Using the three-way matrix for AHP-group decision-making by Elisa Fiorenza

“…This matrix allows us to examine, in a contemporary and global manner, the preferences of several decision-makers in the decision-making context. …”
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Dysfunctional Consumer Behavior: Proposition of a Measurement Scale by Marília Lara Marcondes Machado de Oliveira, Andres Rodriguez Veloso

“…This study focuses on the development of a scale that can identify customers that are more prone to behave in a dysfunctional manner. Dysfunctional Consumer Behavior can negatively influence the organization profits, since this kind of consumer can generate monetary losses, such as fixing damaged pr operty. …”
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A Frequency Domain Method for the Generation of Partially Coherent Normal Stationary Time Domain Signals by David O. Smallwood, Thomas L. Paez

“…A procedure for generating vectors of time domain signals that are partially coherent in a prescribed manner is described. The procedure starts with the spectral density matrix, [Gxx(f)] , that relates pairs of elements of the vector random process {X(t)},−∞<t<∞. …”
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Overview of How to Stop Damage Caused by Nuisance Wildlife in Your Yard by Holly K. Ober, Arlo Kane

“…These suggestions should help reduce wildlife damage in a practical, humane, and environmentally responsible manner. Written by Holly K. Ober and Arlo Kane, and published by the UF Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, October 2012. …”
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De l’avoir lieu à l’être-lieu : parcours dans l’œuvre de Dorothy Cross by Valérie Morisson

“…They challenge anthropocentrism in a poetic manner. By staging the sudden appearance of an archaic bestiality embodied by the shark, the jellyfish or the snake, animals both wild and culturally significant, and by immersing in wild settings, the artist creates spatial reversals. …”
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Prognostic and Diagnostic Value of Endocan in Kidney Diseases by Elisabeth Samouilidou, Virginia Athanasiadou, Eirini Grapsa

“…Endocan could additionally improve the early diagnostic evaluation of acute kidney disease, chronic renal allograft injury, and acute rejection after kidney transplantation, thus contributing to endothelial cell injury monitoring in a timely manner.…”
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Innovation and Creativity in Public Sector by Viera Kozáková

“…The position of public sector in European countries is significant, especially now when Europe has a goal of smart, inclusive and sustainable growth. The paper examines manners how public sector can contribute to achievement of this goal. …”
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How the Slovaks Helped Count Dracula: Stereotypes of the Late 19th Century by Martin Kasarda

“…They are portrayed in a stereotypical manner as shepherds and rafters, one of several peoples who inhabit the Transylvanian region, and one whose reputation is not exactly spotless. …”
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Walking into the wild. A transition to a co-evolutionary landscape by Adriano Dessì

“… This research paper attempts to shift the approach and the possible attitudes of architectural and landscape design towards an interpretation of ecological transition based on the dimension of the ‘wild’, that is, on the possibility that the transformation of places by man contemplates other and the most diverse forms of life, spheres of proximity in which human activities give way to third and fourth natures, which develop their own habitats in an autonomous, dynamic and vital manner. In this reflection, thinking about a ‘landscape of the wild’ means thinking again about the relationship between human and natural habitats, which develops on many levels that cannot be reduced and simplified in the impending phenomenon of ‘rewilding’, ranging from the possibility of giving shape to the spaces of nature, of creating new forms of shared spaces between man and living things, to the conception of minimal architectures necessary to stimulate ancient human practices (such as walking) and which are capable of developing new ecologies.   …”
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Coupling of Photonic Crystal Surface Modes by Melike Behiye Yücel

“…Lifting the degeneracy between the surface modes as a consequence of bringing two identical photonic crystal surfaces to a sufficient distance results in evanescent coupling in a beating manner whose beat length linearly varies between 10 and 20 periods up to a frequency at which both surface modes travel with the same group velocity. …”
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Une analyse des discours sur le rôle d’une expérimentation dans la production urbaine : le projet Darwin à Bordeaux by Sandra Mallet, Arnaud Mège

“…Darwin appears as a revelation of the tensions between a desire to « do the city differently », in a more flexible and resilient manner, and models that are still dominant, characterized by large-scale projects that are difficult to adapt to change, directly questioning the capacity of urban planning actors to integrate this type of initiative into their projects in the long term.…”
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Ethnogenèse du New Age andin : à la recherche de l’Inca global by Antoinette Molinié

“…The New Agers movement have borrowed from neo-Indian representations and grafted their own concepts on them. In this manner, the world-wide popularization of a tradition is not introduced through some theoretical debate on the way cultures tend to dissolve in globalization, but through the analysis of ethnographic data.…”
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Imago Dei, Ontological and Relational Interpretations. Introducing Edith Stein to the Debate by Christof Betschart

“…For Edith Stein intrinsic or a priori individuality refers to a unique quality of the person’s soul which unfolds more or less fully in the unity of the person’s body-soul-spirit unity: «the soul is destined for eternal being, and this destination explains why the soul is called upon to be an image of God in a “wholly personal manner.”» (FEB 504 [422]) This ontological approach contributes to a consideration of interpersonal enrichment through love, as a way to personal fulfilment and to complementarity through communion. …”
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Tonk, Syntax, Semantics, Pragmatics by Woleński Jan

“…Later, this idea was discussed by several authors, including in the context of the question of whether the ab ove rule defines this functor in a sufficient manner. This paper shows that if we assume the standard matrix (truth-tables) characterization of classical sentential functors, no valuation agrees with rules generating the sense of tonk. …”
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The explananda in North Germanic Tonogenesis by Tomas Riad

“…A prosodic post-lexical rule – present in all dialects today – assigns the word tone of accent 2, which subsequently becomes lexicalized in a morpheme by morpheme manner. The developments of a postposed definite article and epenthetic vowels, processes that are always mentioned as instrumental in demonstrating the lexical distinction (B) do not directly bear on tonogenesis as such. …”
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Population Dynamics from Peripheral Regions: A North Atlantic Perspective by Godfrey Baldacchino

“…It cautions against the simplified and false dichotomy between gentrification and depopulation, calling rather for a more fluid appreciation of the manner in which people exploit opportunities for mobility as they connect with, and from, peripheral places. …”
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An Afro-Christian contextual analysis of presidential pardon in post-colonial African politics by B.O. Igboin

“…However, the demand for the release of Barabbas rather than Jesus has not been adequately studied in a contextual or comparative theo-political manner in Africa. This is the thrust of this article. …”
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Optimal Planning of Distributed Sensor Layouts for Collaborative Surveillance by Thomas A. Wettergren, Russell Costa

“…As more sensors are utilized in a collaborative manner, the optimal placement of sensors becomes critical to achieve the most efficient coverage. …”
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Le Queenborough d’Ellen Glasgow : cartographie d’une Babylone en devenir by Brigitte Zaugg

“…For her "tragicomedies of manners", The Romantic Comedians (1926), They Stooped to Folly (1929) and The Sheltered Life (1932), Ellen Glasgow chose a common setting, the fictional town of Queenborough. …”
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Yoruba Festival and the Dramatist: Satire as Spine in Soyinka’s A Dance of the Forests by Olusegun i Olu-Osayomi

“…By vigorously exploiting African (Yoruba) experience, festival motif, and satiric modes, in a manner relevant to the moral development of his world, it will be seen that Soyinka, succeeds in laying the foundation for a truly Nigerian national literature and it is, in fact, on this that his strengths as a satirist playwright lie …”
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