Econometric Assessment of the Impact of Competitiveness on the Income of the Population in Azerbaijan by Yadulla Hasanli, Sardar Shabanov

“…The GCI index is calculated by the World Economic Forum since 2007. The GCI is an aggregate indicator that includes more than 110 sub-indicators in 12 groups. …”
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Vanilla Cultivation in Southern Florida by Alan H. Chambers, Pamela Moon, Vovener Edmond, Elias Bassil

“… Vanilla extract is popular around the world as an ingredient in ice cream and various other desserts. …”
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We Don’t Know What We Want”: The Ups and Downs of Global Travel in Dave Eggers’s You Shall Know Our Velocity (2002) by Małgorzata Rutkowska

“…All in all, the novel downplays the role of travel in the globalized, homogenized world at the turn of the 21st century.…”
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The revelation of God: How and to whom does God reveals God self to? by H. Mdingi

“… The African world view is not monolithic or homogeneous. However, that being the case, there is a strong metaphysical and existential leaning in terms of Spirit and the world. …”
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Academic Culture of Students in the Assessments of Professors of Classical Universities by E. A. Popov

“…The emphasis is placed on the role of academic culture in the formation of the value world of students. It is established that academic culture is an element of academism, forms social patterns. …”
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La cabane éclatée. Morcellement des objets immobiliers apparentés à l’art brut by Roberta Trapani

“…Artists, critics, researchers and curators contributed to helping bring about a new world of art. A hybrid world of art, related to that of art brut, made up of objects with no artistic pretensions to begin with and whose status has not stopped evolving according to definitions. …”
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Le nahualli-tlahuipuchtli dans le monde nahuatl by Roberto Martínez González

“…The nahualli-tlahuipuchtli in the nahuatl world. One of the least known characters in Lopez Austin’s (1967) article « Forty magician classes in the nahuatl world », is the tlahuipuchtli, a name given actually to some kind of bloodsucking witches. …”
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De l’Océanie divisée à l’Océanie unifiée par la mer. En mémoire de Epeli Hau‘ofa by Serge Tcherkézoff

“…Oceania, shortly after being invented by European geographers as the «fifth» region of the world, in other words simply a ‘remnant’ after the four continents, was divided into watertight compartments as a result of the privilege given in the early 19th century to the theory of human ‘races’ in the world. …”
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Introduction by Milena Lenderová

“… The International Society for Eighteenth-century Studies (ISECS/SIEDS), the body embracing 27 national societies from around the world, organises an international seminar for young researchers every summer. …”
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A educação no contexto da globalização: migrações e direitos humanos by José Marín, Pierre R. Dasen

“…The cultural diversity of knowledge, beliefs and world visions must be considered in the context of biodiversity. …”
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Designing Internet research assignments: building a framework for instructor collaboration by David Ward, Sarah Reisinger

“…Internet knowledge is increasing steadily among instructors in the academic world. As courses incorporate more instructional technology, traditional undergraduate research assignments are adapting to reflect the changing world of information and information access. …”
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Vanilla Cultivation in Southern Florida by Alan H. Chambers, Pamela Moon, Vovener Edmond, Elias Bassil

“… Vanilla extract is popular around the world as an ingredient in ice cream and various other desserts. …”
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Reversing the biblical tide: what Kuruman teaches London about mission in a post-colonial era by S. de Gruchy

“… Through a case study focusing on the shift from the London Missionary Society (LMS) to the Council for World Mission (CWM) this essay argues that there is a hermeneutical circle between the Bible and mission. …”
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Industrial Agglomeration and Location Choice in Services and Retail Sector: The Case of India by Devesh Singh, Zoltán Gál

“…Our research used the 2014 World Enterprise Survey data from World Bank, and it included the 2116 registered companies sample responses.…”
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The electronic commerce development in retail of high-tech consumer goods by A. V. Veretyokhin

“…The features and prospects of e-commerce in the retail of high-tech consumer goods in Russia and in the world have been considered. The main threats and challenges to the development of the industry and its advantages in the context of digitalization have been identified. …”
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A Novel Influence Maximization Algorithm for a Competitive Environment Based on Social Media Data Analytics by Jie Tong, Leilei Shi, Lu Liu, John Panneerselvam, Zixuan Han

“…Online social networks are increasingly connecting people around the world. Influence maximization is a key area of research in online social networks, which identifies influential users during information dissemination. …”
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TOTAL SUSPENDED PARTICULATES FROM CRUDE OIL SPILL by OYETUNJI BABATUNDE OKEDERE, ADEWOLE JOHNSON ADESANMI, JACOB ADEMOLA SONIBARE, OLUSOLA ADEDAYO ADESINA, GBADEBO OMONIYI ADENIYI

“…The statutory limits used were those of Nigeria’s Federal Ministry of Environment (FMENV), World Bank and the World Health Organization (WHO). …”
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Military Unmanned Systems: Current State, Prospects for Limitation and Control by M. G. Yevtodyeva, S. K. Oznobishchev

“…The paper examines different types of modern military unmanned systems — unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), unmanned ground systems and unmanned maritime systems — in terms of related R&D in different countries, changes in world market demand as well as opportunities and prospects for their limitation and control. …”
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