EFFECTIVE CONTRACT SYSTEM FOR UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND TEACHING STAFF by Petr S. Chubik, Andrey M. Lider, Sergey V. Zamyatin, Maksim P. Chubik, Liliya G. Kiryanova, Inga V. Slesarenko

“…The system of effective contract is aimed at facilitating staff motivation to enhance performance efficiency and meeting key performance indicators of the Programme for Promoting the Competitiveness of the university by transforming the goals and tasks of the Programme into the goals and tasks of each research and teaching staff member.…”
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Monetary Incentives in Italian Public Administration: A Stimulus for Employees? An Agent-Based Approach by Linda Ponta, Gian Carlo Cainarca, Silvano Cincotti

“…The employees’ performance has been modeled as a function of ability and motivation. The results of the computational experiments show a positive impact of the monetary incentives, distributed according to merit criteria, on the employees’ performance in the short, middle, and long term.…”
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Will There Be Future Deceleration? A Study of Particle Creation Mechanism in Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics by Supriya Pan, Subenoy Chakraborty

“…The paper deals with nonequilibrium thermodynamics based on adiabatic particle creation mechanism with the motivation of considering it as an alternative choice to explain the recent observed accelerating phase of the universe. …”
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Linguistic and communication application aspects of new practical training technologies by V. Yu. Pokazanyev, S. V. Firsova

“…The method also helps to increase motivation in learning. Project-based learning is provided in all educational programs. …”
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Radio listening clubs in Malawi and Zambia by Fackson Banda

“…This is evident in the following areas: (i) a propensity for social mobilisation; (ii) acquisition of skills and knowledge; (iii) communally induced motivation to listen to the radio; (iv) the possibility of interpersonal influence within groups; (v) the benefit of being ‘organised’ structures; (vi) the ‘massive’ reach of the clubs; and (vii) the dialogic interchanges between the rural-based groups and the urban-based policymaking elites. …”
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Zastosowanie projektu edukacyjnego w pracy z dziećmi w wieku wczesnoszkolnym w refleksjach i działaniach przyszłych nauczycieli by Agnieszka Kaczor

“…Personal involvement of children in project activities translates into positive motivation to work and obtained results in the form of knowledge and skills. …”
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Adoption of Technology for Reading Purposes: A Study of E-Books Acceptance by Mateus Martins, Josivania Silva Farias, Pedro Henrique Melo Albuquerque, Danilo Santana Pereira

“…This study aims to verify the acceptance of e-books by identifying the effects of the variables Performance Expectancy, Effort Expectancy, Social Influence, Facilitating Conditions, Habit, Price Value, and Hedonic Motivation, moderated by Age, Gender and Experience on the intention of use and actual use of this technology. …”
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IMPLEMENTATION MODEL OF MULTILEVEL FOREIGN LANGUAGE TRAINING by Larisa E. Babushkina, Svetlana I. Piskunova

“…The main objective of the proposed model is to create pedagogical conditions for the improvement of student's personality, which is consciously and with motivation capable to acquire linguistic, communicative and sociocultural competences for realization of foreign language, cultural and professional communication. …”
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SOURCES OF ERRORS IN THE EVALUATION OF PERFORMANCE OF EMPLOYEES IN THE SECTOR OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REFORM IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA by Adisa Delić, Mirela Ćebić

“…The purpose of implementing this process lies in identifying potential employees, providing information that can serve as a basis for human resource planning, forming a basis for assessing the effectiveness of the process of professional selection, establishing training needs and planning employees' training, reinforcing the motivation of employees at work, etc. However, due to inadequate structure of the system of performance evaluation, there appears to be a list of various errors that limit their objectivity. …”
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Teachers' Personal Page in a Social Network as a Tool for Teacher-Student Interaction by A. G. Kukushkina

“…The author describes and analyzes the experience of interacting with students on the social network platform, which confirms the positive impact of the communication with the teacher through a social network on students' attitude to the subject and educational motivation. The restrictions of the use of teachers' personal pages in the process of education are connected with increased requirements to the content and design of a personal page. …”
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Capital, Agency and Distinction in Dynamics of Conversion of Economic Functions of Cities: Lessons from Lafayette (US) by Anderson de Souza Sant\u2019Anna, Reed Elliot Nelson, Daniela Martins Diniz

“…From this context comes the motivation for this paper, which proposes to analyze findings of an empirical survey of data conducted in the North American city of Lafayette, with the objective of investigating a process of reconversion of its economic functions in the ongoing transition to the digital economy, with significant implications on the composition of the labor market, particularly in the commercial and services sectors. …”
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Patient and Therapist Experiences of the SaeboFlex: A Pilot Study by Larissa Andriske, Debbie Verikios, Danielle Hitch

“…Intervention regimens were broadly similar between therapists, and both patients and therapists stated that the SaeboFlex increased motivation for therapy. Conclusion. This study has added to our tentative understanding of the SaeboFlex, but more rigorous research is required to build a robust evidence base.…”
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Mentoring adoption across the information systems project management process: Perceptions of IS project managers by Felix B Tan, Paul TM Leong

“…The drive for project success was a key motivation. Adoption was more expedient and forthcoming in an informal relationship situation. …”
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TAX GOVERNANCE: A STUDY OF ITS EFFECTS ON TAX EVASION by Hugo Leonardo Menezes de Carvalho, Lucimar Antônio Cabral de Ávila

“…This study aimed to verify the relationship between tax governance and tax evasion. The motivation to analyze this interaction lies in the need to understand and prove that tax governance practices have an effect on the level of tax evasion. …”
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Research Supervisor: Between the Challenges of Time and the Realities of Higher Education by V. V. Zyryanov

“…Among the opportunities and limitations, the article highlights such factors as qualification of scientific leaders, their motivation, the style of research guidance. Based on the analysis, problems and contradictions in the process of implementing research guidance were identified. …”
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LearningSpace: problems and experiences by Regina Kulvietienė, Irma Šileikienė

“…In Virtual University, much emphasis has been given to the pedagogical concepts of student centered learning and student motivation, resulting in the design and delivery of high quality cour­ses in higher education as well as more generally in resource based education. …”
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Constraining Metaphor and Metonymy in Language and Depiction: A Cognitive Semiotics Approach by Zlatev Jordan

“…There is therefore an urgent need to constrain the concepts of metaphor and metonymy to more reasonable proportions, and in this article I propose such a more constrained approach, using the Motivation & Sedimentation Model (MSM) of meaning-making. …”
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Managerial and natural disposability in two-stage network structure: a DEA-based approach by Mahnaz Maghbouli, Azam Pourhabib Yekta

“…In many real cases, the intermediate measures consist of both desirable and undesirable factors. The motivation of this paper is employing “Natural and managerial disposability” in two-stage network structures with undesirable intermediate measure. …”
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A Study on the 3D Hopfield Neural Network Model via Nonlocal Atangana–Baleanu Operators by Shahram Rezapour, Pushpendra Kumar, Vedat Suat Erturk, Sina Etemad

“…Nonlocal characteristic of the AB derivative contains the memory in the system which is the main motivation behind the proposal of this research.…”
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Facts and their interpretation in paleoanthropological enquiries by Jacek Tomczyk

“…Thus, the main aim of science – to make our comprehension agree with the subject (the state of affairs) under scrutiny – can be suppressed by subjective motivation. It is therefore recommendable to present various reasons behind such a peculiar “emendation” of truth in prehistoric research.…”
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