“Minorities Conform or Disappear”: Bolsonarism’s construction of the People and its impact in limiting LGBTQIA+ Rights by Alvaro Bartolotti Tomas, Michele Diana da Luz

“…Their appeal resonates especially among segments of the population who perceive the extension of rights to minorities as a direct threat to their own entitlements. …”
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Perforated sigmoid diverticulitis within a Para-umbilical hernia—A case report and literature review by Omar Y. Alkhaja, MD, MBBS, Faisal Tufail, MD, MBBS, Ahmed Gamal, MD, MBBS, Khalid Khan, MBBS CABR FRCR, Tareq AlTaei, MD, MBBS

“…Diverticulitis is a common complication of colonic diverticulosis and can lead to a range of serious issues, including perforation. Incisional hernias, often resulting from previous abdominal surgeries, usually contain omentum or bowel loops. …”
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Participatory democracy and civil society: Transforming societal decision-making in the information age by Auli Keskinen

“…Keskinen insists that nowadays democracy is in crisis; due to the expanding access to ICT and, henceforth, vast amount of information, large segments of the population are now and more so, in the future able to form personal educated opinions on common issues; second, having grown impatient with the narrow-aiming policies of the government, in modern societies many people want to shift from being "the governed" into having "self-government". …”
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Part-Based Visual Tracking via Online Weighted P-N Learning by Heng Fan, Jinhai Xiang, Jun Xu, Honghong Liao

“…In doing so, object is segmented into fragments and parts of them are selected as local feature blocks (LFBs). …”
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Juveniles as victims of criminal acts committed under the misuse of computer network by Spasojević Đorđe, Miladinović-Bogavac Živanka

“…The use of meta-analysis has resulted in the synthesis of the results of existing research and attitudes, which served as a basis for a critical review and an attempt to give a modest contribution to solving these issues.…”
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Improved stiff string torque and drag prediction using a computationally efficient contact algorithm by Sampath Liyanarachchi, Geoff Rideout

“…This algorithm is incorporated into a 3D multibody dynamics (MBD) model, which utilizes rigid drill-string segments based on the Newton-Euler formulation, connected via axial, shear, torsional, and bending springs to capture drill string flexibility. …”
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Dam Failure and Reconstruction in the Guadalupe Valley Lakes Region of Central Texas by Andrew Adams, Melinda Villagran, Robert Mace

“… Along a segment of the Guadalupe River in Central Texas, multiple historic dams owned and operated by the Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority have failed. …”
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Verbal Self-Representation of German-Speaking Influencers in Instagram by V. V. Kaziaba

“…The article covers the features of verbal self-presentation in the German-speaking segment of the Instagram Internet service. The study focuses on the virtual personality of influencers from Germany, who through blogging gain popularity among a large audience of users and achieve commercial benefits. …”
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Vehicle Collision Warning Based on Combination of the YOLO Algorithm and the Kalman Filter in the Driving Assistance System by Guihua Miao, Weihe Wang, Jinjun Tang, Fang Li, Yunyi Liang

“…In the collision warning segment, a TTC threshold is set by considering not only vehicle safety guarantees but also avoiding hard barking that would make drivers uncomfortable. …”
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Media Communications as a Context for Imprinting Formation by E. S. Radiontseva

“…The findings indicate that different typological segments of the media system represent distinct behavioral programs. …”
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Research on Reliability Test Cycle of Drive Motor System Based on User Model by LIU Haichao, SHEN Dingjian, TANG Xionghui, LIU Chuande, LIU Jiaxiang

“…To address the issues in reliability bench tests for drive motor system of electric vehicle, particularly low correlation between reliability test conditions and real-world user driving scenarios, as well as non-equivalence in damage effects, a method for constructing reliability test cycles based on user driving models is proposed. …”
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Scientific basis of priority directions of the health care development for cardiac patients in city by L. I. Danilchenko

“…Improving medical and demographic situation, increasing the availability and quality of care to all segments of the population is the priority task of modern health care system in Ukraine. …”
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SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE INVESTING AS THE DI-RECTION OF CAPITAL MARKET DEVELOPMENT by Grażyna Michalczuk, Urszula Konarzewska

“…Socially responsible investing (SRI) is becoming an increasingly fast-growing segment of the capital market. It refers to transactions in which the investment objective is determined not only by financial criteria (expected rate of return and risk) but also by non-financial aspects related to environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) issues.The aim of the article is to diagnose socially responsible investing in the capital markets in spatial terms. …”
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Financial technologies trends and how they will shape financial markets by B. N. Kobadilov, G. B. Omarov, D. D. Yermekbayeva

“…Goal of the research is to organize research findings and reveal general trends in fintech that can be applied to fintech sphere classified to segments depending on technologies used. Research work covers fintech areas such as: Innovation labs, Platform business, Cloud solutions, Anti Money Laundering, Know Your Customer, Blockchain, Regulatory technologies and Big Data. …”
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STUDY OF WINES POSITIONING ON THE ROMANIAN MARKET by Alex GAVRILESCU

“…The theoretical contribution of this paper is to clarify the issues of positioning and to emphasize its importance. …”
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Modern soccer industry management and current challenges: systematic literature review by Daniel Getnet, Zelalem Melkamu, Sisay Mengistu

“…Numerous studies have been conducted in different parts, segments, and levels of the soccer industry. However, the findings are inconclusive, unidirectional, and contradictory. …”
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Competitive authoritarian regime: tactics of opposition actors by V. S. Lapin

“…The empirical part of the article includes: 1) forming a public protests database in the electoral cycle of 2015 (January-September) in the Central Federal District of Russia, which includes the regional authority elections, members of regional and local legislatures; 2) statistical processing of data of opposition’s participation / nonparticipation in public protests, number of protesters, opposition cooperative actions, issues of protests; 3) designing and measuring empirically observable features of protests make it possible to segment the public protest activity into 2 basic parts: civic activity and mobilization activity – and then to analyze the scope of cooperation of various opposition parties in mobilization actions. …”
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Developing and Deploying End‐to‐End Machine Learning Systems for Social Impact: A Rubric and Practical Artificial Intelligence Case Studies From African Contexts by Engineer Bainomugisha, Joyce Nakatumba‐Nabende

“…Despite the potential of AI, the practical and technical issues related to its development and deployment in the African context are the least documented and understood. …”
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EU Social Economy: Means to ending Inequality? by Natalia V. Govorova

“…In recent years, the European Union has been facing increasing technological, economic, environmental and social challenges. The issues of strengthening the social economy are becoming increasingly important in an era of instability and uncertainty in the prospects of global development. …”
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The State of Interbank Competition in the Russian Banking Market by O. Yu. Donetskova

“…The works of foreign and domestic economists on the issues of bank management and the state of interbank competition serve as a theoretical and methodological base. …”
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