Parking Permit Scheme for Morning Commute considering Parking Search by Duo Xu, Huijun Sun

“…By analyzing their performance in reducing system cost, three conclusions were drawn. Firstly, parking search leads to traveler’s schedule and location adjustments, raises the trip cost, reduces the parking lot occupancy, and makes the parking issues “invisible.” …”
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Compressed sensing for electrocardiogram acquisition in wireless body sensor network: A comparative analysis by Junxin Chen, Jiazhu Xing, Leo Yu Zhang, Lin Qi

“…The performances of involved important factors, such as wavelet basis, overcomplete dictionaries, and the reconstruction algorithms, are comparatively illustrated, with the purpose to give data reference for practical applications. Drawn from a bulk of comparative experiments, the potential of compressed sensing in electrocardiogram acquisition is evaluated in different compression levels, while preferred sparsifying basis and reconstruction algorithm are also suggested. …”
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Green Operations Management of Interbasin Water Transfer Project: An Extended Framework of Joint Pricing and Inventory Management by Huimin Wang, Liuyu Xue, Jianhui Peng, Gaofeng Liu, Zhisong Chen

“…Subsequently, detailed numerical and sensitivity analyses are carried out, which is followed by theoretical and practical insights. The following can be drawn from the research: (1) the IBWT project would achieve better operational performance through making WGD efforts and implementing green supply chain management. (2) Coordination strategy outperforms the decentralized one in terms of the operational performance in the management of IBWT green supply chain. (3) A revenue and cost sharing contract based on Nash bargaining could help promote coordination of the IBWT green supply chain.…”
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Rethinking body language in terms of power relations by Adeline Paxton

“…Because the Cultural Studies approach explicitly links power rela tions and communication, it is able to offer a framework in which dis parate threads from different discl plines can be drawn together to fa cilitate a broader understanding of body language. …”
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Influence of the Parental Family on the Trajectories of Professional Mobility of Postgraduate Students by R. G. Smirnov

“…There is proposed differentiation of students in postgraduate school into two groups (“goal-oriented” and “coincidental”), and the following conclusions are drawn: 1) at the initial stage of education, the role and importance of the parental family in the view of postgraduate students is minimal; 2) by the time of completing postgraduate studies, goal-oriented postgraduate students change their minds, recognizing the importance of the family as a supporting factor of social and professional mobility; 3) in contrast to the period of studying in graduate school the parental family becomes a significant factor of mobility in the views and perceptions of postgraduate students about professional prospects and the formation of a career trajectory.…”
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The Origins of Czech Academic Lexicography. From Foreign Inspiration to State Formation Potential by Věra Dvořáčková

“…The authors of the Czech dictionary were able to learn from the experience of their colleagues abroad, which helped them understand what could be useful in the context of the Czech language, what sources of inspiration could be drawn on, and where greater account should be taken of specific local circumstances. …”
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Creative Citizenship – two journeys, one destination by Hargreaves Ian, Hartley John

“…Nevertheless, we offer the ‘paper’ as a record of how two intersecting lives and careers were both drawn to the ‘Creative Citizens’ idea, not only as a research problem but also as a component of the speakers’ own practice – one as a high profile journalist turned academic; the other as an academic with interests in alternative models of journalism. …”
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Prawo do wolności słowa a bezpieczeństwo narodowe w Polsce i Rosji ? analiza porównawcza by Jacek J. Mrozek

“…However, the problem lies in the actual application and enforcement of these rights and freedoms in practice. The conclusions drawn from this analysis are unequivocal. As long as there are no alternative credible information distribution channels, the existing political system in the Russian Federation will certainly be maintained, because the lack of an alternative perpetuates the monopolization of the media market. …”
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The effectiveness of Pencak Silat to change teenage personalities by Tjung Hauw Sin, Nurul Ihsan

“…The conclusion that can be drawn in this study is that martial arts exercises provide effects on changes in adolescent personality.…”
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On the Imbibition Model for Oil-Water Replacement of Tight Sandstone Oil Reservoirs by Xiong Liu, Desheng Zhou, Le Yan, Shun Liu, Yafei Liu

“…The relationship between oil-water displacement rate and dimensionless time under different parameters is drawn considering the influence of capillary force, osmotic pressure, production pressure difference, and starting pressure gradient. …”
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The role played by gender, household income and age in factors contributing to consumers’ attitudes towards short message service advertisements by Michael Humbani, Yolanda Jordaan

“…A convenience sample was drawn from staff and students of three private institutions of higher learning. …”
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Use of Instagram as learning media in senior high school by Muhammad Nur Iman Hadiyana Setia, Monica Fajriana

“…The weights in each category will be summed and converted into qualitative data. The data will be drawn by counting how many categories of answers from all respondents. …”
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Role of A.S. Aivazov in the Process of Primary Schools Reform in Crimea (1910s) by Ismail Kerimov

“…The article makes an attempt to study the processes of reforms in education in the native language, showing a number of textbooks and teaching aids recommended by the general meeting of muallims (teachers) for use in the educational process in primary schools. Attention is drawn to the fact that it was these discussions that later acquired a national scale and led to the creation of the Mengli Giray Institute in Bakhchisaray in 1917, the first graduates of which, having received diplomas in 1920, joined the national teaching staff of Crimea.…”
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PREVENTING VIOLENCE CRIMES (KIDNAPPING, ARMED ROBBERY, BRIGANDAGE OR COMMUNITY MASSACRE) WITH DRONES: AN EFFECTIVE ALTERNATIVE TO VEHICULAR PATROLS IN NIGERIA by BABALOLA SUNDAY EMMANUEL

“…The study population was made of 114 officers drawn from Nigeria Police Collegewhile a sample size of 89 officers were selected for the study. …”
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Quantum Mechanical Study on the Structure and Vibrational Spectra of Cyclobutanone and 1,2-Cyclobutanedione by Anoop kumar Pandey, Apoorva Dwivedi, Neeraj Misra

“…The molecular HOMO, LUMO composition, their respective energy gaps, and MESP contours/surfaces have also been drawn to explain the activity of 1,2-cyclobutanedione and cyclobutanone.…”
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Resistências de povos e comunidades tradicionais ante o Estado e a colonialidade by Josiane Carine Wedig, João Daniel Dorneles Ramos

“…In recent years, legislation and conventions, national and international, have been drawn up that deal with issues related to these peoples, however, they are not guaranteed that their lands will be demarcated. …”
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The introduction of institution of «peasant сhief» in the Steppe region in the early ХХ century by V. V. Germizeeva

“…The article examines the activities of administrative institutions of the Steppe region in solving problems related to the organization of peasant self-government. Attention is drawn to the introduction of the institution of peasant leaders who had the right to supervise all peasant social administration. …”
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Theoretical framework and methods for the analysis of the adoption-diffusion of innovations in agriculture: a bibliometric review by Rafael Mesa Manzano, Javier Esparcia Pérez

“…In this study we analyze the scientific literature through a bibliometric analysis based on co-citation networks, to explore the theoretical pillars and bibliographic coupling, with which we explore the current methodological research trends of the last 50 years. The conclusions drawn from this analysis are that in recent years agricultural researchers on adoption and diffusion have designed multivariate methods that combine diverse study approaches. …”
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The crisis of the señorial society and the status malaise of the elites in Chile by Danilo Martuccelli

“…On this basis, an analytical reasoning is presented in three moments – the first marked by the validity of the ideal type of señorial society; the second, by its crisis in the 1970s and by the recomposition of the elite domain after the coup d'état, when there was a successful restructuring of classes and parties and an insufficient status restoration; and the third moment characterized by the specificity of the current malaise of the elites in Chile which, unlike other political or economic crises, has its focus on the status order. Thus, attention is drawn to the need to complement the study of the relations between economic elites and political power, differentiating between legitimacy crises and status malaise.…”
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Optimizing the Composite Cost Involved in Road Motor-Transporting Trucks by Taking into Account Traffic Condition by Hongying Fei, Chengyi Zhang

“…With the rapid development of modern automotive logistics industry, vehicle logistics has drawn more and more attention. Since the vehicle transporters mainly are the severe-polluting heavy-duty vehicles and their exhaust emissions vary under different traffic conditions, it is necessary to improve the planning of road motor-transporting services by taking into account road traffic condition, especially for urban areas. …”
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