Ueji, le précurseur du jardin japonais moderne et les hommes qui l’ont influencé by Yagasaki Zentarō

“…It is important to take into account the cultural aspect, and in particular the world of sukisha (tea devotees) – these men of letters who were the sponsors of the modern gardens. …”
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Sequence Analysis of How Disability Influenced Life Trajectories in a Past Population from the Nineteenth-Century Sundsvall Region, Sweden by Lotta Vikström, Helena Haage, Erling Häggström Lundevaller

“…Having access to micro-data that report disabilities in a population of 8,874 individuals from the parish registers digitised by the Demographic Data Base, Umeå University, we employ sequence analysis on a series of events that are expected to occur in life of young adults: getting a job, marrying and becoming a parent, while also taking into account out-migration and death. Through this method we obtain a holistic picture of the life course of disabled people. …”
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The determinants of severe food insecurity in Africa using the longitudinal generalized Poisson mixed model by Adusei Bofa, Temesgen Zewotir

“…Generalized estimating equations were then applied to account for the overdispersion associated with the Poisson distribution. …”
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Blogs, artefactos y política by María Belén Albornoz

“…Finally, the study of this new virtual public space from a techno-social focus is proposed, taking into account virtual surroundings as a space in which conducts are formed.…”
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SEDIMENT RUNOFF AND WATER TURBIDITY OF THE MAIN TRIBUTARIES OF THE LAKE LADOGA by Marina V. Shmakova, Sergey A. Kondratyev

“…The main sources of sediment are three major tributaries of the Lake Ladoga – the Svir, Volkhov and Vuoksa rivers, which account for 253 thousand t/year or 59 % of the total amount of sediment received in the lake. …”

Capturing the moment: facilitating learning from the margins. A photographic essay by Kevin J. Brazant

“…The author uses photographic essay methodology to explore this as part of a meta-reflective account (Rianne and Huib, 2019). The approach enables the author to punctuate critical moments of group facilitation with visual illustrations to aid analysis and reflection. …”
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Hydraulic-Hydrology Analysis of the Turbulent Seepage Flow within Karst Aquifer of the Golubinka Spring Catchment by Goran Lončar, Željko Šreng, Damir Bekić, Duška Kunštek

“…By using the numerical model KarstMod it was estimated that, on average, concentrated fracture flow drains around 85% of infiltrated volumes and the remaining 15% accounts for diffuse matrix flow. Finally, the Modflow model was used in order to get insight into the flow field and the distribution of equipotentials in the aquifer of the Golubinka catchment.…”
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Automatic Threshold Selection for Generalized Pareto and Pareto–Poisson Distributions in Rainfall Analysis: A Case Study Using the NOAA NCDC Daily Rainfall Database by Roberto Mínguez

“…In contrast, graphical methods and goodness-of-fit (GoF) metrics that account for the pre-asymptotic behavior of the GP distribution have demonstrated better performance. …”
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Quality of the Selection of Patients with Respiratory Symptoms According to the Risk of Pulmonary Tuberculosis by Yuri Arnold Domínguez

“…Out of the surveyed patients with respiratory symptoms, retirees accounted for 45.8%. All sputum samples were helpful samples, 12.5% of the cultures were not performed because of contamination or inadequate samples. 12.5% of patients needed more follow-up after diagnosis and 18.8% did not improve. 81% of the patients presented at least one risk factor.…”
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Differential Effects of Dopaminergic Therapies on Dorsal and Ventral Striatum in Parkinson's Disease: Implications for Cognitive Function by Penny A. MacDonald, Oury Monchi

“…Increased awareness of contrasting effects of dopamine replacement on dorsal versus ventral striatum functions will lead clinicians to survey a broader range of symptoms in determining optimal therapy, taking into account both those aspects of cognition that will be helped versus those that will be hindered by dopaminergic treatment.…”
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Mortality, Work and Migration. A Consideration of Age-specific Mortality from Tuberculosis in Scotland, 1861-1901 by Alice Reid, Eilidh Garrett

“…We argue that the observed patterns are difficult to reconcile with the ‘bargaining-nutrition’ account of gendered patterns in tuberculosis mortality, and that they provide little support for nutrition as a key influence on the disease. …”
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Bell Pottinger And The Dark Art Of Public Relations by Sonja Verwey, Clarissa Muir

“…There is little doubt that tactics such as offering to manipulate a client’s online reputation through the use of fake online accounts, newly created blog pages or fake online reviews are unethical, and take the industry back to a less glorious time in its history at a point when much emphasis is being placed on both ethics and values-based practice globally. …”
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“I Often Experience a Lack of Trust”: Filipino Migrant Nurses’ Experiences of Coping with Multiple Conflicting Workplace Demands by Thora H. Christiansen, Erla S. Kristjánsdóttir, Unnur Dís Skaptadóttir

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Employees’ green behaviour initiatives and green human resource management implementation challenges by Samson Adewumi

“…Managers understanding of green behaviour, awareness and campaigns, collectivism and consistent reviews and accountability of green project funds were revealed as green behaviour initiatives. …”
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Public Transmission, and Religious Symbolism in the British Women’s Suffrage Movement: The Cases of Emily Wilding Davison’s Funeral and the Pilgrimage of the National Union of Wome... by Chloé Clément

“…Archival sources on the NUWSS Pilgrimage account for the decision-making process to include religious symbolism in a five-week national march. …”
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THE COMPILATION OF SHANNON ENTROPY MEASUREMENT EQUATION FOR NONLINEAR DYNAMIC SYSTEMS BY USING THE INTERVAL ANALYSIS METHODS by Yu. P. Machekhin, Yu. S. Kurskoy

“…It is shown that the measurement equations, based on interval mathematics methods, contains the exact solutions and allows take into account full uncertainty. The new results will complement the measurement model and the measurement results analysis model for case of nonlinear dynamic systems.…”
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Modeling frequency-dependent selection with an application to cichlid fish by Sheree L. Arpin, J. M. Cushing

“…Since both genetic and populationdynamics occur on the same time scale in this case, we develop a (discretetime) model for P. microlepis populations that accounts for both dynamicprocesses. We establish conditions on model parameters under which the modelpredicts extinction and conditions under which there exists a unique positive(survival) equilibrium. …”
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The foreign experience in training public procurement specialists on the example of the USA, Great Britain and China by V. A. Tsibikov

“…The content of other educational documents and official publications in the media, as well as the results of correspondence (through chatting and e-mail) with representatives of training courses and leading training centers, answers to information requests to state authorities responsible for functioning contract system, – have been taken into account.Based on the results of the analysis, the following key positions, allowing us to observe fundamental differences in the training of public procurement specialists in the West and East countries: the degree of state participation in the regulation of the training system and the degree of severity of the educational function in the formation of the necessary level of legal awareness of procurement specialists have been highlighted. …”
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Fuzzy Neural Network-Based Evaluation Algorithm for Ice and Snow Tourism Competitiveness by Ying Zhao, Qinghua Zhu, Jiujun Bai

“…Through the experimental comparative analysis, the cloud fuzzy neural network can fully take into account the randomness and fuzziness of the data, optimize the generation of cloud rules, avoid multidimensional rule disasters, and ensure the operational efficiency of the algorithm; the accuracy rate of the algorithm is improved relative to that of the traditional technology, and it applies to a variety of datasets. …”
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Internationalization of Higher Education in Russia: in Search for Development by E. V. Nikitenko

“…The market capacity factor is poorly taken into account. The entrepreneurial component of higher education institution does not act as its competitive advantage at this stage, and in the global dimension its significant lag is observed. …”
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