PRACTICAL ASPECTS OF EVALUATING THE EFFECTIVNESS OF THE INDUSTRIAL ENTERPRISE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM by I. A. Stafeeva, E. M. Shironina

“…The article provides assessment tools in the case of considering the efficiency of the functioning of the managed system as a whole or its elements: comparison of the market value of the organization and the book value of its assets or equity; comparison of the amount of revenue, net profit, industry average profitability indicators and indicators of a particular organization; comparison of non-financial indicators, for example, market share, labor productivity, employee satisfaction, etc. …”
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TV-Based Caring Videophone System for the Elderly in the Smart Home Environment by Jingshuang Shen, Chongyang Zhang, Chuanwen Jiang

“…Considering the user’s convenience, many personalized designs, such as photo-based address book, photo-click-dialing, and touch pad based remote controller, are developed to make the proposed videophone system more intuitive and easy to use for the elderly. …”
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A Robot who could not dance: Generating performative presence among performer, text, and audience through exploring and performing stories by children by Linda Lorenza, Persephone Sextou

“…University drama students undertook a semester of puppetry and created performances of children’s stories from Sextou’s book. The university students’ learning process involved exploring form and movement with inanimate objects to collaboratively create puppets which they allocated to the children’s stories they selected. …”
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‘The silent Arachnes that weave unrestingly in our Imagination’: The Industrial Metaphoric Web in Thomas Carlyle’s Sartor Resartus by Marie Laniel

“…One of the staunchest critics of the ‘Age of Machinery’, who repeatedly condemned the spiritual degradation induced by the submission of men to machines, Thomas Carlyle was also fully aware of the interpretive challenges posed to the social critic by the perpetual metamorphoses of industrial society. In Book I, chapter 10 of Sartor Resartus (1833–34), Thomas Carlyle revisits the myth of Arachne and adapts Ovid’s tale to the industrial context: ‘Shall we tremble before clothwebs and cobwebs, whether woven in Arkwright looms, or by the silent Arachnes that weave unrestingly in our Imagination?’ …”
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Obvious Achievements and Light Bites (review of the 4th volume of "Archaeology of the Volga-Urals") by Nikolai A. Krenke

“…The book under review is the 4th volume of the seven-volume edition “Archaeology of the Volga-Urals” – an encyclopedic work, which analyzes the materials of the Migration Period in the interval of the II – IX centuries AD within the area from the Kuban region to the upper Kama, and from the Tsna basin to the Urals. …”
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Embracing the Psalter’s imprecatory words in the 21st century by N.L. deClaissé-Walford

“… This article surveys the imprecatory words in the book of Psalms and examines and questions their place in the faith life of the third decade of the 21st-century world, one that is fraught with the impact of a global pandemic, political uncertainties, and racial injustices. …”
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Église et scandales : Trollope ou la condamnation de l’excès by Hervé Picton

“…The 1830s were marked by a host of Church scandals widely reported by the press and in particular by the radical journalist John Wade in his Extraordinary Black Book published anonymously in 1831. Wade lashes out at idleness, pluralism and absenteeism and exposes shocking disparities in income among the clergy of the established Church. …”
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THE PERFORMATIVE FUNCTION/POWER OF LITERARY DEVICES IN JUDITH: A SPEECH ACT CONTRIBUTION by R.S. Hobyane

“… The compositional brilliance of the book Judith has, in research on it, been overshadowed by debates on its fictional nature, historical inconsistencies, canonical debate, gender and moral/ethical issues. …”
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Les études de Sergio Cigada, jalons incontournables de la critique flaubertienne by Liana Nissim

“…In this study we will review all of Cigada’s writings (since 1956) devoted to Flaubert’s works, by highlighting for each one the pioneering criticism and proposing a rereading of his most significant studies: « Uno scritto autobiografico di Flaubert : Quidquid volueris » (1956), Un decennio di critica flaubertiana (1945-1955) (1957) and Genesi e struttura tematica di Emma Bovary (1960), a magnificent book which even today presents among the most enlightening pages of the genesis of the character Emma and her psychological make-up. …”
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Les implications du travestissement dans I Capuleti e i Montecchi de Vincenzo Bellini by Isabelle Schwartz-Gastine

“…Bellini and Felice Romani, his librettist, were certainly not influenced by the English bard, but by a common source, book 4 of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, when they composed the score and lyrics of their opera in the 1820s. …”
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EKSISTENSI PESANTREN DAN KONTRIBUSINYA DALAM PENDIDIKAN KARAKTER by Hamruni Hamruni, Ricky Satria W.

“…This is reflected in planting of theoretical value obtained from studies book in form of real practices in daily life. Habit can form a good character to students, and process naturally without forced. …”
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Lives “on hold” by Priscilla Boshoff

“…These highly emotional stories tell of the despair and desperation felt by individuals at the lack of an ID book, which is blamed on the inefficiency of the state Department of Home Affairs. …”
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Application of Optimized BP Neural Network In Financial Alert System by Qiaoyi Gao

“…Based on this, main body of a book studies and analyzes the request of optimized BP neural network in financial alert system. …”
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Après la révolution : les éditeurs lilliputiens polonais et leur offre dans les années 2016–2020 by Natalia Paprocka, Katarzyna Biernacka-Licznar

“…In the years 2000–2015, sixteen publishers, called the “Lilliputians”, revolutionised the Polish children’s book market by offering innovative works by avant-garde authors and illustrators. …”
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Theresa May et l’échec du « meaningful vote » : approche argumentative by Alma-Pierre Bonnet

“…The present article will study this perilous endeavour through a corpus-based analysis of Theresa May’s declarations (speeches, addresses, letter to the nation) to understand the reasons behind this failure. Ruth Amossy’s book, L’argumentation dans le discours, will be used as the basis of our research. …”
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Sarcasm Text Detection on News Headlines Using Novel Hybrid Machine Learning Techniques by Neha Singh, Umesh Chandra Jaiswal

“…Sarcasm can be represented in a number of ways, such as in headings, conversations, or book titles. Even for a human, recognizing sarcasm can be difficult because it conveys feelings that are diametrically contrary to the literal meaning expressed in the text. …”
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La Vie de l’agence de Jean Dubuisson dans les années 1950 à Paris by Élise Guillerm

“…To respond to the inflation of his order book, Jean Dubuisson is building a human and material organization, which reconciles the values ​​of emulation and those of efficiency. …”
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« Never was there a happier partnership » : les illustrations d’Arthur Hughes pour At the Back of the North Wind de George MacDonald by Catherine Persyn

“…A reference to the unsuspected depths of the so-called children’s book, Where More is Meant Than Meets the Ear/Eye endeavours to highlight the subtlety of Hughes’s reading of the text and the efficacy of his choices. …”
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Une nouvelle traduction signifie-t-elle un nouveau livre ? La Salle de bain retraduite en Italien par Roberto Ferrucci by Thea Rimini

“…Can we say that a new translation is in fact a new book? After analysing the “contextual” and “textual voices” (Alvstad, Assis Rosa 2015), the construction of the paratext and the contrastive analysis of certain passages revealing significant syntactic and lexical differences between the first and second translations, it is possible to affirm that the new version of La Salle de bain, produced by a “Toussaintian” translator such as Ferrucci, is truly a new Stanza da bagno.…”
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À quel(s) public(s) s’adresse Darwin ? L’Origine des Espèces, entre ouvrage scientifique, œuvre littéraire, et texte de vulgarisation by Camille Debras

“…As the literary dimension of the book blurs the limit between the popular and the learned, Darwin tries to reconcile the core dichotomy between the religious and the agnostic reader by an ambiguous reference to the agency of natural selection : is it merely a random natural process, or literally a transcending agent, another version of God’s action in the theory of evolution ?…”
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