Die missionêre uitdaging van die arbeidslewe by J.J. Kritzinger

“…Even when there is a drive to reach other people, the orientation is likewise geographical. Church is for Sundays. …”
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Design of a Compact, Reconfigurable, Prosthetic Wrist by Arthur Zinck, Øyvind Stavdahl, Edmund Biden, Peter J. Kyberd

“…Previous work by the authors suggests that if the wrist must have only one rotatory axis then a more oblique orientation would be more functional. To test this idea, a compact wrist with a single axis and spherical design has been made that will allow any axis of rotation to be selected and the functional performance of the resulting arm be tested.…”
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The creative approach of the South African advertising industry towards the black consumer by Carla Enslin

“…The need for a receiver oriented creative perspective is established and reinforced through the design of two communication models which high light practical guidelines to be implemented by the advertising industry …”
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Interpreting public space as a medium for urban liveability by Alberto De Capua, Lidia Errante

“…This contribution highlights the need for tools able to interpreting the ever-changing physical and social demands of contemporary public space and propose an interpretative cognitive model to support to Public Administrations order to better orient urban transformation and regeneration strategies and goals.…”
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Role of consciousness formation methods and their application in class work with students of specialized higher educational institutions by Olga V. Igumnova

“…These directions of educational work must be focused on the students’ mindset formation by the means of the methods of the prospective penal officers’ consciousness formation such as convincing method, ethic discussion, clarification, debate, explanation, case study, example-oriented method. The use of some educational techniques within mentioned above methods is given reasons for.…”
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A dynamic method for rolling transport network planning by Yun XIA, Ji’en SONG, Jie LI

“…Operators are facing double pressure of the rapid development of network and the drop of telecom charges.The construction of the transport network needs to consider the long-term development.The construction plan can not only meet the business needs of the near future,but also meet the future direction of business development.By analyzing the shortage of traditional rolling planning method,oriented by planning development goals,a dynamic rolling planning method of transport network was presented.The effect of the business developing trend to the network was transformed from the artificial fuzzy thinking into quantitative calculation method,to avoid investment waste caused by inconformity of network construction and business changes.…”
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Les friches touristiques dans la moyenne montagne auvergnate, entre effet de cycle et fragilité territoriale by Michel Lompech, Daniel Ricard

“…They are the product of a complex and regressive process over the medium or long term and have to be looked at within the context of how this tourism was approached and the difficult integration to compete with other tourism-oriented territories from the 1960s. The analysis demonstrates the complexity of explanatory factors such as retail configurations. …”
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Cognitive Models of Professional Communication Discourse on Teaching the Interpreters by Moshchanskaya Y. Y.

“…The author makes the conclusion emphasizing the paradigmatic and syntagmatic orientation of the selected cognitive models and outlines the constant and variable factors for developing the didactic model of the professional communication discourse. …”
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Strength and Ductility Evaluation of L-Shape Shear Connectors in Composite Floors by G. P. Tonkih, D. A. Chesnokov

“…According to the results of the study, the dependence of the strength and deformability of shear connectors on their height, orientation relative to the shear force vector, the strength of the concrete slab and the geometric parameters of the profiled flooring was estimated.…”
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A Critical Review of Nuova Grammatica Pratica Della Lingua Italiana by Mahzad Sheikholislami

“…The current article not only tries to express weaknesses and strengths of this grammar book but also attempts to highlight its cultural orientation.…”
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On Hyperbolic 3-Manifolds Obtained by Dehn Surgery on Links by Soo Hwan Kim, Yangkok Kim

“…We study the algebraic and geometric structures for closed orientable 3-manifolds obtained by Dehn surgery along the family of hyperbolic links with certain surgery coefficients and moreover, the geometric presentations of the fundamental group of these manifolds. …”
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La triple démarche de l’enseignant en contexte hypermoderne by André Pachod

“…The second approach, of a philosophical and anthropological nature, locates the teacher in front of or in the face of this hypermodernity, inviting it to stop to question the educational offer and to follow certain orientations. The third approach is resolutely ethical: whithin its class and school, it acts in an ethical way by deciding priorities with the service of the success of the pupil.…”
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Shear Flow Induced Alignment of Carbon Nanotubes in Natural Rubber by Yan He, Zhifang Cao, Lianxiang Ma

“…The two-step approach is based on (i) the preparation of mixture latex of natural rubber, multiwalled carbon nanotubes, and other components and (ii) the orientation of carbon nanotubes by a flow field. Rubber composite sheets filled with variable volume fraction of aligned carbon nanotubes were fabricated and then confirmed by transmission electron microscopy and Raman spectroscopy studies. …”
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School of Middle Eastern languages by A. V. Shtanov

“…School of Middle Eastern languages (Arabic, Hebrew and Turkish), as well as a number of languages of the Caucasus and Central Asia (Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan) is based on the intellectual heritage, tracing its history to the Department of Arabic Studies, established in 1871-1872 years when Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages. The department provides a high level of theoretical and practical teaching of modern Arabic literary language and the spoken language of a number of Arab countries. …”
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Figuring Out the Figurines of the Ancient Near East by Stephanie Langin-Hooper

“…This present volume of 80 pages comprises 4 papers that were delivered at one of the three sessions of the Annual Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR) either in 2009, 2010, or 2011 that were entitled “Figuring Out the Figurines of the Ancient Near East”. …”
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L’ONU face à la société de l’information by Louise Lassonde

“…The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) organized by the United Nations in 2003-2005 has, for the first time, established the cornerstone of an international political consensus on the values and strategic orientations of the information society. The Summit called for States, local authorities, business and civil society to work together toward common goals. …”
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„Zjevení Božího hněvu.“ Poznámky k výkladu Ř 1,18–32 by Jan Roskovec

“…Obviously, this argument is only possible if one views homosexuality as the behaviour of heterosexually oriented individuals.…”
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Internationalizing the National University by Elizabeth Buckner

“…The article argues that internationalization efforts can are popular to the extent that they create more opportunities for youth, but can also be problematic when they are limited to an elite few or are exclusively oriented towards the West.…”
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Two-parameter fracture model for cortical bone by Sabrina Vantadori, Andrea Carpinteri, Giovanni Fortese, Camilla Ronchei, Daniela Scorza, Filippo Berto

“…In order to take into account the possibility of crack deflection (kinked crack) due to osteons orientation, a modified version of such a model is here discussed. …”
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La responsabilité sociale des universités en France : un concept en émergence ? by Emmanuelle Annoot

“…Autonomous universities are acknowledged as major social, economic and cultural actors in their environments. Such orientations have changed the place of universities in society. …”
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