Are companies less environmentally-friendly due to the crisis? Evidence from Europe by María del Mar Miras-Rodríguez, Bernabé Escobar-Pérez, Amalia Carrasco Gallego

“…The results show surprisingly that proactive, environmentallyfriendly actions have not decreased during the crisis but rather that the crisis has meant an increase in environmental commitment. This is strongly motivated by the Product Innovation actions which attain the highest increase.…”
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Parental Influences on Children's Self-Regulation of Energy Intake: Insights from Developmental Literature on Emotion Regulation by Leslie A. Frankel, Sheryl O. Hughes, Teresia M. O'Connor, Thomas G. Power, Jennifer O. Fisher, Nancy L. Hazen

“…The parental paths include modeling, responses to children's behavior, assistance in helping children self-regulate, and motivating children through rewards and punishments. …”
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Opinion Leadership and the Perceived Economics of Local Food by Layne S. Marshall, Melissa R. Taylor, Alexa J. Lamm

“…These articles look at the role opinion leaders, or individuals who have a large amount of influence within their respective social circles, can have on motivating their peers to join in purchasing local food. …”
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Le monument naturel dans le mythe de l’Ouest chez Washington Irving, Mark Twain et Walt Whitman by Delphine Louis-Dimitrov

“…The purpose of this reflexion is to analyse jointly the aesthetic and political implications of its transposition onto the American soil. Indeed, this motive on which the construction of the Western landscape is based also appears as the embodiment of American democracy while defining a writing principle.…”
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Vibration Performance Redistribution in Heterogeneous Networks by Genling Huang, Jiqiang Wang

“…Recent technological development requires performance distribution, and this motivates the resolution to the issue of performance distributability. …”
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Self-Organized Fission Control for Flocking System by Mingyong Liu, Panpan Yang, Xiaokang Lei, Yang Li

“…This paper studies the self-organized fission control problem for flocking system. Motivated by the fission behavior of biological flocks, information coupling degree (ICD) is firstly designed to represent the interaction intensity between individuals. …”
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Ausgeschlossene einführen in die Liebe des Vaters. Ein Anliegen des Apostels Paulus im Römerbrief by Filip De Rycke

“…In der Dynamik der Einführung der bisher ausgeschlossenen Heiden in die Liebe Gottes in Christus haben die Motive der Herrlichkeit und des Verherrlichen eine zentrale Bedeutung. …”
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Risky is the New Safe by Louie Giray

“…Randy Gage is an American author, businessman, and motivational speaker, who is known for his inspiring rags-to-riches life story. …”
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Opinion Leadership and the Perceived Economics of Local Food by Layne S. Marshall, Melissa R. Taylor, Alexa J. Lamm

“…These articles look at the role opinion leaders, or individuals who have a large amount of influence within their respective social circles, can have on motivating their peers to join in purchasing local food. …”
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Ensinar e Aprender na Évora Medieval by André Filipe Oliveira da Silva

“…Preserved by their ecclesiastical sanctuaries, the erudite culture, the writing and reading and school education expand during the Late Middle Ages, with an augmenting supply adapted to its recipients and their motivations. The social mobility that a good education could bring, the needs of an increasingly demanding ecclesiastical hierarchy, the specialization within the central and local administrations, the specificities of the religious minorities, as well as the prestige associated with high culture, are some of the factors responsible for the creation of these new schools. …”
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MODELS FOR STRENGTHENING THE RELIGION AND TRADITION OF THE KOMPOLAN JAILANIAN: AN ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDY by Ruslan, Maftuhah Imam

“…This research is motivated by the negative impact of the globalization era. …”
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Prostorsko načrtovanje na ustavnem sodišču by Marko Starman

“…V prispevku sem želel obrazložiti motive sodišča, predvsem pa ugotovitve, ki osvetljujejo proces prostorskega načrtovanja. …”
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Des « brocarts appliqués » dans la sculpture savoyarde by Lelong Florence, Pouyet Emeline, Champdavoine Sophie, Guiblain Thomas, Martinetto Pauline, Walter Philippe, Rousselière Hélène, Cotte Marine

“…The identification of « applied brocades » in painted sculptures from the Savoy Duchy, dated from 1480 to 1530, has motivated the development of an analytical process to allow a systematic characterization of those decorations. …”
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Principal eigenvalue for an elliptic problem with indefinite weight on cylindrical domains by Chiu-Yen Kao, Yuan Lou, Eiji Yanagida

“…Biologically, this minimization problem is motivated by the questionof determining the optimal spatial arrangement of favorable and unfavorableregions for a species to survive. …”
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Why is “not infrequent” not always “frequent”? Double negation in political discourse by Osmankadić Merima

“…Thus, depending on different discoursal factors, double negation can be used for different motives, e.g. the speaker is not sure whether a certain proposition is true or is sure that it is not true, to name just one. …”
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Quantum–Fractal–Fractional Operator in a Complex Domain by Adel A. Attiya, Rabha W. Ibrahim, Ali H. Hakami, Nak Eun Cho, Mansour F. Yassen

“…Using this newly created operator, we create an entirely novel subclass of analytical functions in the unit disk. Motivated by the concept of differential subordination, we explore the most important geometric properties of this novel operator. …”
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Fixed Point Theorems on Ordered Metric Spaces through a Rational Contraction by Poom Kumam, Fayyaz Rouzkard, Mohammad Imdad, Dhananjay Gopal

“…Ran and Reurings (2004) established an interesting analogue of Banach Contraction Principle in a complete metric space equipped with a partial ordering and also utilized the same oneto discuss the existence of solutions to matrix equations. Motivated by this paper, we prove results on coincidence points for a pair of weakly increasing mappings satisfying a nonlinear contraction condition described by a rational expression on an ordered complete metric space. …”
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Jæʕne dans le discours des Libanais : pragmaticalisation, distribution et emplois d’un marqueur discursif déverbal by Layal Kanaan

“…The present study is motivated by the high frequency of jæʕne in the corpus and in the discourse of Lebanese speakers in general and by its link to the phenomenon of formulation/reformulation.The paper presents the evolution of the original verbal form into a conversational particle and proposes a distributional and functional study of its occurrences in the corpus.…”
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Gone With the Covid – Scarlet in Quarantine: An Interview with Sarah Combs by Sarah Combs, Emmeline Gros

“…In this interview, Sarah Combs explains her motivations and the challenges she had to face in the process.…”
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Leading Difficult Conversations Series #3: Creating a Safe Conversation Environment by Christy Chiarelli

“…Earlier in this publication series, the foundational principles of preparing for difficult conversations were established: (1) defining the issue and (2) determining your motive for the conversation. Once those principles are put into practice, the next phase of having a difficult conversation is creating a safe environment for the conversation. …”
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