Modeling TB and HIV co-infections by Lih-Ing W. Roeger, Z. Feng, Carlos Castillo-Chávez

“…We find that if $\R 1$ and $\R_21$, does not necessarily guarantee the stability of the HIV-only equilibrium $E_H$, and it is possible that TB can coexist with HIV when $\R_2>1$. In other words, in the case when $\R_11$ (or when $\R_1>1$ and $\R_2>1$), we are able to find a stable HIV/TB coexistence equilibrium. …”
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MEDIADISCURSIVITY AND MEDIACULTURE OF VISUALIZATION AND CONTENT FILLING OF ADVERTISING TEXTS (ON THE EXAMPLE OF UKRAINIAN CITIES) by Olha Mitchuk, Olena Sushkova

“…Most types of advertising use almost the most effective way of transmitting information - in words, so the following phrases appeared: "advertising rhetoric" and "advertising eloquence". …”
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Delegitimizing, corruptive crises by Ángel R. Oquendo

“…Nor should one take a merely motivational approach, in the sense of U.S. psychologist David McClelland, rather than that of Habermas. In other words, one should not solely seek to change the attitude or the prevailing professional culture in civil service. …”
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The Concept “Res Publica” and Its Reception in Byzantine Law: Transliterations by Yu. Ya. Vin

“…It, as a rule, was replaced by other Greek concepts and word-combinations. For them, as well as their Latin prototypes, a certain semantic ambiguity is evident. …”
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CAPITAL WITHOUT STATEHOOD: EMPIRICAL STUDIES IN STARAYA LADOGA, KASIMOV AND MYSHKIN by I. Y. Okunev, D. V. Basova

“…Two major territorial bases of stateness are traditionally singled out: nation-building and threats to security or, in other words, mental boundaries marking of "Us" community and actualization of "Others". …”
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A Novel Statistical Feature Analysis-Based Global and Local Method for Face Recognition by Mohammed Ahmed Talab, Suryanti Awang, Mohd Dilshad Ansari

“…The developed technique has achieved the accuracy of 94.54% when a random forest classifier is used, hence outperforming other techniques such as the gray-level co-occurrence matrix (GLCM), bag of word (BOW), and fuzzy local binary pattern (FLBP), respectively.…”
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Spelling correction with large language models to reduce measurement error in open-ended survey responses by Maxwell B. Allamong, Jongwoo Jeong, Paul M. Kellstedt

“…First, we show that spelling correction reduces the number of unique and single-use tokens while increasing the number of words matched to a sentiment dictionary. Then, to highlight the potential benefits and limitations of spelling correction we show improved out-of-sample prediction accuracy from a text-based machine learning classifier. …”
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ANALYTICAL SYNTHESIS OF FORCED PULSE ELECTRONIC DRIVE CONTROL OF A TRACKING SYSTEM by A. S. Abufanas, A. A. Lobaty, Y. F. Yacina

“…This approach can be used for the control of DC-type DC motors used in various tracking systems used on unmanned aerial vehicles. Key words: forced control, target function, electric drive, pulse train. …”
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NEW LABOUR 'ETHICAL' FOREIGN POLICY by N. A. Stepanova

“…It is suggested that the divergence between word and deed had been initially present in the New Labour international doctrine and that the 'ethical foreign policy' can be considered as one of the tools of Realpolitik. …”
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Analysis of the elasticity of demand for bread by Marina Lolić Čipčić, Doris Cvitković

“…The range of the calculated coefficients of price elasticity of demand is significantly higher when the campaign is introduced, in other words, the introduction of the pricing campaign reduced the sensitivity of customers to price changes in the short term, i.e. after the end of the pricing campaign sales increase despite the return of prices to the levels that preceded the campaign. …”
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TO BUY OR NOT TO BUY: LANGUAGE AS A TOOL OF PERSUASION ON SOCIAL MEDIA by Asta Pukienė, Ugnė Lisauskaitė

“…In order to achieve that they employ a number of persuasion techniques ranging from the extensive use of emotive words to the instances of inclusive language. The collected examples, their analysis and the findings drawn at the end of the research are extremely relevant to a contemporary consumer who might get lost with a huge variety of products and goods available on the market. …”
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Diffractive Debriefing: A Different Approach to Participant Debriefing by Kate Bowen-Viner

“…In this article, I consider diffractive approaches to participant debriefing. In other words, I consider how the feminist relational materialist philosopher Karen Barad’s concept of diffraction can be utilised as an innovative approach to participant debriefing. …”
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‘Stupid Girls’ vs. ‘Real Men’: Identity Construction and Social Media Polarization over Revenge Porn by Marta Sánchez Cócera

“…To this end, the present study analyzes a corpus of 14,000 comments (ca. 411,000 words) from four different YouTube videos tackling revenge porn cases. …”
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Challenges of environmental and climate change: response of Global South (BRICS) countries by Z.T. Rahman, R. Lal, R. Rena

“…Because of the obstacles presented by environmental and climate change, it is now imperative that each individual bear the responsibility of overcoming these issues. Key words: Challenges, Environmental, BRICS countries, climate change, pollution, urbanization, future generation. …”
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Stosunek religii do nauki. Punkt widzenia prawosławnego by Henryk Paprocki

“…As regards culture, we need to consider the fascinating relation of the Latin words cultus and cultura, which points to the fact that culture developed originally within the cult, and it was there where its source was (Fr. …”
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Investigating a hybrid mixed population leads to recognizing a new species of Arctostaphylos (Ericaceae) by Tito Abbo, Morgan A. Stickrod, Alexander Krohn, V. Thomas Parker, Michael C. Vasey, William Waycott, Amy Litt

“…We name this new taxon A. nipumu after the ytt (Northern Chumash language) word for the Nipomo Mesa region. For morphological and molecular analyses, we sampled 54 plants, focusing on A. purissima, A. rudis, and A. crustacea from multiple species and comparative single species populations. …”
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Modern possibilities of sodium hyaluronate in tear substitutive therapy of patients with “dry eye” syndrome by V.V. Brzheskiy, V.Yu. Popov

“…In this case, the Vismed line was more effective than solutions of carboxymethylcellulose, hydroxypropylmethylcellulose, carbomer 934P, and other compounds widely used in tear substitutive therapy.<br> <br> <b>Key words:</b> hyaluronic acid, artificial tear preparations, “dry eye” syndrome, Vismed.…”
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INTELLIGENT TECHNOLOGY FOR SEMANTIC COMPLETENESS ASSESSMENT OF BUSINESS PROCESS MODELS by Oleksandr Rudskyi, Andrii Kopp, Tetiana Goncharenko, Igor Gamayun

“…Traditional set similarity methods, which rely on tokenization and basic word matching, fail to capture deeper semantic relationships, leading to lower accuracy in comparison. …”
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English for Agriculture Vocational School Students: A Need Analysis Study at SMK Negeri 2 South Bengkulu by Desi Veranita, Syahrial Syahrial, Irwan Koto

“…Reading sub-skills classified as; reading in general comprehension, understanding the plan of the text, guessing the meaning of unfamiliar words, do skimming and scanning activities and understanding the organization of the text. …”
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Les libéraux du Trienio constitucional (1820-1823) en quête de leurs origines : des fictions oniriques au service d’une mythologie politique by Maud Le Guellec

“…This article aims to explore one of the strategies used by the liberals of the Trienio - the staging of the genesis of liberalism - through one of the corpora appropriate to this putting into words and images of a myth of origins: dreamlike fictions. …”
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