The "Arab Spring": New Mechanisms of Change of Authoritarian Political Regimes by E. A. Antyukhova

“…The key role of non-violent actions consisted in changing the point of view of anti-government forces, demonstrating that the public solidarity could make the regime overthrow possible. …”
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Persistent and emerging threats to Arctic biodiversity and ways to overcome them: a horizon scan by Tanya A. Lemieux, Jackson D.R. Coles, Anne L. Haley, Michelle L. LaFlamme, Sara K. Steel, Kara M. Scott, Jennifer F. Provencher, Courtney Price, Joseph R. Bennett, Isabel C. Barrio, Helen S. Findlay, Simon J. Goodman, Blake Matthews, Joacim Näslund, David. A. Pearce, Robert D. Hollister, Mark L. Mallory, Paul A. Smith, Gabriela Schaepman-Strub, Steven J. Cooke

“…Overall, our horizon scan provides an expert assessment of threats (e.g., species’ responses to climate change) and actions (e.g., a lack of fundamental information regarding Arctic biodiversity) needing attention and is intended to guide future conservation action within the Arctic.…”
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W poszukiwaniu teorii operacji specjalnej by Krystian Frącik

“…In modern literature, instructions and doctrines, both Englishlanguage and national, one can encounter interchangeably used expressions: special operations, special tasks or special actions. It is because the Polish Special Operation Forces are using documents based on English-language NATO originals, in which the term operation can be freely translated into Polish in at least several ways (actions, operations, operational activities). …”
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Organisation de la post-catastrophe après Irma à Saint-Martin by Annabelle Moatty, Delphine Grancher, Clément Virmoux, Julien Cavero

“…If their role is recognized, then their actions and implementation contexts need to be clarified.…”
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Local Interactions and p-Best Response Set by J. Durieu, P. Solal

“…We show that only actions contained in the minimal p-best response set can be selected provided that p is sufficiently small. …”
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Spatially Filtered Vibration Control of Cylindrical Shells by H.S. Tzou, J.P. Zhong

“…Analyses suggest that in either case the control actions are effective in odd natural modes and ineffective in even modes. …”
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Des mains à la bouche dans l'épouillage mutuel des chimpanzés sauvages de Fongoli : Latéralité, synchronisation mains‑lèvres et origine du langage by Adrien Meguerditchian, Marie Plouvier, Mélissa Berthet, Jill Pruetz, William D Hopkins

“…Nous avons montré que les activités manuelles d'épouillage bimanuelles étaient latéralisées à l'échelle des groupes de mâles et de femelles et qu'elles induisaient des mouvements de lèvres synchronisés (e.g. lipsmack) en particulier lors d'actions manuelles précises en pince fine. Nous discuterons de l'implication de ces résultats concernant le rôle du système moteur dans l'évolution des liens entre les gestes et la parole.…”
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Development of the Proactive Behavior Scale for Mid-Career Nurses: a reliability and validity study by Satomi Koyama, Yumiko Miyoshi, Kimie Takehara

“…The three factors were (1) positive actions toward self-reliance, (2) positive actions toward reliable nursing practices, and (3) positive actions toward building relationships. …”
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Wild animals connect us with nature: about awe, eco-pedagogy, and nature-connectedness by Theresa S. S. Schilhab, Gertrud L. Esbensen

“…According to existing research, positive nature interactions and the experience of being part of nature motivate sustainable actions, a relationship described by the concept of “connectedness with nature.” …”
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Natural dynamics and watershed approach incorporation in urban water management: A scoping review. by Marcelo Canteiro, Helena Cotler, Marisa Mazari-Hiriart, Nadjeli Babinet, Manuel Maass

“…Forty-one studies were identified analyzing 17 city cases implementing urban actions from a watershed approach in water management. …”
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Evaluation of the adherence of municipalities and states to the Ministry of Health’s microplanning for high-quality vaccination activities and the increase in vaccination coverage... by Ana Catarina de Melo Araújo, Thales Philipe Rodrigues da Silva, Gustavo Velasquez-Melendez, Luciana Maiara Diogo Nascimento, Carla Conceição Ferraz, Fernanda Penido Matozinhos, Eder Gatti Fernandes

“…Among the states, 37.04% showed full adherence by employing all evaluated actions, with 33.33% executing four actions. States with higher adherence levels to the OM also had greater vaccination coverage (VC), particularly in 2023. …”
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O Conselho Estadual do Povo de Terreiro: religiões afro-brasileiras e políticas públicas no Rio Grande do Sul by Marcelo Tadvald, Francisco Abrahão Gonzaga

“…This work seeks to problematize the formulation and application of governmental public policies in recent years focused on the Afro-Gaucho religions, based on the formation context and recent actions of the State Council of the People of Terreiro (CPTERS) in the gaucho political scene. …”
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Technology as an enabler of a new ecosystem responsive urbanism. Interview with Caro Ratti (CRA Studio) by Giorgia Tucci, Carlo Ratti Associati

“… In recent decades, the growing awareness of the exhaustibility of our planet’s resources has placed sustainability at the centre of current global policies that, to cope with the complex international situation, have set goals for sustainable development, promoting actions that provide ecological, digital and social innovation. …”
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L’égalité en matière d’héritage. Jeunes et savoir commun au Maroc by Merieme Yafout

“…It is a knowleldge organically linked to everyday life which guides the actions and helps to understand the meaning that people give to their actions.…”
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Comparing the imitative skills of children and nonhuman apes by Malinda Carpenter, Josep Call

“…We propose a framework which breaks down the mechanisms of social learning into their four constituent elements: actions, results, goals, and context. We review what is known about the use of each of these elements in children’s and apes’ social learning, with special attention to possible differences among apes with different rearing histories. …”
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Vécus croisés de médecins et de patients. Le cas de l’annonce diagnostique de la maladie rare by Séverine Colinet, Céline Avenel

“…Following an investigation conducted around semi-structured interviews with doctors (32) and couples (30), our results show that resources combining care actions or activities and educational actions or activities reduce the feeling of threat for the patients, and also for the couples during the announcement process. …”
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WmFall: WiFi-based multistage fall detection with channel state information by Xu Yang, Fangyuan Xiong, Yuan Shao, Qiang Niu

“…Our work is inspired by the fact that different actions have different effects on WiFi signals. By fully analyzing and exploring the channel state information characters, the falling actions can be distinguished from other movements. …”
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KHAWARIJISME: PERGULATAN POLITIK SEKTARIAN DALAM BINGKAI WACANA AGAMA by Fahmy Farid Purnama

“…The doctrine of takfir and other religious destructive actions are pragmatically emerged from the way of the sect in reading the religious discourses which are literal and simplistic. …”
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Environmental Racism: Slow Death and the Displacement of Ancestral Afro-Ecuadorian Territory in Esmeraldas by Maria Moreno Parra

“…These forms of racism are expressed in environmental suffering, which affects health and livelihood, and should be understood as a way to ethnically eliminate people in territory, causing the slow deaths of Afro-Ecuadorian populations through actions and a lack of actions that comprise their health. …”
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Design strategies for urban and building adaptation in environmental multi-risk scenarios by Mario Losasso, Sara Verde

“…To coexist with such scenarios that will characterize the near future, multiple environmental adaptation actions are necessary to counteract impacts and damage to the urban and building scale. …”
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