TOOLS OF INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION IN INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS: A POSTCOLONIAL APPROACH by Eldar Veremchuk, Hennadii Vasylchuk

“…The purpose of this paper is to identify the communicative tools used in the postcolonial world for intercultural communication and to outline the potential for their practical implementation. …”
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Comprehensive Assessment of Sustainable Development of Terrestrial Ecosystem Based on SDG 15—A Case Study of Guilin City by Hongyu Pan, Guang Liu, Jan-Peter Muller, Zhongchang Sun, Yuefeng Yao, Yao Chang, Zesen Xiong, Yuchen Zhang

“…The localized SDG 15 indicator system proposed in this paper can effectively quantify changes in terrestrial ecosystems and visualize their spatial distribution, and can effectively serve as a model for other sustainable development areas.…”
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Dynamics of the evolution of the strategic management concept: From the planning school to the neostrategic approach by Tomasz Kafel, Bernard Ziębicki

“…Implications for theory and practice: The paper characterizes the research results presented in the articles included in this JEMI issue. …”
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Chinese version of the Perth Alexithymia Questionnaire: psychometric properties and clinical applications by Wei Wei, Zhe Zhang, Lin Zhu, Qian Zhang, Xin-Lu Cai, Qingying Ye, Ke Ni, Minmin Yin, David A. Preece, Bao-Ming Li

“…The Perth Alexithymia Questionnaire (PAQ) was recently developed to enable detailed facet-level and valence-specific assessments of alexithymia.Aims In this paper, we introduce the first Chinese version of the PAQ and examine its psychometric properties and clinical applications.Methods In Study 1, the PAQ was administered to 990 Chinese participants. …”
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Molecular genetic and bacteriological methods of bovine mycoplasmosis diagnosis by E. V. Remizova, A. V. Gorbatov, L. K. Semina, Z. A. Skulyabina, N. V. Shmidt, G. A. Baldicheva, N. N. Avduevskaya

“…Mycoplasma colonies, as well as colonies of L-form bacteria, have a typical «fried egg» appearance, therefore it is necessary to differentiate them for the accurate diagnosis and choice of treatment. The paper presents data on mycoplasma infection diagnosis in cattle and results of differentiation of isolated mycoplasma and L-form bacteria colonies using multiple passaging and real-time polymerase chain reaction. …”
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Identifying freshwater wetland suitable habitat through a hydrological-biological connectivity framework: A case study of Naoli River wetlands, China by Daiji Wan, Jian Yang, Xuan Liu, Qiwei Liu, Baolong Chen, Yanhui Chen, Dandan Zhao, Jiping Liu

“…Explaining the effects of changes in hydrological connectivity on wetland habitats is crucial to restoring wetlands and maintaining species diversity. In this paper, we assessed hydrological connectivity and its impacts on wetland habitats based on geostatistical connectivity function and the biohydrological adaptation thresholds of the Naoli River wetland. …”
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Systematic Search for Long-term Trends in Fermi-LAT Jetted Active Galactic Nuclei by P. Peñil, A. Domínguez, S. Buson, M. Ajello, S. Adhikari, A. Rico

“…Additionally, a novel type of variability has emerged in jetted AGN light curves, specifically, the observation of a long-term trend characterized by a linear increase of the flux with time in blazars such as PG 1553+113, which is among the objects most likely to display periodic behavior. In this paper, we present the results of a systematic search for long-term trends, spanning ≈10 yr, utilizing 12 yr of Fermi-LAT observations. …”
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The impact of the forced displacement of universities due to the occupation of certain territories of Ukraine on the effectiveness of their activities: “Top 200 Ukraine” universiti... by Tetiana Sych, Liubov Panchenko, Olga Saienko, Olga Ptakhina, Yevhen Ivanov

“…The study targets temporarily displaced universities that changed their location due to the outbreak of the armed military conflict in Ukraine in 2014 and Russia’s full-scale military aggression in 2022. This paper focuses on the leadership of universities in implementing their third mission, which is critical to fostering the economic and social development of the regions. …”
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Perceptions of Fairness of Support Between Older Parents and Adult Children by Anna Willems, Dimitri Mortelmans, Anina Vercruyssen

“…We apply the distributive justice theory to understand how children and parents assess the expectation and fairness of support. This paper contributes to the existing literature about support behaviour between parents and children, expanding insights about the fairness of support, expectations and willingness from a multi-actor approach. …”
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The effect of ultrasonic vibrations with superimposed low-frequency modulation on the mechanical, tribological properties and structure of a multicomponent polymer composite by D. A. Negrov, V. Yu. Putintsev, A. I. Glotov, D. A. Veber

“…One of the tasks of polymer materials science is to study the possibilities of improving the complex of elastic-strength characteristics and tribological properties of polymer composite materials by improving the manufacturing technology. In this paper, the influence of ultrasonic vibrations with a frequency of 17 kHz with a low-frequency vibration with a frequency of 100 Hz during synthesis on the properties and structure of a multicomponent polymer composite material of the KVN-3 trademark is considered. …”
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Conceptualising Centres of Clinical Excellence: A Scoping Review by Elizabeth A Lynch, Jeroen M Hendriks, Natalie Ann Fini, Thoshenthri Kandasamy, Rachel C Stockley, Lemma N Bulto

“…However, despite their increasing prevalence, it is unclear how CoCE are identified and monitored. This paper explores how CoCE has been described in the literature, including its defining characteristics and selection and monitoring processes.Design We conducted a scoping review following Arksey and O’Malley’s framework, enhanced by Levac et al. …”
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Auditory attention decoding based on neural-network for binaural beamforming applications by Roy Gueta, Elana Zion-Golumbic, Jacob Goldberger, Sharon Gannot

“…This led to the development of several algorithms addressing the auditory attention decoder (AAD) task. This paper investigates two neural network architectures for the AAD task. …”
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Spatial-Temporal Patterns of Litterfall Mercury Concentration and Flux in Typical Vegetation in China by Shuyu Han, Xiang Niu, Bing Wang, Zhangwei Wang, Xiaoshan Zhang, Qiang Wang, Jiajie Du, Pingping Liu, Donghuan Liu, Fengshi Pan, Tingyu Xu

“…The comprehensive quantification of mercury fluxes in this paper provides data support for the long-term monitoring of litterfall and fundamental information to potentially solve the problem of mercury pollution in China.…”
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Perioperative nursing of an osteoporosis patient undergoing second operation for Stanford type A aortic dissection (合并骨质疏松的Stanford A型主动脉夹层二次手术患者的围术期护理)... by JIN Fangfang (金芳芳), SU Yunyan (苏云艳), HU Yuexiu (胡岳秀), WU Mengya (伍梦雅)

“…This paper summarized the perioperative nursing management of an osteoporosis patient undergoing second operation for Stanford type A aortic dissection. …”
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Growth Propagation of Liquid Spawn on Non-Woven Hemp Mats to Inform Digital Biofabrication of Mycelium-Based Composites by Andreas Biront, Mart Sillen, Patrick Van Dijck, Jan Wurm

“…Liquid spawn, however, holds significant potential, particularly in digital biofabrication, due to its ease of deposition and greater precision compared with grains. This paper, part of a digital biofabrication framework, investigates the growth kinetics of <i>Ganoderma lucidum</i> and <i>Pleurotus ostreatus</i> on hemp non-woven mats, offering flexibility and mold-free fabrication using liquid inoculation. …”
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The low-latitude sodium layer: comparative data from lidar observations at Hainan, China and São Paulo, Brazil by Fang Wu, Jing Jiao, GuoTao Yang, LiFang Du, ZhengKuan Liu, HaoRan Zheng, JiXin Guo, ShaoHua Gong, YaJun Zhu

“…Metallic sodium detected by lidar can yield clues to dynamic and chemical processes in these spatial layers above the Earth’s atmosphere. This paper is based on sodium layer data collected at two low-latitude stations, one in the northern hemisphere and one in the southern. …”
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ED‐AttConvLSTM: An Ionospheric TEC Map Prediction Model Using Adaptive Weighted Spatiotemporal Features by Liangchao Li, Haijun Liu, Huijun Le, Jing Yuan, Haoran Wang, Yi Chen, Weifeng Shan, Li Ma, Chunjie Cui

“…Abstract In this paper, we propose a novel Total Electron Content (TEC) map prediction model, named ED‐AttConvLSTM, using a Convolutional Long Short‐Term Memory (ConvLSTM) network and attention mechanism based on encoder‐decoder structure. …”
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Heat transportation of 3D chemically reactive flow of Jeffrey nanofluid over a porous frame with variable thermal conductivity by Nahid Fatima, Aaqib Majeed, Taoufik Saidani, Nouman Ijaz, Kamal Barghout, Nidal Abu-Libdeh

“…The primary objective of this paper is to analyze the heat transfer rate and three-dimensional bio-convective flow of a non-Newtonian Jeffrey nanofluid across a porous surface with variable thermal conductivity. …”
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60th Anniversary of Postgraduate School of Federal State-Financed Institution “Federal Centre for Animal Health” by Т. V. Zhbanova, Т. B. Nikeshina, N. А. Perevozchikova, N. А. Мarova

“…Sukharev) and the Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (V. V. Makarov). The paper provides brief information on the training of scientific personnel for research and production laboratories of the institution, postgraduate school activities, thesis-based programmes, the council for Doctor of Science and Candidate of Science thesis defense.…”
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Expanding Thermal Plasma Chemical Vapour Deposition of ZnO:Al Layers for CIGS Solar Cells by K. Sharma, B. L. Williams, A. Mittal, H. C. M. Knoops, B. J. Kniknie, N. J. Bakker, W. M. M. Kessels, R. E. I. Schropp, M. Creatore

“…., >200°C) can damage the crucial underlying layers/interfaces (such as CIGS/CdS and CdS/i-ZnO). In this paper, the potential of adopting ETP-CVD ZnO:Al in CIGS solar cells is assessed: the effect of substrate temperature during film deposition on both the electrical properties of the ZnO:Al and the eventual performance of the CIGS solar cells was investigated. …”
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