Scanning the business external environment for information: evidence from Greece by L. Kourteli

“…</b> A questionnaire was developed to explore the relationships between general and task business environment, perceived uncertainty, scanning strategy, and sources of information with respect to type of environment, size and industry.The research was based on a sample of 144 private organizations operating in North Greece. <br><b>Analysis.…”
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THE INTEGRATION OF EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES INTO INNOVATIVE SMART NATION PROJECTS AND SOLUTIONS by Laurențiu-Octavian MUTULEANU

“…Today, for the successful adoption of Smart Nation projects and solutions, it is necessary for government and private entities to generate multidisciplinary collaboration platforms that use and exploit technological advancements to achieve two main objectives. …”
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THE ROLE OF THE «GRAND SCHOOLS» AND THE «GRAND CORPS» AS RECRUITMENT CHANNELS FOR FRENCH MINISTERS by I. A. Zarankin

“…The transformation of gaullists into liberals and conduction of the liberal economic policy, instead of the dirigist one, also contributed to replacement of officials by representatives of the private sector. Despite the fact that political parties serve as a main channel of the ministers’ recruitment, they face internal problems. …”
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Early Bilateral Corneal Ectasia after Photorefractive Keratectomy with Non Identifiable Preoperative Risk Factor: A Case Report by Farhan Khashim Alswailmi, Mujeeb Ur Rehman Parrey

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Real Time Face-mask Detection with Arduino to Prevent COVID-19 Spreading by Saman M. Almufti, Ridwan B. Marqas, Zakiya A. Nayef, Tamara S. Mohamed

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Gobiernos de enlace: la población y la política más allá del Estado by Ignacio Irazuzta

“…From there the actions of a government that operates in the tense centre of political modern dichotomies is demonstrated: the dichotomies of the interior/exterior and public/private.…”
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A scoping review and thematic analysis of mentoring models that include leadership and school connectedness theories by Anita Suleman, Philemon Chigeza, Jo Mensinga

“…Most studies (64%) were conducted in private or independent schools within Australia, and 65% were qualitative. …”
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An Off-Label Use of a Unibody Aortic Stent-Graft System for the Treatment of Infrarenal Abdominal Aortic Dissections by Joseph Faraj, Rebekah L. W. Tan, Bibombe P. Mwipatayi

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Le compostage collectif urbain à l'épreuve de ses interdits by Véronique Philippot, Sandrine Glatron

“…In Strasbourg (Alsace), neighborhood or private groups organize composting initiatives, encouraged by local policies and supervised by local authorities. …”
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Critical Analysis of Human Rights Challenges with Freedom of Information in E-government by Jaza Valadbeygi, Vali Rostami, Manouchehr Tavassoli Naeini

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Functional Adrenocortical Adenoma in a Child with Beckwith–Wiedemann Syndrome by Leen Jamel Doya, Naya Talal Hassan, Hanin Ahmed Mansour, Mohammad Ahmad Almahmod Alkhalil, Abdul Alrahman Almahmod Alkhalil, Nada Mansour, Alaa Abdallah

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Aestheticising the Blackfoot Valley (Montana, USA), or How to Reconcile the Mining Frontier and the Eco-Frontier by Sylvain Guyot, Gabrielle Saumon

“…Varying representations and appropriations of mountain areas tend to create socio-economic divisions in the valley’s population. An entirely private, site-specific art project (Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild) creates the possibility of offering an alternative resource to be shared by eco-gentrifiers and a local population adjusting to a post-extractive order, and indeed its site-specific works resonate with both the valley’s mining past and its untamed nature. …”
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Colliding public health priorities: A call to improve the understanding of autistic individuals utilizing housing assistance. by Lindsay Shea, Anne Roux, Amy Blank Wilson, Jonas Ventimiglia, Conner Carlton, Wei-Lin Lee, Dylan Cooper, Shelby Frisbie

“…HUD-assisted autistic individuals, versus non-HUD-assisted, were more likely to be Black/African American and less likely to have private insurance. Most lived in urban areas and were enrolled in the Housing Choice Voucher program. …”
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Anthropological Interpretation of the Meaning of Ritual Objects in the Contemporary Urban Wedding in Bulgaria by Rozaliya Guigova

“…In that sense, I investigate the alternation between global and local perspectives of the forms of material culture in which certain levels of meaning, inherent to objects, play a crucial role, as for example the social communication factor, kinship ties, cross-generational continuity, local ritual and symbolic systems, local food culture, and even the personal fate and private life of an object’s owner. In this article I focus mainly on the wedding cake as a specific ritual item, functioning in the contemporary urban Bulgarian wedding, transmitted during the last decades from West European culture into the Bulgarian wedding tradition, and analyse the specific dialogue between ‘global’ items and local culture. …”
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Collective Landscapes. The Gran Consortile di Riclaretto and Collective Property in the Germanasca Valley by Michele Francesco Barale, Margherita Valcanover

“…In the Germanasca Valley, situated in Italy’s Turin region, collective management in the form of private shared ownership has been taking place for centuries.This study, perhaps the first of its kind in this particular geographical area, seeks to sketch a picture of these proprietary structures and bring out their salient features by investigating the value of these realities today. …”
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Role of Surface Active Agents in Transferosome for Systemic Drug Delivery by Mohsin Hussein Abdulameer, Nidhal Khazaal Maraie, Zainab H. Mahdi

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Research on Multiparty Payment Technology Based on Blockchain and Smart Contract Mechanism by Yanjun Zhang

“…Moreover, we design a multiparty payment channel smart contract, deploy it to the local private blockchain, and conduct simulation and testing. …”
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Foundation Networks and American Hegemony by Inderjeet Parmar

“…Therefore, the article shows that elite networks, consisting of state officials and private citizens are powerful means by which foreign policy shifts may be prepared, elite and mass opinion primed and mobilised, new consensus built, ‘old’ forces marginalised, and US hegemony constructed.…”
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O mercado audiovisual brasileiro, o circuito alternativo de exibição, as mostras e festivais de cinema na Bahia contemporânea by Mariella Pitombo Vieira, Milene de Cássia Silveira Gusmão

“…This work presents some of the most recent transformations in the relations between culture and market in contemporary Brazil, in order to indicate some of the empirical indicators that have been able to reshape and resize the strategies of some of the main market agents involved in this process, whether state or private, generating all sorts of new business models and companies classified as cultural, inscribed in the widespread expansion of the entertainment and leisure markets. …”
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Analytic Approximate Solutions for MHD Boundary-Layer Viscoelastic Fluid Flow over Continuously Moving Stretching Surface by Homotopy Analysis Method with Two Auxiliary Parameters by M. M. Rashidi, E. Momoniat, B. Rostami

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