The Complexity and Simulation of Revenue Sharing Negotiation Based on Construction Stakeholders by Qingfeng Meng, Jingxian Chen, Kun Qian

“…Considering that the agents who are in a weak position not only care about their own benefits but also compare their benefits to others, we design an experimental scenario where a contractor has fairness preference based on China’s reality. According to different sympathy and envy coefficients, we can divide the inequity aversion preference into three typical types, and we research how a contractor’s different types of inequity aversion preferences impact revenue sharing coefficient of agreements, results of successful negotiations, and efficiency in negotiations. …”
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Le maïs et la mémoire bioculturelle de Mésoamérique by Víctor M. Toledo, Narciso Barrera-Bassols

“…Through an ethnoecological approach, this example - along with many others - reveals the inseparable relationships between existing beings from the Mesoamerican world (Kosmos), the cognitive systems that organize reality (Corpus), and practices resulting from a thousand-year-old experience surrounding corn cultivation (Praxis). …”
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Art therapy and brain injury: making the invisible visible by Denise R. Wolf, Michele D. Rattigan

“…This may prompt the patient to question the reality of their somatic and cognitive experiences. …”
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Goddess Worship and New Spirituality in the Postmodern World: a Brief Overview by T. V. Danylova

“…Identifying herself with the images of the Goddesses, a woman develops self-awareness and self-acceptance that contribute greatly to her reintegration with a wider spiritual reality. The cult of the Goddess finds practical application in women’s lives. …”
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Organizational leniency: examining the consequences of ignoring performance problems in public organizations by Gustavo M. Tavares, Bradley E. Wright, Filipe Sobral

“…Abstract Organizational leniency, defined as management’s systematic failure to address performance problems (such as low productivity, poor quality of work, absenteeism, etc.), is often a reality in public organizations. We posit that the negative consequences of organizational leniency may extend beyond the lost productivity of a few poor-performing employees. …”
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A Ship Emerges in the Distance... People Stand and Applaud. The (Un)obvious Contexts of the Wrocław Sea Festival Celebrations in June 1945 by Joanna Nowosielska-Sobel

“…How did this issue appear from the perspective of the local society defined by the immediate post-war reality? The realisation of this goal has been designed in the form of presenting and analysing the (un)obvious contexts of the Sea Festival celebrations in Wrocław in 1945, which have not yet (similarly to other parts of the “Recovered Territories”) received the attention they deserve from historians. …”
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Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells in Cardiovascular Medicine by Toru Egashira, Shinsuke Yuasa, Keiichi Fukuda

“…Although there remain some unsolved problems, cardiomyocyte transplantation may be a reality in the future. After those problems will be solved, applications of human iPS cells in human cardiovascular regenerative medicine will be envisaged for the future. …”
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Plotinus’ νοητή ουσία means substance paths to the Absolute by Robert Warchał

“…Plotinus transcends the traditional dualism of being and non-being by showing that mind and soul are integral components of immaterial reality. In doing so, he makes it clear that human self-knowledge has an existential-subjective quality, based on the capacity for spiritual intuition. …”
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Fusing Depth and Silhouette for Scanning Transparent Object with RGB-D Sensor by Yijun Ji, Qing Xia, Zhijiang Zhang

“…3D reconstruction based on structured light or laser scan has been widely used in industrial measurement, robot navigation, and virtual reality. However, most modern range sensors fail to scan transparent objects and some other special materials, of which the surface cannot reflect back the accurate depth because of the absorption and refraction of light. …”
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Higher Education as Soft Power Potential of Russia by M. M. Lebedeva, J. Fort

“…Russia is battling to improve its image abroad and actively develops its higher education supply for foreign students and is promoting its role as the main educational center for CIS countries. In reality international education is mostly a potential for Russia as no clear program or structure to develop international education exists in the country.…”
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Cyber Diplomacy under Increased Competition Between the Great Powers by E. S. Zinovieva

“…The fragmentation of the Internet, which has replaced information globalization, is becoming a new reality. Digital technologies and the Internet are becoming a field of new geopolitical contradictions and a struggle for leadership between the great powers. …”
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Habiter en écovillage, une [éco]utopie du xxie siècle ? by Sylvia Amar

“…Living, Experimenting, Building are the axes proposed to present the cited case studies and highlight their ability to act on reality, even on very small scales.…”
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The Opportunity for a Sustainable Social Economy in Vacant Spain: An Empirical Analysis in COVID-19 Confinement by Natividad Buceta-Albillos, Esperanza Ayuga-Téllez

“…Digitalisation, the social economy, the bio-economy, and the revitalisation of heritage seem to be the drivers for achieving the challenges proposed. By perceiving reality through a lens that values nature and creative intelligence, a new avenue of opportunities may be opened up, leading to an improvement in quality of life and well-being, and potentially retaining the rural population. …”
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Por una economía orientada hacia la reproducción de la vida by Franz J. Hinkelammert, Henry Mora Jiménez

“…This article suggests that in order to attain this rationality, a criticism of the logic of empirical fetishism is necessary; so too, is a critique of our understanding of reality constituted entirely by market relations. …”
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A Technique: Examining the Evidence by Serkan AKKOYUNLU, Mehmet Hakan TÜRKÇAPAR

“…Introduction: Cognitive therapy is based on the realistic epistemology which exerts that there is an objective reality beyond human experience. Cognitive models of psychopathology stipulate that the processing of external event or internal stimuli is biased and therefore systematically distorts the individual’s construction of his or her experiences, leading to a variety of cognitive errors. …”
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Health Keeping in the Views of Students: Features and Formation Factors by A. V. Liadova

“…In addition, it should be taken into account that modern students are digital generation Z, who are famous for their deep involvement into online reality that has a significant impact on the construction of their values and ideas, including those about health. …”
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Scalable Context-Based Facial Emotion Recognition Using Facial Landmarks and Attention Mechanism by Savina Jassica Colaco, Dong Seog Han

“…This advancement is expected to contribute substantially to fields such as augmented reality, medical imaging, and sophisticated human-computer interaction systems.…”
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Ethnicity in Censuses as an Instrument of Institutional Change: Theoretical Aspect by Mariya V. Nazukina

“…Based on the theoretical foundation of the socio-constructivist approach, it is shown that the census not only and not so much reflects social reality in its ethnic aspect, but rather constructs it. …”
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Globalisation as a factor of marketing concepts’ evolution by I. V. Alyoshina

“…The research aims to reveal the logic of the marketing concepts’ evolution in the context of globalization processes of the XX–XXI centuries in order to identify the emerging marketing paradigm, meaningful for Russian realities. The globalization of markets, the economy and public life is interpreted as an objective reality determined by scientific and technological progress. …”
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Islam kontemporer dan moderasi beragama: studi kasus radikalisasi di Sumatera Utara by Muthiatul Khairiyah, Amru Abdul Wadud, Amriansyah Pohan, Rizkiyah Purnama

“…This research aims to analyze the contemporary reality of Islam in Indonesia, focusing on the challenges of radicalization and the importance of religious moderation, as well as efforts to maintain inter-religious and ethnic harmony in North Sumatra. …”
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