Professors Call it Cheating, Students Call it Teamwork by Jeffrey Walsh, Jessie Krienert, Kevin Cannon, Samuel Honan

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Causes of the European Union's Decreasing Position in the Global Economy in 2000-2017 by Bogumiła Mucha-Leszko

“….; 2) pertaining to the qualitative criteria the United States ranks better; 3) factors contributing the most to the weakening of the global economic position of the EU are: lower investment in the ICT sector compared to the U.S., differentiation of EU members in terms of their ability to grow, socio-economic divergence and a crisis in the eurozone.…”
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The Extended Likeability Framework: A Theoretical Framework for and a Practical Case of Designing Likeable Media Applications for Preschoolers by Vero vanden Abeele, Bieke Zaman

“…Next, we complete the U&G framework with expectancy-value (EV) theory. EV theory helps us move from theoretical insights to concrete design guidelines. …”
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Optimal Stochastic Control Problem for General Linear Dynamical Systems in Neuroscience by Yan Chen, Yingchun Deng, Shengjie Yue, Chao Deng

“…Suppose the arm’s movement trajectory is modeled by high-order linear stochastic differential dynamic system in d-dimensional space, the optimal trajectory, velocity, and variance are explicitly obtained by using stochastic control method, which allows us to analytically establish exact relationships between various quantities. …”
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Research on the Impact of Environmental Regulation on Enterprise Innovation from the Perspective of Official Communication by Lili Feng, Lin Wang, Wenjun Zhou

“…Overall, this study can help us better understand the politics behind enterprise innovation in countries.…”
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Evaluation of the Impacts of Assimilating the TAMDAR Data on 12/4 km Grid WRF-Based RTFDDA Simulations over the CONUS by Yongxin Zhang, Yubao Liu, Thomas Nipen

“…An analysis of the impacts of assimilating the Tropospheric Airborne Meteorological Data Report (TAMDAR) data with the Weather Research and Forecasting- (WRF-) real-time four-dimensional data assimilation (RTFDDA) and forecasting system over the Contiguous US (CONUS) is presented. The impacts of the horizontal resolution increase from 12 km to 4 km on the WRF-RTFDDA simulations are also examined in conjunction with the TAMDAR data impacts. …”
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The diversity of local political agendas during COVID-19: A comparison of Mexican states by Enrique García-Tejeda, Juan Guillermo Vieira-Silva

“…The Mexican case allows us to analyze recent hypotheses of comparative studies on this issue, which propose that the size of the population and the scale and socioeconomic structure of the administrations may be factors that explain the scope and diversity of local agendas. …”
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Sensual Environmental Robots: Entanglements of Speculative Realist Ideas with Design Theory and Practice by Santer Steven C.

“…Thereby, allowing ontological design implications to be reviewed – where acts of designing in turn design us; design processes are not only entwined prefiguratively, but are companion output artefacts of these technological ecology interfaces. …”
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The Beginning of the Registration of Estonian Books in Printed Works as Compared with that of the Other Nations of the Baltic Sea by Liivi Aarma

“… Jam Amos Comenius described the relation between the world and book in following words: the world is a maze, from which the books can lead us out. The idea can be further developed if we claim that the maze of the realm of books can be solved by technological means of bibliography. …”
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Geddes A. Think Twice, It’s All Right: Animalism, Disunity and the Self / trans. from Engl. V. A. Sermaksheva by V. A. Sermaksheva

“…According to animalism, each of us is numerically identical to a human animal. …”
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On a Certain Lithuanian Purpose Clause Construction by Axel Holvoet

“… The article deals with the use of the Lithuanian anteriority converb in -us in a certain type of purpose clauses whose implicit subject is coreferential with the (often also implicit) main clause subject or agent (as in kad veltui neišmetus pinigų ‘in order not to throw money away’). …”
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Structural model of a bacterial focal adhesion complex by Christian Cambillau, Tâm Mignot

“…This approach provides us with a comprehensive view of the interactions across the entire complex. …”
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Florid Proliferation of Hyalinized Vessels in a Spermatic Cord STAT6 Positive Solitary Fibrous Tumor and Its Potential Clinical Implications by Christopher P. Marquez, Haiyan Zhang, Jason Goodrum, J. Nicholas Sreshta, Marjan Afrouzian

“…We also summarize our current understanding of the structural and molecular features that make up SFTs and discuss how these features may help us better understand the pathophysiology of pluripotent mesenchymal stem cell differentiation.…”
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COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF TRADITIONAL AFRICAN AND WESTERN PEACE BUILDING by TANKO SHAWULU PAUL PAUL, KINGSLEY PHILIPS NOYE, EMMANUEL ACHUS JAH

“…Hence both the traditional African method and the Western style method still live with us and peace is what everyone need. This essay is an attempt to harmonize the Africa traditional conflict resolution and western methods of peace building in conflict management in the African environment with specific touch on the IGBO of the South East Nigeria and the BUEM of Ghana . peace building theory was used. …”
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Manual de Práticas para o Melhor Manejo Pós-Colheita da Manga by Jeffrey K. Brecht, Steven A. Sargent, Adel A. Kader, Elizabeth J. Mitcham, Fernando Maul, Patrick E. Brecht, Octavio Menocal

“…The final deliverable of the Mango Quality Project is this best management practices manual for harvesting and handling mangos marketed in the U.S. The manual includes quality-control procedures to use when monitoring the maturity and quality of mangos in commercial handling operations. …”
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Modeling Cancer in HIV-1 Infected Individuals: Equilibria, Cycles and Chaotic Behavior by Jie Lou, Tommaso Ruggeri, Claudio Tebaldi

“…Gaining insight into the epidemiology and mechanisms that underlieAIDS-related cancers can provide us with a better understanding of cancer immunity and viral oncogenesis. …”
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Elaboration of the Al-Al3Ni Alloy Eutectic by a Carbothermal Process by Imane Bahaj, Mohammed Kaddami, Mohamed Essahli

“…The annealing of these obtained phases during 1 h and under a nitrogen flow atmosphere at the temperature of 600°C allowed us to obtain the Al-Al3Ni alloy devoid of oxides. …”
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Motion Deblurring in Image Color Enhancement by WGAN by Jiangfan Feng, Shuang Qi

“…The key idea of this paper is to introduce a novel multitask learning algorithm for image motion deblurring and color enhancement, which enables us to enhance the color effect of an image while eliminating motion blur. …”
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Elicitation and experimentation: implications for English sociolinguistics by Cameron Morin, Carmelo Alessandro Basile

“…We argue that understanding elicitation as a concept distinct from the dichotomy of observation versus experimentation enables us to avoid the pitfall of equating structured data elicitation with experimentation. …”
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Environmental Aspects of Domestic Cat Care and Management: Implications for Cat Welfare by Judith L. Stella, Candace C. Croney

“…Domestic cats (Felis silvestris catus) are the most commonly kept companion animals in the US with large populations of owned (86 million), free-roaming (70 million), research (13,000), and shelter (2-3 million) cats. …”
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