Democracy and education: Notes over military training in Argentina and Brazil by Ana Penido, Suzeley Kalil Mathias, Eduardo Mei.

“…Four major findings can be derived from the above assumptions, i) a new educational approach is unavoidable if military autonomy is to be overcome and if military subordination to civilian authorities is to take root; ii) Military education is also crucial in the training of competent military leaders, able to fulfill their duties to the countries they serve; iii) Military autonomy hampers democratic consolidation and international cooperation in defense issues; iv) Reducing the differences between military training and the civilian educational system facilitates operational defense policies and fosters the internalization of democratic values into the ranks. …”
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Modeling Slotted Aloha as a Stochastic Game with Random Discrete Power Selection Algorithms by Rachid El-Azouzi, Essaid Sabir, Tania Jiménez, El-Houssine Bouyakhf

“…Under this capture model, we analyze both the cooperative team in which a common goal is jointly optimized as well as the noncooperative game problem where mobiles reach to optimize their own objectives. …”
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Temozolomide Therapy for Aggressive Pituitary Tumors: Results in a Small Series of Patients from Argentina by Oscar D. Bruno, Lea Juárez-Allen, Silvia B. Christiansen, Marcos Manavela, Karina Danilowicz, Carlos Vigovich, Reynaldo M. Gómez

“…We conclude that TMZ therapy may be of variable efficacy depending on—until now—incompletely understood factors. Cooperative work on a greater number of cases of aggressive pituitary tumors should be crucial to establish the indications, doses, and duration of temozolomide administration.…”
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Tools for internationalisation and increasing institutional trust to authorities in the international contingent environment of domestic universities in the transformation conditio... by V. V. Bondarenko, E. V. Kuznetsova

“…The study presents methodological approaches both for preventing the possibility of the possible emergence of a sociocultural gap and intercultural dissonance, and for transmitting the presentation of the basic traditional Russian cultural humanitarian values and attitudes among foreign students, as well as for social partnership cooperation with regional authorities of the region. …”
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Gabapentin Does Not Appear to Improve Postoperative Pain and Sleep Patterns in Patients Who Concomitantly Receive Regional Anesthesia for Lower Extremity Orthopedic Surgery: A Rand... by Jean Daniel Eloy, Christy Anthony, Shawn Amin, Moorice Caparó, Mark C. Reilly, Steven Shulman

“…Numerous studies have shown a decrease in pain score, even with immediate postoperative activity, which is significant for early post-op ambulation and regaining functionality sooner. However, studies have been in conclusive in patients undergoing lower extremity orthopedic surgery. …”
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Evolving Roles for International Social Work in Addressing Climate Change by Julie L. Nagoshi, Vijayan K. Pillai, Mashooq A. Salehin

“…Addressing this requires global cooperation, as exemplified by the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly SDG 13, which focuses on climate action. …”
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Assessing the Impacts of Climatic and Water Management Scenarios in a Small Mountainous Greek River by Angeliki Mentzafou, Anastasios Papadopoulos, Elias Dimitriou

“…Nature-based approaches could provide solutions regarding climate change adaptation and mitigation. Transboundary cooperation, data exchange mechanisms, common policy frameworks, and monitoring, reporting, and evaluation systems, could reduce human and ecosystems’ vulnerabilities and improve the water security of the area.…”
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Climate-smart agricultural practices and its implication in Ethiopia: a systematic review by Getasew Daru Tariku, Sinkie Alemu Kebede

“…Findings – Based on the result of the review, the determinants of CSA adoption can be categorized into five categories, including demographic factors (age, sex, family size, dependency ratio, education), economic factors (land size, household income, livestock ownership), institutional factors (extension services, training access, credit services, farm input, market distance), environmental factors (agroecology, change in precipitation, slope of land) and social factors (cooperatives membership, farmers perception). The result also shows that applying CSA practices has an indispensable role on increasing productivity, food security, income, building resilient livelihoods, minimizing production risk and alleviating poverty. …”
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Marketing Strategies and Organization Performance: A Case Study of Rukiga SACCO Kabale Municipality Kabale District. by Ainebyoona, Jacob

“…The study recommends that community members be organized in cooperative unions or associations to easily acquire certain services or help from the SACCOs such as getting loans at lower interest.…”
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The relationship between social support and interpersonal self-efficacy among higher vocational college students: parallel mediation effects of anxiety and loneliness by Chunmei Chen, Yujie Zhu, Yanyan Sun, Mingkun Que

“…Abstract Background There is close cooperation between higher vocational colleges and enterprises. …”
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Digital Horizons in Teacher Education Development by A. N. Makarenko, L. G. Smyshlyaeva, N. N. Minaev, O. M. Zamyatina

“…The authors reflect on the development trend of the region research and academic complex in the concept of cooperation and resource consolidation for the “Big University” model. …”
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The roles of a peer-led collaborative learning approach in Ethiopian secondary schools by Feyisa Mulisa, Simeret Kassahun Mekonnen

“…Acknowledging more research findings would be warranted, we suggest that the practice of PLCL ought to be arranged towards subject specific task orientation and the quality of mentoring processes should be restructured in the form of more supportive, participative and cooperative ways. …”
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Genesis of the Institute of Interaction of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine with Other Law Enforcement Agencies by І. І. Baidyuk

“…The article is focused on the research of historical aspects of interaction between the State Border Service of Ukraine with other law enforcement agencies of Ukraine, which is conditioned by the importance of the tasks assigned to the State Border Service of Ukraine on the security and protection of the state borders, especially in the current conditions of integration of the state into the European space, by reforming a number of law enforcement agencies of Ukraine, the creation of new law enforcement structures and, accordingly, the need to improve existing or establish new cooperation mechanisms of interaction between the above entities. …”
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Strategies for Workplace EV Charging Management by Natascia Andrenacci, Antonino Genovese, Giancarlo Giuli

“…Using real data on workplace parking lot usage, the study found that efficient electric vehicle charging in a parking lot can be achieved either through optimized scheduling with a single high-power charger, requiring user cooperation, or by installing multiple chargers with alternating sockets. …”
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Analysis of crafts (Kriya) creative industries: a case study of policy development in Banten Indonesia by Muhtarom Muhtarom, Moh Sofyan Budiarto, Sugeng Setyadi, Muhlisin Muhlisin, Yunia Rahayuningsih

“…Provincial governments can integrate horizontal strategies in the development of the creative economy through 1) Regional policy for sustainable craft creative industry development; 2) Optimizing HR capacity and assets; 3) Improving market access for crafts (kriya) products; 4) Conducting training that focuses on continuity and on target; 5) Improving the mindset of creative industry player; 6) Developing a pattern of partnership cooperation.…”
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A Multidisciplinary Approach to Malocclusion Caused by Facial Multiple Fracture by Daishi Arai, Akihiro Yasue, Shinya Horiuchi, Eiji Tanaka

“…As treatments for multiple facial fractures are required complexity due to the extent of trauma, multidisciplinary approach under the close cooperation between hospital departments is thought to be important.…”
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Ambivalent partnership of the Drosophila posterior class Hox protein Abdominal-B with Extradenticle and Homothorax. by Jesús R Curt, Paloma Martín, David Foronda, Bruno Hudry, Ramakrishnan Kannan, Srividya Shetty, Samir Merabet, Andrew J Saurin, Yacine Graba, Ernesto Sánchez-Herrero

“…Most of our current knowledge of Hox protein specificity stems from the study of anterior and central Hox proteins, identifying the molecular and structural bases for Hox/Pbc/Meis-Prep cooperative action. Posterior Hox class proteins, Abdominal-B (Abd-B) in Drosophila and Hox9-13 in vertebrates, have been comparatively less studied. …”
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Introduction of Eucalyptus spp. into the United States with Special Emphasis on the Southern United States by R. C. Kellison, Russ Lea, Paul Marsh

“…The results were sufficiently promising that a contingent of forest products companies formed a cooperative to work with the USDA Forest Service, Lehigh Acres, FL, USA, on genetic improvement of selected species for fiber production. …”
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Features of metropolitan area governance models by Yu. V. Pavlov, G. A. Khmeleva

“…The article investigates research papers within the framework of the theory of municipal reformers, the theory of public choice, in particular on the issues of centralization / decentralization of municipalities, intermunicipal cooperation, the efficiency of the economy of the public sector. …”
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Towards Enhancement of Performance of K-Means Clustering Using Nature-Inspired Optimization Algorithms by Simon Fong, Suash Deb, Xin-She Yang, Yan Zhuang

“…Inspired by nature, some contemporary optimization algorithms which include Ant, Bat, Cuckoo, Firefly, and Wolf search algorithms mimic the swarming behavior allowing them to cooperatively steer towards an optimal objective within a reasonable time. …”
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