A Liberal Peace Analysis of the UN Peacekeeping Operations in the DRC by Charles Nyuykonge

“… Since its inception in May 1948, the United Nations (UN) peacekeeping operation has evolved through a series of changes in the international security environment to becoming the world’s most formidable multi-national instrument for international security intervention for peace and security. …”
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Management of volume load for patients undergoing hemodialysis via WeChat and home monitoring in China: a protocol for a cluster-randomized trial by Xiaocui Wang, Bonan Yan, Shipeng Zhang, Yuanke Zhou, Qinxiu Zhang, Xueying Li

“…Data will be collected during the baseline period, one, two, and three months after the intervention starts, and three months after the intervention ends to evaluate the effectiveness of this intervention measure. …”
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Accelerated expansion of NATO into the Balkans as a consequence of Euro-Atlantic Discord by S. Gajić, E. G. Ponomareva

“…Subsequently, post-Cold War ideological consensus in the West has also been challenged even further by the growth of non-systemic political movements – many of them directed not only against the EU expansion, but also against the EU itself.The significance of all these events for the Balkans is somewhat surprising and paradoxical, as the mainstream forces that have been weakened in the West forcefully push for a stronger Atlantic integration of the remaining Balkan countries. …”
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TECHNICAL EDUCATION AS A PANACEA FOR CURBING BANDITRY AND SECURITY CHALLENGES IN NORTHWEST NIGERIA by CALEB BEM APINEAN, BENJAMIN K.K ANGO

“…Despite government’s attempts to end insecurity in the region it has been proven abortive. …”
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Using pineapple leaf fiber as a sustainable future textile by Inty N., Deny A., Mein K., Indah C.A., Alvi L., Villalon Adiza

“…These textiles can be produced from natural plant fibers. Pineapple, as a bush fruit plant, has spiny and fibrous leaves. …”
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The plight of Ukrainian refugees staying in Sweden under EU:s mass refugee directive: a brief trauma-focused, participatory, online intervention as a pilot feasibility study by Solvig Ekblad, Oksana Gramatik, Yuliia Suprun

“…Data was collected with a short questionnaire in Ukrainian. Additionally, at the end of each set, we orally asked about perceived trust and integrity. …”
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Determination of tourist flow patterns in a low mountain study area by Borbála Benkhard

“…Determination of this movement is composed of not only the identification of the starting and end points together with the sequence of stops but the characterisation of the route pattern as well. …”
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Innovative technologies and social inequalities in health: A scoping review of the literature. by Daniel Weiss, Håvard T Rydland, Emil Øversveen, Magnus Rom Jensen, Solvor Solhaug, Steinar Krokstad

“…The results of this study provide a comprehensive starting point for future research to further investigate how innovative technologies may influence the unequal distribution of health as a human right.…”
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Deimplementing Untested Practices in Homecare Services: A Preobservational-Postobservational Design by Manon Guay, Mélanie Ruest, Damien Contandriopoulos

“…This study presents the effect of a knowledge transfer and exchange intervention designed to deimplement in-house “tools” and replace them with an evidence-based tool (Algo). …”
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A Review of Agricultural Film Mapping: Current Status, Challenges, and Future Directions by Mengmeng Zhang, Jinwei Dong, Quansheng Ge, Hasituya, Pengyu Hao

“…To advance the field, future directions should focus on combining multi-source data, collaborating spectral-temporal-spatial features to extract types, start-end dates, and durations of mulching, and expanding from local to national or global scales. …”
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Course of Encephalopathy in a Cirrhotic Dialysis Patient Treated Sequentially with Peritoneal and Hemodialysis by Suleyman Koz, Idris Sahin, Zafer Terzi, Sema Tulay Koz

“…We report a case with advanced cirrhosis and end-stage kidney disease who was faced with hepatic encephalopathy episodes up on starting renal replacement therapy. …”
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Modelling Low-Salinity Water Flooding as a Tertiary Oil Recovery Technique by Oluwasanmi Olabode, David Alaigba, Daniel Oramabo, Oreofeoluwa Bamigboye

“…For the third case, low-salinity water flooding starts five years after secondary water flooding, but low-salinity water flooding is injected in measured pore volumes for a short period of time; then, high-salinity water flooding was resumed till the end of the field production life. …”
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The Therapeutic Effect of Nordic Walking on Freezing of Gait in Parkinson’s Disease: A Pilot Study by Agata Wróblewska, Agata Gajos, Urszula Smyczyńska, Andrzej Bogucki

“…Several studies demonstrated a beneficial impact of Nordic walking (NW) on several gait parameters in Parkinson’s disease, but only one paper reported reduction of freezing. …”
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Aménagements de berge monumentaux d’époque laténienne et romaine à Besançon (Doubs) by Christophe Gaston

“…All of these sequences cover a period from the end of the 2nd c. BC to the present day. …”
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Une schola monumentale découverte boulevard Frédéric-Latouche à Augustodunum/Autun (Saône-et-Loire) by Yannick Labaune, Antoine Louis, Véronique Brunet-Gaston, Anne Delor-Ahü, Jean-Pierre Garcia, Antony Hostein, Michel Kasprzyk

“…In 2011, an archaeological evaluation was carried out in the centre of the Roman city of Augustodunum (Autun) on a plot of over 1 ha. This operation afforded the opportunity to explore parts of two insulae along the main street, the so-called cardo maximus, an area that has benefited from recent advances in knowledge. …”
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A visual walkthrough of robotic partial mesorectal excision using the Versius surgical system by Amro Mureb

“…Then, the mesorectum is dissected circumferentially starting from the right side, anteriorly and ending the dissection over the left side of the mesorectum. …”
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Diplomatic History of the Great Patriotic War and the New World Order by A. Y. Borisov

“…Their collaboration briefly survived the end of hostilities and was overshadowed start turning to the Cold War. …”
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A Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus em Angola: faces da nova cartografia religiosa global by Anaxsuell Fernando Silva, Karen Susan Silva Pititinga Rosa

“…The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God was established in Angola since 1992, but its presence in the country has become uncertain from an unusual episode: in December 2012, in a vigil to the end of the year, 6 people were killed and 120 were injured. …”
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Shortening duration of untreated illness in young people with first episode eating disorders: protocol of a randomised controlled feasibility trial of a smartphone friendly multi-m... by Luiza Grycuk, Dina Monssen, Molly R. Davies, Helen Sharpe, Karina L. Allen, Vibhore Prasad, Rachel Potterton, Priya Popat, Victoria A. Mountford, Sheryllin McNeil, Vanessa Lawrence, Nina Grant, Kimberley A. Goldsmith, Danielle Glennon, Sarah Byford, Amy Brown, Ulrike Schmidt

“…An important focus of early intervention is shortening the time between a person first developing symptoms and starting treatment (duration of untreated eating disorder; DUED). …”
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Le fromage en Gaule à l’âge du Fer et à l’époque romaine : état des lieux pour sa production et analyse de sa place dans le monde antique by Alain Ferdière, Jean-Marc Séguier

“…This made it possible to assess the state of knowledge for Gaul in a broader sense. This approach was based on a thorough investigation of the various types of data, starting with the most important, the archaeological remains. …”
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