Foreign Policy of Russia: ‘Soft Power’ of the Regions by S. P. Arteev

“…The paper examines by what means the international activities of the regions can infl uence the interstate relations and outlines two basic frameworks for joint actions of the federal center and the regions on the international arena: ‘culture and image-building’ and ‘political plus’. …”
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Zoo U: A Stealth Approach to Social Skills Assessment in Schools by Melissa E. DeRosier, Ashley B. Craig, Rebecca P. Sanchez

“…We first investigated whether the data collected through extensive logging of student actions provided information that could be used to improve the assessment. …”
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RFMVDA: An Enhanced Deep Learning Approach for Customer Behavior Classification in E-Commerce Environments by Kwanhee Kim, Mingyu Jo, Ilkyeun Ra, Sangoh Park

“…To resolve these limitations, this paper proposes the RFMVDA (Recency, Frequency, Monetary, Visits, Durations, Actions) model. This model is designed to capture customer data, sessions, and behavior units suitable for the e-commerce environment. …”
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From Social Infrastructure to Civic Center. The School as Laboratory of Collaborative Governance Models by Daniela Ciaffi, Emanuela Saporito, Ianira Vassallo

“…First of all, as the symbol of a public welfare service in crisis, it is simultaneously possible to recognize a certain habit of school communities taking part in the redevelopment of this service, through actions to care for the school building and its pertinent spaces. …”
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The influence of meteorological factors on the technical performance of football teams during matches by Yonghan Zhong, Shaoliang Zhang, Qing Yi, Miguel Ángel Gómez Ruano

“…Thirty-one technical actions and events were categorized into three groups (goal scoring, offense, and defence). …”
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Foreign Policy Niche of Small States: The Problem of Choice (The Case of Baltic States) by V. A. Smirnov

“…The most general level of analysis deals with empire units of international relations which structure the environment for small states' elites actions. At the middle level it is possible scrutinize different varieties of external (foreign) political niches available to a certain small state. …”
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Impact on staff of providing non-invasive advanced respiratory support during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative study in an acute hospital by David Wenzel, Christina Faull, Eleanor Wilson, Lucy Bleazard

“…The main themes were of feeling ill prepared and unsupported, a need to balance complex moral actions and a sense of duty to patients and their families. …”
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Traditional funeral and burial rituals and Ebola outbreaks in West Africa: A narrative review of causes and strategy interventions by Chulwoo Park

“…Funeral rituals include several actions, such as washing and cleaning the body, washing one’s hands in a common bowl after touching the face of the deceased, and lying over the corpse of a prominent person. …”

Building a foundation to study distributed information behaviour by Terry L. von Thaden

“…</b> In this paper, I describe some of the problems faced by crews on modern flight decks and suggest a framework modelled on Information Science, Human Factors, and Activity Theory research to assess the distribution of information actions, namely information identification, gathering and use, by teams of users in a dynamic, safety critical environment. …”
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Analysis of landslide risk in south OKU Regency, Indonesia by Hafiza Ellin, Utomo Budi, Seftinar Helfa

“…Landslide analysis uses the weighting and overlay method; vulnerability analysis uses Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis; capacity analysis refers to the Hyogo Framework for Actions; and risk analysis is based on Perka BNPB No. 2 of 2012. …”
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Reading the diplomatic reports of Petras Klimas from Paris by Algis Kasperavičius

“…Klimas cited the words of one influential journalist: "Poland never gives Vilnius to Lithuania. Thus, the actions of the French in this direction would mean the instigation of their ally without any necessity." …”
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Use of Global Risk Score for Cardiovascular Evaluation of Rural Workers in Southern Brazil by Marta Regina Cezar-Vaz, Clarice Alves Bonow, Marlise Capa Verde Almeida de Mello, Daiani Modernel Xavier, Jordana Cezar Vaz, Maria Denise Schimith

“…This study may help in the early diagnosis and more effective actions on the risk factors for cardiovascular disease.…”
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The role of private landowners for generating cultural ecosystem services in Mediterranean rural landscapes: a case study in Andalusia (Spain) by Alejandro J. Rescia, Antonio A. Rodríguez Sousa, Romina Giselle Sales, María Sánchez Ososrio, Pedro A. Aguilera

“…In all four clusters, landowners are aware of the importance of generating CES related to the sense of belonging to the region and recreational hunting. Finally, actions by landowners, the role of public institutions and different strategies have been presented to conserve and implement CES-generating activities. …”
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Multimedia for Fifth Year Medicine Professors and Students. Public Health Subject by Juan Rafael Zerquera Rodriguez, Sara Hernández Malpica, Hilda María Delgado Acosta, Margarita Romeu Escobar, María Lina Valdés Gómez, Pedro Hernández Sánchez, Jorge Cañella Granda, Juan Andrés Alemañy Co

“…<br /><strong>Results:</strong> the multimedia works so that the students and professors can agree to the software and semesters validated for its utilization according to the program of the subject of study, exercises for themes are available, it is accessed to instructive, educational and counsellors videos of different contents, the literature is updated, counts with the health programs, actions of control of focus in transmissible diseases and other documents for fifth year Medicine professor and students. …”
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Repeated gastroscopies at impendent relapse of bleeding from gastroduodenal ulcers by V. A. Stupin, S. V. Siluyanov, M. B. Sokhikyan, R. Yu. Tronin, R. Sh. Sardarov

“…At clinically significant relapses repeated gastroscopy with preventive actions is proven in patients with high operational risk on concomitant diseases (4–5 points by ASA scale). …”
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Medical students’ motivational profile. Sancti Spíritus Medical Sciences University by Eduardo Veloso Pérez, Arturo Puga García, Ariadna Veloso Rodríguez, Liyipsi Abreu Martín, Rosa María Ramos Palmero, Gloria María Puga Madiedo

“…Knowing the motivational profile of students allows us to accurately project psycho-pedagogical actions in order to modify it with a view to satisfy the social demands of the corresponding group.…”
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Bovine leukosis control measures by A. R. Yagudin, S. A. Schislenko, I. A. Usova, I. Y. Stroganova

“…In order to eradicate the disease, “Sibirskaya Niva” LLC has developed a plan on health support and disease prevention, which includes veterinary, zootechnical and economic measures. Thus, due to the actions taken from 2015 to 2019, the number of infected cows and heifers reduced by 6.42 and 2.78 times, correspondingly. …”
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Quantifying Urban Sprawl and Its Driving Forces in China by Jintao Wang, Shiyou Qu, Ke Peng, Yanchao Feng

“…The findings of the article may help people to realize that urban sprawl has become a staggering reality among Chinese cities; thereby urban planners as well as policymakers should make some actions to hinder the urban sprawl.…”
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M1 and M2 Functional Imprinting of Primary Microglia: Role of P2X7 Activation and miR-125b by Chiara Parisi, Giulia Napoli, Pablo Pelegrin, Cinzia Volonté

“…At present, the mechanisms by which microglia actively participate to both toxic and neuroprotective actions in ALS constitute an important matter of research. …”
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Practice of Administrative and Jurisdictional Activity of Community Police Officers – Integral Part of the Principles for the Formation of Local and State Security Policy by M. V. Kalashnyk

“…The author has analyzed a set of tasks, functions and powers of CPO and the current state of regulatory legal provision of community police officers activity: has outlined the algorithm of actions of community police officers within the combination of functions of district police officers and patrol police officers. …”
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