Regional processes in Hungary - From PHARE to Smart specialisation by Viktória Józsa

“…Europeanisation and regionalization, European convergence versus local divergence are important and timely questions as regards the future of EU cohesion policy, that originally aimed to reduce economic, social and territorial inequalities. …”
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The die is cast: Sweden and Finland’s long road to NATO by E. V. Korunova

“…The third section outlines the determinants of the foreign policy transformation of the Northern European neutrals in the aftermath of the Cold War. …”
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Longitudinal validation of King's Sarcoidosis Questionnaire in a prospective cohort with mild sarcoidosis by Janne Møller, Thomas Skovhus Prior, Ole Hilberg, Surinder Birring, Elisabeth Bendstrup

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Roman Law on legal personality: pro et contra by Yu. M. Zhornokui

“…The analysis of the civil law doctrine of Roman law regarding the doctrine of a legal entity in the context of comparison with the modern understanding of the essence of such a participant in civil relations led to the conclusion that although Roman lawyers did not develop the concept of a legal entity, they proposed its main practical manifestation: the concept of legal capacity, which does not depend on an individual, the concept of legal capacity and the main types of legal entities that were further developed in European jurisprudence (corporations and institutions). …”
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Effects of noise and metabolic cost on cortical task representations by Jake Patrick Stroud, Michal Wojcik, Kristopher Torp Jensen, Makoto Kusunoki, Mikiko Kadohisa, Mark J Buckley, John Duncan, Mark G Stokes, Mate Lengyel

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The US liberal political and academic establishment on national-territorial transformation of Russia in 1917–1922 by V. V. Romanov

“…However, as the author notes, for European politicians its responses appeared rather unusual and often puzzling. …”
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The Muscadine Grape (Vitis rotundifolia Michx) by Peter C. Andersen, Ali Sarkhosh, Dustin Huff, Jacque Breman

“…Most scientists divide the Vitis genus into two subgenera: Euvitis (the European, Vitis vinifera L. grapes and the American bunch grapes, Vitis labrusca L.) and the Muscadania grapes (muscadine grapes). …”
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Legal bases for counteracting financial terrorism by I. V. Kyrieieva, А. І. Denysov

“…It has been noted that the implementation of reforms on Ukraine's European integration becomes possible only under the conditions of legal consolidation, detailing and observance of the legal bases of counteraction to financial terrorism in those normative and legal acts, which regulate the issues of financial security.…”
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Innovations in pharmaceutical policies and learnings for sustainable access to affordable medicines by Sabine Vogler, Nina Zimmermann, Manuel Alexander Haasis, Verena Knoll, Jaime Espin, Aukje K. Mantel-Teeuwisse, Dimitra Panteli, Fatima Suleman, Veronika J. Wirtz, Zaheer-Ud-Din Babar

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Socio-Economic Challenges for the Urban Ecosystem: Complex Model of Smart Tourism and Infrastructure by Gevorg Orbelyan

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Contribution des données paléométallurgiques à l’histoire des sociétés ouest-africaines durant les royaumes de Ghâna, Mâli, Gao et Mossi by Caroline Robion-Brunner

“…Its trajectory, which is therefore long term – at least three millennia – declines with the importation of European iron from the 15th century and ends in the early 20th century. …”
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Verbalization of the concept of “hearing” in Slavic languages by Liudmyla Pedchenko

“…Modern Slavic nominations of auditory perception belong to the all-Slavic vocabulary and have Proto-Indo-European roots. The main Slavic name for the ability to hear – слух – is a verbal formation that implements the nominative model: ‘action’ > ‘ability to perform an action’. …”
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Sheikh al-Qaraḍāwī’s Independent Reasoning (Ijtihād) in Reformulating Contemporary Islamic Criminal Jurisprudence within the Framework of the Modern State by Gaber Mohamed

“…Al-Qaraḍāwī’s views covered a range of complex criminal issues, including his stance on abolishing the death penalty, gender equality in matters of blood money, retribution between Muslims and non-Muslims, the changing jurisprudential concept of guardianship in retribution cases, the minimum threshold for amputation on theft, criticism of the modern prison system, punishment by stoning, the crime of apostasy, and his critique of the prevailing European narrative on corporal punishments in Islam. …”
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Regulatory and legal basement of decentralization in local self-government according to the legislation of Ukraine and Poland by Shatilo V.

“…It is characterized by the following common features: 1) the presence of a long transition period from self-government of a state with experience in an undemocratic regime; 2) the foundation in the form of the European Charter of Local Self-Government of 1985; 3) carrying out the reform of the decentralization of public power in the context of EU values, but outside the fulfillment of the requirements for joining the specified state-political association. …”
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An exploration of clinically meaningful definitions of cough bouts by Kimberley J. Holt, Rachel J. Dockry, Kevin McGuinness, Emma Barrett, Jaclyn A. Smith

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Soil smoldering in temperate forests: a neglected contributor to fire carbon emissions revealed by atmospheric mixing ratios by L. Vallet, L. Vallet, C. Abdallah, T. Lauvaux, L. Joly, M. Ramonet, P. Ciais, M. Lopez, I. Xueref-Remy, F. Mouillot

“…Consequently, we conclude that current European fire emission estimates should be revised to account for soil combustion in temperate forests. …”
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Urethra-sparing prostate cancer radiotherapy: Current practices and future insights from an international survey by Jennifer Le Guévelou, Paul Sargos, Piet Ost, Filippo Alongi, Stefano Arcangeli, Alejandro Berlin, Pierre Blanchard, Anna Bruynzeel, Olivier Chapet, Alan Dal Pra, Robert T. Dess, Matthias Guckenberger, Andrew Loblaw, Amar U. Kishan, Barbara Alicja Jereczek-Fossa, David Pasquier, Mohamed Shelan, Shankar Siva, Alison C. Tree, Costantinos Zamboglou, Stephane Supiot, Vedang Murthy, Thomas Zilli

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Editorial by Ann-Kristin Kölln, Antony Mason, Maria Lenk, Jörg Tremmel, Markus Rutsche

“…To test their hypotheses, the authors use data on over 6,000 Members of the European Parliament ever elected and match them with information on party characteristics. …”
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Editorial by Pieter Vanhuysse, Antony Mason, Jörg Tremmel, Markus Rutsche, Maria Lenk

“…Gál, Róbert I. / Vanhuysse, Pieter / Vargha, Lili (forthcoming/2018): Pro-elderly welfare states within child-oriented societies. In: Journal of European Public Policy. Sanderson, Warren C. / Scherbov, Sergei (2013): The characteristics approach to the measurement of population aging. …”
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Atacama Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (AtLAST) science: Probing the transient and time-variable sky [version 2; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations] by Pamela Klaassen, Mark Booth, Thomas Stanke, Evanthia Hatziminaoglou, Claudia Cicone, Martin Cordiner, Tony Mroczkowski, Doug Johnstone, Luca Di Mascolo, Minju Lee, Eelco van Kampen, Thomas Maccarone, Daizhong Liu, Matthew Smith, Amélie Saintonge, Sven Wedemeyer, Alexander Thelen, John Orlowski-Scherer, Tomasz Kamiński, Joe Bright, Atul Mohan, Michael Koss, Sigurd Næss, Francisco Miguel Montenegro-Montes, Paola Severgnini, Claudio Ricci, Jochen Greiner, Cristian Vignali

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