Creative tourism special issue - foreword by João Filipe Marques, Alexandra Rodrigues Gonçalves, Sónia Moreira Cabeça, Mirian Tavares

“…First developed in 2000 by Richards and Raymond (2000), the concept of creative tourism is now relatively stabilised and broadly used in research on cultural tourism’s emergent modalities (Gonçalves, 2008). …”
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A new definition and three categories for classifying ecosystems by Jaime Gómez-Márquez

“… The ecosystem is an essential biological concept that links the living and the inanimate. Its study has become pivotal to the analysis of global changes and environmental impacts caused by human activities and population growth. …”
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Acanthamoeba Keratitis: A 12-Year Experience Covering a Wide Spectrum of Presentations, Diagnoses, and Outcomes by Michael A. Page, William D. Mathers

“…Patients diagnosed with AK exhibited a wide spectrum of clinical and microscopic characteristics. Soft contact lens use remained the single largest risk factor.…”
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Families, Friends, and the Neighborhood of Older Adults: Evidence from Public Housing in Singapore by Treena Wu, Angelique Chan

“…The public apartment neighborhood and daily participation in public neighborhood events have substantial effects on reducing the risk of isolation. Older adult contact with friends alleviates isolation more than contact with non-coresiding relatives. …”
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Factors Constraining Subject Expression in European Portuguese Spoken in Hamburg. A Bi-Generational Corpus Investigation by Cristina Flores, Esther Rinke

“…Based on a corpus of oral speech, we aim to assess whether second generation heritage speakers (HSs) differ from first generation migrants with respect to the factors constraining subject realisation/omission in European Portuguese (EP), a null subject language, in contact with German, a non-null subject language. …”
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Analysis of the current situation in the field of electronic services in Syrian banks and prospects for their development by E. V. Vasilieva, A. Alhannash

“…Syrian banks are required to adhere to a sufficient number of material and technical requirements to implement the concept of a real electronic service. Among the priority tasks the authors highlight the expansion of the use of electronic money in the country, the network of ATM machines, bank cards. …”
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Model for Fulfilling the Right to Work for Persons with Disabilities as an Effort to Protect the Law by darmawati Asriadi, Asriadi Zainuddin

“…The purpose of this study is to find out and analyze the implementation of the fulfillment of work for people with disabilities in Gorontalo Province and find the ideal concept of fulfilling the right to work for people with disabilities. …”
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Regeneration of natural grasp prehensions on underactuated robot‐hand through kinaesthetic guidance by R. Chattaraj, S. Khan, D.G. Roy, B. Bepari, S. Bhaumik

“…Grasping postures on a human hand are generated by an effective combination of spatial motions and contact forces on individual finger linkages. The rich kinematic redundancy within its anatomy, poses critical control challenges, while emulating natural prehensile actions. …”
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Wyjść poza reżim imperatywu rozwojowego. Między inspiracjami Rousseau a wpływem myśli Foucaulta na współczesne studia nad dzieciństwem by Dorota Klus-Stańska

“…The text is an attempt at a comparative analysis of the concept by Rousseau in which he proposed moving away from the directive control of the development of the child, with those concepts that can be found in poststructural childhood psychology and pedagogy, whose authors are inspired by the work of Michel Foucault. …”
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Attitudinal Loyalty Towards Online Stores Between Loyal and Disloyal Clients: Differences Across Four Countries by Vytautas Dikcius, Karina Adomaviciute - Sakalauske, Neringa Vilkaite - Vaitone, Sigita Kirse

“… The concept of loyalty has remained a central theme in business for over 50 years. …”
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INNOVATIVE APPROACHES TO THE TEACHING OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES AT LEVELS B2 - C1 (FROM THE EXPERIENCE OF THE TEXTBOOK) by E. B. Aleksandrovskaya

“…A competence-based approach, the application of the principle of «student-centricity» and the concept of «tasks» help to optimize the learning process. …”
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Perspectives and Development of Electrical Systems in More Electric Aircraft by Ahmet Yigit Arabul, Emre Kurt, Fatma Keskin Arabul, İbrahim Senol, Martin Schrötter, Róbert Bréda, Dávid Megyesi

“…This paper presents the evolution of aircraft power systems into the so-called more electric aircraft (MEA) and discusses the state-of-the-art electrical systems. Furthermore, the concept of all-electric aircraft (AEA) is presented here.…”
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Spiritualiteit in het Lucasevangelie: verscheidenheid en gemeenschap by H. Welzen

“… The themes in the Gospel of Luke connected to building up the community are important for the intended readers who, in the last quarter of the first century, were part of Christian communities which comprised various groups. …”
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Pour une mésoéconomie de l’émergence d’une bioéconomie : représentations, patrimoines productifs collectifs et stratégies d’acteurs dans la régulation d’une chimie doublement verte... by Nicolas Béfort

“…This space has been called "bioeconomy" by the actors after divergent and conflictual interpretations of this concept. This economic space differs from the traditional ways of representing the division of labour into sectors (chemistry, agriculture, energy). …”
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Geopolitical competition of great powers in the Arctic by E. S. Karsanova

“…Now that all the great powers are investing in the Arctic, the concept of peace and cooperation is giving way to the concept of security and deterrence. …”
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Complex Atanassov's Intuitionistic Fuzzy Relation by Abd Ulazeez M. Alkouri, Abdul Razak Salleh

“…Finally, we introduce the concept of composition of CAIFRs.…”
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The Phenomenon of (Sustainable) Tourism Activities on Farms in Slovenia During the COVID-19 Pandemic by Maja Žibert, Boris Prevolšek

“…The article presents the main elements of the sustainable concept of rural and farm tourism. Using the method of compilation and description, we want to check, based on statistical data related to farm tourism activities in Slovenia (before and during the COVID-19 pandemic), whether it is possible to detect development trends in Slovenia, in the direction of sustainability that are linked to the concept of farm tourism. …”
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Development of a Novel Double-Ring Deployable Mesh Antenna by Yan Xu, Fuling Guan, Xian Xu, Hongjian Wang, Yao Zheng

“…Two connection schemes between the reflector and the deployable edge frame are investigated. …”
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The Russian Pronoun Nekotoryj in light of Typological Expectations by Olga E. Pekelis

“…The latter concerns the distribution of nekotoryj across the contexts that make up the semantic map of indefinite pronouns. …”
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