Enhancing malaria elimination in high-transmission settings: the synergy of concurrent vector control and chemotherapy by Ronald Mulebeke, Adoke Yeka, Jean-Pierre van Geertruyden

“…Thus, tailoring strategies to the specific local context and transmission dynamics is essential for maximizing impact. …”
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Spiritual space: Hearing and experiencing the voice of God by Walter Firth

“…As scrutiny increases of what and how, such material is shared, used and taught, creating a space where the voice of God can speak into our current settings becomes increasingly vital. …”
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Modern armed conflicts: compliance with the standards of international humanitarian law by R. V. Tsapyuk, O. M. Tsarenko

“… The article examines the current state of development of international humanitarian law (IHL) and identifies the main challenges facing its implementation in the context of modern armed conflicts. …”
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Debris flows dynamic risk assessment and interpretable Shapley method-based driving mechanisms exploring – A case study of the upper reach of the Min River by Yufeng He, Mingtao Ding, Yu Duan, Hao Zheng, Wen He, Jun Liu

“…It is not clear what factors can mostly lead to debris flow risk change in mountainous areas, particularly some of these areas in the context of intense earthquakes, rapid urbanization, and climate change. …”
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Data-Driven Proactive Early Warning of Grid Congestion Probability Based on Multiple Time Scales by Haobo Fu, Ruizhuo Wang, Bingxu Zhai, Yuanzhuo Li, Pengyuan Li, Rui Zhang, Haoyuan He, Siyang Liao

“…In this context, grid congestion problems have become more and more frequent. …”
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E-cigarette use and susceptibility among Indonesian youth: the role of social environment, social media, and individual factors by Mouhamad Bigwanto, Melinda Pénzes, Nurul Kodriati, Emma Rachmawati, Nida Amalia, Róbert Urbán

“…Boys were significantly more likely than girls to be current (OR = 6.67, 95% CI [3.05–14.57]) and ever e-cigarette users (OR = 2.92, 95% CI [2.10–4.06]). …”
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ECONOMIC CRISIS AND THE COMPETITIVENESS OF TRANSNATIONAL COMPANIES by LIVIU RADU, CARMEN RADU

“…In crisis situations, the competitiveness of transnational companies becomes a particularly complex concept, due to the fact that said business entities are continuously moving within the context of internationalization and increasing use of global strategies. …”
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A problem of budget rigidities in the state budget and the evolving environment of Polish public finances by Michał Ostrowski

“…On the basis of the current processes taking place in the fiscal policy, the author indicates the need to consider the described problem in a wider context.…”
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Early Soviet Economic Border Controls: East-West Dimension by Oksana Ermolaeva

“…Alternatively, they emerge in scholarly research as spaces of illegal transborder exchanges and commodities transfers, resulting in the loss of official revenues and gains for informal economies. Later, in increasingly politicized contexts, these interactions resulted in the gradual “cleansing” and “sealing” of borders. …”
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Early Soviet Economic Border Controls: East-West Dimension by Oksana Ermolaeva

“…Alternatively, they emerge in scholarly research as spaces of illegal transborder exchanges and commodities transfers, resulting in the loss of official revenues and gains for informal economies. Later, in increasingly politicized contexts, these interactions resulted in the gradual “cleansing” and “sealing” of borders. …”
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Early Soviet Economic Border Controls: East-West Dimension by Oksana Ermolaeva

“…Alternatively, they emerge in scholarly research as spaces of illegal transborder exchanges and commodities transfers, resulting in the loss of official revenues and gains for informal economies. Later, in increasingly politicized contexts, these interactions resulted in the gradual “cleansing” and “sealing” of borders. …”
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Early Soviet Economic Border Controls: East-West Dimension by Oksana Ermolaeva

“…Alternatively, they emerge in scholarly research as spaces of illegal transborder exchanges and commodities transfers, resulting in the loss of official revenues and gains for informal economies. Later, in increasingly politicized contexts, these interactions resulted in the gradual “cleansing” and “sealing” of borders. …”
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Impact of Photovoltaic Penetration on the Distribution System Operation. Case Study Albania by Andi Hida, Olsi Karapici, Rajmonda Buhaljoti, Diamant Gashi

“…In this context, this paper presents the impact of small-scale photovoltaic penetration in a radial feeder of the Albanian distribution system, in different connection points (in each feeder’s transformer, in the first half-length, or the second half). …”
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I tweet, therefore I am: a systematic review on social media use and disorders of the social brain by Nancy Yang, Bernard Crespi

“…In each case, the virtual nature of social media facilitates the delusionality because the self is defined and bolstered in this highly mentalistic environment, where real-life exposure of the delusion can be largely avoided. Current evidence also suggests that increased social media usage, via its disembodied and isolative nature, may be associated with psychotic spectrum phenotypes, especially delusionality, by the decoupling of inter and intra-corporeal cues integral to shared reality testing, leading to the blurring of self-other boundaries.…”
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METABOLIC REPROGRAMMING OF MICROGLIA AND ASTROCYTES AS A FACTOR IN THE REGULATION OF NEUROINFLAMMATION IN ISCHEMIC STROKE by Mikhail Bobrov, Vadim Nikitin, Marina Burak

“…This review presents current ideas about metabolic reprogramming in astrocytes and microglial cells in the context of pathophysiological processes in cerebral ischemia.…”
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Pre-industrial and future shifts in seasonal precipitation climatology for large river basins across the continental U.S.A by Kyungmin Sung, James H Stagge

“…These trends are projected to continue on their current trajectory through the end of the century. …”
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The Impact of Deforestation and Restoration Trends on Land Use and Land Cover Changes in Eastern Mau Forest Reserve, Kenya by Mike Passiany, Kyalo Kiema John Bosco

“… Context and Background This study aims to assess the environmental impact of Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) changes in the Eastern Mau Forest Reserve, Kenya, using remote sensing and GIS techniques. …”
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Quality improvement project to improve cardiovascular risk screening in patients with rheumatoid arthritis by Mireille Edens, Monique Hoekstra, Harriet de Vries, Clarinda van den Bosch-Schreuder

“…The CV risk screening in the Netherlands is performed by the general practitioner (GP).Purpose The aim of our project was to increase the CV risk screening of patients with RA, performed by the GP, from 46% to 65% of the selected patients of 40 years and older, within the time frame of our project (18 months).Context The project was carried out at the outpatient rheumatology clinic at Isala Zwolle, a large teaching hospital, in an area with 106 GP practices. …”
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Impact of topography on extraordinary magnetoresistive devices by Sreejith Sasi Kumar, Stefan Pollok, Thierry Désiré Pomar, Dennis Valbjørn Christensen, Rasmus Bjørk

“…The extraordinary magnetoresistance (EMR) effect is a form of geometric magnetoresistance that occurs when the current redistribution inside a hybrid metal-semiconductor device changes when subjected to an external out-of-plane magnetic field. …”
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Organization and activities of emergency institutions in Crimea in 1921 in conditions of geopolitical tension by A. V. Ishin

“…Therefore, Western opponents tried as much as possible to use the inertia of the Civil War to destabilize one of the key regions of the RSFSR. Under the current conditions, it was quite logical that a number of leaders of the anti-bolshevik underground wanted to establish close contacts with opponents of Soviet power abroad in order to combine efforts in the fight against it, which objectively became a factor of geopolitical tension in the Soviet Republic in general, and in Crimea in particular. …”
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