Strategy, information processing and scorecard models in the UK financial services sector by Judith Broady-Preston; Tim Hayward

“…Scorecard models are employed increasingly to translate the mission and strategy of a company into a comprehensive set of performance measures, providing the framework for a strategic management system. …”
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U.S. public television in the digital era: from niche to “Greek marketplace”? by Hélène Palmeri

“…We first look into how public television emerged in the U.S., with what missions, financing and structures, then in the second part we study what is left today of the initial ideal and whether or not current conditions are favorable to public media. …”
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Hypothyroidism Complicating Nephropathy in a Diabetes Patient by Jayaprakash Sahoo, Ilangovan Veerappan, Anila Abraham, Somasundaram Hariharan

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What <i>Does</i> Matter?: Idols and Icons in the Nenets Tundra by Laur Vallikivi

“…This paper examines a mission encounter in the Nenets reindeer herders’ tundra. …”
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Exploring the practical theological study of congregations by W. J. Schoeman

“…The second part of the article describes the exploration of congregations from a practical theological ecclesiology (the identity, mission and ministry of the congregation) and an analytical perspective (external interaction between congregation and community, and the internal life of the congregation). …”
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Le statut de la sainteté dans les « religions politiques » by Yves Bizeul

“…The secular saint is a potential martyr inasmuch as he has a providential and Promethean mission to fulfil. Because of this, he often becomes the centre of a devotional cult after his death.…”
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Can Literature Know Itself and Not Become Philosophy? by Ralph M. Berry

“…The reason for that impossibility might be that philosophy’s mission, to the extent that it reflects upon concepts, is somehow to blur them. …”
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An Energy-Efficient Cyclic Diversionary Routing Strategy against Global Eavesdroppers in Wireless Sensor Networks by Ju Ren, Yaoxue Zhang, Kang Liu

“…While many protocols for sensor network security provide confidentiality for message content, contextual information usually remains exposed, which can be critical to the mission of the sensor network. In this paper, we propose an energy-efficient cyclic diversionary routing (CDR) scheme against global eavesdroppers for preserving location privacy and maximizing lifetime of wireless sensor networks (WSNs). …”
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Rate Estimation of Identical Synchronization by Designing Controllers by Mitul Islam, Bipul Islam, Nurul Islam

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Analysis of Radio Science Data from the KaT Instrument of the 3GM Experiment During JUICE’s Early Cruise Phase by Paolo Cappuccio, Andrea Sesta, Mauro Di Benedetto, Daniele Durante, Umberto De Filippis, Ivan di Stefano, Luciano Iess, Ruaraidh Mackenzie, Bernard Godard

“…The JUpiter Icy Moon Explorer (JUICE) mission, launched on 14 April 2023, aims to explore Jupiter and its Galilean moons, with arrival in the Jovian system planned for mid-2031. …”
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Characterizing Tidal Marsh Inundation with Synthetic Aperture Radar, Radiometric Modeling, and In Situ Water Level Observations by Brian T. Lamb, Kyle C. McDonald, Maria A. Tzortziou, Derek S. Tesser

“…These findings have relevance to the upcoming NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) mission, as threshold-based classifications of wetland inundation dynamics will be employed to verify that NISAR datasets satisfy associated mission science requirements to map wetland inundation with classification accuracies better than 80% at 1 hectare spatial scales.…”
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Mobilization of plant genetic resources from the territory of India by N. P. Loskutova, T. M. Ozerskaya

“…Balabanov took part in a specialized collecting mission launched to study and collect wild forms of rice and to assimilate methods of breeding high-yielding, immune and highquality cultivars. …”
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MOBILIZATION OF PLANT GENETIC RESOURCES FROM THE TERRITORIES OF INDONESIA, SRI LANKA (CEYLON) AND NEPAL by N. P. Loskutova, T. M. Ozerskaya

“…Lyakhovkin took part in a specialized collecting mission launched to study and collect wild forms and cultivars of rice and various other crops from Nepal. …”
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Les effets paradoxaux du transfert des forces de sécurité en Tunisie (juin 1955-mars 1956) by Khansa Ben Tarjem

“…At the same time, it is attempting to appropriate indefinitely the prerogatives of intelligence, territorial surveillance and control of border areas by redefining internal policing missions as defence missions, contrary to practice in mainland France.The terms of the internal autonomy agreements of June 1955 divided the Tunisian national movement, triggering a fratricidal war between the supporters of the Neo-Destour political bureau led by Habib Bourguiba and those of the party's secretary general, Salah Ben Youssef. …”
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Porfiry Afanasyevich Dibrova: at the origins of scientific pomiculture in the Urals by T. N. Slepneva, A. V. Shlyavas

“…In the 1940s, he was the leader of collecting missions exploring the local assortment of fruit and berry crops in 50 districts of Sverdlovsk and Molotov (Perm) Provinces, and the Udmurt Republic. …”
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2021 Guidelines for Operation and Usage of County Kitchens in the State of Florida by Amarat Simonne, Tim Wilson, Geralyn Sachs, Chris Hilliard, Steven von Bodungen, Liz Felter

“… Many county Extension office buildings have small kitchens or areas for food preparation to accommodate employees, group educational events, and other mission-related activities. In recent years, many people have become interested in developing small food businesses. …”
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Bible translation in Africa. What implications does the new UBS perspective have for Africa? An overview in the light of the emerging new UBS translation initiative by A. O. Mojola

“…Special focus is given to the shifts that have occurred with respect to its vision and mission and its ever widening outreach in pursuit of the Christian great commission. …”
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Les calebasses nka’a kügha : du contexte d’origine à la mise en exposition en Europe by Ninon Arbez-Gindre

“…This article examines a set of four Nka’a kügha calabashes from the Bamum Kingdom (Cameroon), collected by the Société des Missions évangéliques de Paris (SMEP) in the 1920s and 1930s and now in the British Museum, and the museums of ethnography in Neuchâtel and Geneva. …”
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Les agences d’architecture françaises à l’ère du BIM : contradictions, pratiques, réactions et perspectives by Elodie Hochscheid, Gilles Halin

“…It is sometimes associated with the death of the "artisanal operation" of architecture firms, or the decline of the architect's missions in architectural projects. BIM, however, is also seen as an opportunity to consolidate the architect's role within project management teams. …”
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Le bilan sociétal : un outil de management pour renforcer l’ancrage territorial et la responsabilité sociale des coopératives agricoles by Yves Cariou, Sandrine Fournie, Fredéric Wallet

“…However, the diversity of co-operative’s strategies underlines weaknesses of this statute to fulfil this mission, and the need for associating new tools to deepen the co-operative principles and take into account environmental concerns. …”
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