AFRICAN UNION’S SHARED VALUES AND THE DILEMMA OF DEMOCRACY IN WEST AFRICA by BARILEDUM Kia, SUNNY OKORO ABEKI

“…First, the study found that AU shared values were developed   in their desire of meeting the needs of Africans through the adoption of norms and principles that encourage collective actions and solutions to challenges facing the region of Africa. …”
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Piracy as counter-hegemony by Tanja Bosch

“…The research questions were guided by a desire to explore qualitatively the processes by which consumers in this low-income neighbourhood practise and understand their purchase and consumption of pirated goods, particularly films on DVD. …”
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Military and political security in the Arctic before and amidst the Ukrainian crisis by I. A. Arzhanov

“…The author emphasizes that already at this stage NATO clearly manifested its desire to limit the Russian presence in the region. …”
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Caregivers' Barriers to Disclosing the HIV Diagnosis to Infected Children on Antiretroviral Therapy in a Resource-Limited District in South Africa: A Grounded Theory Study by Sphiwe Madiba, Kebogile Mokwena

“…Health care providers have a critical role to play in HIV disclosure to infected children, considering the caregivers' expressed desire to be trained and prepared for the disclosure.…”
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Pregnancy in a Transgender Male: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Ayesha Hassan, Jessica Perini, Amna Khan, Apoorva Iyer

“…Recent studies have shown that pregnancy is possible for transgender men who desire biological children and have received gender-affirming hormonal therapy without fertility-preserving measures. …”
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Impulsive Fashion Purchases on Shopee: Fashion Involvement, Positive Emotions, Platform Quality, and Online Promotions by Aisyah Putri Agustin, Anton Agus Setyawan

“…Increased income and accessible credit options have escalated impulsive buying tendencies, driven by consumers’ desire to fulfill immediate needs with ease (Park et al., 2006). …”
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Calcium Alginate and Calcium Alginate-Chitosan Beads Containing Celecoxib Solubilized in a Self-Emulsifying Phase by Lorena Segale, Lorella Giovannelli, Paolo Mannina, Franco Pattarino

“…The rationale of this work was linked to the desire to improve celecoxib therapeutic effectiveness reducing its gastric adverse effects and to favor its use in the prophylaxis of colon cancer and as adjuvant in the therapy of familial polyposis. …”
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Theology of Creation and Beauty: Kohelet 3:11 by Tibor Máhrik, Roman Králik

“…The hermeneutic of the text Kohelet 3:11, which defines beauty as a characteristic feature of all being in the context of creation theology, is utilised to focus on the typical tension between beauty as an immanent feature of the real world and the human desire to fully understand and capture it. In this context, beauty is posited as a spiritual value that, on the one hand, reflects God’s essence and serves as a source of inspiration for humanity, and, on the other hand, remains an unattainable reality for humanity’s ambitions. …”
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Conservatism of funeral rites of the western Balts by V.I. Kulakov

“…Earlier, I have already noted the desire of the Prussians to preserve the connection of times during funeral ceremonies and the presence of a long memory of their predecessors, which is reflected in the cult reverence. …”
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Nation of Mechanics: Automobility, Animality, and Indigeneity in John Joseph Mathews’s Sundown (1934) by Daniel Bowman

“…Sundown follows the life of Osage American Chal Windzer, growing up in Osage County during the oil boom and struggling to balance his Indigenous roots with the desire to find routes into white settler culture. …”
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The Role of Diasporas in the Current World Politics by I. D. Loshkariov

“…These situations may include the unsatisfactory status of the given community, migrants’ desire to improve certain political or economic conditions in the territory of origin, the prerequisites for changes in the relationships between the hostland and the homeland, urgent crises in the country of origin. …”
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SIKAP RAMAH LINGKUNGAN SISWA SMP NEGERI 8 SEMARANG MELALUI PELATIHAN HIDROPONIK by Intan Rizky Amalia, Fajrina Asabela Putri, Siti Musapana, Dika Wahyuningrum, Cucianingsih Cucianingsih

“…The aim is to build an environmentally friendly attitude to students of SMP N 8 Semarang and to bring up students' desire to grow crops. Planting in a hydroponic manner in addition to helping preserve the environment, can also be useful to meet food consumption, health, and improve student concentration when the environment is beautiful. …”
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The influence of ambient conditions on a person's socio-political maturation: Example of the blessed Muhammad: A citizen of the world par excellence by Dizdarević Bajram, Efendić Davud

“…The very presence of God's chosen ones in the cities says a lot - it is about their desire to influence the main cultural and intellectual flow, and from there later cover all the points on the geographical circle, so that the message they want to send reaches everyone as easily as possible. …”
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« J’ai lu votre livre » by Marion Marx

“…Thanks to the female gaze, the poetic evocation of a lesbian love, from its blossoming to its wilting, then to its death, opens up a reflection on a triple isolation: that of the lesbian woman, that of the creative woman, that finally of the elderly woman – three images of women stifled in their desire and their creative impulse, which merge in fine, in an autobiographical burst, in a troubled and double image: that of the author and, like a reflection in the mirror, of the poet Sophia Parnok, her former partner. …”
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A sparrow search algorithm based hybrid meta-heuristic algorithm for population growth rate prediction by Milad Shahvaroughi Farahani, Hamed Farrokhi-Asl Farrokhi-Asl, Ghazal Ghasemi

“…This paper reveals a global trend of reduced desire to have children, with variations across countries. …”
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Organization of Emergency Health Services and Problems in Flood Disasters: The Case of Hopa by Kemal Torpuş, Sedat Bostan

“…It has been determined that the lack of coordination and practice and the desire to meet the water and food needs of the disaster victims by the health team create administrative problems. …”
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Washing 'Dirty Work' in Academia and Beyond: Resisting Stigma as an Early Career Researcher Investigating Sexuality in the Digital by Chiara Perin

“…During my PhD studies, my ethnography of the r/NoFap subreddit involved grappling with challenges that questioned my research design, academic posture, political stance, gender identity, sexuality and desire and asked for mutable choices to deal with them. …”
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The Czechoslovak Crisis of 1948 in the Perception of American Diplomats and Media by A. V. Zorin

“…They believed that the communist takeover was a manifestation of Soviet expansion and the Kremlin’s desire to consolidate its control over all Eastern Europe. …”
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Topical issues of an applied vaping research by L. A. Davletshina, M. V. Karmanov

“…It turns out that vaping is a social phenomenon that follows not only from one the desire to find an alternative to smoking. A large-scale discussion regarding vaping has unfolded in special scientific publications and in the media. …”
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‘Heavy Waters’ of Punjab: A Hydro-critical Analysis of Bapsi Sidhwa’s Ice-Candy Man by Muhammad Ali

“…The latter’s idea of water carrying both physical and metaphysical waste seems to materialize in Sidhwa’s novel, who places her story in the context of the partitioned Punjab of 1947, when a desire for ‘territorialism’ over water resulted in countless human beings turning into ‘national refuse’, or people killed in the name of nationality, whose dead bodies floating in the rivers of the Punjab turned the rivers into both a haunting site and a site foreboding an environmental crisis sooner or later. …”
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