Evaluation of the needs assessment process of the training courses for the staff of the general sports and youth departments by Shahin Hayati, Haleh Fazel, Lora Chapari

“…After conducting the interviews and using the theoretical saturation technique, interviews were conducted with 12 members of the sample. …”
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Identifying, categorizing and ranking performance indicators of schools using Q method by Seyed Mahmoud Jalilian, Shahnaz Naibzadeh, seyyed hasan hataminasab, seyed ali almodaresi

“…This research was done in two steps; the research strategy in the first step is qualitative content analysis, and the statistical population of the research includes 24 people from four groups of parents, managers and employees of girls' high school, teachers and also the officials of the Yazd City Education Organization, by and targeted sampling; and the sample size continued up to theoretical saturation, and performance indicators were extracted from the semi-structured interview. …”
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Mobilização para além das fronteiras: semelhanças transnacionais dos movimentos sociais de origem virtual pelo mundo by Luciana de Oliveira Leal Halbritter, Maria Inácia D\u2019Ávila Neto

“…On the basis of this analysis, it proposes hypotheses to explain the phenomenon and points to possible developments in theories of social movements.…”
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Pre-service teachers’ beliefs about teaching English to older adults: The case of motivation by Agata Słowik-Krogulec

“…Only half of the respondents attended the elective course and MA seminar “Older adults and SLA”, but both groups completed the same open-ended questionnaire, the aim of which was to explore pre-service teachers’ subjective theories regarding older adults’ motivation to learn foreign languages in later life, and to examine the extent to which they were affected by the content of the course. …”
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Co-creation as a Methodology to Integrate Mental Health and Psychosocial Support and Peacebuilding by Yvonne Sliep, Marian Tankink, Friederike Bubenzer

“…The co-creation process fosters transformative learning and acknowledges local wisdom and practices as well as existing theories and skills. The process includes exploring the context and current situation of a given country, as well as how participants would like to see integration unfold in the short and long term, acknowledging that integration can take on many forms. …”
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DYNAMICS OF MEDIA AND SOCIETY INTERACTION IN COMMUNICATIVE SPACE by D. I. Chistyakov

“…The author bases on reflection of sociological theories and discourses of late modern and postmodern and thus shows the transformation of media and their audience on the society’s way to the postmodernity. …”
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Cognitive Network Science: A Review of Research on Cognition through the Lens of Network Representations, Processes, and Dynamics by Cynthia S. Q. Siew, Dirk U. Wulff, Nicole M. Beckage, Yoed N. Kenett

“…Network science provides a set of quantitative methods to investigate complex systems, including human cognition. Although cognitive theories in different domains are strongly based on a network perspective, the application of network science methodologies to quantitatively study cognition has so far been limited in scope. …”
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Isolated, individualised, and immobilised: information behaviour in the context of academic casualisation by Rebekah Willson, Owen Stewart-Robertson, Heidi Julien, Lisa M. Given

“…Interview data were analysed using reflexive thematic analysis, drawing on everyday life information seeking and information marginalisation theories. Results. Results of the study show that 1) contract academic staff conduct their work within isolated information environments; 2) this isolation leads these staff to develop highly individualised information practices; and 3) the information activities of contract academic staff are often immobilised, due to the precarious contexts that shape their work and personal lives. …”
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THE IMPACT OF HRM PRACTICES ON SERVICE QUALITY IN CUSTOMER-FACING BUSINESSES by Salem Alqarni

“…The UK and the USA are the top countries as data sources, and most papers were research-based and used survey methods. Limited use of theories was also observed in the included reviews. …”
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Data Analysis of the Effect of Different Nanomaterials on Antislide Pile Performance in Railway Landslides by Kai Guo, Mingxin Zheng, Yongjiang Ren

“…Based on this, this study firstly briefly introduces the relevant theories and technologies of railway landslide antislide pile technology and then establishes the static model of railway landslide antislide piles with different nanomaterials. …”
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Social exclusion as a side effect of machine learning mechanisms by A. G. Tertyshnikova, U. O. Pavlova, M. V. Cimbal

“…The authors review the theories of foreign and Russian authors concerning the impact of artificial intelligence on strengthening the existing social order, as well as problems with processing and interpreting data for training computer systems on them. …”
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Mémoires et patrimonialisation d’un passé antéislamique : Mubârak al-Mîlî et l’ethnogenèse du peuple algérien by Aomar Hannouz

“…His ideas and discourse on the ancient history of Algeria not only overturns the values and arguments advanced in the colonialist discourse, but assimilates the ethnic categories and scientific theories advanced by French scholarly societies of the 19th century. …”
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Knowledge, distributed leadership and (structured) agency: a view on academic policy curation by Françoise McKay

“…Discussions are contextualised within theories and frameworks related to educational policymaking, the influence of neoliberal government agendas, and the experience of third-space professionals. …”
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A different story of modern economic science by Oreste Bazzichi, Fabio Reali

“…This revolution of the late Middle Ages, social and market, which was also intellectual and aimed at facing the poverty and injustice of that time, is still repeated today with new faces, experiences, and theories.   …”
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Evaluation of frost heave model using measured values for temperature and water intake rate near the freezing front by Takeshi Ishizaki, Satoshi Nishimura

“…Many frost heave theories and models have been proposed to explain the frost heave phenomenon. …”
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Integrating the contribution of museums for building peaceful and inclusive society and promoting justice by Li Xiang, Tanot Unjah, Sharina Abdul Halim

“…Cases corresponding to museum theories and practices as well as relevant projects have been critically analyzed and studied. …”
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COLLOCATIONAL PATTERNS AND SENSE RELATIONS IN THE EXPLICATION OF MEANING IN ARMAH’S NOVELS by GODWIN F. AKPAN

“…It analysed three of Armah’s novels using the theories of reader-response and discourse analysis. …”
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Unusual Site for a White Nodule on the Palatine Tonsil: Presentation, Differential Diagnosis, and Discussion by Ashwag Yagoub Aloyouny

“…Oral LEC etiopathogenesis is uncertain, and several theories have been proposed to discuss the causes of LEC. …”
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Christianity and Islam - the development of modern science nad the genesis of the modern (just) state by D. F. M. Strauss

“…Humanism initially inspired explicitly totalitarian theories of the state. It was only within the Protestant countries of Europe that the modern constitutional state under the rule of law emerged,  accompanied by a process of societal differentiation unparalleled in world history. …”
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Analysis of Dynamic Characteristics of Grease-Lubricated Tapered Roller Bearings by Zheng-Hai Wu, Ying-Qiang Xu, Si-Er Deng

“…In this study, considering the dynamic contact relationship among the cage, rollers, and raceways, a multibody contact dynamic model of the TRB was established based on the geometric interaction models and grease lubrication theories. The impacts of load, grease rheological properties, and temperature on the roller tilt and skew and the bearing slip were simulated by using the fourth-order Runge–Kutta method. …”
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