Behavioural intentions in response to a potential menthol cigarette sales ban: a survey examining smokers in Washington, DC public housing by Kimberly Horn, Craig T Dearfield, Ian Crandell, Debra H Bernat

“…This study examined public housing residents’ behavioural intentions if menthol-flavoured cigarettes were no longer sold.Setting 15 District of Columbia Housing Authority properties between March 2019 and March 2021.Participants 221 District of Columbia Housing Authority residents ages 18–80 years who reported smoking menthol cigarettes (83.3% African-American/black).Primary and secondary outcomes Cigarette quitting and switching intentions due to a hypothetical menthol-flavoured cigarette sales ban.Results Nearly one-half (48.0%) of residents said they intended to quit cigarette use if menthol-flavoured products were no longer sold, while 27.2% were unsure if they would quit, and 24.9% reported they would not quit. …”
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Les enjeux de la patrimonialisation du Parc naturel des Marais de Santoña, Victoria et Joyel (Cantabrie, Espagne) by Carmen Gil de Arriba

“…Its conservation and planning process started in 1992 with the creation of a Nature Reserve by the State Administration. In 2007, the authority was finally transferred to the Cantabrian Autonomous Government who in turn declared this territory a Natural Park in 2006.This paper aims to study the dimensions of the conflicts experienced throughout this process, in order to understand the position taken by various opinions and interests in the decision-making of a protected area.…”
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Le chiite imaginaire by Vincent Geisser

“…No longer simply conveyed by Salafist circles traditionally hostile to Shiism, it is now being reinvented by younger, “reformist” Muslim leaders who grew up in France and use anti-Shiism as a way of asserting their spiritual and communal authority.…”
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Alsace and Burgundy : Spatial Patterns in the Early Middle Ages, c. 600-900 by Karl Weber

“…In the late Merovingian period the dukes of Alsace received the authority over the former Burgundian parts in the Jura region. …”
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Proactive migration model of SWIM service based on situation awareness by Zhijun WU, Shengyan ZHOU, Jin LEI

“…To solve the problem that in the system wide information management (SWIM) network,the SWIM service provider suffers from SWIM service interruption,service delay increase or service quality degradation due to malicious attack or self-failure.Therefore,a proactive migration model of SWIM service was proposed on the basis of situation awareness,which used the random forest algorithm to timely judge the SWIM service provider security situation.SWIM service authority was actively migrated according to security situation,and the emergencies impact on SWIM services were reduces.Experimental results show that the proposed model can guarantee services continuity in an emergency event,which has higher reliability and stability than SWIM network in which the service migration model is not deployed.…”
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Uproszczenie przy imporcie towarów wynikające z art. 33a ustawy o podatku od towarów i usług by Adam Krychowski

“…Then, within 10 days from the date of notification by the customs authority of the amount of tax due, they are obliged to pay the amount of the calculated tax amount. …”
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Prospective Relation between Catastrophizing and Residual Pain following Knee Arthroplasty: Two-Year Follow-Up by Michael E Forsythe, Michael J Dunbar, Allan W Hennigar, Michael JL Sullivan, Michael Gross

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Network authentication technology based on public key system by Songtao PANG

“…The digital signature which depends on the certificate authority （CA）and PKI based on public key system is the main method for identity and message authentication. …”
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Attribute-based authenticated key agreement protocol supporting revocation by Qiang LI, Deng-guo FENG, Li-wu ZHANG

“…In the protocol, revocation can be done immediately without affecting any non-revoked users and does not require users to update keys periodically by interacting with the key authority. Compared with the existing ABAKA protocols, the protocol is more efficient in communication complexity. …”
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Quand les civils maintiennent l’ordre. Configurations vigilantes à Istanbul by Elise Massicard

“…The practices in Tophane are tolerated and discreetly encouraged even due to shared political affinities with those in authority. This sets them apart from left-wing civilian initiatives to maintain public order in other districts of Istanbul, which are more severely repressed.…”
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Sporting and tourist activities: legal aspects by Katja Sontag, Frédérique Roux

“…This latter, in the first instance, has consisted in the application of classic legal tools (contract law, tort, administrative authority). But rapidly it became necessary to adopt regulations relating to these activities. …”
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Le creuset et l'orfèvre : le parcours d'Ahmad Amîn (1886-1954) by Emmanuelle Perrin

“…The figure of the intellectual as a mediator, who embodies the authority of knowledge and the talent of communication, insisting upon the expansion of instruction as an instrument of social progress, is present throughout his numerous works. …”
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Early Templar Administration in Provence and North-Eastern Spain by Alan Forey

“…From very early on, there was a Templar official with authority on both sides of the Pyrenees, and he came to be given the title of magister, although the first reference to the province of “Provence and a certain part of Spain” does not occur until 1143. …”
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Survey on network security based on blockchain by Ye CHEN, Dongjin XU, Liang XIAO

“…With the development of the mobile internet and IoT (internet of things),mass data are stored in the cyberspace.The network security and privacy are of great significance.The blockchain-based network security mechanism has the properties of decentralization,tamper-resistance,traceability,high availability and credibility,and can be applied to improve network security.The application of blockchain in the network security was explored.The main technologies and the future research direction of the blockchain-based network security mechanism were analyzed.Firstly,the blockchain-based data protection scheme was analyzed,which applied the tamper-resistance of the blockchain to improve the authenticity and reliability of data.Secondly,the blockchain-based IoT device management scheme was analyzed,which applied the blockchain to record and execute the device control instruction and improve the authority and communication of the IoT devices.Lastly,the blockchain-based domain name system was analyzed,which applied the decentralization of the blockchain to resist distributed denial of service effectively.…”
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Le vœu de Louis XIII et la naissance de Louis XIV : observations iconographiques sur la célébration du roi très chrétien by Léo Minois

“…Indeed, these images which were conceived by the Monarchy contributed to the legitimizing strategies of his authority during a time when royal power was gaining in strength. …”
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L’archive comme enjeu de présentation de soi : la mémoire du syndicat des ouvriers des savonneries à Naplouse, Cisjordanie by Véronique Bontemps

“…I show that these workers used two parallel systems to legitimise their words—systems that, far from clashing, reinforced each other: the possession of “authentic documents” should not so much make the discourse they contain more believable, but rather lend authority to their words. The article ultimately considers the power of discourse, particularly in an interview context.…”
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Die waarde van die Ou Testament volgens H.F. Kohlbrugge: die Ou Testament as gesagvolle Woord van God wat Christus verkondig by A. H. Bogaards

“…Christ and his  apostles provided the key to understand the Old Testament. The author consequently seeks an answer to the question of the authority and contents of the Old Testament in the New Testament. …”
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Neurological Impairment and Literary Empowerment in Nicole Krauss’s Man Walks into a Room by Pascale Antolin

“…To resist the growing authority of neuroscience and its often reductionist discourse, Krauss features a neurosurgeon as a mad scientist coming straight out of a science-fiction novel, who uses discursive strategies borrowed from the humanities. …”
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Realizacja przez administrację publiczną odpowiedzialności w ochronie środowiska by Maciej Jabłoński

“…The state authorities should support citizens in their efforts to protect and improve the environment. …”
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Additional Legal Protection for Corruption Whistleblowers by Ahmad Irzal Fardiansyah, Muhammad Farid, Ramadani Fitra Diansyah P

“…As law enforcement officers, Prosecutors hold the authority to provide legal protection to whistleblowers of corruption, as stipulated in Law Number 13 of 2006 concerning the Protection of Witnesses and Victims (LPSK). …”
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