Senegalese students’ attitudes toward English and Arabic: A comparative analysis by Abdelatif ABILKASSEM

“…Students are both instrumentally and integrally motivated to learn this language. …”
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Fresh-Cut Mango Best Management Practices Manual by Jeffrey K. Brecht, Anne Plotto, Anna Marín-Gozalbo, Renee Goodrich

“… The National Mango Board (NMB), an instrumentality of the US Department of Agriculture, commissioned this work to assist the mango industry. …”
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Investigation of kevlar application in baglama soundboard and its effects on sound properties by Ümit Çiçekçioğlu, Ali Maruf Alaskan

“…Kevlar is a mounted between the soundboard, which consists of the lower cover and the upper cover in the instruments, both reducing the wooden part and creating sound chambers. …”
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Fatigue life prediction of pedicle screw for spinal surgery by Š. Major, V. Kocour, P.Cyrus

“…Implant systems utilizing specially designed spinal instrumentation are often used in these surgical procedures. …”
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ETHNOCENTRIC ATTITUDES AND BUYING DECISIONS OF POLES AND HUNGARIANS – THE ESSENCE AND MEASUREMENT WITH THE USE OF CETSCALE ANALYSIS by Andrzej Szromnik, Elżbieta Wolanin-Jarosz

“…The international CETSCALE questionnaire has been used as a measuring instrument. The analyses presented, clearly indicate that, Polish as well as Hungarian consumers show ethnocentric tendencies. …”
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Le cas du metal symphonique, entre dégénérescence d’un art de l’extrême et exaltation du culte de la puissance by Jason Julliot

“…After sketching a definition of symphonic metal, this article considers the sound radicality issues in the heavy metal : by reversing the balance in favour of classical instruments and by integrating female singers (potentially lyrical), symphonic metal appears to be a non-violent genre, incompatible with what is the essence of heavy metal music. …”
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Performance of Gradient-Based Solutions versus Genetic Algorithms in the Correlation of Thermal Mathematical Models of Spacecrafts by Eva Anglada, Laura Martinez-Jimenez, Iñaki Garmendia

“…The case of study used in the comparison is a real space instrument flown aboard the International Space Station.…”
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A Proteção da Natureza e do Patrimônio da Humanidade pela Beleza Cênica da Paisagem by Lucimar de Fátima dos Santos Vieira, Roberto Verdum

“…It begins with the presentation of the trajectory of construction of the concept of heritage and historical and natural monument, about the organization of civil society and the creation of international organizations to promote protection through legal instruments and also the creation of areas protected, marked by nationalist sentiment and, later, by an internationalist vision in a historical, political, social, economic and scientific context.…”
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GENERALIZATION OF CLASSIFICATION SIGNS REFLECTING VARIOUS ASPECTS OF DIFFERENTIATION OF REGIONS by E. Berezina, L. Vasileva

“…The potential of domestic classifications of regions as an instrument of regional policy is not fully used, which requires concrete steps from scientists and practitioners, in particular, adjusting existing classifications over time, tracking the movement of regions from one group to another, and developing support measures for each group of regions.…”
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Dengki, Bersyukur dan Kualitas Hidup Orang yang Mengalami Psikosomatik by Ila Nurlaila Hidayat, Witrin Gamayanti

“…The research subjects consisted of 106 students who experienced psychosomatic disorders. Measuring instruments used the Islamic Envy Scale (IES) and the Islamic Gratitude Scale (IGS) which are constructed based on the concept of envy and gratitude according to Al-Ghazali, as well as the WHO quality of life scale that was adapted. …”
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The Dismantling of Family Farming Policies in Brazil and Argentina by Eric Sabourin, Clara Craviotti, Carolina Milhorance

“…Drawing on Bauer et al.’s (2012) analytical framework, the article examines the modalities and stages of the process of dismantling family farming policy instruments in Brazil and Argentina. Likewise, it analyzes the process’s causes by delving into structural, contextual and institutional factors. …”
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MOOC: RECONSTRUCTION OF HIGHER EDUCATION by Dendev Badarch, Natalia Tokareva, Marina Tsvetkova

“…New ICT change the educational environment, forms global university communities, open higher education to all people for lifelong learning, provide an exchange and promote creation of new of knowledge, but also form the advanced instruments of educational activity.…”
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Congresos criminológicos internacionales y su impacto en los códigos penales de América Latina (1870–1945) by Elizabeth Gómez Alcorta

“…The article shows how the construction of »dangerousness« as a transnational criminal legal-political concept could become an instrument of control and consolidation of a new world order. …”
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Determinants of corruption in the global financial order by Stevanović Miroslav, Pavlićević Predrag

“…By analysing secondary sources and normative instruments, we mark the financial operations and mechanisms that can support the realisation of the lucrative aspect of corruption, induce the risks for the development of corruption generated by various financial operations, and indicate the problem of the normative articulation of these risks in anti-corruption acts are. …”
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Peran Komitmen Organisasi terhadap Kesejahteraan Karyawan Perguruan Tinggi Islam di Bandung by Eneng Nurlaili Wangi, Irfan Fahmi, Siti Mutya Lutfiani

“…Organizational commitment was measured using Organizational Commitment Questionnaire (OCQ) based on the concept from Meyer and Allen, while well-being was measured using instrument developed by Butler and Kern. The results show that affective and normative organizational commitment did not affected well-being, while continuance organizational commitment has a significant effect on well-being. …”
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Film music and construction of tourist imaginaries in Hollywood blockbusters by Marie-Hélène Chevrier, Chloé Huvet

“…This paper aims to show how the music composed for these movies contributes to the creation of topoi by promoting exoticism and orientalism, notably through the use of local instruments and musical motifs and through the representation, on screen, of traditional musical and artistic practices (singing, dancing, etc.). …”
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Le ‘fantasme robotique’ du couple idéal by Nathanaël Wadbled

“…It thus stands in opposition to the idea of the necessary sexual and emotional instrumentalization of robots because of their mechanical nature. …”
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A Shared Passion for Nonsense: Laura E. Richards and Margaret Atwood by Michaela Keck

“…Yet where Richards purportedly relates her children’s poetry to the domestic sphere as the proper site to express nonsense and wields it as a creative educational practice, Atwood’s fiction self-reflectively insists that nonsense constitutes a powerful political instrument and weapon in and beyond the nursery.…”
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Controlling the Flow of Information by Marius Buning

“…Privileges thus served as instruments of power and as a means of transmitting cultural values and setting the political agenda. …”
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Les chants du corps by Edoarda Barra

“…Because they rejected Pan, the two nymphs are dismembered; and while Syrinx becomes the god’s flute—an instrument used to test virginity during an ordeal—Echo reproduces Pan’s sound by blowing into his flute. …”
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