Assessing the main determinants of entrepreneurship in Portugal by Vanessa Figueiredo, Ana Oliveira Brochado

“…This field is significant in the development of societies and is also considered a useful tool in promoting innovation and job creation in many countries. For this reason, it needs to be promoted as a central component of economic growth. …”
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Les enjeux de l’après : vulnérabilité et résilience à l’épreuve des politiques de la catastrophe au 20e siècle by Giacomo Parrinello

“…The occurrence of a disaster exposes the vulnerability and resilience of the affected community. For the same reason, disasters represent windows of opportunity to modify these conditions. …”
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Postmodernity, globalisation, communication and identity by Bert Olivier

“…The aim of the present article is therefore to explore what all of these divergent considerations mean with regard to the issue of identity in the contemporary world – whether one has reason to believe that identity has evaporated in the flux of postmodern life, or if some of the theoretical perspectives invoked here enable one to affirm the continued legitimacy of talking about identity today …”
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PROBLEMS OF INFLATION, UNEMPLOYMENT AND INCOME DISTRIBUTION IN THE TRANSITION OF EASTERN BLOC COUNTRIES TO MARKET ECONOMY: EXAMPLES FROM SELECTED REGIONAL COUNTRIES by Yrd. Doç. Dr. Remzi Bulut

“…Generally, all of the transiting countries have adopted a transition towards a market economy. Because of this reason, the ex Eastern Bloc countries are also known as "Transition Countries" or "Transition Economies". …”
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Assessment of the Rock Slopes by Kinematic and Limit Equilibrium Methods on the Bağlarbaşı - Tekke (Gümüşhane) Motorway by Selçuk Alemdağ, Zülfü Gürocak, Ceren Özkirişçi Oktay

“…However, the reliability of the results obtained from kinematical analyses is not sufficient for optimum slope design. For this reason, it is necessary that the results of kinematical analyses should be controlled using limit equilibrium or numerical analyses. …”
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“Where Does My Hope Come From?”: P. D. James’s The Children of Men (1992) as a Christian Dystopia in the Context of the Late 20th Century Demographic Crisis by Suzanne Bray

“…James joins in the discussion on these issues, but also asks what can give people hope and a reason to live in this ageing world. Her conclusion is that hope, and a meaningful life, are like happiness, things which are not found by specifically seeking for them, but are by-products of a life based on faith and love.…”
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Beneficial effects of public sector performance measurement by Neda Vitezić

“…Recently, major attention has been devoted to performance measurement in public sector, especially from the aspects of qualitative assessment. For that reason the financial performance measures are limited in overall assessment of an organisation performance. …”
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PRINCIPLE TRAJECTORIES OF THE DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN POLICY CRISES IN MODERN TURKISH REPUBLIC by V. A. Avatkov, M. V. Kochkin

“…Nevertheless, the authors believe that there are also historic and demographic reasons for this transformation that have been developing for several decades. …”
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Examinatıon of the Resilience Levels of Women and Men Do Sport in Gyms by Ali Osman Kıvrak, Mehibe Akandere

“…As a conclusion; the reason why men members have more positive resilience values compared to women members can be explained to be eventuated due to socio-cultural structure, social roles and statuses, and social understanding and privilege given to men.   …”
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Dynamitage cocasse de l’anthropomorphisme dans quelques satires contemporaines by Laetitia Pasquet

“…Their bestiary shows the collapse of metaphorical stability and in the light of Derrida’s concept of ‘carnophallogocentrism’ (which deconstructs the supremacy of reason, the reification of animal bodies at once), they stage not only the demise of anthropomorphism, but also the very grounds of the definition of humanity.…”
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A Fast Algorithm for Solving a Class of the Linear Complementarity Problem in a Finite Number of Steps by Yamna Achik, Asmaa Idmbarek, Hajar Nafia, Imane Agmour, Youssef El foutayeni

“…The major drawback of many existing methods resides in the fact that, for large systems, they require a large number of operations during each iteration; also, they consume large amounts of memory and computation time. This is the reason which drives us to create an algorithm with a finite number of steps to solve this kind of problem with a reduced number of iterations compared to existing methods. …”
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Modeling and Mechanism of Rain-Wind Induced Vibration of Bundled Conductors by Chao Zhou, Yibing Liu

“…By contrast with the wake-induced vibration, it can easily find that the characteristics of rain-wind vibration are obviously different from those of the wake-induced vibration, and the main reason of the rain-induced vibration may be due to the upper rivulet’s motion.…”
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(Auto)biography and Authority: Dickens and Forster’s Reconstruction of a ‘National Treasure’ by Isabelle Hervouet-Farrar

“…That a revelation of intimate details might endanger the ‘national treasure’ that Dickens had become at the end of the forties (the phrase is borrowed from Jean Ferguson Carr) seems a good enough reason for Dickens to have abandoned the idea of writing his autobiography and to have given the piece to Forster. …”
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The Head Pendant from the Marchetti Collection: Phoenicio-Punic Glass or Modern Forgery? by Elisabetta Malaman, Cinzia Bettineschi, Ivana Angelini, Monica Salvadori

“…After the first visual inspection, the typology and appearance of the object raised serious doubts about its authenticity. For this reason, an integrated approach combining stylistic and typo-chronological analyses with archaeometric data was implemented for reconstructing the manufacturing techniques and identifying the raw materials used (i.e., silica source, flux composition, and colouring and opacifying agents). …”
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Balanced multiple controllers placement with latency and capacity bound in software-defined network by Kuang-yu QIN, Chuan-he HUANG, Cai-hua WANG, Jiao-li SHI, Di WU, Xi CHEN

“…Multiple controllers were needed to han-dle all data flows. By the reason that the latency between controller and switch would significantly affect the forwarding of new data flow, the rational placement of controllers would effectively improve the performance of entire network. …”
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A Rare Cause of Intrauterine Plagiocephaly within Twin Pregnancy: A Case Report by Mustafa Ulubay, Fahri Burçin Fıratlıgil, İbrahim Alanbay, Uğur Keskin, Ulaş Fidan, Ali Ergün

“…In prenatal period, the most reason for associated plagiocephaly is intrauterine pressure (multiple birth infants (especially dizygotic twins), amount of amniotic, small pelvis and uterine tumors etc.). …”
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Characterization of a Cournot–Nash Equilibrium for a Fishery Model with Fuzzy Utilities by R. Israel Ortega-Gutiérrez, Raúl Montes-de-Oca, Hugo Cruz-Suárez

“…However, in the fuzzy case, game theory is not the best way to represent a real fishing problem because players do not always have enough information to accurately estimate their utility in the context of fishing. For this reason, in this paper, trapezoidal-type fuzzy utility values are considered for a fishing model, and the terms of the Nash equilibrium are given in the fuzzy context, i.e., this equilibrium is represented using the partial order of the α-cuts of the fuzzy numbers; to the best of the authors’ knowledge, there is no work with this type of treatment. …”
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Kwestia ruska w obliczu powstania styczniowego z perspektywy „Gazety Narodowej” i „Słowa” by Adam Świątek

“…However, an attempt to involve the Ruthenians in the uprising ended in failure. The reason were the discrepancies between the interests of Poles and Ruthenians. …”
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A Semen Extender for the Short-Term Storage of Fish Sperm by Frank A. Chapman

“…One often overlooked reason for the variable success rates is that successful rates of fertilization, hatching, and larval survival are most dependent on high-quality sperm and the surrounding fluid that supports sperm function. …”
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Analysis and Control on a Specific Electromagnetic Micromirror by Wanyan Sun, Yonghong Tan, Ruili Dong, Wenjiang Shen

“…In particular, participating in Mode 1 for slow-scan axis was the key reason to the instability of Vertical Refreshing Scanning (VRS) in raster scanning. …”
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