Current Trends of DOVID Use as Security Features for Documents (Banknotes) and Their Authenticity Verification by A. V. Dumski, I. V. Duboiski

“…The article considers one of the most technologically advanced groups of document and banknote security features – diffractive optically variable image devices (DOVID). …”
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Is the devil dressed in greed? Toward a peaceful, just, and sustainable world order by Roy I. Bhikharie

“…Despite the United Nations’ (UN) existence for much of a century, most countries continue to exploit and compete for cheap labor, causing poverty rates to climb. …”
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SPECIFIC FEATURES OF NDVI, NDWI AND MNDWI AS REFLECTED IN LAND COVER CATEGORIES by SZILÁRD SZABÓ, ZOLTÁN GÁCSI, BOGLÁRKA BALÁZS

“…MNDWI was found as the most effective in highlighting water bodies.…”
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The plurality of temporal reckoning among the Maya by William F. Hanks

“…It demonstrates that multiple systems of temporal reckoning and orientation co-operate in the traditional domains of daily practice, and it attempts to formulate principles by which different systems are combined in actional frameworks It is argued that most cyclicity in contemporary Yucatec Maya is derivative of natural or social processes and that in rituals it results from the translation of spatial arrays into temporal sequences. …”
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SOVIET CONSTRUCTION IN THE NATIONAL ENVIRONMENT IN THE NORTH-CAUCASUS REGION (BY THE EXAMPLE OF THE GERMAN POPULATION) by A. Averyanov

“…The factors that hindered the processes of Soviet construction among the German population of the region are highlighted. …”
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A Mobility-Aware Efficient Routing Scheme for Mobile Sensor Networks by Jinman Jung, Yookun Cho, Jiman Hong

“…We evaluate the performance of MAER using a simulation by comparing it to the most popular standard for WSN, AODV. The results of the simulation show that our scheme outperforms AODV in mixed mobile sensor networks.…”
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New Market Segmentation Knowledge in the Function of Bioeconomy Development in Serbia by Nenad Djokic, Aleksandar Grubor, Nikola Milicevic, Viktorija Petrov

“…The results point out to adventurous consumers as the most important current and future market for organic food. …”
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MODERN HISTORIOGRAPHY OF THE «PROTEST SENTIMENTS» OF THE RUSSIAN PEASANTRY 1902–1922. by Frolov V.N.

“…Most authors conclude that the peasantry advocated improving their socio-economic situation and preserving themselves as a social stratum.…”
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Complex PM2.5 Pollution and Hospital Admission for Respiratory Diseases over Big Data in Cloud Environment by Yi Zhou, Lianshui Li

“…With the establishment of China’s national air quality monitoring network, large amounts of monitoring data are available for different kinds of users. How to process and use this big data is a tough problem for users: most users have limited computing power, and new data are collected at every moment. …”
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Clinical Presentations and Nosocomial Infections of Neurolisteriosis by Javier Vicente Trejos Pino, Juan Carlos Rodriguez Delgado

“…The elderly and immunocompromised patients are the most susceptible population to developing neurolisteriosis, and few cases occur in healthy young people. …”
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Nutritional Significance of Tropical Vegetables in Poultry Feeding: A Review by Muyiwa Adegbenro

“…In developing nations Nigeria inclusive, most of the cereals grown are for human consumption. …”
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Foundation Networks and American Hegemony by Inderjeet Parmar

“…Their significance in American hegemony building lay in their sustained, long-term cooperative relationship with the American state through which they helped build national, international and global institutions and networks. The latter process evidences the most significant impact of US foundations – the building of the domestic and international infrastructure for liberal internationalism which has transformed into a kind of “social neoliberalism”. …”
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The role of conceptualization in the evaluation of sustainable concrete by Michael Henry, Joel Opon

“…It was found that the most sustainable concrete mix varied by scenario, but one concrete mix combining blast furnace slag and high grade recycled aggregates could be judged as the most sustainable due to its highest mean score and lowest variance across all analytical scenarios, which suggests it as the mix least sensitive to methodological choices on conceptualization and aggregation. …”
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Administrative legal means for the organization of getting higher education and the training of scientific and teaching staff by S. M. Rukavishnikov

“…Administrative legal means, as the one of the most broad and governmental significant categories of administrative law, factually cover all the number of settlements and actions for the governing of any sphere of social relations from the government agencies and specially authorized organizations. …”
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Frugal populists: fiscal management under populist rule in Europe and the OECD by Petar Stankov

“…Second, most populists in Europe and the OECD have so far been allocated junior coalition roles, limiting their potential damage on policy design and implementation. …”
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A critical analysis of the recent developments in alternative care space across South Asia amidst the Covid-19 crisis by Kiran Modi, Gurneet Kalra, Leena Prasad, Rajeshwari Narsimha, Jyoti Singh

“…In many situations of conflicts, natural disasters, or pandemics, it is always the children who are the most vulnerable. With the world shutting down due to the invisible threat to civilisation, the most affected are the children living in alternative care settings and the children who are on possible verge of family breakdown and ending up in institutions. …”

Imaging scattering resonances in low-energy inelastic ND3-H2 collisions by Stach E. J. Kuijpers, David H. Parker, Jérôme Loreau, Ad van der Avoird, Sebastiaan Y. T. van de Meerakker

“…Predicted decades ago theoretically, they have only been resolved experimentally for systems involving at most four atoms. Extension to more complex systems is essential to probe the true quantum nature of chemically more relevant processes, but is thus far hampered by major obstacles. …”
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Machine Learning Techniques for Kinship Verification: A Review by Olivia Oraha, Yusra Mohammad

“…Kinship verification is an automatic determining process of people relationships, if two or more individuals are in kin relation or not. …”
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Roles for epigenetics in wood formation and stress response intrees–from basic biology to forest management by Andrew Groover

“…Most forest trees species are undomesticated and typically grown on variable landscapes with no irrigation or application of agricultural chemicals. …”
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HERRAMIENTAS PARA ABORDAR LA RESTAURACIÓN ECOLÓGICA DE ÁREAS DISTURBADAS EN COLOMBIA by J. I. Barrera-Cataño, C. Valdés-López

“…This paper is a revision about different topics related to restoration ecology, ecological restoration ofdisturbed areas, and application of concepts to carry out the ecological restoration of disturbed ecosystems,especially in high mountain ecosystems.Colombian Andes comprises various ecosystems that are seriously exposed to human activities becausethis is the most populated area in the country. As a consequence, these mountains present a wide range ofdisturbed areas, such as fragmented forests, derelict lands, urban centres, cultivated areas and grazedareas, areas experiencing erosive processes, rivers and streams with reduced water flow rates, andcontaminated soils and water bodies, amongst others.Restoration of these areas would require designing and implementing techniques based on applicableconcepts from Ecology, in order to develop an effective restoration strategy to assist the recovery ofdegraded environments and ensures their sustainability.Initiatives on ecological restoration require considering complexity levels. …”
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