Guiding in complex contexts: Paths of vocational guidance in the Costa Rican educational system by Ana Victoria Garita-Pulido

“…Finally, some key points are proposed for optimizing vocational guidance, ensuring that the guiding actions are rooted in the substantial elements proposed by both theoretical perspectives. …”
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Direction Finding Using a Four-Ray Street Canyon Propagation Model in Presence of Periodic Lamp-Posts for Use in Microcellular Wireless Communication and Angular Estimation by Sarah Poormohammad, Forouhar Farzaneh

“…The evolution of the errors is computed by moving the mobile set along and across the street. …”
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Width evolution of channel belts as a random walk by J. M. Turowski, J. M. Turowski, F. McNab, A. Bufe, A. Bufe, S. Tofelde

“…In other words, at each river cross section the river randomly moves either to the left or right at a given time. …”
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Investigation of vibration protection system of a seat with quasi-zero stiffness under stochastic effects on the elements of running equipment of a motor grader by M. S. Korytov, V. S. Shcherbakov, I. E. Kashapova

“…With the help of a complex simulation mathematical model of a motor grader developed in the Matlab environment, including subsystems of vibration-protective cab supports, a vibration-protective mechanism of the operator's seat, setting stochastic effects on the elements of running equipment when moving along a microrelief, a computational experiment is carried out, when processing the results of which, the influence of a number of system parameters on the root-mean-square seat acceleration deviation in the vertical direction. …”
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Polyarchy: The Transition from Democratic Passivity to Democratic Participation A Critique on the Translation Book Polyarchy: Participation and Opposition by Mohammad Zohdi Goharpour, Fatemeh Sayadi, Rasoul Afzali

“…The central assumption of the sign in this book, which involves a linear process, is that when hegemonic systems and competitive dictatorships move toward multiculturalism, opportunities for effective participation and questioning increase. …”
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Transformation of Yoga in Bali in the Era of Global Tourism by Ningrum Ambarsari, A.A. Ngr. Anom Kumbara, Nanang Sutrisno, Yang En Siem Evelyn

“…The adaptation of Hindu spiritual symbols reflects a move away from cultural specificity and raises concerns about the erosion of local heritage. …”
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Critical Suicide Notes: On Witnessing and Prefigurative Politics by Jeffrey P. Ansloos, Jennifer H. White

“…This paper reimagines the study of suicide as a critical, relational practice rooted in solidarity and transformative possibilities. …”
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Two decades of critical information literacy: a review and analysis of the literature by Eamon Tewell

“…The author suggests that to move towards its liberatory aims, the burgeoning field of CIL should continue drawing upon other relevant movements and contemporary theories, establish localised analyses of power and be considered as a dynamic and context-dependent concept rooted in sociopolitical realities. …”
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Unveiling the future: Wavelet- ARIMAX analysis of climate and diarrhea dynamics in Bangladesh’s Urban centers by Md. Waliullah, Md. Jamal Hossain, Md. Raqibul Hasan, Abdul Hannan, Mohammad Mafizur Rahman

“…Based on climatic variables, Wavelet-ARIMAX can accurately predict diarrheal occurrence, as indicated by the mean absolute error (MAE), root mean squared error (RMSE), and root mean squared logarithmic error (RMSLE). …”
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Re-Supplying Autonomous Mobile Parcel Lockers in Last-Mile Distribution by Sajjad Hedayati, Mostafa Setak, Tom Van Woensel, Emrah Demir

“…This paper investigates a practical last-mile delivery scenario where a fleet of trucks replenishes autonomous mobile parcel lockers (AMPLs) in an urban setting. The lockers move along specified paths within restricted zones to reach customers’ locations. …”
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Becoming a Wild Researcher Through Goethean Science, Indigenous Philosophy and Creative Response by Lee Beavington

“…This bold enterprise challenges dominant Western-colonial paradigms rooted in power and control over nature and learners. …”
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Correcting Ryle’s Mistake: Motor Redundancy and the Embodied Intelligence of Habits by Jeferson Diello Huffermann

“…After some background, the Rylean distinction between habits and intelligent behavior is explored. I then move to Ryle’s mistake and its roots, tacitly endorsing the idea of instinct as innate behavior. …”
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The Impact of Impending Demolition on Ageing in Place in Declining Neighbourhoods in Shenyang, China by Xin Li, Maarten van Ham, Reinout Kleinhans, Pingyu Zhang

“…Long-term residence in declining neighbourhoods makes them feel rooted and enables them to develop their living strategies and plan for ageing in place. …”
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Public administration in the conditions of war: strengths, opportunities, weaknesses and threats for the period 2014-2024 in Ukraine by Zhanna Poplavska, Lidia Seniv, Vitaliy Humeniuk, Serhii Tryhobiuk

“… The war between Russia and Ukraine has deep historical roots going back to the Soviet era and beyond. Simplifying things analytically, the current conflict is the result of historical tensions accumulated over decades, exacerbated to their maximum expression by the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, and Ukraine's subsequent aspirations to move closer to the West, as a free and sovereign nation-state. …”
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Promoting Dealmaking? Utilitarian Religiosity and Faith Among African Neo-Pentecostal Prophets by Collium Banda

“…The secondary question is as follows: how should Christian faith be understood and articulated to challenge NPPs to move from utilitarian spirituality to relational spirituality? …”
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A comparative analysis of variants of machine learning and time series models in predicting women’s participation in the labor force by Rasha Elstohy, Nevein Aneis, Eman Mounir Ali

“…For performance validation, forecasting accuracy metrics were constructed using mean squared error (MSE), root mean squared error (RMSE), mean absolute error (MAE), mean absolute percent error (MAPE), R-squared (R2), and cross-validated root mean squared error (CVRMSE). …”
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A synthetic peptide shows retro- and anterograde neuronal transport before disrupting the chemosensation of plant-pathogenic nematodes. by Dong Wang, Laura M Jones, Peter E Urwin, Howard J Atkinson

“…The infective mobile stage hatches from dormant eggs and moves a short distance through the soil to plant roots, which it then invades. …”
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Forecasting Price of Crude Oil Using the Weight Markov Chain (WMC) and ARIMA Model Techniques by محمد محمود فقى حسين

“…This conclusion is supported by lower values for mean absolute error, root mean square error, mean absolute percentage error, and AIC. …”
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Transforming Wind Data into Insights: A Comparative Study of Stochastic and Machine Learning Models in Wind Speed Forecasting by Türker Tuğrul, Sertaç Oruç, Mehmet Ali Hınıs

“…The models obtained from the analyses were improved with the wavelet transformation (WT), and the results obtained were evaluated for the correlation coefficient (R), the Nash–Sutcliffe model efficiency (NSE), the Kling–Gupta efficiency (KGE), the performance index (PI), the root mean standard deviation ratio (RSR), and the root mean square error (RMSE). …”
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What’s at Stake? Decolonization of Terminology in the United States by Nicholas Gathings, Jennifer Merry

“… Every day in the United States, we use language that is oppressive and rooted in our colonial past. For this article, we specifically focus on the term stakeholder regarding evaluation research. …”
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