Growth of financing opportunities for small and medium-sized businesses in the digitalization of the economy context by N. I. Morozko, N. I. Morozko

“…The role of using crowdfunding technology is revealed. It is an affordable way to finance the activities of companies that do not have a credit history and collateral for obtaining a loan from banks. …”
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Le refus du monde tel qu’il est : vertus et ambivalences de quelques fictions contemporaines (Peyrebonne, Haenel, Vasset) by Pascal Mougin

“…Three French novels published recently consider the contemporary reality, in its social, economic and political aspects, in a counterfactual way: Philippe Vasset, La Conjuration (Fayard, 2013), Yannick Haenel, Les Renards pâles (Gallimard, 2013), Nathalie Peyrebonne, Rêve général (Phébus, 2013). …”
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Toyin Falola@65 Conference: African Knowledge and Alternative Futures by Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju

“…Another definitive encounter for me was another presenter’s outlining of the concept of an African, as different from an Asian or a Western epistemology or way of arriving at relating to knowledge. Yet another was Emmanuel Ofuasia’s explanation of what he describes as the Yoruba origin Ifa knowledge system’s anticipating of deconstructivist hermeneutics centuries before the development of this post-modern scholarly phenomenon in the West. …”
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On the Transformation of Thinking on Personal Responsibility Towards Requirements of Environmental Ethics in Slovakia by Katarína Mária Vadíková

“…Conclusion: Slovaks are interested in pro-environmental projects, if it pays off, and if they do not feel alone in pro-environmental efforts. …”
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Next-generation Enem assessment with fewer items and high reliability using CAT by Alexandre Jaloto, Ricardo Primi

“… The Exame Nacional do Ensino Médio [Brazilian High School Exam] (Enem) is a test that includes an essay and four 45-item tests. …”
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Game research by design in project management and beyond by Maria Freese, Geertje Bekebrede

“…They are a powerful research method because they provide data and insights into people’s behaviour in relation to their environment. They do this in an engaging way in a safe environment, making them suitable for testing hypotheses and gathering data on choices, decisions, and interactions of people. …”
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Les discours médiatiques favorisent-ils l’émergence du risque d’avalanche en moyenne montagne ? L’exemple du Massif vosgien : entre ignorance et minimisation by Florie Giacona, Brice Martin, Nicolas Eckert

“…A comprehensive review of the daily press, as well as national and regional television news, shows that media discourses do not counter this point of view strongly. Indeed, unlike the Alpine environment, whose risk the media presents in a concrete and sometimes pedagogical way, the Vosges Mountains receive very little coverage with respect to risk. …”
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L’abandon aux études doctorales : un problème de direction? by Constance Denis, Christelle Lison

“…When perusing the literature, we often stumble on the fact that one doctoral student out of two will quit his/her studies. How do we meet this? Should we be alarmed by such a high rate of attrition? …”
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A Critique on the Book Three Rival Versions of Modernity: Exit, Voice, Loyalty by Salman Sadeghizadeh

“…Therefore, the central problem of the book has to do with the way of approaching modernity. Though the main part of the book is dedicated to the analysis of six Western thinker’s theories, the last part focuses on Iranian thinkers and analyses their attitudes toward modernity from three different standpoints: exit, voice, and loyalty. …”
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New challenges for banking, financial services and insurance by Radić Nikola

“…Changing business models, disruptive technologies, and compliance pressures are forcing traditional institutions to reorganize the way they do business. Digital transformation, the macro trend that has defined the past decade, has accelerated at an incredible rate during 2020. …”
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Fatigue behaviour of titanium dental endosseous implants by Alessandro Scicutelli, Daniela Pilone, Ferdinando Felli

“…An ad-hoc designed experimental apparatus is prepared to test against fatigue these implants in a way that approximates as much as possible the actual stresses occurring during mastication motion. …”
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Paul’s Style and the Problem of the Pastoral Letters: Assessing Statistical Models of Description and Inference by Pracht Erich Benjamin, McCauley Thomas

“…With our approach, we have found a way to utilize Paul’s authentic letters as a standard of measurement by which the style(s) of the Pastorals can be compared, an essential first step to statistical inference that is generally lacking in Pauline stylometry. …”
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Does Media Discourse Favour the Emergence of Avalanche Risk in Medium-High Mountain Regions? Between Ignorance and Underestimation, the Example of the Vosges Mountains by Florie Giacona, Brice Martin, Nicolas Eckert

“…A comprehensive review of the daily press, as well as national and regional television news, shows that media discourses do not counter this point of view strongly. Indeed, unlike the Alpine environment, whose risk the media presents in a concrete and sometimes pedagogical way, the Vosges Mountains receive very little coverage with respect to risk. …”
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The Humoral Theory of Transplantation: Epitope Analysis and the Pathogenicity of HLA Antibodies by Edward J. Filippone, John L. Farber

“…Data are accumulating that epitope analysis may be a better way to determine organ compatibility as well as the potential immunogenicity of given HLA mismatches. …”
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Macroeconomic Stability in Resource-rich Countries: The Role of Fiscal Policy by Elva Bova, Paulo Medas, Tigran Poghosyan

“…Further, we find that the adoption of fiscal rules does not seem to reduce procyclicality in a significant way, but the quality of political institutions does matter. …”
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Influence of mean stress on the fatigue strength of ASTM A743 CA6NM alloy steel by B. Lobato da Silva, J. L. de Almeida Ferreira, F. Oliveira, J. A. Araújo

“…Walker’s relation makes it possible to evaluate in a consistent way the effect of the presence of mean stresses on fatigue strength.…”
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FINANCIAL CONTROLLING STATUS AND POTENTIAL IN MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISES OF TUZLA CANTON, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA by Emira Kozarević, Amir Mujezinović

“…All the processes accompanying these activities are significantly faster and do not run in a classical way, which is why the management system nowadays requires that information requested within plan, analysis, and control run simultaneously. …”
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When HSFs bring the heat—mapping the transcriptional circuitries of HSF-type regulators in Candida albicans by Sadri Znaidi

“…The genome of the opportunistic yeast Candida albicans encodes four HSF members, namely, Sfl1, Sfl2, Skn7, and the essential regulator, Hsf1. C. albicans HSFs do not only respond to heat shock and/or temperature variation but also to CO2 levels, oxidative stress, and quorum sensing, acting this way as central decision makers. …”
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Influence of mean stress on the fatigue strength of ASTM A743 CA6NM alloy steel by B. Lobato da Silva, J. L. de Almeida Ferreira, F. Oliveira, J. A. Araújo

“…Walker’s relation makes it possible to evaluate in a consistent way the effect of the presence of mean stresses on fatigue strength.…”
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Fatigue behaviour of titanium dental endosseous implants by Ferdinando Felli, Daniela Pilone, Alessandro Scicutelli

“…An ad-hoc designed experimental apparatus is prepared to test against fatigue these implants in a way that approximates as much as possible the actual stresses occurring during mastication motion. …”
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