Possible scenarios of sustainable supply chain in dairy industry with future research approach by Meysam Abedini, Narges Mohammadalipour, Ashraf Shahmansouri, Mahnaz Rabiei

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Designing a Digital Branding Pattern in Healthy Agricultural Products by Abolghasem Mohammadnezhad Ali Zamini, Arezo Ahmadi danyali, Mahmoud Ahmadi Sharif

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Dickens Today by Marianne Camus

“…The consequences of such a state of affairs are then drawn: on the general level with, mainly, the growing gap and distrust between the haves and the have-nots and on the individual level with the temptation ordinary people are led into, either of utter selfishness or of withdrawal into private life. It also looks at the alternatives, such as the dream of a return to a golden age, or the relief given by satirical laughter, both signs of helplessness against the power of money, even if Dickens’s novels always end with the righteous being rewarded.…”
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Evolutionary Game Theory-Based Evaluation of P2P File-Sharing Systems in Heterogeneous Environments by Yusuke Matsuda, Masahiro Sasabe, Tetsuya Takine

“…Using micro-macro dynamics, we analyze the impact of the heterogeneity of user selfishness on the file availability and system stability. …”
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Environmental alarmism: the Club of Rome and its critics by Nikolai Mihailov, Lidia Sakelarieva

“…However the global environmental crisis is already an undeniable fact and requires a thorough study of the ethical standards of the human behaviour, which are often rooted in moral phenomena such as consumerism, irresponsibility, insensitivity or even selfishness. Nature cannot be only considered as a source of natural resources or benefits to people. …”
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‘Viral’ Hunts? A Cultural Darwinian Analysis of Witch Persecutions by Hofhuis Steije, Boudry Maarten

“…We argue that witch persecutions form a prime example of a ‘viral’ socio-cultural phenomenon that reproduces ‘selfishly’, even harming the interests of its human hosts.…”
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Criminological portrait of a professional criminal by N. K. Makarenko

“…Most of them are characterised by distorted value orientations, selfishness, intellectual and volitional passivity, significant dependence on external situations, inability and unwillingness to subordinate their behaviour to socially useful goals, lack of personal long-term plans, weakness, and unbalancedness. …”
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China’s peacekeeping activities within the UN: Features, challenges, and prospects by Qian Li

“…To this should be added the active efforts of Western countries aimed at discrediting the peacekeeping activities of the PRC, manifested in pushing of narratives about the exceptional selfishness of Chinese initiatives and China’s desire to achieve unilateral advantages in the ‘Taiwan issue’ by exploiting peacekeeping agenda. …”
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Heterogeneous foraging swarms can be better by Gal A. Kaminka, Yinon Douchan

“…While promising, the use of EI is brittle (as we show), since robots that selfishly seek to optimize their own EI (minimizing time spent on collisions) can actually cause swarm-wide performance to degrade.ResultsTo address this, we derive a reward function from a game-theoretic view of swarm foraging as a fully-cooperative, unknown horizon repeating game. …”
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Impact of Ethical Leadership on Autonomy and Self-Efficacy in Virtual Work Environments: The Disintegrating Effect of an Egoistic Climate by Carlos Santiago-Torner, José-Antonio Corral-Marfil, Yirsa Jiménez-Pérez, Elisenda Tarrats-Pons

“…Lastly, organizations that embrace ethical leadership can avoid the emergence of ethical climates disconnected from collective benefit, such as those characterized by selfishness, which hinder prosocial motivation. In this context, ethical leadership fosters the development of high-quality interpersonal relationships with followers, which are considered essential for creating an environment conducive to group learning. …”
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TO THE BASICS OF MODERN POLITICAL ANTHROPOLOGY: FREEDOM AND JUSTICE IN THE SOCIAL CONTRACT THEORY OF T. HOBBES by L. A. Sytnichenko, D. V. Usov

“…Hobbes constructed in the context of a modern social project, justified the issue of interaction between freedom and justice, which is fundamentally important to nowadays, through the search for such a way of social relations, in which an individual, being in the realm of social existence, would seek to limit his own selfishness and freedom for the sake of the common will of the majority. …”
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A Comparative study of Daiva's Sin and its Evolution in the Stories of Ancient Iran and Ta'ziehs of Daiva's Tying Thumb Based on Six Poetic Verses by Mahdi mohamadi, Adel Meghdadian, Abolfazl Tajik

“…Trumad/ Tromti or the demon of arrogance is a female demon who creates arrogance and selfishness, Just the opposite of Sepandarmaz who is a symbol of humility (ibid., p. 45). …”
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