Piano Works by Dora Pejačević – A Personal Perspective of an Interpreter by Kyra Steckeweh

“…Central to the article is the exploration of Pejačević’s Piano Sonata, Op. 36, composed during the First World War. The interpretative perspective sheds light on the nuanced relationship between Pejačević’s compositional process and her personal experiences. …”
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Leadership and Nigeria's Regional Hegemonic Quest in Africa: A Critical Discus by GAMBO Nanven Audu, PULDU Samdi Gloria, KUMS Simon Nankap

“… The aftermath of the Cold War and the fall of the Berlin wall re-mirrored and reconfigured the nature and patterns of game and/or relations in the international ambiance. …”
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Examination of Doping Usage Opinions of Bodybuilding Athletes in the Context of Sports Ethics by Hakan Salim Çağlayan, Ozer Yıldız, Mehmet Kanlı

“…According to the survey, bodybuilding athletes of Turkey's Youth and Sports Ministry in doping "zero tolerance" policy for their use depending on the doping of athletes of other countries in views on the competitive environment in the contest; Unfair competition, no one who does not use abroad, seeing this branch as a doping sport, getting rid of the backstage, power war of the states, health is more important than success; In their views on the relationship between the diplomatic power of the countries and the use of doping in international competitions, backstage power is important in success, making money negotiations, “Turkish athletes' work is very hard” themes; In his views on the use of doping with the thought that every way should be tried to win at all costs, health is more important than anything, the themes of reaching the desired performance with patience, the truth of this sport, contrary to sports ethics, everything is necessary for victory; knowing that they were not able to detect that they used doping through wipers before an important international competition, felt the necessity to take risks in their country and their own reputation for one-time use of doping; the themes of the athletes they know and observe in their country and other foreign countries using doping, with themes such as a wide variety of health problems and negativity should not be connected to doping in their lives about their physiological and physical changes; It is determined that the athletes they know and observe by using doping bodybuilding in our country and other foreign countries express a wide variety of psychological problems and addiction themes in their opinions about their psychological changes in their lives after the end of the competition life.…”
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Estimating the Force of Infection with Helicobacter pylori in Japan by Taishi Kayano, Ki-Deok Lee, Hiroshi Nishiura

“…Fitted models indicated that the force of infection started to decrease during and/or shortly after the World War II. Using the parameterized model, the predicted fraction seropositive at the age of 40 years in 2018 was 0.22, but it is expected to decrease to 0.13 in 2030 and 0.05 in 2050, respectively. …”
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Public Finance and Debt Crises in Southern Africa: A Push for Central Banks over Parliaments by Dunia Zongwe

“…The world’s first-ever model community law on PFM, the SADC PFM Model Law affords policymakers and scholars a golden opportunity to rekindle the debate on sovereign debts in a region where economies and public finances have been ravaged by low-growth or recession since the mid-2010s, the COVID-19 pandemic, the Ukraine War, high inflation, and the cost-of-living crisis. …”
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Anticipating climate change-related mobility in Karachi and Ho Chi Minh City: lessons from a hybrid foresight approach by Aaron Martin, Boukje Kistemaker, Beth Allen, Bryan Jones

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EUROPEAN UNION AFTER THE CRISIS: DECLIN OR RENAISSANCE? by O. V. Butorina

“…Modernization process will be hampered by the lack of funding for basic science, which occurred due to the end of the "cold war", as well as social factors whose role in the economic progress had been previously underestimated. …”
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Tackling Microbial Resistance and Emerging Pathogens with Next-Generation Antibiotics by Kar Jing Chong, Huang Feng, Vengadesh Letchumanan, Masita Arip, Omotayo Fatokun, Lazuardi Mochamad, Chin Tat Ng, Sasikala Chinnapan, Malarvili Selvaraja

“…People believed that they had won the war against infections. However, the misuse and abuse of antimicrobial agents are accompanied by major ramifications like antimicrobial resistance, creating drug-resistant superbugs. …”
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To the question on the peculiarities of the legal regulation of labor relations in the martial law conditions by S. M. Bortnyk

“…It has been noted that there are no definitions of the categories “state of war” and “martial law” in the national legislation. …”
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Wake-up call for recovery: a paradigm shift to address the deep crisis in Israel’s public mental health services in the shadow of October 7, 2023 by Amir Krivoy, Gadi Rosenthal

“…Abstract Background The events of October 7, 2023, and the subsequent war have starkly exposed the shortcoming of Israel’s public mental health system. …”
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Capital Punishment without Capital Trials in Japan’s Lay Judge System by David T. Johnson

“…This change injected a meaningful dose of lay participation into Japanese criminal trials for the first time since 1943, when Japan's original Jury Law was suspended during the Pacific War. In May 2010, newspapers reported that the new system "has had a smooth first year," though they also stressed that it "has yet to be really tested by cases involving complex chains of evidence or demands by prosecutors for the death sentence."…”
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Development and implementation of an electronic health record system for use in humanitarian emergencies, disaster response, and conflict zones. by Sarah D Draugelis, Erik C Brown, Donald A Donahue, Justin Hickman, Sean G Smith, Philip Sutherland, George A Yendewa, Amir M Mohareb

“…The settings of fEMR use ranged from refugee and migrant health clinics near the Mexico-US border to the Poland-Ukraine border in the context of the 2022 war in Ukraine. User feedback demonstrated the program's ease of use by providers of different clinical and technical backgrounds. …”
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Variant of Organizational and Functional Adaptation Structures of a Typical Situational Centre to the Emergence of Crisis Situations by Volodymyr Mirnenko, Oleh Hudyma, Vadym Artamoshchenko

“… Due to the growing number of crisis situations (CS) in the modern world, such as natural disasters, man-made accidents, pandemics, cyber-attacks, financial crises, wars, and other negative events, it is important for the state to develop and adapt the organizational and functional structures of information and analytical units, including situation centers (SC), to respond effectively to such cases, thereby ensuring the country’s resilience in the face of negative circumstances. …”
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Promoting Internal Armed Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding: The Case of the US–Colombia Relations (Part I) by A. A. Manukhin

“…While initially the US assistance was determined by the desire to counter the growing influence of the leftist parties and movements in the region, the prioritization of the fight against drug trafficking in the national security strategy in the 1980s resulted in the re-orientation of the US regional policies to the war on drugs. The adoption of the Plan Colombia served as a milestone in the development of the bilateral relations. …”
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On the issue of the development of criminological science in Ukraine by T. A. Shevchuk

“…These are, first of all, Russian armed aggression against Ukraine, violation of the laws and customs of war, separatism, complete non-compliance with international law, international terrorism, extremism, organized transnational crime and other factors of a destabilizing nature. …”
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The European Union’s Assistance to Morocco (1999–2011): Strategic Directions, Priority Areas, and Main Outcomes by O. S. Kulkova

“…This approach (typical of the EU cooperation with other autocratic regimes in the MENA, both monarchiсal and republican) explains a relatively low-key reaction of the EU bureaucrats to the slowdown — of the liberalization processes in the 2000s, which occurred in the face of unfolding war on terror and resulted in Morocco being affected by the Arab Awakening.…”
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Military and Political Studies by A. I. Podberyozkin

“…Global changes in the balance of power and the nature of the conflict, the emergence of new types of weapons are changing the basic methods and approaches to the art of war, which requires a science-based perspective on problem solving and multi-disciplinary approach in achieving the goals. …”
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Deconstructing the Politics of Linguistic Mutation in Tom Stoppard’s Dogg’s Hamlet, Cahoot’s Macbeth by Sarra Jouini

“…These plays represent a transformative shift that depicts the workings of hegemony in Czechoslovakia during the Cold War era. Stoppard, a Czechoslovakian native, crafted these satirical works in response to the brutal persecution of critical intellectuals and censorship of their dissident works. …”
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Schoolscaping in a Multilingual Area: An Example of a Hungarian College in Western Ukraine by Váradi Krisztián, Hires-László Kornélia, Máté Réka

“…The research can be further expanded with the help of the aforementioned qualitative approach of schoolscaping in other Transcarpathian Hungarian educational institutions to get a deeper insight into the applied multilingual practices in a war-torn country.…”
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Tsarist Doctors in the Implementation of Peter the Great’s Foreign Policy Initiatives in 1716–1721 by A. V. Morokhin

“…During these events, the doctor's secret negotiations with representatives of a state at war with Russia became public. Despite the official assurances of Peter the Great and Areskin about their non-involvement in the activities of the opponents of King George I of England, negotiations with the Jacobites continued later, during the tsar's stay in France and Holland. …”
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