Prevalence and determinants of tobacco use among school-going adolescents in 53 African countries: Evidence from the Global Youth Tobacco Survey by Retselisitsoe Pokothoane, Terefe Gelibo Agerfa, Christus Cito Miderho, Noreen Dadirai Mdege

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How to convert a 3D printer to a personal automated liquid handler for life science workflows by Dulguunnaran Naranbat, Benjamin Phelps, John Murphy, Anubhav Tripathi

“…As laboratory automation advances, the PALH system could be crucial in democratizing access to high-quality automated liquid handling, particularly in resource-limited settings.…”
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Assessment of computer vision syndrome and associated factors among employees of Ethio-telecom in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia by Natnael Gizachew, Teferi Abegaz, Tenaw Demis, Melese Gashaw, Lidetu Demoze

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ANTROPOLOGICAL SKETCH OF THE SOCIAL STRUCTURE OF TRANSITIONAL SOCIETY by I. M. Bondarevych, N. M. Dievochkina

“…Purpose of the article is to create a working model of the social structure of a society with transition type, which moves from its totalitarian past to democratic organization. In our model the basis of social stratification is the principle of the influence of individuals’ personal characteristics on social transformations. …”
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Exploring the burden of cholera in the WHO African region: patterns and trends from 2000 to 2023 cholera outbreak data by Joseph Okeibunor, Saliou Diallo, Abdou Salam Gueye, Etien Luc Koua, Jean Paul Kimenyi, Vincent Dossou Sodjinou, Fleury Hybriel Moussana, Freddy Kambale

“…A total of 684 outbreaks were reported, with the highest burdens in Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Median detection time to outbreak was 2 days, while median time for outbreak control was 92 days. …”
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After biopolitics: True democracy as 21st century "lifeworld" by Koljević-Griffith Bogdana

“…In such a way, the life of the people as democratic life par excellence, with all its particularities, opens the space for horizons of new humanism in the 21st century that is also constituted as the final foundation for restauration of homo politicus.…”
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Unknown issues of digitalizing the tax domain by Dimitrijević Marina

“…By glorifying the positive points of digitalizing the tax domain and by expecting taxpayers to accept the projected digital-technological novelties in the tax sphere and to model the existing ways of fulfilling tax obligations, the need for a more comprehensive examination of the reverse side of tax digital novelties, the perception of unknown issues and a more subtle analysis of the uncertainty of their impact on our contemporary tax society and accepted democratic principles and social values, have generally been marginalized. …”
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The U.S. Assistance to the MENA Arab Countries under the Trump Administration: The Logic of a Diff erentiated Approach by V. I. Bartenev

“…Third, the Republican Congress was clearly less willing to support the executive’s aid chocies under a new Republican President than during the last years of a Democrat Barack Obama’s second term. Only two hypotheses proved correct — one about a prioritization of security and military assistance under Donald Trump and the other one — about disproportionate cuts of democracy promotion assistance. …”
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About One Memorable Date in the History of Spain by G. I. Volkova

“…Modern state boundaries indeed are not the result of rational planning, democratic arrangements or consideration of the local population's opinion. …”
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ITALIANO E DIALETTO: ESPERIENZE DIDATTICHE PER UN CURRICOLO VERTICALE INTEGRATO IN PROSPETTIVA ECOLINGUISTICA by Rosalia La Perna, Antonio Serradifalco

“…Italian and local varieties at school: teaching experiences for an integrated vertical curriculum from an ecolinguistic perspective   National guidelines and policies for the valorisation and protection of linguistic minorities and the heritage of local varieties call on schools to explore new educational pathways that integrate multilingual teaching (Italian, other languages and local varieties), in order to promote the students’ cultural and social competence, the development of their identity through the contact with linguistic and cultural diversity and democratic participation. This paper presents two experiences of integrated language teaching through the valorisation of local varieties for a vertical curriculum based on an ecolinguistic perspective, carried out in primary and secondary school classes of schools from an area near Palermo. …”
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Global temporal trends and projections of hepatitis B-related cirrhosis among adolescents and young adults from 1990 to 2035: an analysis based on the global burden of disease stud... by Quanwei He, Quanwei He, Quanwei He, Xiujuan Chang, Ran Xu, Ran Xu, Wei Han, Wei Han, Sihao Wang, Sihao Wang, Shujuan Gong, Shujuan Gong, Jiagan Huang, Jiangtao Liu, Rugang Zhang, Yongping Yang, Yongping Yang, Yongping Yang

“…In 2021, Somalia and the Democratic Republic of Congo had the highest incidence rates, whereas Kiribati and Cambodia had the highest mortality rates.ConclusionThe overall burden of hepatitis B-related cirrhosis among AYAs has decreased over the past three decades. …”
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REZAGO Y ABANDONO EDUCATIVO EN COLOMBIA: UN CAMBIO EN LA POLÍTICA PÚBLICA PARA LA EQUIDAD EDUCATIVA by Angela María Rojas Ladino

“…With the above, a policy aimed at changing the relationship that young people have with the school is proposed, based on the breadth of the school day and the approach of the idea of a democratic school. …”
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STRATEGY OF SOCIALLY-ANTHROPOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT IN IDEAS AND SYSTEM OF MODERN SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION: INTEGRATION OF MODEL OF THE INSTRUMENTALISM AND THE NEOPRAGMATISM WIT... by Viktor Zinchenko

“…In conditions when against crisis of an education system of the government of the USA and the leading countries of Europe are compelled to begin its long-term reform, its theorists substantially pay attention to democratic workings out of concepts of an instrumentalism of a pragmatism/neopragmatism in modern social philosophy of education, in particular on their aspiration to introduce in process of social development, education and education idea and practical model both educational, and a social equality. …”
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The role of civil society organisations in initiating an anti-corruption policy in Serbia by Korać Srđan T., Bulatović Aleksandra

“…As the concept of political community is a special construct based on democracy and human rights, non-inclusiveness as previously outlined here destructively affected society by making deeper asymmetries of all kinds due to disintegrating influence that prevents the final community constitution through democratic institutions.…”
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Evaluation for an Open Society: Then and Now by Robert Picciotto

“…In addition, the ambiguity regarding the relationship between the Open Society and evaluation should be lifted through a reconsideration of the democratic evaluation model. Data Collection and Analysis: The author conducted an extensive review of the literature and consulted with a wide range of evaluation thinkers to examine the extent to which Popper’s philosophy remains relevant to the evaluation discipline. …”
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APPLICATION OF FAST-TRACK LEGISLATION METHOD IN PRESIDENTIAL SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT IN INDONESIA by Wand Mei Herry Susilowati

“…This should also adhere to guidelines for creating good laws and regulations and providing ample space for public participation in every step while upholding democratic principles.…”
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The crisis of the concept of society: historiosophical and sociological search by Irena Eglė Laumenskaitė

“…This challenge appears together with another one—the necessity of founding a democratic national state (consolidating the nation on the basis of common aims when the interest of community is destroyed by the negative experience of communist collectivity)—the present situation of European unification. …”
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Democracies in Action: A Foucaultian Perspective on British and French Tax Enforcement by Coralie RAFFENNE, Marika TOUMI

“…The specificities as well as relative elasticity of democratic cultures are sharply visible in the relations between the tax administration and large corporations. …”
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Assessing The Influence of Upland Rice on Household Income in Nyamirama Sub-County Kanungu District. by Byamukama, Chrispus

“…Kanungu District is found in South Western Uganda and it is boarded by Rubanda District in the west, Kasese in the East, Democratic Republic of Congo in the South, and Rukungiri in the North. …”
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Construire des ressources relationnelles pour franchir des frontières multiples : Trajectoires de jeunes Tunisiens by Hasnia-Sonia Missaoui

“…We collected several social trajectories of “unemployed graduates” a few years after the overthrow of President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali’s regime on January 14, 2011 in order to understand how the bubbling of democratic expression carried by powerful collective mobilization movements linked to the end of the dictatorship can influence the daily life of an age group that is particularly mediatized but invisibilized or instrumentalized by the public authorities. …”
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