The "turn" to spirituality by C. Kourie

“…There are diverse spiritualities, each one culture-specific, expressing its own historical, sociological, theological, linguistic and philosophical orientation. Post-patriarchal and telluric, contemporary spirituality affects all areas of society, including the business world, education, health care, the arts, ecology, politics, religion and particularly the academy, where new programmes in spirituality are attracting a large number of students. …”
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How Taxes and Budget Deficits Determine Domestic Product by Fritz Helmedag

“…Guidelines for a welfare-oriented debt management complete the recommendations for a functional fiscal policy.…”
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Kidney-tonifying, spleen-invigorating, and liver-regulating traditional Chinese medicine formula combined with acupuncture and moxibustion therapy for systemic lupus erythematosus... by Danfeng Ma, Dong-Seon Kim, Hai Xu, Xin Xu

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The Savvy Survey #12: Telephone Surveys by Glenn D. Israel, Jessica L. Gouldthorpe

“…Careful attention is needed when developing the questionnaire and supporting materials and when orienting interviewers in order to obtain credible survey data. …”
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School of Roman Languages by N. V. Ivanov

“…The main task of the department is a professionally-oriented teaching of Italian and Portuguese (both as first and a second language) for all faculties of MGIMO-University in all majors and minors on both the undergraduate and graduate levels. …”
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Program-target approach in support of tourism development: Experience of foreign countries by N. S. Sergienko

“…The article shows that individual programs supporting the tourism industry in foreign countries with a social orientation are relevant, which allows to obtain a synergetic effect from forming a strategic approach in developing measures to support tourism through targeted programs.…”
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Secular-Believing Diasporic Jews: The Grassroots Theology of Paul Simon and Leonard Cohen by Hagar Lahav

“…Through a close textual analysis of their final albums, this study reveals complex theological narratives that intertwine Protestant-oriented individual spirituality with collective Jewish religious and cultural memory. …”
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Ethics and Institutions of Scientific Policy Advice by Überblick

“…Criticism of the German advisory landscape can be heard from time to time, for example that economic policy advice in Germany is not sufficiently oriented towards the latest research or that particular interests (e.g. of employers or employees) are heard too much. …”
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Functional and structural characterization of mouse Factor H-related B protein unveils a novel dimerization domain shared by FHR-B and FH by Adrián Martín-Ambrosio Doménech, Silvia González Sanz, Bárbara Márquez Tirado, Lucia Juana-López, Elena Goicoechea de Jorge, Santiago Rodríguez de Córdoba, Héctor Martín Merinero

“…In contrast to FHR-1, AUC experiments indicate that FHR-B dimerization is pH-sensitive, reversible and that the monomers in the dimer present the same head to tail orientation. Mutant analyses revealed that mFH SCR5-7 also forms dimers, but less efficiently than FHR-B. …”
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SOCIO-PSYCHOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO THE DEFINITION OF TERRORISM by E. B. Batueva

“…The classification is based on the orientation of associations: negative, neutral (ambiguous) and positive (exculpatory). …”
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OPTICS OF LOOKING TO THE FUTURE (Paper 3) by V. I. Baidenko, N. A. Selezneva

“…At present Europe is featured by a new inter-university institution – tutor support of students; developing assessment practices for professionally-oriented baccalaureate and changes of state policy tools in higher education due to the advent of a new public management. …”
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Organizational Ambidexterity and Innovation: propositions for the advancement of theory and practice by Priscila Pagliarini Sartori, Ivan Lapuente Garrido

“…Subsequently, four propositions are highlighted as contributions resulting from the study, based on contextual factors, such as the speed of changes in the environment, the transformation in business models and the leadership orientation towards innovation, given the diversity that characterizes each industry, capable of changing the balance between exploration and exploitation (E&E) over time in organizations.…”
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Two-step skeletization of binary images based on the Zhang-Suen model and the producing mask by J., Ma, V. Yu. Tsviatkou, V. K. Kanapelka

“…The skeleton is a set of thin lines, the relative position, the size and shape, which conveys information of size, shape and orientation in space of the corresponding homogeneous region of the image. …”
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Perspective directions of organizational management development by I. P. Mitrofanova, A. S. Alekseeva

“…The problem of quality management with the emergence of new resources and opportunities should always be associated with the processes of organizations continuous improvement, for which it is important to create sustainable value with ecosystem orientation and quality management in all areas of activity through the application of best practices, standards, methodologies, and improvement tools. …”
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MACROECONOMIC ASPECTS OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ECONOMY by S. A. Bakhodurova

“…Measures and directions of state policy in the field of stimulating the development of small and medium-sized businesses, creating a favorable business environment, stimulating export-oriented production, improving migration policies, which will reduce these imbalances, have been proposed. …”
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Les trames vertes : discours et/ou matérialité, quelles réalités ? by Laure Cormier, Nathalie Carcaud

“…The concept of Greenway is today present in many spatial planning orientation documents of France. In some cases, the greenway concept is use as a tool to take into account the ecological aspects of territories, with the creation of ecological corridors between “natural areas”. …”
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Impact of Vehicular Array Position on Urban MIMO Channel Characteristics by Christopher C. Squires, Tricia J. Willink

“…Analysis of the data shows that the array's position on the vehicle, along with the location and orientation of the vehicle with respect to the transmitter, can have a considerable impact on the channel characteristics observed. …”
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Fast Pedestrian Recognition Based on Multisensor Fusion by Hongyu Hu, Zhaowei Qu, Zhihui Li, Jinhui Hu, Fulu Wei

“…For avoiding time consuming in the training and recognition process caused by large numbers of feature vector dimensions, region of interest-based integral histograms of oriented gradients (ROI-IHOG) feature extraction method is proposed later. …”
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Gender and Sexuality in Mathematics Education: Queer High School Students’ Experiences in the United States by Weverton Ataide Pinheiro

“…In this study, the experiences of groups historically targeted for the oppression of gender and/or sexual orientations are analyzed and discussed in the context of mathematics teaching and learning. …”
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EVALUATION OF COMPETENCES: METHODOLOGY AND TECHNOLOGIES (EXPERIENCE OF KURSK STATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY) by Aleksandr I. Konoplya, Tatyana D. Vasilenko

“…The technologies and approaches to competence formation require methodological comprehension taking into account the specificity of the professional orientation and of the kinds of future professional activities of a graduate. …”
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