Coordinating a Three-Level Fresh Agricultural Product Supply Chain considering Option Contract under Spot Price Uncertainty by Changhua Liao, Qihui Lu

“…The supply chain can be simultaneously fully coordinated and achieve Pareto improvement by setting reasonable option contract parameters, but the conditions for coordination are rigorous. …”
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Digitalisation and jobs: The case of organisations in the Vitebsk area of Belarus by Alena V. Vankevich, Iryna N. Kalinouskaya

“…Lack of insight into the reasons behind organisations generating admittedly oversized number of vacancies leads to making irrelevant decisions on the regulation of the labour market. …”
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Aerodynamic Optimization Design of a Multistage Centrifugal Steam Turbine and Its Off-Design Performance Analysis by Hui Li, Dian-Gui Huang

“…The results exhibit reasonable flow field and smooth streamline; the aerodynamic performance of the designed turbine meets our initial expectations. …”
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COVID-19 pandemic as a trigger for digitalization of the society, state and business by T. Yu. Krotenko

“…Its basic features are just being outlined, but a general conscious desire to streamline and automate many processes, to the reasonable digitalization of society, the state and business is already noticeable. …”
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The interrelationship between food security, climate change, and gender-based violence: A scoping review with system dynamics modeling. by Pooja Agrawal, Lori Ann Post, Janis Glover, Denise Hersey, Piya Oberoi, Brian Biroscak

“…Gender-based violence (GBV) is a global public health and human rights problem that is exacerbated by social and environmental stressors for a multitude of interpersonal, cultural, and economic reasons. Through sudden disruptions in the microclimate of a region, climate shocks often have a negative impact on food security, which correlates with increases in GBV. …”
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Gestion des sols et des substrats pour la nature et l’agriculture urbaines à Strasbourg : vers un renouvellement des représentations et des pratiques des circulations de matière ?... by Adrien Baysse-Lainé, Laure Cormier, Kevin Gaulier

“…As a result, the in situ management of inherited soils remains limited to community gardens and a joint development zone (in French zone d’aménagement concerté or ZAC) due to economic reasons and emerging political constraints. Although not exhaustive, the cross-sectional analysis on the scale of a city presented in the article sheds light on the systemic and multi-scalar nature of the circulation of materials, as well as of the trends affecting the balances between the typologies of circuits and materials.…”
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Public Policy Design and Implementation in Slovenia by Jernej Mencinger, Polonca Kovač, Tina Jukić, Mirko Vintar

“…Therefore, it is important to investigate and understand the reasons why an individual country, such as Slovenia, does not exploit all potential aspects of carrying out policy activities in a systematic and coherent manner. …”
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Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus. Case Presentation by María Octavina Rodríguez Roque, Didiesdle Herrera Alonso, Ada Sánchez Lozano, Marines Herrera Rodríguez

“…Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus, also known as Adult Chronic Hydrocephalus is usually produced in elder people due to an increase of cerebrospinal fluid in brain cavities, in general without an increase of intracranial pressure, but which can damage the brain. For such reasons, the case of a 67 year old mestizo, married patient is presented. …”
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Pourquoi il faut rompre avec l’idéologie du bien-être en éducation by Philippe Meirieu

“…This text proposes a reflection on a pedagogy of well-becoming, insofar as it aims at the emancipation of the child, and the reasons why it cannot fit into the paradigm of « personal development ».…”
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“Social Elevator”: Research of Affirmative Action Program by E. A. Tarasova

“…This work investigates the academic performance of students enrolled in the “Social Elevator” program at Higher School of Economics (HSE University), which operates under the principle of affirmative action and aims to assist those students who have lower chances of admission due to various social reasons in a highly competitive environment. Objective admissions in Russian universities and the high selectivity of the HSE University, discussed in this paper, do not confidently allow the application of conclusions from foreign studies to the Russian experience. …”
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Religious Groups and Their Influence on Interstate Relations (The Case of U.S.-Israel Relations) by I. Istomin

“…Despite the fact that leaders of both group often use theological reasons to justify their support for Israel, the real motivation of the most regular members is primarily humanitarian and pragmatic. …”
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Peculiarities of interspousal relations in infertile marriages by V. A. Stepanova

“…The issue of marital relations in infertile marriages that experience difficulties in conceiving a child for unknown (unspecified) reasons has been analyzed. In the study aimed at identifying the peculiarities of interspousal relations, 312 married couples with women having unspecified infertility took part. …”
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Effects of Using Pozzolan and Portland Cement in the Treatment of Dispersive Clay by A. H. Vakili, M. R. Selamat, H. Moayedi

“…The results indicate that although simultaneous treatment with pozzolan and cement would extend the required curing time in comparison to treatment by cement alone of a higher content, the task could still be carried out in a reasonable period of curing time while avoiding the drawbacks of using either pozzolan or cement alone.…”
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Shear Resistance Contribution of Constituent Elements Consisting RCS Joint by Eun-Jin Lee, Jeong-Ho Moon, Moon-Sung Lee

“…Comparison between experiment and analysis results showed that the stiffness and strength of the RCS joint were reasonably assessed from the analysis. As a result of the analysis, it was found that TB, E-FBP, and CP increased the shear strength by about 15%, 14%, and 26%, respectively. …”
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An Inheritance Mode of Rural Cultural Heritage Based on Virtual Museum in China by Yuhui Yang, Hao Zhang, Mo Chen, Youbin Jiang, Huifang Chai

“…The inheritance crisis of rural cultural heritage needs reasonable solutions, and our results can be a guideline for building virtual museums in rural areas to promote wide, fast, and sustainable cultural inheritance.…”
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Approximate Relationship for the Bond-Slip Using a Concrete Damage-Plastic Model by Ramin Tabatabaei Mirhosseini, Ehsan Araghizadeh, Soroush Rashidi

“…The proposed approximate relationship has reasonable accuracy and lower computational cost.…”
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The benefits of applying Kahoot media in modern EFL teaching-learning contexts by Kristian Florensio Wijaya

“…It will be more reasonable for second language teachers to be more literate concerning the optimal internalization of proper technological learning platforms in their habitual classroom activities. …”
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Ce que le roman catholique fait au roman sentimental : le cas de la collection « Amour et aventure » by Marie-Pier Luneau, Jean-Philippe Warren

“…Analysing these publications from the perspective of the more commercial sentimental novels, this article seeks to understand the reasons behind its failure.…”
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Awareness and Practice of Deep Margin Elevation among Dental Practitioners in India: A Cross-Sectional Survey by Mythri Padaru, Preethesh Shetty, Namith Rai, Raksha Bhat

“…Results: Although most respondents were aware of DME, only 27.4% claimed to have used this approach in daily practice. 60.4% reasoned out that DME was a technique-sensitive procedure. …”
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La forêt linéaire by Denis Delbaere

“…At the same time, in recent years has emerged a more reasoned approach to the afforestation of infrastructures as a resource for the aesthetic and economic development of these areas through the production and exploitation of the biomass. …”
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