Information and business performance: a study of information systems and services in high-performing companies by T.D. Wilson, I. Owen, A. Abell

“…The Åbo Consortium - a loose affiliation of researchers in the U.K. and the Nordic countries has met from time to time to discuss the development of a collaborative approach to business information research and this project was intended to serve as a model for parallel investigations to be carried out in other countries. …”
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Competency-and-activity-based Model of Academic Writing by T. S. Putilovskaya

“…The author describes the principles of working out a competency-based model of a scientific article primarily intended for the teacher and uses it as the basis for working out a step-by-step instruction for writing an article mainly aimed at the student. …”
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Le paysage comme contre-pouvoir au service des habitants by Cyrille Marlin

“…Normative in the sense that it defines standard approaches to the ordinary lives of the people, of the inhabitants for whom it is supposedly intended. The relationship between the landscape and power is examined to explore the potential use of the concept as a countervailing power. …”
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Irrigation and Household Water Test and Interpretation by Rao Mylavarapu

“… Analytical tests for samples of water from sources, usually wells, intended for irrigation and/or household usage are offered through the University of Florida/IFAS Extension Soil Testing Laboratory (ESTL) in Gainesville. …”
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“Consummate Too Too”: On the Logic of Iconotexts Satirizing the “Aesthetic Movement” by Anne-Florence Gillard-Estrada

“…The question of gender, however, is not so much linked to the formal relation between image and text but to the discourse deployed by these iconotexts since what is aimed at is a caricature based on gendered constructions of the category of “Aesthetes”. Finally, one intends to show the poetics at work in such iconotexts by studying those oft-recurring catchphrases that comically and yet creatively encapsulate the aesthetics and formula of life propounded by authors and artists of the Aesthetic Movement.…”
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Le droit à l'autodétermination comme droit moral by Xacobe Bastida Freixedo

“…The usual interpretation of the Spanish legal code leads to a short circuit; it reproduces the problem intended to be solved. The integration of the right to self-determination can only be achieved in an un-usual way by resorting to what we here have called method of the Politician, which consists in using the right as an excuse rather than a guide to the agreements.…”
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La transizione ecologica come oggetto etnografico: posizionamento e intenzioni alla prova del campo (Sud Sardegna) by Elena Apostoli Cappello

“…At the same time, this study intends to discuss the mandate and bring out different aspects of the ethnographic relationship that exceed the researcher's intentions, illustrating some of the different unexpected outcomes of her presence in the field by discussing the ethnographic positioning. …”
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Production Costs and Commodity Budgets for Selected Florida Vegetables by Scott A. Smith, Timothy G. Taylor

“… The vegetable budgets presented in these reports are intended to reflect production practices that are considered typical for any given crop in a given area. …”
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Detecting hazardous situations faced by presbycusic pedestrians in cities: an audio-texture approach by Faten Hussein, Raja Ghozi, Mériem Jaïdane, Jean-Pierre Péneau

“…This cross-analysis process may provide urban planners with two-dimensional graphic representations intended to detect hazardous situations in order to anticipate them and minimize their effects.…”
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Une justice froide ? L’ambiance thermique dans le palais de justice de Paris au XVIIIe siècle by Adrien Pitor

“…In keeping with the work dedicated to soundscape by historians such as Alain Corbin and Arlette Farge, this paper intends to consider the palais de justice of Paris in the 18th century as a setting for a study on temperature in the built environment. …”
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Configurations, deformations, mutations. Criteria of morphological analysis in adaptive reuse by Elena Guidetti, Alessandro Massarente

“…Therefore, starting from the hypothesis that a building whose original function has mutated can no longer be characterized through it, but rather through the permanence of its form, we intend to demonstrate that a project of adaptive reuse of a pre-existing building implies a morphological potential through which it is possible to determine diversified cognitive approaches and transformation scenarios.…”
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Os males do Brasil são: a doença como elemento distintivo da condição de ser brasileiro by Ermelinda Maria Araújo Ferreira

“…The similarity of these works points to the interest of these researchers on popular culture - in particular that related to the spontaneous understanding of the luso-brazilian people about the evils of body and soul, and its stigmatizing and metaphorical interpretations of illness as a social evil. From there, it was intended to make an analysis of the construction and deconstruction of Brazilian identity myths as Jeca Tatu and Macunaíma, analyzing their background in Portuguese literary imagination and its impact on modern Brazilian literature.…”
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L’adaptation en bande dessinée de El matadero d’Esteban Echeverría : Enrique Breccia se souvient… by Emilie Delafosse

“…A « classic » of Argentine literature, El matadero by Esteban Echevarría was adapted to the comic by Enrique Breccia in 1984. This study intends to examine the way Breccia uses the methods of the comic in a duty to remember, while taking over the original text to bring it back to a « piece of work ». …”
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Save a Child: How to Identify and Report Child Abuse by Andrew E. Toelle, Kate Fogarty

“…Characteristics listed here are general and intended as guidelines. A child or family may exhibit many warning signs of abuse, though no abuse has occurred or ever will occur. …”
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Le même et l’autre by Agnès Grivaux

“…This convergence raises a major difficulty: their critiques of reason, even if very similar, lead to two distinct concepts of unreason, which are related to their understanding and appraisal of psychoanalysis. This article intends to address this difficulty and propose the outlines of a novel way of interrogating the confrontation between Adorno and Foucault.…”
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Exploring Children's Requirements for Game-Based Learning Environments by Tuula Nousiainen, Marja Kankaanranta

“…Similarly, children's experience of what they find enjoyable and how they learn is a valuable source of inspiration for the design of products intended for them. In this paper, we explore experiences obtained from collaboration with elementary school children in the design of learning environments, based on three projects and three requirements gathering techniques. …”
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Socialisation professionnelle des directions d’établissement d'enseignement au Québec : tensions entre formation et autonomie professionnelle by Houssine Dridi

“…Guided in 2008 by a “reference of skills”, it is intended for the professional socialization of directors of educational institutions by endowing them with solid knowledge, both theoretical and practical and accompanying them in their professional integration. …”
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The Ethics of Ethnographic Attraction: Reflections on the Production of the Finno-Ugric Exhibitions at the Estonian National Museum by Svetlana Karm, Art Leete

“…We intend to explore the production of the Finno-Ugric exhibitions at the Estonian National Museum. …”
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Cuban Agriculture Before 1959: The Political and Economic Situations by José Alvarez

“…Answers appear at both extremes of the political spectrum, exposed and espoused by supporters and detractors of the current Cuban regime. This fact sheet intends to address these conflicting viewpoints by analyzing the available data on pre-1959 rural Cuba. …”
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Issues at the Rural-Urban Fringe: Land Use -- Agricultural Zoning by Rodney L. Clouser

“… This fact sheet is one in a series intended to familiarize readers with land use issues at the rural-urban fringe. …”
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