The Use of Magic in the Village Head Election in Tidore Islands City Indonesia by Irham Rosyidi, Fatma Faisal, Mahmud Hi Umar, Jan Alizea Sybelle, M Junaidi

“…This paper aims to understand how mystical practices may influence election results that should ideally be carried out in a just and honest manner as well as to increase awareness of the risk of unethical behavior in the election process. Results showed that mystical things are always closely related to the culture of the Indonesian nation from era to era, including in its political culture. …”
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BRICS COUNTRIES’ POLITICAL AND LEGAL PARTICIPATION IN THE GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE AGENDA by E. Gladun, D. Ahsan

“…Third, in the international process of tackling climate-related issues BRICS should act as a bloc. …”
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Learning How to Learn in Sustainability Transitions Projects: The Potential Contribution of Developmental Evaluation by Andrew S. Mitchell, Mark Lemon

“…The paper makes recommendations for the design and funding arrangements of community-based sustainability transitions initiatives and developmental evaluation is endorsed as a viable and promising adjunct to more traditional impact, economic, and process evaluation methodologies. …”
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The narrative of the «Northern Territories» in the socio-political discourse of contemporary Japan by D. V. Streltsov

“…At the same time, as the generations change, the interest towards this problem is gradually decreasing, especially among young people. Besides, there is a process of realizing the futility of maintaining a hard line in the government’s approach to solving it. …”
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The U.S. factor in the evolution of the regional bipolar system on the Korean peninsula in the 1940s–1970s by D. A. Sadakov

“…It is concluded that the U.S. regional policy in the 1940s and 1970s tended to be deliberately and gradually decreasing the degree of its involvement in Korean affairs due to the redistribution of commitments between allies and the engagement of new actors in the Korean settlement process. …”
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How and why do community stakeholders participate in the national stroke audit in England? Findings from a mixed-method online survey by L Russell, N Chouliara, S Lewis, M James, R Fisher

“…The Sentinel Stroke National Audit Programme is a prospective audit of processes and outcomes for all stroke patients in England, Wales and Northern Ireland which has historically focused on hospital-based care. …”
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Perceptions and attitudes of medical students towards student evaluation of teaching: A cross-sectional study by Abdulkarim S. Almakadma, Nader Ashraf, Omar J. Baqal, Sudha Kamada

“…Better teaching skills (93%, 348), being responsive and open to student feedback and suggestions (84.7%, 317), being committed to class time and schedule (80.1%, 300), and an easier exam (68.6%, 257) were considered important factors to acquire a positive evaluation by a considerable proportion of students. …”
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Balancing co-benefits and trade-offs between climate change mitigation and adaptation innovations under mixed crop-livestock systems in semi-arid Zimbabwe by Sabine Homann-Kee Tui, Roberto O. Valdivia, Katrien Descheemaeker, Gevious Sisito, Elisha N. Moyo, Farai Mapanda

“…Abstract Achieving Zimbabwe’s national and international commitments to food systems transformation and climate resilience building is of high priority. …”
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DYNAMICS IN DIAGNOSING THE QUALITY OF THE GOOD TEACHER by M. Teneva

“…The personality of the teacher has a significant influence on the results of the educational process. The genesis of the teaching profession is rooted in ancient times. …”
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The Challenges of Social Work and Social Administration on Rural Development: A Case Study of Kabale District. by Sembure, Edson

“…Therefore there is need of well qualified, practice oriented and committed social workers, they can work for improve the socio- economic status, and quality of life for community members and the study concluded that social work and social administration is a vibrant profession; longitude and latitude of the profession are largely widened. …”
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Presenting the model of factors affecting the resilience of entrepreneurial behavior in Technical and Vocational University of Alborz province by Ali Abdi Jamayran, Manouchehr Niknam, Hasan Rangriz

“…The results show that resilience is built through intrapersonal and extrapersonal processes. These processes form a set of strategic dimensions related to entrepreneurial behavior applied to build personal projects.According to the results of the research, the following suggestions were presented:For the financial and legal strategy; solutions such as awareness of national and regional laws, taking advantage of protective laws, adapting laws and regulations, and budgetary and financial support are suggested. …”
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Long-term functional kleptoplasty in benthic foraminifera by Doron Pinko, Dewi Langlet, Olha Sur, Filip Husnik, Maria Holzmann, Maxim Rubin-Blum, Eyal Rahav, Natalia Belkin, Michal Kucera, Raphaël Morard, Uri Abdu, Alexander Upcher, Sigal Abramovich

“…The host-kleptoplast interactions suggest that H. diversa is highly committed to this partnership and that this kleptoplasty species likely relies on similar kleptoplast/alga maintenance mechanisms as symbiont-bearing foraminifera.…”
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Midwives’ views regarding implementation on prevention of vertical transmission HIV programme at Tshwane antenatal clinics by Reamogetswe Lisbeth Aphane, Kwanele Mazibuko, Yandiswa Dlamini, Thobeka Mndebele, Angela Beza, Maurine Rofhiwa Musie

“…The findings reveal that midwives are committed to the program’s implementation but face challenges such as negative attitudes of midwives who provide HIV services, lack of partner involvement and the Tier system not nationally interlinked. …”
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Talent Management Pattern Finding with a Succession Approach Using the Met-asynthesis Method by Ali tavakoli, maryam majidi, Alireza Afsharnejad, gholamreza amjadi

“…It is claimed that talent management gives a business a competitive advantage and allows it to systematically discover, develop and redeploy employees with exceptional abilities. The retention and commitment of high-value personnel are closely related to talent management. …”
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Identification and leveling of factors affecting the acceptance of excellence model in Islamic Azad University by Seyedeh Somayeh Mousavi Siah Deleh, Samad Jabbari Asl, Musa Rezvani Chaman Zamin

“…Also, three main readiness factors for the successful adoption of Quality 4.0 were identified as follows: senior management commitment, leadership, and organizational culture. …”
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Providing a model of purchase intention and customer experience on customer behavior in virtual networks by Kazem Tolooee, Hossein budaghi Khajeh Noubar, Hossein Gharehbiglo, Mojtaba Ramazani

“…Customer experience Chen & Yang (2021) in their research define customer experience as the dominance of online customers on customer interactions and the environment of service employees, policies and sales processes, in which the higher the customer experience, the greater the increase in business performance in e-commerce. …”
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An integrated graph-spatial method for high-performance geospatial-temporal semantic query by Zichen Yue, Wei Zhu, Xin Mei, Shaobo Zhong

“…Additionally, GraST adopts the two-phase commit protocol for cross-database data synchronization. …”
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Using a community-based participatory research approach to meaningfully engage those with lived experience of diabetes and homelessness by Gillian L Booth, Stephen W Hwang, Kerry McBrien, David J T Campbell, Rachel B Campbell, Anna DiGiandomenico, Matthew Larsen, Marleane A Davidson

“…They were asked to commit to attending biweekly meetings. We undertook two major research projects: concept mapping to choose a research focus; and photovoice to explore accessing healthy food while homeless. …”
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Labelling the debate: a thematic analysis of alcohol industry submissions to the EU consultation on alcohol health warnings in Ireland by Éadaoin Cott, Jelena Dunaiceva, Philippa White, Runa Annasdotter Neely, Matthew Lesch

“…This paper examines how alcohol industry stakeholders responded to the EU notification process for Ireland’s proposed alcohol labelling regulations, introduced under Ireland’s Public Health (Alcohol) Act 2018. …”
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DVL2024: A Larger Ultra-High-Definition Video Dataset for Perceptual Quality Study by Jiefeng He, Jinchun Yuan, Fengchuang Xing

“…To ensure the reliability of subjective evaluations, our annotation process adheres to the rigorous guidelines set forth by ITU-R BT.500-13, involving the participation of 32 carefully selected individuals with a wide age range, spanning from teenagers to sixties individuals, with an average age of 27.2 years. …”
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