Joseph Conrad’s ‘Youth’: A Melting Pot for the Old and New by Samir Elbarbary

“…Further, the text anticipates the general orientation of postmodernism in conflating heterogeneous discourses. …”
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Conceptual Approaches to Robustness Assessment of Building Structures, Buildings and Facilities by Ashot G. Tamrazyan

“…After anal-ysis of the robustness nature, a new structural oriented definition is pro-posed. Based on the highlighted shortcomings of the existing measures, in particular those related with the application to deteriorated structures, a conceptual framework for robustness assessment is proposed.…”
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IMPLEMENTATION OF PRODUCTIVE FOREIGN LANGUAGE EDUCATION IN HIGHER SCHOOL by Nadezhda I. Almazova, Anna V. Rubtsova

“…The offered linguodidactic technology of autonomous productive modular for studying foreign languages is a form of professionally oriented foreign language education. Linguodidactic technology under analysis provides special educating conditions for students' self-operation with the purpose of creating a foreign-language textual product as the means of professional and personal growth. …”
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Professional Standards Development and Implementation in the Higher School Management by Y. A. Yelbayev, T. V Kiyashchuk

“…The paper looks at the higher school management oriented on the innovative qualification structure and professional standards in the light of the competence approach. …”
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Fresh-Cut Mango Best Management Practices Manual by Jeffrey K. Brecht, Anne Plotto, Anna Marín-Gozalbo, Renee Goodrich

“…The US Department of Agriculture prohibits discrimination in all its programs and activities on the basis of race, color, national origin, gender, religion, age, disability, political beliefs, sexual orientation, and marital or family status. …”
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THE 17TH-CENTURY JOHANNES HOORNBEECK’S VIEWS ON MISSION, ECUMENISM AND HISTORICAL THEOLOGY AND ITS CURRENT RELEVANCE by J W Hofmeyr

“…I address the issue related to an analysis of Hoornbeeck’s contributions as a missiologist, a theologian with a clear ecumenical and irenical orientation, and a historical theologian. In my opinion, he can be regarded as the second most prominent theologian, besides Gisbertus Voetius. …”
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Chinese Mustard Cultivation Guide for Florida by Yuheng Qiu, Mary Dixon, Guodong Liu

“…Chinese mustard also goes by many common names, such as brown mustard, mustard greens, leaf mustard, Indian mustard, Oriental mustard, and vegetable mustard. Although it is considered a weed in a few states, such as Michigan, this species is not listed as invasive in Florida and has been cultivated in several counties, including Levy, Palm Beach, and Miami-Dade. …”
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Connotations and practical category of public health nursing for full-dimensional and full-cycle health management by Zhongchen LUO, Zheng LI, Hongli CHEN, Qing WANG

“…This paper discusses the connotation and practice category of public health nursing based on full-dimensional and full-cycle health management, so as to provide a reference for further clarifying the core competency standards of public health nurses oriented to professional competency and accelerating the construction of a training and practice management system for public health nursing personnel.…”
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Growth Parameters for Films of Hydrothermally Synthesized One-Dimensional Nanocrystals of Zinc Oxide by Mohammad A. Mahmood, Sadaqat Jan, Ibrar A. Shah, Imran Khan

“…The material exhibits anisotropic growth in the form of single crystal rods/wires of length in microns and thickness in several tens of nanometers through a facile and low temperature hydrothermal route wherein size, morphology, orientation, and growth rate are strongly dependent on a number of synthesis parameters. …”
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Research on Analysis Method of Traffic Congestion Mechanism Based on Improved Cell Transmission Model by Hongzhao Dong, Shuai Ma, Mingfei Guo, Dongxu Liu

“…To analyze the spreading regularity of the initial traffic congestion, the improved cell transmission model (CTM) is proposed to describe the evolution mechanism of traffic congestion in regional road grid. Ordinary cells and oriented cells are applied to render the crowd roads and their adjacent roads. …”
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Review of the Early Diagnoses and Assessment of Rejection in Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation by Ravi Starzl, Gerald Brandacher, W. P. Andrew Lee, Jaime Carbonell, Wensheng Zhang, Jonas Schnider, Vijay Gorantla, Stefan Schneeberger, Xin Xiao Zheng

“…This paper provides a historically oriented introduction to the field of organ transplantation and the evolution of VCA.…”
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Matériaux pour une sociologie du travail des agents de la formation by Cédric Frétigné

“…The conclusion synthesizes the principal gains of this orientation.…”
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Identifying factors affecting delivery points, risk transfer and costs in international trade with an emphasis on Incoterms 2020 by Morteza Babaie, Firouze Haji Aliakbari, Fereshte Lotfizade, Arshad Farahmandian

“…The results showed: 1- Supply chain strategic management has a direct and significant impact on the supply chain orientation, 2- Supply chain strategic management has an indirect and significant impact on supply chain orientation (through agility and chain strength), 3- Supply chain strategic management has no direct and significant impact on the performance of the supply chain, 4- Supply chain strategic management has an indirect and significant impact on supply chain performance (through agility and chain strength), 5- Chain agility plays a significant mediating role in the relationship between strategic management of supply chain and chain performance and orientation. 6- The chain strength has a mediating significant role in the relationship between strategic management of the supply chain and chain performance and orientation.Research methodologyThe research method is applicable-operational in terms of its purpose, and mixed (qualitative) and exploratory research in terms of implementation. …”
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Film music and construction of tourist imaginaries in Hollywood blockbusters by Marie-Hélène Chevrier, Chloé Huvet

“…This paper aims to show how the music composed for these movies contributes to the creation of topoi by promoting exoticism and orientalism, notably through the use of local instruments and musical motifs and through the representation, on screen, of traditional musical and artistic practices (singing, dancing, etc.). …”
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Beckett, Duchamp and Chess: A Crossroads at Arcachon in the Summer of 1940 by Harry Vandervlist

“…Les témoignages font seulement état de leur intérêt commun pour un jeu qui a par ailleurs déterminé l'orientation de leurs carrières respectives. Cependant, lorsqu’ils sont retournés à Paris en septembre 1940, leur attitude diamétralement opposée quant à l’occupation allemande porte à croire que certains paradoxes présocratiques n’avaient pas été totalement absents de leurs échanges.…”
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Ecosophical trans-formation: asignificant ruptures in the Venezuelan teacher by Milagros Elena Rodriguez

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A Comprehensive Approach to Power Management in Embedded Systems by Antônio Augusto Fröhlich

“…A set of mechanisms specifically conceived for this scenario is proposed, including a power management API defined at the level of user-visible system components, the infrastructure necessary to implement that API (namely, battery monitoring, accounting, autosuspend, and autoresume), an energy-event propagation mechanism based on Petri nets and implemented with aspect-oriented programming techniques, and an autonomous power manager build upon the proposed API and infrastructure. …”
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Optimization Algorithm of Logistics Transportation Cost of Prefabricated Building Components for Project Management by Xiaojiang Yang

“…A project management oriented prefabricated building component management system is built, the logistics and transportation process of prefabricated building components are analyzed, and the logistics vehicles of prefabricated building components under the time window are scheduled. …”
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Robust Output Feedback Disturbance Rejection Control by Simultaneously Estimating State and Disturbance by Jeang-Lin Chang

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Pletivo života: Teologicko-misiologické implikácie jednej metafory by Pavol Bargár

“…The article proposes the metaphor of a web of life as one possible image that has the potential to inform and orientate such exploration.…”
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