Financial aspects of Public-Private Partnership by Livijo Sajko

“…The growth of public requests is evident in the case of Croatia, but also present in every European country, with the government’s lack of ability to secure sufficient financial income. The look for additional sources of  financing, in order to build public infrastructure, is directed therefore more and more to the private financing capital and to public-private partnerships. …”
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Constructing Digitized Chaotic Time Series with a Guaranteed Enhanced Period by Chuanfu Wang, Qun Ding

“…Furthermore, experimental implementation shows that the digitized chaotic time series has great complexity, approximate entropy, and randomness, and the perturbed digitized logistic map can be used as a secure pseudorandom sequence generator for information encryption.…”
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Design and Implementation of Software-Based Simulator for Performance Evaluation of Transmission Protocol by Chang-Su Kim, Jong-Il Park, Hoe-Kyung Jung

“…We propose a method of software-based transmission protocol simulation for the establishment of ubiquitous infrastructure as a method of securing reliability of a ubiquitous sensor network (USN), which is an important element of ubiquitous infrastructure establishment. …”
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Du détroit de Malacca jusqu’à sa périphérie by Eric Frécon

“…Although the Malacca Strait was previously one of the main piracy prone areas, it is becoming increasingly secure, and presents itself as a good example. Nevertheless, field research tends to cast a shadow over this optimistic view. …”
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Trucking, Owner-Operators, and Florida Perishables by Richard Beilock

“…In this report, we examine the extent to which owner-operators have been able to maintain their share of Florida's produce/ornamentals haulage and their dependence upon larger carriers to secure loads. his is EDIS document, FE543, a publication of the Department of Food and Resource Economics, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. …”
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Trucking, Owner-Operators, and Florida Perishables by Richard Beilock

“…In this report, we examine the extent to which owner-operators have been able to maintain their share of Florida's produce/ornamentals haulage and their dependence upon larger carriers to secure loads. his is EDIS document, FE543, a publication of the Department of Food and Resource Economics, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. …”
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Decolonising Bibles? Image, imagination, and imagin(in)g in the postcolonial academy by J. Punt

“…Ensconced in the image of ideologically secure and contented intellectual space, epistemological and hermeneutical approaches which explicitly involve the social location of interpreters and academic discourses are still viewed with concern if not suspicion. …”
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How to Protect Future Generations' Rights in European Governance by Maja Göpel, Malte Arhelger

“…Given that future generations are right-bearing citizens of tomorrow, legislative systems should secure these rights through appropriate institutions. …”
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Chaos Synchronization Based on Unknown Input Proportional Multiple-Integral Fuzzy Observer by T. Youssef, M. Chadli, H. R. Karimi, M. Zelmat

“…This paper presents an unknown input Proportional Multiple-Integral Observer (PIO) for synchronization of chaotic systems based on Takagi-Sugeno (TS) fuzzy chaotic models subject to unmeasurable decision variables and unknown input. In a secure communication configuration, this unknown input is regarded as a message encoded in the chaotic system and recovered by the proposed PIO. …”
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Direct radiocarbon dating and stable isotopes of the neandertal femur from Les Rochers-de-Villeneuve (Lussac-les-Châteaux, Vienne) by Cédric Beauval, François Lacrampe-Cuyaubère, Bruno Maureille, Erik Trinkaus

“…The direct radiocarbon date makes it the oldest directly dated European Neandertal specimen, even though others have securely associated radiocarbon dates in the same time range. …”
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Dandiacal Conversation in Oscar Wilde’s Comedies of Manners: Conventions, Conversions and Reconfigurations of Phallogocentrism by Gilbert Pham-Thanh

“…Their strong reliance on rhetoric ensures their supremacy in polite conversation, even if their intellectual and cultural edge does a lot to secure their domination. What is more, their mastery of codes and norms enables them to destabilize the semantics of the age, a gesture which can be equated to a reconfiguration of Victorian patriarchy and even a dismissal of Victorian grand narratives.…”
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Energy Conservation, Singular Orbits, and FPGA Implementation of Two New Hamiltonian Chaotic Systems by Enzeng Dong, Guanghan Liu, Zenghui Wang, Zengqiang Chen

“…Since the conservative chaotic system (CCS) has no general attractors, conservative chaotic flows are more suitable for the chaos-based secure communication than the chaotic attractors. …”
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Internal agricultural policy of the government of A. V. Kolchak by E. A. Koshechkina

“…This circumstance eventually secured the victory of Bolshevism…”
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La lutte contre la piraterie au large de la Somalie by Vice-amiral Gérard Valin

“…At the end of the day, only a global approach of the Somalian issues will be able to secure the Gulf of Aden, which is a strategic Sea Line Of Communication for the world trade. …”
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Small Arms and Light Weapons Proliferation and Gun Violence in West Africa Sub-Region by Agbegbedia Oghenevwoke Anthony

“…The government of the countries in the West African sub region should collaborate to beef securities in their borders. …”
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Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva and Pregnancy: A Case Series and Review of the Literature by Alexandra D. Forrest, Danielle M. Vuncannon, Jane E. Ellis, Zvi Grunwald, Frederick S. Kaplan

“…These cases posed unique anesthetic and obstetric technical challenges, particularly when securing the airway and performing cesarean delivery. …”
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A Mislocated Intrauterine Device Migrating to the Urinary Bladder: An Uncommon Complication Leading to Stone Formation by Mohamed Ali Nouioui, Tarek Taktak, Seif Mokadem, Houssem Mediouni, Ramzi Khiari, Samir Ghozzi

“…We report a case of an IUD migrating from its normal position in the uterine cavity into the urinary bladder causing chronic low urinary tract symptoms in a 43-year-old female patient. The device was securely removed without complications using grasping forceps under cystoscopy, and no parietal defect was detected. …”
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Peri-Implant Soft Tissue in Contact with Zirconium/Titanium Abutments from Histological and Biological Perspectives: A Concise Review by Fatma A. N. Abouel Maaty, Mai A. Ragab, Yasmin M. El-Ghazawy, Fatma I. Elfaiedi, Marwa M. S. Abbass, Israa Ahmed Radwan, Dina Rady, Sara El Moshy, Nahed Sedky Korany, Geraldine M. Ahmed, Christof E. Dörfer, Karim M. Fawzy El-Sayed

“…The attachment between the implant surface and peri-implant mucosa should establish a secure seal to prevent bacterial infiltration and subsequent tissue inflammation. …”
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Československá vojenská mise v Kanadě: Činnost a výsledky by Tomáš Jiránek

“… The Czechoslovak military mission in Canada (1941–1943) aimed to secure the enlistment of local Czechs to Czechoslovak units in Great Britain. …”
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Pupils’ approach to teachers’ role as motivating factor in foreign language classes by Virginija Jurate Pukeviciute, Migle Antaneliene

“…Moreover, it turned out that the schoolchildren feel less secure talking of interaction with teachers: they usually turn to the teachers only for subject matters; they do not always feel free in the classroom. …”
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