How can brand equity for tourism destinations be used to preview tourists’ destination choice? An overview from the top of Tower of Babel by Francisco Dias, Lucília Cardoso

“…Additionally, for illustrative purposes empirical data from two national samples is presented: Portuguese (N = 524) and Brazilian (N = 955). …”
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Multilingual Singing in Nigeria: Examining Roles, Meaning, and Function in Wazobia Gospel Music by Adekunle Oyeniyi

“…By employing frameworks of musical localization and signification, I incorporate the results of my ethnographic studies of three Protestant churches in Lagos, Nigeria, to illustrate Wazobia gospel music’s continued importance. …”
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An approximate likelihood method reveals ancient gene flow between human, chimpanzee and gorilla by Galtier, Nicolas

“…Analysis of coding and non-coding data in primates illustrates the potential of the approach and reveals that a substantial fraction of the human/chimpanzee/gorilla phylogenetic conflict is due to ancient gene flow. …”
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Psychological determinants of performance in women's football: a systematic review on resilience, anxiety, motivation and cohesion by Javier Ventaja-Cruz, Jesús Manuel Cuevas Rincón, Virginia Tejada-Medina, Ricardo Martín-Moya

“…Results: anxiety is explored in five studies, highlighting its physiological and psychological effects on performance and its predictors in elite athletes; resilience is examined in three studies, focusing on how young female athletes adapt to adversity to enhance performance and life skills; motivation is the subject of six studies, emphasizing intrinsic and extrinsic factors driving engagement, performance, and social influences in sports; and team cohesion is analyzed in two studies, illustrating its role in fostering better performance perceptions and group dynamics. …”
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The Study of Mechanisms of Protective Effect of Rg1 against Arthritis by Inhibiting Osteoclast Differentiation and Maturation in CIA Mice by Yanqing Gu, Weimin Fan, Guoyong Yin

“…Alcian blue staining results illustrated that mice treated with Rg1 had significantly reduced destruction in the articular cartilage. …”
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Study on Pounding Response of Adjacent Inelastic SDOF Structures Based on Dimensional Analysis by Xuyong Chen, Huipeng Guo, Tao Wang, Qiaoyun Wu

“…The pounding response of the two inelastic SDOF structures with improved Kelvin model is illustrated in the form of spectra, and the self-similarity of pounding response of the two inelastic SDOF structures is revealed. …”
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Insight into the Significance of Hall Current and Joule Heating on the Dynamics of Darcy–Forchheimer Peristaltic Flow of Rabinowitsch Fluid by Ji-Huan He, Doaa R. Mostapha

“…Furthermore, it is illustrated that the concentration impedes with the increase of the mass transfer Biot number. …”
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Air Pollution Variation During COVID-19 Pandemic Using Satellite and On-site Measurement Data in Six Provinces in Iran by Maryam Zare Shahne, Amirhossein Noori, Mehdi Alizade Attar

“…The AOD distribution map and its trend illustrated that Guilan, Khorasan-Razavi, and Tabriz had become more pollutants after the outbreak due to changes in tourist patterns and emission inventories. …”
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Empirical mode decomposition/Hilbert transform analysis of postural responses to small amplitude anterior-posterior sinusoidal translations of varying frequencies by Rakesh Pilkar, Erik M. Bollt, Charles Robinson

“…The most dominant mode in total energy indicates a sway ramble with a frequency content below 0.1 Hz. Other modes illustrate that the stimulus frequencies produce a ‘locked-in’ behavior of CoP with platform position signal. …”
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Evaluative Literature Review Writing by Novice Academic Writers: Enhancing Knowledge and Awareness by Aksakallı Canan, Yağız Oktay, Bakırtaş Şennur, Ötügen Rabia

“…An evaluative and critical literature review in scholarly writing, which plays an important part in a scientific report, illustrates how the existing studies contributed to the relevant field and enables researchers to identify the gaps or niches that their research can fill. …”
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CAPITAL WITHOUT STATEHOOD: EMPIRICAL STUDIES IN STARAYA LADOGA, KASIMOV AND MYSHKIN by I. Y. Okunev, D. V. Basova

“…Besides, the authors give illustrative examples of the construction of the myth about "stolichnost" and describe the instruments of symbolic politics.…”
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Optimal Benefit Distribution of a Tontine-like Annuity Fund with Age-Structured Models by Fan Zhang, Ping Chen, Xueyuan Wu

“…Through numerical examples and detailed illustrations, the paper demonstrates that participants who remain in the cohort longer receive greater subsidies. …”
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IN, THROUGH, WITH et l’expression de la causalité en anglais contemporain. Un exemple d’application des concepts de la TOPÉ by Lise Hamelin

“…This paper aims at describing the similarities between IN, THROUGH and WITH as causal prepositions making use of Culioli’s concepts of occurrence, notion and locating operations (1999). (1) and (2) illustrate the specific contexts we will deal with :(1) He raised his eyebrows in/with surprise and softly sang the words of the song.(2) [...] their voices would automatically grow louder through surprise and excitement.In both examples IN, THROUGH and WITH introduce the word surprise. …”
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Alternative dispute resolution: Mediation as a model [version 2; peer review: 2 approved] by Naser Sherman, Bashar Talal Momani

“…Results The study provides an analysis that illustrates the effectiveness of mediation in resolving disputes, emphasizing its potential benefits in terms of time and cost savings, as well as its srole in facilitating amicable resolutions. …”
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Specificity and tunability of efflux pumps: A new role for the proton gradient? by Matthew Gerry, Duncan Kirby, Boian S Alexandrov, Dvira Segal, Anton Zilman

“…These results highlight the unexpected effects of thermodynamic driving forces out of equilibrium and illustrate how efflux pump structure and function are conducive to the emergence of multidrug resistance.…”
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Public Administration Reform in Bulgaria: Top-down and Externally-driven Approach by Emilia Zankina

“…The article argues that there are four main factors influencing reform dynamics and determining policy outcomes in the Bulgarian case: the specific political choices made by government elites, external influence of the EU and of past national legacies, and the importance of institutions and reform mechanisms. To illustrate these factors at work, the article examines three policy initiatives, i.e. e-government, the reduction of administrative burden, and civil service reform. …”
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Dynamic regimes in planetary cores: $\tau $–$\ell $ diagrams by Nataf, Henri-Claude, Schaeffer, Nathanaël

“…We discuss scaling laws and their validity domain, and illustrate “path strategies”. A complete toolbox is provided, allowing everyone to construct a $\tau $–$\ell $ diagram of a numerical simulation, a laboratory experiment, a theory, or a natural object.…”
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Converting from Seepage Irrigation to Plasticulture for Vegetable Production: A Case Study by Charles E. Barrett, Lincoln Zotarelli, Lucas G. Paranhos, Mark W. Warren

“…This small-scale system has great potential for encouraging adoption of this type of system with low risk to the grower. This article illustrates an innovative approach for converting from seepage irrigation to plasticulture and points out some options and challenges for growers considering a plasticulture system.  …”
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Toward an Integrated Physiological Theory of Microbial Growth: From Subcellular Variables to Population Dynamics by Atul Narang, Sergei S. Pilyugin

“…We presentthese physiological models in the order of increasing complexity.Thus, we begin with models of single-species growth in environmentscontaining a single growth-limiting substrate, then advance to modelsof single-species growth in mixed-substrate media, and conclude withmodels of multiple-species growth in mixed-substrate environments.Throughout the paper, we discuss both the analytical and simulationtechniques to illustrate how these models capture and explain variousexperimental phenomena. …”
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Building Spectral Element Dynamic Matrices Using Finite Element Models of Waveguide Slices and Elastodynamic Equations by P.B. Silva, A.L. Goldstein, J.R.F. Arruda

“…These spectral elements can be used to model homogeneous waveguides with constant cross section over long spans without the need of refining the finite element mesh along the waveguide. As an illustrating example, spectral elements are derived for straight uniform rods and beams and used to calculate the forced response in the longitudinal and transverse directions. …”
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