The Scanian Economic-Demographic Database (SEDD) by Martin Dribe, Luciana Quaranta

“…In addition to storing source data in the SEDD IDS tables, a wide range of individual- and context-level variables were constructed, which means that most types of analyses using SEDD can be conducted without the need of further elaboration of the data. …”
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Particularidades do pertencimento na pesca artesanal embarcada by Cristiano Wellington Noberto Ramalho, Andreia Patrícia dos Santos

“…The present text aims firstly and based on writings of the rural sociology and the socioanthropology of fishing in Brazil at situating the debate about belonging among farmers, and especially artisanal fishermen, and then produce reflections based on field data collected from two fishing communities (Itapissuma and Suape – both in Pernambuco), about the character of the feeling of belonging in embarked artisanal fishing analyzing its singularities and universalities. Therefore, we conducted 36 interviews (18 in each locality mentioned), as well as accompanied the daily life – inland and in the waters – of artisanal fishing professionals. …”
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The Role of Physical and Recreational Activities in Occupational Therapy at Social Welfare Centres in Poland by Olszewski-Strzyżowski Dariusz Jacek

“…This article presents a study on the potential role of physical, sporting, recreational and tourism activities as elements of occupational therapy conducted in Social Welfare Centres (OPS) in Poland. …”
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Orlando, Florida’s Urban and Community Forests and Their Ecosystem Services by Edem K. Ekpe, Elizabeth Becker, Jessica Lab, Ross Hinkle, Francisco Escobedo

“…This 10-page fact sheet provides information, based on an assessment of urban forests within the limits of the City of Orlando conducted during the summer of 2010, on the structure and composition of Orlando's urban forest, the occurrence of invasive trees in the city, the ecosystem services trees provide, including estimating the mitigation of climate change effects and their role in urban hydrology, and how this information can be used to define sustainable urban planning objectives and goals. …”
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Managerial problems of remote work in Russian organisations: a remote workers’ perspective by V. Yu. Pronin

“…The article presents the findings from a sociological online survey conducted among Russian remote workers from various industries (N=402). …”
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The effect of knowledge management on the performance of lecturers and performance of private universities by Umi Rusilowati, Denok Sunarsi, Azhar Affandi

“…This research is an explanatory research with a quantitative approach. The research was conducted at a private university in Tangerang City. …”
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Representational exchange and edgework: towards theorising the coping with fragmentary information by Isto Huvila

“…While this is obvious on the basis of the vast corpus of information behaviour research to date, relatively little attention has been conducted so far to explicate the mechanisms of how people routinely manage to use such unsatisfactory sources in their pursuits. …”
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Adaptive particle filter for state estimation with application to non‐linear system by Fangfang Zhao, Ruijie Cai

“…The comparison and analysis of two simulation schemes have been conducted to assess the performance of the designed filtering algorithm. …”
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Przedszkolny plac zabaw z perspektywy dzieci by Jolanta Zwiernik

“… The main aim of the article is to draw attention to research conducted in the perspective of children’s studies showing new possibilities of conceptualizing childhood in the space of scientific discourse. …”
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Strategie pomocy dzieciom ulicy w Jaipurze. Studium przypadku organizacji I-India by Beata Pietkiewicz-Pareek

“…The presented results are the effect of the larger project on illiteracy conducted by the author in India in 20121. Harmful traditional practices like child labour, child marriage, the caste system, discrimination against girl children impact negatively on children and increase their vulnerability to abuse and neglect. …”
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University of Florida Potato Variety Spotlight: ‘Elkton’ by Lincoln Zotarelli, Douglas Gergela, Kathleen G. Haynes, Dana Fourman

“…In 2003, seed of 'Elkton' was made available for field evaluation under Florida growing conditions. In 19 trials conducted between 2003 and 2012, 'Elkton' yielded 111% in comparison with 'Atlantic'. …”
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Stability of an HIV/AIDS Treatment Model with Different Stages by Hai-Feng Huo, Rui Chen

“…Numerical simulations are also conducted to support the analytic results.…”
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Définir la vie spirituelle des élèves hors des institutions religieuses : un enjeu du Service d’animation spirituelle et d’engagement communautaire (Québec) by Jacques Cherblanc, Marie-Anne Risdon

“…After an overview of the historical context and issues raised by various studies and surveys on this subject, we are exploring the results of two research that defined the concept of “spiritual life” conducted with SCGCIS. This brings to light that a phenomenological approach allows to intervene on spiritual life independently of the beliefs or religions. …”
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A NEED ANALYSIS ON ICT-BASED ENGLISH MATERIAL FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING OF READING FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS IN SOUTH BENGKULU by Margareta Margareta, Safnil Safnil, Irwan Koto

“…To suggest, a broader field test still needed to be done to achieve a better result and other researchers who are interested in the incorporation of ICT in learning teaching are suggested to conduct further investigation which possibly deals with other language skills.…”
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INCOME AND CRIME RELATIONSHIP IN THE RECESSION PERIOD: A QUANTILE REGRESSION APPROACH by Filiz Guneysu Atasoy

“…All data set are taken from National Longitudinal Survey conducted by theUnited States Bureau of Labor Statistics. …”
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Comparative study between finite volume method and analytical method to analyse thermal efficiency of double-pipe heat exchanger by Gizelle Rodrigues, Neetu Srivastava

“…A comparison between the exact solution provided by Prasad [20] and the numerical results using the Finite Volume Method was conducted for both adiabatic and non-adiabatic conditions, demonstrating that the second-order upwind scheme showed a better analogy with low root mean square errors. …”
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CHOICE OF “TIME WINDOW” IN CARRYING OUT IPO OF RUSSIAN COMPANIES by L. V. Tokun, A. G. Berg

“…The Russian stock market and its main trends have been analysed, the possibility of applying foreign experience on the Russian market has been assessed. Based on the conducted research, it has been proposed to promote the creation of favorable «Windows», which will help eliminate weaknesses, as well as provide evidence-based regulation in order to create favorable conditions for IPO.…”
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Analysis of intention to purchase travel on the Web by German Gemar, Ismael P. Soler, Laura Melendez

“…Cluster analysis of a representative sample was conducted to sort potential and current consumers of online travel services into groups based on their perceptions of the model’s factors. …”
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Investigation on Shear Wave Velocity and Triaxial Mechanical Performance of Tailings Core from Tailings Dam by Pengfei Luo

“…In this study, a series of laboratory experiments (shear wave velocity, triaxial compressive, and peak strain strength testing) were conducted to obtain the mechanical properties of tailings from TD. …”
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Hegemonic childhood in the Polish community of West Prussia in the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries by Paweł Śpica

“…The essential feature of the hegemonic discourse of childhood for the Polish community in the analysed region was that it was clearly based on the Catholic religion and national ideas, as well as on a strong relationship with the conservative and post-feudal image of family relations. The conducted research made possible the identification of seven basic categories of the hegemonic understanding of childhood in the Polish environment of West Prussia, which are: Polish and Catholic childhood, childhood sensitive to the needs of others, heroic childhood, tidy and pupil childhood, neat and orderly childhood, childhood based on obedience and subordination, sexual purity childhood. …”
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