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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NFP:enabling network function parallelism in NFV by Jun BI, Chen SUN, Heng YU

“…Software-based sequential service chains in network function virtualization (NFV) could introduce significant performance overhead.Current acceleration efforts for NFV mainly target on optimizing each component of the sequential service chain.However,based on the statistics from real world enterprise networks,it was observed that 53.8% network function (NF) pairs could work in parallel.In particular,41.5% NF pairs could be parallelized without causing extra resource overhead.NFP was presented,a high performance framework,that innovatively enabled network function parallelism to improve NFV performance.NFP consisted of three logical components.Firstly,NFP provided a policy specification scheme for operators to intuitively describe sequential or parallel NF chaining intents.Secondly,NFP orchestrator intelligently identified NF dependency and automatically compiled the policies into high performance service graphs.Thirdly,NFP infrastructure performed light-weight packet copying,distributed parallel packet delivery,and load-balanced merging of packet copies to support NF parallelism.An NFP prototype based on DPDK in Linux containers was implemented.The evaluation results show that NFP achieves significant latency reduction for real world service chains.…”
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Метафора systema digestorium в русском лингвокультурном пространстве by Andrzej Narloch

“…Each stage of the digestive system has its own specificity and concentrates on specific parts in viewing the world. In addition, the metaphor ‘systema digestorium’ is often used in Russian linguaculture to convey the expressiveness and originality of a language.…”
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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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The Circulation of Icons in Planetary - Pictures, Popular Culture and Materiality by Nicolas LABARRE, Laura PERNA, Errol RIVERA

“…In the series, the readers and the protagonists are invited to explore the “secret” history of a fictional world. This history is composed of visual allusions to notable works of 20th-century popular culture. …”
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Sport as an actor of big politics: Football and its social function by Biljana Prodović Milojković

“…The author finds the reason for writing the paper in the current holding of the World Football Championship in Qatar, as one of the biggest sporting events bigger and more significant than the Olympic Games themselves. …”
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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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Dimensions of Francis Fukuyama’s “The End of History” Vision in the Eastern Europe of the Post-Cold War: Reconsideration of Nationalism by Oğuz Güner, Emrah Aydemir

“…Following the Second World War, the Cold War initiated a bipolar contest for superiority that would last for decades, and in this era the Soviet Union established communist regimes in Eastern Europe. …”
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Le temps des morts-vivants : formes sérielles et potentiel critique des séries télévisées zombies by Clémentine Hougue

“…If they deal with the same theme - the survival of a group in a world suddenly invaded by the undead -, they do not hold the same discourse. …”
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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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VISUAL AVATAR IDENTIFICATION ON ONLINE GAME PLAYERS by Bunga Fefiana Mustikasari, Nuril Kusuma Wardani, Rachma Yulia Nisa

“…This study uses a virtual ethnographic method that is connected with dramaturgical theory, how a person plays a role in the world of online games by using this avatar system. …”
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