Collaboration of the mathematicians of the Baltic and Nordic agricultural universities by Janina Kaminskienė, Danutė Raškinienė

“… In this paper we present the motives and the ways of cooperation between the Baltic and Nordic agri­cultural universities. …”
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Characteristics of Slovenian Adults in Community-Based Whole-Food Plant-Based Lifestyle Program by Boštjan Jakše, Barbara Jakše, Stanislav Pinter, Jernej Pajek, Nataša Fidler Mis

“…Lifestyle status was obtained by standardized electronic questionnaires. For evaluating the motives for following strict PBD, the participants were asked to rank 8 different motives (i.e., 8: the most-, 1: the least important). …”
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Student Perspectives on International Collaborative Courses Leading to Micro-Credentials: DigiProf Case by Estela Daukšienė, Giedrė Tamoliūnė, Airina Volungevičienė, Elena Trepulė

“…The Digiprof case aims to identify the features of international collaborative courses that motivate students to participate in virtual mobility courses. …”
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Characteristics of Offender’s Personality who Committs False Suggestion of the Court or Other Authorized Agency by K. S. Kotlubaeva

“…The author has noted the existence of correlated relations between the person who commits the false suggestion of the court or other authorized agency with the motives for committing the crime. It has been established that researched crimes are most often committed for the following motives: 1) pity or desire to cover up the offender with whom the person has friendly or family relationship; 2) revenge, negative relationships, the desire to aggravate the situation of the offender; 3) benefits; 4) shame.…”
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The Dividing Sword: Basil Bunting’s The Spoils by Jeffrey Twitchell-Waas

“…Finally, the implications of this examination are brought to bear on Briggflatts itself to indicate how it is motivated by a systematic negation of the contemporary society that Bunting rejects.…”
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Die belang van die interne publiek in openbare betrekkinge by Steenkamp Vorster

“…The potential influence of employees, investors or other important groups as well as management itself on the public relations programme and the organisation itself is described and it is concluded that organisations with informed and motivating managements, devoted, motivated and loyal employees and supportive investors, will probably achieve greater overall success as those without these attributes. …”
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Wanting and liking of Facebook functions and their correlation to problematic use by Dorottya Lakatos, Balázs Kovács, István Czigler, Zsolt Demetrovics, Domonkos File

“…A possible frame of reference to investigate this question is the Incentive Sensitizations Theory (IST), as it provides a solid empirical background to understand the motivational and hedonic aspects of problematic behaviors. …”
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Gender equity as a key element for agroecological transitions: Neo‐rural women as managers of agroecological initiatives by Beatriz Vizuete, Marina García‐Llorente, Irene Pérez‐Ramírez, Elisa Oteros‐Rozas

“…Motivations and barriers varied according to origin; neo‐rural women faced the most difficulties, although all interviewees reported gender‐specific barriers. …”
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World First Aid Day, a teaching opportunity

“…Provides background on World First Aid Day, touching on some of the groups involved, and covering the activities and motivations of the September 12th, 2020 events.…”
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Online Courses: To Accept Impossible to Ignore by S. V. Lobova, E. V. Ponkina

“…The conducted sociological research made it possible to assess the involvement of Russian university lecturers in the processes of digitalization of education, to determine the motives for their activities in creating and integrating online courses into the educational process, and to form an understanding of the acceptance of online learning by the Russian teaching community. …”
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DULKADIRAN, MEDIA MASYARAKAT SAMPURNAN UNTUK MEMPEROLEH KESELAMATAN, PAHALA, SYAFAAT, DAN SURGA by Nilna Fadlillah

“…Through these concepts, people were then motivated to perform Dulkadiran tradition. The practice of this tradition was able to create moods of a person, which then reflected into the daily life, and felt as if to justify the existing concepts, so the motivations and moods seem uniquely realistic.…”
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“Eu quero ser professor de Sociologia”: as influências da Sociologia no ensino médio em Cuiabá (MT)1 by Silvana Maria Bitencourt, Francisco Xavier Freire Rodrigues

“…This paper aims to investigate the motivations that have led students to the teacher training course on Social Sciences at UFMT. …”
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Mably on Esteem, Republicanism, and the Question of Human Corruption by Andreas Blank

“…Gabriel Bonnot de Mably (1709–1785) takes up the republican commonplace that the desire for esteem is what could motivate the fulfilment of duties of civic virtue. …”
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Modern Challenges for Oil and Gas Education by V. G. Martynov, V. N. Koshelev, A. V. Dushin

“…The authors share their experience on how to restructure the work of teachers with students in the context of distance communication, organize the work of an educational portal, conduct training sessions, internships, state final certification, create motivational remuneration for the teaching staff. The article concludes that the challenges of the pandemic to higher education made it possible to find algorithms for interaction between students and teachers in the online environment, showed the need to improve the methodological qualifications of teachers, motivational and psychological support for participants in the educational process, accelerate the development of digital resources.…”
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Attractions and Repulsions: How Competitive is the Hungarian Civil Service Today? by Csilla Paksi-Petró

“… Purpose: The aging of civil servants poses the greatest risk for public institutions in Europe, making it increasingly difficult for employers to offer a suitably motivating atmosphere and attractive working conditions for different generations. …”
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On Approximately p-Wright Affine Functions in Ultrametric Spaces by Anna Bahyrycz, Janusz Brzdęk, Magdalena Piszczek

“…We prove some results for mappings taking values in ultrametric spaces and satisfying approximately a generalization of the equation of p-Wright affine functions. They are motivated by the notion of stability for functional equations.…”
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GABAergic neurons in the ventral tegmental area represent and regulate force vectors by Qiaochu Jiang, Konstantin I. Bakhurin, Ryan N. Hughes, Bryan Lu, Shaolin Ruan, Henry H. Yin

“…Summary: The ventral tegmental area (VTA), a midbrain region associated with motivated behaviors, contains mostly dopaminergic (DA) neurons and GABAergic (GABA) neurons. …”
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Liminality and the possibilities for sex and romance at an international bike meeting: a structural modeling approach by Milene Lança, João Filipe Marques, Patrícia Pinto

“…The results suggest that bikers are motivated by the expectations of having sex and getting involved in a romance. …”
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Social Participation: A Good Life After Retirement in Russia by Liliya Martynova, Jiby Mathew Puthenparambil

“…To achieve a sense of well-being in older age, these activities must satisfy internal motivations to participate and should cover essential needs of relatedness, competence, and autonomy. …”
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On the Reorganization of Incentive Structure to Promote Delay Tolerance: A Therapeutic Possibility for AD/HD? by Edmund J. S. Sonuga-Barke

“…Second, is the idea that AD/HD is a neuropsychologically heterogeneous disorder resulting from motivational alterations, specifically an increased intolerance for delay, as well as executive deficits. …”
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