Critique and Review of Post-American World by Hossein Poorahmade Meibode, Amir Abbasi Khoshkar

“…America at the post- cold war period has been relative decline in front of other strategic rivals and Zakaria s solutions for improve American relative conditions at post–American world are tends American to multilateralism and accepts the structural constrain that are face to that.…”
Get full text

Looking for “I”: Casting the Unnamed Heroine in Alfred Hitchcock and David O. Selznick’s Adaptation of Rebecca by Milan Hain

“…Drawing on archival documents from the Selznick Collection at the Harry Ransom Center in Austin, Texas, and on the surviving screen tests of several candidates for the main role, the author compares Fontaine’s screen tests with those of her most immediate “rivals” – Vivien Leigh, Anne Baxter, Margaret Sullavan and Loretta Young – and relates them to the vibrant exchange of opinions between Selznick and director Alfred Hitchcock for whom the film marked his Hollywood debut. …”
Get full text

HighDimMixedModels.jl: Robust high-dimensional mixed-effects models across omics data. by Evan Gorstein, Rosa Aghdam, Claudia Solís-Lemus

“…High-dimensional mixed-effects models are an increasingly important form of regression in which the number of covariates rivals or exceeds the number of samples, which are collected in groups or clusters. …”
Get full text

The Ethical Significance of the Consequences of Our Actions: Contemporary Theory of Action, Aquinas, and the Utilitarian Point of View by Stefan Hofmann

“…It is shown that when it comes to complex actions, Aquinas’ account is more sophisticated and has more intuitive support than its utilitarian rivals. …”
Get full text

Quality and Competitiveness in the System of Higher Education: Aspects of Interrelation by A. I. Vasil’ev

“…The author’s definition of the competitiveness of educational organization as a feature reflecting the relative superiority over rivals at the pre-active stage is proposed. The author considers the relationship of competitiveness and quality of education by highlighting the methods and indicators of their evaluation and analysis in the intra-university management system. …”
Get full text

Ukrayna Örneğinden Hareketle Nükleer Silahsızlanmanın Olası Sonuçlarına Dair Bir İnceleme by Eray ALIM

“…By way of conclusion, it is argued in the context of the 2014 crisis that, denuclearization constitutes a potential national security risk for states (Ukraine) that face formidable nuclear-armed rivals (Russia).…”
Get full text

AN INQUIRY INTO CHINA’S ALIGNMENT WITH RUSSIA by W. Li

“…Yet, they also split into the arch rivals for nearly two decades until the early 1980s. …”
Get full text

Multi-level high utility-itemset hiding. by Loan T T Nguyen, Hoa Duong, An Mai, Bay Vo

“…Organizations and corporations who publicly share their data always have a major concern that their sensitive information may be leaked or extracted by rivals or attackers using data miners. High-utility itemset mining (HUIM) is an extension to frequent itemset mining (FIM) which deals with business data in the form of transaction databases, data that is also in danger of being stolen. …”
Get full text

MÜŞTERİ İLİŞKİLERİ YÖNETİMİ SÜRECİNDE SÖZSÜZ İLETİŞİMİN ROLÜ: TÜRKİYE'DEKİ 5 YILDIZLI OTELLER ÜZERİNE BİR ÇALIŞMA - THE ROLE OF NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION IN CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MAN... by Bahar Urhan Torun, Abdullah Koçak

“…Business organizations competing with various rivals, think by the illusion of the modern age; the best way to reach their target consumers is to use benefits of technology. …”
Get full text

Moral Aspects of Some Combat Sports by Jacek Meller

“…Rules that apply in modern combat sports, lead to aggressive behaviour towards rivals, and give an advantage to the person who, not only strikes more technically correct blows or uses grips, but also reduces the opponent’s ability to fight further.  …”
Get full text

Between giants and windmills: Lulismo in the presidential elections of 2018 by Mércia Alves, Joyce Miranda Leão Martins

“…It is concluded that Lulismo was mobilized to fight against the Temer government and the Brazilian Social Democratic Party, which were not dangerous rivals; however, it failed to build a narrative against the “dragons” of anti-petismo that questioned not only the Brazilian electoral game, but the democratic regime itself.…”
Get full text

Lobbying of Qatar's Interests in the United States and the Qatar Diplomatic Crisis by D. B. Grafov

“…Although Qatar is not as powerful as its rivals, but it uses the “defensive realism” strategy, that allows it to disrupt aggressive efforts and increase the costs of the Saudi coalition.…”
Get full text

THE INFLUENCE OF IRANIAN SCHOLARSHIPS ON ISLAMIC EDUCATION IN KANO, 1979-2015 by Abdulaziz Mamuda, Salihu Zubairu Mustapha

“…Through the Fudiyyah schools, the Islamic Movement in Nigeria stands a better chance of attracting more patronage and legitimacy among Muslims in Kano, restricting their members from attending other schools and especially given the development of the group’s competitions with its Sunni rivals, the Fudiyyah schools served as check-mate to the similar Islamiyya school system operated by the Sunnis. …”
Get full text

Two-stage oxidation of petrogenic organic carbon in a rapidly exhuming small mountainous catchment by Wan-Yin Lien, Chih-Tung Chen, Yun-Hsuan Lee, Chih-Chieh Su, Pei-Ling Wang, Li-Hung Lin

“…Abstract Globally, the oxidative flux of petrogenic organic carbon rivals the drawdown by silicate weathering and burial of biospheric carbon. …”
Get full text

Newspaper “Rech” in the July Crisis of 1914 by B. S. Kotov

“…Reflecting the foreign policy program of the Kadet party, "Rech" supported the idea of the alliance with France and England and considered Germany and Austria-Hungary as the main rivals of Russia for influence on the Balkans and the Middle East. …”
Get full text

Inevitable Choice for Survival: The Last Ottoman Grand Strategy by Murat TOMAN, Fikrettin YAVUZ

“…Last but not least this study presents an analysis of the attempt to reshape the empire’s late period grand strategy aim to outmanoeuvre stronger rivals in an anarchic international order shaped by European great powers. …”
Get full text

IMPROVING THE BUSINESS TRAJECTORY AMONG SMALL AND MEDIUM SIZE CONSTRUCTION FIRMS IN SOUTH AFRICA by L WENTZEL, John SMALLWOOD, Fidelise EMUZE

“…It is notable that the initial findings suggest that construction SMEs often encounter difficulty in securing projects, fail to realise core organisational objectives and goals, and are unable to gain cost advantages over their immediate rivals, which affects their business performance. …”
Get full text

The Electoral History of the Post-Soviet Crimea: from UkSSR to Russia by A. A. Tokarev

“…After 2002, Donetsk and Luhansk regions provided 70-100% of support to ”Party of Regions“ and its leader. While their main rivals always received minimum points from the Donbass. …”
Get full text

Reputation-Based Leader Selection Consensus Algorithm with Rewards for Blockchain Technology by Munir Hussain, Amjad Mehmood, Muhammad Altaf Khan, Rabia Khan, Jaime Lloret

“…The performance analysis is performed by using Hyperledger Fabric v2.1 and the results show that it performs better in terms of throughput, latency, CPU utilization, and communications costs than its rivals Trust-Varying Algo, FP-BFT, and Scalable and Trust-based algorithms.…”
Get full text

From Isolationism to Interventionism. Book Review of ‘The U.S.-German Relations, 1938–1941: Politics, Diplomacy, Priorities’ by O.V. Petrosyants by D. V. Rodin

“…The reviewer concludes that this research is especially relevant and worthy of attention in the current international context since it points to the need for an objective and unbiased study of the foreign policy of past and present Russia’s rivals as a key to a better understanding of their current goals.…”
Get full text