Local Politics and a Self-assessment of Political Practice. Perspective of a Neighbourhood Leader in Mexico City on their Political Trajectory by Hélène Combes

“…From here, without making a moral judgement, we consider how political brokerage and the activities that it involves combine instrumental considerations with moral and ideological dimensions.…”
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La esfera interfuerzas en Argentina. Notas sobre el estudio de la problemática militar by Ricardo J. Laleff Ilieff

“…A partir de una revisión crítica del concepto “control civil”, este trabajo propone su redefinición, con el objetivo de avanzar hacia la búsqueda de un instrumental analítico adecuado para indagar en aquellas áreas descuidadas por los estudios tradicionales.…”
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Considering the Structure of Scientific and Cognitive Activity at Different Levels of Continuing Education by A. A. Frolov, Y. N. Frolova, I. A. Chernyayev

“…The research data demonstrate that the system of continuing education does not provide any clear and verified algorithm of scientific and cognitive activity, as the result the scientific cognitive competence of human subjects of educational process is not developed including its intellectual and instrumental components. The changes of educational status appear to depend mainly on intuition and personal expertise which contradicts the declared organizational principles of scientific and educational activities. …”
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La forza degli oggetti ricomposti by Elisa Rondini, Daniele Parbuono

“…Like Levi-Strauss’s bricoleur, he combines skills, expertise and available resources (things out of everyday use, found waste collection centers and garages of relatives and friends), configuring an instrumental universe in constantly adapting his living space based on extra-ordinary and always progressive aesthetics. …”
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Musculoskeletal disorders and the work of the technicians and nursing assistants in homes for the aged by Janaína Bussola Montrezor Valença, Maria do Carmo Baracho de Alencar

“…Carried out a survey of the technicians and nursing assistants, through a questionnaire containing personal data (gender, age, education), work, and about musculoskeletal symptoms; instrumental Barthel Index with the elderly, and subsequently carrying out semi-structured interviews were recorded and transcribed for content analysis categories. …”
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Among Theory, Practice and Technology: the Relation Between Theoretical and Practical Knowledge in the Context of Accounting Training and the Thinking of Jürgen Habermas by Josicleide de Amorim Pereira Moreira, Maria das Graças Vieira, Cristiane Gomes da Silva

“…For that, we turn to the contributions of Jürgen Habermas’s theory of communicative action in order to understand how the relationship is established between theoretical discourse and practical discourse, drawing on definitions of "instrumental reason" and "communicative reason". To develop this empirical classification study, with a quantitative and qualitative approach, we employed the exploratory typology through bibliographic and documentary research. …”
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Analysis Of Family Conflict of Child Victims Sexual Violence in Palembang City by Yosi Arianti, Safira Soraida, Gita Isyanawulan, Adetia Wulindari

“…Family support, including emotional, instrumental, information, and appreciation, has proven crucial in the recovery process. …”
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“Lost in translation?” Animal research in the era of precision medicine by Hamideh Frühwein, Norbert W. Paul

“…We argue that the ethical obligation to protect animals extends beyond their instrumental value for human benefit; it is rooted in the intrinsic value of their well-being. …”
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Inability to Utilize Retrograde Cardioplegia due to a Persistent Left Superior Vena Cava by Rohesh J. Fernando, Sean D. Johnson

“…Echocardiography was instrumental in this diagnosis and avoided potentially inadequate myocardial protection during cardiopulmonary bypass.…”
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Počasí v Čechách ve 30. a 40. letech 18. století v denících Tobiáše Antonína Seemana by Jan Munzar, Vítězslav Prchal

“…Although it was not the author’s main area of interest and the data are not recorded on a daily basis, they represent a new and valuable contribution to the documentation of the climate and its extremes in Bohemia of the pre-instrumental period of the first half of the 18th century. …”
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The problem of respect in environmental philosophy by Barbora Baďurová

“…The author highlights the problem of constraints imposed by respect and the relation of respect to intrinsic and instrumental value. The approach is analyzed also from the point of view of Kant’s ethics, nevertheless the author examines it also from the standpoints of various contemporary environmental ethicists (e.g. …”
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La formación en competencias mediáticas: una cuestión de responsabilidad ética en educación superior by Vicent Gozálvez Pérez, Rosa García-Ruiz, J. Ignacio Aguaded-Gómez

“…El presente artículo se inscribe en el marco de la ética de las profesiones educativas, ofreciendo argumentos para considerar que la formación en competencias mediáticas por parte del profesorado universitario no solo responde a una exigencia instrumental necesaria en sociedades del conocimiento, sino que sobre todo constituye una recomendación de tipo ético y deontológico relacionada con el principio ético de la responsabilidad profesional. …”
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Probability-Lowering Causes and the Connotations of Causation by Andrés Páez

“…Según Mellor, tales factores no satisfacen las connotaciones evidenciales, explicativas e instrumentales de la causalidad. El artículo argumenta que la connotación evidencial sólo implica una forma epistémicamente relativizada de atribución causal y no la causalidad misma, y que hay casos claros de explicación y razonamiento instrumental que deben apelar a factores negativamente relevantes. …”
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Impact of Sino-US Trade Liberalization on China’s Carbon Emissions and Future Works on Fractional Phenomenon by Yanchun Yi, Yaqing Li, Ji Qi

“…We used the exchange of CNY/USD as the instrumental variable to alleviate the endogeneity with the two-stage least squares method. …”
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Nöd och död i Norrland by Elisabeth Engberg

“…Norrskensflamman’s coverage, featuring substantial critical social analysis, became instrumental in political debate, while Aftonbladet’s reports, characterized by human-interest journalism, helped prompt the allocation of philanthropic relief. …”
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Do xenophobic attitudes influence migrant workers' regional location choice? by Tanja Buch, Carola Burkert, Stefan Hell, Annekatrin Niebuhr, Anette Haas

“…We use a unique panel data set for the period 2004 to 2017 and apply fixed effects regression models and instrumental variable estimation to examine the relationship between anti-immigrant attitudes and immigration. …”
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Multifactorial Induction of a “Scleroderma‐Like Pattern” Without Underlying Connective Tissue Disease: Diagnostic and Therapeutic Implications by Angelo Nigro

“…Comprehensive immunologic and instrumental assessments demonstrated no evidence of systemic involvement or autoimmune disease. …”
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La forza degli oggetti ricomposti by Elisa Rondini, Daniele Parbuono

“…Like Levi-Strauss’s bricoleur, he combines skills, expertise and available resources (things out of everyday use, found waste collection centers and garages of relatives and friends), configuring an instrumental universe in constantly adapting his living space based on extra-ordinary and always progressive aesthetics. …”
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Module and modularity – Variations and application scales in contemporary times by Cesare Sposito, Francesca Scalisi

“…With their infinite application scales, ‘from the spoon to the city’ (Rogers, 1952), the ‘module’ and ‘modularity’ resurface strongly in the new Millennium and can become a paradigm in support of the Sustainable Development Goals (UN, 2015) if associated with the themes of reversibility and accessibility, in addition, the varied conceptual and instrumental declinations of ‘module’ and ‘modularity’ can provide support throughout the entire life cycle of a system, optimising its ideational, production/implementation and management phases in Landscape, City, Architecture and Industrial Design, enabling the overcoming of a static and linear view of the built environment through ‘open’, ‘flexible’, ‘adaptive’, ‘multi-scalar’ and ‘sustainable’ systems especially when managed through intelligent digital tools. …”
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IMPLEMENTING THE INTEGRAL DIFFERENTIAL ESTIMATION CRITERION OF COMPETENCE ACQUISITION by Y. I. Kon, V. I. Freyman, A. A. Yuzhakov

“…In authors’ opinion, implementation of the given model combined with available instrumental and methodological means can raise the quality of education based on the competence approach.The paper is addressed to university teachers, methodologists and education quality experts in vocational universities.…”
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