Futures thinking becomes a priority for all globalized societies by Roland Benedikter

“…Futures thinking—in the sense of a systematic anticipatory approach based on sound scientific expertise and backed by socio-philosophical reasoning which must carefully balance idealism and pragmatism—was asleep for some time but is now rapidly becoming a top priority for all societies, independent of their socio-political system, composition, organization and outlook. …”
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Diet’s Cariogenicity and Healthfulness Index (DCHI) - A Novel, Comprehensive Index for Children by Raghavendra Shanbhog, H. P. Chanchala, K. T. Srilatha, B. Madhu, S.N. Manjunatha

“…The current scientific paper presents a novel index that assesses the cariogenicity and healthfulness of a child’s diet objectively and guides the professional to achieve pragmatic diet modification in the prevention of dental caries. …”
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Discourse of Europe in Political Dialogue between the EU and the South Caucasus Countries by A. S. Ayvazyan

“…The European Union had been traditionally considered one of the main proponents of this concept but the revision of the European Neighborhood Policy in 2015 has changed the cooperation agenda between the EU and Partner Countries by strengthening its pragmatic component. In that regard the case of the South Caucasus is of special interest as it demonstrates how three countries of the region addressed the EU agenda for cooperation and devised different formats of cooperation, despite similar initial conditions. …”
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THE CONCEPT OF WOMEN'S ATTIRE IN THE LEARN QUR'AN TAFSIR APPLICATION: AN EPISTEMOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF INTERPRETATION by Nurul Istiqomah

“…The study finds coherence and pragmatic validity in the interpretations but identifies a lack of correspondence truth in the application. …”
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Evaluation of Paperless Electronic Data Entry and its Comparison with Manual Entry Method for Oral Health Assessment of Adults by Manu Batra, Deeksha Gijwani, Hansika Popli

“…UEQ scores for all scales under attractiveness, pragmatic, and hedonic quality were found to be good with a value more than 0.8. …”
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Didactic strategy to contribute to the development of communicative competence in Health Psychology students by Ana María Molina Gómez, Angelina Roméu Escobar, Miriam Gutiérrez Escobar, María Elinor Dulzaides Iglesias

“…<strong>Background:</strong> the cognitive, socio-cultural and communicative language teaching approach reveals the importance of syntactic speech closely related to semantic and pragmatic dimensions and aimed at understanding, analysis and construction of discourse. …”
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LINGUISTIC ASPECTS OF UNDERSTATEMENT IN MODERN ENGLISH by V. G. Ivanova

“…Further on it is emphasized that the structure of Understatement is complex, diverse and can be expressed by a variety of lexical as well as grammatical means, among which double negation, modal verbs, the adverbs of degree and particles can often be encountered which are in most cases dependent on the context. From the pragmatic angle Understatement can be used to conceal embarrassment, anxiety or offence. …”
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Integrating HRM with organizational strategy in Ethiopia: a study of manufacturing companies in Addis Ababa and adjacent zones of Oromia by Tekalign Gidi Kure, Meheret Ayenew Warota

“…We employed a mixed research approach and pragmatism research philosophy, gathering data through a structured questionnaire distributed to 371 respondents and conducting 24 key informant interviews with HR managers from the manufacturing sector. …”
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Einstein Aggregation Operators for Pythagorean Fuzzy Soft Sets with Their Application in Multiattribute Group Decision-Making by Rana Muhammad Zulqarnain, Imran Siddique, Fahd Jarad, Y. S. Hamed, Khadijah M. Abualnaja, Aiyared Iampan

“…The recent approach’s pragmatism, usefulness, and tractability are validated through comparative exploration with the support of some prevalent studies.…”
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FEATURES OF INTRODUCTORY CONSTRUCTION FUNCTIONING IN SENTENCE STRUCTURE by Svetlana N. Mihaleva, Irina N. Kostina

“…The modal specificity of IC can then be considered as a reflection of the speaker's particular intentions, his pragmatic orientation depending on the situation created by the new semantic construction.…”
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Semantic field of health in the Hispanic toponymic discourse by Irina Martynenko

“…The functioning of such units is analyzed from the pragmatic point of view, numerous examples are given. …”
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Unit costs and cost-effectiveness of a device to improve TB treatment adherence in China by S. Sweeney, K. Fielding, X. Liu, J.A. Thompson, H. Dong, S. Jiang, Y. Zhao, S. Huan, A. Vassall

“…This study aimed to explore the cost-effectiveness of medication event reminder monitors (MERM) in China compared with the standard of care, using results from a pragmatic, cluster-randomised superiority trial of an electronic MERM in China. …”
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High Fasting Plasma Glucose during Early Pregnancy: A Review about Early Gestational Diabetes Mellitus by E. Cosson, L. Carbillon, P. Valensi

“…Early FPG has been associated with poor pregnancy outcomes, but the recommendation by the IADPSG to refer women with eGDM for immediate management is more pragmatic than evidence based. Although eGDM is characterized by insulin resistance and associated with classical risk factors for type 2 diabetes and incident diabetes after delivery, it is not necessarily associated with preexisting prediabetes. …”
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Typhoon Vulnerability Analysis in South Korea Utilizing Damage Record of Typhoon Maemi by Ji-Myong Kim, Kiyoung Son, Sang-Guk Yum, Sungjin Ahn

“…The results and metric of this research provide a pragmatic approach that helps create vulnerability functions for abovementioned sectors and like estimating local vulnerabilities and predicting and coping with the possible damage and loss from typhoons.…”
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Critical review of multimorbidity outcome measures suitable for low-income and middle-income country settings: perspectives from the Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases (GACD) res... by Najma Siddiqi, Meena Daivadanam, J Jaime Miranda, Trishul Siddharthan, John R Hurst, Rajesh Vedanthan, Gary Parker, Gina Agarwal, Shabbar Jaffar, Naomi Levitt, Niels H Chavannes, Pallab K Maulik, Patricio Lopez-Jaramillo, Kamran Siddiqi, Muralidhar M Kulkarni, Gillian Sandra Gould, Job F M van Boven, Kirsten Bobrow, M O Owolabi, Joan B Soriano, Erick Wan-Chun Huang, Shahirose Sadrudin Premji, Lijing Yan, Ricardo Araya, F Xavier Gómez-Olivé, Bruce J Kirenga, Rianne M J J van der Kleij, Laura Loli-Dano, Shane Norris, Josefien van Olmen, Antigona C Trofor

“…Objectives There is growing recognition around the importance of multimorbidity in low-income and middle-income country (LMIC) settings, and specifically the need for pragmatic intervention studies to reduce the risk of developing multimorbidity, and of mitigating the complications and progression of multimorbidity in LMICs. …”
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A Discussion of Stability and Engineering Verification of Thin Immediate Roof under Uniform Load of the Rectangular Coal Roadway by Linsheng Gao, Yueping Wang, Er-hui Zhang, Liang Cheng, Rui Peng

“…This research can further fill in blanks of the loading mechanism of the roadway roof and provide theoretical and pragmatic values to control the roadway pressure and rock stratum as well as the scientific references to the design of the anchor bolt supporting system.…”
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French Energy Sector in Search for Optimal Model by A. V. Zimakov

“…The targeted model is expected to balance of nuclear and green energy in the generation mix in 50% to 40% proportion by 2035, with the rest left to gas power generation. Being pragmatic, French government aims at partial nuclear reactors shut down provided that this will not lead to the rise of GHG emissions, energy market distortions, or electricity price hikes. …”
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Trade and Scientific-Technical Cooperation with the USSR on the U.S. Leadership’s Agenda During the Era of Détente (1969–1980) by V. T. Yungblyud

“…In Moscow, this notion evolved into a programmatic directive, whereas Washington adopted a more pragmatic stance.Drawing on a broad historiographical foundation, archival documents from Russian repositories (RGANI, RGAE), published materials from the U.S. …”
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Voice quality types and uses in North American English by Richard Wright, Courtney Mansfield, Laura Panfili

“…While not contrastive, it plays an important role in phonology and a wide variety of other discourse, pragmatic, and social functions. In this context we present some of our current research into segmental and social factors relating to creaky voicing. …”
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A Clinically-Reasoned Approach to Manual Therapy in Sports Physical Therapy by Steven Short, Matthew Tuttle, Dillon Youngman

“…Though highly polarizing viewpoints regarding different therapies create black and white "sides," a pragmatic gray area regarding manual therapy exists in which proper clinical reasoning can serve to improve athlete pain and injury management. …”
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