Quality of Life Philosophy VI. The Concepts by Soren Ventegodt, Niels Jørgen Andersen, Joav Merrick

“…Through the slowly acquired mastering of our surrounding world, we obtain our power, which gives us success in life, when we use it responsibly and unite it in harmony with our deepest purpose of life. …”
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Combined effect of incentives and coupling in multigames in two-layer networks by Luo-Luo Jiang, Yi-Ming Li, Wen-Jing Li, Attila Szolnoki

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A Hybrid Human Dynamics Model on Analyzing Hotspots in Social Networks by Yunpeng Xiao, Bai Wang, Bin Wu, Zhixian Yan, Shousheng Jia, Yanbing Liu

“…Empirical observations indicate that the interhotspot distribution follows a power law. To further understand the mechanism of such dynamic phenomena, we propose a hybrid human dynamic model that combines “memory” of individual and “interaction” among people. …”
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Impacts of Sandstorms on Chemistries of Ambient PAHs in a Small City in North China by Zhiyong Li, Zhen Zhai, Jixiang Liu, Lan Chen, Zhuangzhuang Ren, Chen Liu, Ziyi Zhan, Ziyuan Yue, Wenjia Zhu, Jihong Wei, Huiying Gao, Songtao Guo

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Solar Modulation of Low-energy Cosmic-Ray Nitrogen and Its Comparison with Oxygen by Yun Li, Xiaoping Zhang, Shuai Fu, Zhenning Shen, Yi Xu, Haoyu Lu, Jinbin Cao, Tianle Zhu

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GODS OF TRANSHUMANISM by A. V. Halapsis

“…The history of man ends and the history of the posthuman begins. We can no longer turn off this path, however, in our power to preserve our human qualities in the posthuman future. …”
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When the Future Becomes no Longer a Threat but, More, an Opportunity by Terry Trickett

“…The proposed answer, “Building Less is More”, will require the City to develop a degree of confidence in the idea that, in part, London Wall West can become virtual. We can anticipate that to design and construct a new virtual world, where people can spend time that is as good as in the outside physical world, London Wall West must become a test bed for experimentation on how to turn “conjecture” into reality. …”
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THE YOUTH IN RUSSIA: INEQUALITIES AND LIVING CHOICES by E. I. Kuzmina

“…Spare time for communication with friends, self-education, hobbies and leisure has become not easily available for many young people;– the third determinant is the place of living and living conditions: the comfort and prestige of city district, its safety and infrastructure;– the fourth place is taken by mental outfit and social capital, in other words, by the body of knowledge and skills which is in demand on the labour market;– the fifth factor is the power, the ability to influence other people (relatives, friends, colleagues, government)We have found out that along with the traditional inequalities the new form of inequality – the temporalinequality – is becoming more and more significant for the Russian youth.…”
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Autonomous inverse encoding guides 4D nanoprinting for highly programmable shape morphing by Shuaiqi Ren, Zhiang Zhang, Ruokun He, Jiahao Fan, Guangming Wang, Hesheng Wang, Bing Han, Yong-Lai Zhang, Zhuo-Chen Ma

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Arthur ainda vive? by Isadora Cristine Martins

“…We read the sources observing side references to Arthur and paying attention to the power relations that the chronicles contain.…”
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Les « dissidences non dissidentes » du Front Polisario dans les camps de réfugiés et la diaspora sahraouis by Carmen Gómez Martín, Cédric Omet

“…Twenty years of diplomatic failures have led to the emergence of groups who have re-appropriated the rhetoric of a call to arms and the challenge to existing power structures. In this article we show that such organizations, defining themselves as the “non-dissident dissidents” of the Polisario Front, are reshaping the Sahrawi political camp, opening a way to internal opposition and the possibility of political change at the head of Polisario Front, and introducing further uncertainty in the resolution of the conflict in the Western Sahara.…”
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Crisi identitaria e speculazione panarabista nella Tunisia post-rivoluzionaria: che ne facciamo della tunisianità e della lingua tunisina? by Alfonso Campisi

“…Always the article 38 of the constitution voted by the Islamic party at that time at the power, says that the national language is Arabic. …”
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SPIRITUALITY IN LEADERSHIP. RESEARCH INTO SCHOOLS, CONGREGATIONS AND THE WORKPLACE by C.A.M. Hermans

“… What drives leaders to inspire, orientate and motivate members in organisations such as schools, congregations, and parachurch organisations, and to transform social life forms? We need leaders who transform organisations and society at large; who are authentic and a moral example; who know how to discern in view of the interest of the people they serve; who are transformed themselves from the cultural and power-related forces of history as, for example, in South Africa that struggles with issues of injustice and reconciliation. …”
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Teachers under the Third Republic in the constant trap of political manipulation by Bogusław Śliwerski

“…They were trusted and respected by politicians for the creative liberation of school education and of institution management from the arrogance and orthodox pressure of the ruling party of the times of real socialism, and together with the systematically regained state power over them, which, as in People’s Poland, systematically since the mid-1990s were reduced them to the level of the precariat and the education and upbringing of young generations enslaved by ideology. …”
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Voorsienigheid, persoonlikheid en spiritualiteit - 'n vier-kantige voorsienigheidsleer by F. B. Doubell

“… This article focuses on the problem of the doctrine of providence, namely that God’s oodness and his almighty power are not understandable in the light of the pain and suffering in this world. …”
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Jogos eletrônicos e cultura mediada por computadores: paradoxos culturais e organizacionais advindos das inovações em tecnologias de informação by Takeyoshi Imasato, Zilá Pedroso Mesquita

“…By presenting a case study of a community formed by Brazilians called Brazilian Power, people who gather to play America¿s Army, an electronic game created by the United States Army, this article analyzes and tries to understand the culture of this organization and to disclose some of the cultural paradoxes resulting from new information technologies.…”
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Science Education: Beyond a liminal Understanding of Knowledge Production and Dissemination by Sandra Abegglen, Jessie Bustillos

“…Following a Foucauldian perspective on discourse, truth and power, we look with our students at science – and science education – to explore the production of knowledge in a context where many initiatives promote scientific literacy for children and young people as an important factor of their educational upbringing.  …”
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First Detection of Radio Emission from the Intermediate-mass Black Hole in POX 52: Deep Multiband Observations with ATCA and VLA by Qi Yuan, Hengxiao Guo, Minfeng Gu, Jamie Stevens, Philip G. Edwards, Yongjun Chen, Wenwen Zuo, Jingbo Sun, Jun Yang, Paulina Lira, Tao An, Renzhi Su, Yuanqi Liu, Yijun Wang, Ning Chang, Pengfei Jiang, Ming Zhang

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„O pecunia totius mali regina, fraudis et doli amica...“ Peníze v kultuře středověku by Tomáš Krejčík

“…Money at that time served as a kind of medium, the images on which disseminated a substantial ideology in society, which succumbed to the power of these images. Therefore, first of all we need to go into the iconography of medieval coins, which can be divided up into two groups – the ecclesiastical and the secular, which in many cases obviously overlap and supplement one another (F. …”
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Capturing the Signature of Topological Evolution from the Snapshots of Road Networks by Gi Ung Jang, Jin Chul Joo, Jeryang Park

“…By using average node degree as an indicator of the level of self-organization, we present that multiple topological variables including power-law exponent gradually shift as a network grows. …”
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