The new age and conventional communication by Marco Roodt

“…Let us, explore this issue by looking objectively at some pertinent communication industry (not IT) mind teasers, turning them into statements and then arguing the realities surrounding them. …”
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ASEAN As a Security Community: Challenges of Conceptualization by I. A. Nikiforov

“…Leifer, demonstrate the irrelevance of constructivist ideas to the ASEAN realities and emphasize the inability of Southeast Asian states to build a functioning security community. …”
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Evaluation of Spatial Planning in Urban Areas of Kohgiluyeh and Bouyer Ahmad Province by Techniques; Development Combination Index and Mauritius by Abdall hassan Shivaey, Asghar Zaraby

“…The first step in designing effective programs that are consistent with realities and attaining transcending goals is to develop balanced, proportionate and balanced knowledge and knowledge of the capacities and capacities of each geographic region. …”
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Ambivalent and Contradictory: Victorian Architects’ Responses to Technology by Richard W. Hayes

“…Godwin, by contrast, adopted an ambivalent attitude toward revivalism as he speculated on the possibility of a simple, style-less way of building that accepted the realities of contemporary life. Taken together, Scott and Godwin’s careers exemplify complex and unresolved responses to the advantages and disadvantages of their technological moment.…”
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An interpersonal pragmatic perspective on seductive discourse by Jim O’DRISCOLL

“…The exigencies of interaction force us all to act on impressions.Among other pragmatic concepts, a major tool for the exploration of these inevitable interactional realities is the concept of face. Following a brief account of these concepts, and the interpersonal pragmatic perspective more generally, the demonstration of the above claims is achieved through the analysis of three very different cases: an excerpt from a TV comedy, a (generic) academic conference presentation and a (particular) incident during a rugby match.…”
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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. This type of shared ownership is described with regard to location, property and use rights, land and landscape use and its economic dimension. …”
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Tackling Environmental Problems from the Root: An Ibuanyidanda Perspective by Peter Bisong

“…This article presents an ethic from Asouzu’s Ibuanyidanda philosophy, which sees realities as missing links and argues that this ethic can guide human actions toward environmental sustainability. …”
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Honouring Children by Ebenezer Tetteh Kpalam

“…Recognizing the full humanity of children will help pose questions that will lead to critical reflections on theories and practices that underpin the lived realities of neglect, abuse and violence against children. …”
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GLOBAL RESEARCH DYNAMICS ABOUT PUBLIC DEBT: RISING PUBLIC DEBT AND THE EUROPEAN FISCAL UNION by Cecilia CIOCIRLAN

“…It also examines the challenges faced by decision-makers in managing debt sustainability, particularly the tension between political priorities and fiscal realities. The second part provides an empirical analysis of recent studies on the rise of global public debt, political economy factors, and credit cycles. …”
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An examination of the health information seeking experiences of women in rural Ontario, Canada by C.N. Wathen, R.M. Harris

“…</b> Emerging themes included: the context of rural living, information and health literacy, the role of unanticipated information intermediaries in the search process, and the mis-match between assumptions made by 'the system' about sources of information, and women's lived realities. <br><b>Conclusion.</b> . There are unique challenges and enablers to health information seeking for women living in rural areas, including the role of formal, informal and ICT-based information intermediaries, the availability to women of required literacies for health information seeking and uptake. …”
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Os novos vetores da produção do espaço urbano em Dourados-MS e o processo de reconfiguração da periferia by Maria Jose Martinelli Silva Calixto, Paulo Fernando Jurado da Silva, Mara Lúcia Falconi da Hora Bernardelli

“…Actually, it is identified in different countries and urban realities. The urban outskirts, understood as the geometric edge of the city, presented strong expansion, changing its content. …”
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Rethinking risk and disasters in mountain areas by Kenneth Hewitt, Manjari Mehta

“…Rather, we find the legacies of social and economic histories, especially relations to down-country or metropolitan actors, are decisive in shaping contemporary “mountain realities”. Developments in transportation, resource extraction and tourism that serve state and international agendas can increase rather than reduce risks for mountain populations, and undermine pre-existing strategies to minimise environmental dangers. …”
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Mediating Culture(s) in Foreign Language Teaching by Mădălina Tvardochlib

“…The establishment of cultural studies and globalization as the dominant paradigms lead to a shift in the aims of foreign language teaching due to teachers and students acknowledging new societal realities. Culture can no longer be fathomed only as high or national culture but rather as a sum of daily practices and routines, as well as interpretative patterns regarding art, literature, politics and so on. …”
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Know Your Client and Know Your Team: A Complexity Inspired Approach to Understanding Safe Transitions in Care by Deborah Tregunno

“…This project was undertaken to gain insight into the practice setting realities for nurses and other health care providers as they manage increasingly complex care transitions across multiple settings. …”
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Board Characteristics and Firm Performance in State-Owned Enterprises by Anaclet ANANGA ONANA

“…In view of the changing socio-economic environment, it became urgent to review this old law in order to adapt the management of these entities with the new realities of New Public Management. These companies are performing against and are generally under the perfusion of the state. …”
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An inversion archaism of the Russian revolution by E.A. Nagornov

“…Pipes have been reinterpreted with regards to the modern realities of the Russian historical process. The revolution has been considered as a regular development of the previous cyclical historical process in Russia.…”
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Powrót do ruin. O atrakcyjności niemieckiego powojnia by Jakub Gortat

“…These attitudes, it is worth emphasizing, sometimes stand in opposition to the prescribed perception of Germany and Germans resulting from Cold War political realities and dictating that the nation be treated with sympathy, trust, friendship, and love as a new ally.…”
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Depression and anxiety symptoms among Afghan war widows and their associated factors: A cross-sectional analytical study by Naqib Ahmad Dost, Muhammad Haroon Stanikzai, Massoma Jafari

“…The findings call for immediate mental health interventions, tailored to the sociopolitical realities of Afghanistan.…”
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Réflexions et jeux d’échelles autour de la notion de « guerre civile européenne » by Romain Bonnet

“…Yet that said, those realities do not correspond to a civil war (which would imply well-defined front lines), nor are they only concerned with the interwar European context (precisely circumscribed between two World Wars, which determined the place of Europe in a world largely unified by and for it for half a Millennium). …”
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History and Philosophy of Science at the Crossroads of Doctoral Education’s Reforms: Polemical Notes by E. N. Ishchenko

“…The transition to a new model of doctoral education, taking into account the modern realities of the knowledge society, should take into account the need to form critical thinking in postgraduate students as the most important competence. …”
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