Enhancing ecological uncertainty predictions in pollution control games through dynamic Bayesian updating by Jiangjing Zhou, Ovanes Petrosian, Hongwei Gao

“…The essence of the model lies in its dynamic Bayesian updating, where beliefs about unknown parameters are refined with each new signal, enhancing predictive accuracy. …”
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Bois de feu, maléfiques, bénéfiques, et la guerre des fumées (région de Maroua, Nord du Cameroun) by Christian Seignobos

“…This fumes war refers to cognitive frameworks which, in time, have hybridized to become sorts of meta-beliefs shared by many groups. The elders, as keepers of the agroforestry disciplines, were gradually removed, since the independence years, from their control over woods. …”
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L’archéologie verticale ou l’étude des graffiti anciens : du document iconographique à la source historique (xie‑xvie siècles) by Aymeric Gaubert

“…Despite the challenges of identification, attribution and dating, this contribution aims to demonstrate that graffiti provides an authentic voice to ancient societies, referring to past perceptions, beliefs, and practices that need to be clarified and contextualized within a true archaeology of the trace. …”
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The Influences of Institutional Logics Dynamics on Organizational History: the Case of Veiling Holambra Cooperative by Maisa Gomide Teixeira, Karina De Dea Roglio

“…We arg ue that these organizations are hybrids and, as such, report to institutional complexity ad opting practices and beliefs consistent with characteristics of more than one institutional logi c. …”
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Singing and Sounding the Sacred – the Function of Religious Songs and Hymns in the Public Sphere by Elsabé C. Kloppers

“…It is shown that hymnody forms a part of the beliefs, self-concepts, values, symbols, identities, ideologies, instruments of power, sets of myths, and the collective cultural memory of people …”
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"The personal is political": faith and religion in a public university by Isabel Apawo Phiri, Sarojini Nadar

“…Drawing on empirical research with religious women who experience gender-based violence in various forms, the authors argue that when religious beliefs are put into practice without critical introspection, religion becomes dangerous at both the personal and public levels. …”
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Whiteness in Latin America: measurement and meaning in national censuses (1850-1950) by Mara Loveman

“…For insight into implicit racial beliefs that shaped census-taking in this period, the article considers how census agents accomplished three basic tasks: 1) identifying the « race » of individuals in the population; 2) preparing statistical tables to publicize census results; and, 3) projecting the racial composition of national populations in the future. …”
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Heterogeneous Expectations and Speculative Behavior in Insurance-Linked Securities by Min Zheng

“…In the flexible supply case, we show that the issue price of an ILS is given by the weighted average of different beliefs about the discounted ILS return, and the stability of the issue price depends on the numbers of investors and sponsors and the extrapolation rate to the ILS of investors. …”
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Faith’s Frontiers: An Exploration of Religious Syncretism and Cultural Adaptation in the “Guanyin/Madonna and Child” Painting by Zetong Liu, Hui Zeng, Junming Chen

“…This investigation provided new perspectives on the nuances of religious syncretism and the evolution of religious imagery within the contexts of cultural exchanges and missionary initiatives, augmenting scholarly discussions on the dynamics between religious beliefs and societal frameworks.…”
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History and Memory in the Novels of Gabriela Adamesteanu by Roumiana L. Stantcheva

“…Examples from her six novels highlight the intentional use of historical events as a backdrop for characters’ ideological clashes and for the expression of group beliefs, fictional versions of collective memory. …”
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From Blank Canvas to Masterwork: Creating a Professional Practice Model at a Magnet Hospital by Lynda J. Dimitroff, Donna M. Tydings, Sue Nickoley, Lynn W. Nichols, Maureen E. Krenzer

“…Qualitative inquiry with focus groups was conducted to explore RNs values and beliefs about their professional practice. Constant-comparative analysis was used to code data and identify domains. …”
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Recruitment of authoritarian individuals into clientelist networks: A comparative study of the Western Balkans by Stankov Nemanja

“…Norm-based theories seek an answer to this question based on individuals' values and beliefs, which would make them suitable candidates for vote-buying. …”
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A Different Approach to Legislative Bodies: Reflections on the History of Parliament Oral History Project and Laws Around Abortion by Emma Peplow, Priscilla Pivatto

“…The paper discusses memories of some controversial legislation where individuals have deeply-held beliefs: laws around abortion. This is an example of how oral history can be used to understand the complexities of the process of law making and how things are done inside an institution, while also providing some personal and human perspectives on Parliament. …”
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Exploring Social Identities in Indonesia: The Role of Religious and Ethnic Identities in Evaluating Well-Being by Tery Setiawan, Missiliana Riasnugrahani, Ellen Theresia, Meta Dwijayanthy, Marissa Chitra Sulastra

“…Notably, while particularistic and religiocentrism beliefs do not correlate with RWB, the salience of religious values, such as the principle of treating others as one wishes to be treated, exhibits a positive relationship with life evaluations. …”
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Eliciting Preferences for the Uptake of Smoking Cessation Apps: Discrete Choice Experiment by Dorothy Szinay, Rory A Cameron, Andy Jones, Jennifer A Whitty, Tim Chadborn, Jamie Brown, Felix Naughton

“…Participants made 12 choices between two hypothetical smoking cessation app alternatives, with five predefined attributes reflecting domains from the theoretical domains framework: (1) monthly price of the app (environmental resources), (2) credible source as app developer (social influence), (3) social proof as star rating (social influence), (4) app description type (beliefs about consequences), and (5) images shown (beliefs about consequences); or opting out (choosing neither app). …”
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Parental psychosocial factors and children’s oral health-related quality of life: Data from a caries prevention study with phone-based support by Ida Brännemo, Anna Levinsson, Tove Hasselblad, Göran Dahllöf, Georgios Tsilingaridis

“…No statistical differences were found in parental stress, dental fears, or dental beliefs between groups. Path analysis identified baseline caries and treatment group as significant predictors of caries burden, while intervention group predicted better OHRQoL outcomes. …”
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La mort protestante : entre invisibilité et persistance. La difficulté d’ancrage des espaces funéraires protestants à Paris et à La Rochelle (XVIe-XVIIIe siècles) by Isabelle Souquet, Cécile Buquet-Marcon

“…According to the political and geographic context, the Huguenots, who were still considered as heretics but tolerated under the Edict of Nantes, asserted their beliefs in silence and without ever disappearing, despite periods of exclusion and repression. …”
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An Overview of Agent-Based Models for Transport Simulation and Analysis by Jiangyan Huang, Youkai Cui, Lele Zhang, Weiping Tong, Yunyang Shi, Zhiyuan Liu

“…The extensive modeling of the beliefs, desires, learning, and adaptability of individuals and the optimization problems using agent-based models are explored. …”
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The axiological conceptual functions of the “Russian World” (Russkiy mir): mythologeme, cultureme, and ideologeme by Anastassiya Starodubtseva

“…The “Russian World” mythologeme is considered a system of beliefs underpinning the value relations within society, the cultureme as the aggregate of cultural knowledge actively cultivated by its adherents – namely, the Russian intelligentsia, and the ideologeme that regulates the domestic and international policy of the Russian state. …”
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Des normes professionnelles à caractère doxique aux difficultés de mise en œuvre de séquences d’investigation en classe de sciences : comprendre les déterminations de l’action... by Corinne Marlot, Ludovic Morge

“…The reasons for this are generally thought in the individual characteristics of the teachers themselves: their epistemological beliefs, the way they relate to their subject, or the insufficiently sound subject knowledge. …”
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