“Sounding the Loneliness Alarm”: Loneliness Problematized in a Nordic Welfare State by Elian E. Jentoft, Julia Köhler-Olsen

“…The country released its first dedicated loneliness strategy in 2019 as part of that year’s Public Health White Paper. The Norwegian context proves interesting due to the country’s unique Public Health Act, which acknowledges health inequalities and the country’s solidarity principle in policymaking. …”
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Accountability and platforms' governance: the case of online prominence of public service media content by Krisztina Rozgonyi

“…Public discourse has moved online, enabled by platforms, which in the context of information and media content have become an essential source, access point and key distributor of information. …”
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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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A Review of Discrimination and Labeling of Refugees Using the Example of Syrian and Ukrainian Refugees by Buket Ökten Sipahioğlu

“…In the forced migration context, the term"refugee" is mostly related to negative issues because of the prior refugee crisis experiences and the frighteningly increasing numbers of displaced people around the world. …”
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Theoretical Dispute About the Relationship Between Interest and Growth Rates by Überblick

“…Abstract Since the outbreak of the economic and financial crisis, the prolonged phase of low interest rates has been increasingly controversial. The relationship between the interest rate r and the growth rate g plays a central role in this context: some authors derive a justification for a more expansionary fiscal policy at r < g. …”
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Microbiome research potential for developing holistic approaches to improve refugee health by Mohammad Ahsan Fuzail, Bilal Ahmed, Daniel L. Burke, Amanda Hylland Spjeldnæs, Masako Horino, Carly Ching, Muhammad Hamid Zaman

“…Morbidity from disease is increasingly being understood as dependent on wellbeing of the ecosystem, as opposed to an isolated element. …”
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Innovative tax administration tools in Russia by N. G. Мorozova, Zh. M. Korzovatykh

“…The article examines the current system of tax administration in Russia and its innovative tools, actively developed and implemented in the context of the digital technologies’ rapid development and the transformation of the control and supervisory state activities. …”
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Approaches for treating neuropsychiatric symptoms in Parkinson’s disease: a narrative review by Jon Rodríguez-Antigüedad, Gonzalo Olmedo-Saura, Javier Pagonabarraga, Saül Martínez-Horta, Jaime Kulisevsky

“…In this context, the experience of the treating neurologist remains critical in selecting the most appropriate individualized therapy. …”
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"No reason for children to go hungry": Rural U.S. caregivers' perceptions of elected officials and their impacts on food policy. by Annie Hardison-Moody, Lindsey Haynes-Maslow, Sarah K Bowen

“…In the context of the increasingly polarized U.S. political environments of the 2016 and 2020 elections, how did rural caregivers think about food and health policies? …”
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Voter Turnout Analysis of Canadian Undergraduate Student Unions, 2016-2018 by Justin Patrick, Daniel Patrick, Oleksii Zahreba

“…This first quantitative study of its kind in a Canadian context assesses the current state of student democracy in these higher education institutions and explores potential indicators of higher turnout, including online voting versus paper ballot systems, electorate size, and percentage of part-time students. …”
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Zarządzanie inspekcją ochrony roślin w turbulentnym świecie – od rygorystycznej kontroli do elastycznego nadzoru? by Michał Kołtuniak

“…In the deliberations, an attempt is made to verify the thesis that with the current material resources, the method of financing this institution and its complex organizational structure, it will be important to take actions aimed at increasing the effectiveness of its operation. …”
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Degrees of freedom of MIMO interference channel with distributed space-time interference alignment by Tengda YING, Wenjiang FENG, Weiheng JIANG, Guoling LIU, Chunan YAO, Taotao BAO

“…In the context of K-user MIMO interference channel (IC),achievable degrees of freedom (DoF) were investigated with distributed space-time interference alignment (DSTIA).By precoding with distributed current and outdated channel state information at the transmitters (CSIT),new tradeoff regions between achievable DoF and CSI feedback delay/frequency were achieved for MISO system.The impact of the number of transmit antennas on achievable DoF in the MISO system was analyzed,revealing that DoF results approach to the outer bound as the number of transmit antennas increases.Further,the impact of the number of receive antennas on achievable DoF was characterized,deriving the range of CSI feedback delay that preserves achievable DoF in the MIMO system.Theoretical and numerical analyses show that,the proposed DSTIA scheme can achieve better sum-DoFs by eliminating inter-user interference perfectly,tighten the gap between achievable DoF and outer bound,as well as improve the achievable rate of the system.…”
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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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Fishing amongst industrial ghosts by Charlotte Gagnon-Lewis

“…Grounded in political ecology, the article argues that while expanding into emerging species may offer short-term relief, it cannot constitute a viable long-term response to the structural dimensions of the current ecological crisis. This calls for more transformative approaches to fisheries governance—approaches that challenge inherited management systems and engage with an era increasingly defined by socio-ecological unpredictability. …”
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Droughts of the early 19th century (1790–1830) in the northeastern Iberian Peninsula: integration of historical and instrumental data for high-resolution reconstructions of extre... by J. Barriendos, M. Hernández, S. Gil-Guirado, J. Olcina Cantos, M. Barriendos

“…<p>Drought represents a prevalent climate risk in the Mediterranean region. In the context of climate change, an increase in both frequency and intensity is anticipated over the next century. …”
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Characterization of EAF and LF Slags Through an Upgraded Stationary Flowsheet Model of the Electric Steelmaking Route by Ismael Matino, Alice Petrucciani, Antonella Zaccara, Valentina Colla, Maria Ferrer Prieto, Raquel Arias Pérez

“…The current, continuous increase in attention toward preservation of the environment and natural resources is forcing resource-intensive industries like steelworks to investigate new solutions to improve resource efficiency and promote the growth of a circular economy. …”
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The Effect of Information Quality of the Instagram Account @bemhimaperpusinfo on the Fulfillment of Information Needs of its Followers by Alvin Tessar Permata, Kuntum Khaira Ummatin, Gema Rullyana, Fikri Dwi Oktaviani

“…Background: Recent studies on social media use in academic settings underline its increasing importance in fulfilling students' information needs.  …”
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Predictors for psychosocial consequences of screening for liver diseases: A data-driven approach. by Urs Alexander Fichtner, Andy Maun, Erik Farin-Glattacker

“…Inconsistent findings from studies, mainly originally from cancer research, are not easily transferable to the context of liver screening. This study aimed to identify predictors of psychosocial consequences in asymptomatic adults screened for early-stage liver cirrhosis, thereby contributing to the current knowledge on screening impact.…”
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