The Millenium of Lithuania: Two Eliminated Alternatives by Alfredas Bumblauskas

“…These two dates are related not only by the fact that they are reflections of the defeated historical tendencies, but also by the fact that neither of them appears in the models of the historical memory of Lithuania. Therefore, the present article is aimed at elucidating why these dates are not only excluded from the dominating models of the historical memory of Lithuania, but in essence they are not found even in historiography of Lithuania. …”
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Problems and Risks of Digitalization in Higher Education by M. V. Pashkov, V. M. Pashkova

“…Using this approach, the authors demonstrate that first of all, the rapid digitalization of higher education during the pandemic has activated some of the existing tension points and problematic trends: ‘McDonaldization’ of education, managerialism in higher education governance, the consumerist attitude to learning, the development of the elite education model, etc. Secondly, digitalization has introduced new risks related to the growing influence of global technology companies, online modes of the commodification of learning, the digital divide as a factor of educational inequality, and new ethical challenges. …”
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Epidemiology and Factors Influencing Davis Cup Retirements Over the Past Twenty Years by Martí Casals, Jordi Cortés, Daniel Llenderrozos, Miguel Crespo, Timothy E. Hewett, Lorena Martin, Ernest Baiget

“…Factors that might influence the retirements were studied by means of generalized linear models using Poisson distribution. Incidence rates by 1000 games and incidence rate ratios of retirements are provided as association measures…”
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Changes in Tolaki People Burial in Southeast Sulawesi: From Boat-Shaped Grave Coffin (Soronga) to Boat-Shaped Islamic Tomb (Koburu Bangga) by Syahrun Syahrun, Basrin Melamba

“…During the Islamic era, there were two shapes of grave in the Islamic grave called as ninggeo-nggeo where the grave was placed in a hole made on the side of the excavation and tinandapa where the grave was placed in a hole made in the middle of the excavation and it was intended for elite and influential ruler. There were also four models of tomb types, namely circle (buboto/loelole), rectangular (konahuu), rectangular step pyramid, elongated (menda’a), and boat-shaped (obangga). koburu bangga tomb. …”
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Optimal Scheduling of Microgrids Based on an Improved Dung Beetle Optimization Algorithm by Yuntao Yue, Haoran Ren, Dong Liu, Lenian Zhang

“…Finally, the proposed model and algorithm are validated through some simulation experiments. …”
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Phenotypic Diversity of Doum Palm (Hyphaene compressa), a Semi‐Domesticated Palm in the Arid and Semi‐Arid Regions of Kenya by Agnes Omire, Nancy L. M. Budambula, Johnstone Neondo, Robert Gituru, Cecilia Mweu

“…This study will inform the domestication, improvement, and conservation of H. compressa by selecting elite accessions.…”
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Optimization Control of Cooperative Trajectory towards Dual Arms Based on Time-Varying Constrained Output State by Hui Zhang, Wenbin Zha, Xiangrong Xu, Yongfei Zhu

“…At the same time, it is combined with an elite retention genetic algorithm to further optimize the target. …”
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The Sub 2-h Official Marathon is Possible: Developing a Drafting Strategy for a Historic Breakthrough in Sports by G. D. Fernandes, Nazir Laureano Gandur, Dioser Santos, Victor Maldonado

“…Results In this study, the drag of a realistic model of a male runner is calculated by computational fluid dynamics for a range of velocities. …”
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Mass of the Stabilized Radion in the Limit of Finite Quartic Coupling by Ali Tofighi, Vahid Reza Shajiee

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Large-Eddy Simulation (LES) on the Square and Triangular Tall Buildings to Measure Drag Force by Abdollah B. Daemei, Amiraslan Darvish, Roya Aeinehvand, Amirali Razzaghipour

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HIGHER SCHOOL TEACHING ENVIRONMENT (about the «patterns») by Valery P. Shestak

“…The author considers the elite corps of professors to be an intellectual reserve of Russia. …”
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Provincial Administration and Local Nobility in Courland in the Middle of the 19th Century by N. A. Mogilevskii

“…This situation, typical of medieval feudal Europe, ran counter to the Russian patrimonial socio-political model, which irritated the Russian elite. The special position of the Courland nobility eventually led to a clash with the governor P.A. …”
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Risk Factors for Stress Fractures in Female Runners: Results of a Survey by Therese E Johnston, Allison E Jakavick, Caroline A Mancuso, Kathleen C McGee, Lily Wei, Morgan L Wright, Jeremy Close, Ayako Shimada, Benjamin E Leiby

“…# Background Few studies compare women with and without stress fractures and most focus on younger, elite runners. # Hypothesis/Purpose Compare risk factors between female runners with and without a stress fracture history…”
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Ouverture sociale : intérêts et limites d’une politique ambitieuse by Viviana Urrego, Najoua Mohib

“…Since the 2000s, a multitude of measures and schemes have been developed in France with the aim of broadening the recruitment base of elite institutions that have been criticized for their lack of diversity. …”
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Large-Scale Evolutionary Strategy Based on Gradient Approximation by Jin Jin

“…For the problem of high complexity, the method in this paper replaces the calculation of a covariance matrix with the modeling of expected fitting degrees for a given covariance matrix. …”
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A Unified Power Quality Conditioner for Feeder Reconfiguration and Setting to Minimize the Power Loss and Improve Voltage Profile by Zhigao Huang, Farid Shahbaazy, Afshin Davarpanah

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Possibilities to adapt oral history to the research of Soviet and post-Soviet epoch (the problems of the culture of memory and the politics of history) by Aurimas Švedas

“…The information acquired with the help of oral history often plays a crucial role in understanding the efforts of Soviet Party and political elite to create a model of culture of memory that could satisfy its needs as well as in trying to grasp an amount of freedom that a particular historian and all the professional community had in the face of the arsenal of the politics of history. …”
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Honda Seiroku, « Père des parcs du Japon » by Sylvie Brosseau

“…He is part of the enlightened elite of the Meiji period – the time when the western techniques were introduced. …”
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Self-Organized Temporal Criticality: Bottom-Up Resilience versus Top-Down Vulnerability by Korosh Mahmoodi, Bruce J. West, Paolo Grigolini

“…We propose this theoretical model to contribute to the mathematical foundation of theoretical sociology illustrated in 1901 by Pareto to explain the rise and fall of elites.…”
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INTEGRATION OF SCIENCE AND HIGHER EDUCATION: OLD PROBLEMS AND NEW APPROACHES by Anatoly M. Ablazhey

“…In the postBSoviet periodthe emphasis was placed on developing a research university model of AngloBAmerican type, as a form of integration ofscience andhigher education with the leading role of university. …”
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