VUCA environment on project success: The effect of project management methods by Ralf Luis de Moura, Teresa Cristina Janes Carneiro, Taciana Lemos Dias

“…Due to the ever-changing work environment in the age of digital transformation, project managers need to adapt to an environment which is volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA). …”
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Les relations de frontière entre le Portugal et l’Espagne au temps de la dictature dans l’œuvre d’Álvaro Cunhal/Manuel Tiago by João Carlos Vitorino Pereira

“…Cunhal was much in favour of frontier relations with the Spanish dictatorship but insisted more than ever on the necessary democratisation of Spain which would contribute to the consolidation of the young and fragile Portuguese democracy.…”
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A decade of open access policy at the Gates Foundation based on experimentation, evidence and evolution by Ashley Farley

“…Now, in response to the ever-evolving needs of the scholarly ecosystem, the foundation is updating its policy again to strive for broader impact and to support practices that drive greater inclusion of scientists around the world, particularly those from low- and middle-income countries. …”
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Discovery of Intra-Abdominal Hemorrhage during Hernioplasty in a Patient Taking Rivaroxaban by Harry Chow, Michael K. Ng

“…We discuss the first ever case of rivaroxaban causing major intra-abdominal hemorrhage found in a patient during emergency hernioplasty. …”
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From Plant to Patient: A Historical Perspective and Review of Selected Medicinal Plants in Dermatology by Aygun Israyilova, Tsvetomira Zhivkova Peykova, Ben Kittleson, Paul Caleb Sprowl, Taha Osman Mohammed, Cassandra L. Quave

“…Today, with increasing patient preference for natural therapies, modern medicine is now more than ever incorporating age-old knowledge of herbal remedies useful in treating skin conditions into modern-day treatments. …”
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Un mundo en tiempos de pandemia: los ODS frente a las cuestiones jurídicas emergentes by María Isabel Torres-Cazorla

“…International cooperation is needed more than ever.…”
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HCV and HIV co-infection among people who inject drugs in Vietnam by Vu Toan THINH, Li LI, Dréan MATTHIEU, Van Dinh HOA, Nguyen Huu ANH, Le Minh GIANG

“…Those who had ever shared with and reused syringes/needles were more likely to have HIV/HCV co-infection (aORs = 5.17 and 2.86, P < 0001, respectively) and have either HIV or HCV infection (aORs = 3.42 and 2.37, P < 0001, respectively). …”
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Sexual practices and risky sexual behaviours among public secondary school adolescents in a local government area in Ekiti State, Nigeria by Ojo JO, Ipinnimo TM, Alao TA, Alabi OS, Adeojo OM, Ilevbare MO, Olorunfemi BN, Esan FJ, Adejumo JO, Dailo CO, Ubulom KA, Ogbonna KO, Adebayo TO, Mesileya AO, Ajewole OO, Stephen-Douglas SJ, Chukwuonye CVS, Oluwagbemi OD

“…About one-quarter, 23.2% had ever touched someone’s genitals (vagina or penis) while 22.6% had ever masturbated. …”
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Domestic violence victimisation and its association with mental distress: a cross-sectional study of the Yangon Region, Myanmar by Johanne Sundby, Espen Bjertness, Lars Lien, Win Thuzar Aye, Hein Stigum, Berit Schei

“…Objectives To estimate the prevalence of domestic violence, with subgroups of physical, sexual and emotional violence, among men and women and to assess the association between any lifetime domestic violence (DV) and mental distress among ever-married men and women.Design We conducted a cross-sectional study from October to November 2016 using a multistage sampling design. …”
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The Landbound Chicken and the Deliberate Chameleon yet have their Uses: Yorùbá Art History, Language, and Interpretation. by Kathy Curnow

“… Rowland Abiodun’s Yorùbá Art and Language contains many extremely valuable features, wrapped around a question he raises in its introduction: can foreign scholars ever truly understand a work the way its Yorùbá makers and users do? …”
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Sustainable development of cities by Gogić Nemanja, Milenković Dragana

“…The accumulated environmental problems became more comprehensive, inevitable and more difficult than any that had ever existed. Cities have become the biggest consumers and therefore the biggest polluters of the environment. …”
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«Pasa la vida»: Cartografías Urbanas de Madrid en la Post-Transición (1982-1994) by Vicente Rodríguez Ortega

“…In the studied period, Spanish cinema encounters an ever-flowing social, approaching it from different perspectives, turning into a representational mechanism that codifies the practices of the everyday –that is, the recurrent forms of interaction through which individuals function with a given social structure.…”
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Evanghelia apocrifă a Martei Petreu: identităţi elective – corporalitate afectivă by Daniela Moldoveanu

“…The concept is Marta Petreu’s ontological space where she isolates herself looking for semantic and linguistic uniqueness among other feminine Romanian voices of her generation. For her, even the ever searched for, analyzed, classified love remains deeply conflicting and generates several interrogations that raise the appetite for selfdevouring.…”
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Analyzing Production Records of Commercial Sweet Orange Blocks to Measure Effects of Mechanical Harvesting on Long-Term Production and Tree Health by Fritz M. Roka, Lisa H. House, Katrina R. Mosley

“… Ever since mechanical harvesting systems were introduced in the 1960s, growers expressed serious concerns over the potential negative impact mechanical harvesting could have on their trees. …”
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Lectures patrimoniales du thermalisme : quand le patrimoine culturel immatériel et le patrimoine architectural et paysager se nourrissent réciproquement by Mathilde Lamothe

“…Until recently, the inventories of France’s intangible cultural heritage and those of the General Inventory of Cultural Heritage had rubbed shoulders without ever really meeting, just like the people taking the waters in the Pyrenees in the 19th century. …”
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Vocational Technology Education Innovation: Building a Generation of Experts in the Digital Age by Alzet Rama, Ambiyar Ambiyar, Remon Lapisa, Unung Verawardina

“…Through this innovative approach, it is expected that vocational technology education is able to produce graduates who not only have strong technical skills, but are also able to adapt, innovate, and contribute significantly in the ever-evolving world of work. With a focus on building a generation of experts in the digital era, this article.…”
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Bible translation in Africa. What implications does the new UBS perspective have for Africa? An overview in the light of the emerging new UBS translation initiative by A. O. Mojola

“…Special focus is given to the shifts that have occurred with respect to its vision and mission and its ever widening outreach in pursuit of the Christian great commission. …”
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Selected Topics on Business Informatics: Editorial Introduction to Issue 31 of CSIMQ by Bartosz Marcinkowski

“…The authors of the literature reviews move into the broad field of assuring the quality of IT artifacts, focusing on different dimensions of the software engineering process. With the ever-increasing scale of computerization in more and more areas of life, insufficient emphasis on quality is not only associated with significant costs of bug-fixing. …”
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RETHINKING HOMO AFRICANUS IN THE CONTEXT OF SOCIO-POLITICAL CHANGE: by A.R. Brunsdon

“…It argues that together with the ever-growing process of globalisation, the way that Africans, think, live and believe did not remain untouched. …”
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Race Matters: 1968 as Living History in the Black Freedom Struggle by Jorrit van den Berk, Laura Visser-Maessen

“…New questions about the legacies of 1968 and the 1960s in general are presenting themselves to us, as scholars and as citizens, ever more urgently. This is particularly true of race and racial struggle, as unresolved race matters from the past poignantly intersect with twenty-first century activism aimed at countering the continued devaluation of black lives. …”
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