Community-based tourism in the context of the neoliberal paradigm: counter-hegemonic initiatives and land disputes in northeastern Brazil by Ilana Barreto Kiyotani, Wagner Fernandes Costa, Maria Aparecida Pontes da Fonseca

“…This study aims to analyze the motivating factors and action strategies behind the development of CBT in Chã de Jardim, Doces Tambaba, and Porto do Capim in Paraiba State (northeastern Brazil). …”
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Research on Overconfidence in Decision-Making for the Capacity Recovery of Damaged Power Systems by Xing Bao

“…The research also finds that the manager’s overprecision behavior both negatively and positively influences the decision of capacity recovery, and a calibration method could motivate manager to recover more capacity by tuning up the ratio of punishment and subsidy. …”
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Persistent Topological Laplacians—A Survey by Xiaoqi Wei, Guo-Wei Wei

“…Persistent topological Laplacians constitute a new class of tools in topological data analysis (TDA). They are motivated by the necessity to address challenges encountered in persistent homology when handling complex data. …”
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Receptiveness to Flexible Employment at Hungarian SMEs by Ákos Essősy, Tamás Vinkóczi

“…Nowadays, only companies that are adaptable and flexible in their structure and processes can survive. The basis for a motivated company aiming for peak performance is organisational innovation. …”
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The Cultural Economy Moment? by Flew Terry

“…The paper concludes by identifying areas such as the value of information, the value of networks, motivations for participation in online social networks, and the impact of business cycles on cultural sectors as areas of potentially fruitful inter-disciplinary engagement around the nature of cultural economy.…”
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Discourse-level structuring of information in narrative:Signalling structural, interactional and cognitive shifts by Tuija Virtanen

“…Discourse-level structuring of information is explored in narrative in the light of three parameters subsumed under this umbrella notion: (i) the structural concepts of “theme-rheme”, connected to “position”; (ii) the interaction-oriented pair of concepts “topic-comment”, grounded in the notion of “aboutness”; and (iii) the cognitively motivated gradient from “given” to “new” information, related to interlocutors’ assumptions of their memory constraints as well as those of others. …”
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SEMANTIC ANALYSIS OF FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE EXPRESSIONS IN “FEATURE” OF THE JAKARTA POST by Tri Rohani, Safnil Arsyad

“…Therefore, it is then recommended that teachers can bring this type of authentic material to school so the students are motivated and encourged to learn more things in English especially about figurative language and types of meanings…”
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Commensalism of Fusobacterium nucleatum - The dilemma by Sangeeta Nayak, Nishmitha D. Shetty, Deepa G. Kamath

“…The present review discusses the virulence mechanisms involved in the diseases, with emphasis on its colonization, systemic dissemination, and induction of host inflammatory and tumorigenic responses. This would motivate future research on the role of this bacterium on periodontal pathology as well as its influence on the evolution of systemic diseases.…”
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Adoption of Biogas Technology to Ordinary Pit Latrines in Uganda. by Kibet Benson

“…The final layout ofbiogas pit latrine was developed. This study was motivated due to inefficient exploitation ofbiogas from ordinary pit latrines. …”
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Adoption of Biogas Technology to Ordinary Pit Latrines in Uganda. by Kibet, Benson

“…The final layout of biogas pit latrine was developed. This study was motivated due to inefficient exploitation of biogas from ordinary pit latrines. …”
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High-order discontinuous Galerkin methods for the monodomain and bidomain models by Federica Botta, Matteo Calafà, Pasquale C. Africa, Christian Vergara, Paola F. Antonietti

“…The use of DG methods is motivated by the characteristic of the mathematical solution of such equations which often corresponds to a highly steep wavefront. …”
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Do Anabolic Androgenic Steroids Really Cause Harm? A Comprehensive Examination of Adverse Effects by Paweł Siudziński, Mateusz Łyko, Alicja Skoczylas, Jakub Kurasz, Wojciech Maj, Wiktoria Tomaszewska, Wiktoria Podlasiewicz, Katarzyna Pala, Piotr Dudziak, Anna Nowak, Maria Golińska

“…However, the unsupervised and excessive use of anabolic steroids, often motivated by the pursuit of rapid aesthetic or performance enhancement, is associated with a myriad of adverse health outcomes. …”
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A toxin-mediated size-structured population model: Finite difference approximation and well-posedness by Qihua Huang, Hao Wang

“…Mathematical models have been applied increasingly to predict the effects of toxins on a variety of ecological processes. Motivated by the fact that individuals with different sizes may have different sensitivities to toxins, we develop a toxin-mediated size-structured model which is given by a system of first order fully nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs). …”
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. CONDITIONS AND DETERMINANTS OF THE ACADEMIC STAFF PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE MODERN SCHOOL by S. L. Fomenko

“…The author denotes the main motives for academic staff development: moral and financial incentives for professional growth, new educational tasks, unsatisfactory social status of educational institution, etc; and identifies the complex of objective and subjective conditions positively affecting the given process. …”
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Psoriasiform syphilis associated with human immunodeficiency virus/AIDS. A case presentation by Julio Cesar Camero Machin, Roxana Rivera Rivadulla, Grecia María Giniebra Marín

“…The increase in the incidence of this entity associated with the human immunodeficiency virus/AIDS, the atypical manifestations in seropositive patients and its impact on the life quality of these patients motivated the presentation of this clinical case.</p>…”
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Finite-Difference Time Domain Techniques Applied to Electromagnetic Wave Interactions with Inhomogeneous Plasma Structures by Julio L. Nicolini, José Ricardo Bergmann

“…Motivated by the emerging field of plasma antennas, electromagnetic wave propagation in and scattering by inhomogeneous plasma structures are studied through finite-difference time domain (FDTD) techniques. …”
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EMPLOYMENT OF HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTION AND VOCATIONAL COLLEGE GRADUATES WITH DISABILITIES IN MOSCOW: COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS by Elena V. Arzhanyh, Olga A. Gurkina

“…University graduates are more often guided by the motives and factors associated with non-material aspects of work. …”
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Penerapan higher order thinking skills (HOTS) pada pembelajaran pendidikan kewarga negaraan (PKN) di madrasah ibtidaiyah by Fani Zahriana Dwizar, Abdul Gani Jamora Nasution

“…Also, in the implementation of motivational learning and explanation of the learning scheme in more detail.…”
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Sign Inference for Dynamic Signed Networks via Dictionary Learning by Yi Cen, Rentao Gu, Yuefeng Ji

“…Applying certain global characteristics of social balance, in this paper, we aim to infer the unknown relationships in dynamic signed mOSNs and formulate this sign inference problem as a low-rank matrix estimation problem. Specifically, motivated by the Singular Value Thresholding (SVT) algorithm, a compact dictionary is selected from the observed dataset. …”
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Pellagroid Dermatitis in an Alcoholic and Hypothyroid Patient. A Case Report by Graciela Cabrera Acea, Cynthia Gómez Cabrera, Claudia Soler Morfa

“…It is very rare in our country, a fact that motivated us to present this case. The patient was a 49-year-old white man diagnosed with pellagroid dermatitis. …”
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