Adaptation to climate change in pastoral communities: a systematic review through a social-ecological lens by Matilda Azong Cho, Onisimo Mutanga, Tafadzwanashe Mabhaudhi

“…Purpose – This paper aims to apply a socio-ecological systems framework to demonstrate that pastoral adaptation to climate change necessitates a comprehensive approach. Design/methodology/approach – The authors evaluated the depth of knowledge regarding pastoral adaptation in Africa using bibliometric and content-based analyses. …”
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Knowledge and Attitude towards Exclusive Breast Feeding among Mothers Attending Antenatal and Immunization Clinic at Dabat Health Center, Northwest Ethiopia: A Cross-Sectional Inst... by Mulugeta Wassie Alamirew, Netsanet Habte Bayu, Nigusie Birhan Tebeje, Selam Fiseha Kassa

“…To assess knowledge and attitude towards exclusive breast feeding among mothers attending antenatal care and immunization clinic in Dabat Health Center, Northwest Ethiopia, 2016. Methodology. Institutional based descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted. …”
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Integrated risk analyses as part of national climate risk assessments: lessons learnt from the climate risk assessment of Germany by Walter Kahlenborn, Maike Voss, Luise Porst, Marc Zebisch, Kathrin Renner, Inke Schauser

“…Based on a review of selected national, multi-sectoral CRAs, the authors explore the application of such analyses. …”
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Design of a small-scale and failure-resistant IaaS cloud using OpenStack by Samuel Heuchert, Bhaskar Prasad Rimal, Martin Reisslein, Yong Wang

“…When a smaller deployment or a private cloud is needed, OpenStack can meet the goals without increasing cost or sacrificing data control. Design/methodology/approach – To demonstrate these enablement goals of resiliency and elasticity in IaaS and PaaS, the authors design a private distributed system cloud platform using OpenStack and its core services of Nova, Swift, Cinder, Neutron, Keystone, Horizon and Glance on a five-node deployment. …”
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PSYCHOLOGICAL GUIDING OF STUDENTS’ INDIVIDUAL EDUCATIONAL TRAJECTORIES IN VOCATIONAL SCHOOL by Evald F. Zeer, Oksana S. Popova

“…Scientific novelty. The authors single out and summarize the methodological background necessity of psychological guiding process of the development and implementation of individually-oriented professional education. …”
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New academic journals: an international overview of indexing and access models by Rosangela Rodrigues, Cristóbal Urbano, Patrícia Neubert, José Miguel Rodríguez-Gairín, Marta Somoza-Fernández

“…The main sources of new titles in open access with no processing charges for authors are universities in countries that are not home to large commercial publishers (Indonesia, Brazil, and Spain), all with government subsidies.…”
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Discourse analysis from an international relations perspective: the case study of Tucker Carlson’s televised interview with Vladimir Putin by Pablo Hidalgo-Cobo, Casandra López-Marcos, Belén Puebla-Martínez

“…The objective is to identify the main topics, themes and arguments put forward by the Russian president in a political discourse within the context of a war. Methodology: This study outlines the main premises, postulates, and theoretical contributions of prominent American international relations authors, with an emphasis on realism and liberal movements. …”
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Carcinogenic and non-carcinogenic health risks of arsenic exposure in drinking water in the rural environment by D. Mahan, O. Waissbluth, D. Caceres

“…Concentrations of arsenic in the drinking water were analyzed between 2014 and 2017 based on health authority reports and data collected during this study. …”
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Binary decision diagram‐based synthesis technique for improved mapping of Boolean functions inside memristive crossbar‐slices by Anindita Chakraborty, Vivek Maurya, Sneha Prasad, Suryansh Gupta, Rajat Subhra Chakraborty, Hafizur Rahaman

“…The authors propose to map the BDD‐nodes for any input Boolean function to the crossbar‐slices using an improved technique, where each BDD‐node is mapped more efficiently, and the node‐logic is implemented following the Memristor Aided loGIC (MAGIC) design style. …”
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Photodynamic Antimicrobial Chemotherapy for Root Canal System Asepsis: A Narrative Literature Review by P. Diogo, T. Gonçalves, P. Palma, J. M. Santos

“…A manual search was performed on bibliography of articles collected on electronic databases. Authors were contacted to ask for references of more research not detected on the prior electronic and manual searches. …”
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Public Administration Digitalization and Government Effectiveness in EU Countries by Armenia Androniceanu, Irina Georgescu

“… Purpose: This study continues the series of previous research carried out by the authors on the digital transformation in EU countries. …”
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Does investor's sentiment affect industries' return? – A case of selected Indian industries by Amit Rohilla, Neeta Tripathi, Varun Bhandari

“…Purpose – In a first of its kind, this paper tries to explore the long-run relationship between investors' sentiment and selected industries' returns over the period January 2010 to December 2021. Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses 23 market and macroeconomic proxies to measure investor sentiment. …”
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Robust ensemble of handcrafted and learned approaches for DNA-binding proteins by Loris Nanni, Sheryl Brahnam

“…Originality/value – Most DNA-BP methods proposed in the literature are only validated on one (rarely two) datasets/tasks. In this work, the authors report the performance of our general-purpose DNA-BP system on four datasets representing different DNA-BP classification tasks. …”
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Digitalization of the Educational Environment: Risk Assessment of Distance Education by Russian and Vietnamese Students by A. V. Noskova, D. V. Goloukhova, A. S. Proskurina, T. H. Nguen

“…The analysis is based on the results of a survey conducted by the authors in 2020 among students of two universities - Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) and the Institute of the Trade Union Movement of the General Confederation of Labor of Vietnam (IPLV).The article describes the methodology of the online survey. …”
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A Proposed Keyword Taxonomy for Operations Management Research by Juan A. Marin-Garcia, Julien Maheut, Pilar I. Vidal-Carreras

“…The three authors employed an iterative process to define and validate the first-level terms, contrasting them with sources such as Gass & Fu (2013), Helms (2006), and the APICS thesaurus. …”
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Features of regulating property and non-property relations between ex-spouses by Khodak S.

“…Identification of gaps and contradictions in the legal regulation of property and personal non-property relations of former spouses. Methodology. The methodological basis of the research was: general scientific methods of analysis, synthesis, logical method of research, as well as such private scientific methods as formal-legal, the method of comparative jurisprudence, the method of technical-legal analysis. …”
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The History of the Bargut Confrontation in Northeastern China (early 20th century): Ethno-Political and Religious Aspects (based on archival materials) by Bair Ts. Gomboev, Eduard V. Batunaev

“…Under these conditions, the governments of Russia, Japan and the Chinese authorities, taking into account emerging political and international situations, methodically defended their interests in the region. …”
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Phonologisches Bewusstsein bei einem polnisch-amerikanischen Kind mit Legasthenie. Eine Fallstudie by Rafał Młyński, Agata Guzek

“…The empirical portion contains the methodology, assessment instruments, data analysis, and their interpretation chosen by the authors. …”
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Impact of GST on motor and pump exports in India by Raghuveer Negi, Muthusamy Arumugam, Abuzar Nomani, Shetty Deepa Thangam Geeta

“…Also, the problems faced by the exporters allied to GST, which the authors could not include in the questionnaire due to certain reasons, are concisely apportioned and discussed. …”
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Mentoring in education: an analysis of international practices and their implementation in Russia by N. V. Tikhonova, F. L. Ratner, I. Y. Vergasova

“…The collected data enabled the authors to emphasise the benefits of the French education policy regarding entry into the teaching profession and to formulate recommendations for mentor selection and training in Russia. …”
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