Parents’ social comparisons and adolescent self-esteem: the mediating effect of upward social comparison and the moderating influence of optimism by Hongyang Liu, Jana Kvintova, Lucie Vachova

“…Parents’ social comparison questionnaire, upward social comparison questionnaire, self-esteem questionnaire and life orientation questionnaire were distributed through online questionnaires, and 576 valid questionnaires were received. …”
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Configuración y demandas de los movimientos sociales hacia la Asamblea Constituyente en Bolivia y Ecuador by Blanca S. Fernández

“… El presente trabajo propone un análisis comparativo entre la Confederación de Pueblos Indígenas del Oriente Boliviano (CIDOB) y la Confederación de Nacionalidades Indígenas de la Amazonía Ecuatoriana (CONFENIAE). …”
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Pedagogy in the Era of the Post-Non-Classical Science by V. L. Benin

“…Its crisis is primarily caused by ignoring the complications of the world perception, changing world outlook, as well as by long ago developed but rejected necessity for devising new methodological principles and value- and objective-oriented educational attitudes. The exact forms and methods of professional activity of pedagogic process participants are derived from the definite historically developed complex lying in their foundation. …”
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How to structure data from an IoT monitoring network by Ziwen Yu

“… Internet of Things (IoT) has been widely used in agriculture for smart farming and precision agriculture to improve efficiency and effectiveness in a data-oriented fashion. Monitored data is collected at a much higher frequency and in relatively higher reliability and accuracy than those of the manually collected information. …”
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Teaching as a performative art by James Godfrey

“…Feedback from the workshops revealed that Applied Theatre methods, notably Forum Theatre, provide embodied, participant-led, solution-oriented, multiple voiced opportunities for reflection and dialogue on critical incidents teachers’ face. …”
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European University Initiative in the Context of Digital Transformation: A Discussion Paper by Morawska Joanna, Carayannis Elias G.

“…The digital transformation (DT) has undoubtedly become one of the main challenges of modern organisations, including universities. The discussion is oriented towards the new learning tools, contexts, needs and skills needed on the institutional level, academic teachers and in connection to the demands of the labour market. …”
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Designing of 2-Stage CPU Scheduler Using Vague Logic by Supriya Raheja, Reena Dhadich, Smita Rajpal

“…In second stage, scheduler uses a vague oriented priority scheduling (VOPS) algorithm for selection of next process. …”
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Scythianism and Eurasianism: Tracing Russian strategic culture by Malešević Matija

“…Nevertheless, the focal point of this study is oriented towards the future, not the past. This is due to the fact that the ideas emanating from these movements hold a greater contemporary relevance than they did a century ago. …”
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Regulación del teletrabajo en Cuba by Yuzhina Fuentes Sánchez

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Exploiting Attitude Sensing in Vision-Based Navigation for an Airship by Luiz G. B. Mirisola, Jorge Dias

“…The AHRS combines inertial and earth field magnetic sensors to provide absolute orientation measurements, and our recently developed calibration routine determines the rotation between the frames of reference of the AHRS and the monocular camera. …”
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A social dynamics of the development of community network: problems raised by two cases of community network development by Dong Hee Shin

“…</b> The political economy of the development process has biased the development toward private interests and away from the public benefit, and toward lucrative services and intra-organizational connectivity and away from community-oriented uses. <br><b>Conclusion.</b> This study provides a conceptual base for understanding contemporary and future community networks by illustrating the applicability of the Social Construction of Technology Theory. …”
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Dual-architecture Internet supporting intelligent governance of cyber content by 杨鹏, 李幼平

“…For the current Internet architecture is suffering many challenges of cyber content governance,including big data trends of cyber contents,lack of semantic identification,and the severe situation of content security.In seeking to address these challenges,a dual-architecture Internet which integrated the current Internet architecture with a complementary secondary broadcast-storage network architecture characterized as the combination of broadcast transmission and ubiquitous storage was proposed.The design principles and core concepts of the dual-architecture Internet and its intelligent realization mechanism of cyber content governance were introduced,and especially,the national standard of uniform content label (UCL) and UCL-based rich semantic vector coding of contents,the gathering of popular contents the UCL-oriented security energy level model,the UCL knowledge space and content clustering hall for workshop of meta-synthetic engineering were detailed.Consequently,a prototype of dual-architecture Internet supporting intelligent governance of cyber contents was developed to verify the design principles and core concepts of the dual-architecture Internet and its capability for intelligent governance of cyber contents.The dual-architecture Internet proposed can provide a brand-new approach to solve the problem of cyber content governance from the high-level perspective of network architecture.…”
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Sectarian and Secular: Lay Perspectives in <i>Stūpa</i> Burials at Mount Zhongnan During the Tang Dynasty (AD 618–906) by Wen Sun

“…By reassessing funerary <i>stūpas</i> erected for laypeople at Mount Zhongnan, this article calls for a reconsideration of the traditional sectarian view of lay-oriented funeral rituals. Even within the laity, motivations for constructing funerary <i>stūpas</i> differed. …”
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Un modèle d’accompagnement de stagiaires en situation de handicap by Ruth Philion, Michelle Bourassa

“…A learning community of researchers and supervisors co-constructs a reflective analysis framework called a concerted action plan oriented on the actions to be taken on both sides, which was used to support 27 trainees with disabilities (TWD). …”
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Artificial intelligence and Quality Education: The Need for Digital Culture in Teaching by Donatella Padua

“…By fostering a value-oriented digital culture, educational models must emphasize ethical engagement, critical thinking, and digital citizenship. …”
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Configuración y demandas de los movimientos sociales hacia la Asamblea Constituyente en Bolivia y Ecuador by Florencia Puente, Blanca S. Fernández

“…El presente trabajo propone un análisis comparativo entre la Confederación de Pueblos Indígenas del OrienteBoliviano (CIDOB) y la Confederación de Nacionalidades Indígenas de la Amazonía Ecuatoriana (CONFENIAE).Para ello tendremos en cuenta las características específicas de los territorios en los que se desenvuelven estasorganizaciones, su emergencia conjunta a partir de la década de los ochenta y las transformaciones políticoinstitucionalesque tienen lugar en ambos países. …”
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Research on the Risk Measurement Algorithm of Supply Chain Order Financing Based on Insurance Actuarial by Gushuo Li, Menglin Yin

“…However, SMEs in China, especially those playing a pivotal role in China’s export-oriented economy at this stage, do not have access to the corresponding financial treatment. …”
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Professional Development Programs and Teacher Effectiveness in Government Aided Secondary Schools in Ibanda Municipality. by Mwesigye, Seriano

“…Among others, the key finding from the study include: school administrators do not usually organize induction workshops for new teachers, no formal Induction program for new teachers in the selected schools, school administrators in Ibanda Municipality did not regularly organize orientation seminars for new teachers, teachers have negative attitudes towards PDPs, the schools lack funds to support teachers undertaking PDPs, and that most PDPs are not properly planned and are not evaluated to ascertain the effectiveness. …”
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EyeLiner by Yoga Advaith Veturi, MSc, Steve McNamara, OD, Scott Kinder, MS, Christopher William Clark, MS, Upasana Thakuria, MS, Benjamin Bearce, MS, Niranjan Manoharan, MD, Naresh Mandava, MD, Malik Y. Kahook, MD, Praveer Singh, PhD, Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer, PhD

“…Distinguishing variations in image acquisition due to camera orientation, zoom, and exposure from true disease-related changes can be challenging. …”
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Motivation's influence on credit decisions: unveiling the moderating effect of brand awareness in PT Bank Syariah Indonesia Tebing Tinggi branch by Sarwoto Sarwoto, Cia Cai Cen, Rika Surianto Zalukhu, Sri Murni

“…The implication of this research is targeting the policy of increasing Islamic bank credit financing that is oriented towards brand awareness.…”
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