Conceptual Modeling Education as a “Design Problem” by Robert Andrei Buchmann, Ana-Maria Ghiran, Victoria Döller, Dimitris Karagiannis

“…This article frames Conceptual Modeling education as a design problem, in the sense of the Design Science research framework, motivated by student preconceptions and oversimplifications causing a gap between how the discipline is perceived at the bachelor level and the holistic understanding of model value that is required for research work. …”
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The Impact of VR Exhibition Experiences on Presence, Interaction, Immersion, and Satisfaction: Focusing on the Experience Economy Theory (4Es) by Sungbok Chang, Jungho Suh

“…Specifically, this study investigates how virtual exhibition experiences, similar to those in physical galleries, provide a sense of reality, leading to immersion in the artwork and ultimately resulting in satisfaction. …”
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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. …”
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THE GENESIS AND EVOLUTION OF THE FRANCE’S CULTURAL DIPLOMACY THROUGH CENTURIES by S. I. Kossenko

“…However, if the splendour and attractiveness of the French culture succeeded to tide over the reverses of times, it happened first of all owing to a streamlined cultural policy pursued through ages by ruling circles of this country –from luminous monarchs to modern presidents. In that sense the cultural policy as a target oriented action by the State aimed at the preservation and protection of national cultural particularity is a purely French “invention”, a phenomena which takes its roots in the depths of the national history and maintains its continuity through centuries. …”
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Scheduling IT Staff at a Bank: A Mathematical Programming Approach by M. Labidi, M. Mrad, A. Gharbi, M. A. Louly

“…This problem can be defined as the process of constructing optimized work schedules for staff. In a general sense, it requires the allocation of suitably qualified staff to specific shifts to meet the demands for services of an organization while observing workplace regulations and attempting to satisfy individual work preferences. …”
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Increasing ADC dynamic range in information-measuring systems by methods of digital signal processing by B. V. Chuvykin, M. M. Nikiforov

“…The conclusion is made about the prospects of using the least squares method, since in this case the interpolation error is the smallest in the mean square sense.…”
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Health information sharing – conceptual clarification and exploratory analysis in the context of mammography screening by Paula Stehr, Elena Link, Constanze Rossmann

“…The results shed light on two facets for the conceptual clarification of health information sharing: sharing in the sense of selecting and passing on information (cf. diffusion of information by opinion leaders) and sharing as the mutual exchange of opinions and experiences. …”
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Rise of Love and the People: French Matter and Manner in the Early Victorian Drama of Edward Bulwer-Lytton by Ana Fernández-Caparrós Turina

“…Beyond using French sources and setting the action of these plays in France, the inspiration from French culture and history crucially imbued Bulwer with a sense of freedom to essay his peculiar and intuitive conflation of politics and romance. …”
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A Series Solution for the Vibration of Mindlin Rectangular Plates with Elastic Point Supports around the Edges by Fuzhen Pang, Haichao Li, Yuan Du, Shuo Li, Hailong Chen, Ning Liu

“…This series solution is approximately accurate in the sense that it explicitly satisfies, to any specified accuracy, both the governing equations and the boundary conditions. …”
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Integrated Scheduling Problem on a Single Bounded Batch Machine with an Unavailability Constraint by Jing Fan

“…We show that these four problems are NP-hard in the strong sense in which the jobs have the same processing times and arbitrary sizes, and we propose an approximation algorithm for solving these four problems. …”
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The Narrator as Mediator and Explicator in Victorian and Edwardian Retellings of Shakespeare for Children by Laura Tosi

“…It appears that Shakespeare occupied too crucial a position in Victorian childhood pedagogy to give young readers the freedom to try and resolve (or simply make sense of) textual and moral ambiguities in an uncontrolled way.…”
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Christianity and Islam - the development of modern science nad the genesis of the modern (just) state by D. F. M. Strauss

“…Since the Muslim world is still embedded in the relatively undifferentiated embrace of a societal setting guided and integrated by the Muslim faith it did not succeed  as yet to transcend the inherent limitations entailed in a typical empire in the classical sense of the word. …”
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A Framework for the Evaluation of the Feasibility of Public – Private Partnership in Local Government in Serbia by Sladjana Benkovic, Nemanja Milanovic, Milos Milosavljevic

“…Additonally, these goals are refected in the establishment of a system to increase the share of public investment in the total expenses of countes and cites, as well as in the vertcal balance with regard to the distributon of revenue and jurisdicton at various state levels. In that sense, it is preferable to understand fnancial models such as public-private partnerships, which have stll not, to an adequate degree, been adopted in Serbia, but one which could potentally contribute to the introducton of additonal sources of local government fnancing. …”
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“Ethereal Journeys” of a Wanderer in William Cowper and Yahya Kemal Beyatlı by Şafak Altunsoy

“…Besides adapting Foucault’s theory of space in “Of Other Spaces” for the comparative analysis of the poems, the study also suggests that the narrators of Cowper and Beyatlı find solace and a sense of renewal within the confines of their homes or the natural landscape providing a recuperative space with the affirming reminiscences. …”
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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. …”
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Adjectives and Modal Verbs Used in Horoscopes in Dawn Newspapers and their Impact on Readers: A Corpus-Assisted Study by Saqlain Hassan, Jamshaid Anjum, Zafar Ullah Shaheen

“…Furthermore, these adjectives impact the readers' emotions positively and the modal verbs mainly provide a sense of hope and control regarding the future.…”
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First year Health Psychology students perception of responsibility as a value in their professors by José Antonio Pomares Alfonso, Ana María Molina Gómez

“…<strong>Background:</strong> as teachers are able to express in their conduct and relationships with the students values such as responsibility, love for their country and profession, honesty and sense of justice, among others, they will enhance their preparation as a learning motive. …”
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Monasterium, cella, abbatia… Enquête sur les différents termes désignant les communautés religieuses au haut Moyen Âge (ve-milieu ixe siècle) et leur signification by Michèle Gaillard

“…We have also selected some terms which do not designate buildings, but men (or women) who led a religious life in those houses : congregatio with a strong institutional meaning and conventus, with a less institutional sense. There are also words like claustrum and xenodochium which can be associated with a monastery but which do not allow us to affirm the existence of a house. …”
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Discussion on the Classification of Chinese Flour Products by WEI Yi-min

“…The common names were clarified, the classification tree of flour products was preliminarily established, and the problems encountered in the classification process were discussed. In a sense, the classification of flour products is a preliminary exploration or generalization of the relationships between foods, the evolution of diets, and the connections between food supply and human evolution. …”
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Empowering communities through social learning: Enhancing engagement in waste management at Mandiri Kasturi by Fajri Hidayatul, Saputra Boni, Pegi Andre Lofika, Renaldi Irfan, Halawa Historis Soterman, Wahyuni Nila

“…The results showed that social learning within the community could optimize participation and create a sense of collective responsibility in maintaining environmental cleanliness. …”
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