DOMINANT SPEECH ACT TYPE IN DAILY CONVERSATION: A PRAGMATIC STUDY by Syafryadin Syafryadin, Imam Sudarmaji, Santiana Santiana

“…Moreover, the data were analyzed by using qualitative analysis by applying several stages from reduction, displaying and drawing conclusion. The result showed that several types of speech were found during conversation of students and parents at home. …”
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Integrating humanoid robots with human musicians for synchronized musical performances by MengCheng Lau, John Anderson, Jacky Baltes

“…Entertainment robotics has garnered significant attention in recent years, with researchers focusing on developing robots capable of performing a variety of tasks, including magic, drawing, dancing, and music. This article presents our research on forming a musical band that includes both humanoid robots and human musicians, with the goal of achieving natural synchronization and collaboration during musical performances. …”
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The Tariff Liberalisation Policy Nexus with Non-Tariff Measures: Panel Model Evidence in the SA–EU Fruit Products Trade by Chiedza L. Muchopa

“…Answers are sought to the question of how the level of exports changes as the quota size of tariff rate quotas changes, thus enabling the investigation of whether unilateral quotas granted to South Africa by the European Union have influenced fruit products’ export flows in the presence of non-tariff measures. Drawing on panel data regression techniques, this study observes five fruit products’ tariff rate quotas repeatedly from 2004 to 2021. …”
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An analysis of apology in an Indonesian ELT textbook and the teacher’s strategy to teach the apology by Waliyadin, Nurul Hayati Fauzi

“…There is one principle that is not covered, namely, the principle of drawing a comparison. However, the findings of this study expose that the teacher’s teaching strategies cover all Limberg’s principles of teaching pragmatics of apology. …”
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Towards transformative innovation ecosystems: a systemic approach to responsible innovation by Philipp Neudert, Mareike Smolka, Stefan Böschen

“…The emerging literature on responsible innovation ecosystems has focused on socioethical desirability but has neglected sociotechnical viability beyond a protected niche. Drawing on theoretical insights and concepts from the literature on Responsible Innovation, innovation ecosystems, and transition studies, we distinguish four types of ecosystems along the axes of desirability and viability and discuss examples of these types. …”
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Professors Call it Cheating, Students Call it Teamwork by Jeffrey Walsh, Jessie Krienert, Kevin Cannon, Samuel Honan

“…Academic dishonesty in higher education is a persistent concern emphasized and extensively explored in traditional face-to-face courses, less so in online learning environments. The present work, drawing on a large sample of students and faculty (n=1,640) at a Midwestern university, employs an esurvey and both qualitative and quantitative responses on cheating behavior in the emergent area of online courses/online education. …”
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Power, tourism, and ecology: a critical inquiry into aconcagua’s power structures and conceptions of nature by Henry Mooney

“…This paper offers a multifaceted examination of the core-periphery dynamics inherent in the utilization and conceptualization of nature within Aconcagua Provincial Park (APP). Drawing on ethnographic data and textual analysis, it scrutinizes the interplay between historical legacies, economic imperatives, and ecological outcomes shaping mountaineering tourism within the park. …”
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Protective and Blast Resistive Design of Posttensioned Box Girders Using Computational Geometry by Majid Aleyaasin

“…The algorithm is based on a diagonal cross point in the Magnel quadrilateral and uses computational geometry instead of graphical drawing. Thereafter, an ideal parabolic and linear tendon profiles can be calculated from which the covering duct could be shaped. …”
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Technological Tool for Formative Assessment in Higher Education: ZipGrade by Bani Arora, Abdulghani Al-Hattami

“…This research contributes to the dialogue on the integration of information and communication technology to promote quality education and address the literature gap in providing immediate feedback to enhance the learning outcomes. Drawing on a sample of 63 fourth year B.Ed. students in Bahrain, the study combines quantitative and qualitative methodologies to assess student perceptions about the utility and effectiveness of ZipGrade. …”
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Aestheticising the Post-Industrial Debris : Industrial Ruins in Contemporary British Landscape Photography by Karolina Kolenda

“…This paper investigates how contemporary landscape photography has sought to introduce the image of industrial ruins into the realm of collective visual imagination by drawing on aesthetic conventions of the Picturesque and the Pictorial, on the one hand, and on the conventions characteristic for developments in contemporary photography (from documentary aesthetics in the work of John Davies, through the “abject” in the work of Richard Billingham and Tom Hunter, to the post-pastoral landscape photography by John Kippin). …”
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Agency in Community: Understanding Gender-Based Violence from within a Muslim Community in Lenasia, Johannesburg by Aaishah Lombard, Elina Hankela

“… This qualitative study examines how a group of Muslims in a conservative community in Lenasia, Johannesburg, engaged with Islam and gender-based violence (GBV). Drawing on the framework of lived religion and Saba Mahmood’s conceptualization of agency and embodiment, the article highlights how the 13 interviewees actively negotiated their perceptions of and approach to GBV within their religious and cultural environment. …”
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Tacit engagement in humanitarian action: making sense of silence and secrecy in humanitarian negotiations by Ayse Bala Akal, Kristina Roepstorff, Kristoffer Lidén

“…In this paper, we do so by conceptualizing these practices as forms of “tacit engagement” and relating them to political theory on secrecy and silence. Drawing on insights from expert consultations and qualitative interviews on humanitarian negotiations, we relate it to existing literatures on remote management, risk management and a culture of silence in humanitarian organizations more generally and humanitarian negotiations more specifically. …”
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Creativity in numbers: Uncovering students' potential through diagnostic learning evaluation at SMK Pasundan 4 Bandung by Ainil Kaafil Hasanah, Lulu Banusalam, Muhammad Rizqi Febrian

“…Data presentation uses a qualitative approach, employing the interactive analysis model, which involves several stages, including data selection, data presentation, and conclusion drawing. Additionally, we employ observation instruments, interviews, and documentary studies. …”
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To start or not to start? An exploratory study of work meaningfulness among start-up co-founders by Deniz Dirik, Burak Özdoğan

“…This study addresses meaningful work experiences of 12 startup co-founders from Turkiye by employing a qualitative research design and using in-depth interviews. Drawing on Self-Determination Theory (SDT) and the Job Characteristics Model (JCM), this research identifies key dimensions of meaningful work, including significance, autonomy, identity, challenge and resilience, recognition and support, and work-life balance. …”
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What do we mean by academic integrity? by Andrés Mejía, Maria Fernanda Garcés-Flórez

“…Abstract This paper examines the concept of academic integrity. Drawing on Calhoun’s social perspective of integrity and on MacIntyre’s goods-based view of practice, we propose to understand acting with academic integrity as standing before others and with others, firmly but non-dogmatically, to protect the integrity of academic practice and, therefore, its internal goods –which are not readily specifiable but nevertheless related to growth, learning, and knowledge production and sharing. …”
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Defining Price Stability: Public Accountability of the European Central Bank’s Goal Independence by Mattias Vermeiren

“…In this article, I examine the politics of accountability underlying the ECB’s re-definition of its price stability objective through a comparison with the strategy review of the Federal Reserve, which went further than the ECB by setting an average inflation target that intentionally seeks to pursue periods of above-target inflation to compensate for periods of below-target inflation. Drawing on a reputational perspective on public accountability, I elaborate two arguments. …”
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The Character of the Neolithic ‘Imagery’ in the Upper Euphrates Valley and Konya Plain and Its Role in Discerning Changes in Religiosity by Weronika Stosik

“…The main focus of the article involves a comparison of two crucial regions of the Neolithic of the Near East, the Upper Euphrates Valley and the Konya Plain, with an emphasis on the presence and characteristics of imagery. Furthermore, drawing from the same array of sources, the article endeavors to delineate the emergence and subsequent transformations of the Neolithic belief system from the 9th to the end of the 7th millennium BCE. …”
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An Efficiency Control Method Based on SFSM for Massive Crowd Rendering by Lei Lyu, Jinling Zhang, Meilin Fan

“…In addition, we propose a variable precision point sampling drawing strategy to render the individual with different sampling precision. …”
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Globalizing opposition to pro-environmental institutions: The growth of counter climate change organizations around the world, 1990 to 2018. by Jared Furuta, Patricia Bromley

“…As climate change discourse is infused in more areas throughout society, climate change issues become more salient in the public sphere, generating adversarial grievances, identities, and mobilization among oppositional groups. Drawing on panel logistic regression models for 162-164 countries from 1990 to 2018, we find that counter climate change organizations are most likely to develop in countries with more extensive state policies and structures oriented toward protecting the natural environment, net of a variety of factors that account for a country's economic interests or its overall capacity to produce domestic associations.…”
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Equal Placement between choice and imposition by Francesca Marielli, Chiara Giannini, Sofia Marini Balestra

“…Our systematic review from 2000 onwards, drawing from PubMed, Scopus, and various legal and psychological associations, explores this issue. …”
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