National Defense as fiscal policy during the Mauricio Macri administration (2015-2019) by Sergio Gabriel Eissa

“…The conflict opposed those who i) Wanted to involve the military in the war against drugs, following US preferences, ii) Those who saw the military as a bloated and expensive organization that weighed excessively on the Government´s budget, and iii) and those who advocated redeploying the military as an anti-crime outfit, as a means to safeguard its budget, preserve a socially legitimate role for it and indirectly fund its main traditional national defense role. …”
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Differences in Finishing Actions Between Winning and Losing Teams in Top-League Women’s Basketball by Jakob Hjorth Jørgensen

“…These results accentuate differences in finishing action preferences between winning and losing teams, with winning teams showing dominant play without the ball, exemplified by the higher efficiency in cuts and off-ball categories. …”
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Directions and Results of Punctuation Management by Albinas Drukteinis

“…In the recent period, more and more priority is given to the preferences of the author of the text, if it is necessary for the general meaning of the text. …”
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Implications of the Mechanism of Change for the Decision-making Process in Environmental Protection by Grzegorz Embros

“…In particular, the author will make an attempt to analyse the impact of the resulting consequences on the shape and course of the decision-making process, which is the aim of the present study. It seems that the preferences and choices with respect to certain solutions are conditioned by the anthropological profile of the decision-maker, but that at the same time they reciprocally induce his change. …”
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Features of consumer behaviour in the sphere of fast food catering on the Moscow market by A. N. Timokhovich, A. A. Bekreneva

“…The article reveals the loyalty of consumers to the visited fast food establishments; their motivation to visit new such places is determined; the awareness of consumers about the opening of new fast food establishments is studied; their preferences regarding the use of meal delivery services of these places and staying at them are revealed. …”
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3D Simulation Design and Application of Traditional Hanfu Based on Internet of Things by Li Lin, Wen Gan

“…It not only needs to consider people aesthetics and preferences but it also needs to further consider the historical and cultural information represented by traditional Chinese Hanfu. …”
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Du réalisme dans l’analyse économique des conflits d’usage : les enseignements de l’étude du contentieux dans trois départements français (Isère, Loire-Atlantique, Seine-Maritime)... by Thierry Kirat, Romain Melot

“…Land-use and environmental conflicts reveal the existence of antagonism between individual or collective preferences on space and natural resources allocation to alternative uses. …”
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The identity politics of the local head election in Bolaang Mongondow, Indonesia by Alfons Kimbal, Jufri Rompas

“…Democracy in Indonesia should be a place to channel the aspirations of the people according to their preferences. The identity politics is a strategy carried out by interested groups in a contestation, the goal is to gain sympathy and votes in the election. …”
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THE IMPACT OF INSECURITY ON THE HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY IN GUSAU METROPOLIS: A CASE STUDY OF HOTELS by APITYAN TUME

“…This study investigates the effects of insecurity on hotels in Gusau Metropolis, focusing on financial performance, customer preferences, and management strategies. Data collected through a questionnaire from hotel managers, staff, and guests were analysed using descriptive and inferential statistical tools. …”
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Designing for impact: a case study of UTHSC’s research impact challenge by Jess Newman McDonald, Annabelle L. Holt

“…User interface design prioritized simplicity and accessibility, accommodating diverse learning preferences and technical skills. This innovative project addressed common challenges faced by researchers and demonstrated the impactful use of technology in creating an adaptable and inclusive educational experience. …”
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Analysis of the Variation of Vitamin C Content in Different Varieties of Passion Fruits from Kabale Central Market by Ssenoga, Regan

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Balancing selection at a wing pattern locus is associated with major shifts in genome-wide patterns of diversity and gene flow by Rodríguez de Cara, María Ángeles, Jay, Paul, Rougemont, Quentin, Chouteau, Mathieu, Whibley, Annabel, Huber, Barbara, Piron-Prunier, Florence, Ramos, Renato Rogner, Freitas, André V. L., Salazar, Camilo, Silva-Brandão, Karina Lucas, Torres, Tatiana Teixeira, Joron, Mathieu

“…H. numata is known to have evolved an inversion supergene which controls variation in wing patterns involved in mimicry associations with distinct groups of co-mimics whereas it is associated to disassortative mate preferences and heterozygote advantage at this locus. …”
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Large‐Vessel Occlusion Stroke Knowledge and Training for Stroke Severity Assessment Among Emergency Medical Services Personnel in the United States by Kaiz S. Asif, Robin Novakovic, Thanh N. Nguyen, Santiago Ortega‐Gutierrez, Youngran Kim, Amanda Jagolino‐Cole, Sushanth Aroor, Alicia Castonguay, Prateek Kumar, Ashutosh P. Jhadav, Dileep Yavagal, May Nour, Gabor Toth, Maxim Mokin, Sunil A. Sheth, Mouhammad A. Jumaa, Alhamza Al‐bayati, Mohamed Teleb, Ossama Y. Mansour, Shashvat M. Desai, Joshua Hartman, David S. Liebeskind, Ameer E. Hassan, Brijesh P. Mehta

“…However, the current state of EMS personnel's knowledge of LVO stroke, their training for stroke severity assessment, and their preferences for educational methods are unknown. We conducted a nationwide EMS survey across the United States to glean insights that can inform and customize future EMS educational efforts. …”
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Travellers’ adherence to atovaquone/proguanil malaria chemoprophylaxis after return from endemic areas by Jenny Lea Schnyder, David Cornelis Birkhoff, Myrthe Celine Jarings, Sabine Margot Hermans, Martin Peter Grobusch, Hanna Katrien de Jong

“…We aimed to investigate adherence to the current AP chemoprophylaxis regimen during the seven days post-travel, and travellers’ preferences for potential drug-sparing AP regimens. …”
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A Mixed Project-and-Stock Portfolio Optimization Model with Mean-SemiVariance-SemiEntropy Approach by Amirhosein Khayyatian, Majid Shakhsi-Niaei

“…Also, the inclusion of semi-entropy as a risk assessment metric led to an improvement in the return on the investment portfolios.Research limitations/implications: Incorporating investor constraints and preferences, such as cardinality and boundary constraints, into the model forms an NP-hard problem. …”
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Analysis of Foreign Tourists’ Behavioral Patterns and Perceptions in Rural Destinations by Hamdollah Sojasi Gheidari, Zahra Soleymani

“…AbstractAnalyzing tourists' photos' visual content proves to be an effective method for understanding their behaviors and preferences in tourism destinations. This approach can serve as a valuable tool for precision marketing of tourism destinations, including tourist villages. …”
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Leisure and social occupational choice within nursing home facilities in Ireland: Residents perspectives by Jenna Keane, Ciara Ryan, Ruth Usher

“…Background National standards for nursing homes in Ireland require that residents are offered a choice of recreational and stimulating activities to meet their needs and preferences.Aims/Objectives To investigate residents’ perceptions of leisure and social occupational choice in nursing homes in Ireland to determine if occupational choice is facilitated.Materials and method Qualitative-descriptive design – nursing home residents completed two semi-structured interviews that explored their experiences of leisure and social occupational engagement.Results Two overarching themes with six associated sub-themes emerged. …”
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Mental maps and representations of the city centre of Thessaloniki by Olympia PAPAIOANNOU, Apostolos PAPAGIANNAKIS, Panagiotis A. HATZIPROKOPIOU

“…Even the citizens of the same city tend to perceive urban space differently, emphasizing on different parts of the city, as their perceptions reflect their lifestyle, habits, preferences, experiences, but mostly the feelings that the space itself provokes to them. …”
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Reflective Hyperconnectivity of Social Networks Virtual Space as a Factor in the Design of Distant Learning Environment by K. A. Melezhik, A. D. Petrenko, D. M. Khrabskova

“…The use of the Internet in a localized online space is limited to delivering courses without considering needs of individual learners, their autonomy, preferences and prior knowledge of the subject. The observation method was used by both participant and non-participant. …”
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Invariant Representation Learning in Multimedia Recommendation with Modality Alignment and Model Fusion by Xinghang Hu, Haiteng Zhang

“…Multimedia recommendation systems aim to accurately predict user preferences from multimodal data. However, existing methods may learn a recommendation model from spurious features, i.e., appearing to be related to an outcome but actually having no causal relationship with the outcome, leading to poor generalization ability. …”
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