ETHNIC AFFILIATION, A PROBLEM IN ASSESSING THE GYPSY (ROMA) POPULATION IN THE 2002 CENSUS. CASE-STUDY – OLTENIA, ROMANIA by MIHAELA DANIELA PREDA

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Russification and Russianization in Modern Historiography: Recent Developments and Future Directions by Nicholas W. Sessums

“…Therefore, I also argue in favor of two promising new frameworks in the historiography, namely, the shifting usage of the term inorodtsy (aliens) by imperial administrators over time, and the concept of national indifference. Study of the former, I contend, would highlight the “othering” of non-dominant ethnic and national minorities. …”
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A new -means singular value decomposition method based on self-adaptive matching pursuit and its application in fault diagnosis of rolling bearing weak fault by Hongchao Wang, Wenliao Du

“…Self-learning over-complete dictionary and pre-defined over-complete dictionary are the two dictionary construction modes of sparse decomposition. Normally, the former mode owns the virtues of much more adaptive and flexible than the latter one, and several kinds of classical self-learning over-complete dictionary methods have been arising in recent years. …”
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Influence of Magnetic Field on the Peristaltic Flow of a Viscous Fluid through a Finite-Length Cylindrical Tube by S. K. Pandey, Dharmendra Tripathi

“…A significant difference between the propagation of the integral and non-integral number of waves along the tube is that pressure peaks are identical in the former and different in the latter cases.…”
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تسویق خدمات المکتبات عبر مواقع التواصل الاجتماعى دراسة تحلیلیة لواقع الاستخدام فى المکتبات العامة بدولة الامارات العربیة المتحدة... by د.یاسر نبوى محمود, د. جاسم محمد جرجیس

“…Furthermore, theparticipants in the study have agreed on the fact that marketing library servicesthrough social media sites is more effective than using traditional methods due tothe many features and potentials that the former has. The study comes out with anumber of recommendations to market library services and resources via socialmedia sites.…”
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Impacts of Urbanization on Extreme Regional Precipitation Events by Wei Wu, Lei Ren, Yingjian Wei, Mengjing Guo

“…The urban land use intensity continues to increase. (2) The intensities and different frequency indices of extreme precipitations both show an increasing trend. In addition, the former exhibits periodic alternation with a dominant frequency of 21 years during the flood season, and both the fluctuation amplitude and maximum value of the periodic variation increase with time. (3) The urbanization in the study area has a significant impact on Rx1h and Rx2h precipitations, but little impact on the intensity of long-duration precipitation. …”
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Towards an unbiased jet energy loss measurement by Liliana Apolinário, Lénea Luís, José Guilherme Milhano, João M. Silva

“…Additionally, we compare Q AA to an experimentally proposed proxy for fractional jet energy loss, S loss , showing that both quantities are similar, although the former provides a more clear physical interpretation. …”
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Balancing acts – striving towards independence after early discharge: lived experiences of older adults and their relatives by Aline Dragosits, Bente Martinsen, Ann Hemingway, Annelise Norlyk

“…Facilitating trust in the future between the older adult and their carers, as well as helping them regain former habits, supports the strive towards independence after early hospital discharge and contributes to the experiences of well-being of older adults and relatives.…”
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Euroscepticism in Italy: Evolution of Northern League Political Program by O. N. Barabanov, M. O. Shibkova

“…However, while confronting the Northern League policy with that of National Front in France and UKIP in the United Kingdom, the authors come to the conclusion that Euroscepticism for the former is just a sign of the shift in priorities rather than a strategy as for the latter. …”
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Crystal Structures of <span style="font-variant: small-caps">d</span>-Lyxono-1,4-lactone and Its <i>O</i>-Tosyl Derivative by Anna Sosnowska, Jarosław Chojnacki, Justyna Samaszko-Fiertek, Janusz Madaj, Barbara Dmochowska

“…γ- and δ-lactones were formed by bromine oxidation of commercially available D-lyxose, as confirmed by IR analysis. The former was isolated, and its structure was confirmed by NMR spectra and X-ray analysis. …”
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Spectral characterization and quality assessment of organic compost for agricultural purposes by Anchal Sharma, Rajiv Ganguly, Ashok Kumar Gupta

“…Results The Fertility Index (FI) of compost for Solan and Mandi was observed 3.5 and 3.6, respectively, whereas Clean Index (CI) of compost for both regions was observed 4.0 and 5.0 at the 60th day of sampling, respectively, with the former being classified as category D and the second being classified as category A of high fertilizing potential. …”
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A Two-Level Model for Traffic Signal Timing and Trajectories Planning of Multiple CAVs in a Random Environment by Yangsheng Jiang, Bin Zhao, Meng Liu, Zhihong Yao

“…., CAVs’ arrival time and traffic signals optimization, and multiple CAVs trajectories planning. The former optimizes CAVs’ arrival time and traffic signals in a random environment, to minimize the average vehicle’s delay. …”
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The Development of the US National Missile Defense and its Impact on the International Security by J. Yu. Parshkova

“…The United States and the former Soviet Union made huge efforts to reduce and limit offensive arms. …”
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Testing the Key Performance of Mobile Flood Protection System by Shoukai Chen, Huimin Li, Lei Guo, Lunyan Wang, Yongchao Cao

“…Test results indicated that installing anchor plates either by direct fixing or by preopened slots and eyes satisfy the construction and normal work requirements. However, the former is preferable over the latter. The mobile flood protection wall leaks when filled with water, and the leakage changes exponentially with the level. …”
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Quantum complexity phase transitions in monitored random circuits by Ryotaro Suzuki, Jonas Haferkamp, Jens Eisert, Philippe Faist

“…We lower bound the exact state complexity in the former regime using recently developed techniques from algebraic geometry. …”
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Fab Four: When John and George Play Gravitation and Cosmology by J.-P. Bruneton, M. Rinaldi, A. Kanfon, A. Hees, S. Schlögel, A. Füzfa

“…Scalar-tensor theories of gravitation attract again a great interest since the discovery of the Chameleon mechanism and of the Galileon models. The former allows reconciling the presence of a scalar field with the constraints from Solar System experiments. …”
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The library of Troškūnai monastery by Arvydas Pacevičius

“… In the former territory of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, which was incorporated into the Russian Empire in 1795, the Catholic cloisters had numerous and valuable book collections. …”
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German "Soft power" Policies in the Muslim World by L. R. Rustamova

“…Failure to integrate them into German society and the lack of progress in the formation of its positive image in the Muslim countries resulted, on the one hand, in the split of German society, on the other hand, in the threat of absorption by foreign civilization, as it is observed now in Germany the presence of "soft power" of Muslim countries, which use its former and current citizens to influence German political course. …”
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Russian national model of public policy: structure and special features by D. Yu. Znamenskiy

“…It is proved that the public policy should be interpreted as the result of interaction of the state, civil society institutions, scientific, expert and business community with the decisive role of the former. No less important research result is the substantiation of the author’s understanding of the national model of public policy, its structure and features of manifestation in modern Russia. …”
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Notes on Post-criticality: Towards an Architecture of Reflexive Modernisation by Robert Cowherd

“…This literature re-contextualises the modern-postmodern pairing within the larger trajectory of modernity and identifies a characteristic distinction from former modernities in the term ‘reflexivity’. Where high modernism pursued utopian ideals of pure form and functional simplicity, reflexive modernisation acknowledges contingency in human systems establishing feedback loops that trigger course corrections in the process of modernisation itself.
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