Democratising Nuclear Governance: The Role of African Civil Society in the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) by Michaelan Sinnett, Joelien Pretorius

“…However, the extent of broad-based representation of civil societies across the world is equally important to ICAN’s role. It is in this respect that the article turns specifically to African civil society participation as part of ICAN. …”
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Study of Seasonal Variation in Groundwater Quality of Sagar City (India) by Principal Component Analysis by Hemant Pathak, S. N. Limaye

“…Results of principal component analysis evinced that all the parameters equally and significantly contribute to groundwater quality variations. …”
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Is It Possible to Observe Society in Its Totality? Niklas Luhmann as Perseus and Medusa as Society by A. Yu. Antonovskiy

“…Such inclu- sion of “Self-Description” (“shorthand”, “scene description”) in the corpus of social theory, as its integral and equal part with the function of describing the formation, semantics and theoretical resources of the theory of society itself, has become an important theoretical innovation in the field of social theory.…”
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Design and Fabrication of a High Performance Microfluidic Chip for Blood Plasma Separation: Modelling and Prediction of System Behaviour via CFD Method by Hossein Amini, Amin Sokhansanj, Mohammad Akrami, Ismaeil Haririan

“…Correlation between plasma separation results obtained from software and experimental data showed a coefficient of determination equal to 0.9732. This simple, rapid, stable, and reliable microchip can be considered as a promising candidate for providing plasma in point-of-care diagnostics.…”
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Career development programs and employee retention: Insights from the Ministry of Works in Tanzania by Hindu Augossy, Richard Msacky, Chacha Magasi

“…The study was guided by equity theory, which was founded on the assumption that employees tend to remain with their organisation when they are perceived to be treated equally. Cronbach's Alpha coefficient was used to assess the variable’s reliability. …”
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Upholding United Nations Global Legitimacy in Human Rights Protection and Humanitarian Assistance within the European Union: A Legal Overview of the EU-UN Natural Partnership by Nives Mazur Kumrić

“…Promoting respect for human rights and providing humanitarian assistance exemplify one of the core shared values and objectives of the EU-UN agenda, deeply rooted in the premise that universal values of peace, equal rights, freedom, and human dignity may be effectively defended through efficient multilateralism only. …”
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Performance of women-owned businesses that patent by Chahreddine Abbes, Amélie Lafrance-Cooke, Danny Leung

“…This study compares the performance of businesses owned by women (majority or equal ownership) that patent with that of majority men-owned businesses and businesses where gender of ownership cannot be assigned. …”
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COPD in females- Seeing through the smoke by S R Sreedevi, Ramesh Holla, A. K Vishak, Bhaskaran Unnikrishnan, T Rekha, P Prasanna Mithra, Nithin Kumar, Mithun Rao

“…There are many studies estimating the burden of COPD in men and women, however, only a few studies have estimated the prevalence of COPD in women aged more than 40 years. Women are equally susceptible to COPD, as they are exposed more to domestic smoke, but they are often neglected and the disease goes unnoticed, which makes them more vulnerable to respiratory failure following a respiratory infection. …”
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A Novel Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm Based on Internal-Feedback Strategy for Image Template Matching by Bai Li, Li-Gang Gong, Ya Li

“…This purpose is achieved through discarding the conventional roulette selection procedure in the ABC algorithm so as to provide each employed bee an equal chance to be followed by the onlooker bees in the local search phase. …”
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Défis industriels et mouvements sociaux en Haute-Garonne (1967-1978) by Clair Juilliet, Michaël Llopart

“…It was first necessary to study the major socio-economic issues that arose due to the state of the economy and the continuities and ruptures that marked departmental life, the major theme being the influence of workers' demands. It was equally necessary to assess the extent to which local expectations as regards social matters, industrialization or equipment may have affected the political and economic decisions of the "68 years". …”
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2023 GENERAL ELECTIONS, POLITICAL VIOLENCE AND NATIONAL INTEGRATION IN NIGERIA: A STUDY OF LAGOS STATE EXPERIENCE by AHMED OLAWALE MOLIKI, PETER ADENIYI Oluwatobi

“…The study discovered that several composite factors such as politics of sentiment and entitlement (Emilokan - it is my turn - mantra), excessive monetised politics, religiosity, ethnicised politics and power shift syndrome, among others, promoted the political violence witnessed during the general elections in Lagos State. Equally, the study revealed that political violence witnessed in Lagos State during the 2023 general elections further wrecked havoc on the already cracked and disunity relationship among the ethnic groupings residing in Lagos State as the elections breed sentiment, disunity, distrust and threatens friendliness, tolerance, economic activities and democracy in the state. …”
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Two Approaches to Constructing Certified Dominating Sets in Social Networks by Joanna Raczek, Mateusz Miotk

“…To compare the two methods, we first studied the computational complexity of the decision problem of whether, for a given graph, the domination number, which is the minimum size of a dominating set, is equal to the certified domination number, that is, the minimum size of a certified dominating set. …”
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Uncovering the Heterogeneity of Signaling Pathways in Skin Cutaneous Melanoma: Insights into Prognostic Values and Immune Interactions by Liu Y, Li C, Deng W

“…Yufang Liu,1,* Chunyan Li,2,* Weiwei Deng2 1Department of Dermatology and Venereology, Fuyang People’s Hospital, Fuyang, Anhui, 236000, People’s Republic of China; 2Department of Dermatology and Venereology, Dermatology Hospital of Southern Medical University, Department of Dermatology, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China*These authors contributed equally to this workCorrespondence: Weiwei Deng, Email dengww@smu.edu.cnBackground: Signaling pathways play crucial roles in tumor cells. …”
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Extracting the symmetries of nonequilibrium quantum many-body systems by Aleksandr N. Mikheev, Viktoria Noel, Ido Siovitz, Helmut Strobel, Markus K. Oberthaler, Jürgen Berges

“…Our approach is based on exact relations between correlation functions involving different numbers of spatial points, which can be viewed as nonequilibrium versions of (equal-time) Ward identities encoding the symmetries of the system. …”
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Time series analysis of radiant heat using 75 hours VIIRS satellite day and night band nightfire data by Jyoti U. Devkota

“…Cubic Spline Interpolation and merging has been done to create a time series data occurring at equal minute time interval. The time series data is decomposed to study the effect of various components. …”
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A Comparative Efficacy of Low-Dose Combined Oral Contraceptives Containing Desogestrel and Drospirenone in Premenstrual Symptoms by Jirath Wichianpitaya, Surasak Taneepanichskul

“…In an open-label randomized controlled trial, 90 women with premenstrual syndrome who required COC were randomly recruited and allocated equally to receive either 6 cycles of 20 micrograms ethinyl estradiol (EE)/150 micrograms DSG (DSG group) or 20 micrograms EE/3 mg DRSP (DRSP group) in 24/4 extended regimen. …”
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Three-Dimensional Virtual Model for Robot-Assisted Partial Nephrectomy (RAPN): Development of Study Protocol for Evaluation of the Learning Curve to Optimize the Precision and Accu... by Traverso P, Mantica G, Giasotto V, Terrone C

“…Paolo Traverso,1,2,* Guglielmo Mantica,1,2,* Veronica Giasotto,2 Carlo Terrone1,2 1Department of Surgical and Diagnostic Integrated Sciences (DISC), University of Genova, Genova, Italy; 2IRCCS Policlinico San Martino, Genova, Italy*These authors contributed equally to this workCorrespondence: Guglielmo Mantica, Department of Surgical and Diagnostic Integrated Sciences (DISC), University of Genova, Largo Rosanna Benzi 20, Genova, 16132, Italy, Tel +39010555964, Email guglielmo.mantica@gmail.comAbstract: 3D models have been introduced as tools to improve surgeon’s precision during Robotic-Assisted Partial Nephrectomy (RAPN). …”
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Does the Site of Anterior Tracheal Puncture Affect the Success Rate of Retrograde Intubation? A Prospective, Manikin-Based Study by Eric A. Harris, Kristopher L. Arheart, Kenneth E. Fischler

“…The technique is a practical option in the “cannot intubate / can ventilate” scenario. However, it is equally useful as an elective technique in awake patients with anticipated difficult airways. …”
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Impact of irrelevant speech and non-speech sounds on serial recall of verbal and spatial items in children and adults by Larissa Leist, Thomas Lachmann, Maria Klatte

“…In the verbal task, both age groups were equally affected by background sounds, with speech impairing recall more than environmental sounds. …”
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Effect of Acupuncture and Motor Imagery Therapy on Unilateral Spatial Neglect in Stroke Patients by Da LEI, Renming XIE, Honggui CAO, Yanru LI, Fanglue CHEN

“…The effect means descended scores of CBS, the increased FMA scale and MBI were not equal in the three groups. The effect in the experiment group is significantly better than the scores in the other groups, <italic>P</italic>&lt;0.01. …”
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