TRACES OF LEAN CONSTRUCTION PRACTICES IN THE INDIGENOUS BUILDING CULTURE OF THE TALENSI OF NORTHERN GHANA by Zoya Evans KPAMMA, Eric Kwaku ASARE, Emmanuel Nsiah ANKOMAH

“…Even though a number of authors have indicated a strong link of LC to the Toyota Production System, there appear to be traces of LC in some indigenous building cultures. …”
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EDITORIAL EXPLOSION by Gabriela COCA

“…As a creator who is both aware and careful, the author makes sure his Omnia creation will last by editing and publishing it. …”
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Injection Therapy for Nonvariceal Gastrointestinal Bleeding by Paul Kortan

“…For injection treatment of nonvariceal bleeding lesions, the author has been using the Soehendra method (1:10,000 adrenaline and polidocanol) with success in 90% of actively bleeding patients. …”
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Public Diplomacy in Power Clash of Civilizations by A. I. Podberezkin, A. V. Zhukov

“…In the article, public diplomacy is seen as a set of actions committed by official and unofficial organs of the state, to achieve foreign policy goals through the dissemination of information (disinformation) or create the necessary impact on the ruling circles and the public in foreign countries. According to the authors, public diplomacy has become an integral part of network-centric hybrid war, in which the role of the information against the enemy becomes decisive. …”
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A Bibliometric Analysis of Research in Behavioural Finance: Special Emphasis on Selected Behavioural Biases in Investment Decision Making by Poonam Das, Amit Kumar Das, Sourav Acharjee

“…The United States is the most influential country based on citation count, and Odean (1998) stands out as the most prominent author in this research field. Co-citation analysis identifies key clusters in “efficient market, behavioural biases, and trading frequency,” while bibliographic coupling highlights “Information processing and investors’ behavioural biases.” …”
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La maison hantée ou le miroir du territoire à conquérir dans « Dolph Heyliger » de Washington Irving by Françoise Buisson

“…The haunted house is first and foremost a narrative construct that gives the author the opportunity to play with gothic clichés; the ghost story can thus be read as a tall tale, the fallaciousness of which is obliquely denounced. …”
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Psychological aspects of students’ perception of control in foreign language learning by T. S. Putilovskaya, I. G. Tuchkova, E. V. Zubareva

“…The article studies psychological aspects of the perception by the State University of Management students of a complex control three-stage system, providing a full and comprehensive assessment of knowledge and skills acquired by students in foreign language learning. The authors briefly describe the control system itself, consider the principles of compiling an online survey and analyze the resulting students’ responses, revealing the peculiarities of their foreign language control activities perception. …”
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Integration of innovation development and implementation processes in defence industry according to a demand — supply format by A. I. Shinkevich, D. V. Kharitonov

“…The results obtained are aimed at developing a methodology for organising and managing the development and implementation of innovations in the defence industry and can be used by authorities in the innovation policy formation, in developing and improving the programmes for the defence industry development in Russia.…”
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Seismic Performance Evaluation of Buried Sewage Collection Pipelines by Abolfazl Rahimi, Mohammad Rezaii

“…Some suggestions for using the aforesaid results by the researchers and authorities, especially disaster headquarter, have been presented. …”
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Rapidly Progressive Myelopathy Caused by Aggressive Vertebral Hemangioma by Kevin A. Moattari, Rojeh Melikian, Sanjay K. Khurana

“…Aggressive lesions of this sort are most commonly found in the thoracic spine, and expansion leads to the subacute development of myelopathy. Case Report. The authors report a rare case of aggressive vertebral hemangioma at the T1 vertebral body which caused rapidly progressive myelopathy over the course of 7 days. …”
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Les rapports entre les genres dans l’alpinisme français et anglais by Delphine Moraldo

“…Then, theses texts bring to light the atypical trajectories and social dispositions (each time replaced within the social and historical context of the life of the author) of these women. Finally, they show how female mountaineers consider male mountaineers of their time – men are omnipresent in female narratives, whereas women are almost absent in men’s ones – and reveal implicitly their inferior status. …”
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Roland Barthes, Guy Debord and the Pedagogical Value of Creative Liberation by Craig A Hammond

“…Through the exploration of a range of ideas and concepts, (adapted from the work of Roland Barthes and Guy Debord - specifically the Death of the Author, and the dérive and détournement), the piece argues that Higher Education academics and lecturers need to creatively confront the debilitating values and excesses of consumption – currently sweeping universities – with an insurrectionary range of radical tactics and alternative practices. …”
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New data on the practice of desertions from the Red (Soviet) Army as an expression of the anti-Soviet resistance of the Moldavian SSR population in the years 1944-1954 by Anatolie LEȘCU

“…The Sovietization of Moldova after the subsequent occupation of Bessarabia in the summer of 1944 proceeded with great difficulties, as the artificially created population of the Moldavian SSR resisted Soviet authorities in various ways. One of the forms of resistance was desertion from the Soviet Army. …”
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A Pediatric Case of Cowden Syndrome with Graves’ Disease by Cláudia Patraquim, Vera Fernandes, Sofia Martins, Ana Antunes, Olinda Marques, José Luís Carvalho, Jorge Correia-Pinto, Carla Meireles, Ana Margarida Ferreira

“…Thyroid disease is frequent, but its management has yet to be fully defined. The authors present a case report of a pediatric patient with CS and GD and discuss treatment options.…”
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Persian Historiography: A Critique of Julie Scoott Misaimi's Historiographical Approach by Sayyed Abolfazl Razavi

“…The present paper, paying attention to the relation between «history» and «historiography» concepts, aims to review the internal and external features of the book "Persian Historiography to the End of the Twelfth Century" which is authored by Julie Scott Meisami. Meisami studies and interprets historiographical insights of historians of the Samanid and Ghaznavid and Seljuks era from her point of view, and subject which has been elaborated by her in process of evaluation of Persian historiography. …”
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Effects of Rotation at Different Channel Orientations on the Flow Field inside a Trailing Edge Internal Cooling Channel by Matteo Pascotto, Alessandro Armellini, Luca Casarsa, Claudio Mucignat, Pietro Giannattasio

“…The numerical results have been carefully validated against experimental data obtained by the same authors for conditions γ=0∘ and Ro = 0, 0.23. Rotation effects are shown to alter significantly the flow field inside both inlet and trailing edge regions. …”
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Scientific-methodical support of gifted teenagers in creative education by Valentina G. Ryndak, Ekaterina S. Mikhaleva

“…Owen), correlation analysis and analysis of the author’s experience. The integrative characteristic of personality of a gifted teenager is given. …”
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ENGINEERING TEACHER'S PEDAGOGICAL MASTERY: WAYS TO IMPROVE by F. T. Shageeva

“…This question is very important for engineering university teaching staff, which, as a rule, have no basic psychological and pedagogical education. The author dwells on the advanced training program developed at the Chair of Engineering pedagogy of Kazan National Research Technical University. …”
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Les récréations scientifiques : diffusion et succès de l’œuvre de vulgarisation de Gaston Tissandier en Espagne à la fin du XIXe siècle by Sablonnière Catherine

“…Tissandier is rarely quoted as author of these extracts. However their existence reveals an appetite for these new scientific teachings, which were also supported by the krausist reformers who had read F. …”
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Ecotourisme et parcs naturels : innovations et contradictions sud-africaines, le cas de HIP (Hluhluwe-Imfolozi Park) by Fabrice Folio, Anaëlle Derroisne

“…Finally, the particularity of HIP led in a mixed of seducing and, in such way, ambiguous ecotourism reality, putting together a strong and old provincial conservation programme, a diversified and adaptable tourism activity as well as a gradual involvement from the nearby tribal authorities in the Park policy.…”
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