„For Poland to grow strong…” The concept of modernizing the Polish automotive industry 1971–1972 by Krzysztof Lesiakowski

“…The first half of the seventies of the 20th century was the time of great changes in Poland. The new leadership of the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers’ Party, headed by First Secretary Edward Gierek, reformulated the party policy, trying to improve the living conditions of the society and at the same time, to modernize the Polish industry, to enhance residential construction, and to boost international trade. …”
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A Privacy-Preserving Learning Framework for Face Recognition in Edge and Cloud Networks by Yitu Wang, Takayuki Nakachi

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Emerging Digital Technologies in Healthcare with a Spotlight on Cybersecurity: A Narrative Review by Ahmed Arafa, Haytham A. Sheerah, Shada Alsalamah

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Decision Tree Algorithms for Developing Rulesets for Object-Based Land Cover Classification by Darius Phiri, Matamyo Simwanda, Vincent Nyirenda, Yuji Murayama, Manjula Ranagalage

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Phase I clinical trial of intra‐bone marrow cotransplantation of mesenchymal stem cells in cord blood transplantation by Tatsunori Goto, Makoto Murata, Tetsuya Nishida, Seitaro Terakura, Sonoko Kamoshita, Yuichi Ishikawa, Yoko Ushijima, Yoshiya Adachi, Satoshi Suzuki, Katsuyoshi Kato, Akihiro Hirakawa, Satoshi Nishiwaki, Nobuhiro Nishio, Yoshiyuki Takahashi, Yoshihisa Kodera, Tadashi Matsushita, Hitoshi Kiyoi

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SANITATION FINANCING: LINES OF CREDIT AND STRATEGIES OF CORPORATIONS IN BRAZIL by Maria Paula Vieira Cicogna, Rudinei Toneto Junior

“…The results showed that, although quite different in terms of the size of the total assets, the capital structure of the companies is very similar, with low leverage and preponderance of third-party resources obtained through federal resources from Caixa Econômica Federal, funding via debentures and financing lines from the National Bank for Economic and Social Development (Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento Econômico e Social – BNDES), as well as from Development Financial Institutions (DFI), among which the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (Jica). …”
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Report of the Dry Valley Drilling Project, 1974-75 by Katsutada KAMINUMA, Tetsuya TORII, Hajime KURASAWA, Kikuo KATO, Osamu WAGURI

“…This project was jointly organized by New Zealand, the United States of America and Japan. …”
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Myanmar's human resources for health: current situation and its challenges by Yu Mon Saw, Thet Mon Than, Yamin Thaung, Sandar Aung, Laura Wen-Shuan Shiao, Ei Mon Win, Moe Khaing, Nyein Aye Tun, Shigemi Iriyama, Hla Hla Win, Kayako Sakisaka, Masamine Jimba, Nobuyuki Hamajima, Thu Nandar Saw

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Folklore Goes to War: Folksongs, Yangge and Storytelling in Communist Bases during the Second Sino-Japanese War by Selina Gao

“…During China’s War of Resistance against Japan, folklore activities played a valuable role in boosting the national spirit and promoting the idea of China as home to a rich cultural legacy. …”
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Optimizing the Interaction Between Two Closed-Loop Supply Chains Based on Inverse Logistics Using the Game Theory Method by Trung Nguyen Dinh, Huy Dinh Tran Ngoc, Chetthamrongchai Paitoon, Mohsen Karrar Shareef, Iskandar Ahmad Syarief, Nurjaya A., Sunarsi Denok, Singh Krishanveer, Chupradit Supat

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Annotated dataset of history-related tweets by Yasunobu Sumikawa, Adam Jatowt

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Standardization Procedure for Data Exchange by Yoshiaki Fukami

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The Long Shadow of the Cold War: The Cold War Policies of the United States towards Asia and their Impact on Indonesia by Baskara T. Wardaya

“…This paper intends to show that in Indonesia, the US these policies were a success, as shown by the ouster of President Sukarno and the massive purging of the alleged members of the Indonesian communist party (PKI), as well as the installation of a new and pro-Western government. …”
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Cryptographic obfuscation for smart contracts: Trustless bitcoin bridge and more by Sora Suegami

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HPRL – International cooperation to identify and monitor priority nuclear data needs for nuclear applications by Dupont E., Bossant M., Capote R., Carlson A.D., Danon Y., Fleming M., Ge Z., Harada H., Iwamoto O., Iwamoto N., Kimura A., Koning A.J., Massimi C., Negret A., Noguere G., Plompen A., Pronyaev V., Rimpault G., Simakov S., Stankovskiy A., Sun W., Trkov A., Wu H., Yokoyama K.

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Verification of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) and Autonomous Vehicles with Hardware Emulation-In-The-Loop by Mohamed AbdElSalam, Keroles Khalil, John Stickley, Ashraf Salem, Bruno Loye

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Results of the Collaborative International Evaluated Library Organisation (CIELO) Project by Fleming M., Chadwick M., Brown D., Capote R., Ge Z., Herman M., Ignatyuk A., Ivanova T., Iwamoto O., Koning A., Plompen A., Trkov A.

“…These will continue through new WPEC groups and a new IAEA evaluation network, which has been initiated in response to the success of the CIELO project. …”
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A blockchain-based trustworthy collaborative power trading scheme for 5G-enabled social internet of vehicles by Ziming Liu, Yang Xu, Cheng Zhang, Haroon Elahi, Xiaokang Zhou

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Out of the Blue: The Pacific Rim as a Region by Arturo Santa-Cruz

“…In 1993, in advance of what was to be the first Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) leader’s summit, US president Bill Clinton gave a lecture at Waseda University in Japan. In his speech, Clinton called for the creation of a “community of the Pacific.” …”
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Out of the Blue: The Pacific Rim as a Region by Arturo Santa-Cruz

“…In 1993, in advance of what was to be the first Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) leader’s summit, US president Bill Clinton gave a lecture at Waseda University in Japan. In his speech, Clinton called for the creation of a “community of the Pacific.” …”
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