Editorial by Dmitry A. Medvedev

“…To avoid boredom, we changed the layout from grayscale to color and then to different colors for each year. …”
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From Book to Playlist: How Open-Access Audio Archives are Renewing the Poetry Collection by Abigail Lang

“…By setting to music her selections from her husband’s work, she offers two artistically complex textual realizations of a game-changing affordance of sound-recording technologies since the 1963 invention of the audio cassette – i.e. the possibility to anthologize on the receiving end. …”
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Efficiency of Medical Laboratories after Quality Standard Introduction: Trend Analysis of EU Countries and Case Study from Slovenia by Nejc Lamovšek, Maja Klun

“…In this article, the DEA method is used to evaluate the efficiency of biomedical laboratories and the change upon quality standards introduction. This is the first example of verification of a change in technical efficiency in relation to the accreditation of ISO standards. …”
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RPRep: A Robust and Privacy-Preserving Reputation Management Scheme for Pseudonym-Enabled VANETs by Jin Wang, Yonghui Zhang, Youyuan Wang, Xiang Gu

“…To defend the reputation link attack during pseudonym changes, we propose hidden-zone strategy and k -anonymity strategy. …”
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Identités collectives ; territoires et mémoires by Sylvie Contrepois

“…To what extent do attempts to preserve local memory help highlight the ways contemporary societies change ? This question is at the core of a European research project on the historical and contemporary articulations of regional, national and European identities through work and community in areas undergoing economic restructuring and regeneration (SPHERE : www.sphereeurope.eu). …”
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The pattem of the conquest of the Polabian Slavs and Western Baltic lands from the point of view of Christianization of the Baltic tribes by Marius Ščavinskas

“…However, in Lithuania there was the encounter with the state, not with the tribal society, and this aspect undoubtedly changes everything. …”
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PROSPECTS FOR THE SECOND WAVE OF THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL AND ECONOVIC CRISIS by V. F. Artyushkin

“…The model allows splitting changes in market conditions caused by the economic and political reasons.This makes it possible to present the dynamics of the situation as the sum of two components, which are economicallyand politically induced. …”
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An Intelligent Maximum Power Point Using a Fuzzy Log Controller under Severe Weather Conditions by Khaled Bataineh

“…Several weather conditions are simulated: (i) uniform irradiation, (ii) sudden changing, and (iii) partial shading. …”
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Influence of top managers’ mindsets on the company’s competitiveness by I. Sh. Shikhieva

“…A brief overview of the two types of mindsets identified by Carol Dweck has been given: fixed mindsets and growth mindsets. …”
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Universality of the close packing properties and markers of isotropic-to-tetratic crossover in quasi-one-dimensional superdisk fluid by Sakineh Mizani, Martin Oettel, Péter Gurin, Szabolcs Varga

“…We study equilibrium states and ordering regimes of a quasi-one-dimensional system of hard superdisks (anisotropic particles interpolating between disks and squares) where the centers of the particles are constrained to move on a line. A continuous change from a quasi-isotropic to a tetratic regime is found upon increasing the density. …”
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Le projet comme dynamique de l’élaboration d’une compétence collective chez une équipe d’enseignants du premier degré by Sylviane Blanc-Maximin, Chantal Eymard

“…Our aim is to find whether the avowed or confirmed presence of collective projects in the school is linked with the existence of observable change indicators, in terms of school effectiveness. …”
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Brasil: da identidade à marca by Maria Celeste Mira

“…The objective of this paper is to present the results of a documentary research project on the topic conducted in the course of the 2000s, which indicate two basic changes in comparison to the movements in the 20 th century: the displacement of political interest to marketing, as well as of the emphasis on national identity to cultural diversity. …”
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Racoleus, a new genus of sterile filamentous lichen-forming fungi from the tropics, with observations on the nomenclature and typification of Cystocoleus and Racodium by D.L. Hawksworth, R. Santesson, L. Tibell

“…The genus, which is known from China, the Ivory Coast, and Peru, is of uncertain systematic position; on the basis of morphological similarities, however, it may be referred to "? …”
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Singularly perturbed periodic parabolic equations with alternating boundary layer type solutions

“…Such equations may be used as models for bio-switches where the transitions between various stationary states of biological systems are initiated by comparatively slow changes within the systems.</p>…”
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A Comparative Study on Qualification Criteria of Nonlinear Solvers with Introducing Some New Ones by R. H. AL-Obaidi, M. T. Darvishi

“…Further, we present some corrected formulas for some classical efficiency indices and change them to be more applicable. Also, some suggestions are presented about the future works.…”
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Investigation on Modulus of Elasticity of Badminton String by Response Surface Methodology by Feng Ji

“…In this work, a series of tensile testing were performed to explore the changes in MOE at different temperature, humidity, and tensile rate. …”
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Demographic processes and ethnic residential segregation by Itzhak Omer

“…This paper examines the involvement of demographic processes in the residential segregation of ethnic groups in an urban area. For this purpose, a two-part methodology has been employed. The first part comprises a conceptual framework which uses the concept of time–space resources as an analytical tool to clarify the structural constraints embedded in the changes in ethnic residential distribution. …”
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Chemical Potentials of Quarks Extracted from Particle Transverse Momentum Distributions in Heavy Ion Collisions at RHIC Energies by Hong Zhao, Fu-Hu Liu

“…It is found that the source temperature increases obviously with increase of the particle mass and incident energy, but it does not show an obvious change with the collision centrality. Then, the values of chemical potentials for up, down, and strange quarks can be obtained from the antiparticle to particle yield ratios in a wide transverse momentum range. …”
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STANDARD OF LIVING OF THE RUSSIAN POPULATION: FEATURES OF INTERREGIONAL DIFFERENTIATION DYNAMICS by N. A. Gerasimenko

“…This circumstance allowed usto determine the nature of changes and identify two groups of Federal districts that are moving away from each  other at an increasing rate in terms of the standard of living of the population. …”
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Effects of Sperm Parameters on Pregnancy Rate in Patients Undergoing Intrauterine Insemination by Mehmet Solakhan, Mustafa Demir

“…While statistically significant difference was observed between sperm volume and sperm concentrations (p=0.023, p=0.018), no significant difference was observed between the two groups in total sperm count (p=0.612). CONCLUSION: As a result, during the application of intrauterine insemination to infertile couples, total motile sperm count, progressive motility sperm count ratio and high sperm ratio with normal morphology used in order to increase pregnancy success can be considered as criteria that increase the chances of success. …”
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