Metric-affine cosmological models and the inverse problem of the calculus of variations. Part II: Variational bootstrapping of the $$\Lambda $$ Λ CDM model by Ludovic Ducobu, Nicoleta Voicu

“…In the present paper, we apply variational bootstrapping to determine metric-affine models which are, in a variational sense, closest to the $$\Lambda $$ Λ CDM model of cosmology. …”
Get full text

The Role of Organic Extracts and Inorganic Compounds as Alleviators of Drought Stress in Plants by Pedro Garcia-Caparros, Michele Ciriello, Youssef Rouphael, Maria Giordano

“…Consequently, it is imperative to identify environmentally sustainable alternative solutions to mitigate this problem and enhance overall plant performance. In this sense, biostimulants have emerged as a promising alternative as they improve plant resilience, enhance physiological processes, and mitigate the detrimental consequences of water deficit conditions on crop production. …”
Get full text

Evolution by natural selection is a scientific law and not just a theory by Daniel J.M. Crouch, Walter F. Bodmer

“…The developing knowledge of prokaryotic microorganisms and the discovery of DNA or RNA as the fundamental basis of inheritance in all living organisms, together with Mendel’s laws, now provide the four basic conditions for evolution by natural selection, namely reproduction that is stable, but allows for variation that can increase fitness in the broadest sense. These definitive conditions establish an exponential growth law for evolution by natural selection that applied initially for the longest period of time to the evolution of asexual clonal organisms, and through Mendel's laws, extends to bisexual multicellular organisms. …”
Get full text

Legal responsibility in the structure of the legal status of foreigners and stateless persons by A. M. Rubanenko

“…It is noted that the concept of “responsibility” is used by many branches of scientific knowledge, which imbue it with a peculiar meaning determined by their subject. In a broad sense, responsibility is a special relationship between human actions (people, institutions), intentions, as well as evaluations of these actions by other people or society. …”
Get full text

Examining The Time Prisoners Study Using E-Learning While In Prison: Sustainability of E-Learning Programs in Prison by Mahlangu Vimbi Petrus

“…Furthermore, the results indicate that e-learning programs have the capacity to foster optimism and a sense of direction among incarcerated individuals, providing them with a means to rehabilitate and reintegrate into society effectively after their release. …”
Get full text

Permanência e sucessão no meio rural: o caso dos jovens de Santana do Livramento/RS by Raquel Breitenbach, Alessandra Troian

“…Young people have shown less and less interest in staying in rural areas, but there has been less interest in sequencing the agricultural activities of their parents. In this sense, recognizing the role of young people in the rural development process, the objective of the present study is to analyze the perspectives of the rural young people of Santana do Livramento / RS about the permanence in the rural environment and the interest in the family succession. …”
Get full text

Beyond communication - research as communicating: making user and audience studies matter - paper 2 by Brenda Dervin, CarrieLynn Reinhard, Fei C. Shen

“…</b> We argue for shared dialogue in communicating across the three fields studied here: this will introduce uncertainty, but, rather than relying upon 'authority', the individual will be encouraged through the exploration of that uncertainty, to make their own sense of the offerings of others.…”
Get full text

Analysis of the effect of interpersonal communication, teamwork, and work discipline on the performance of outsole employees by Martha Ayerza Esra, Armi Bakar, Nurlela Nurlela, Toni Sinambela, Amelia Sandra

“…Multi Kreasi Mandiri can: 1) Provide examples to employees to open active and relevant discussions so that Interpersonal Communication can run effectively, 2) Create Teamwork which is better to create a sense of belonging to the company, 3. Improve employee work discipline by controlling the implementation of SOPs continuously.…”
Get full text

Dutch Lives. The Historical Sample of the Netherlands (1987–): Development and Research by Kees Mandemakers, Jan Kok

“…The new database should be 'open' in the sense that extension should be possible in all kinds of ways: more sources or variables, more persons and larger time periods. …”
Get full text

Synthesis and Crystalline Structure of Zinc Complexes with Antihypertensive Drug Lisinopril by Márcia C. de Souza, Luan F. Diniz, Chris H. J. Franco, Renata Diniz

“…The synthesis of LISZn1 used stirring, while for LISZn2 involved solvothermal conditions, which favoured the full deprotonation of lisinopril ligand. In this sense, the different synthetic routes resulted in the formation of complexes with notorious chemical and structural differences. …”
Get full text

Pornography and Speech Act Theory – An In-Depth Survey by Áron Dombrovszki

“…In Section 3, I try to make sense of the prima facie implausible assumption that pornography is speech. …”
Get full text

Event-Based Clustering Architecture for Power Efficiency in Wireless Sensor Networks by Kai-Ting Yang, Wei Kuang Lai, Shu-Min Li, Yuh-Chung Lin

“…An abnormality will be reported to the data center only if the majority of cluster members sense the same event. By reducing unnecessary data transmissions and shortening transmission distances, the proposed mechanism significantly reduces the power consumption and prolongs the network lifetime without influencing the accuracy of event response. …”
Get full text

Important factors in municipality-based pediatric palliation from healthcare professionals’ perspective: A qualitative study by Kristin Skjærseth, Natalie Preminger, May Aasebø Hauken

“…Methods: The bridging theme “Establishing a sense of security and predictability for the family and healthcare professionals” emerged from the analysis. …”
Get full text

Potential Use of Silk Waste in Sustainable Thermoplastic Composite Material Applications: A Review by Tommaso Pini, Matteo Sambucci, Marco Valente

“…The aim of this work was to investigate the possible applications of recycled silk waste in the field of composite materials for load bearing applications. In this sense, some prominent studies in the field of silk-based composites were reported, favoring thermoplastic materials for sustainability reasons. …”
Get full text

Sport specialization and burnout symptoms among adolescent athletes by Benedikt Hösl, Hannah Oberdorfer, Martin Niedermeier, Martin Kopp

“…Non-specialized athletes reported significantly lower scores in the burnout dimension emotional/physical exhaustion (p = .030,d = -0.34), and significantly higher scores in the devaluation (p = .008,d = 0.42) and reduced sense of accomplishment dimension (p = .036,d = 0.33) than specialized athletes. …”
Get full text

Episodic focus formulation in media scholars’ data interaction by Laura Korkeamäki, Heikki Keskustalo, Sanna Kumpulainen

“…We examined focus formulation episodes as sense-making instances. We identified the focus formulation episodes from the interview data and analysed across them by annotating and categorizing. …”
Get full text

Vom Satzmodell zum Modell by Ulrich Kaiser

“…Finally, selected models will be outlined using the Unified Modelling Language (UML) and the value of model design for scientific research in the sense of Niklas Luhmann will be demonstrated.…”
Get full text

Sustaining the Fabric of Time: Urban Heritage, Time Rupture, and Sustainable Development by Kaixuan Wang, Kalliopi Fouseki

“…Time rupture highlights the disconnection between modern development and cultural heritage, often diluting local identity and a sense of place. While it presents challenges to the continuity of urban heritage, it also creates opportunities to redefine historical narratives and enrich cultural meaning. …”
Get full text

Employment of Social Workers in the Public Sector: Current Situation, Challenges and Future Prospects by kamil Alptekin, Selami Topuz, Murat Öz

“…In order to address the employment issue, there is a need for new and regulatory mechanisms to be put in place in the social work profession and education, which will be built with a common sense that is critically filtered. Social workers should boldly appear in areas that have not yet been officially defined such as school social work, industrial social work, international social work, and take active roles in advocacy, public opinion formation and lobbying activities to address the issue. …”
Get full text

Does Terminology Matter? Effects of the Citizen Science Label on Participation in a Wildlife Conservation Online Platform by Poppy McLeod, Jonathon Schuldt, Hwanseok Song, Rhiannon Crain, Janis Dickinson

“…A two-week field experiment (N = 699) with users of an online platform framed as either a citizen science or an environmental stewardship project examined framing and gender effects on engagement, sense of community (SoC), and indicators of pro-environmental interest. …”
Get full text