Professional elevators to the Russian political elite by N. A. Yushkina

“…The article identifies and analyses the main professions-suppliers of personnel to the authorities, reveals their role in the formation of the Russian managerial political elite, and also considers professional spheres and social groups from which incorporation into the political class occurs. The paper takes as a basis the biographies of 800 representatives of all levels of executive and legislative power holding senior positions. …”
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A Multi-granularity Decomposition Mechanism of Complex Tasks Based on Density Peaks by Ziling Pang, Guoyin Wang, Jie Yang

“…These rules are further used to decompose the solving space from coarse granules to the optimal fine granules with a convergent and automated process. …”
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Energy Balance, Myostatin, and GILZ: Factors Regulating Adipocyte Differentiation in Belly and Bone by Xingming Shi, Mark Hamrick, Carlos M. Isales

“…Clinically, activation of this receptor by antidiabetic agents of the thiazolidinedione class results in lower bone mass and increased fracture rates. …”
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Modelling the role of drug barons on the prevalence of drug epidemics by John Boscoh H. Njagarah, Farai Nyabadza

“…Although the prominently known routes of initiation into drug use are; by contact between potential users and individuals already using the drugs and self initiation, the role played by a special class of individuals referred to as drug lords can not be ignored. …”
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Finite family groups for fermionic and leptoquark mixing patterns by Jordan Bernigaud, Ivo de Medeiros Varzielas, Jim Talbert

“…The phenomenology of different classes of these ‘simplified models’ can be explored without reference to explicit model-building assumptions, e.g. the nature of flavour symmetry breaking or any additional field content associated to it, and are also capable of explaining hints of lepton non-universality in R K ∗ $$ {\mathcal{R}}_{K^{\left(\ast \right)}} $$ . …”
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Microstructures, properties and preparations of lightweight refractory high-entropy alloys: A review by Gengchen Li, Zhibin Wu, Yajing Dong, Zhen Hu, Yuefei Jia, Shiwei Wu, Yongkun Mu, Kang Sun, Yandong Jia, Gang Wang

“…Lightweight refractory high-entropy alloys (LRHEAs) have emerged as a class of advanced metallic materials, comprising multiple refractory and lightweight principal elements. …”
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The Tolman VII space-time in the presence of charge and a cosmological constant by James Ripple, Anish Agashe

“…This represents a new class of interior Nariai solutions. Matching with the Reissner–Nordström-de Sitter space-time, we derive analytic expressions for the metric functions and the pressure. …”
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Changes in soil chemical composition due to the influence of seawater and its effect on geotechnical investigations by Widiarso Dian Agus, Qadaryati Nurakhmi, Winarno Tri

“…North coast area of Semarang affected by the effect of seawater intrusion due to excessive groundwater pumping and seawater level rise, which impacted to characteristics of sediment and even the environment. …”
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Cinematic Orientalism: East-West Perception in Netflix's 'Swimmers' by Kemal Çelik

“…The positive portrayal of Greece praises European efforts towards refugees but creates a negative image of the Turkish Coast Guard. The orientalist and self-orientalist elements of the film are attempts to present an attractive narrative for Western audiences. …”
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CircRNAs in colorectal cancer: potential roles, clinical applications, and natural product-based regulation by Jingjing Yang, Jingjing Yang, Qiqi Fan, Yiyun Wang, Yuanyue Liu, Xiaoning Xu, Yeqi Liang, Jiakang Xie, Jiajie Li, Fengting Ai, Yong Cao, Shangzhen Yu, Jinman Liu

“…In recent years, circular RNAs (circRNAs), a novel class of non-coding RNA molecules, have emerged as a research focus due to their unique stability and functional roles. …”
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Biframes and some of their properties by Maryam Firouzi Parizi, Azadeh Alijani, Mohammad Ali Dehghan

“…In particular, biframes for which one of the constituent sequences is an orthonormal basis { e k } k = 1 ∞ $\{e_{k}\}_{k=1}^{\infty}$ are studied. Then, a new class of Riesz bases denoted by [ { e k } ] $[\{e_{k}\}]$ is introduced and is called b-Riesz bases. …”
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A Study on Using Hands-on Science Inquiries to Promote the Geology Learning of Preservice Teachers by Ching-San Lai

“…A total of 31 sophomores (including 11 preservice teachers) from an educational university in Taiwan participated in this study.  The course arrangements include class teaching and hands-on science inquiry activities.  …”
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Assessment of the Geomorphological Diversity of Komati Gorge, Mpumalanga Province, South Africa by Mukhodeni Mudau, Edmore Kori

“…Each factor was normalized to five classes by applying natural breaks, and all were weighted before overlaying. …”
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Code-switching as a linguistic resource in an EFL context at a language center in Mexico by Tatiana Estefanía Galván de la Fuente

“…This case study is part of a PhD project that explores the linguistic practices of nine students from two intermediate EFL classes. Both observations and field notes reveal that learners´ draw on CS for carrying out learning activities, negotiate meaning, as it is a supporting element in the communication of information and in the learners’ social interaction. …”
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Development of Tinnitus at a Low Dose of Sertraline: Clinical Course and Proposed Mechanisms by Christopher W. T. Miller

“…Options for treatment of tinnitus include selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs); however in rare instances this symptom may occur as a side effect of this class of medications. Case Presentation. A 50-year-old woman developed bilateral tinnitus after several weeks of being treated with sertraline 50 mg. …”
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The Points of Concurrence Theory in Guidobaldo del Monte’s Scenography by Leonardo Baglioni, Marta Salvatore

“…Applied to the art of scenography, this theory reveals itself in all its generality, since it allows the representation of classes of lines generically oriented in space and, at the same time, resolves the problem of measuring angles and lengths with projective reasoning. …”
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The Effects of the Social Hierarchy Destabilization on the Foraging Activity of Eusocial Wasp Mischocyttarus cerberus styx Richards, 1940 (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Polistinae) by Vanderlei Conceição Costa Filho, Sulene Noriko Shima, Ivan Cesar Desuó, André Sunao Nishiuchi Murakami

“…Such results are likely due to the social organization of this species and the presence of a distinct class of females, which in this study were regarded as intermediates. …”
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HLA I immunopeptidome of synthetic long peptide pulsed human dendritic cells for therapeutic vaccine design by Amy L. Kessler, Roel F. A. Pieterman, Wouter A. S. Doff, Karel Bezstarosti, Rachid Bouzid, Kim Klarenaar, Diahann T. S. L. Jansen, Robbie J. Luijten, Jeroen A. A. Demmers, Sonja I. Buschow

“…Currently, the design of SLPs relies on in silico prediction and multifactorial T cells assays to determine which SLPs are best cross-presented on DC human leukocyte antigen class I (HLA-I). …”
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Potential Use of Volcanic Ash as Filler Material in Hot Mix Asphalt by Basha Fayissa, Achalu Kebede, Fekadu Fufa

“…The chemical composition analysis indicated that VA is a class-N pozzolana material. Maximum stability of 11.38 kN was obtained at full replacement of volcano ash. …”
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Passive radio frequency identification sorting for dense objects on high-speed conveyor belts by Run Zhao, Qian Zhang, Dong Li, Dong Wang

“…At first, a relative motion model is utilized to get the zero point time when the object passes the radio frequency identification portal. Then, the coarse-grained time and the corresponding speed of the conveyor belt are obtained by the phase curve fitting. …”
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