The butterfly (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea) diversity of Mt. Mosor in Dalmatia, Croatia by Toni Koren, Ivona Burić, Gordana Glavan, Rudi Verovnik

“…The biogeographical composition of all three mountains is, however, similar, with the dominant Euro-Siberian and Euro-Oriental faunistic elements comprising together about 80% of the species. …”
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Phase-transition-induced dynamic surface wrinkle pattern on gradient photo-crosslinking liquid crystal elastomer by Tao Wen, Tianjiao Ma, Jie Qian, Zhaoxin Song, Xuesong Jiang, Yuan Yao

“…The surface wrinkle is stabilized by the orientation of liquid crystal mesogens in the crosslinked top layer, while it can be erased by heating due to the isotropic phase-transition and recovered by stretching-releasing again. …”
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Development e-report character model for elementary school students to increase the effectiveness of assessment by Isnaeni Machra Winayu, Sudarwan Danim, Syukri Hamzah, Muhammad Kristiawan, Umar Diharja

“…The development of student character in integrated Islamic schools, which combine the Muslim personality-oriented Islamic Education Curriculum with the National Curriculum for behavioral assessment on report cards, is of paramount importance. …”
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PHILOSOPHICAL PROBLEMS OF EDUCATION IN THE RUSSIAN NATURAL SCIENTIFIC THOUGHT by O. G. Arapov, E. A. Arapova, O. A. Volnyakova, D. V. Solodukhin

“…Approaches to organizing university education in Russia, to understanding its content and meaning in preparing professional personnel and educating specialist’s character, to forming humanistically oriented creative thinking and to forming stable worldview are shown. …”
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Ibn Taymiya y el Estado Islámico (Dā ʿeš) by Felipe Medina Gutiérrez

“…El examen muestra que el Estado Islámico no se inspiró en Ibn Taymiya en los elementos evaluados, por lo que, en el fondo, también pretende contribuir a la búsqueda de una mejor comprensión del origen y el contexto de los grupos armados integristas en Medio Oriente y en el mundo islámico. …”
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Application of the project method in foreign language teaching in the training of master’s degree students at a non-linguistic university (exemplified by «foreign language in the f... by Viktoria G. Grigorieva, Natalia Nazarova

“…The article describes the experience of using a practical-oriented method in teaching the discipline «Foreign Language in the Professional Sphere» to Master’s Degree students of «Management of Museum and Exhibition Activities» at the Samara State Institute of Culture. …”
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The correlation between economic diversification and sustainable development of the Russian regions by R. A. Abramov

“…The authors determine that diversification as a whole does not depend on the production orientation or the traditional industrial equipment of a region. …”
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Data, information, and knowledge-driven manipulation between strategical planning and technical implementation for wireless sensor network construction by Yucong Duan, Lixu Shao, Xiaoxian Yang, Xiaobing Sun, Zhangbing Zhou, Lifeng Yu

“…To provide guidance to and integrate directly with the information technology side implementation to achieve coherent data, information, and knowledge coordination and robust value-oriented adaptability for maximization of business profitability, we propose to leverage the ideology of service economics to achieve bidirectional computational bridging between business planning and technical implementation of ubiquitous services/XaaS in the application program interface economy for promoting the macro-service market, especially in global value chains. …”
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Traction Synchronous Machine with Rotor Field Winding and Two-Phase Harmonic Field Exciter by Vladimir Prakht, Vladimir Dmitrievskii, Vadim Kazakbaev, Aleksey Paramonov, Victor Goman

“…The machine performance of a hysteresis current controller and a field-oriented PI current controller are compared using the model.…”
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Ways to Success in Education: Students’ Behavioral Strategies in Regional Universities of Russia by P. A. Ambarova, G. E. Zborovsky

“…A factor that has a significant impact on the phenomenon under study is the change in the views of the main educational communities (teachers and students) about educational success: the expansion of the range of its components, differentiation among different groups of students, orientation to non-educational benefits and values that can be obtained by university graduates in the future at the expense of educational capital. …”
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Study on Vibrational Power Flow Propagation Characteristics in a Laminated Composite Cylindrical Shell Filled with Fluid by Jingxi Liu, Wentao He, De Xie

“…Additionally, parametric investigations are carried out to study the effects of the fiber orientation, modulus ratio E11/E22, and thickness-to-radius parameter h/R on input power into the coupled system and propagation power along the shell axial direction. …”
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Indication of Disrupted Temporal Structure in the Case of Thought Blocks in Schizophrenia: The Role of the Metastable Balance by Elias Koutsoukos, Elias Angelopoulos

“…According to our findings, the high synchrony-derived entropy (SE) defines a metastable state, where formations of cortical areas are able to coordinate transiently under the demands of stimulus-oriented processes or other internal cognitive associations. …”
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Feminist Pandemic Pedagogies: Podcasting and the Study of Religion by Lee-Shae S. Scharnick-Udemans

“…The second part conceptualizes the pro-duction of a podcast as a feminist pedagogical experiment and reflects on this process alongside feminist pedagogical principles. While the orientation of this article is tentative and reflexive, it advances the argument that because of the commitment to social justice that is inherent to feminist approaches to scholarship and pedagogy, feminist scholars are generally poised to work within the contexts of crisis. …”
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Bi-directional extensional control of the Berane Basin formation, northern Montenegro by Stefanović Katarina, Krstekanić Nemanja

“…The Berane Basin is a Miocene, northeast‐southwest oriented intramountain basin of the Dinarides, overlying the pre‐neotectonic basement of the Drina–Ivanjica unit, the East Bosnian–Durmitor unit and the Western Vardar Zone. …”
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Feminist spiritualities, gender equality and sustainable development: The possibilities of a countermovement by N. Swanepoel, T. van Wyk

“…This “voice” implied recognition and authority, to a certain degree, in a patriarchal-oriented reality. In this regard, feminist spirituality became a vehicle for women to authorise their own religious and spiritual contributions and insights. …”
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A novel system for markerless intra-operative bone and bone fragment tracking by Marcus Tatum, Andrew Kern, Jessica E. Goetz, Geb Thomas, Donald D. Anderson

“…However, relying upon this intra-operative 2D projective imaging modality for this purpose can challenge a surgeon’s ability to interpret 3D position and orientation of any but the simplest bony anatomy. A number of object-tracking technologies have been developed to aid surgeons, but they have failed to be generalisable to a wider array of procedures, have required an unrealistic amount of time and effort to implement, or have unacceptably changed the flow of the surgery. …”
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Clustering Analysis in Wireless Sensor Networks: The Ambit of Performance Metrics and Schemes Taxonomy by Asim Zeb, A. K. M. Muzahidul Islam, Mahdi Zareei, Ishtiak Al Mamoon, Nafees Mansoor, Sabariah Baharun, Yoshiaki Katayama, Shozo Komaki

“…Depending on the network orientation, WSN can be of two types: flat network and hierarchical or cluster-based network. …”
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Numerical study of semi-elliptical cracks in the critical position of pipe elbow by Bassam Gamal Nasser Muthanna, Omar Bouledroua, Madjid Meriem-Benziane, Mohammed Hadj-Meliani, Guy Pluvinage, Rami Khalid Suleiman

“…In the third part, the semi-elliptical crack angle orientation was studied at the critical position to estimate the critical angle. …”
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Le caring thinking, au cœur des ambitions éthiques d’Ann Margaret Sharp : quelles recommandations concrètes dans l’accompagnement des vulnérabilités, au sein de la pratique philoso... by Johanna Hawken

“…Notably, because of the influence of the thinkers of the ethics of care (Gilligan, 2008; Noddings, 1984; Tronto, 2009), she put forward the concept of caring thinking, which can be defined as an ethical mode of thinking oriented towards the other. The emergence of this concept is determined by a specific anthropological postulate: one in which humanity is defined by its vulnerability, its interdependence and its singularity. …”
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Willingness to pay for blue-green space and koala habitat protection following a Covid-19 versus bushfire experimental prime by Zoe Leviston, Rubijayne Cohen, Stephanie Gorman, Zoe Becvarik, Aparna Lal

“…Both WTP for blue-green space and koala habitat was significantly associated with experience with bushfire, left-leaning political orientation, and higher blue-green space usage. Assessment of WTP for blue-green space in Australian cities indicates a positive attitude, especially among active users, although people are still willing to contribute to koala protection.…”
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