The Instrumentalization of Metaphors in the Management Field: Reflections from the use of the Book “The Art of War” on Business by Luiz Gustavo Lara, Fabio Vizeu, Elizeu Barroso Alves

“…From a hermeneutic-critical perspective, we argue that the use of metaphors in managerial literature sometimes reflects a utilitarian and anachronistic distortion of the contexts originating in metaphorical symbolic forms. In this sense, the strategic use of language can inhibit the interpretive autonomy of individuals, that is, colonize their interpretive horizons by the persuasive induction of simplistic and utilitarian worldviews about organizational reality. …”
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A Conceptual Framework for the Analysis of First-Person Shooter Audio and its Potential Use for Game Engines by Mark Grimshaw, Gareth Schott

“…The framework was created in order to illustrate and acknowledge the direct role of in-game audio in shaping player-player interactions and in creating a sense of immersion in the game world. Furthermore, it is argued that the relationship between player and sound is best conceptualized theoretically as an acoustic ecology. …”
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Percepções de justiça e competências políticas em Nova Iguaçu (RJ) by Jussara Freire

“…The adequate mobilization of tools makes their political participation to be taken seriously in the sense that their public claims are publicly recognized as priorities. …”
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Addressing Misconceptions about Wildland-Urban Interface Issues by Martha C. Monroe

“…They may have an experience, or may have heard something from neighbors, which helps them construct explanations and understandings that make sense to them. The challenge for extension agents and resource managers is to understand the beliefs that are interfering with the acceptance of new concepts, acknowledge them, show how they are incomplete, and help people restructure their mental models to accommodate the new information. …”
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Analysis of survival-skills among adolescents in Yogyakarta by Enik Nurkholidah, Syamsu Yusuf, Ilfiandra Ilfiandra, Ahman Ahman

“…The conclusion of this study is an affirmation of the findings of the findings as well as answers to the research questions that adolescents in Yogyakarta are generally in the potential of Survival-Safety Skills in the Medium category, meaning that conditions are sufficient to survive safely and obtain a sense of security for adolescents in living a life more prosperous. …”
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Regional Inequalities in Brazil: Divergent Readings on Their Origin and Public Policy Design by Simone Affonso da Silva

“…Moreover, it discusses the essence of major policies established by the Brazilian Federal Government since the mid-20th century in order to politically, economically, and socially impact the sociospatial dynamics that are at the core of the regional issue. In this sense, Development Poles, National Integration and Development Axes, and the National Policy for Regional Development stand out. …”
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ANALYSIS AND FORECASTING THE DYNAMICS OF ADVERTISING BOTS ACTIVITY by Yu. V. Trushina, M. N. Belousova, E. Yu. Belova, V. A. Belousov

“…Taking into account the recent trends in e-commerce and social media marketing, it makes sense to evaluate the possibility of borrowing promotion strategies from producers of abstract, potentially  monetized electronic content. …”
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‘What’s Your Story?’ Building Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion by Candice Harrison-Train, Carmel Marock, Sally Field

“…Throughout history, telling stories has been a method for people to make sense of their environment, organise experiences and ideas, and communicate with their community to create shared understanding. …”
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Well-Posedness for a Class of Strongly Mixed Variational-Hemivariational Inequalities with Perturbations by Lu-Chuan Ceng, Ngai-Ching Wong, Jen-Chih Yao

“…We establish some metric characterizations for the well-posed strongly mixed variational-hemivariational inequality and give some conditions under which the strongly mixed variational-hemivariational inequality is strongly well-posed in the generalized sense. On the other hand, it is also proven that under some mild conditions there holds the equivalence between the well posedness for a strongly mixed variational-hemivariational inequality and the well-posedness for the corresponding inclusion problem.…”
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SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND ENERGY SECURITY by Adina TATAR, Dragos PASCULESCU, Florin Gabriel POPESCU, Teodora LAZAR

“…The current priorities of the energy sector are correlated with those of the European Union, with the effort to limit the consequences of climate change, and to carry out activities in the sense of the sustainable development of society. …”
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Optimality Conditions and Scalarization of Approximate Quasi Weak Efficient Solutions for Vector Equilibrium Problem by Yameng Zhang, Guolin Yu, Wenyan Han

“…Under the assumption of introduced convexity, a sufficient optimality condition for VEP in sense of approximate quasi weak efficiency is also presented. …”
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Yorùbá Coastal Christian Communities: From the Evangelist Band Mission to the Zion and Holy Apostles Communities by Adégbọlá Tolú Adéfì

“…While the different conditions of the periods in which these movements operated, and the different conditions in which these religious activities were organized, matter, both movements offered their converts a new understanding of the world in which existing practices, were re-examined through an engagement with education and ‘modernity’ in a more general sense, and through existing forms of spiritual expression such as music, dance, and dress. …”
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Acts of Exposure: Reckoning with Representations of HIV and Sexual Identity in Morocco by Anne M. Montgomery, Abderrahim El Habachi

“…At the center is an original piece of creative non-fiction, The Story of Naoufel (by El Habachi), which explores the challenges faced by a young gay Moroccan struggling to find care and a sense of belonging after being diagnosed with HIV. …”
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A Non-Integer Variable Order Mathematical Model of Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Malaria Coinfection with Time Delay by A. A. M. Arafa, M. Khalil, A. Sayed

“…Also, numerical simulations are presented for different variable fractional-order derivatives in Caputo sense.…”
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Optimal Pricing of Spectrum Resources in Wireless Opportunistic Access by Hanna Bogucka

“…The users equipment, or the network nodes in general are able to sense the spectrum and adopt a subset of available resources (the spectrum and the power) individually and independently in a distributed manner, that is, based on their local channel quality information and not knowing the Channel State Information (CSI) of the other nodes' links in the considered network area. …”
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Invisibilidade social a partir do filme “O som ao redor”: uma análise honnethiana das patologias sociais no Brasil by Thiago Aguiar Simim

“…Honneth demonstrates how primarily films and novels can draw attention to social pathologies in the sense pursued in his model of critical theory, thus creating tracks to investigate a particular understanding of a society situated in its time. …”
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What Might I Like My Kids to Learn about Life?: In Search of “Tradition” by Anthony McCann

“…I offer a personal-is-political account of “tradition” to open up analytic opportunities, as I seek to make more appropriate sense of learnings, relationships, and death.…”
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Le paysage périurbain, outil de coopération entre métropoles européennes alpines by Aurore Meyfroidt

“…The diversity of terrains and the inter-cultural context raise questions about how public landscape policies are defined, in the sense that these are conditioned by the respective positions of stakeholders in an action research perspective. …”
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Materiality of TEI Encoding and Decoding: An Analysis of the Western European Union Archives on Armament Policy by Florentina Armaselu, Verónica Martins, Catherine Emma Jones

“…From a larger perspective, the study considers the TEI encoding as adding to the original text a “material” layer that further supports both machine and human interpretation (decoding). In this sense, this study may move closer to the concept of “material hermeneutics,” by understanding code, and digital technology in general, as an instrument we can use in hermeneutic ways to produce knowledge.…”
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From the Capitol to the Heartland: Analyzing Congressional Rhetoric and the "Flyover Country" Narrative by Phillip Ardoin

“…The study reveals that "flyover" is employed to evoke a sense of victimhood and marginalization among rural constituents, highlighting perceived economic and cultural disenfranchisement by coastal elites. …”
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