Funding Innovation in Poland through Crowdfunding by Katarzyna Kozioł-Nadolna

“…The article shows the results of the research on the Polish crowdfunding market in 2014-2016. The author also presents a case study of funding innovation on the Kickstarter.com platform by a Polish company Sher.ly.…”
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Model Contrast of Autonomous Vehicle Impacts on Traffic by Derek Hungness, Raj Bridgelall

“…To compare outcomes, the authors used identical parameter changes and simulation scenarios for a model of Gainesville, Florida. …”
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Exploring the elastocaloric effect of Shape Memory Alloys for innovative biomedical devices: a review by Girolamo Costanza, Ilaria Porroni, Maria Elisa Tata

“…After an introduction on SMA�s EC and its relevance for medical and biomedical field, the authors examine the principles and mechanisms at the base of this particular property, with a focus on main keys essential to evaluate performances and the differences characterizing most used elastocaloric alloys, also exploring strategies currently in place to improve performances. …”
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Эволюция концепта скуки в творчестве Елены Шварц by Kristina Vorontsova

“…Even though for Shvarts’s lyrical subjects, who are usually passionate and ecstatically active, boredom is not specific at all, the author sometimes puts this concept in the meaningful center of her creative universe. …”
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О интерсемиотической передаче комического в аудиодескрипции к советским кинокомедиям by Maria Mocarz-Kleindienst

“…This means that the language of AD in film comedies should contain some verbal ‘signals’ of the comic as an aesthetic category. The author of the presented research has attempted to analyse lexical and stylistic means of conveying situational comic and character comic as the two main types of comic, apart from the verbal one expressed directly in the characters’ speech. …”
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Orkney snork nie! by Stephan Bouwer

“…Two diagrammes (the nar ratological prose model and the "6 phase" communication model) are used as illustration to elucidate on encoding/decoding, with special emphasis on the contribution of the various sender collaborators and on author Esterhuizen as primary source of signification. …”
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High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound for Prostate Cancer: Long-Term Followup and Complications Rate by Umberto Maestroni, Francesco Dinale, Roberto Minari, Paolo Salsi, Francesco Ziglioli

“…The most majority of Authors, however, do not report the side effects and the complications of the procedure, which is the aim of our study. …”
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Modeling Frequency Data: Methodological Considerations on the Relationship between Dictionaries and Corpora by Karlheinz Mörth, Laurent Romary, Gerhard Budin, Daniel Schopper

“…Presenting a range of current projects, the authors address two main questions in this area: How can the relationship between a dictionary and other language resources be conceptualized, irrespective of whether they are used in the production of the dictionary or to enrich existing lexicographic data? …”
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Harriet Prescott Spofford’s Development of a Protestant Aesthetic for a Diverse Nation by Paula Kot

“…In “Charlestown,” an historical sketch from her 1871 collection New-England Legends, Harriet Prescott Spofford examines the contest between Protestantism and Roman Catholicism that shaped Americans’ understanding of democracy as well as Spofford’s understanding of her role as an author in an increasingly heterogeneous nation. The sketch focuses on the 1834 burning of the Ursuline Convent and School of Mount Benedict in Charlestown, Massachusetts, by a Protestant mob, an assault that affords Spofford the opportunity to examine the nation’s ability to accommodate difference of all kinds. …”
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Overview of Attempts to Measure The Gig Economy with Considering The Role of Data in Making Managerial Decisions by ZELMA Emil

“…The main purpose of this study is to present various ways of measuring the scale of the gig economy market and to specify – based on the literature, reports, and author’s own research – the advantages and weaknesses of described methods, taking into account the possible causes. …”
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Are We Faced with Two Human Species? by Mladen Davidovic

“…It is a sort of search for a big discovery, like a fountain of youth or such. More and more authors are trying to explain the unknowns in the understanding of these observations about aging by adding the statement that there are two subgroups in the general population. …”
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Le cluster de Rio Verde ou l’interaction de l’agrobusiness et du développement territorial au Brésil by Thierry Bonaudo, René Poccard-Chapuis, Cassia Coutinho, Jean-François Tourrand, Laura Duarte

“…In the 2000s, the strong development of sugar cane production interacts with this dynamics driven by Brasil Foods questioning directly the model of local development. The authors analyze this local and regional development through the building the agribusiness cluster. …”
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Reversible Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension Associated with Interferon-Beta Treatment for Multiple Sclerosis by E Gibbons, S Promislow, RA Davies, G Chandy, DJ Stewart, V Contreras-Dominguez, C Pugliese, R Dunne, LM Mielniczuk

“…A causal link between IFN use and PAH remains to be elucidated; many reports of PAH resulting from IFN occur in individuals with some other risk factor for PAH. The authors present a case involving a patient with multiple sclerosis with no known risk factors for PAH, who developed severe PAH after exposure to IFN therapy. …”
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Post-Colonial Macau: hope and despair in a World Centre of Tourism and Leisure by Michael O’Regan

“…This paper, using interviews with local residents, argues that the imagined category of “World Centre of Tourism and Leisure” coined by local authorities’ masks an illicit occult economy. The paper argues that the miraculous swiftness of GDP per capital, employment and budget surplus growth, was a result of a new post-colonial elite looking backwards into its colonial past. …”
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Des inégalités d’appropriation des enjeux énergétiques territoriaux? Analyse sociologique d’un instrument coopératif autour de l’éolien « citoyen » by Guillaume Christen, Philippe Hamman

“…This case allows the authors to consider the implementation of a popular shareholding instrument concerning a “citizen” wind project. …”
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Global research trends in Environmental adaptation techniques focusing on climate change through scientometric lens by G. Shyamala, R. Gobinath, B. Hemalatha, DivyaSri Akkalla, S. Shenbaga Ezhil, V. Sathya

“…Using the Scopus database of publications, this study focuses on publications between 2009 (January) and 2024 (August), with an emphasis on the interpretation of primary research interests, authors, contributions from countries, and collaborative networks. …”
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Pathology of Persian Translations of Texts and Research on Iran-China Relations: With Emphasis on the Critique on the Book Ancient Texts on China-Iran Relations by Hamidreza Pashazanous

“…The most important outcome of this study is the weakness of translators and editors in translating Chinese texts and research into Persian, which in some cases, these weaknesses are the result of important mistakes of the authors of the research in the West.…”
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Reading a Ghazal from Hafez with a Cognitive Poetic Approach by Zahra Sayedyazdi

“…The present study, by studying the conceptual spaces in their poetry and their function for constructing a coherent whole based on the theory of cognitive poetry, has come to understand the world of the text of the sonnets discussed and outlines patterns used by the author to present his intellectual world. And the system of the structure of the ghazal under discussion a coherent military, in which the freedom and the turning of love or drunkenness are clearly seen, that reveals itself to the inflexibility and limitations of the wisdom.…”
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Gender relations in French and British mountaineering 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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An Electromechanical Pendulum Robot Arm in Action: Dynamics and Control by A. Notué Kadjie, P. R. Nwagoum Tuwa, Paul Woafo

“…The authors numerically investigate the dynamics and control of an electromechanical robot arm consisting of a pendulum coupled to an electrical circuit via an electromagnetic mechanism. …”
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