Evapotranspiration: Potential or Reference? by Suat Irmak, Dorota Z. Haman

“…A common understanding of these widely used concepts in agricultural communities will help to make communication easier between farmers/growers, extension agents, and researchers in the academic environment. This document is ABE 343, one of a series of the Agricultural and Biological Engineering Department, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. …”
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TOOLS AND APPROBATION RESULTS FOR THE MULTICOMPONENT MODEL OF INDEPENDENT HIGHER EDUCATION QUALITY ASSESSMENT by K. Raev

“…The developed set of indicators for students’ knowledge assessment and quality of academic teaching staff are described. The results of the participation of HEIs in the fourth stage of the experiment on independent assessment of the quality of higher education are presented, including typification of higher education institutions, obtained by using cluster analysis.…”
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Redbanded Stink Bug, Red-Banded Stink Bug, Smaller Green Stink Bug (suggested common names) Piezodorus guildinii (Westwood) (Insecta: Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) by Morgan Pinkerton, Amanda Hodges

“…The information is intended for both laypersons with some biological knowledge and academic audiences. …”
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Bluegrass Billbug Sphenophorus parvulus Gyllenhal (Insecta: Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Dryophthorinae) by Luis F. Aristizábal, Eileen Buss

“…These profiles are intended for the use of interested laypersons with some knowledge of biology as well as academic audiences. This 6-page fact sheet that discusses the bluegrass billbug was written by Luis F. …”
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Note sur les fondements des postcolonial studies by Béatrice Collignon

“…Long ignored by French social sciences, the term "postcolonial" has recently become popular in academic literature and meetings, in relation to the political debate about colonial legacy and 2nd and 3rd immigrants generations (the so-called "indigènes de la République"). …”
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Towards a Christian ethic of work in South Africa by L. Kretzschmar

“… This paper draws on the academic field of Christian ethics and focuses attention on an ethic of work within the South African context. …”
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Theoretical fundament modifications performed in the evaluation system at the Internal Medicine ward round performance. by Luis Alberto Corona Martínez, Juan Rivero Berovides

“…The medical clinic department in the medicine school located in Cienfuegos city, Cuba performed modifications to the evaluation system in the subject Internal Medicine during the academic course 1999-2000. The main ideas are shown in this investigation constituting the theoretical backgrounds of the changes performed due to the identified deficiencies found and based on the actual pedagogical concepts and acceptation. …”
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Was Copernicus an Astrologer? From the Perspective of a Historian of Astrology by Sylwia Konarska-Zimnicka

“… Nicolaus Copernicus’s achievements in the field of astronomy are widely known and undisputed, but few people know that he also studied astrology – in his time recognised as a science and a subject of academic lectures. Evidence of this activity, though scarce, is preserved in the margins of one of the popular astrological treatises of the 15th and 16th centuries, which was owned by Nicolaus Copernicus. …”
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The changing role of subjects connected with book history and publishing in the education of library specialists in Estonia by Aile Möldre

“…Gives an overview of the development of library education in Estonia since the beginning of teaching library science on the academic level in 1927 up to the present day. The author concentrates on studying the role and share of the courses that deal with book history and contemporary development of the book trade during different periods of time (the Soviet era, and after the restoration of independence in 1991). …”
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'n Voorgestelde raamwerk vir die skryf van 'n akademiese publikasie: voorbeelde uit die teologiese etiek by L. O. K. Lategan

“… This article proposes a framework for the writing of an academic article based on a research project. References are made to theological-ethical examples. …”
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Vaclovas Bliznikas (1930–1997) – creator of Lithuanian geometers' school by Juozas Banionis

“…Bliznikas is a longevous professor of Vilnius pedagogical university, former Dean of Faculty of Mathematics, the Head of Geometry Department, one of creators of Lithuanian geometers' school. The main academic research activity embraced trends of modern geometry, theory of geometrical objects, geometry of differential equation, theory of non-holonomicity ma­nifolds, geometry of supporting elements. …”
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Bluegrass Billbug Sphenophorus parvulus Gyllenhal (Insecta: Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Dryophthorinae) by Luis F. Aristizábal, Eileen Buss

“…These profiles are intended for the use of interested laypersons with some knowledge of biology as well as academic audiences. This 6-page fact sheet that discusses the bluegrass billbug was written by Luis F. …”
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Complexity72h: training the next generation of researchers in complex systems by Alberto Antonioni, Eugenio Valdano

“…Traditional academic training of early-career researchers is often conditional to the funding, structure and managerial style of the research group. …”
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Pas de quartier pour le sexe ? by Catherine Deschamps, Laurent Gaissad

“…Grounded on three fieldwork surveys on sex work, men-to-men cruising for sex, and men and women sexual sociability venues, it outlines the way sexual territories seem to be under control at first sight, and tries to show that sexual conducts alternatively appear spectacular or remain invisible, both in material public spaces and in contemporary debates, including academic research.…”
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Ce qui reste : enquête et écriture sur un territoire marginal by Magdalena Brand

“…Through three social, memorial and mythical figures encountered during the investigation, the article questions the limits of ethnographic writing to transmit in the academic context the daily lives of women, to remember and recognize what made the value of their lives.…”
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Southern Chinch Bug, Blissus insularis Barber (Insecta: Hemiptera: Lygaeidae) by Stacy Woods

“…These profiles are intended for the use of interested laypersons with some knowledge of biology as well as academic audiences. This 5-page fact sheet sheet that discusses the southern chinch bug was written by Stacy Woods and published by the UF Department of Entomology and Nematology, August 2001. …”
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Opportunities and Obstacles to Aquaculture in Florida by Ed Camp, Taryn Garlock, James Anderson

“…To understand why this might be, the University of Florida's Institute of Sustainable Food Systems organized and convened a meeting between small-agency, industry, and academic stakeholders to discuss the opportunities and obstacles to aquaculture in Florida. …”
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Pour une contribution du management stratégique à l’écologie industrielle by Anne-Ryslène Zaoual

“…It gradually gained ground within the academic community, but also with companies and public authorities. …”
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Error analysis and language comparison as teaching strategies for German as a foreign language in a South African context by Anne Baker

“…One of the issues is decolonizing the curriculum. Academics have been re-thinking the curricula of various academic offerings. …”
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Horoscopes Prepared by Master Astrologers from Krakow at the Turn of the 15th and 16th Century (according to the BJ 3225 and 3227 manuscripts) by Sylwia Konarska-Zimnicka

“… The article presents the output of Polish historiography concerning the research on Cracow horoscopes created before the year 1550, that is, in the period of the most active development of astrology as an academic science at the University of Krakow. At that time, astrology was a subject of enormous interest, which was reflected by the fact that horoscopes were ordered from professional astrologers (because of the price of the service, this was done mostly by wealthy people). …”
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