Pricing Services: An Underutilized Policy Instrument for Access and Quality by Sarah L Barber, Naoki Ikegami

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Development and validation of an instrument to access the lecturers’ performance in the education and teaching duties by Yusrizal, A. Halim

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Genocide in Kashmir: Right of Self-Determination, UNSC Resolutions and Holding India To Account Under International Humanitarian Law by Zia Akthar

Subjects: “…instrument of accession…”
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Monitoring the Monitors: EU Enlargement Conditionality and Minority Protection in the CEECs by Gwendolyn Sasse, James Hughes

“…Instead, the EU's main instrument for accession and convergence, the Regular Reports, have been characterized by ad hocism, inconsistency, and a stress on formal measures rather than substantive evaluation of implementation.…”
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Family resilience and parenting stress in poor families by Ísis de Cássia Palheta da SILVA, Katiane da Costa CUNHA, Edson Marcos Leal Soares RAMOS, Fernando Augusto Ramos PONTES, Simone Souza da Costa SILVA

“…The probabilistic sample consisted of 429 caregivers, interviewed in Social Assistance Reference Centers, where the application of instruments to access socio-demographic information, family resilience, parenting stress and poverty was carried out, in order to investigateprotection and risk processes for development. …”
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Analysis of Enem questions on inorganic functions in light of the Revised Bloom's Taxonomy by Blanchard Silva Passos, Ana Karine Portela Vasconcelos

“…NHSE plays an important role as an instrument for accessing higher education and as a tool for evaluating and improving the Brazilian educational system. …”
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Access to and Usage of Javanese in Mass Media among Yogyakarta Youth by Wening Udasmoro, Sulistyowati Sulistyowati, Aprillia Firmonasari, Wulan Tri Astuti

“…Conducted in the province's five territorial units of Bantul Regency, Sleman Regency, Kulon Progo Regency, Gunung Kidul Regency, and Yogyakarta City, the specific objective is to determine the extent to which children and adolescents use mass media — particularly television, radio, and social media — as instruments to access contents in Javanese. It is crucial to examine how the constant flow of information affects their exposure to Javanese on various platforms as well as their use of the language on social media This quantitative study surveyed 330 elementary, junior high, and senior high school students from both public and private schools in the province’s rural and urban areas. …”
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Design, Digital Humanities, and Information Visualization for Cultural Heritage by Raffaella Trocchianesi, Letizia Bollini

“…In a scene currently characterized by a heterogeneous set of activities and humanistic, technological, and cultural studies, the involvement of design seems confined to the development of digital instruments in accessing, exploring, and manipulating cultural data. …”
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Presentation and exhibition activities for promoting theexportof transport services by Darya Vladimirovna Nesterova, Tatyana Vladimirovna Kulakova

“…Exhibitions are considered as a true reflection of most market parameters, as a means to get correct information concerning market capacity and its borders, as an instrument to access to new markets. At the firm level presentation and branding activities should be considered as a modern technology (especially it concerns Russian companies) which provide to hold up already existed markets and to conquer new ones. …”
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A preliminary adaptation of the Problem Gambling Severity Index for Indigenous Australians: internal reliability and construct validity by Sue Bertossa, Peter Harvey, David Smith, Alwin Chong

“…Conclusions: The adapted instrument is accessible to a cross‐section of Indigenous Australians and has demonstrated properties of reliability and validity. …”
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Validity and Reliability of Non-Invasive Methods for Evaluating Kyphosis and Lordosis Curvatures: A Literature Review by Hamidreza Zanguie, Mohammad Yousefi, Saeed Ilbiegi, Abbas Farjad Pezeshk

“… Introduction: A few instruments are accessible for clinical estimation of the thoracic and lumbar curvatures. …”
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Global Outward Foreign Direct Investment Network: Perspectives for Knowledge Transfer from Host Countries to Home Countries by MNEs by Nasrin Sultana, Ekaterina Turkina

“…Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) has become an important instrument to access knowledge and innovation available in other countries with the increasing trend of globalization. …”
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The Role of Financial Inclusion and Competitive Advantage: Evidence from Iraqi Islamic Banks by Hayder M. Kareem Al-Duhaidahawi, Jing Zhang, Mustafa S. Abdulreza, Sinan Abdullah Harjan, Sayyed Sadaqat Hussain Shah

“…The target sample of this study is composed of customers using the technological instrument to access the services as achieving the financial Inclusion. …”
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Initial reading instruction and Literacy: a reflection in the light of complexity by José Souza Moreira, Adelmo Fernandes de Araújo, Wanderson Rodrigues Morais, Dayane Barbosa de Oliveira

“…Therefore, the results indicate that the Complexity Theory is still marginal in the academic-scientific field, and in Environmental Education it is no different. The instruments of access to this complex pathway need to be creatively discovered, and we believe that this creativity tied to a complex critical sense, occurs on the school floor, in the affective, loving and ethical interaction between the entire school collegiate, especially in the teacher-student relationship, having as facilitating mechanisms, literacy and environmental literacy. …”
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Gamma In Addition to Neutron Tomography (GIANT) at the NECTAR instrument by Richi Kumar, Lucas Sommer, Anton S. Tremsin, Adrian S. Losko

“…Abstract The NECTAR instrument provides access to thermal and fast neutrons which are suitable for non-destructive inspection of large and dense objects. …”
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Integration of vertically-aligned carbon nanotube forests in microfluidic devices for multiscale isolation of bioparticles by Fachin, Fabio, Wardle, Brian L., Chen, G. D., Toner, M.

“…Being significantly smaller than cells and bacteria, these viruses escape the isolation capabilities of both macroscopic and microscopic (MEMS) medical instrumentation. Allowing access to sub-micron species such as viruses and cancer cells, integration of nanotechnologies in medical devices has the potential to revolutionize the field of biomedicine. …”
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Instruments of identity: Médecins Sans Frontières and humanitarian negotiations for access in the Democratic Republic of the Congo by James, M

“…I argue that the personal and collective identities of different humanitarians become instruments for access. Humanitarians negotiate access together in symbiosis as a brokerage “club”: different people in the team play different roles, because they have different perceived identities, access to different networks, have different experiences and <em>savoir faire</em>, as well as different personal histories, and therefore face different risks. …”

Environmental, Health and Economic Implications of Emerging Contaminants in Nigeria Environment by S. A. Adesokan, A. A. Giwa, I. A. Bello

“…Some of the factors responsible for these were weak regulatory instruments on accessing these pesticides, bad economy, stigmatization and lack of resilience. …”
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History and Evolution of the Minimally Invasive Transforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion by Michael C. Prabhu, Kevin C. Jacob, Madhav R. Patel, Hanna Pawlowski, Nisheka N. Vanjani, Kern Singh

“…In 1934, Mixter and Barr’s paper in the New England Journal of Medicine elucidated the role of disc herniation in spinal instability and radiculopathy, prompting surgeons to explore new approaches and instruments to access the disc space. In 1944, Briggs and Milligan published their novel technique, the posterior lumbar interbody fusion (PLIF), involving continuous removal of vertebral bone chips and replacement of the disc with a round bone peg. …”
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Perception of pharmacy students toward numeracy: An observational study from King Saud University, Riyadh Saudi Arabia by Ziyad Alrabiah, Azher Arafah, Muneeb U. Rehman, Wajid Syed, Salmeen Babelghaith, Abdulrahman Alwhaibi, Sultan Alghadeer, Abdulaziz Alhossan, Mohamed N. Al Arifi

“…All the enrolled subjects pursued a 5-year Pharma degree course at the university using a 9-item instrument, which accessed the perception of students toward numeracy. …”
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