Women Reprimanding Women: The Gothic Parody and its Social Criticism by Kerstin-Anja Münderlein

“…Specifically, the didactic Gothic parody aimed at educating the heroine into a normative, gender-role conforming young woman who rejects the excesses of the Gothic in favor of an adherence to normative conduct. The use of humor in the Gothic parody serves to “normativize” the heroine of the Gothic parody, which will be exemplified by Mary Charlton’s Rosella (1799) and Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey (1817). …”
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An exploration of the impression management and dialogical potential of arts organisations by Angelique Nairn, Deepti Bhargava

“…Ideally, if organisations and publics participate in these interactions with a dialogic orientation, they are likely to have an authentic relationship.Arts organisations globally, however, are known to utilise public relations more as a way of managing impressions, promoting the experiential nature of their creative products, and garnering ticket sales. We, therefore, conducted a thematic analysis to examine if this was also the case with a New Zealand arts organisation.On examining New Zealand Opera’s Facebook™ posts and their accompanying comments; this study found that social media was only being used for one-way impression management, without any dialogic intention to stimulate the public into authentic engagement.…”
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A Lissajous Curve–Based Method for Busbar Protection by M. Sarlak

“…In this paper, a novel time-domain method based on the orientation analysis of the superimposed current component Lissajous curves is presented for busbar protection. The conducted study has showed that the orientations of the superimposed current component Lissajous curves are different under internal and external fault conditions. …”
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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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Public Opinion on Treatment and Reuse of Wastewater: Bursa Case Study by Melike Yalılı Kılıç

“…In this study, the information of wastewater and wastewater treatment plants of Bursa was given and in addition, a survey was conducted to the residents living in Yıldırım, Osmangazi and Nilüfer, which are the central districts of Bursa, about wastewater and reducing the wastewater in the city they live and reusing the wastewater after treatment and thus contributing to protection of water resources. …”
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Numerical and Experimental Studies of a Light-Weight Auxetic Cellular Vibration Isolation Base by Xiang-Wen Zhang, De-Qing Yang

“…Numerical and experimental analyses were conducted to reveal the effects of Poisson’s ratio (cell angle) and relative density (cell thickness) of these reentrant honeycombs on the dynamic performance of this novel base and to propose design guidelines for the best use of the auxetic cellular vibration isolation system. …”
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Effects of the Management Control System on Empowerment and Organizational Resilience by Ilse Maria Beuren, Vanderlei dos Santos, Daniele Cristina Bernd

“…The aim of this study is to examine the effects of the enabling perception of the Managerial Control System (MCS) on psychological empowerment and organizational resilience. A survey was conducted with 161 managers of Brazilian companies that had undergone the process of acquiring another company and a structural model was developed to answer the hypotheses of the research. …”
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Les émotions au travail (scientifique) : enjeux éthiques et stratégies méthodologiques d’une enquête en terrain intime by Michela Villani, Francesca Poglia Mileti, Laura Mellini, Brikela Sulstarova, Pascal Singy

“…The investigation was conducted on an intimate field, as it deals with themes such sexuality and HIV. …”
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Analysis for Stiffness Characteristic of Machine Tool Spindle Bearing Under Elastohydrodynamic Lubrication Condition by Hao Yu, Dongchen Qin, Jiangyi Chen, Feng Yuan

“…Increasing the preload value of bearing is conductive to improving the comprehensive stiffness. …”
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The concept of the “pedagogical event” in educational discourse by Victoria V. Dobrova

“…Based on the research conducted within the social and human sciences, the integral features of the event, such as the significance of changes in the life of the subject and spatial and temporal characteristics were identified, which allowed to define the pedagogical event in an interdisciplinary dynamic aspect. …”
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Resosialisasi di lembaga pemasyarakatan khusus anak by Sri Haryaningsih, Titik Hariyati

“…This research is a qualitative research with research subjects are childrens at the Institute for Special Development for Children (LPKA). This research was conducted with structured interviews and observations of child prisoners in LPKA. …”
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Open Innovation and Implementation of Different Types of Innovation: An Analysis Based on Panel Data by Humberto Rodrigues Marques, Ednilson Sebastião Ávila, Rafael Morais Pereira, André Luiz Zambalde

“…The panel data technique was used for analysis, based on PINTEC data, an innovation survey conducted by IBGE, which referred to the years 2003, 2005, 2008, 2011, and 2014. …”
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The Effects of the 2004 Hurricane Season on Greenhouse Vegetable Production in Florida by Jeanmarie M. Mitchell, Daniel J. Cantliffe

“…Although the greenhouse vegetable industry in Florida is small, it is expanding and the present growers suffered millions of dollars in damages from the hurricanes in 2004. A survey was conducted in March, 2005 to assess both hurricane damages in 2004 and the present status of the greenhouse vegetable industry in Florida. …”
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Komunikacja niewerbalna a tłumaczenie symultaniczne: aspekt empiryczny by Konrad Rachut

“…Having established that kinesics and prosody indeed can have a positive impact on understanding one’s message, he conducts an experiment in which he compares the quality of the interpretations performed by MA students of English and Russian philology divided into audio and audio-visual groups in the case of English-Polish and Russian-Polish simultaneous interpreting. …”
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Concevoir des logements collectifs en bois : un processus à l’épreuve de la technique by Mathilde Planchot, Céline Drozd, Ignacio Requena-Ruiz, Daniel Siret

“…To shed some light on these issues we report on the results of a survey conducted in the form of interviews with eight architects designing timber collective housing, who analyze their practices and the transformations they observe.…”
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Retinoid Therapy in a Case of Harlequin Ichthyosis with a Short Literature Review by Emad Bahashwan, Jaber Alfaifi, Sahar Elmaghawri Mohamed Moursi, Youssef Elbayoumi Soliman

“…After admitting him to the NICU, a multidisciplinary treatment approach was conducted with paediatric dermatologists, ophthalmologists, urologists, and dieticians. …”
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Assessment of information needs in public health in Germany: results of a nationwide survey. by A. Scheiber, R. Schneemann, R. Wischer

“…A survey about the experience with online databases and demands for specific information resources was conducted in order to analyse the extent of problems experienced with information retrieval. …”
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Research of Health Management on Satellite Communication Earth Station Platform Based on Engineering-Oriented Method by Qing XUE, Yusheng LIN, Yang KOU, Yongchi ZHANG, Jing ZHANG, Shaofei Wang

“…Based on the practical experience in satellite communication network fi eld, considering the existing problems in current system, regarding the typical earth station platform as research object, this paper did research of health management on satellite communication earth station platform based on engineering-oriented method.The analysis for health management mode was conducted associated with practical work mode and fl ow path, then, a typical indicator data classifi cation way was proposed based on inservice equipments and system, and we showed some examples.Finally, the fault diagnosis and prognostic method, the health assessment method, and the prognostic method for remaining life were proposed considering the real situation of our satellite communication system, which was an advanced thought for engineering-oriented health management method on satellite communication network fi eld.…”
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The Complexity of the Intersectionality of Domestic and International Non-Governmental Peacebuilding Organisations in South Sudan by Emmaculate Asige Liaga

“…Given that a substantial number of peacebuilding is conducted by Non-governmental organisations, which occupy a middle level to governments and community levels, the paper unpacks the complexity of the interaction of the international and domestic middle-level organisations. …”
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Les maisons romaines précoces de l’oppidum de La Sioutat à Roquelaure (Gers) : bilan des recherches récentes by Philippe Gardes

“…Research conducted on the oppidum of La Sioutat at Roquelaure (Gers) since 2006 now sheds new light on the Late Protohistory of that part of south-west France. …”
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