Innovation and Brands: The Managers’ Perspective in a Multiple Case Study in a Brazilian Region by Rogerio Bevilacqua, Verica Freitas, Veronica Angélica Freitas de Paula

“…At the end, theoretical and managerial contributions are presented that can be applied or adapted to other organizations in their process of innovation and brand management. In this sense, it is important to highlight that, in the studied cases, incremental innovation is dominant; the stage at which successful innovations improve consumer brand awareness, attitude, and usage prevails; and the companies studied could be distributed in two of the innovation possibilities proposed by Brexendorf et al. (2015): follower brands and craft-designer led brands.…”
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Beyond buttons: repurposing of casein-based materials in education and industry—a review by Carlo Santulli

“…In the past two decades, extensive research has been carried out, in a more industrial sense, on the revival of casein-based materials, mostly, but not exclusively, for the production of formaldehyde-free products. …”
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Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński’s Concept of Christians Engagement in Culture by Ryszard Ficek

“… The Christian concept of involvement in culture, as defined by Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński, exposes man in his entire personal vocation from the perspective of all essential dimensions of his existence. In this sense, all historical-political or socio-cultural processes - affecting society as a whole - always refer to a specific human person. …”
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Research on discrete differential solution methods for derivatives of chaotic systems by Xinyu Pan

“…This paper proposes the use of discrete differential derivatives as an alternative to traditional derivatives, and demonstrates that the mean value of discrete derivatives has a clear mathematical relationship with chaotic map parameters in a statistical sense, providing a new direction for subsequent in-depth research and applications.…”
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Tools: Stuff: Art by David Kirshner

“…Satie composed this piece in response to Debussy's criticism that his works lacked a 'sense of form'. What exactly did Debussy mean by this? …”
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Work and Confrontation with the Real for Health Professionals During COVID-19 by Thaís Augusta Cunha de Oliveira Máximo, Tatiana de Lucena Torres, Erick Idalino Moura, Wesley Jordan Pereira da Silva, Lucas Eurikes Melo Vasconcelos, Rian Enedino Pereira Cruz

“…The analyzes showed the precariousness of work characterized by unpredictability and contradictions, generating fear and a sense of exposure to risks that negatively impacted the physical and mental health of workers.…”
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An Extension of the Double G′/G, 1/G-Expansion Method for Conformable Fractional Differential Equations by Altaf A. Al-Shawba, Farah A. Abdullah, Amirah Azmi, M. Ali Akbar

“…The fractional derivative is described in the sense of conformable derivative. From there, the G′/G, 1/G-expansion method is found to be ensuing, effective, and capable to provide functional solutions to nonlinear models concerning physical and engineering problems. …”
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Diaspora and postmodern fecundity by Bishnupriya Ghosh, Bhaskar Sarkar

“…A rise in the volume of migrations and the increasing visibility of varied diasporas - communities that transcend the geopolitical boundaries of the nation-state - demand a new sense of national belonging: national heritage, essence, tradition etc. have lost their immanent valences. …”
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Same-sex marriage: a defense based on foundations of natural law by Pablo Antonio Lago

“…Abstract Laymen in general associate natural law theories to conservative moral conceptions, like traditional marriage of a man and a woman. That makes sense when we notice Catholic Church's position about matrimony or even academic marriage conceptions as the one claimed by John Finnis. …”
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Character education based on the value sand norms of the Indonesian philosophical system by Yulius Rustan Effendi

“…Employing this interpretive approach, the author chronicles the progress in the implementation of character education focused on nurturing students' sense of nationalism. This approach is rooted in the values and appreciation of the norms encapsulated in Pancasila, which, up until now, have not been fully optimized within the school context. …”
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A Technique: Generating Alternative Thoughts by Serkan AKKOYUNLU, M. Hakan TÜRKÇAPAR

“…Despite this view, according to another cognitive perspective in a given situation, there are distinct cognitive representations competing for retrieval from memory just like positive and negative schemas. In this sense generating or strengthening alternative explanations or balanced thoughts that explain the situation better than negative automatic thoughts is one of the important process goals of cognitive therapy.Objective: Aim of this review is to describe methods used to generate alternative/balanced thoughts that are used in examining automatic thoughts and also a part of automatic thought records. …”
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Trabalho cultural no Recôncavo da Bahia: uma abordagem a partir da organização das classes criativas by Mariella Pitombo, Frederico Barbosa, Amanda Botelho

“…Moreover, the indicators have restrictions because they do not capture amateur or nonformal activities - a defining feature of the cultural dynamics of the Recôncavo, strongly shaped by expressions of popular culture. In this sense, the economic dynamism mobilized by cultural production in the region may be even more significant than the data reveal, given the limits of quantitative methods.…”
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Adaptive and Resilient Flight Control System for a Small Unmanned Aerial System by Gonzalo Garcia, Shahriar Keshmiri

“…New nonlinear guidance logic, stable in Lyapunov sense, is developed to guide the aircraft. The designed flight control system has better performance compared to a commercial off-the-shelf autopilot system in guiding and controlling an unmanned air system during a trajectory following.…”
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Data Fusion for Electromagnetic and Electrical Resistive Tomography Based on Maximum Likelihood by Sven Nordebo, Mats Gustafsson, Therese Sjöden, Francesco Soldovieri

“…In this paper, a proper scalar product is defined for the measurements and a truncated Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) based algorithm is devised which combines the measurement data of the two imaging modalities in a way that is optimal in the sense of maximum likelihood. As a multiphysics problem formulation with applications in geophysics, the problem of tunnel detection based on EM and ER tomography is studied in this paper. …”
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Metaheuristic Algorithm for Solving Biobjective Possibility Planning Model of Location-Allocation in Disaster Relief Logistics by Farnaz Barzinpour, Mohsen Saffarian, Ahmad Makoui, Ebrahim Teimoury

“…The main objectives of this model are minimizing the total costs and maximizing the least rate of the satisfaction in the sense of being fair while distributing the items. …”
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NIKLAS LUHMANN’S SOCIAL SYSTEMS THEORY: THE ISSUE OF SUBSYSTEM AUTONOMY by Milorad Djuric, Djordje Stojanovic

“…While within these orientations, (social) systems are mainly interpreted as centralised entities whose structures are stabilised by purpose determined at the top, Luhmann, in his general theory of social systems privileges internal differentiation in which subsystems autonomously define their purposes, making society more flexible and capable of responding to environmental challenges. In that sense, the main intention of this paper is the creation of cognitive interest for the notions of complexity and flexibility, i.e. for the issue of subsystem autonomy, as the important elements of Luhmann’s general theory of social systems. …”
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Concept and features of entrepreneurial activity as an object of administrative and legal protection by V. M. Vasyliev

“…The article is devoted to the study of the category “entrepreneurial activity”, its definition in legal sense, as well as clarification of the legal nature and characteristics. …”
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Plasticity and Awareness of Bodily Distortion by Mariella Pazzaglia, Marta Zantedeschi

“…First, the precision in the body metric may be based on the sight and positioning sense of a particular body segment. This view provides information on the dual nature of body representation, the reliability of a conscious body image, and implicit alterations in the metrics and positional correspondence of body parts. …”
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Investigation of the moderating role of healthy space office in trauma handler organizations in public sectors and ranking its dimensions and components by Skandar shirazi

“…Among them, organizational aspect were the most, and individual aspect was the least influential, In structural aspect, the goals and strategy, in individual aspect, the sense of fairness and in environmental aspect, the social responsibility selected as the most important effective elements of in trauma handler organization.…”
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Graphic Perception System for Visually Impaired Groups by Jingzi Wen

“…In the age of internet, the demand of visually impaired groups to perceive graphic images through tactile sense is becoming stronger and stronger. Image object recognition is a basic task in the field of computer vision. …”
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