Photokinetics of Photothermal Reactions by Mounir Maafi

“…This paper contributes to rationalizing photokinetics along the same general guidelines adopted in chemical kinetics.…”
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Revision of Fuzzified Fine-Kinney Method, an Adaptive Method for Natural Disaster Risk Management by Doğukan Kartal, Asena Soyluk

“…Even though the method has been applied to natural disasters, the results are not very rational and precise because of the dissimilarity between both phenomena. …”
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Anarchy Is What Explains the History of International Relations by William C. Wohlforth

“…It produces security dilemma, incentives to free ride and uncertainty of intentions among great powers making war a rational tool to secure their national interests.This research is funded by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation (grant agreement number 14.461.31.0002).…”
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RNA folding kinetics control riboswitch sensitivity in vivo by David Z. Bushhouse, Jiayu Fu, Julius B. Lucks

“…Our results add to the growing suite of knowledge and approaches that can be used to rationally program cotranscriptional RNA folding for biotechnology applications, and suggest general RNA folding principles for understanding dynamic RNA systems in other areas of biology.…”
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Management of commercial activities of a freight forwarding company in market conditions by O. A. Tettsoeva, A. S. Lopareva

“…As the main directions for improving commercial activities, it is planned to integrate marketing and logistics services, which will reduce risks at the stages of movement and storage of products; optimization of business processes of the organization; increasing the company’s rating based on the choice of a reliable carrier; rational selection of a logistics operator.…”
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Risk and Organizational Ambidexterity: A Meta-Synthesis of a Case Study and a Framework by Elizandra Severgnini, Adriana Roseli Wünsch Takahashi, Gustavo Abib

“…Third, the framework suggests that risk has a direct effect on organizational performance, reducing it, or influencing strategic decision-making (ranging from intuitive to rational decision).…”
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Digitalizing an integrated logistics flows of a focus enterprise by A. P. Tyapukhin, V. S. Starodubtsev

“…The value of the study lies in theoretical and methodological prerequisites creation for digitalization of non-physical subjects and objects of integrated logistics flows management, as well as their integration with other physical subjects and objects in order to develop rational management decisions both at the level of links and at the level of the business system.…”
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Peer effects among friends on students' cognitive abilities: An analysis based on emotional distance. by Wenyi Zhou, Junming Xie, Jinsong Kuang, Yongqing Feng, Dag Øivind Madsen

“…The other channel is the "anchoring effect," which involves raising parents' reference standards, leading them to devote more time and energy to their children's learning. Therefore, the rational use of social interaction with friends is a vital approach to enhancing students' cognitive abilities.…”
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Design of an Adaptive Distributed Critical-Care Extensive Response Network (AD-CERN) Using Cooperative Overlay Network by V. Akilandeswari, S. Mercy Shalinie

“…The proposed network has the following considerations. (1) Dynamic coevolution is elucidated with interaction between independent rational strategies and structure of overlay network. (2) Evolutionary Game Theory (EGT) specific to overlay network is adopted with the combination of network reciprocity and group selection mechanism. (3) The cooperative efficient network structure is put forth by the multinode link-formation game. …”
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THE YIJING AND THE CRISIS OF WESTERN TRADITION by Ernest Ženko

“…In the article author follows a view that although rational thinking can be found in all literate societies around the globe, differences between cultures develop to a certain degree also from basic distinctions between philosophical ways of thinking. …”
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New Geographical Regionalization of Russia by V. A. Gorbanyov

“…This approach will promote rational geographical division of labor in the country in a market economy. …”
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The main psychological determinants of the participants’ readiness of professional skill competitions to perform successfully by E. V. Pugacheva, A. Yu. Tymchikov

“…The main psychological determinants of the contestants’ readiness for competitions in professional skills and possible success are identified and formulated – personality strength; confidence; a high level of need for achievements and victories; an adequate level of self-esteem; a high level of reflection; competent knowledge of psychological technologies of self-action; a high level of personal and professional qualities development; rational independence in preparation.…”
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Novel Algorithms for Solving a System of Absolute Value Variational Inequalities by Safeera Batool, Muhammad Aslam Noor, Riaz Ahmad, Ilyas Khan, Mulugeta Andualem

“…Absolute value variational inequalities present a rational, pragmatic, and novel framework for investigating a wide range of equilibrium problems that arise in a variety of disciplines. …”
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THE CRISIS OF THE ARCHAICAL THINKING OF THE PRINCIPAL METAPHYSICAL PROBLEM OF THE ANCIENT GREEK PHILOSOPHY by Vytautas Rimvydas Rimvydas Litvinas

“…In that sense, both the "rational", and the "irrational" thinking should be seen as emeriging from the same sourse, albeit with different value systems: Heraclitus gave priority to the dynamics of the symbol, whereas Parmenides underlined the value of the "stability" and "identity" of the symbol. …”
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Mothers and children without bread. Hunger in the Auxilio Social Cocinas de Hermandad and Comedores Infantiles during post-war Francoism (1939-1940) by Gloria Román Ruiz

“…This work sustaines that the rations served in these charitable-assistance institutions were fewer, smaller, and of worse quality than officially recognised. …”
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Selective Decontamination of the Digestive Tract Reduces Pneumonia and Mortality by Lenneke E. M. Haas, Marcus J. Schultz

“…This paper describes the concept of SDD, summarizes the results of published trials of SDD in mixed medical-surgical intensive care units, and rationalizes the risk of antimicrobial resistance and rise of costs associated with this potentially life-saving preventive strategy.…”
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A two-loop four-point form factor at function level by Lance J. Dixon, Shuo Xin

“…In order to do so, we find a three-parameter limit of the five-parameter phase space where the symbol’s letters are all rational. We also use function-level information about dihedral symmetries and the soft, collinear, and factorization limits, as well as limits governed by the form-factor operator product expansion (FFOPE). …”
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Optimal Decisions and Pricing in Mail Service Systems Subject to Virus Attacks by Sheng Zhu, Jinting Wang

“…In the case of payment systems, senders are assumed to be boundedly rational, and we obtain a three-dimensional (3D) optimal strategy by combining the Stackelberg game approach and the logit choice model. …”
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Non-invertible symmetry in Calabi-Yau conformal field theories by Clay Córdova, Giovanni Rizi

“…Our approach begins at a Gepner point in the conformal manifold where the sigma model specializes to a rational conformal field theory and we can identify all supersymmetric topological Verlinde lines. …”
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Rhyme or Reason: Three Patterns of Poetic Interference in the British Crime Novel by Camille Fort-Cantoni

“…In Agatha Christie’s Crooked House, the nursery rhyme in the title is merely submitted by the detective to a rational, analogical reading. Now an irrational reading, based on Freud’s interpretation of dreams, might show that the poem’s signifiers all reveal one unspeakable statement: a child has killed. …”
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