The Crisis of Managerial Information Flows in Education: Theoretical Aspects and Social Realities by A. M. Osipov

“…The article analyzes the materials of extensive sample surveys and the timing of the loads of the main job groups in the education system, data on document flow in institutions of various types and levels, and expert assessments in the three regions of the country. …”
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The Language Engagement Landscape of Ukrainian Temporary Protection Holders in Ireland by Nataliya Ryzhova, Anne Marie Devlin

“…This study therefore addresses a critical and timely gap in the understanding of language engagement among refugees, with a focus on temporary protection holders. …”
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The Concept of <i>Work</i> in Yupik Eskimo Society Before and After the Russian Influx: A Linguist’s Perspective by Nikolai Vakhtin

“…While in the pre-(intensive) contact times the word mainly meant ‘house work’ or ‘processing the carcass of a killed animal’, in mid-20th century it acquired new meanings, borrowing them from Russian. …”
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A Case of Growth Hormone Use in Dyggve–Melchior–Clausen Syndrome by Ravi Upadhyay, Claire Ruane, Rachel Umans, Beth A. Pletcher, Aditi Khokhar, Kristin Wong

“…Our patient had limited range of motion at several joints including the hips after receiving 6 months of rGH therapy. Given the timing of the patient’s rGH therapy and the progression of her disease, it is difficult to determine if there were any benefits and instead, is concerning for worsening of her skeletal dysplasia with rGH therapy use. …”
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Tuning of a Viscous Inerter Damper: How to Achieve Resonant Damping Without a Damper Resonance by Jan Høgsberg

“…The resonant damper performance by the non-resonant viscous inerter damper is illustrated by a numerical example with a 20-story building model, for which the desired resonant modal interaction requires an inertance of almost ten times the entire translational building mass.…”
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Case Studies on Enhanced Heat Transfer in a Square Duct with Modified V-Shaped Ribs (MVR): A CFD Analysis by Amnart Boonloi, Withada Jedsadaratanachai

“…Over the investigated range, the enhanced heat transfer about 18.12 times above the smooth duct with the optimal thermal enhancement factor about 4.16 is detected.…”
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The dependence of shugoshin on Bub1-kinase activity is dispensable for the maintenance of spindle assembly checkpoint response in Cryptococcus neoformans. by Satya Dev Polisetty, Krishna Bhat, Kuladeep Das, Ivan Clark, Kevin G Hardwick, Kaustuv Sanyal

“…During chromosome segregation, the spindle assembly checkpoint (SAC) detects errors in kinetochore-microtubule attachments. Timely activation and maintenance of the SAC until defects are corrected is essential for genome stability. …”
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Laboratory Experiments on the Effect of Microtopography on Soil-Water Movement: Spatial Variability in Wetting Front Movement by Leif Sande, Xuefeng Chu

“…For large soil box experiments, the wetting front reached moisture sensors installed at 5 and 10 cm depths and corresponding to various rough and smooth surface features at significantly different times, with movement being most rapid beneath the smooth surface. …”
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Correlational Relationships between Various International Rankings for Higher Education Institutions by V. A. Gaisenok, O. A. Naumovich, V. V. Samokhval

“…Data on the number of the participants in the World Rankings has been presented for the Webometrics Ranking of World Universities (WRWU), Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), Times Higher Education (THE), U-Multirank, Round University Ranking (RUR), the Moscow International Rating “Three University Missions”, SCImago Institutions Rankings (SIR).The correlations have been studied by the methods of mathematical statistics for the results of the Moscow International Rating “Three University Missions” and the RUR, QS, THE, and the WRWU rankings; of the QS rankings with THE and the WRWU rankings, as well as for the two WRWU rankings published in January 2018 and July 2017. …”
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Exodus 2:1–10 and Dialectics on Maternal Virtues in Contemporary Igboland, Nigeria by Onyekachi Chukwuma

“…The study observes that in contemporary times, women have more opportunities for self-development and employment; they venture into diverse careers that could restrain them from exhibiting some longstanding motherly virtues in child upbringing. …”
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The Spell of the Ancestors at the “Feast of Victory” (Nemlaay): From Initiation Ritual to Community Blessings by Antonio J. Guerreiro

“…Although the core of the Nemlaay, i.e. the initiation rites and warrior training for the young boys and men—the live-saving force of the village during headhunting times—remain a martial value in society. Basically, Nemlaay rites emphasize status and inherited rank in connection to age and descent according to Long Glaat ideas. …”
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Panem nostrum quotidianum da nobis hodie by Iria Gonçalves

“…Grain was grown everywhere, but this didn't stop times of scarcity and famine, both in the countryside and in the cities. …”
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The war inside your mind: unprotected brain battlefields and neuro-vulnerability by Robert McCreight

“…Cognitive integritys is a paramount risk for our times.…”
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Understanding Differences between Equal Public Governance Models by Mirko Pečarič

“…The need for a tool with which the ideal types of governance models could be accommodated with national goals is, in times of increasing complexity, more and more relevant. …”
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Artificial insemination of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus): A trial with simple instruments based on criteria for estrous behaviors linked to changes in estradiol levels a... by Shusaku SAWA, Narumi KAWAHIRO, Minami W. OKUYAMA

“…AI was performed on this female dolphin once or twice daily for 4 days at the detection of estrous behavior, such as floating horizontally and showing reduced responsiveness, likely indicating the appropriate timing for AI. The female was placed in supine a position in the water to position the genital slit above the water surface. …”
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Bending performance and design of reinforced concrete ribbed bridge deck slabs retrofitted with steel-plate reinforcement by Jianshuai Liu, Shuai Tian, Tao Li

“…The bridge deck is best stressed when the bolt (M12 mm × 200 mm) spacing is 0.8 times the slab thickness. To prevent brittle damage to the bridge deck, a steel plate with a width of 160 mm and thickness of 10 mm should be used for strengthening. …”
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SHORT-TERM EQUITY TRADING PRACTICES OF INSTITUTIONAL INVESTORS: EVIDENCE FROM PROPERTY-CASUALTY INSURERS IN THE UNITED STATES by Jin Park, Tim Query

“…However, in terms of the mean size of transactions, the average investment in preferred stock ranges from four to five times larger than that of common stocks during the period of interest in this study. …”
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Allocation of Series Capacitors Bank in Electric Power Distribution Systems by Patrick Michael Motta Correa, Thelma Solange Piazza Fernandes, Mateus Duarte Teixeira

“…Results are presented for a 90-bus radial distribution system which show that the use of BCseries is suitable for feeders with abrupt load variations, and that this approach competes positively with the simultaneous allocation of VR and BCshunt devices, with shorter investment amortization times and improved quality indices.…”
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Comparative Study and Airspeed Sensitivity Analysis of Full-Wing Solar-Powered UAVs Using Rigid-Body, Multibody, and Rigid-Flexible Combo Models by An Guo, Shanshan Mu, Zhou Zhou, Jiwei Tang

“…The results show that appropriate increase of airspeed is beneficial to the stability of large-scale lightweight platforms, but when it is increased to more than two times the cruise speed, the structural deformation is coupled with the flight dynamic modes, leading to the deterioration of the overall dynamic response. …”
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Personal values and trust of Europeans in national and EU institutions by Marjetica Primožič, Cene Bavec

“…Countries with the Scandinavian national legal system demonstrate very high trust in national institutions, meanwhile trust in national institutions in post-socialistic countries is nearly three times lower.…”
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