Technology, energy, and time – Experimental paths for the design of appropriate technology by Annapaola Vacanti, Carmelo Leonardi

“…The multidisciplinary design approach emerges as instrumental in the transition to sustainable energy practices, laying the foundation for the transition to future scenarios in which technology and nature coexist harmoniously.   …”
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Une analyse de la souffrance enseignante : Horkheimer, Adorno et l’humain comme être souffrant by Arianne Robichaud, Marie-Hélène Masse-Lamarche

“…Its main goal is to highlight the possible relation between the microsociological manifestations of suffering experienced in teaching work (adaptation problems, stress, disenchantment vis-à-vis the profession, professional and personal identity changes) and the concept of the instrumental rationalization of the educational systems. …”
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Babylonian confusion. Zur Terminologie der Formanalyse von Pop- und Rockmusik by Ulrich Kaiser

“…Eine differenzierte Formanalyse der seit 1950 entstandenen Pop-/Rockmusik ist möglich, wenn die englischsprachigen Begriffe ›Verse‹, ›Chorus‹, ›Headline‹, ›Intro‹, ›Outro‹, ›Bridge‹, ›Instrumental Solo‹, ›Interlude‹, ›Prechorus‹ und ›Transitional Bridge‹ für die Beschreibung von Musik reserviert werden, die deutschen Begriffe ›Strophe‹, ›Refrain‹ und ›Refrainzeile‹ hingegen der ausschließlichen Beschreibung eines Textes dienen. …”
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Operationalization of the Decentralized Policy Framework in Uganda: An Examination of the Key Milestones and Challenges. by Mugavu, George, Mucunguzi, Abel

“…Decentralization in Uganda has been considered one of the most instrumental and partly successful policies amongst most of the policies that have been implemented under the National Resistance Movement Government. …”
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Pentraxin 3 Levels in Young Women with and without Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) in relation to the Nutritional Status and Systemic Inflammation by Katarzyna Wyskida, Grzegorz Franik, Piotr Choręza, Natalia Pohl, Leszek Markuszewski, Aleksander Owczarek, Paweł Madej, Jerzy Chudek, Magdalena Olszanecka-Glinianowicz

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Precisiones sobre la Educación Emocional by José Antonio MARINA

“…Se señala que el uso de la psicología debe ser meramente instrumental, que puede estudiar cómo funcionan los sentimientos, pero no convertirse en guía de los mismos. …”
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Mendelian Randomisation Study of Childhood BMI and Early Menarche by Hannah S. Mumby, Cathy E. Elks, Shengxu Li, Stephen J. Sharp, Kay-Tee Khaw, Robert N. Luben, Nicholas J. Wareham, Ruth J. F. Loos, Ken K. Ong

“…Using this BMI-increasing-allele-score as an instrumental variable for BMI, each 1 kg/m2 increase in childhood BMI was predicted to result in a 6.5% (95% CI: 4.6–8.5%) higher absolute risk of early menarche (before age 12 years). …”
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Distinct genome stabilization procedures lead to phenotypic variability in newly generated interspecific yeast hybrids by Pablo Murath, Pablo Murath, Stephanie Hoffmann, Beatriz Herrera-Malaver, Beatriz Herrera-Malaver, Beatriz Herrera-Malaver, Luis Bustamante, Kevin Verstrepen, Kevin Verstrepen, Kevin Verstrepen, Jan Steensels, Jan Steensels, Jan Steensels

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Assessment of Geriatric Problems and Risk Factors for Delirium in Surgical Medicine: Protocol for Multidisciplinary Prospective Clinical Study by Henriette Louise Möllmann, Eman Alhammadi, Soufian Boulghoudan, Julian Kuhlmann, Anica Mevissen, Philipp Olbrich, Louisa Rahm, Helmut Frohnhofen

“…Patient-validated screening instruments will be used to identify risk factors. A geriatric assessment with the content of basal and instrumental activities of daily living (basal activities of daily living [Katz index], instrumental activities of daily living [Lawton and Brody score], cognition [6-item screener and clock drawing test], mobility [de Morton Mobility Index and Sit-to-Stand test], sleep [Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index and Insomnia Severity Index/STOP-BANG], drug therapy [polypharmacy and quality of medication, Fit For The Aged classification, and anticholinergic burden score], and pain assessment and delirium risk (Delirium Risk Assessment Tool) will be performed. …”
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KERANGKA PARADIGMATIK TAFSIR ALQUR’AN ALKARIM KARYA MAHMUD YUNUS by Zulyadain Zulyadain

“…There are four patterns of its structural analysis of interpretation: i.e. ijmali, simple thematic, quotation and nahwu. The instrumental interpretation used is tafsiriyah tarjamah with the translation pattern of harfiyyah and maknawiyyah.…”
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An Update to the Central England Temperature Series—HadCET v2.1 by Tim Legg, Stephen Packman, Thomas Caton Harrison, Mark McCarthy

“…ABSTRACT The Central England Temperature (CET) series is one of the longest instrumental climate records in the world. The CET record from 1659 represents a roughly triangular area of England extending from the Lancashire plain in the north, to London in the south‐east and south‐west of the Midlands of England. …”
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Methodology and algorithms for obtaining long-range 3D-portraits of objects based on 2D-intensity distributions of truncated realizations of reflected laser radiation by V.I. Ivanov

“…The methodological and instrumental aspects of increasing the resolution of 3D portraits in terms of topography depth are investigated. …”
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The Ponte Delle Chianche on the <i>Via Traiana</i> in Buonalbergo (Benevento, Italy): New Data for an Integrated Study by Ivan Ferrari

“…The study aimed to retrieve all information contained in literary sources and to cross-reference them with new data from research conducted in recent years. Thanks to an instrumental metric survey of the structures, both the construction techniques used and the bridge construction process were better understood, elements that were then incorporated into the development of a 3D reconstruction proposal. …”
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Design Innovation Typologies. A critical Analysis of a Complex Relationship by Cabirio Cautela, Lucia Rampino

“…In this article – through a systematic analysis of the literature of the last 30 years – we aim to identify a theoretical model that underlines the specific drivers of any innovation typology, at the same time composing them in a coherent framework in which some are considered logical and instrumental antecedents with respect to higher level of innovation.…”
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The Relationship between Health and Community across Aging Cohorts by Julie Norstrand, Keith T. Chan

“…Regression models were examined across 3 cohorts testing relationships among social capital indicators (neighborhood trust, neighborhood support, neighborhood cohesion, neighborhood participation, and telephone interaction) with health outcomes (self-rated health, activities of daily living (ADL), and instrumental activities of daily living (IADL)). Results showed that most social capital indicators remained significant for all health outcomes into very old age. …”
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Fine Tuning Cell Migration by a Disintegrin and Metalloproteinases by D. Dreymueller, K. Theodorou, M. Donners, A. Ludwig

“…Cell migration is an instrumental process involved in organ development, tissue homeostasis, and various physiological processes and also in numerous pathologies. …”
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Synthesis, Characterization and Antibacterial Activity of a New Series of s-Triazines Derived with Quinolines by J. J. Vora, S. B. Vasava, Asha. D. Patel, K. C. Parmar, S. K. Chauhan, S. S. Sharma

“…Finally, urea derivatives were allowed to react and the products were characterized by conventional and instrumental methods. Their structures were determined and important biochemical properties were studied…”
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Organiser la proximité entre usagers de l’eau : le cas de la Gestion Volumétrique dans le Bassin de la Charente by Céline Granjou, Patrice Garin

“…Several interviews with water users (farmers which use or don’t use water, fishers, residents, actors responsible for tourism…) show that a new proximity due the share of organisation rules has been developed, but that this proximity is: asymmetric because it privileges links between partisans of irrigation; instrumental because it lacks a commune long-term vision of territorial development; at last partial because the different interdependencies induced by the same water resource are not considered.…”
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New Figurations in Architecture Theory: From Queer Performance to Becoming Trans by Robert Alexander Gorny, Dirk van den Heuvel

“…The aim is for a productive exhange between the fields since queer theory can be instrumental in moving beyond the heteronormative dominance in architectural thinking, which is characterized by an essentialist approach based on binary notions, rather than an understanding of architecture as an interface in material processes of becoming and producing differences. …”
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Monitoring tools as energy saving enablers in social housing context by Jacopo Gaspari, Lia Marchi, Carlotta Oberosler, Ernesto Antonini

“…The study investigates the interaction of users with the typical system and equipment of social housing, comparing the opinion of the inhabitants with instrumental monitoring on a pilot case in Bologna, in order to define the characteristics of an integrative tool to inform the user and suggest good energy use practices. …”
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