Opening the World Court to State and Non-State Actors in Contentious Cases: Reality or Utopia? by Paula Wojcikiewicz Almeida, Giulia Tavares Romay

“…The ICJ Statute and Rules of Court contain no provision on amicus curiae participation in contentious cases. The lack of an express mention does not indicate, however, that this practice would be proscribed by the Court. …”
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Spatio-temporal systems in Chaucer’s language: A discourse-pragmatic analysis by Minako Nakayasu

“…Language has built-in spatio-temporal systems by which speakers judge how distant the situations they wish to express are from their domain, i.e. proximal or distal. …”
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Connection Number- Based Topological Indices of Cartesian Product of Graphs by Aiman Arshad, Aqsa Sattar, Muhammad Javaid, Mamo Abebe Ashebo

“…More precisely, we arrange the graphical and numerical analysis of our calculated expressions for both of Cartesian product with each other.…”
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The Social Cost-Benefit Analysis as Estimation Methodology: Case Study for Infrastructure Projects by Samanta Petohleb Černeha, Maja Klun, Srečko Devjak

“…CBA is used in the public sector in making decisions where it is relatively easy to determine the costs, but the expected benefits can be difficult to express in monetary value. To ensure an equitable quantity of financial sources according to negative difference between inflows and outflows is one of the most important goals of the project. …”
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Inclusive, Exclusive, Didactic: Typologies of Islamic Thought on Apostasy in Muhammadiyah by Sholihul Huda, Zuly Qodir, Nafik Muthohirin, Warsidi Warsidi

“…The findings indicate a dominant trend towards inclusive views but reveal inconsistencies, as elites may express inclusive views on religious freedom while adopting exclusive stances on legal aspects of apostasy. …”
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Teaching Russian to Non-Native Speaking Students in the Multicultural Space of Russian and Moldova Universities by N. D. Afanasieva, M. A. Volkova, E. I. Tsymbalyuk

“…The research has shown that 1) the foreign bachelor’s and master’s students have clear goals in learning Russian; 2) the majority of students express an apparent interest in learning Russian; 3) most of students are interested in receiving skills in professional communication in Russian. …”
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The Analysis of Stress Waves at a Junction of Beam and String by Mu Chen, Ronghui Wang, Niujing Ma, Zhuojie Zhang

“…The fast Fourier transform (FFT) numerical algorithm is used to express an incident pulse of arbitrary shape. The analytical solutions are substantiated by comparing with the finite element programs. …”
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Complete Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome: A Rare Case of Disorder of Sex Development by Alfonsa Pizzo, Antonio Simone Laganà, Irene Borrielli, Nella Dugo

“…It depends on an X-linked mutations in the Androgen Receptor (AR) gene that express a variety of phenotypes ranging from male infertility to completely normal female external genitalia. …”
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Local Media Image Propagation Algorithm and Its Governance in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Ming Guo, Weichen Jia

“…With a large number of images provided by TV and other media flowing into the Internet and the reduction of technical barriers, images have not only become a daily practice for people to record their lives and communicate their behaviors but also become an important means for the public to express their discourse in the cyberspace. Therefore, it is of great significance to analyze the image propagation algorithm using artificial intelligence. …”
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Coordinating Ombudsmen and the Judiciary? by Milan Remač

“…They both are approached by the individuals and they can express their opinions about administrative justice. …”
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AUSTRALIA’S PARTICIPATION AND PERFORMANCE AT THE EVIAN CONFERENCE: INTEGRITY OR SHAME? by P. R. Bartrop

“…His record at the conference, lauded by many of the officials who were present, was one of the least humanitarian of any that can be attributed to Australian statesmen—hardly a ringing endorsement of Australia’s record at this crucial gathering in which the Commonwealth sought, at an early stage, to express itself as an autonomous nation on the international stage.…”
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$K$-$b$-Frames for Hilbert Spaces and the $b$-Adjoint Operator by Chaimae Mezzat, Samir Kabbaj

“…We will introduce new results about this product, about $b$-frames and $K$-$b$-frames and we will also give some examples of both $b$-frames and $K$-$b$-frames that have never been given before. We will express the reconstruction formula of the elements of the Hilbert space. …”
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Subjects of law and their representation: Historical review by Prelević-Plavšić Snežana, Spasojević Đorđe

“…Representation as a legal institute that allows a representative to express the will of the represented within the limits of the given authorization, which directly binds the represented, was first defined by the German Civil Code of 1896. …”
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Saillance des îlots textuels dans un corpus de presse britannique sur le Brexit et conséquences interprétatives associées by Laure Cataldo

“…It also enables the journalists to distance themselves from the comments and point out the will not to endorse them, particularly when the content of the fragment refers to connotative expressions and violent and/or vulgar vocabulary. Over and above this distancing, the insertion of these salient fragments in the journalist’s speech can represent a means to express a position regarding the source of the segment or its content, and therefore present interpretative consequences that go beyond simple highlighting. …”
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Cleanup Sketched Drawings: Deep Learning-Based Model by Amal Ahmed Hasan Mohammed, Jiazhou Chen

“…Rough drawings provide artists with a simple and efficient way to express shapes and ideas. Artists frequently use sketches to highlight their envisioned curves, using several groups’ raw strokes. …”
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Les élites sociales et le choix de l’enseignement français en Tunisie : Entre consumérisme scolaire et socialisation laïque by Émilie Pontanier

“…Thus, given the antagonism between religious and secular fields, students and parents in French high schools would privilege the latter to express their opinions. This population, mainly reluctant to religious fundamentalism, is looking to be different, culturally and religiously, through secular education.…”
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Challenging power through social media by Rodwell Makombe, Grace Temiloluwa Agbede

“…The article argues that internet memes of the “Mugabe fall” express subversive views that undermine the regime through humour, exaggeration, satire and other stylistic devices. …”
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التراث العربى للمخطوط :دراسة مقارنة لتشریعات حمایته والحفاظ علیه by د. ناهد محمد بسیونى سالم

“…Documents and manuscripts express human intellectual life in allscience and knowledge fields, Arab world is reach in many manuscriptsspread all over the world, this heritage was exposed to many disasterswhich resulted in wasting or damaging some of and due to its importanceand problems it is exposed to, some Arab countries passed differentlegislations to maintain and keep its manuscript heritage, but we find somecountries passed manuscripts legislations and others incorporated undertheir archeological maintenance legislations, accordingly this studyhighlighted Arab legislations passed for manuscripts maintenance andprotections in Oman, Egypt and Saudi Arabia and comparing them to ideallaw of manuscripts protection in Arab countries, the study followedcomparative analytic method depending on analyzing and classifyingthese laws and comparing their particulars, the study found that Omani lawis more agreeing with ideal law in Arab countries than Egyptian and Saudilaw, the four laws agreed upon that national library shall be responsible forcollection, registration, maintenance, restoration and manuscripts copying,legislations stipulated penalties ranging from damage to prison in case ofviolating some clauses and prohibited exporting manuscripts abroad. …”
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Tourist destinations’ competitiveness: demand and performance factors by Carlyle Tadeu Falcão de Oliveira, Deborah Moraes Zouain, Luiz Alexandre Valadão Souza, André Luís Faria Duarte

“…A qualitative approach was applied using the critical incident technique, which allows respondents to express their specific needs and expectations. The data were collected through open-ended questions. …”
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Leukoreduction in a dog with acute leukemia by Brenna Hanratty, Anna Hauck, Amanda Foskett, J. D. Foster

“…Flow cytometry identified CD34+ leukocytosis with cells that did not express lineage antigens, suggesting the most likely diagnosis of either acute lymphoid or myeloid leukemia. …”
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