Peace negotiations between Russia and Latvia in 1920: Premises, key issues, and outcomes by Yu. L. Mikhailova

“…The author examines territorial concessions made by the RSFSR to Latvia and concludes that they served as a demonstration of the Soviet Russia readiness to take into account the territorial claims of the Baltic republics, which allowed it to achieve peace in the region and fix new borders, as well as to establish trade relations indispensable for the survival of a young Soviet state during the Civil War. …”
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Relative Importance of Mode of Administration in Treatment Preferences among Plaque Psoriasis Patients in the United States by Steven R. Feldman, Anders Holmen Moeller, Sandra T. Erntoft Idemyr, Juan Marcos González

“…Results from this model were used to calculate respondents’ willingness to trade efficacy for reduced treatment burden. **Results:** A total of 397 respondents, with a mean self-assessed Psoriasis Activity and Severity Index score of 8.2 (SD, 9.8), provided data for analysis. …”
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Recovery of coral cover at Lizard island Australia 6 years post-disturbance by Gabriel Dax Anderson

“…Recovery of coral extent appeared to follow a north-south trend in which more Trade Wind-sheltered northerly sites had generally greater recovery and higher live coral cover compared to more exposed southern sites, which experienced significantly less coral recovery. …”
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Russian population’s political activities in the first third of the XX century on the example of the Peasant Union creation movement by G. S. Chuwardin, V. G. Ivanov, O. A. Nesterchuk, V. F. Nitsevich, O. A. Sudorgin

“…Contradictory nature of Bolshevik policy, the concept of “interlocking” between city and countryside, growing “emergency” and crises of the new economic policy against the background of granting peasants relative economic freedom led to peasant demands growth for protecting their economic rights and creating organizations that resembled trade unions in city. These demands were not institutionalized. …”
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O papel das ecoinovações na transição para uma Economia Circular by Wladmir Henriques Motta

“…O desafio desta proposta é desenvolver uma abordagem inovadora para superar o atual trade-off entre o modelo de crescimento econômico incessante e o Antropoceno. …”
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Ukrainian civil society institutions and organisations activities under special legal regimes by V. V. Pylyp

“…The main measures taken to ensure national security in 2022-2023 under the legal regime of martial law and aimed at regulating the activities of civil society institutions and organisations include: regulating the grounds and procedure for terminating the activities of public associations, religious organisations, trade unions, and their associations; enshrining at the legislative level the areas of volunteer activity, simplifying the procedure for registering volunteers for the anti-terrorist operation and/or measures to ensure national security and defence, repulse and deter the armed aggression of the russian federation; the procedure for the activities of these institutions; adopting the Law of Ukraine "On media" to stimulate a competitive environment, equality and independence of the media and to protect the national interests of Ukraine and the rights of users of media services, etc. …”
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Optimal control of vaccination dynamics during an influenza epidemic by Majid Jaberi-Douraki, Seyed M. Moghadas

“…The findings indicate that the vaccine efficacy is a key parameter that affects optimal control of vaccination dynamics during an epidemic, raising an important question on the trade-off between effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of vaccination policies in the context of limited vaccine quantities.…”
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Classifying IoT Botnet Attacks With Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks: A Comparative Analysis of Architectural Variations by Phuc Hao do, Tran Duc Le, Truong Duy Dinh, van Dai Pham

“…Variations such as Fast-KAN and Deep-KAN offered favorable trade-offs between computational efficiency and modeling capacity, making them suitable for real-time and resource-constrained IoT environments. …”
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The role of passive surveillance and citizen science in plant health by Nathan Brown, Ana Pérez-Sierra, Peter Crow, Stephen Parnell

“…Passive surveillance contributes vital observations in support of national and international surveillance programs, detecting potentially unknown issues in the wider landscape, beyond points of entry and the plant trade. This review sets out to describe various forms of passive surveillance, identify analytical methods that can be applied to these “messy” unstructured data, and indicate how new programs can be established and maintained. …”
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Advances in Transparency and Right to Access Information in The Czech Republic by Jana Janderová

“…Thus, the right to access information must be interpreted broadly enough, yet there are other rights such as privacy or trade secrets which must be respected at the same time. …”
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Methodological bases of estimating the efficiency of organizational and economic mechanism of regulatory policy in agriculture by N. Shibaeva, T. Baban, V. Prokhorova, O. Karlova, O. Girzheva, M. Krutko

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Biodiversity conservation and threat reduction in Kibale and Queen Elizabeth conservation areas, Uganda by Joseph Katswera, Norah M. Mutekanga, Charles K.Twesigye

“…The conservation areas are threatened by habitat transition/changes, wild fires, human-wildlife conflicts, armed poaching and illegal wildlife trade/trafficking in game meat and game products, increasing human population pressure, and boundary encroachment. …”
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Comparison of anonymization techniques regarding statistical reproducibility. by David Pau, Camille Bachot, Charles Monteil, Laetitia Vinet, Mathieu Boucher, Nadir Sella, Romain Jegou

“…<h4>Conclusion</h4>None of the anonymization methods reproduced all outputs and results. A trade-off has to be find between context risk and the usefulness of data to answer the research question.…”
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Multi-modal comparison of molecular programs driving nurse cell death and clearance in Drosophila melanogaster oogenesis. by Shruthi Bandyadka, Diane P V Lebo, Albert A Mondragon, Sandy B Serizier, Julian Kwan, Jeanne S Peterson, Alexandra Y Chasse, Victoria K Jenkins, Anoush Calikyan, Anthony J Ortega, Joshua D Campbell, Andrew Emili, Kimberly McCall

“…Beyond molecular differences in cell death, our investigation may also provide insights into how key systemic trade-offs are made between survival and reproduction when faced with physiological stress.…”
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Analytical and Comparative Analysis of Copper Industry Development Programs in Iran by Adel Rouhi Jouybari, Seyed Mohammad Esmaiel Jalali

“…Methods The most important challenges in the copper industry in Iran include problems related to sanctions and the resulting lack of access to modern technologies, lack of support for small and medium-sized businesses, price differences in the commodity exchange and free market and their impact on the trade market and copper products, and the level of access of consumers to the market. …”
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Use of key indicators to monitor sustainable development of rural areas by V. Shcherbak, L. Ganushchak-Yefimenko, O. Nifatova, N. Fastovets, G. Plysenko, L. Lutay, V. Tkachuk, O. Ptashchenko

“…<span style="text-decoration: line-through;">GDP</span> Gross Domestic Product growth will differentiate by the type of activity: cluster 1 (agriculture, hunting and forestry) 13% increase; cluster 2 (trade, service and household services) 21% increase; cluster 3 (tourism and international cooperation) 18% increase; cluster 4 (processing industry) 8% increase. …”
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Global avian influenza situation (2019–2022). Host range expansion asevidence of high pathogenicity avian influenza virus evolution by M. V. Zhiltsova, T. P. Akimova, A. V. Varkentin, M. N. Mitrofanova, A. V. Mazneva, V. P. Semakina, E. S. Vystavkina

“…High pathogenicity avian influenza has a significant negative impact on poultry farming, international trade and health of wild bird populations, therefore the infection requires the utmost attention of the entire international community. …”
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AI-based carbon peak prediction and energy transition optimization for thermal power industry in energy-intensive regions of China by Chenhao Huang, Zhongyang Lin, Jian Wu, Penghan Li, Chaofeng Zhang, Yanzhao Liu, Weirong Chen, Xin Xu, Jinsong Deng

“…As the largest carbon emitter, China faces an increasingly critical trade-off between the economy and the environment. …”
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Microstructural optimization by two-step tempering treatment and quantitative analysis of microstructure effect on the toughness at −40 °C in CrNiMoV steel by Li Wang, Junwei Qin, Yuzhi Zhu, Kaixuan Chen, Yanlin Wang, Zidong Wang

“…This study proposes a novel two-step tempering process that optimizes the microstructure by shortening tempering time and accelerating cooling, effectively avoiding the strength-ductility trade-off. Specifically, the intrinsic relationship between −40 °C impact resistance and microstructure were quantitatively investigated using CVN impact tests, SEM, EBSD, and TEM characterization. …”
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Electrodeposited CdTe solar cells using low-purity Cd precursors &amp; the effect of chemical purity by Ashfaque E. Alam, Hussain I. Salim, Ayotunde A. Ojo, Imyhamy M. Dharmadasa

“…It has been observed that the use of very high-purity precursors can ensure considerably higher performance; however, it is possible to play an important role in the performance versus cost trade-off using low-purity chemicals too.…”
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