Visual Chronicles from the Balkans and Central Europe: Samplers Remembered by Maria-Alina Asavei

“…This paper brings into focus ‘amateur’ and regional forms of home grown cultural expression and the ways in which these forms of folk creativity and materiality are recast in contemporary urban popular culture and arts. …”
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Myth and Immortality in Russian Folktales by Enrique Santos Marinas

“…As José Manuel Losada pointed out, the encounter with transcendence is one of the essential dimensions of myth that defines it and distinguishes it from other manifestations of human creativity. In this article, we will study the idea of immortality that can be found in Russian folktales as published by Aleksandr Afanasyev in his compilation (1855–1863) and trace back the remnants of the Indo-European religion and mythology that they can conceal.…”
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Packaging the Naked Buddhas by Dina Bangdel

“…This paper argues that tourist imaginings offer an alternative space for artistic creativity and innovation. I consider how traditional artists see themselves meeting the expectations of tourists, by constructing categories of the aesthetic tastes of the “other,” based on specific national identities in a global context. …”
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Sur les ailes du vautour. Genre, violence et « résistance » dans un récit nahua de voyage à Chiknâujtipan, le monde des morts (Mexique) by Dominique Raby

“…The author examines how female storytellers use a number of techniques and spaces of creativity to question certain male behaviors, while promoting fundamental Nahua values. …”
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In love with the desert by R. Wheeler

“…It demonstrates a hermeneutic of charity requiring creativity to retrieve value from the literature associated with this tradition. …”
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O multiverso predatório dos deuses canibais: o legado de Joanna Overing by Els Lagrou, Luisa Elvira Belaunde

“…As the only woman in the anthropology department at the London School of Economics for much of the eighties, she faced pioneering controversies about kinship, gender, rationality, temporality, aesthetics and creativity with elegant, clear and theoretically dense writing, making room for women in academia. …”
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Pengaruh Faktor Emosional Pengguna Terhadap Kesesuaian User Interface pada Sistem Informasi Benih Induk Jeruk di Balitjestro Menggunakan Kansei Engineering by Sobirin Nurfauzi, Akhmad Adi Sulianto, Sandra Malin Sutan, Agus Sugiyatno

“…While the "Concept of Creativity" consists of emotion "Modern", "Natural" and "Creative" …”
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Entrepreneurship skills application among ICT Graduates of Muni University, Uganda by Ritah, Nafuna, Nicholas, Nkamwesiga, Phelix, Businge Mbabazi

“…Acquisition of innovative skills such as creativity, critical thinking, analytical and problem-solving skills to ICT students for job creation should be upheld. …”
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The Cultural Science of Consumption: Brains, Networks, and Identities by Herrmann-Pillath Carsten

“…It transpires that ‘dysfunctional’ choices (choices that apparently harm the self) may be evidence of the evolutionary advantage of ‘dual selves,’ allowing for creativity to cope with novelty through open-ended learning. …”
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Diversity Perceptions in the UK Retail Industry: A Case of Tesco by Walid Ahmed, Asim Majeed, Ayesha Asim

“…A survey was conducted to gauge the perceptions of employees in one of the UK’s leading retailers - Tesco, and what they thought of a heterogenous workforce on its impact on creativity, innovation, team cohesiveness, and branding of an organization’s image. …”
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The analysis of students’ reading and writing difficulties in learning english at universitas kristen indonesia by Lamhot Naibaho

“…The study results showed that all respondents agreed that the factors of ability and creativity of lecturers could change the perception and awareness that they also have the potential to succeed in learning. …”
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MASTER’S PROGRAMME FOR ADULT EDUCATION IN SOCIAL WORK by Irina M. Vorotilkina

“…Improving of the quality of learning process of postgraduates can be achieved through self(study, which stimulates their creativity. Graduates become more competitive on the labor market and gain additional opportunities for career growth.…”
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The shift from new build to regeneration. Can the New Bauhaus transform architecture and design to meet global challenges? by David Ness

“…Thus, constraints imposed by regeneration of existing buildings, with their ethical and cultural dimensions, can inspire greater creativity and imagination while conserving carbon, cost, and character.…”
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Editorial Introduction to Issue 39: Managing Complexity and Knowledge in Enterprise Projects by Ana-Maria Ghiran, Robert Andrei Buchmann

“…This issue of CSIMQ includes five articles selected on the topics of complexity management and knowledge management in enterprises from various perspectives and towards diverse goals: the economic and societal perspective seeking strategy fulfillment with the help of enterprise architecture management, the operational performance perspective, which requires grounding management decisions on data insights, and the human aspect perspective to facilitate collaboration, creativity and innovation. Methodologically, the issue reports a mix of conceptual modeling and analytics approaches, suggesting an emerging requirement to balance or alternate, in complexity management, abstraction-based analysis, and data-oriented analytics.…”
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A COMPARISON OF THE LIFE CYCLE RITUALS OF THE MNONG ETHNIC GROUP IN DAM RONG DISTRICT (LAM DONG PROVINCE) AND DAK SONG DISTRICT (DAK NONG PROVINCE) by Thi Thuy Dung Vo

“…In their long residence in these regions and with continuous creativity, the Mnong have created cultural characteristics shown in their customs, beliefs, and festivals. …”
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A RHETORICAL ANALYSIS OF COMMENTS AND DELIVERY STRATEGY ON TED TALKS by Ildi Kurniawan

“…The purpose of this research is to describe the comments and its delivery strategy on the speech entitled “Do Schools Kill Creativity? by Sir Ken Robinson on TED.com. The data of this research were 50 comments of the videos (2016-2020) which contained comments on speaker or talk style not relating to talk content.  …”
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A Cognitive Linguistics approach to the ‘less is more’ paradox of communication, with specific reference to public relations messages by Luna Beard

“…The analysis ties in with the claim that much of our conceptualisation of experience is metaphorical, which both motivates and constrains our creativity.The advantages of an analysis within Cognitive Grammar are shown to reside in its potential to interpret linguistic expressions metaphorically and to account for stylistic phenomena. …”
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La forza degli oggetti ricomposti by Elisa Rondini, Daniele Parbuono

“… Those implemented by Elio, who lives in Paciano (Perugia), in a farmhouse immersed in the things of his creativity, are configured as housing strategies defined and continually redefined starting from the use of heterogeneous tools and materials, collected from contingent circumstances and adapted to contextual needs. …”
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CURRENT TOOLS FOR MANAGING SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF LARGE COMPANIES’ PERSONNEL by T. V. Suvalova, P. O. Masyukova

“…The implementation of the functions considered will help to attract and retain more qualified and talented employees, improve the effectiveness of professional interaction in the team and, accordingly, increase the efficiency of the staff and the enterprise as a whole.The influence of the level of planning social programs on increasing the level of employee loyalty to the organization, the growth of labor productivity, social activity, creativity, rationalization of activities have been noted. …”
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The role of sociological research in the planning of advertising campaigns by A. A. Komarova, V. G. Novikov, M. Yu. Zakharov

“…One of the research areas is the evaluation of the content of advertising communication by consumers, the quality of creativity and the way of presenting information, the recognition of the key idea of advertising communication. …”
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