Navigating dual pressures: The impact of environmental policies and market demand risks on the sustainable development of green building materials - A case study of the green cemen... by Wenxuan Guo

“…Strict policies encourage companies to engage in green research and production while helping to maintain sales and prices, thereby ensuring profitability—especially when competing products have lower levels of greenness. …”
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Enhancing Women’s Participation in Turkey through Digital Storytelling by Şimşek Burcu

“…In order to explore the issue in depth, my thesis engaged with feminist scholarship’s critiques of the public/private dichotomy, as well as the concept of gender. …”
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Samværsdans i lærerutdanningen – et inkluderende og bevegelig sammentreff by Stig-Ivan Nygård, Solveig Fretheim

“…We draw attention to the experiences of engaging, embodied and collective learning processes. …”
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Mentoring: Helping Youth Make a Difference in STEM by Angelia Reid-Griffin

“…In this article, I present how a college-based summer camp, designed to engage youth in increasing interests in STEM, Healthcare, and Teacher education, by helping youth build self-confidence and career interests through a Vertical Mentoring model. …”
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Human–robot interactions and experiences of staff and service robots in aged care by Valeria Macalupu, Evonne Miller, Lee Martin, Glenda Caldwell

“…Our study highlights the importance of a supportive environment, robust infrastructure and adequate training for successful robotic adoption. It also argues for engaging diverse multi-tiered stakeholders in investigating, designing, and implementing robotics in aged care, emphasising the role of social behaviours and interactions for what we propose as functional social service robots.…”
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SHORT-TERM EQUITY TRADING PRACTICES OF INSTITUTIONAL INVESTORS: EVIDENCE FROM PROPERTY-CASUALTY INSURERS IN THE UNITED STATES by Jin Park, Tim Query

“…This study investigates short-term equity trading behavior of P/C insurers in the United States in 2007 and 2008, and finds that over 27 percent of non-group affiliated insurers engage in short-term equity trading activity. When it comes to the medium of short-term equity trading, stocks categorized as Industrial and Miscellaneous Stocks are the most frequently utilized with Financial Institutions’ stocks a distant second. …”
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Unlocking practical wisdom through the inner voice of robots by Arianna Pipitone, Irene Seidita, John P. Sullins, Antonio Chella

“…The article examines whether a robot engaging in internal dialogue can help develop phronesis in people interacting with it, especially in contexts where caring of people with special needs is crucial. …”
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Musical Sequence Learning and EEG Correlates of Audiomotor Processing by Matt D. Schalles, Jaime A. Pineda

“…Our motor and auditory systems are functionally connected during musical performance, and functional imaging suggests that the association is strong enough that passive music listening can engage the motor system. As predictive coding constrains movement sequence selections, could the motor system contribute to sequential processing of musical passages? …”
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Cross-cultural validation and psychometric properties study of the Chinese college students’ life skills scale for sport—transfer scale by Lin Luo, Meilin He, Shaojing Wen, Junfeng Yuan, Huilin Xu

“…Expert evaluations and feedback from 25 participants engaged in sports activities provided preliminary evidence for the scale’s construct validity. …”
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Empowering women in rural India: characteristics and intentions for sustainable entrepreneurship by Madhukara Nayak, Pushparaj M. Nayak

“…This study aims to enhance the understanding of individual-level factors that influence rural women’s intentions to engage in sustainable entrepreneurship in India. This study explores the direct impact of perceived capability, social perception, and individual competencies on women’s sustainable entrepreneurial intention (SEI). …”
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The Core-Periphery Structure in the Yangtze River Delta: An Enterprise Linkage Perspective, 1978–2019 by Jieying Yang, Jingxiang Zhang, Jiayi Lu, Dongqi Sun

“…Metropolitan areas are important for engaging in fierce global competition. Cities in metropolitan areas in China are generally characterized by a core-periphery structure. …”
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Local knowledge and amateur participation. Shevchenko Scientific Society, 1892–1914 by Martin Rohde

“…The relation between ‘scientists’ and ‘amateurs’ is problematized on the basis of biographical examples of engaged scientists and activists, especially Volodymyr Hnatiuk from the Ethnographic Commission and Stanislav Dnistriansky from the Statistical Commission. …”
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What determines investment in the Nippon Individual Savings Account? an investigation of Japan's tax-exempt investment account. by Takuya Katauke, Mostafa Saidur Rahim Khan, Yoshihiko Kadoya

“…Regression analysis reveals that installment NISA investors are typically female, older, married, or divorced, have lower educational qualifications, engage in part-time employment, have higher incomes, display risk aversion, maintain larger asset balances, and adopt long-term perspectives. …”
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Lutte contre l’inflation : enjeux de la fixation des salaires à Électricité de France by Hélène Bénistand

“…Plants have to run non-stop to maintain output. Workers engaged in “supervision and control” use their skills to operate on the edge of what is predictable. …”
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IS TRANSLANGUAGING LEGITIMATE IN ENGLISH LEARNING?: STUDENTS’ PERSPECTIVES FROM INDONESIA by Surya Asra, Rahmiati Rahmiati, Prima Nucifera, Fadlia Fadlia, Aina Mawaddah

“…The findings of this study show that teachers and students engage in translanguaging activities. The teachers and students use Indonesian language for more than half of the entire teaching and learning process. …”
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Kobus Schoeman: A “bridge-builder” practical theologian, bridging divides in the publics of the church, the academy, and society by D.N. Andrew

“… The concept of “bridge-builder” is used within the context of higher education, understood as a form of engaged scholarship, where researchers function within both the academy and their field of practice or industry. …”
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Intraneuronal binding of amyloid beta with reelin-Implications for the onset of Alzheimer's disease. by Asgeir Kobro-Flatmoen, Stig W Omholt

“…In a rat model used to study AD, it was recently shown that in layer II neurons of the anteriolateral entorhinal cortex expressing high levels of the glycoprotein reelin (Re+alECLII neurons), reelin and Aβ engage in a direct protein-protein interaction. If reelin functions as a sink for intracellular Aβ and if the binding to reelin makes Aβ physiologically inert, it implies that reelin can prevent the neuron from being exposed to the harmful effects typically associated with increased levels of oligomeric Aβ. …”
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Place-based Guaranteed Minimum Income in Barcelona: (un)intended inclusionary policy for migrants by Laura Colini

“… Discussions about Basic Income have gained traction recently when debating possible reforms of the welfare state, how to combat poverties and wealth inequalities, and to counteract job losses in the aftermath of the Pandemic. The role of cities engaging in various forms of basic income, such as the Guaranteed Minimum Income, and how they impact specific target groups as migrants and refugees, is still understudied. …”
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Feminism and androgyny: Gender politics in contemporary classical Chinese opera by Lisha Xu

“…It investigates how translation and performance as representational forms interrogate entrenched gender norms, and engage with themes of marked relevance today, such as domestic violence and the commodification of women’s bodies. …”
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Ibadan In Ibadan: The University and The City by Toyin Falola

“…Lastly, how “us” being part of the stakeholders can engage in active roles in ensuring that this great citadel of learning continues to have remarkable impacts on its surroundings. …”
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