A New Model of Russian Postgraduate Education: Pilot Study of the First Graduation of PhD Students by N. V. Rybakov

“…The paper dwells on the issues, concerning motivation of getting postgraduate education, the effectiveness of scientific work, professional carrier development, defense of PhD thesis. The educational component of a postgraduate program is established to be perceived by quite a few of graduates as a source of new competences increasing competitiveness beyond the academic labour market. …”
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Instituciones, evolución y delincuencia racional: Hacia una perspectiva posthumeana by José L. Tasset

“…Este trabajo pretende mostrar (1) las líneas generales de la propuesta humeana de una teoría de la evolución de las instituciones en clave utilitarista; (2) en segundo lugar, analizará la objeción interna a esta teoría que supone la existencia de posibles sujetos no cooperadores pero inteligentes (vulneradores racionales de las normas de justicia, de los fundamentos del diseño institucional), (3) en tercer lugar, intentará también defender dicha teoría de la acusación externa de no tener un auténtico carácter normativo; y (4) al no haber desarrollado el propio Hume con detalle su contestación al problema del conflicto Moral/Racionalidad, tal y como surge en el contexto de su discusión de la Knavery, finalmente, y en cuarto lugar, este trabajo, yendo en un cierto sentido algo más allá de lo propuesto por Hume, ensayará un argumento post-humeano en torno a ese conflicto, basado, por una parte, en el reconocimiento de la multidimensionalidad de la Moral, así como en la paralela aceptación de la necesidad de un ajuste contextual de ésta, asentado sobre consideraciones primaria, que no exclusivamente, utilitaristas.…”
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Peculiarities of Transfer Pricing Supervision in Uncontrolled Transactions by E. Sh. Saliakhutdinov

“…The article provides an analysis of the legal framework, methodology, and procedures for tax control of prices in uncontrolled transactions, as well as examines the concept of “multiple price deviations” and taxpayer defense strategies. The methodological basis of the article includes both general scientific and specialized scientific methods. …”
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A ATUAÇÃO DO PODER JUDICIÁRIO E O ESVERDEAMENTO DO SUPREMO TRIBUNAL FEDERAL by Luciana Costa Poli

“…Verificando a existência de diversas nuances da sustentabilidade, procurar-se-á demonstrar que a sustentabilidade não se encerra em um conteúdo destituído de normatividade, ao contrário, pode ser compreendida como um princípio geral e sistêmico, orientador das decisões judiciais. Nesse sentido, defender-se-á que a atuação do juiz hoje deve ser politizada e conectada à satisfação dos objetivos de um Estado comprometido com a implementação do princípio da sustentabilidade.…”
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Slowness and Renewed Perception: Revisiting Douglas Gordon’s 24 Hour Psycho (1993) with Don DeLillo’s Point Omega (2010) by Françoise Sammarcelli

“…After presenting these various works and the intersemiotic reflexion they activate in DeLillo’s novel, the essay examines the deceptive simplicity of this brief text, in terms of syntax and diegetic structure (including the film-related framing device). …”
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BVS: A Lightweight Forward and Backward Secure Scheme for PMU Communications in Smart Grid by Wei Ren, Jun Song, Min Lei, Yi Ren

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Occurrence, Source, and Mobilization of Iron, Manganese, and Arsenic Pollution in Shallow Aquifer by Md. Shajedul Islam, M. G. Mostafa

“…This investigation provides a basis for the rational use of groundwater and the defense of public health in zones with high Fe and Mn contents.…”
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Barrès contre Ruskin by Jessica Desclaux

“…In many aspects Maurice Barrès (1862–1923) could have been a fervent disciple of Ruskin: an art lover influenced by the London aesthetes, a great reader of Rio’s work, On Christian Art, a writer on Venice, a political figure who came to adhere to traditionalism, a defender of the churches of France, one of the creators of the 1913 law on national heritage. …”
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Food science and COVID-19 by Klaus W. Lange

“…The present perspective critically addresses the question of what food science can actually contribute in this context.Animal studies suggest that micronutrients, food bioactives or functional foods may carry the potential to augment viral defense. However, the specific roles of food components in viral infectious diseases in humans remain unclear. …”
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European Wool Carder Bee, Wool Carder Bee Anthidium manicatum (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Megachilidae) by Samantha Gallagher, Andrea Lucky

“…Some consider male wool carder bees very charismatic and enjoy watching them chase after other bees that invade their territory, while others would call them bullies based on male bees’ aggressive tendencies toward other bees when defending floral resources. This species has been called the most widely distributed unmanaged bee in the world (Strange et al. 2011) because of its expansive native and non-native range. …”
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Acetylcholinesterase Inhibitors Assay Using Colorimetric pH Sensitive Strips and Image Analysis by a Smartphone by Adam Kostelnik, Alexander Cegan, Miroslav Pohanka

“…AChE inhibitors were measured with limits of detection, 149 nM and 22.3 nM for galanthamine and donepezil, respectively. …”
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Interpelados por el extravío del Poder Legislativo by María Pollitzer

“…El análisis muestra una arraigada continuidad respecto de las temáticas discutidas y las propuestas de reforma sugeridas durante todo el período y revela, asimismo, que el énfasis estuvo puesto en la necesidad de defender la autonomía del Parlamento y su rol como fiscalizador del Poder Ejecutivo antes que en la interrogación sobre las formas de representar la sociedad. …”
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Human-Specific Endogenous Retroviruses by Anton Buzdin

“…For 60 such human-specific promoters, their activity was confirmed by in vivo assays, with the transcriptional level varying ~1000-fold from hardly detectable to as high as ~3% of β-actin transcript level. …”
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Strategic Climate Litigation before National Courts: Can European Union Law be used as a Shield? by Christina Eckes

“…In 2023 and 2024, national judges have in several cases allowed defendant states to use EU law as a shield against the litigants’ demands to declare national climate targets and policies insufficient. …”
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La vulnérabilité d’un territoire, un héritage complexe à révéler : démonstration à travers l’étude géohistorique du risque d’inondation en Val d’Orléans (France) by Sylvain Dournel

“…Nevertheless an impressive defense plan against the river flood, called levees, erected at the 16th century, testifies the initial recurrence of floods. …”
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Multiple Adversarial Domains Adaptation Approach for Mitigating Adversarial Attacks Effects by Bader Rasheed, Adil Khan, Muhammad Ahmad, Manuel Mazzara, S. M. Ahsan Kazmi

“…Although neural networks are near achieving performance similar to humans in many tasks, they are susceptible to adversarial attacks in the form of a small, intentionally designed perturbation, which could lead to misclassifications. The best defense against these attacks, so far, is adversarial training (AT), which improves a model’s robustness by augmenting the training data with adversarial examples. …”
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Lobbying of Qatar's Interests in the United States and the Qatar Diplomatic Crisis by D. B. Grafov

“…Although Qatar is not as powerful as its rivals, but it uses the “defensive realism” strategy, that allows it to disrupt aggressive efforts and increase the costs of the Saudi coalition.…”
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The moral problem is a Hume problem by Green Karen

“…It argues that the seeds of a more adequate, naturalistic account of the metaphysics and epistemology of morals than that developed by either Locke or Hume can already be found in aspects of Locke's Essay and in the defence of his views published by Catharine Trotter Cockburn. …”
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LES EFFORTS DE SIMION MEHEDINŢI POUR RENDRE LA ROUMANIE MIEUX CONNUE AU-DELÀ DES FRONTIÈRES by ALEXANDRU UNGUREANU

“…Finally, in the third period author’s efforts, displayed in books translated in foreign languages, like Romania and its people, have been directed towards the defence of the national rights, demonstrating especially the inequity of the political frontiers imposed to Romania in 1940.…”
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Complexe de sécurité ouest-méditerranéen : externalisation et sécurisation de la migration by Abdennour Benantar

“…First, it analyzes the construction of the West Mediterranean region focusing on defense issues confronting the group of 5+5 and on the persistence of the Maghreb, despite dilution of regional specificities in the Euro-Maghrebin relationship. …”
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