requisite scholarship, but deliberately engages in a conversation that is appropriate to the exploratory approach that is adopted and honours the correspondent upon his retirement. …”
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Unpacking uncivil society by Oh Dayei, Elayan Suzanne, Sykora Martin, Downey John

“…In the era of rising populist sentiment, deep social and political polarisations, and a growing crisis of online harms, numerous scholars share concern about the impact of such uncivil populist forces on the health of liberal democracy. …”
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