The Parliamentary Behaviour of Women and Men MPs: Equal Status, Similar Practices ? by Karine Rivière-De Franco

“…This paper studies women MPs’ contribution to parliamentary work during the first eighteen months of the Conservative / Liberal Democrat coalition government formed in May 2010 by examining the range of tasks they are involved in through various activities such as Prime Minister’s Question Time, Early Day Motions, Adjournment Debates, Private Members’ Bills, votes and rebellions. Through an inter-party comparison, it then considers the respective influences of gender and party affiliation on political action and it ends with the analysis of the topics women devote time to, in order to assess the way they behave, either as feminist spokespersons or as ordinary politicians.…”
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“It Was a Brutal Land”: Exploring the Personal and the Political in Damon Galgut’s Small Circle of Beings (1988) by Marek Pawlicki

“…It is argued that both the story and the novella convey a tension between the personal and the political by describing the subtleties of human relationships while at the same time showing that even this intensely private dimension of the characters’ existence is shaped by forces that affect the entire nation. …”
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The Expansion of the Fibre Optic Network in Germany: Switching the Lights to Green by Cordelius Ilgmann

“…As to state subsidies, the so-called “Betreibermodell” offers an efficient policy alternative to the current predominantly used system of state subsidies. However, private interest is trying to undermine this change in policy at the implementation level.…”
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ТHE DEVELOPMENT OF THE TECHNICAL EDUCATION IN NEFU by Terentiy A. Kornilov, Ekaterina A. Arkhangelskaya

“…Secondly, the university should develop the real mechanisms of interaction with business, industry and research institutes on the basis of state-private partnership and create the regional engineering clusters with the experimental grounds for testing of innovation technologies in northeast climate conditions. …”
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Relationship between Spirituality and Emotional Maturity with Cultural Intelligence in Preventing Culture Shock by Triantoro Safaria, Khoiruddin Bashori

“…A total of 97 Psychology students from a private university in Yogyakarta were selected using purposive sampling. …”
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OSU based M-OTN networking modes and field trial by Ruiquan JING, Leiyang SHEN, Zhiwei JIN, Jing ZHANG, Yuan YAO, Lei CHENG, Heng ZHOU

“…The innovative optical service unit (OSU) based on M-OTN technologies can provide high-quality private line services with low latency and flexible bandwidth, and improve the networking capability and efficiency of OTN for small granularity services.The application mode of M-OTN/OSU technologies in the OTN were discussed, including the value OSU brings, the comparison of Overlay vs.Underlay networking modes, multiplexing modes of OSU into ODUk and multi-service unified transport.The service capability and long-term operational reliability of OSU technology were fully verified through the field trial network, which provides a technical basis for the selection of OSU networking modes.…”
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THE FEATURES OF STATISTICAL CHARACTERISTICS TERRORISM ON TRANSPORT by M. Karmanov, S. Kuzin

“…It is unlikely that a statistical estimate of transport terrorism can be derived from one or more private indicators. This is likely to require a system of statistical indicators, where individual elements occupy a well-defined place and complement each other consistently. …”
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Economic Impacts of Highway Beautification in Florida by Hayk Khachatryan, Alan W. Hodges, Mohammad Rahmani, Thomas J. Stevens

“…They make driving more pleasant and are better for the environment, but do they attract private investment and contribute to the economy? …”
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From tension to cooperation: the interactions of british orientalists with indian scholars in Calcutta, 1784-1794 by Claire Gallien

“…More particularly, I will analyze a discursive ambivalence that can be traced in Sir William Jones’s private letters (1784-1794), when the Orientalist referred to his work with native partners. …”
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Socio-economic problems of modern land system of Russia by Yu. M. Rogatnev, I. S. Ryzhova

“…The assessment of the system of private ownership of land, its impact on rural residents and agricultural production is given. …”
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Ecotourism in Florida: Letting Nature Work For You by Mechelle N. Best, Taylor V. Stein

“…Stein, provides case studies of ten private nature-based tourism businesses throughout Florida. …”
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Analysis of Urban Car Owners Commute Mode Choice Based on Evolutionary Game Model by Huawei Gong, Wenzhou Jin

“…With the aggravation of the traffic congestion in the city, car owners will have to give up commuting with private cars and take the public transportation instead. …”
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ATTITUDES AND PERCEPTIONS OF MALAYSIAN ESL UNDERGRADUATES TOWARDS THE USAGE OF VLOGGING IN ENHANCING THEIR SPEAKING SKILLS by Nazirah Mahmud, Nurhazwani Yusoff, Najihah Mahmud

“…The aim of this research is to find out the attitudes and the perceptions of the undergraduate students in a private higher institution in Malaysia, towards making video recording specifically video blogging (vlogging) to enhance their speaking skill in the target language – English. …”
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New Space Companies Meet a “Normal” Solar Maximum by Noé Lugaz, Huixin Liu, Brett A. Carter, Jennifer Gannon, Shasha Zou, Steven K. Morley

“…However, the number of rocket launches, satellites in orbit and private space companies has increased dramatically in the past 20 years. …”
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CHANGE OF RUSSIA’S COMPETITIVE POSITIONS IN THE WORLD MARKET OF SPACE PRODUCTS by A. P. Krishtofor

“…The result of research is that at the present stage big changes of an environment of the world space market are observed, and also competitive positions of Russia in world private and state astronautics have been scientifically substantiated and generalized. …”
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Green Economy in Hotel Business of EU Countries by K. I. Shchetinina

“…Investments and policies of European Union government can leverage private sector actions on green tourism.…”
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Ecotourism in Florida: Letting Nature Work For You by Mechelle N. Best, Taylor V. Stein

“…Stein, provides case studies of ten private nature-based tourism businesses throughout Florida. …”
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Francisco Nuñez-Hernán Cortés : réflexion autour d’une rupture (1544-1546) by Elisabeth Balancy

“…Since this fact is quite well known today, this article makes use of the appended private correspondence to reveal the entire « procortesian » network moving in the castellan governmental councils. …”
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Insights into the Daily Life of Le Corbusier: the agendas in the Fondation Le Corbusier by Tim Benton

“…Among these, the agendas (diaries) offer particularly intriguing insights into the public and private life of Le Corbusier. These diaries present a number of difficulties to the researcher: the notes are often difficult to read and even more difficult to interpret. …”
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GOVERNMENT SUPPORT FOR SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISES IN THE CONTEXT OF THE PANDEMIC: FOREIGN AND RUSSIAN PRACTICE by N. N. Musinova, N. S. Sergienko

“…The study of domestic and foreign experience in providing support to small and medium-sized businesses allowed us to highlight general and private forms of assistance.…”
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