Becoming Infrastructure: Integrating Citizen Science into Disaster Response and Prevention by Gwen Ottinger

“…The integration of citizen science into disaster infrastructure is fostered by creating communities of practice that include citizen scientists and disaster responders, and actively connecting new platforms and information to pre-existing infrastructure. By deliberately undertaking these activities, practitioners can help ensure that citizen science fulfills its potential to enhance disaster infrastructure.…”
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Analysing God of War: A Hero’s Journey by Robert Cassar

“…The purpose of this study was to scrutinise the structure of the plot in such as way as to better understand how game developers use this medium to deliver stories. The tool used to undertake this task was Joseph Campbell’s monomyth (Hero’s journey) as adapted by Christopher Vogler in his ‘Writer’s Journey’. …”
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COMPETITIVENESS THROUGH SUSTAINABILITY AND FINANCIAL EFFICIENCY OF SPA TOURIST DESTINATIONS by Anis Cecilia, Ispas Andreia, Babaita Carmen

“…The paper work continue a study begun last year by the same authors about tourist perception of attractiveness of the two tourist SPA destinations (Buziaş and Băile Felix) on a different market segment (18-35 years old people). This time, we undertake an analysis on SC Turism Felix SA in order to determine and underline the tourist competitiveness through sustainability and financial efficiency (tourism performance indicators evolution, market share, turnover, investment volume, financial returns and costs).…”
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THE IMAGE OF THE CLOWN IN MAX BLECHER’NOVEL by Nicoleta HRISTU (HURMUZACHE)

“…Jung’s abyssal psychology, focus is laid on the image of the clown, ascated with that of the trickster, an archetype of the authorial shadow transiting through the two worlds, reality/ immediate unreality, conscious/ unconscious. The hermeneutical undertaking attempts to decipher the contextual symbols which point to the duplicitous nature of the character, in the sense of a schizoid identity on the Ego/ Self axis. …”
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Encounters with National Stereotypes in Foreign Language Teaching: Adjectives Describing Americans by Andrej Stopar

“… Teaching (or learning) a foreign language is a complex, interdisciplinary undertaking. Teachers and students are required to tackle aspects of language that transcend its merely linguistic component. …”
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Building a Picture of Usage Patterns in a Language Learning Space: Gathering Useful Quantitative and Qualitative Data by Katherine Thornton, Nao Noguchi

“…While evaluation of a language learning space can be a difficult undertaking, it is possible to design evaluation instruments that both satisfy institutional demands for numeric data and also provide useful information that can be used to improve the space. …”
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The Agency Theory Applied to the Investment Funds by Flávia Zóboli Dalmácio, Valcemiro Nossa

“…The agent is the individual who, motivated by his own interests, undertakes to do certain tasks for the principal. This work was developed from a bibliographical review and, based on experimental research, empirical investigations were made, the principal object of which was the test of the hypothesis with relation to cause-effect that could exist between the administration tax and the profitability of the investment funds. …”
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A rajzfilmek, mint a nyelvtanulást segítő eszközök by Éva Hilda Székely

“…It also presents the aggression-free interactive cartoons that— according to specialists—can help the language improvement of children and students who undertake to study English as a foreign language.…”
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Mother of Three and Widow of the Nation: The Hungarian Mrs Vachott (1828–96) as Protégé-Editor by Zsuzsa Torok

“…This article focuses on the editorial undertakings of the Hungarian Mária Csapó (1828–96), better known as Mrs Vachott. …”
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Estetyzowanie wulgaryzmów by Małgorzata Kita

“…Much attention is given to the presence of vulgar words in artistic undertakings. The author concentrates on the strictness of the recipients’ attitudes towards vulgar words. …”
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Banking and credit in the framework of new economic policies in Eastern Europe by G. GARVY

“…In recent times all of the countries of Eastern Europe, save Roumania, have proclaimed their intention to undertake significant changes in their economies. The reforms announced or already initiated amount to a considerable departure from the centrally planned command economies that emerged with the establishment of communist regimes after World War II. …”
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THE PROBLEMS OF MARKETING PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT by Wojciech Grzegorczyk

“…ROMI is defined as a financial surplus generated by a marketing investment in relation to the costs incurred in the process of this investment (undertaking). Marketing performance measurement is strictly related to the concept of marketing control. …”
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Social sustainability of visual accessibility’s project in domestic environments by Paola Barcarolo, Christina Conti

“…The accessibility of spaces, facilities and services is one of the essential requirements of contemporary models that, in the ethics of a proper inclusive design, undertake important strategies for the realization of socially sustainable architectures with a consequent achievement of greater environmental quality and enhancement of public goods. …”
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Public Access to (Pre-)History Through Archaeology by Katie Stringer Clary

“…This paper, an extension of a presentation at the Reconstructive and Experimental Archaeology conference in Williamsburg, Virginia USA in 2017, explores the ways public historians and archaeologists work in museums and historic spaces through artifacts, interpretation, education, and other interdisciplinary undertakings.…”
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Castigo y Dolor: el Caso Sudamericano Hoy by Alfonso Donoso

“…This paper offers a critical analysis of the practice of punishment in South America in the 21st century. It undertakes this task through a series of steps: first, given the link between punishment and the imposition of pain and suffering, this article depicts criminal punishment as a morally problematic practice. …”
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Histoire comparée des Guyanes (XVe-XXIe siècles) : Construction d'une historiographie propre à l'espace guyanais by Jean Moomou

“…The Guyanas appear as spaces of "borders": natural borders, geopolitical borders, socio-political borders, ethnic borders, racial borders, linguistic borders, cultural borders. Therefore, undertaking a comparative historical study will invite us to juggle these different scales.…”
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APPLICATION OF THE SWOT-ANALYSIS IN PROJECT MANAGEMENT IN BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS by Borislava Galabova

“…Project is a complex undertaking with a specific goal. The realization of this goal in a planned period and quality of the final product means that it’s successfully completed. …”
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Spectators’ Journeys by Elsa Belhomme

“…The article argues that in those apparatus, spectators must undertake an intro-directed journey and renegotiate their own sense of being there, while remaining at the center of attention. …”
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'Speech within speech': The writing of Antonio Tabucchi by R. Wilson

“…During the twenty-four hours which he spends in Lisbon waiting to keep his appointment, he undertakes a physical journey through the city, which turns out to be also a parallel journey of the anima through memory. …”
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The Diminished Public, and Black Christian Promotion of American Civic Ideals by R. Drew Smith

“…Contrasts and continuities between these approaches are examined with attention to the impact of these approaches on a beleaguered and diminished American public realm and their relative affirmations or negations of broad understandings and undertakings of public purposes.…”
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