Analysis of War and the Rights of Prisoners of War in Islam in Light of Quranic Verses by Mohammad Zereshki

“…Even in situations where social restrictions are applied, such limitations, particularly the capture of prisoners, are solely intended to serve social interests, and not as an act of oppression, but rather as a preventive measure. …”
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A Design Methodology for Exploring and Communicating System Values and Assumptions by Daniel Carter

“…I first analyze an existing tool, the Versioning Machine, as a way of focusing the design of a prototype that reimagines several aspects of that original—specifically, I argue that the Versioning Machine creates an environment that to some extent assumes that TEI documents are created by one editor and intended for one instantiation. The prototype presented experiments with an alternative vision of textual editing as bringing encoded texts and interpretations together in multiple and flexible instantiations. …”
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Analyzing the Parameters of the Coal—Gas System Using a Low-Cost Device Based on a Flowmeter by Norbert Skoczylas

“…The author of this paper intends to show a simple device based on a gas flowmeter, which makes use of a phenomenon known as ‘barbotage’. …”
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Les controverses autour de l’intérêt à agir pour l’accès au juge constitutionnel : de la défense du droit à l’environnement (Costa Rica) à la défense des droits de la nature (Équat... by Edgar Fernandez Fernandez

“…Who can represent them ? We intend to answer these questions through the analysis of two legal systems in which a very broad standing to sue has been recognized for accessing the constitutional court : The first one is Costa Rica’s, in the framework of the defense of the right to a healthy and ecologically equilibrated environment. …”
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The Effect of Mental Toughness of Individuals Doing Outdoor Sports on their Decision-Making Skills by Esra Canlı, Burak Gürer, Enise Merve Karababa

“…This study intends to examine the impact of the mental toughness of athletes doing outdoor sports on their decision-making skills. …”
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Global Dynamics of Shaft Lines Rotating in Surrounding Fluids Application to Thin Fluid Films by David Lornage, Georges Jacquet-Richardet

“…The first is composed of a disc and a thin-walled shaft mounted on a hydrodynamic bearing. The second is intended for studying a more realistic structure composed of a shaft and a wheel coupled with a fluid film between the wheel and a casing. …”
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Introduction: emerging approaches in the anthropology/primatology borderland by Vincent Leblan

“…The purpose of this Revue de Primatologie issue is to put forward the multiple ways to look at primates across the fields of anthropology and primatology which are commonly thought to be (and which, for the most part, actually are) academically and epistemologically very remote from one another. It is intended to provide a kind of sketch of this ever-widening gulf and to locate some of the major crosscurrents which constantly drive them apart, as well as to look for a few possible interdisciplinary crossing points. …”
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Establishment Cost of Avocados in South Florida by Braulia De Oleo, Edward A. Evans, Jonathan H. Crane

“…Information presented in this study is based on interviews with growers, orchard service companies, extension agents, and other industry personnel. It is intended as a guide only to make production decisions, prepare budgets, and investigate insurance options. …”
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Investigation into Interactions between Accident Consequences and Traffic Signs: A Bayesian Bivariate Tobit Quantile Regression Approach by Xuecai Xu, Željko Šarić

“…This study intended to investigate the interactions between accident severity levels and traffic signs in state roads located in Croatia and explore the correlation between accident severity levels and heterogeneity attributed to unobserved factors. …”
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Developing an Optimization Model to Manage Unpaved Roads by Promothes Saha, Khaled Ksaibati

“…When funding is limited, it is important to identify the best mix of road preservation projects that provides the most benefits to society in terms of overall life cycle cost of the road network. This research intends to develop a management system using optimization techniques for managing unpaved roads within limited budget. …”
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Estimação da perda de solo por processos erosivos em parcelas de monitoramento utilizando pinos de erosão em propriedades rurais do interior do Estado de São Paulo by Jéssica de Sousa Baldassarini, João Osvaldo Rodrigues Nunes

“…The study was conducted in two farms in the State of São Paulo-Brazil, located in the municipality of Getulina, intended for beef cattle, and the second in Veracruz, for the coffee production. …”
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Pre-graduate medical education from the perspective of Primary Health Care: the Portuguese case by Paulo Santos

“…Pre-graduate medical education intends to prepare future doctors for the practice of medicine. …”
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Estimation of nonlinear dependence of fiber Bragg grating readings on temperature and strain using experimental data by I. Shardakov, A. Shestakov, I. Glot, V. Epin, G. Gusev, R. Tsvetkov

“…Thus far, the authors have not found studies that consider all terms in the quadratic expansion of the central wavelength of the Bragg grating as a function of temperature and strain at near-room temperatures. Our work is intended to fill this gap. The article describes an experiment in which an optical fiber with Bragg grating was subjected to loading using three different weights. …”
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Examination of the Trait Anxiety Levels among Male Basketball Players in the Ages from 13 to 15 in View of Various Variables by Ahmet Uzun, Atilla Pulur, Ebru Karabulut, Kaan Eroğlu

“…What was intended with this study was to ascertain the Trait Anxiety levels of national team-nominee male basketball players between the ages of 13-15, and to investigate the differences thereof in view of personal variables. …”
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Local knowledge and amateur participation. Shevchenko Scientific Society, 1892–1914 by Martin Rohde

“… This article discusses the possibilities which amateur participation offered to the young Shevchenko Scientific Society – limited to the description of the activities of this Society in the years 1892–1914. The Society intended to develop rapidly into an academy of sciences in the Ukrainian language, but lacked the necessary resources. …”
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On/Unstained White dress(es) by Anna Kasafi Perkins

“…NourbeSe Philip (Trinidad/Canada) and Barbara Ferland (Jamaica). The dress is intended to be worn by Afro-Caribbean girls in a church, sacred, or sacramental context and speak to matters of purity in the female/girl child who is so clad. …”
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Compositional analysis of interrogative imperatives in Hungarian by Judit Kleiber, Gábor Alberti

“… The paper investigates utterances which combine imperative and interrogative elements in Hungarian. We intend to explore the scope of the hypothesis that the pragmatico-semantic content of mixed-type sentences can be obtained compositionally. …”
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A new statistical approach with simulation study: Its implementations in management sciences and reliability by Zhidong Liang

“…Within this specific research domain, we propose a new statistical methodology intended to augment the distributional flexibility of probability models while avoiding the need for new parameters. …”
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DATA MINING APPROACH FOR PREDICTING STUDENT PERFORMANCE by Edin Osmanbegović, Mirza Suljić

“… Although data mining has been successfully implemented in the business world for some time now, its use in higher education is still relatively new, i.e. its use is intended for identification and extraction of new and potentially valuable knowledge from the data. …”
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GOVERNMENTAL SUPPORT MECHANISM OF THE RENEWABLE ENERGY IN GERMANY by N. V. Kozaeva

“…German Energy transition could be considered to be one of the most challenging a widescaled reforms, quite capital-intensive, requiring a high level of scientific input, having an influence on other economic sectors and economic entities. Energy reform is intended to increase the energy security level by increasing the share of renewables in its energy portfolio, environmental protection by decreasing the emission into the atmosphere and the level of energy consumption. …”
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