Trade and economic cooperation between Kazakhstan and Russia: features and development priorities by A. M. Myrzakhmetova, D. U. Alshimbayeva, K. A. Turkeeva, A. T. Yerimpasheva

“…The main approach is to expand regional trade through the mechanism of participation in the Eurasian Union, the intensifi of corporate ties through the creation of joint ventures, based on the use of advanced scientifi technologies to increase the production of competitive products. The presented article reveals the current state of trade, economic and investment cooperation between Kazakhstan and Russia in the context of the growing processes of globalization and regionalization. …”
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LEGITIMACY DEFICIT AND INSTITUTIONAL FAILURE OF THE GOVERNMENT OF UKRAINE: CHALLENGES AND WAYS TO OVERCOME by Nataliia Kononenko, Oleh Kononenko

“…The article analyzes the institutional capacity and legitimacy of governmental structures in Ukraine, particularly in the context of the current war. The main problem that undermines the effectiveness of the government is the regulatory and legal traps that arise from unreformed mechanisms of relations between the branches of government. …”
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Role of self-regulation in controlling cyber loafing and smartphone addiction: Reducing health risk at the university level by Aisha Bibi, Asia Mushtaq, Wajeeha Aurangzeb, Sadaf Z. Ahmed, Mushtaq Ahmad

“…Additional factors such as students’ disengagement from tasks, lack of context familiarities, and the boring nature of the task or teaching method may increase the mobile addiction. …”
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Chemistry, Safety, and Challenges of the Use of Organic Acids and Their Derivative Salts in Meat Preservation by Olfa Ben Braïek, Slim Smaoui

“…Meat industries are constantly facing new waves of changes in the consumer’s nutritional trends, food safety, and quality requirements and legislations leading to an increase in interest for meat biopreservation to respond to all of these modern socioeconomic demands. …”
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Use of participatory forum theatre to explore HIV/AIDS issues in the workplace by Emma Durden, Dominique Nduhura

“… The continued success of entertainment education programmes around the world has seen an increase in the use of theatre for HIV/AIDS interventions. …”
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Comparative Life Cycle Assessment and Costing of Biogas Direct Methanation and Water Scrubbing Upgrade by Giuseppe Piso, Erasmo Mancusi, Hamad H. Shah, Francesco Pepe, Piero Bareschino

“…By integrating biogas production with a methanation system, a net increase in biomethane yield and productivity can be achieved while reducing greenhouse gas emissions. …”
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“Sounding the Loneliness Alarm”: Loneliness Problematized in a Nordic Welfare State by Elian E. Jentoft, Julia Köhler-Olsen

“…The current paper utilizes the What is the Problem Represented to Be (WPR) approach with the aim of exploring problematizations of loneliness in policy and political speech. …”
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Metacognitive Online Reading Strategies among Pre-Service EFL Teachers in Indonesia by Heri Mudra

“…The most frequent levels of strategies included guessing the contents, scrolling through the texts, associating schemata and current information, using context clues, using tables or pictures, pausing and thinking about the contents, using printed texts, and translating the contents into Indonesian. …”
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The development of a Polish pre-literacy manual based on action research evidence by Edward Gillian, Bogna Ferensztajn, Bożena Franków-Czerwonko, Urszula Paradowska

“…The research described in this paper attempted to transfer to the Polish language context the knowledge developed in English speaking countries on pre-literacy developmental norms. …”
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Returns to Higher Education in Mexico: A Cross-Sectional Analysis, 2010–2024 by Janeth Yadira Rodríguez Galván, Juan Francisco Islas Aguirre

“…This study evaluates the socioeconomic effects of educational policies implemented between 2010 and 2024 within the context of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, focusing on the labor demand for professionals with advanced competencies. …”
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CONSUMER BEHAVIOUR OF PRODUCTS OBTAINED FROM MEDICINAL AND AROMATIC PLANTS: A SEGMENTATION BASED ON FREQUENCY AND PURPOSE OF THEIR USE by Roxana-Larisa CADAR, Antonio AMUZA, Diana Elena DUMITRAȘ, Cristina Bianca POCOL

“…The consumption behaviour for products obtained from medicinal and aromatic plants (MAPs) has been little studied, until nowadays, in Romania. In the current context, in which there can be noticed an accentuated increase of these products’ supply on the market and the consumers’ concern with a healthy lifestyle, this study has aimed at a segmentation of the consumers of MAPs products, according to their frequency, purpose of use and sociodemographic features. …”
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Determining Impacts on Non-Performing Loan Ratio in Romania by Adriana Daniela CIUREL, Tiberiu STOICA

“…This paper aims to investigate some of the determinants of non-performing loans in the Romanian banking sector by means of Vector Error Correction (VEC). The increase in non-performing loans is the most relevant factor that financial institutions face in order to maintain an adequate level of solvency in the context of current economic decline. …”
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Clustering Analysis of Turkish Maritime Transportation Sector by Cengiz Bahadır Karahan, Levent Kırval, Çağrı Çınar

“…Turkey is a maritime country with its current fleet, geographical location, young population and growth potential. …”
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Breast asymmetry: literature review and a new proposal for clinical classification by Gladstone Eustáquio de Lima Faria, Dov Charles Goldenberg, Ricardo Frota Boggio

“…These available classifications date from the 60s and 70s and need to be updated to the current clinical context. A more simplified and reproducible classification was proposed after a comprehensive literature review, considering the most frequent asymmetries in aesthetic plastic surgery offices, with their respective treatment guides. …”
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Dissimilar joining of aluminum alloy and low-alloy carbon steel by resistance spot welding by Yong Xu, Qianwei Chen, Bingxu Wang, Feng Qiu, Baixin Dong, Hongjun Li, Zude Feng, Gary C. Barber

“…The nugget diameters and the indentations rates of RSW joints increased when increasing either welding current or welding time, and decreased when increasing the electrode pressure. …”
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The effectiveness of public health interventions against COVID-19: Lessons from the Singapore experience. by John P Ansah, David Bruce Matchar, Sean Lam Shao Wei, Jenny G Low, Ahmad Reza Pourghaderi, Fahad Javaid Siddiqui, Tessa Lui Shi Min, Aloysius Chia Wei-Yan, Marcus Eng Hock Ong

“…<h4>Conclusion</h4>Early public health measures in the context of targeted, aggressive containment including swift and effective contact tracing and quarantine, was likely responsible for suppressing the number of COVID-19 infections in Singapore.…”
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Reuse of Sewage Sludge as Organic Agricultural Products: An Efficient Technology-Based Initiative by Acharya Balkrishna, Srimoyee Banerjee, Sourav Ghosh, Divya Chauhan, Ilika Kaushik, Vedpriya Arya, Sumit Kumar Singh

“…Two products, Jaivik Poshak and Jaivik Prom, containing farmyard compost, were compared with the amended version of the same, containing compost from STP sludge instead of normal compost. …”
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DC serial arc fault recognition in aircraft using machine learning techniques by Raul Carreira Rufato, Thierry Ditchi, Cyril Van de Steen, Thierry Lebey, Yacine Oussar

“…The analysed database contains both current signal measurements of arc faults and nominal behaviours. …”
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Trends in prevalence and patterns of use of a heated tobacco product (IQOS™) in Japan: A three-year repeated cross-sectional study [version 2; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved w... by Steve Roulet, Karina Fischer, Pierpaolo Magnani, Bertram Zwisele, Nathalie Camille, Suzana AlMoosawi, Marius Sieverding, Martha Bajec, Nelly Mainy

“…Background: Numerous smoke-free tobacco or nicotine-containing product (TNP) alternatives have been introduced to support individual- and population-level harm reduction relative to continued cigarette smoking. …”
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Impact of metabolic-associated fatty liver disease on the cholesterol efflux capacity of high-density lipoproteins in adolescents with type 2 diabetes by José Antonio Orozco Morales, José Antonio Orozco Morales, Aída Xochitl Medina Urrutia, Margarita Torres Tamayo, Margarita Torres Tamayo, Juan Reyes Barrera, Esteban Jorge Galarza, Juan Gabriel Juárez Rojas, Pilar Dies Suarez, Nahum Méndez Sánchez, Nahum Méndez Sánchez, Luis Enrique Díaz Orozco, Luis Enrique Díaz Orozco, Lubia Velázquez-López, Patricia Medina Bravo, Patricia Medina Bravo

“…In the population with DM2 and MAFLD, we did not observe a decrease in CEC. Initially we found a slight elevation of CEC in adolescents with DM2, however, with the increase in liver fat, a little decrease is observed, which could explain a probable metabolic phenomenon, since the physicochemical composition and distribution of the particles is associated with the percentage of liver fat. …”
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