Passenger Behavior Simulation in Congested Urban Rail Transit System: A Capacity-Limited Optimal Strategy Model for Passenger Assignment by Kai Lu, Nan Cao

“…The application of the proposed approach has been demonstrated using the computational results for transit networks originating from practice.…”
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Cuban Agriculture Before 1959: The Social Situation by José Alvarez

“…In 1956-1957, the University Catholic Association (Agrupación Católica Universitaria, ACU) conducted a national survey (Gastón et al., 1957; the original Spanish version can found at http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/FE292 and the English translation at http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/FE297) that, despite the existing critiques discussed below, seemed to confirm the findings of the two censuses. …”
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Villy Sørensen’s Hermeneutics of the Fall by Rasa Alė Petronytė

“…Sørensen’s notion of the Fall is understood as a fragmentation of the original unity and a transition from coherence to a state defined by discordance. …”
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STRATEGIES OF EQUAL STATUS INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION by N. V. Baryshnikov

“…This article is aimed at arguing a professional type of intercultural communication,at substantiating status equality as a paramount distinctive feature of professional interculturalcommunication and also at presenting some of the strategies associated with it.Thereupon, in the article:– the notion of professional intercultural communication is validated and its integral part – statusequality - is grounded,– original strategies of equal status intercultural communication are presented, some of which include:rabulistic strategies of communicative attack, eristic strategies of communicative self-defense,– hypothetical interaction patterns of certain strategies are described, including: compliment - wittyremark pattern, bluff - improvisation pattern, negative imperative - negative imperative transformationpattern,– the hypothesis is proved that for successful intercultural communication to take place, the partnersmust be equally aware of the communicative attack and self-defense strategies.Acquiring and mastering the communicative attack and self-defense strategies enables specialistsin international relations to participate in equal status intercultural communication the content of whichis characterized by high effectiveness.…”
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Florida Predatory Stink Bug (unofficial common name), Euthyrhynchus floridanus (Linnaeus) (Insecta: Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) by Frank W. Mead, David B. Richman

“…This document is EENY-157 (originally published as DPI Entomology Circulars 174 and 242), one of a series of Featured Creatures from the Entomology and Nematology Department, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. …”
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Źródła antropologii Juliana Haynesa Stewarda by Ryszard F. Sadowski

“…All of these sources affected him on different levels but without their influence Steward would not create such an original concept of anthropological approach. M s essay points out the importance of Steward’s hard work on a farm during his study in Deep Springs College and the significance of the natural environment of California. …”
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Formation of new narratives in the field of regional economic research by V. V. Stroev

“…Over the past half a century, the research paradigm in the area of economic sciences has undergone significant changes: the theories of regional economics have changed, significantly evolving, complementing, and mutually reinforcing each other. The original objectives of regional economic research have changed, responding to modern challenges of the world community development and global crisis phenomena. …”
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Human studies and user studies: a call for methodological inter-disciplinarity (Brenda Dervin) by Brenda Dervin

“…Drawing on extensive literature reviews focusing, in particular, on user (and audience) research in the fields of library and information science and communication studies, the author describes the increasing chaos of human studies and user studies--the plethora of theories, concepts, approaches, methods, and findings which plague researchers within and between fields and bewilder policy maker and practitioner observers. The origins and symptoms of these disciplinary overloads and the usual forms of inter-disciplinarity brought to bear on them are traced and the author argues that most usual approaches to inter-disciplinarity act as more of the same and contribute to overload conditions. …”
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Yellow Fly, Diachlorus ferrugatus (Fabricius) (Insecta: Diptera: Tabanidae) by G. B. Fairchild, Howard V. Weems, Jr., Thomas R. Fasulo

“…This document is EENY-320 (originally published as DPI Entomology Circular 139), one of a series of Featured Creatures from the Entomology and Nematology Department, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. …”
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Mexican Fruit Fly, Anastrepha ludens (Loew) (Insecta: Diptera: Tephritidae) by Howard V. Weems, Jr., John B. Heppner, Gary L. Steck, Thomas R. Fasulo, James L. Nation

“…This document is EENY-201 (originally published as DPI Entomology Circulars 16, 260 and 391), one of a series of Featured Creatures from the Entomology and Nematology Department, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. …”
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Crack propagation in a brittle DCB specimen assessed by means of the Williams� power expansion by Lucie Malkov�, Seyed Mohammad Javad Razavi, Filippo Berto

“…The crack propagation has been tested experimentally on a brittle polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) specimen and although the mode I loading conditions were applied, the crack kinked from its original plane immediately and propagated towards the bottom side of the specimen. …”
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Thermidor in Ethiopia? Agrarian Transformations between Economic Liberalization and the Developmental State by Davide Chinigò, Emanuele Fantini

“…The Ethiopian Thermidor sheds light on the extent to which post-revolutionary elites since the 1990s have adopted selective and original strategies of political and economic liberalization to consolidate their power in the context of neoliberal globalization. …”
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Tatars in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the 14th–16th Centuries by Yaroslav Pylypchuk

“…The rulers of the Great Horde and the Crimean Khanate did not con- sider it shameful to write to the apostate and the provincial prince. The Tatar origin of the clan, on the contrary, was a plus in the eyes of the Jochids and the Glinskie were generally perceived as their own people. …”
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Metamorphoses of Corpus Christi: Eucharistic Processions & Clashes in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Vienna by Károly Goda

“…In this sense, the way of celebrating the feast in festive trains was actually in itself continuously compromising the original medieval mission of the cult and so became a perfect tool of early modern Catholic reform. …”
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Structural innovation design of mobile chassis for inspection robots based on the TRIZ theory by WANG Zhihui, LI Kangkang, WANG Chengjun

“…The comparative simulation of the original structure chassis and improved mobile chassis moving under complex road conditions was conducted in Admas simulation software. …”
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Peníze, nebo prestiž? Soudní spor o autorství Vančurových Obrazů z dějin národa českého by Bohumil Jiroušek

“…The legal proceedings were concluded by the statement that their contri- bution did not create an original work, the Marxist historians submitted only word-for-word excerpts of older, non-Marxist historiography. …”
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Field Diagnosis of Citrus Root Weevil Damage by Stephen H. Futch, Clayton W. McCoy, James H. Graham, Larry W. Duncan, Herbert N. Nigg

“…This document is HS-1014, one of a series of the Horticultural Sciences Department, UF/IFAS Extension. Original publication date May 2005. HS-1014/HS260: Field Diagnosis of Citrus Root Weevil Damage (ufl.edu) …”
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Switching categories in syntax by Paula Armelin, Dalila Maria de Souza, Lydsson Gonçalves

“…In this case, the Switch makes the originally verbal structure to become nominal. We argue that the distinction between nominal infinitives and passives is that in the former, the Switch carries an [N] feature, while in the latter, it brings an [A] feature to the structure. …”
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Jáchymovský mincmistr Mikuláš (Klaus) Kraus a jeho působení v obchodě s českým stříbrem v letech 1530-1535 by Petr Vorel

“…Finally, the affair – originally there were also demanded capital punishments – was finished by money penalty. …”
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Efficient decision procedure for Belief modality by Adomas Birštunas

“…Such usage of BDI logic can be found in [1]. The original decision algorithm uses loop-check technique for BEL and temporal operators. …”
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