Metal oxides as photocatalysts by Mohammad Mansoob Khan

“…The promising arrangement of electronic structure, light absorption properties, and charge transport characteristics of most of the metal oxides has made possible its application as photocatalyst. …”
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Dust variability and land degradation in the Sahel by Pierre Ozer

“…Since the late 1960s, West-Africa is affected by the most severe and prolonged drought of the 20th century. …”
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ALGORITHM OF TAKING DECISION ON PROCEDURE TO BE FOLLOWED IN A BANKRUPTCY CASE by V. N. Alferov

“…Choosing the procedure to be followed in a bankruptcy (insolvency) case and analysis of the debtor’s financial condition is one of most important arbitration process stages. It is proposed that the choice of the bankruptcy procedure be made on the basis of comparison between the totalamount of debts according to the creditors’ claims and the income both earned before the bankruptcy proceedings and accumulated in the course of it. …”
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Profiles of Discrimination: A Critical Argument against Racial Profiling by Marco Goldoni

“…This essay intends to put forward the idea that racial profiling is (1) discriminatory, (2) inefficient and, most importantly, (3) part of the process of racialising certain groups within a society. …”
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Cyber epidemic spread forecasting based on the entropy-extremal dynamic interpretation of the SIR model by Viacheslav Kovtun, Krzysztof Grochla, Mohammed Al-Maitah, Saad Aldosary, Tetiana Gryshchuk

“…Nonlinear dynamic models, most commonly the SIR model, are widely used to describe such processes. …”
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Integration and the Diplomatic Crisis: Current Realities of the GCC by L. V. Shkvarya

“…The article analyzes the integration process in the Gulf Cooperation Council group countries (GCC), which was founded in 1981. …”
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Simulation of Vertical Movements of Seawater in Stratified Reservoirs by N. V. Kudinov, A. A. Filina, A. V. Nikitina, D. V. Bondarenko, I. F. Razveeva

“…The authors were faced with the task of approximating each part of the hydrodynamic model split by physical processes with the most adequate scheme and further investigating the correctness of this approach.Materials and Methods. …”
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IMPLEMENTATION OF COMMUNICATIVE STRATEGIES OF ENGLISH BUSINESS COMMUNICATION by Nataliia V. Zinukova

“…The article considers the features of Business English discourse, which operates in one of the most important areas of cross-cultural communication – business communication. …”
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Revisiting the choice of teaching methods in mathematical training of a future primary school teacher by N. M. Evtykhova

“…Despite the existing fairly large number of publications, it is difficult to find studies reflecting a harmonious combination of traditional and digital technologies in the subject (in particular, mathematical) training of future primary school teachers, which allows us to talk about the relevance of this topic.The problem of the research is to identify the most effective pedagogical methods and technologies and digitalization of the educational process in the context of blended learning of Mathematics for future primary school teachers. …”
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THE FINANCE PERSPECTIVE OF THE HEALTH SYSTEMS IN THE E.U. COUNTRIES by MARIANA MAN, MARIA MĂCRIȘ

“…At a world wide level, after 1960, the amount of health expenditures increased so that it has doubled in most developed countries.…”
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Organizações internacionais na era da descolonização: introdução by José Pedro Monteiro

“…The main aim of this introduction to the special theme section on International Organizations in the Era of Decolonization is to identify some of the most promising scientific developments that took place in this field, connecting them to specific historical phenomena and processes. …”
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Policy Brief - Unlocking Potential: Addressing Challenges and Harnessing the Role of Cottage Industries, Insight from Oromia Region of Ethiopia by Birku Reta Entele, Yadeta Chimdessa, Mogos Tufa, Hailu Beyecha, Milkessa Seyoum

“…At  last but not least, this study shows that existing cottage industry demands less initial/investment capital, traditional tools and equipment mostly bought from the local market, majority have no formal schooling, their productivity is much less than 50% of their capacity.  …”
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Patient preferences and shared decision making for the traditional Chinese medicine treatment of lung cancer: A discrete choice experiment study by Yue Teng, Yan Wei, Yingyao Chen, Juntao Yan, Shimeng Liu, Fuming Li, Shiyi Bao, Yanfeng Ren, Liu Liu, Yi Yang

“…Subgroup analysis indicated that patients with a lower SDM-Q-9 score and those who were satisfied with medical services emphasized more importance of higher disease control rate. Furthermore, most of the patients (90.20%) self-reported a high willingness to use SDM during the decision-making process. …”
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Forest cover is more important than its integrity or landscape configuration in determining habitat use by mammals in a human-modified landscape in Colombia by Lain E. Pardo, Bibiana Gómez-Valencia, Nicolas J. Deere, Yenifer Herrera Varón, Carolina Soto, Elkin A. Noguera-Urbano, Lina M. Sánchez-Clavijo, Luis Romero, Angélica Díaz-Pulido, José Manuel Ochoa-Quintero

“…This is most likely the result of a long filtering process caused by land use transformation and hunting which could have caused non-sensitive species to distribute relatively homogenously across this landscape. …”
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Gottfried Benn: Untergrundbahn (1917)

“…Gottfried Benn is one of the most important German-speaking poets of the 20th century and his work is so heterogeneous that it cannot be allocated to a single literary period or current. …”
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Du cobaye aux nuggets by Frédéric Graber

“…This transformation of the broiler is the result of a process of industrialization that happened in most Western countries, but started in the United States and expanded there like nowhere else. …”
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RETOLD: CIDOC CRM and the Documentation of Buildings and Crafts by Cordula Hansen

“…Cultural heritage documentation is the process of systematically recording and preserving information about historical artifacts, monuments, traditions, and other intangible cultural expressions. …”
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Success Factors of the Companies Mergers and Acquisitions by Maria Sierpińska, Robert Bąk

“…Mergers and acquisitions (MA) are one of the most important phenomenons influencing dynamics of the world economy growth. …”
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FORMS, SPACES AND TIMES OF MARGINALITY AN INTRODUCTION by Silvia Aru, Matteo Puttilli

“…The first part explores the different viewpoints and approaches to marginality within the international debate, focusing on the socio-spatial effects of the processes of marginalization. The second part presents the most recent reflections upon the multiple and controversial connections between contemporary marginalizations and neoliberal (urban) policies. …”
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Lessons learned from the co-development of operational climate forecast services for vineyards management by N. Pérez-Zanón, V. Agudetse, E. Baulenas, P.A. Bretonnière, C. Delgado-Torres, N. González-Reviriego, A. Manrique-Suñén, A. Nicodemou, M. Olid, Ll. Palma, M. Terrado, B. Basile, F. Carteni, A. Dente, C. Ezquerra, F. Oldani, M. Otero, F. Santos-Alves, M. Torres, J. Valente, A. Soret

“…In this way, the climate service process would be ‘slowed down’, by which the use of climate data is incorporated more slowly and allows for place-based knowledge from the resource managers to be included too.One of the most challenging questions is the communication of the probabilistic forecasts product and their quality. …”
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