The development of Russian federalism in the 1990s (on the example of the Omsk region) by M. S. Novikov

“…The local leadership put forward the idea of regionalization of economic reform, which required the presence of a strong authoritarian business executive in power. …”
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Table ronde autour d’une performance dans un panier en osier by Baptiste Buob, Jérémy Demesmaeker, Laurence Maillot, Carl Lavery, Vincent Rioux

“…The text disrupts the usual idea of a document “containing” an already completed work. …”
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ProNDN: MCDM-Based Interest Forwarding and Cooperative Data Caching for Named Data Networking by Cong Pu

“…The ProNDN consists of multicriteria decision-making (MCDM) based interest forwarding and cooperative data caching. The basic idea of the MCDM-based interest forwarding is to employ Technique for Order Performance by Similarity to Idea Solution (TOPSIS) to dynamically evaluate outgoing interface alternatives based on multiple network metrics and objectively select an optimal outgoing interface to forward the Interest packet. …”
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SOCIOLOGY AS A TOOL OF “PEDAGOGICAL INTELLIGENCE” by A. L. Andreev

“…The article addresses the issues concerning the development of the humanitarian component of higher education in Russia. The main idea of the article is that for modern Humanities education it is of fundamental importance to strengthen its functional links with promising social changes and social practices. …”
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Organizational Gameplay: The Player as Designer of Character Organizations by Luciano R. Coutinho, Victor M. Galvão, Antônio de Abreu Batista, Bruno Roberto S. Moraes, Márcio Regis M. Fraga

“…During the game, commanded by the player, artificial agents are then instantiated to play the roles and to follow the strategies and norms as defined in the organizational specification. To turn the idea into practice, the paper proposes an abstract architecture comprising three components or layers. …”
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LA CUMBRE DE MADRID 2010 Y LAS PERSPECTIVAS DE LA ASOCIACIÓN ESTRATÉGICA EUROLATINOAMERICANA: ¿NUEVO IMPULSO O MÁS DISCURSO? by Jorge Alberto Quevedo Flores

“…Por último se plantea la propuesta sobre la existencia de una sinergia entre los espacio euro, ibero y latino americano, con la idea de afianzar la asociación estratégica birregional…”
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Visualization of the Book: Graphic Metaphors in Art Decoration of Ukrainian Church Editions of the Baroque Epoque by Olena Kurhanova

“…The icons of a prayer addressee on the backside of the title page, on the frontispieces, or on in-text miniatures, reflect the conceptual idea of a church book as a tool for praying. The main idea of a church book is commonly expressed by symbolic and allegoric compositions. …”
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Humanitarization of University and Social Engagement Mission by O. V. Zinevich, T. A. Balmasova

“…Humanitarization is a priority task, which is reflected in the University education practices in the United States and European countries. The idea of upbringing a humanitarianly educated and humanitarianly oriented personality is declared in the discourses of the world leading Universities’ missions, whose activities are aimed at achieving public good for the society and its sustainable development. …”
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Twin Subgraphs and Core-Semiperiphery-Periphery Structures by Ricardo Riaza

“…Our first goal is to extend this idea to subgraphs of arbitrary order of a given network, by means of the notions of T-twin and F-twin subgraphs. …”
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SENTENCE STRUCTURE AND PUNCTUATION IN ADVERTISEMENT SLOGANS by Aidas Borodinas, Jolanta Bareikienė

“…Advertisement slogans are mostly simple short sentences with a striking message. The main idea of an advertisement slogan is to reach the readers and affect them in a certain way by promoting the product of the advertising campaign. …”
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Educational “Looking Glass”, or “They” and “We” by Vladimir F. Zubarev, Gennadiy A. Bondarev

“…The received findings to some extent alter the firmly established idea of an elevated ambitiousness of the modern generation of students. …”
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La institución matrimonial después del matrimonio homosexual by Beatriz Gimeno, Violeta Barrientos

“…Este artículo sostiene la idea de que el reconocimiento del matrimonio homosexual –frente a otro tipo de iniciativas–, conseguido por el movimiento LGTB español en ese país, constituye una reforma no reformista. …”
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Intellectual Capital and Bank Profitability: Evidence from Serbia by Isidora Ljumović, Jelena Minović, Slavica Stevanović

“…As a result, our goal was to throw light on the components of IC and examine how they relate to the commercial bank's financial performance in Serbia. Idea: The main idea behind this paper is to assess the relationship between components of IC and bank profitability. …”
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Cultural work provisions in the Zionist organization «Gekholuts» program documents by I. Yu. Berezhanskaya

“…The Zionist movement idea did not leave indifferent representatives of the Jews in the Russian Empire. …”
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Academic freedom as a university’s language of self-description by V. S. Nikolsky

“…The key theme of the article is a comprehension of the idea of academic freedom inconditions of socio-cultural context changing. …”
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Better Approximation Properties by New Modified Baskakov Operators by Ahmed F. Jabbar, Amal K. Hassan

“…This paper introduces a new idea to obtain a better order of approximation for the Baskakov operator. …”
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On the Shape of Limit Cycles That Bifurcate from Isochronous Center by Guang Chen, Yuhai Wu

“…New idea and algorithm are proposed to compute asymptotic expression of limit cycles bifurcated from the isochronous center. …”
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Powersum formula for differential resolvents by John Michael Nahay

“…We will prove that we can specialize the indeterminate α in a linear differential α-resolvent of a univariate polynomial over a differential field of characteristic zero to an integer q to obtain a q-resolvent. We use this idea to obtain a formula, known as the powersum formula, for the terms of the α-resolvent. …”
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Toy Models of a Nonassociative Quantum Mechanics by Vladimir Dzhunushaliev

“…Possible physical applications of a nonassociative quantum mechanics are considered. The idea is discussed that a nonassociative algebra could be the operator language for the nonperturbative quantum theory. …”
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Global Existence and Asymptotic Behavior of Solutions for a Class of Nonlinear Degenerate Wave Equations by Yaojun Ye

“…This paper studies the existence of global solutions to the initial-boundary value problem for some nonlinear degenerate wave equations by means of compactness method and the potential well idea. Meanwhile, we investigate the decay estimate of the energy of the global solutions to this problem by using a difference inequality.…”
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