Use of the Internet and its Impact on Productivity and Sales Growth in Female-Owned Firms: Evidence from India by Aparna Gosavi

“…However, further empirical analysis shows that more intensive adopton of the Internet by these female-owned frms does not necessarily translate into beter performance. Specifcally, the adopton of the Internet does not make female-owned frms more or less likely to have beter productvity and sales growth in contrast to that of their male counterparts.…”
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Bush versus Bin Laden in Time by Johann de Wet

“…It was found that the cultural code translates into: the United States and the Western World are the beacons of democracy and freedom, while Islam (more specifically Muslim fundamentalists) represents authoritarianism, repression and bondage. …”
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Teacher Overinvolvement and Student Depression among Junior High School Students in Taiwan by Fen Fen Huang, Cou Chen Wu, Chang Ya Hu, Sun Shen Yang

“…A survey instrument adapted and translated from existing surveys was distributed to 1,479 Taiwanese adolescents aged 13—15 years and 172 teachers from 10 public junior high schools in the city of Taipei. …”
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Determining the nonlinear damping function using experiments by B. A. Kalashnikov, V. V. Bokhan, K. V. Penkov

“…In this article, the coefficients of the nonlinear damping function of a mechanical system with one translational degree of freedom are determined from an experimentally obtained oscillogram of free vibrations. …”
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Arabic version of Pediatric Sleep Questionnaire (PSQ) by Wafaa Helmy Abd El-hakeem, Sara Ibrahim Sayed, Fatma Wafik Shahin

“…Methods The PSQ was translated into Arabic and culturally adapted to develop the APSQ. …”
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Major data gaps and recommendations in monitoring regulations of activities in EU marine protected areas by Juliette Aminian-Biquet, Jennifer Sletten, Timothé Vincent, Margherita Pieraccini, Betty Queffelec, Anastasiya Laznya, Natașa Vaidianu, Joachim Claudet, Juliette Young, Barbara Horta e Costa

“…We discuss gaps in MPA regulatory data in light of existing reporting requirements, insufficient connection between various actors and data sources, and challenges in translating legal information into actionable indicators. …”
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سمات الأنا الشعرية الأنثوية الحداثية بين روضة الحاج وفروغ فرخزاد (مقدمة نقدية نفسية مقارنة) by Baraa Khaled Hilal

“…In the modern era, Ego witnessed many transformations, with the emergence of the romantic school, but the symbolic and existential schools  created another form of the Ego, emerged from psychiatric clinics and was crystallized by the Austrian psychologist (Sigmund Freud), I intend to address one type of these new poetic transformations,   classical characteristics of Female Ego in the works of the Sudanese poet Rawdha Al-Hajj compared to the Iranian poet Forough Farrokhzad." the Sudanese I will study the classical poetic female ego and its features, in their Arabic or translated into Arabic poetry. My study will be a critical comparative study in the light of the psychological approach. …”
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Calculation of Liquidus Temperature for Aluminum and Magnesium Alloys Applying Method of Equivalency by Mile B. Djurdjević, Srećko Manasijević, Zoran Odanović, Natalija Dolić

“…According to this concept, the influence of any alloying element on the liquidus temperature of an aluminum and/or magnesium alloy can be translated into the equivalent influence of a reference element. …”
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Cutting Edge: Biomarkers for Chronic Spontaneous Urticaria by Marco Folci, Enrico Heffler, Giorgio W. Canonica, Raffaello Furlan, Enrico Brunetta

“…Several biomarkers are currently being studied with the purpose to predict the response to a defined therapy; unfortunately, none of them are ready to be translated from bench to bedside.…”
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A standardized image processing and data quality platform for rodent fMRI by Gabriel Desrosiers-Grégoire, Gabriel A. Devenyi, Joanes Grandjean, M. Mallar Chakravarty

“…Taken together, this software platform will allow the emerging community to adopt reproducible practices and foster progress in translational neuroscience.…”
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Understanding glioblastoma at the single-cell level: Recent advances and future challenges. by Yahaya A Yabo, Dieter Henrik Heiland

“…However, despite advances in single-cell technologies, challenges such as high costs, complex data analysis and interpretation, and difficulties in translating findings into clinical practice persist. …”
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Bicuspid Aortic Valve and Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm: Three Patient Populations, Two Disease Phenotypes, and One Shared Genotype by Robert B. Hinton

“…Likewise, human genetics studies have established apparently separate and common contributions to these clinical phenotypes, suggesting complex inheritance and a shared genetic basis and translating 3 patient populations, namely, BAV, TAA, or both, into a common but diverse etiology. …”
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Embedding research capacity strengthening in multi-country studies in low-and middle-income countries: learnings from sexual and reproductive health research by Anne M. Khisa, Hesborn Wao, Vanessa Brizuela, Rachidatou Compaoré, Adama Baguiya, Alejandra López Gómez, Mercedes Bonet, Seni Kouanda, Anna Thorson, Evelyn Gitau

“…Research capacity strengthening (RCS) can empower individuals, institutions, networks, or countries to define and prioritize problems systematically; develop and scientifically evaluate appropriate solutions; and reinforce or improve capacities to translate knowledge into policy and practice. However, how to embed RCS into multi-country studies focusing on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) is largely undocumented. …”
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Géohistoire environnementale : contours sémantiques et conceptuels. Discussions sur les héritages et patrimoines reconnus aux zones humides fluviales by Delphine Gramond

“…The recent strategies of management of wetlands, aiming to maintenance or to the reconquest of these ecosystems, focus on the ecosystemic functions - translated into terms of ecosystems services according to the Millenium Ecosystem Assesment conceptual Framework - on the one hand, and by underlining more and more strongly on the other hand the values, in particular the heritage values, that we can recognize to them; this approach, broadly utilitarian, asks the question of the natural environment readjustement potentiality and de facto requires to interpret their(s) “trajectories” put rhythm into by biophysics and humans dynamics, which have temporalities and spatialities quite complex and intricate. …”
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A law of meaning by Bernhard Wälchli, Anna Sjöberg

“…We implement the law in an algorithm using Dunning’s log-likelihood and illustrate it by extracting markers for ‘know’, negation, first person subject and complementizers from translations of the New Testament in a variety sample of 83 languages with manual evaluation of all extracted markers. …”
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Le temps, le mouvement et l’immobilité dans les œuvres littéraires et photographiques de Claude Simon by Joanna Kotowska-Miziniak

“…Influenced by the formal experiments of the Nouveau Roman, Simon rejects the traditional temporal structure of narrative in favor of Faulkner’s conception of the eternal “present of writing”, which translates at the photographic level where the present is split between the experience of the Operator (the photographer) and the Spectrum (the subject of the photograph). …”
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Suppression of MRI Truncation Artifacts Using Total Variation Constrained Data Extrapolation by Kai Tobias Block, Martin Uecker, Jens Frahm

“…The method allows for a significant reduction of truncation artifacts without compromising resolution. The assumption translates into a total variation minimization problem, which can be solved with a nonlinear optimization algorithm. …”
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Micro Immune Response On-chip (MIRO) models the tumour-stroma interface for immunotherapy testing by Alice Perucca, Andrea Gómez Llonín, Oriol Mañé Benach, Clement Hallopeau, Elisa I. Rivas, Jenniffer Linares, Marta Garrido, Anna Sallent-Aragay, Tom Golde, Julien Colombelli, Eleni Dalaka, Judith Linacero, Marina Cazorla, Teresa Galan, Jordi Pastor Viel, Xavier Badenas, Alba Recort-Bascuas, Laura Comerma, Patricia Fernandez-Nogueira, Ana Rovira, Pere Roca-Cusachs, Joan Albanell, Xavier Trepat, Alexandre Calon, Anna Labernadie

“…Collectively, our study underscores the translational value of MIRO as a powerful tool for exploring how the spatial organisation of the tumour microenvironment shapes the immune landscape and influences the responses to immunomodulating therapies.…”
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Analysing Academic Texts with Computational Linguistics Tools by E. I. Shpit, V. N. Kurovskii

“…Writing academic texts in English introduces certain difficulties associated with translating Russian sentences with pronounced stylistic peculiarities, especially for young researchers who are just starting their publication activity. …”
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Assessment tool addresses implementation challenges of ecosystem-based management principles in marine spatial planning processes by Ibon Galparsoro, Natalia Montero, Gotzon Mandiola, Iratxe Menchaca, Ángel Borja, Wesley Flannery, Stelios Katsanevakis, Simonetta Fraschetti, Erika Fabbrizzi, Michael Elliott, Maria Bas, Steve Barnard, GerJan Piet, Sylvaine Giakoumi, Maren Kruse, Ben McAteer, Robert Mzungu Runya, Olga Lukyanova, Telmo Morato, Annaïk Van Gerven, Steven Degraer, Stefan Neuenfeldt, Vanessa Stelzenmüller

“…Here, we use a comprehensive literature review and a co-development process with experts to build an assessment framework and tool that integrates the fundamental principles of an ecosystem approach to management and translates them into specific actions to be undertaken during planning processes. …”
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