Was Grand Duchy of Lithuania a Federation? by Zenonas Norkus

“…While most medieval polities were transformed into sovereign territorial states and Westphalian empires in the early modern time, GDL was unique in following the path of federalization. …”
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Die Individualisme-kollektivismedimensie van kulturele variasie by Frederick Terblanche

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Exploratory study of nocebo effect in senior medical students by Charalampos Pischos, Antonios Politis, Petros Sfikakis, Charalampos Papageorgiou

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Curcumin as a Therapeutic Agent in Dementia: A Mini Systematic Review of Human Studies by Natascia Brondino, Simona Re, Annalisa Boldrini, Antonella Cuccomarino, Niccolò Lanati, Francesco Barale, Pierluigi Politi

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Real-Time Quality Monitoring and Anomaly Detection for Vision Sensors in Connected and Autonomous Vehicles by Elena Politi, Charalampos Davalas, Christos Chronis, George Dimitrakopoulos, Dimitrios Michail, Iraklis Varlamis

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Hedging by the Gaya Confederacy of Korea: Historical Lessons for Contemporary East Asia? by Brendan M HOWE

“…He argues that, like the polities of the Gaya confederacy, contemporary second-tier states in the Asia-Pacific should cooperate closely, with the common objective of navigating the US–China rivalry. …”
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El sistema judicial indígena como expresión de complejidad política (Pampas y Patagonia norte, mediados del siglo xix) by Juan Francisco Jiménez, Sebastián L. Alioto

“…This article aims to make a contribution to that discussion, in trying to demonstrate, through sources corresponding to different native groups of the area, that, since the second decade of the 19th century, a tendency towards political centralization can be perceived, which will result in the emergence of polities of the kind of chieftaincies (in the sense stated by Robert Carneiro, consisting in organizations that have a permanent centralized leadership above other levels). …”
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The Convergence Coefficient across Political Systems by Maria Gallego, Norman Schofield

“…In the majoritarian polities of the United States and Great Britain, the centrifugal tendency is very low. …”
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Blood levels of cytokines highlight the role of inflammation in Alzheimer's disease by Lorenzo Campanelli, Pablo Galeano, Federico A. Prestia, Carolina Cuesta, Maria C. Dalmasso, María Flores-López, Cristian Gona, Nicolás Irureta, Claudia Kairiyama, Julieta Lisso, Antonio Jesús López-Gambero, Ines Mintz, Nancy Medel, Karen S. Campuzano, Carolina Muchnik, Gisela V. Novack, Natividad Olivar, Ivana Quiroga, Nerea Requena-Ocaña, Jose Antonio Reyes-Bueno, Pedro Serrano-Castro, Zulma Sevillano, Patricia Solis, Juan Suárez, Ivana Villella, Nancy Wukitsevits, Eduardo M. Castaño, Fernando Taragano, Silvia Kochen, Daniel G. Politis, Luis I. Brusco, Fernando Rodríguez de Fonseca, Laura Morelli

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