Public Private Partnership in the European Union: Experiences in the UK, Germany and Austria by Ronald W. McQuaid, Walter Scherrer

“…In Germany the search for a comprehensive approach (Gesamtkonzept) has slowed the dissemination of PPP; Austria seems to handle the issue more pragmatically. One issue that remains crucial to the future impacts of PPPs is whether they offer genuine and sustainable increases in efficiency and effectiveness compared to the alternatives. …”
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The government of Hugo Chavez in the political system of modern Venezuela: achievements and failures by G. E. Ludena Lopez, N. A. Omelchenko

“…Another example of different approaches that blur the objective assessment of the activities of the Chavez government are the attitudes of “social prioritization” supporters, who believe that the activities of nationalized companies in strategic industries should be primarily subordinated to social goals and national development, giving priority to “pragmatic decision-making”, which prioritizes the goals of productivity and efficiency within the Chavista movement. …”
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Auch eine Gewerkschaft? Der Deutschnationale Handlungsgehilfenverband und die Angestellten by Martin Otto

“…Already before the First World War, the DHV moved towards a more pragmatic position. In labour law, it favoured special corporatism with proposals partly similar to those of socialist and liberal unions. …”
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Chatbot Programmes’ ‘Arms Race’: Africa and Artificial Intelligence (AI) Ethics by Tapiwa Chagonda

“…This framework should be largely anchored in the African philosophy of Ubuntu, but also pragmatic enough to include positive facets of global-North philosophical strands such as deontology, which largely places currency on ethical principles and rules above the outcomes they produce. …”
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FORMULATICITY OF THE INCOMPLETE SYNTACTIC FORM OF AN IMPERATIVE STATEMENT IN DISCOURSE by Iuliia А. Nenasheva

“…These units also possess formulaicity due to pragmatic factors. Corpus analysis provides proper techniques to identify and describe these units, classify factors conditioning the appearance of such units in discourse. …”
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Consultations on driving in people with cognitive impairment in primary care: A scoping review of the evidence. by Carol Sinnott, Tony Foley, Justin Forsyth, Kathleen McLoughlin, Linda Horgan, Colin P Bradley

“…Patients voiced their desire to maintain agency in planning their driving cessation. Studies evaluating pragmatic educational programmes suggest these can improve physician confidence in FtD consultations.…”
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Development and Feasibility of an Adolescent Dancer Screen by Kynaston Schultz, Kathleen Sun Worrall, Zoe Tawa, Joanna Binney, Jessica Boyle, Laurel Daniels Abbruzzese

“… # Conclusion The CADS is a feasible screening tool for adolescent dancers that overcomes barriers by being pragmatic, evidence-based, and efficient. Screening can be implemented to obtain baseline values, inform wellness recommendations, and establish relationships with medical professionals…”
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Finland’s Neutrality as Part of Its National Identity by N. Yu. Vezhlivtseva

“…It is widely believed that Finland's neutrality arose during the cold war as a result of a pragmatic assessment of the general world order at that time. …”
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An assessment strategy for the employability of HRM graduates in South Africa by Tendency Beretu, Warren P. Charles

“…Supervisors of these graduates provided feedback on the alignment between university assessments and graduate performance. The study used a pragmatic approach, incorporating both qualitative and quantitative data collection. …”
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Microplastics in agricultural soils: sources and microbial remediation approaches by Nataliia Tkachuk, Liubov Zelena, Yaroslav Novikov

“…Given the complex and multifaceted nature of the research topic, a complex of general scientific methods was used to achieve the research goal: analytical, synthetic, hermeneutic, pragmatic, generalization. Findings. The sources of microplastics in agricultural soils are plastics used to cover fertilizers, pesticides and seeds, film for mulching, use of wastewater for irrigation, sludge from wastewater treatment as fertilizers that can lead to the occurrence of environmental risks for the functioning of agroecosystems and human health. …”
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The Role of Great Britain in Forming of EU’s Foreign and Security Policy in the Context of Leading Theories of Eurointegration by A. V. Groubinko

“…Great Britain conceptual approaches to forming EU's CFSP lie traditions of pragmatical and functional realistic approach with the elements of federalist co-operation, externalism and minimum of institucialism. …”
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THE PALESTINIAN PROBLEM IN THE MIDDLE EAST POLICY OF THE USSR / RUSSIA by T. V. Nosenko, V. A. Isaev, E. S. Melkumyan

“…The movement for cooperation between the Palestine Liberation Organization and the USSR was bilateral: the PLO departed from revolutionary romanticism and began to follow a pragmatic line to expand contacts with opponents of Israel. …”
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Prevalence of Multidrug-Resistant Escherichia coli Isolated from Drinking Water Sources by Stephen T. Odonkor, Kennedy K. Addo

“…This study therefore sought to document the microbiological quality and antibiograms of bacterial isolates (E. coli strains) from six different water sources in order to determine their safety for human consumption and to provide updated antibiotic data for pragmatic treatment of patients. Bacteria isolation and identification was done using API and conventional methods. …”
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Russia and Poland: Problems of Inevitable Coexistence by D. V. Ofitserov-Belskiy

“…Over the last quarter of the century relations between Russia and Poland are balancing between trying to understand the burden of mutual guilt and a desire to construct non-emotional pragmatic relations. Sources of tension vary. In particular, it is the desire of Poland to position itself as a valued player in NATO and the EU and the role distance between the two countries in IR system, which does not allow Russia to maintain an equal political dialogue with Poland. …”
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Self-training and self-education in the professional formation of a Ukrainian citizen by Олександр Притула

“…In this process, the adequacy of the performed self-assessment, its constructive, psychologically positive and pragmatic nature is important. Every person from childhood should not only form a certain basic philosophical culture, which will help him to achieve better self-esteem, but also strive to constantly find a community of those interested in philosophy. …”
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Evolution of EFTA in Differentiated Integration within Europe by V. V. Zolotukhin

“…The organizational framework underpinning its operations, its developmental trajectory with specific focus on divergences, and the models of differentiated integration (DI) have significantly contributed to its evolution.EFTA's distinct organizational structure, coupled with its pragmatic legal framework, serves as the foundation of its operations. …”
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DeepSeek vs. ChatGPT: Comparative Efficacy in Reasoning for Adults’ Second Language Acquisition Analysis by Mohammad Mahyoob Albuhairy, Jeehaan Algaraady

“…However, both needed fine-tuned prompts to bring in feedback related to semantic/pragmatic errors, such as missing articles and dialectal mismatches. …”
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Media Image of the Arctic: Towards Qualified Human Resources by Inga M. Zashikhina

“…The content of the media image has a specific pragmatic component that is directly related to the issue of labor vacancies, living conditions, work and lifestyle in the location of the vacancy. …”
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TRANSCENDENTALINIS EMPIRIZMAS: TARP HUSSERLIO IR DERRIDA by Natalie Depraz

“…TRANSCENDENTAL EMPIRISM: BETWEEN HUSSERL AND DERRIDA Natalie Depraz Summary The article demonstrates that the conception of phenomenology as transcendental empiricism transforms the philosopical paradigm leading from the hermeneutics to pragmatics. From this standpoint, the method of cooperation between the empiricity and transcendentality in the constitution of the primordiality equates Husserlian method to the Derrida's method of primordial contamination. …”
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The insurmountable energy of the mind – education, science and culture – in the strategy of the civilizational development of mankind by Віктор Андрущенко

“…Whether created “from the dust of the earth” or brought from distant cosmic depths, formed as a result of the evolution of nature or some other yet to be recognized miracle, man has conquered nature, created a univer­sally artificial world, a «second nature» – culture, and has now become not only the master of the Planet but is also looking more and more pragmatically into the Cosmos. The first attempts to master it (as well as the entire previous path of conquering nature) suggest that man possesses some incredibly secret power that allows him to rise and dominate the world. …”
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