Models of Historical Memory and past Representation of Vilnius University in the 19th-20th Centuries by Alfredas Bumblauskas

“…The above said enables drawing closer different models of historical memory - be they secular and confessional, Lithuanian and Polish - and creates the prerequisites for a multiperspective historical consciousness and historical memory. …”
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Temporal Changes on the Risks and Complications of Posttransplantion Diabetes Mellitus Following Cardiac Transplantation by Nadia Iannino, Amine Nasri, Agnès Räkel, Anique Ducharme, Kim Lachance, Normand Racine, Simon de Denus, Maxime Tremblay-Gravel, Annik Fortier, Michel White

“…Recent changes in the demographic of cardiac donors and recipients have modulated the rate and risk, associated with posttransplant diabetes mellitus (PTDM). We investigated the secular trends of the risk of PTDM at 1 year and 3 years after transplantation over 30 years and explored its effect on major outcomes. …”
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Eight Khalkha Jebtsun-damba Khutukhtu and Pandito Khambo-Lama Dashi-Dorzho Itigelov, 1911–1915 by Leonid V. Kuras, Bazar D. Tsybenov

“…This charismatic leader was the one who took both secular and religious power over the new Mongolia. …”
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Proclamation of the All-Russian Empire – the Beginning of the Way to the Great Power Status by V. A. Artamonov

“…Schools with high-quality military and secular education, the Academy of Sciences, the Senate, and the Synod were established. …”
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Tsardom of Muscovy Traditional Culture and Peter's Westernization Project by T. V. Chernikova

“…Peter's Westernization was indeed a new stage in adopting European experience because he removed the state and church barriers in the communication of Russian people with Western Europeans and encouraged not only going to the West for education and science, but also opened the way to the creation of secular education and science in Russia. These were prerequisites for the beginning of the modernization of Russia.In other matters, Peter's westernization differed from the previous periods only in the number of cultural and institutional adoptions. …”
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Educación en Derechos Humanos y Democracia by Federico Mayor Zaragoza

“…Eran necesarios para evitar una nueva guerra, es decir, para construir la paz, son necesarios unos nuevos puntos de referencia, unos nuevos asideros éticos que permitan a toda ciudadanía modificar un comportamiento secular basado en la confrontación. El fomento de la dignidad no es una utopía, al contrario, es una necesidad indispensable porque sin ella no pueden concretarse los derechos y deberes humanos de los que tanto dependen la seguridad, supervivencia y felicidad de todos y todas. …”
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Determination of ²³⁸U Content by Gamma Radiation Emitting from ^234mPa Radionuclide by A. Khruschinski, S. Kutsen, A. Zhukouski, Naoyuki Sugai, Hiroshi Sugai, Michinori Mogi

“…The most optimal way to control 238U is to use the 234mPa radionuclide, the activity of which, due to its short lifetime (≈ 1.2 min), is unambiguously related to the activity of 238U even if the secular equilibrium is disturbed in the sample under studyРossibility of use of the 234mPa nuclide gamma radiation to determine 238U with a scintillation detector in a medium containing natural radionuclides is investigated and demonstrated using the simplest examples. …”
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Political Interference and Social Service Delivery in Kanaba Sub-County Kisoro District. by Tumushime, Bosco

“…The study concluded that political interference in social service delivery could be solved by the intervening strategies in place to reduce the rate of interference with social service delivery by political leaders like Leader's commitment, Good governance, Intuitional arrangement, Distribution of costs and benefits, and Secularism in a multi-religious society. The study finally recommended that; Politicians with experience should better understand how to work with the people while delivering social services and affect the change they desire, politicians' delegation decisions should be the key margin by which politicians improve the productivity of the social service delivery, Citizens should influence the people who votes to delegate to the most productive public organizations by tying politicians' electoral incentives to the effective delivery of social services and there should be monitoring and evaluation unit aim at measuring efficiency and effectiveness of the delivery of social services by the political leaders.…”
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Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Utilization Trends in the United States: Evidence From 2012 to 2021 National Electronic Medical Records Network by Abdulrahman Alsuhibani, PharmD, MSc, PhD, Jonathan R. Thompson, MD, FACS, FASMBS, Patricia R. Wigle, PharmD, BCPS, BCACP, FCCP, Jeff Jianfei Guo, BPharm, PhD, Alex C. Lin, MS, PhD, Marepalli B. Rao, MS, PhD, Ana L. Hincapie, MS, PhD

“…Descriptive statistical analysis was conducted to assess patients’ demographics and characteristics. Annual secular trend analyses were conducted for the annual rate of bariatric surgery, and the specific procedural types and proportions of laparoscopic surgeries. …”
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Culturas en movimiento: migración y difusión-dilución de las creencias en México by Daniel Delaunay

“…Las culturas seculares también evolucionan a escala local, a veces de manera rápida: esta perspectiva a menudo es olvidada porque se ha privilegiado la atención a las influencias trasnacionales. …”
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HOTSSea v1: a NEMO-based physical Hindcast of the Salish Sea (1980–2018) supporting ecosystem model development by G. Oldford, G. Oldford, T. Jarníková, V. Christensen, M. Dunphy

“…However, we demonstrated that the model simulates temperature anomalies and a secular warming trend over the entire water column in general agreement with observations. …”
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The study of pubertal stage and age of menarche in girls in Isfahan province, Iran by Nafiseh Mozafarian, Mahin Hashemipour, Mohammad Reza Maracy, Masoumeh Pourrajab, Razieh Omidi, Roya Kelishadi

“…Our study indicated the secular trend toward earlier menarche in girls. Nationally representative surveys and longitudinal studies are necessary to determine the exact age of puberty for future international comparisons.…”
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Turkish-Iranian Relations in the Middle East: in Search of the Regional Balance by I. A. Svistunova

“…Islamic revolution in Iran in 1979 has put Turkish and Iranian «models» in adversary positions to one another emphasizing religion vs secularism.The Turkish side has broadened the range of its instruments after Justice and Development Party coming to power in Ankara, although its aim remains to be the promotion of Western concepts in the Middle East. …”
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FEAR OF SOCIAL ALIENATION OF LOVE AS GENDER CHARACTERISTICS by V. V. Melnyk, L. І. Моzhovyi, I. A. Reshetova

“…In view of the above the purpose of the paper is to investigate the conceptual contradictions associated with the reconstruction of basic measurements of the fear of alienation of love within different ideological approaches; to reveal the most significant contradictions that manifest themselves in the differences between secular and religious frames; to determine a philosophical and fundamental foundation for the types of fear: metaphysical, transcendental and social, which to some extent have influenced the development of a gender tradition. …”
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Ideology and Values in Turkey's Foreign Policy by V. A. Avatkov

“…Erdogan the country began a gradual transition from «Kemalism», which includes the preservation of secularism, ProWestern democratic values and a gradual departure from the Ottoman heritage, to a more conservative domestic and foreign policy, characterized by the strengthening of Islamist and nationalist sentiments, as well as the transition to the policy of «neo-Ottomanism», «neo-pan-Turkism». …”
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Christian vs liberal conceptions of human rights by Piotr Mazurkiewicz

“…From the point of view of secular liberalism, the idea of God appears as an unnecessary by-product of the process of human evolution. …”
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The revival of spiritual practices: factors influencing the “seeking deities and offering prayers” behavior of China’s Generation Z on social media in an atheistic context by Jing Wang, Balamuralithara Balakrishnan, Xiaohui Wan, Qirui Yu, Qiqi Ye

“…Among contemporary Chinese youth, participation in digital religious practices is a temporary, secular activity undertaken only as a comforting behavior when anxiety becomes unmanageable or surpasses their threshold of tolerance. …”
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Security and religion in democratizing Tunisia: re-enacting surveillance through religious narratives and gendered dynamics by Fabrizio Leonardo Cuccu, Alessandra Bonci

“…This section is crucial to understand the sociological and political background of the security policies, and explains how the struggle between the so-called secular forces and the religious parties have created a hierarchy between state-led Islam and non-state-led Islam, securitizing religion. …”
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Radiation hazards from natural radionuclides contained in rice from former tin mining land by J. Mellawati, N. Madyaningarum, E.A. Fajrianshah, E.B. jumpeno, T.R.D. Larasati, N. Mulyana, E. Nurtjahya, K. Khotimah

“…Placed for approximately 30 days before gamma spectrometer measurements to allow the decay products to reach secular equilibrium. Utilizing a high purity germanium detector, the radioactivity of the samples was quantified through a gamma spectrometer. …”
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„O pecunia totius mali regina, fraudis et doli amica...“ Peníze v kultuře středověku by Tomáš Krejčík

“…Therefore, first of all we need to go into the iconography of medieval coins, which can be divided up into two groups – the ecclesiastical and the secular, which in many cases obviously overlap and supplement one another (F. …”
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