Geotourism and Geoconservation on the Isle of Wight, UK: Balancing Science with Commerce by Martin Simpson

“…I have spent over 40 years living on the Island and working in the tourist industry running geology field-trips for both academics and tourists, and managing one of the longest running geological gift shops. …”
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D’une école de paysage à l’autre : retour d’expérience sur un enseignement de la géographie au service des paysagistes by Hervé Davodeau

“…How can academics who are not landscape architects find their place and make their discipline useful in the training of landscape architects? …”
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Student motives, expectations and preparedness for higher education: A gender-based study by Jade Jansen, Badrunesssa Williams, Azmatullah Latief

“…The study is of particular interest to academics, professional bodies and universities educating students in the field of accounting, which has historically been perceived to be a male-dominated profession.…”
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Predictors of smartphone addiction and its effect on quality of life: a cross-sectional study among the young adults in Bangladesh by Zubair Ahmed Ratan, Anne-Maree Parrish, Mohammad Saud Alotaibi, Hassan Hosseinzadeh

“…The enigma of smartphone addiction (SA) has plagued academics for the last decade, now scholars believed this behaviour might affect physical and mental wellbeing. …”
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The impact of nepotism on employee organisational attitudes in accommodation enterprises by Yunus Topsakal, Abdurrahman Dinç, Ezgi Özcan

“…This study contributes to the existing literature by filling a knowledge gap and offering valuable insights for academics, researchers, and other stakeholders.…”
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A white paper from the FEBS Education and Training Conference: challenges, opportunities, and action plans for transforming molecular life sciences education by Ly Villo, Nino Sincic, Luciane V. Mello, Manuel Joao Costa, Didier Picard, Francesco Malatesta, Jerka Dumic, Ferhan G. Sagin

“…The discussions and presentations underscored the pressing need for transformation in how academics and researchers approach teaching and learning. …”
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Closing gaps in Open Distance Learning for theology students by E. Oliver

“… UNISA’s policy documents state clearly that the Open Distance Learning (ODL) concept aims to bridge the time, geographical, economic, social, educational and communication distance between student and institution, student and academics, student and courseware as well as student and peers. …”
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L’inattendu du terrain by Claire Vidal

“…For the past few years, a group of academics from Shanghai have been staying at the site regularly; they have taken an active part in the academy’s activities, initially as teachers of Classical Chinese, then as involved researchers. …”
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The dearth of feminist empirical research on women’s active participation in the ICT sector by Naledi Sekeleni, Carol Lesame

“… This paper seeks to create awareness of the need for research academics and practitioners involved in the ICT field collaborate in co-producing feminist empirical research studies that integrate theory and practice (evidence-based) when doing research on the circumstance related to women’s entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship in the context of the Eastern Cape Province in South Africa, which is under scrutiny. …”
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Critique de l’« orientation sexuelle » et de l’« identité de genre » dans le discours des droits humains : la politique queer mondiale au-delà des principes de Yogyakarta... by Matthew Waites

“…Relationships between the discourses used by international governmental and non-governmental organizations (NGOs), academics and activists are analysed to discern the conceptions of subjectivity and identity operating. …”
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Peace journalism in South Africa by Nathalie Hyde-Clarke

“…This article is based on a review of seminal literature in the field and also on the discussion and findings of a round table conducted at the University of Johannesburg on 27 and 28 October 2011 with a number of South African academics and representatives of national media-monitoring organisations. …”
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‘Back to the future’: The ‘new prescriptivism’ in twenty-first-century Britain by Joan C. BEAL

“…The election of a Conservative-led coalition government in 2010 and a Conservative one in 2015 coincided with a further resurgence of prescriptive attitudes, most infamously in the reaction to a letter signed by 100 academics protesting against the education secretary’s reactionary policies and the introduction of the ‘‘SPaG” (spelling, punctuation and grammar) tests for eleven-year-old pupils. …”
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La presse et ses passeurs méconnus, intermédiaires indispensables à la circulation de la littérature américaine en France dans les années 1940 by Anne Cadin

“…Furthermore, it is in the press that some unknown mediators forged a critical discourse about a foreseeable influence of US texts on French writers: they were academics (Las Vergnas, Sigaux, Larnac), demanding aficionados (Beaumont, Blanzat, Fauchery, Hoog, Lalou, Morel), but also detractors of this importation (Henriot, Kanapa). …”
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THIRD GENERATION UNIVERSITY: B. CLARK AND J. WISSEMA by Nikita V. Golovko, Ol'ga V. Zinevich, Elizaveta A. Ruzankina

“….), but are based on the internal requirements to fight the rivalry for funding, talented academics, prospective students etc., helps to move from the discussion of the development of the entrepreneurial activities within the third mission framework to the discussion of the transformation of the first mission by the bringing up to date the curricula and pedagogy towards the entrepreneurial culture shaping.…”
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The effect of ethical leadership on good corporate governance and work effectiveness by Robertus Gunawan, Widodo Widodo

“…This model can be used as material for exciting discussions among academics and researchers by considering several important issues relevant to this research results' limitations.…”
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Attribute generalization mix-zone based on multiple secure computation by Bin WANG, Lei ZHANG, Guoyin ZHANG

“…In order to cope with the problems of resist the attack of user tracking with attributes and resist the disguised attack in road networks,based on the conception of attribute generalization and the methods of homomorphic encryption,a privacy protection method to complete the calculation of attribute generalization in private state and achieve attribute generalization was proposed.The proposed method utilized the homomorphic encryption to achieve secret bidding selection with an agent,and then utilize secure multi-party computation to calculate the similar attributes and achieve the attribute generalization in the end.With the help of fully attribute generalization,this method can solve the problem of users can be tracked by the potential attributes,and at the same time the privacy calculation also does not reveal any information to participants,so this method can prevent the disguised attacker that obtains user’s information in mix-zone.At last,in order to demonstrate the superiority of the proposed method in both of academically and practicality,the security analysis and experimental verification are given,and the procedure of formulation verification and the result of experiment further substantiate the superiorities of the proposed method.…”
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Microfinance for change: how financial innovation enables structural transformation by Shankar Ghimire, Bharat Singh Thapa, Rong Zheng

“…This study has important implications for policymakers, development practitioners, and academics interested in promoting economic development through microfinancing in low-income countries.…”
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Issue ownership in the online campaign for Dutch general elections by Joren Vrancken, Tom Dobber, Frederik Zuiderveen Borgesius

“…Therefore, it is challenging for citizens, journalists, and academics to understand what political parties talk about in their campaigns, diminishing the public accountability of political parties. …”
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Risk analysis of PPP financing for toll road project by Suwandairi Y.D., Suratkon A., Amin M., Tsarwan O.T., HJ Wahyu

“…They also serve as a valuable literature review for academics studying PPPs.…”
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