Managers look to the social network to seek information by Mckenzie M.L.

“…</b> The qualitative methods of social network mapping and interview were used to capture the data. The study was conducted within a stand-alone business unit of a major US-based corporation. …”
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Folin-Ciocalteu Reaction Alternatives for Higher Polyphenol Quantitation in Colombian Passion Fruits by Juan C. Carmona-Hernandez, Gonzalo Taborda-Ocampo, Clara H. González-Correa

“…For higher extraction yield, acetone 70% was the best solvent to capture more phenolics from the seedless pulp of these Colombian passion fruits.…”
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Regímenes de pertenencia nacional en Venezuela y la República Dominicana contemporáneas by Tobias Schwarz

“…El presente artículo analiza dos regímenes de pertenencia nacional explícitamente exclusivos e inclusivos, discutiendo dos casos de negociaciones actuales sobre extranjería y nacionalidad, en la r epública Dominicana y Venezuela. …”
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A Pilot Study on Structural Responses of Normal Concrete-UHPC Composite Bridge Decks w/wo Rebars through an Experimental-Numerical Approach by Siqi Yuan, Zhao Liu, Teng Tong, Chung C. Fu

“…Besides, digital image correlation (DIC) technique was adopted to adequately capture their damage evolutions. Moreover, analytical solutions for predicting a composite deck’s flexural and shear strengths are tentatively derived. …”
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Research and DSP Implementation of Speech Enhancement Technology Based on Dynamic Mixed Features and Adaptive Mask by Jie Yang, Yachun Tang

“…The dynamic features incorporate the log Mel power spectrum, Mel cepstral coefficients, and Multiresolution Auditory Cepstral Coefficients (MRACC) and capture the speech transient information by deriving the derivatives to comprehensively represent the nonlinear structure of speech and reduce distortion. …”
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Introduction: emerging approaches in the anthropology/primatology borderland by Vincent Leblan

“…The purpose of this Revue de Primatologie issue is to put forward the multiple ways to look at primates across the fields of anthropology and primatology which are commonly thought to be (and which, for the most part, actually are) academically and epistemologically very remote from one another. …”
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DESIGUALDAD SOCIAL RECONSIDERADA - DESCUBRIENDO PUNTOS CIEGOS A TRAVÉS DE VISTAS DESDE ABAJO by Manuela Boatcá

“…Con base en argumentos tomados de los estudios de género, los enfoques de dependencia/ sistema-mundo y también las teorías poscoloniales actuales en América Latina, el artículo insta por una sociología global de desigualdad social basada en tres correcciones substantivas de las investigaciones establecidas sobre desigualdad social: Primero, un cambio del enfoque de nación-Estado como unidad única de análisis a un enfoque global abarcando relaciones mundiales de centro-margen al lado de desigualdades nacionales y regionales, y las conexiones entre ellas; segundo, un compromiso sistemático y explícito con las teorías de cambio social implícitas en los conceptos de desigualdad social y las conclusiones que resultan para la correspondiente definición de modernidad y lo moderno; y tercero, un énfasis en las dinámicas detrás de la emergencia de categorías a través de las cuales las estructuras de desigualdad fueron construidas históricamente, como por ejemplo procesos de construcción del otro como generización, racialización, y etnización, en vez de categorías estáticas como género, raza y origen étnico.…”
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The Prophet Joseph on Qur'an and The Historical Philosophical Perspective and Its Relevance for Human Development by Misnal Munir, Moses Glorino Rumambo Pandin

“…The story of the prophet Yusuf is often only understood as a personal incident, but this story actually concerns the history of a nation, namely the Children of Israel. …”
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Die verwerkliking van die geloof in die kerklike kategese: basisteoretiese perspektiewe by C. J. H. Venter, C. N. van der Merwe

“…The baptism of children of the covenant actually implies an urge and responsibility towards a new obedience. …”
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Adaptation optimizes sensory encoding for future stimuli. by Jiang Mao, Constantin A Rothkopf, Alan A Stocker

“…Here, we test the hypothesis that adaptation actually acts proactively in the sense that it optimally adjusts sensory encoding for future stimuli. …”
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Les noms de tranchées et de boyaux de la Grande Guerre en Champagne by Alain Devos, Pierre Taborelli, Robin Perarnau

“…Their astonishing diversity and their conventional random designation actually hide a spatial organization into groups of fire trench segments and communication trench or "quarters", of regimental and non-divisional origin. …”
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Small Engines as Bottoming Cycle Steam Expanders for Internal Combustion Engines by Rohitha Weerasinghe, Sandra Hounsham

“…A test facility developed at Sussex used for measurements is comprised of a torque, power and speed measurements, electronic actuation of valves, synchronized data acquisition of pressure, and temperatures of steam and inside of the engines for steam and internal combustion cycles. …”
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Pre-graduate medical education from the perspective of Primary Health Care: the Portuguese case by Paulo Santos

“…It is continually adjusted to the dichotomy between what doctors need to know and what patients actually need them to know. Each specialty wants students to learn a large number of specific subjects to understand the related diseases. …”
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Edge-assisted UAV onboard video compression and transmission for efficient inference of patrolling tasks by YANG Peng, LIANG Yuxin, KONG Yuxin, LIU Mingliu

“…The problem of region of interest (RoI) extraction and transmission of video frames captured in edge-assisted unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) systems was investigated to improve the inference performance of patrolling tasks. …”
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The Experience of Trinitarian Compassion According to St. Francis of Assisi by Krzysztof Juzba

“…He asserted that if somebody loves actually, he is able to give himself to others like Jesus did. …”
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Enhanced Cooperation - the New Trend of the EU Development by L. O. Babynina

“…The article is dedicated to implementation of the enhanced cooperation in the EU. Actually two such projects are шn progress (the law applicable to divorce and legal separation and unitary patent protection) and other two are under discussionffmandai transaction tax and European Public Prosecutor's Office). …”
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Fuzzy Adaptive Prescribed Performance Fault-Tolerant Control for HFVs with Fixed-Time Convergence Guarantee by Zehong Dong, Yinghui Li, Maolong Lv, Zilong Zhao, Binbin Pei

“…A new fixed-time fuzzy adaptive fault-tolerant control methodology is proposed for the longitudinal dynamics of hypersonic flight vehicles (HFVs) in the presence of actuator faults, uncertain dynamics, and external disturbances. …”
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“Mulier ne debuerit habere regnum”: a regência na menoridade de D. Afonso V vista pelos juristas by Manuel Francisco Ramos

“…Thus the lawyers might become the most accurate authorities to tackle the problem, among the many that actually did so. Two of them: Afonso Mangancha and Jean Jouffroy, dean of Vergy, took a public position on these questions. …”
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Las escuelas públicas rurales: entre el bien común y la exclusión by Rosa VÁZQUEZ RECIO

“…Las políticas educativas actuales están poniendo al límite a las escuelas rurales, casi a la espera de su propia muerte. …”
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Numerical Study of the Active Tendon Control of a Cable-Stayed Bridge in a Construction Phase by M. H. El Ouni, N. Ben Kahla

“…Active damping is added to the structure by using pairs of collocated force actuator-displacement sensors located on each active cable and decentralized first order positive position feedback (PPF) or direct velocity feedback (DVF). …”
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