Convexity and Monotonicity Preservation of Ternary 4-Point Approximating Subdivision Scheme by Ghazala Akram, M. Atta Ullah Khan, R. U. Gobithaasan, Maasoomah Sadaf, Muhammad Abbas

“…This work discusses a ternary 4-point approximation subdivision technique with two properties, namely, convexity and monotonicity preservation. The fundamental contribution of this research article is to extract the conditions that assure the suggested subdivision scheme’s convexity and monotonicity. …”
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Mechanical characterization of core-shell microcapsules by Xie, Kaili, Leonetti, Marc

“…They not only play an increasing role as artificial models for understanding dynamic behaviors of biological cells in flows, but are also becoming a fundamental class of artificial vehicles at the heart of drug delivery and release in applications. …”
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Initial and Continued Airworthiness: Commonalities and Differences Between Civil and Military Aviation by Rafael Luterbacher Mus, Rebecca Rodeck, Gerko Wende

“…Besides the fact that civil and military aerospace are governed by the same physics and design fundamentals, differences exist between the initial and continued airworthiness criteria for these two aviation fields. …”
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Des reines violentes by Damien Bril

“…In 17th-century France, the warlike dimension of violence became one of the fundamental iconographic attributes of royalty. Although at the outset they were excluded from managing affairs of state on account of Salic law, the queens Marie de’ Medici and Anne of Austria nonetheless sought to wear the costume of the chief of command in their portraits, in particular when they were placed at the head of the government in the position of regent. …”
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Madrid, la ciudad quimera by Bénédicte Brémard

“…In this ambivalent vision of the metropolis, the point of view adopted is fundamental and many films are built on a double perspective embodied by couples of characters formed by a «knight» in search of an ideal and his guide who connects him to the real world.…”
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Study of a Fractional-Order Chaotic System Represented by the Caputo Operator by Ndolane Sene

“…The Lyapunov exponents in the fractional context will be our fundamental tool to arrive at our conclusions. The variations of the model’s parameters will generate chaotic behavior, in general, which will be established using the Lyapunov exponents and bifurcation diagrams. …”
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Development of management theory - a challenge of the time by V. G. Antonov, A. V. Raychenko

“…The research presented in this publication determines and substantiates the key areas for improving the theory as a fundamental basis for the development of a complex of management disciplines. …”
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Alimentación Saludable: El calcio by Linda B. Bobroff

“…El calcio es el mineral fundamental que se encuentra en nuestros huesos y dientes. …”
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The Existence and Effect of Dark Energy Redshift on Cosmological Age by Riccardo C. Storti

“…It is shown that utilizing “z = 0” for Cosmological Redshift in the Present Epoch introduces a fundamental flaw into Cosmological Age calculations. …”
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Resituating the Sketch/ Bitacora in the Production of Knowledge and Anthropological Meaning by Catalina Cortés Severino

“…In this sense, the body is the axis that articulates, recognizes and repositions physical bodies as the fundamental axis through which anthropological research can be renewed in our continent. …”
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A Pedagogy of Grace: Love and Care in Edith Stein’s Thought by Guido Cavalli

“…Within this framework, the philosopher highlights the necessity of reconsidering human finiteness and temporality as a means of transcending and partaking in the eternal. The fundamentally pedagogical nature of Stein’s thought is shaped by the possibility of attaining fullness and realisation of the essence of human being. …”
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Optimal Tracking Performance of MIMO Discrete-Time Systems with Network Parameters by Chao-Yang Chen, Weihua Gui, Zhi-Hong Guan, Shaowu Zhou, Cailun Huang

“…Moreover, the regulation performance is measured by the control energy and the error energy of the system, and fundamental limitations are obtained. Two kinds of network parameters, fading and the additive white Gaussian noise, are considered. …”
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O Parlamento do Mercosul em sua primeira fase: uma análise preliminar da transnacionalização da política no Cone Sul by George Gomes Coutinho

“…It is argued that this experience, in response to globalization, must be discussed related to the elements that distinguish the "negative modernity", which includes the permanent diffi culty of systemic-functional differentiation of its various subsystems. This fundamental point to describe the "negative modernity" is here mobilized as an explanatory factor for the diffi culties of establishing a transnational parliament in the peripheral capitalism.…”
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Advances in the Statistical Characterization of Fading: From 2005 to Present by José F. Paris

“…We will focus on the fundamental statistical characterizations of the fading distributions in terms of the probability density function (PDF), the cumulative density function (CDF), and the moment generating function (MGF). …”
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SIGNIFICANCE AND PRINCIPLES OF ENVIRONMENTAL TAXATION by L. S. Samodelko, M. V. Karp

“…Based on a comparative analysis of various scientific sources, the authors offer their own vision of the fundamental requirements for environmental taxation and provide their justification. …”
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Les Caisses d’épargne face à l’avènement d’un groupe bancaire universel : le changement organisationnel entre ingénierie managériale de la mémoire et attachement au passé... by Julien Tassel

“…This approach, as operational as it may be, ignores the relationship to memory and the past generally, which is fundamental in order to understand changes.Based on ethnographic field studies carried out from 2003 and 2007 at a major financial institution (Caisse d'Epargne Group), this article purports to shed light on certain memory-based challenges induced by change: difficulties to recognise the company as it evolves, managerial efforts to link the current situation with the past, which has been altered by the changes, conducts of staff members influenced by a willingness to uphold the original mission of the organisation. …”
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Super-resolution microscopy as a drug discovery tool by Lauren Toms, Lorna FitzPatrick, Philip Auckland

“…At the turn of the century a fundamental resolution barrier in fluorescence microscopy known as the diffraction limit was broken, giving rise to the field of super-resolution microscopy. …”
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Parenthood in the context of time and temporarinesses of human existence by L. I. Mosyenko, E. A.Tsvetukhina

“…Baudrillard, the authors come to conclusion that becoming of the child shortage social norm in Russian and Western societies is due to fundamental changes in the attitude of modern man to his own mortality. …”
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CONCEPTUAL APPROACHES TO THE CHANGE MANAGEMENT IN FOREIGN STUDIES by E. Shironina

“…A systematized overview of change management conceptual approaches, presented in foreign studies, has been adduced. Fundamental assumptions, underlying each approach, have been shown. …”
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A Sámi media system? by Rasmussen Torkel, Sara Inker-Anni, Krøvel Roy

“…This has resulted in a rich and vivid Sámi media environment and infrastructure, with many of the characteristics of a media system. However, fundamental processes governing the Sámi media system are subjected to regulations, procedures, and institutions external to Sámi society. …”
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