Chronotope, technology affordances, and task design: using WeChat to facilitate Chinese learning in the classroom by Wang Xuan

“…This chronotopic expansion enables learners to be positioned in digitally mediated and simulated scenarios and roles that transcend the space–time of the classroom, closely resembling real-world communication in the globalising world. It is suggested that language task design, taking into account the chronotopic affordances of technology, can facilitate authentic and networked space–time of learning by embedding it in mobile, hybrid, individualised and collaborative contexts. …”
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Recent Progress on the Implementation of Renewable Biodiesel Fuel for Automotive and Power Plants: Raw Materials Perspective by Jayan Sentanuhady, Wisnu Hozaifa Hasan, Muhammad Akhsin Muflikhun

“…The issue of energy availability and the impact of global warming has become a specific concern for researchers in various countries in the world. This condition opens up space for potential alternative energy sources that are newer and more sustainable. …”
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Enhancing Diversity and Convergence in MMOPs with a Gaussian Similarity-Based Evolutionary Algorithm by Shizhao Wei, Da-Jung Cho

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The influence of price on purchase decision with quality of service as intervening variable by Eka Mayastika Sinaga

“…Along with the increasing and growing industrial world, competition in the business world is very tight. …”
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The need for adequate argumentation for the protection of biotic community by Marcin Klimski

“…The changing state and quality of the environment is now taken for granted by communities living in many distant parts of the world. It is felt more and more intensely that disadvantageous interference in the natural environment will sooner or later have an impact on the biotic community, including humans themselves. …”
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التراث العربى للمخطوط :دراسة مقارنة لتشریعات حمایته والحفاظ علیه by د. ناهد محمد بسیونى سالم

“…Documents and manuscripts express human intellectual life in allscience and knowledge fields, Arab world is reach in many manuscriptsspread all over the world, this heritage was exposed to many disasterswhich resulted in wasting or damaging some of and due to its importanceand problems it is exposed to, some Arab countries passed differentlegislations to maintain and keep its manuscript heritage, but we find somecountries passed manuscripts legislations and others incorporated undertheir archeological maintenance legislations, accordingly this studyhighlighted Arab legislations passed for manuscripts maintenance andprotections in Oman, Egypt and Saudi Arabia and comparing them to ideallaw of manuscripts protection in Arab countries, the study followedcomparative analytic method depending on analyzing and classifyingthese laws and comparing their particulars, the study found that Omani lawis more agreeing with ideal law in Arab countries than Egyptian and Saudilaw, the four laws agreed upon that national library shall be responsible forcollection, registration, maintenance, restoration and manuscripts copying,legislations stipulated penalties ranging from damage to prison in case ofviolating some clauses and prohibited exporting manuscripts abroad. …”
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Individualized models of social judgments and context-dependent representations by Daniel N. Albohn, Stefan Uddenberg, Alexander Todorov

“…Abstract How individuals view the world is critical to understanding human behavior. …”
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Democracia, expertise e burocracia: relações entre política, técnica e participação by Frank de Paula Ribeiro

“…Finally, it presents as an alternative the perspective of the “third wave” of SSST, proposing a compromise between the world of technical and scientific experts and the world of experience of the representatives of civil society in democratic decision-making arenas. …”
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The analysis of The Global Index of Innovation of Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina by Ćosić Miilivoje, Tomić Ljiljana, Mesarević Aleksandra

“…In modern business conditions most countries of the world have increasingly been adopting policies and strategies that encourage innovation, because they have realized that without systematically encouraging the development of innovation there is no global competitiveness. …”
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INNOVATIVE APPROACH IN CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT; IMPROVING EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROGRAMS THROUGH MULTIDIMENSIONAL STRATEGIES by Dinda Febrianti Putri, Abdullah Abdullah

“…The rapid advancements in the digital era present educational institutions with increasingly complex challenges in maintaining curriculum relevance to the demands of the modern world. Traditional curricula, which predominantly focus on academic aspects, are increasingly viewed as insufficient in equipping graduates with the competencies required to navigate real-world challenges. …”
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Humdrum Tasks of the Salaried Men: Edwin Williams, a London County Council Architect at War by Nick Beech

“…By concentrating on the ‘organisation’ and ‘progress’ of production that architects engaged with during the Second World War and after, new configurations of continuity and change emerge in which the ‘humdrum tasks’ of ‘salaried men’ appear crucial.…”
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Shepherd on Meaning, Reference, and Perception by David Landy

“…Such an account of meaning raises questions about the contact that such a system of definitions, or conceptual scheme, makes with the world. The natural place to seek answers to these questions is in Shepherd’s account of perception, which I argue Shepherd takes to be our most fundamental cognitive faculty. …”
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Harriet Martineau (1802–1876), from Unitarianism to Agnosticism by Odile Boucher-Rivalain

“…Her many radical stances on such issues as education, women’s rights or the abolition of slavery, reflect the evolution of her ideas, from her early career as a contributor to the Unitarian magazine The Monthly Repository to her later philosophical enquiry into the progress of the world and man’s individual and social responsibilities. …”
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The perception of healthcare workers toward primary healthcare communication in South Africa by Sonja Verwey, Andrea Crystal, Tracey Bessin

“… South Africa's current healthcare conditions show a first world / third world division. The rapid urbanisation of the 1980's and beyond, as well as our population growth rate, has put existing healthcare services under increasing pressure. …”
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Warring Claims: Victorian Poetry and Conflict by Matthew Bevis

“…The First World War is often seen as heralding a break between Victorian and modern conceptions of conflict, and critics have tended to opt for a series of neat poetic oppositions—the glorious versus the gruesome, the heroic versus the hellish, the romantic versus the realistic. …”
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Building the rule of law state as a guarantor of democracy in modern Vietnam by Tu Thi Thoa

“…It has its own characteristics related to the socialist political regime under the leadership of only one party – the Communist Party of Vietnam.As in many countries around the world, the promotion and expansion of democracy is one of the objectives of building the rule of law in modern Vietnam. …”
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The Predominance of the French Language in Francophone African Literature: The Case of Konan Roger Langui’s Wandi Bla! by Métou Kané

“…The latter seems crucial to us because, from an analytical point of view, it contributes to creating a hierarchy between the languages of the world. This fame is necessary for certain African cultures that thirst for literary expressiveness and whose languages are very often unknown at the level of world literature. …”
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BEYOND ENERGY: THE ROLE OF COLONIAL LEGACY IN THE EFFECT OF INSTITUTIONAL QUALITY ON RENEWABLE ENERGY CONSUMPTION IN WEST AFRICA by Musa Ilias Biala, Ololade Mistura Aromasodun

“…This study, therefore, explored the impact of institutional quality on renewable energy consumption in West Africa from 1990 to 2023 with a novel incorporation of the influence of colonial legacy. Using data from the World Bank’s World Development Indicator, this study utilised the Pooled Mean Group technique. …”
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Examining the Impact of Economic Growth, Poverty and Unemployment on Inflation in Indonesia (2000-2019): Evidence from Error Correction Model by Rosdiana Sijabat

“…The data analyzed are sourced from World Bank Indicators from The World Bank. The variables studied were inflation as the dependent variable and economic growth, the level of poverty, and the unemployment rate, inflation, as an independent variable. …”
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PLATONAS, CARROLLIS, WITTGENSTEINAS IR KRIPKE APIE PRIVAČIOS KALBOS GALIMYBĘ by Saulenė Pučiliauskaitė

“…From the proof of the impossibility of "private language" it follows, that logically "private world" is also impossible. Keywords: language, private language, sceptical paradox, private world. …”
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