At the turn of the 18th-19th centuries, the tsarist government in Russia faced the Gypsy question in the context of implementation of the society homogenization policy.There were campaigns initiated to fight with Gypsy vagrancyduring the 1770s-1810s, the primary target of which was to modernize the Gypsies of the Russian Empire and turn them into a

Abstract Background A variety of policies have been implemented around the world in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.This study originally aimed to identify and compare policy responses of different countries and their effects on the pandemic.It quickly evolved into an identification of the heterogeneity among existing policies and the challenges

Prestigious scientific journals traditionally decide which Hose Joiner articles to accept at least partially based on the results of research.This backloaded selectivity enforces publication bias and encourages authors to selectively report their most persuasive findings, even when they are misleading, biased, and unreliable.One answer to backloade

In recent years, the development of an environmentally friendly quantum dots (QDs) embedded luminous solid by a simple method has attracted considerable attention.In this study, semiconductor ZnS QDs were successfully prepared in an inorganic matrix of amorphous glass, which yielded beneficial broad-band emission in the long-wavelength region Modul