ON RATINGS AND RANKS by Andrey V. Belotserkovsky

“…International experience, scientific background for choosing indicators are taken into account. Some views on opportunities and risks of making decisions based on the popular international universities ranking are expressed.…”
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Measuring Migration Status Based on the Place of Marriage Overestimates the Share of Male Migrants in Historical Populations. Evidence From Dutch Marriage Certificates by Matthias Rosenbaum-Feldbrügge, Paul Puschmann

“…It is therefore particularly likely that grooms are erroneously considered as migrants even though they had never moved before marriage. …”
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The concept of kafa'ah as the pre-requirement of Banjar community marriage by Anwar Hafidzi, Nurdin Nurdin

“…Kafa'ah basically in marriage is equality of degrees in choosing a prospective wife or husband when going to a marriage contract. …”
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Effects of Lagarosiphon major extracts on the metabolome and photosynthesis of Microcystis aeruginosa by Tison-Rosebery, Juliette, Moreira, Sylvia, Eon, Mélissa, Campillo, Lucie, Maubert, Samuel, Malepeyre, Carmen, Célerier, Julien, Sol, Vincent, Vedrenne, Jacky, Bertrin, Vincent, Creusot, Nicolas

“…Over the last decades, Aquitaine lakes have been exposed to growing biomasses of invasive macrophytes, in particular Lagarosiphon major, and to frequent blooms of the cyanobacteria Microcystis aeruginosa. …”
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Pengaruh Religiusitas, Label Halal, dan Harga terhadap Keputusan Pembelian Konsum Muslim di Kabupaten Jember by Amaliyan Najah, Lilis Yuliati, N. Ari Subagio, Ati Musaiyaroh

“…Everyone has preferences in choosing food, one of the favorite foods of Indonesian people is noodles. …”
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Multiparametric optimization of coverage for access network by Vitas Grimaila, Narimantas Listopadskis

“…The multiparametric method that was developed for the access sector optimization allows choosing the optimal access structure and the technology in respect to the costs with assurance of sufficient quality of service. …”
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Cinéma et urbanité à Tunis sous le protectorat français by Morgan Corriou

“…Yet movie theaters were scattered across the new town and started penetrating a medina doomed to marginalization, proving that the ancient forms of urbanization were not irreconcilable with the new urban lifestyle. …”
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Après la crise financière : « réguler » ou refondre ? by Frédéric Lordon

“…The magnitude of the crisis directly questions the effectiveness of prudential regulations as they are doomed to encounter three major obstacles: 1) the competition forces as they drive agents possibly against their will; 2) the essential impossibility of a proper risk control ex ante; 3) the symbolic effects of “innovation” as a social belief as it twists collective expectations and risk appraisal. …”
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Images du vieillir chez Wilkie Collins by Isabelle Hervouet-Farrar

“…The old man is a source of anguish since he embodies the future and old age of a self doomed to go through his father’s early and debilitating physical degeneration. …”
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Le droit à l'autodétermination comme droit moral by Xacobe Bastida Freixedo

“…This path, as we will see, is doomed to fail. The usual interpretation of the Spanish legal code leads to a short circuit; it reproduces the problem intended to be solved. …”
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Defanging Diversity by Daniel Kees

“…As the national debate around diversity, equity, and inclusion measures—both their legitimacy and practice—will only intensify in the current sociopolitical climate, this writing attempts to provide a chronology of how the nation’s High Court has shaped the contours of that discourse, arguing that the Court’s juridical trepidation in this area of the law led to an unworkable framework that was doomed from inception. This article further examines the rapidly changing norms of race and identity—including the inherent tensions and complexities that such concepts engender before concluding with a recommendation for how to achieve the supposed aims of the affirmative action regime in American society. …”
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Traffic-Aware Data Delivery Scheme for Urban Vehicular Sensor Networks by Chunmei Ma, Nianbo Liu

“…Existing schemes, however, cannot choose an optimal route, since they either ignore the impact of vehicular distribution on connectivity, or make some unreasonable assumptions on vehicular distribution. …”
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FORMATION OF BUSINESS SUSTAINABILITY OF THE TRANSPORT INDUSTRY IN THE CONTEXT OF INNOVATIVE TRANSFORMATIONS by Zarina POBEREZHNA

“…The paper offers a methodical approach to choosing a strategy for managing the business sustainability of the transport industry in the conditions of innovative transformations, which allows choosing an appropriate development strategy depending on the indicators of economic activity (IEA), the level of business sustainability (IBS), risk indicators (IBR).…”
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Spiritual abuse under the banner of the right to freedom of religion in religious cults can be addressed by S. P. Pretorius

“…This right ensures that people can choose their own religion and freely participate in the practice thereof. …”
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A Study of Supplier Selection Method Based on SVM for Weighting Expert Evaluation by Li Zhao, Wenjing Qi, Meihong Zhu

“…How to choose suppliers scientifically is an important part of strategic decision-making management of enterprises. …”
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Homotopy Perturbation Method for Solving Wave-Like Nonlinear Equations with Initial-Boundary Conditions by Afgan Aslanov

“…An efficient way of choosing the auxiliary operator is presented. The results demonstrate reliability and efficiency of the method.…”
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SOCIAL-PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF WORKING WITH UNIVERSITY ENTRANTS IN HIGHER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS by T. Borisova

“…The phenomenon of cognitive dissonance, connected with the problem of choosing a university, is being considered and social and psychological recommendations for overcoming this phenomenon in work with applicants are offered.…”
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Calculation and experimental studies of the technology of heating steel billets in pusher furnaces by V. I. Timoshpolsk, I. A. Trusova, E. O. Tskitishvili, P. A. Laktionov, N. A. Kiyashko

“…The article gives analytical solution to the problem of nonsymmetric heating of blooms in continuous fur­naces based on the '‘equivalent sources method’'. …”
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An overview of the distribution and ecology of the alien cyanobacteria species Raphidiopsis raciborskii, Sphaerospermopsis aphanizomenoides and Chrysosporum bergii in Europe by Šuikaitė Izabelė, Vansevičiūtė Gelminė, Koreivienė Judita

“…Cyanobacteria can form blooms and pose a threat to the functioning of freshwater ecosystems. …”
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Charting Your Course: A Roadmap to Select a Review Type for Your Research Journey by Jannette Bradley, Barbara E. Ruggeri, Karen L. Hanus

“…However, there are dozens of review types. Choosing the right review type is not always straightforward. …”
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