Accounting Conservatism and National Culture by Pollyanna Gracy Wronski, Roberto Carlos Klann

“…When analyzing each cultural dimension individually, it was noted that companies from countries that have an individualistic culture would engage in bad accounting conservatism, while companies with a long term orientation exhibited the opposite attitude, according to the survey’s scenario. …”
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Resilient Design. A synoptic framework by Claudio Germak

“…This essay is intended to provide a wide panorama, almost a synoptic framework, of the contribution that Design can offer society in terms of ‘resistance’ and ‘resilience’, also considering critical events as an opportunity to evolve its orientations and practices.…”
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Pragmatic marker to in Hausa (West Chadic, A.1; Nigeria) by Patryk Zając

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Discourse-level structuring of information in narrative:Signalling structural, interactional and cognitive shifts by Tuija Virtanen

“…Discourse-level structuring of information is explored in narrative in the light of three parameters subsumed under this umbrella notion: (i) the structural concepts of “theme-rheme”, connected to “position”; (ii) the interaction-oriented pair of concepts “topic-comment”, grounded in the notion of “aboutness”; and (iii) the cognitively motivated gradient from “given” to “new” information, related to interlocutors’ assumptions of their memory constraints as well as those of others. …”
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The Interface Between the Written and the Oral in lfa Corpus by Omotade Adegbindin

“…From the standpoint of lfa, therefore, this paper rejects the written-oral dichotomy that is central to both the modernist and the tradi­tionalist orientations, occasioned by their parochial and provincial conceptions of philosophy respectively. …”
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Polyphony and politics: Representing and translating culture, race and gender in Puccini’s Turandot by Benang Xuan

“…., Occidental versus Oriental, white versus non-white, male versus female. …”
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INTEGRATING THEORY AND PRAXIS IN EMPIRICAL MISSIOLOGY by M. Ehmann

“…This concept leads to an investigation of a concrete micro context, using the methods of empirical social research and social space-oriented action research. The article aims to explore a theory-practice correlation in the training and application of empirical missiology as a practical science in cooperation with an actual local church. …”
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Formazione, tecnologia e mercati nel contesto di una multinazionale by Elena Bougleux

“…The training program in advanced technology and related applicative competences remains framed inside a market oriented strategy, and it responds to logic of asymmetric power typical of a post colonial scenario. …”
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Influence of territorial distribution on verbal-visual advertisements by Lyubomira Spasova

“…These generalizations confirmed the empirical evidence from other studies, because the verbal orientation of Asian-type consumers facilitates the understanding of advertising messages reflecting their cultural values, and the visual structures in advertising facilitate the perception of European-type consumers. …”
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L’Extraction du sable au Maroc, de la ressource au produit by Duncan Driffort

“…To do this, sand is discussed through two input analyses: as a constitutive element of dune landscapes considered a public good and as a commercialized product oriented to make armed-concrete. With this aim in mind, this research first analyzes littoral alterations due to construction in Mohammédia, then shifts its point of view towards sand extraction and its consequences on the coastline. …”
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La construcción naval en la Galicia autonómica (1980-2023) by José Gómez Alén

“…The changes in the ownership of the shipyards and in their productive orientation, as well as the negative consequences for the employment it had traditionally generated, would give rise to the intense socio-labor conflict that was going to be constant during the transformation process of the naval sector, which would reach some stability at the beginning of the second decade of the 21st century.…”
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Developing and presenting a mathematical model for the purpose of organizational culture architecture based on creating alignment between the strategic reference points of organiza... by Elyas hasanzadeh Shweili, Mir Mehrdad peidaie, Ali reza Rezghi Rostami

“…In addition, the culture of flexibility orientation positively moderates the relationship between strategic leadership behaviors and strategic coordination of business and information systems, while control-oriented culture negatively moderates these relationships. …”
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Updating the Graphic Education of Construction Students by I. D. Stolbova, E. P. Aleksandrova, M. N. Krainova, V. P. Varuskin

“…The authors adduce the examples of practice-oriented learning tasks based on the project method that students are suggested to perform in the course of self-dependent work. …”
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Customer Knowledge Management (CKM): Model Proposal and Evaluation in a Large Brazilian Higher Education Private Group by Alessandro Henrique de Souza Miake, Rodrigo Baroni de Carvalho, Marcelo de Rezende Pinto, Alexandre Reis Graeml

“…The CRM process is supported by the relationship orientation and the customer knowledge management derived from data collection, data consolidation, data analysis and knowledge distribution to support decision making. …”
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Statins as Modulators of Regulatory T-Cell Biology by David A. Forero-Peña, Fredy R. S. Gutierrez

“…On the other hand, the induction and activity of regulatory T cells (Treg) are key processes in the prevention of pathology during chronic inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. Hence, strategies oriented towards the therapeutic expansion of Tregs are gaining special attention among biomedical researchers. …”
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Hall deflection of spin-current driven skyrmion and its modulation by Yu Wang, Jingguo Hu

“…The regulation controls the magnetization orientation of the ferromagnetic input layer so that the spin current injected vertically into the upper layer can obtain an appropriate lateral spin polarization to suppress the transverse deflection caused by the skyrmion Hall effect, hence ensuring that the spin current drives the skyrmion along the magnetic track steadily. …”
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A Review of Successful Construction Project Managers’ Competencies and Leadership Profile by Ali Ghorbani

“…Therefore, to bridge these gaps and to achieve the project goal within budget, time, scope and quality. All projects-oriented organizations such as construction firms, consultancy firms, and information and communication technology (ICT) firms, need for trained, competent, leader and experienced project managers. …”
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Technology and equipment of vertical‑stack molding for the production of castings without pattern drafts by V. V. Fonov, S. N. Grechanik, D. M. Golub

“…The development is export‑oriented and has a great economic effect for ring manufacturers due to the absence of drafts on castings, since part of the mechanical operations for their processing is excluded, the metal consumption of blanks is reduced, the production spaces required in this regard are reduced, the necessary labor supply is reduced, etc.OJSC “BELNIILIT” has successfully carried out experimental design and technological work on the new scientific and technical products creation, which are of great interest to the world manufacturers of piston rings. …”
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Correlation between residuals in confirmatory factor analysis: a brief guide to their use and interpretation by Sergio Dominguez-Lara

“…Introduction: The inclusion of correlations between residuals in measurement models is a common practice in psychometric research and is predominantly oriented to the statistical improvement of the model through increase (for example, IFC) or decrease (for example, RMSEA) of the magnitude of certain adjustment indices, rather than understanding the nature of these associations. …”
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Effect of Hydroalcoholic Extract of Cydonia oblonga Miller (Quince) on Sexual Behaviour of Wistar Rats by Muhammad Aslam, Ali Akbar Sial

“…The observed parameters were mounting frequency, assessment of mating performance, and orientation activities towards females, towards the environment, and towards self. …”
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