Un mois à l’IHEDN : la vision d’une géographe by Marie-Françoise Fleury

“…This text reflects on my participation in the 236th “Grand-Est” regional session of the Institut des hautes études de défense nationale, IHEDN, at the Metz, Reims (in internship), Épinal and Strasbourg sites. …”
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Incentive Contract in Supply Chain with Asymmetric Information by Yingsheng Su, Hongmei Guo, Xianyu Wang

“…The paper uses principal-agent theory and the theory of regulation to design the contract to realize the maximization of principal's profit on the condition that the contract satisfies the participant and incentive conditions of agent. As a result, it is obvious that the contract achieves the goal of control. …”
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Being an Involved Father: What Does It Mean? by Garret D. Evans, Kate Fogarty

“…Father involvement is defined as, men's “positive, wide-ranging, and active participation in their children's lives” (Marsiglio et al., 2000, p. 276). …”
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A strategy to increase lamb meat consumption from a relationship marketing perspective by María Teresa Maza, Keyla Alvarez, Pilar Uldemolins

“…Consumers like promotional activities, but their participation is rather low depending on age. From the structural equation model, it was determined that customer satisfaction has a high influence on customer commitment to the establishment; however, promotion and recognition have a very low influence on customer satisfaction and commitment.…”
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El Estado de Guatemala y la violencia. Percepciones desde comunidades Mayas by Eva Kalny

“…Peace accords in December 1996 put an end to the civil war, but the structures of governmental institutions themselves do not allow broad participation of the majorities - indigenous peoples and women. …”
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Jak Walijczycy reformują swoją oświatę? by Janina Zawadowska

“…Its aim was to familiarize the participants with the process of introduction of a reform of education which had been initiated by the drafting of a document “Wales: the Learning Country”. …”
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Estudio de los elementos espaciales y temporales en la obra de Adriana Assini by María Reyes-Ferrer

“…Para ello, tras revisar el concepto de cronotopo literario del teórico ruso Mijaíl Bajtín, hemos escogido las coordenadas espaciales como punto de partida para realizar el análisis de las novelas, clasificando el espacio como público y privado, y estudiar su repercusión en los personajes.…”
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PRIORITIES AND PERSPECTIVES OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE NATIONAL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY by Anatoly A. Tashkinov, Vasily Yu. Petrov, Vladimir I. Makarevich

“…The article presents the results of the first stage of functioning of Perm Polytechnic University as anational research university in conditions of state support. …”
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The Best Approximation Theorems and Fixed Point Theorems for Discontinuous Increasing Mappings in Banach Spaces by Dezhou Kong, Lishan Liu, Yonghong Wu

“…We prove that Fan’s theorem is true for discontinuous increasing mappings f in a real partially ordered reflexive, strictly convex, and smooth Banach space X. …”
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Les hommes de peine dans le paysage urbain by Vincent Planel

“…The analysis of informants' participation allows for reflection of a socio-historical nature: bringing to light the role played by local actors and logics, it challenges the idea of a purely macroeconomic phenomenon.…”
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International research collaboration – how powerful is it really? by Sascha Duerkop, Jakob Grubmuller, Rana Badran

“… Countries that do participate in International Research Collaboration (IRC) are placed in advantageous positions to promote scientific and technological advancements. …”
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Conference reflections: EUSARF 2012 by Laura Steckley

“…What follows is an edited version of this discussion, drawing from those participants who gave permission for their contributions to be reproduced here.…”

FACTORS INFLUENCING ENGLISH LEARNING MOTIVATION: A STUDY OF THE PERSPECTIVES OF NON-ENGLISH MAJORS AT A PUBLIC UNIVERSITY IN HANOI, VIETNAM by Ngoc My Trinh

“…All of the students participated in semi-structured interviews. The interviews revealed that extrinsic orientation, teachers, and peers substantially improved learning persistence among the students, while unattractive learning materials and a lack of authentic communicative activities contributed to learning demotivation. …”
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Managing community-based conservation in Bobaomby, Madagascar by Élysé Rabearivola Nomenjanahary, Hortensia Rasoanandrasana, Andrew Walsh

“…Conservation and development projects that prescribe the participation of local stakeholders in decision-making around the sustainable management of their own ecosystems have become commonplace in Madagascar in recent decades, as have scholarly critiques questioning the likelihood that such “community-based conservation” (CBC) efforts can achieve the win-win scenarios they purport to offer Malagasy communities and ecosystems. …”
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Hemifacial Spasm due to Compression of the Posterior Inferior Cerebellar Artery Aneurysm Treated with Botulinum Toxin Type-A: A Case Report by Azize Esra Gürsoy, Gülsen Babacan Yildiz, Adam Mehmet Gülhan, Mehmet Kolukisa

“…CT angiography showed a partially thrombosed saccular aneurysm of left PICA (posterior inferior cerebellar artery). …”
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Les concentrations hivernales : une pratique touristique originale des motocyclistes européens à la recherche du froid et de la neige by Jean Scol

“…Locations at the origin of a real hierarchy between winter rallies themselves but also between motorcyclists who participate.…”
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Harmonization of Postgraduate Training System with the Certification of Candidates of Sciences by S. I. Pakhomov, V. A. Gurtov, L. V. Shchegoleva

“…This means that their activities should be coordinated. The article discusses several approaches to the harmonization: at the level of each organization – by the presence or absence of one of the participants in the trajectory, and at the thematic level. …”
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Effectiveness of solution-focused group counseling to improve planned happenstance skills of student by M Arli Rusandi, Dwi Yuwono Puji Sugiharto, Sunawan Sunawan

“…The experimental research method way repeated measures with pretest design and multiple posttest design, involving 5 students as participants which from 24 upperclassman of the guidance and counseling FKIP ULM which have low planned happenstance skills. …”
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Le cavalier en habit noir : genèse d’une image by Anne Herschberg Pierrot

“…L’article étudie la genèse de l’épisode très bref du « vieillard en habit noir sur un cheval blanc », qui occupe un paragraphe de L’Éducation sentimentale, au chapitre 1 de la troisième partie. …”
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Food System Study of Martin County, Florida by Yvette Goodiel, William A. Messina, Lisa House, Carol Roberts

“…Farmers often face challenges finding sizable, secure, well-paying markets, and the most consumers do not participate in local food transactions. This article summarizes two studies conducted to examine agricultural production in Martin County and its food processing, distribution and marketing systems and infrastructure to better identify potential constraints and opportunities for the local food system. …”
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