Raising New Zealand’s Terrorism Threat Level: Is Transparency Important in National Security? by Richard Shortt

“…In mid-October 2014, ten years after the New Zealand Government confirmed the establishment of a Combined Threat Assessment Group (CTAG) to advise it on a range of potential threats, the prime minister announced, for the first time, the raising of New Zealand’s domestic terrorism threat level. …”
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Monitoring the biological effects of pollution on the Algerian west coast using mussels <i>Mytilus galloprovincialis</i> by Zoheïr M. Taleb, Sofiane Benghali, Amina Kaddour, Zitouni Boutiba

“…The Algerian west coast is the prime recipient of several forms of pollution; hence, the necessity for an impact assessment ofthis coastal pollution using a suite of recommended marine biomarkers, including lysosomal membrane stability in living cells by the Neutral Red Retention Time (NRRT) method, the evaluation of micronucleus (MN) frequency, and the determination ofacetylcholinesterase (AChE) activity in mussels <i>Mytilus galloprovincialis</i>, sampled from the large, polluted Oran Harbour (OH) and the Maârouf (Mrf) marine mussel farm between July 2005 and April 2006. …”
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COVID-19 Shock and Sectorial Index Response in South Africa: A Cross-sector Analysis by Edson Vengesai

“…The study also shows that sector and stock return response to different factors is time-varying. The results imply that COVID-19 shock is short-lived, the negative impact of the Pandemic is corrected in the long run. …”
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Searching for light neutralinos with a displaced vertex at the LHC by Giovanna Cottin, Juan Carlos Helo, Nicolás A. Neill, Fabián Hernández-Pinto, Zeren Simon Wang

“…We perform Monte Carlo simulations and conclude that at the high-luminosity LHC, the proposed search can probe values of λ 111 ′ $$ {\lambda}_{111}^{\prime } $$ down to two orders of magnitude smaller than current bounds and up to 40 times smaller than projected limits from monolepton searches.…”
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Design of an oral vaccine using Lactococcus lactis against brucellosis: an in vitro and in vivo study by Mahsa Kazemi-Roudsari, Abbas Doosti, Mohammad-Saeid Jami

“…This study aimed to investigate the possibility of using recombinant Lactococcus lactis (L. lactis) as a live vector to produce recombinant Brucella abortus (B. abortus) Omp10. …”
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The Free Ride is Over: Why Cities, and Citizens, Must Start Paying For Much-Needed Infrastructure by Philip Bazel, Jack M. Mintz

“…It is only rational for residents to live further from work by taking full advantage of underpriced highways, bridges, transit and other infrastructure that someone else pays for, exacerbating congestion and commuting times in Canada’s major cities. …”
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The Free Ride is Over: Why Cities, and Citizens, Must Start Paying For Much-Needed Infrastructure by Philip Bazel, Jack M. Mintz

“…It is only rational for residents to live further from work by taking full advantage of underpriced highways, bridges, transit and other infrastructure that someone else pays for, exacerbating congestion and commuting times in Canada’s major cities. …”
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Size spectra and source apportionment of fine particulates in tropical urban environment during southwest monsoon season by Zong, Yichen, Botero, Maria L., Yu, Liya E., Kraft, Markus

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Professional Identities and the Watershed of War: Teachers, Histories and Memories by Peter James Cunningham

“…A valid and realistic aim of educational research is however to identify significant commonalities that enhance an understanding of the teacher’s role. Memory is a prime resource for investigating factors that change over time in the course of a career and oral history provides a means of accessing and interpreting such a rich vein of evidence. …”
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Box-jenkins and genetic algorithm hybrid model for electricity forecasting system by Mahpol, Khairil Asmani

“…Energy is considered a prime agent in the generation of wealth and also a significant factor in economic development. …”
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Measuring the Success of HIV-1 Cure Strategies by Jordan Thomas, Alessandra Ruggiero, Alessandra Ruggiero, William A. Paxton, Georgios Pollakis

“…The development of an HIV-1 cure remains challenging due to the latent reservoir (LR): long-lived CD4 T cells that harbor transcriptionally silent HIV-1 provirus. …”
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Physical Universality, State-Dependent Dynamical Laws and Open-Ended Novelty by Alyssa M. Adams, Angelica Berner, Paul C. W. Davies, Sara I. Walker

“…A major conceptual step forward in understanding the logical architecture of living systems was advanced by von Neumann with his universal constructor, a physical device capable of self-reproduction. …”
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Kehidupan famili dan unit kediaman : satu kajian hubongannya dalam famili Melayu / by 185077 Mohd. Jais Basiran

“…The aim is concieved with realization that family institution is an important csocial institution. So it is of prime important that it is allowed to be maintain within the family living unit. …”

The 1Malaysia amongst us by Abd Razak, Dzulkifli

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The comparison of two different protocols ultra-long versus medroxyprogesterone acetate in women with ovarian endometriosis: a prospective randomized controlled trial by Haiyan Guo, Tong Du, Hongyuan Gao, Qianwen Xi, Ling Wu, Qifeng Lyu, Qianqian Zhu

“…The use of MPA in COH appears to be promising although many questions remain to be elucidated, including the dose and time of progestin priming as well as its possible influence on the oocyte development potential and microenvironment. …”
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CUMHURİYET DÖNEMİNDE TÜRKİYE’NİN ARAZİ BÖLÜNÜŞÜ VE TARIM ALANLARINDAKİ DEĞİŞMELER by Rüya BAYAR

“…While agriculture has given its place to the other economic sectors in Turkish economy, it has, all the time, maintained its importance and has been still providing for living of bulk of population in Turkey. …”
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POLITICAL CRISIS AND SOCIAL PROTEST IN THAILAND by E. V. Koldunova

“…However in the XXth century Thailand had lived through more than five decades of authoritarianism. …”
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The Eternal Recurrence of All Bits by Tobias Winnerling

“…Time will tell – if this will still be possible, then.  …”
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The demographic consequences of the cost of reproduction in ungulates. by Proaktor, G, Coulson, T, Milner-Gulland, E

“…The cost of reproduction can generate covariation between demographic rates that can potentially influence demography and population dynamics in long-lived iteroparous species. However, there has been relatively little work linking the survival cost of reproduction and population dynamics. …”

Celebrating successful earthquake risk reduction through counterfactual probabilistic analysis by Rabonza, Maricar, Lin, Yolanda, Lallemant, David

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