Latinos(as) y La descoLonización del imperio estadounidense en eL siglo XXI by Ramón Grosfoguel

“…a pesar de las apariencias, el imperio estadounidense se encuentra en una decadencia acelerada. existen muchas luchas anti-capitalistas, anti-imperialistas y anti-patriarcales al interior de este imperio, invisibles para los pueblos que viven sus consecuencias nefastas en américa latina, África, asia y el medio oriente. este artículo presenta los dilemas que confronta el imperio estadounidense con respecto al crecimiento de las poblaciones latinas y a las luchas por la descolonización desde su interior. en pocas décadas los blancos serán una minoría demográfica en los Estados Unidos. …”
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The Impact of Ecoregional Mobilization on Mountain Policies in the Swiss Alps and California’s Sierra Nevada by Jörg Balsiger

“…Expanding and specifying arguments found in the policy networks literature, it argues that changes in the nature of dynamics of ‘organizational landscapes’ (the assemblage of state and non-state actors sharing a common concern for a policy issue or set of issues) precipitate transformations in ‘policy architectures (the structure and substantive orientation of public policy goals and instruments). …”
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“Cinephemera” from a Librarianship Perspective: Theory, Practice, Cataloguing Evidence by Lucia Antonelli

“…In this framework, the analysis focuses attention on the cataloguing evidence of cinephemera in a user-oriented perspective, questioning the possible effects theoretical and practical critical issues may have on the catalogues functionality and effectiveness. …”
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Enhancing professional abilities of university students through digital educational interventions: a study in Kazakhstani universities by Aigul Kurakbayeva, Saule Xembayeva

“…The interventions significantly improved students’ performance on cognitive ability tests, enhanced creativity-related task outcomes, increased motivation, and strengthened professional orientation. These gains are supported by paired t-tests and align with theoretical frameworks such as Cattell’s theory and Self-Determination Theory. …”
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The Points of Concurrence Theory in Guidobaldo del Monte’s Scenography by Leonardo Baglioni, Marta Salvatore

“…Applied to the art of scenography, this theory reveals itself in all its generality, since it allows the representation of classes of lines generically oriented in space and, at the same time, resolves the problem of measuring angles and lengths with projective reasoning. …”
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Service Arms with Unconventional Robotic Parameters for Intricate Workstations: Optimal Number and Dimensional Synthesis by Satwinder Singh, Ekta Singla

“…A task-oriented design strategy is presented in this paper for service manipulators. …”
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Proserpine upon the Coin: Melville’s Quest for Greek Beauty in “Syra” by Bruno Monfort

“…Confronted to the mercantile realities of modern Syra, the poet acknowledges that the people there spontaneously lived primitive, innocent lives with little concern for the clichés and prejudices of Orientalism. No preconceptions of the kind encroached upon such lives, never idealized and hardly in keeping with prevailing notions of the picturesque that kept haunting the poet’s and the reader’s minds. …”
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Effects of Annealing on the Structural and Optical Properties of Silver Thin Films by O. Osanyinlusi, A.B. Alabi, K.A. Yusuf, M.M. Orosun

“…XRD results revealed that silver films present a cubic phase with (111) preferred orientation. The XRD result and analysis also revealed that the intensity of the peaks and the crystallite size increase with increase in annealing temperature. …”
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Global oil risk price management in Iran and Russia by S. Alikhani

“…Negative shocks in world oil prices for countries such as Iran and Russia, whose economic structure is oriented towards oil and provides a significant part of the state budget through oil, could have significant consequences for the economies of these countries. …”
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Religious Complexity in Postcolonial South Africa: Contending with the Indigenous by Federico Settler

“…Recent approaches to religious diversity have been challenged for reproducing imperial hierarchies of religion—assuming an accommodationist approach to Indigenous religions while also rendering invisible the internal diversity, fluidity, and adaptive orientations within Indigenous religions. In this paper, I contend that in the postcolonial context, Indigenous religions uncouple themselves from traditional taxonomies of religion, and, in particular, I propose religious complexity as a suitable framework and approach for accounting, contending with, and reporting on religious change in postcolonial South Africa. …”
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E.V. Bretschneider as a doctor and his personal archives: Chinese period by S.A. Silakova

“…Many of his works dating back to the “Beijing period” of life (1866–1884) were not published, settled in a personal archive, and then, according to the personal testament, were transferred to the Archives of Orientalists at the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences. …”
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A Review of the Science of Colorful, Plant-Based Food and Practical Strategies for “Eating the Rainbow” by Deanna M. Minich

“…It is suggested that such a consumer-oriented categorization of these plant-based foods may lead to greater recognition of their importance in the daily diet throughout the lifespan. …”
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L’après-tourisme revisité by Philippe Bourdeau

“…Il resitue la perspective de l’après-tourisme comme ancrée dans des orientations de recherche focalisées sur la recomposition des relations entre l’Ici et l’Ailleurs, et sur l’apport heuristique des situations et pratiques “ critiques ». …”
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THE ANTHROPOLOGIZATION OF DASEIN-PSYCHE’S BEING BY METHODS OF NEUROPHILOSOPHY by O. A. Bazaluk

“…The anthropologization of Dasein-psyche’s being reveals the ontological orientation and limits of the being of Dasein-psyche within the being of Dasein-the-One, as well as the intellect, knowledge and techne, as the arete existentials. …”
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EFFECT OF EMPLOYEES’ RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT AND MANAGERIAL EFFECTIVENESS IN AGATU LOCAL GOVERNMENT EDUCATIONAL AUTHORITY by UCHERWUHE SAMUEL IGBABEE

“…The studyconcludedthat organizations should invest more in a strong employees’ relationships management as it significantly affects managerial effectiveness, specifically, communication, shared goals/values and trust have a significant positive effect on managerial effectiveness.The study recommended that communication should be highly invested into as every organization need effective communication for managerial effectiveness, Local Government Education Authorities should always enshrine a culture-oriented principles that can intimate employees with organizational goals/shared values for flexible operations that enhances managerial effectiveness and management of Local Government Education Authorities should provide an environment of trust that allows employees to actively participate in the decision-making process. …”
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Du bateau au lycée professionnel : les représentations de l’enseignement et de l’apprentissage ouvragées par les enseignants de techniques maritimes by Maryvonne Merri, Sylviane Veillette

“…They revealed the conditions of their learning and of their job on the ship, as well as teaching at the Maritime School, which are the circumstances of their consequential career orientation. The maritime technology teachers revealed the main purposes of their activity: to train sailors who follow maritime regulation and acquire maritime knowledge. …”
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Intersubjectivity and co-constructed framings: students’ role-play talks in online English-speaking sessions by Leslie Huishan Li

“…In language education settings, activities associated with interactions often reflect multi-layered participant orientations beyond mere linguistic execution. From the perspectives of ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, linguistic actions are effective only when they are intersubjectively understood: the complexity of an activity necessitates corresponding levels of intersubjectivity for smooth progression. …”
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METHODOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS FOR APPLYING THE COMPETENCE APPROACH TO DESIGNING EDUCATION by A. V. Khutorskoy

“…The author dwells on the structural components of competences such as name of a competence, its type, range of objects, social and practical dependence, sense orientation and personal importance, common knowledge about real objects, skills and abilities related to range of objects, modus operandi, necessary experience in related area, indicators of competency level – according to study steps. …”
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Effects of Annealing on the Structural and Optical Properties of Silver Thin Films by O. Osanyinlusi, A.B. Alabi, K.A. Yusuf, M.M. Orosun

“…XRD results revealed that silver films present a cubic phase with (111) preferred orientation. The XRD result and analysis also revealed that the intensity of the peaks and the crystallite size increase with increase in annealing temperature. …”
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Une période de discontinuité dans la vie d’Urbanistica : 1985-1990 by Paola Savoldi

“…More specifically, the journal has more or less approached each of these three types according to the successive changes and orientations of the directors and editorial committees. …”
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