Virtualios laimės beieškant: naudojimasis socialiniais tinklais siekiant pozityvių emocijų iš dalies kompensuoja neigiamą vienišumo ir nerimastingumo efektą gerovei by Justina Kymantienė, Arūnas Žiedelis, Laima Bulotaitė

“…Every year, users spend more and more time on social networks, and the motives and results of such activities for well-being are mixed. …”
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Angebot & Nachfrage. Was die Musiktheorie für die Schulpraxis tun kann by Hans Jünger

“…Der Beitrag versucht mit Hilfe des Instrumentariums der Tätigkeitstheorie (Leontjew) die Beziehungen zwischen den Wissenschaften Musiktheorie und Musikpädagogik und dem Schulfach Musik zu klären und die Motive der verschiedenen Akteure zu ergründen. Dabei zeigt sich, dass ein institutionalisierter Regelkreis zwischen Musiktheorie und Schulpraxis fehlt und deshalb das Angebot der Musiktheorie den Bedarfen der Schulpraxis nur teilweise gerecht wird. …”
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To share or not to share? Image data sharing in the social sciences and humanities by Elina Late, Mette Skov, Sanna Kumpulainen

“…Content analysis is conducted to gather information about scholars’ image data sharing and motivating and impeding factors related to it. Results. …”
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Teenage Motherhood and its Effect on the Social Welfare of The Victims: A Case Study of Kabale Municipality. by Kwesiga, Siifa

“…Findings show teenage mothers were motivated by social support networks; social support was a motivating factor to carry on with the pregnancy and child raising. …”
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Monetary Incentives and Labour Performance; A Case Study of Coffee Factories in Rukungiri District. by Edward, Muhwezi Bendera

“…Coffee Factories also needed to retain top-performing employees, motivate the desired performance, and control costs.…”
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Common fixed points for family of mappings by D. E. Anderson, K. L. Singh, J. H. M. Whitfield

“…Our results, which are primarly motivated by investigation of Husain and Sehgal (Bull. …”
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Improved SED-fitting Assumptions Result in Inside-out Quenching at z ~ 0.5 and Quenching at All Radii Simultaneously at z ~ 1 by Alexander de la Vega, Susan A. Kassin, Camilla Pacifici, Stéphane Charlot, Emma Curtis-Lake, Jacopo Chevallard, Timothy M. Heckman, Anton M. Koekemoer, Weichen Wang

“…Here, we examine the effects of more physically motivated priors: a flexible dust law, an exponential prior on the dust attenuation A _V , and Gaussian priors that favor extended star formation histories. …”
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Behavior Selection of Stakeholders toward Megaproject Social Responsibility: Perspective from Social Action Theory by Linlin Xie, Ting Han, Haitao Chu, Bo Xia

“…The importance of social responsibility strategy for the sustainable development of megaprojects has been widely concerned, while types and motivations of social responsibility behavior have also been analyzed and examined in the corporate management literature. …”
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Literatura e cinema: interseções by Vera Lúcia Follain de Figueiredo

“…Literature and cinema: intersections Vera Lúcia Follain de Figueiredo This article will focus on intersections and convergences motivated by market mediation in the field of cultural assets and technological advances that indicate a change of the position of literature in the cultural hierarchy. …”
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School and students contest movement for talent reveal by S. . Shamets, M. . Knyazeva

“…The all-Russian, regional and university contests should be viewed as an effective instrument to enroll motivated entrants. These competitions also enable to organize the interaction between the university staff, school teaching personnel, and industrial enterprises and business organizations.…”
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Sensitivity of dynamical systems to parameters in a convex subset of a topological vector space by H.T. Banks, S. Dediu, H.K. Nguyen

“…We develop a theory for sensitivity with respect to parameters ina convex subset of a topological vector space of dynamical systemsin a Banach space. Specific motivating examples for probabilitymeasure dependent differential, partial differential and delaydifferential equations are given. …”
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Subgeometric Ergodicity under Random-Time State-Dependent Drift Conditions by Mokaedi V. Lekgari

“…Motivated by possible applications of Lyapunov techniques in the stability of stochastic networks, subgeometric ergodicity of Markov chains is investigated. …”
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Creating positive parental influence in 4-H competitions: A guide for 4-H Volunteers by Deborah L. Nistler, Kate Fogarty

“…Nistler and Kate Fogarty, introduces a “4-As” framework for understanding parent motivations for participation in competitive youth programs, and suggests approaches for volunteers to use to encourage parent engagement. …”
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Creating positive parental influence in 4-H competitions: A guide for 4-H Volunteers by Deborah L. Nistler, Kate Fogarty

“…Nistler and Kate Fogarty, introduces a “4-As” framework for understanding parent motivations for participation in competitive youth programs, and suggests approaches for volunteers to use to encourage parent engagement. …”
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Oscillation for Third-Order Nonlinear Differential Equations with Deviating Argument by Miroslav Bartušek, Mariella Cecchi, Zuzana Došlá, Mauro Marini

“…We study necessary and sufficient conditions for the oscillation of the third-order nonlinear ordinary differential equation with damping term and deviating argument x‴(t)+q(t)x′(t)+r(t)f(x(φ(t)))=0. Motivated by the work of Kiguradze (1992), the existence and asymptotic properties of nonoscillatory solutions are investigated in case when the differential operator ℒx=x‴+q(t)x′ is oscillatory.…”
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INTELLECTUAL MIGRATION: RUSSIAN AND WORLD TRENDS by Viktoria Yu. Ledeneva

“…There is also considered a complex combination of reasons and motives of migration, as well as the demand for scientists and specialists in international markets of intellectual labor. …”
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Determining the Concept of the Principles of Legal Regulation of Encouragement of the Employees of the National Police of Ukraine by N. V. Sorochan

“…It has been found out that encouragement as a mean of legal influence is stimulation of certain behavior of a person under the impact of a certain motive or motives. Legal regulation has been considered as a specific system of normative influence on socially significant, conscious-willed, repeated and stable social relations with the purpose of ordering them. …”
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The Effects of Self-Efficacy and Physical Activity Improving Methods on the Quality of Life in Patients with Diabetes: A Systematic Review by Sajjad Hamidi, Zahra Gholamnezhad, Narges Kasraie, Amirhossein Sahebkar

“…A combination of traditional and virtual long-lasting self-care promoting (motivating) programs is needed to improve patients’ self-efficacy for healthy habits like active lifestyle.…”
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Creative activities as intervention – Exploring occupational therapists’ narrative reasoning by Bodil Winther Hansen, Helle Andrea Pedersen, Lene Lauge Berring, Staffan Josephsson

“…Yet few studies have explored occupational therapists’ reasoning about using CaI to trace tacit knowledge.Aims/Objectives The aim of this study was to explore occupational therapists’ reasoning on rationale and motives in co-creating a model (the CreActivity model) for CaI as a resource in mental health rehabilitation.Material and methods Co-operative inquiry and narrative theory provided the methodology for exploring eight occupational therapists’ narrative reasoning in the process of co-creating a model. …”
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The Interaction of Topicalization and Left-Dislocation in English by Betty J. Birner, Gregory Ward

“…We argue that there are two motivations, corresponding to two types of LD+TOP: One is to facilitate processing; the other is to effect contrast. …”
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