Building common ground: how facilitators bridge between diverging groups in multi-stakeholder dialogue by Grimm, J, Ruehle, RC, Reinecke, J

“…Facilitating such dialogue in turn entails building common ground in form of joint knowledge, beliefs, and suppositions. …”

Recommendations to improve the interpretation of global flood forecasts to support international humanitarian operations for tropical cyclones by Speight, L, Stephens, E, Hawker, L, Baugh, C, Neal, J, Cloke, H, Grey, S, Titley, H, Marsden, K, Sumner, T, Ficchi, A, Prudhomme, C, Archer, L, Bazo, J, Dambo, J, Dolan, S, Huhn, AL, Moschini, F, Savage, J, Smith, A, Towner, J, Wanzala, M

“…International humanitarian organisations increasingly turn to forecast teams to support the coordination of efforts to respond to disasters caused by hazards such as tropical cyclones and large-scale fluvial floods. …”

Whole-brain turbulent dynamics predict responsiveness to pharmacological treatment in major depressive disorder by Escrichs, A, Sanz Perl, Y, Fisher, PM, Martínez-Molina, N, G-Guzman, E, Frokjaer, VG, Kringelbach, ML, Knudsen, GM, Deco, G

“…Importantly, our model-free approach enabled prediction of which patients would turn out to be non-responders. Finally, our model-based approach provides mechanistic evidence that non-responder patients are less sensitive to stimulation and, consequently, less prone to respond to treatment. …”

Can participation promote psychological ownership of a shared resource? An intervention study of community-based safe water infrastructure by Ambuehl, B, Kunwar, BM, Schertenleib, A, Marks, SJ, Inauen, J

“…In conclusion, this study supports the assumption that participation can foster psychological ownership, which in turn can support successful management of a shared resource.…”

Scenes of misrecognition (Koltès, Duras) by Killeen, M-C

“…What is most fascinating about these works is the curious way in which they appear to bear all the markings of confessions yet pointedly refuse to behave like them, thwarting the desire for revelation, catharsis, and closure at every turn. As performative utterances, these abortive confessions ultimately perform little apart from their own undoing. …”

Ensuring sustainable water security through sustainable land management: Research evidences for policy by Dagnachew, M, Gebrehiwot, SG, Bewket, W, Alamirew, T, Charles, K, Zeleke, G

“…So far, only 18% of Ethiopia's cropland area is covered by SLM practices for the last 40 years of intensive interventions. Water security, in turn, is a powerful and multidimensional option that includes water availability, accessibility, use, and stability across time. …”

‘Can someone get me outta this middle class zone?!’ Pressures on middle class Kikuyu in Kenya's 2013 election by Burbidge, D

“…The tensions felt by middle class Kikuyu during the election period made them wish they were members of either of the two other classes, who were in turn viewed as able to influence politics through money or popular power. …”

Object level grouping for video shots by Sivic, J, Schaffalitzky, F, Zisserman, A

“…The outcome is that separate parts of an object that are not simultaneously visible (such as the front and back of a car, or the front and side of a face) are associated together. In turn this enables object-level matching and recognition throughout a video. …”

Visualising human life in volumetric cities: city digital twins and other disasters by Rose, G

“…It adopts an intersectional feminist and techno-cultural analysis of the visual form of power enacted by CDTs, as exemplary of a much wider turn in contemporary visual culture towards visualising the world digitally in three dimensions. …”

‘Hot stuff’: making food more desirable with animated temperature cues by Zhang, T, Desebrock, C, Okajima, K, Spence, C

“…Further, food image appeal was found to be a boundary condition for the effect of hot temperature cues: that is, when the food images is of low appeal, traces of steam which increased hot temperature perception, in turn enhanced freshness perception and food desirability, but not WTP. …”

'To know them thoroughly you must have their photographs': photographing Donatello in the 19th and early 20th centuries by Johnson, GA

“…It also considers how the academic, museological and even geopolitical concerns of art historians and curators working in Europe and North America in the second half of the nineteenth century and early years of the twentieth century influenced the kinds of illustrations that were produced of Renaissance sculpture—and, in turn, how the kinds of illustrations made available to scholars shaped the questions they asked. …”

Teaching strategies for environmental education by Stokes, David, Crawshaw, Bruce

“…The Lay Group needs to have attitudes, philosophies and values about the environment. Each of these in turn require different teaching strategies. For the Technical Group, practical experimental teaching methods based on the traditional subject approach appear to be the most suitable. …”
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The role of smartphone applications as English learning tool among Chinese university students by Liu, Mengjie, Noordin, Nooreen, Ismail, Lilliati, Abd Rahim, Nur Aira, Zaremohzzabieh, Zeinab

“…Fragmented learning time and informal learn ing place were widely accepted by students due to the flexib ility and portability of smartphone apps, which create more learning opportunities for them and in turn lengthens their learning time. Rich, authentic, high -quality, and up- to-date listening materials, English proficiency tests, and the function of recommendation offered by smartphone apps all provide a great convenience for students. …”

A proposed framework of analysis of factors affecting student with learning disabilities. by Cao, Chen, Kanjanapathy, Malini, Mohamed Saat, Maisarah

“…Through this research, gaining insights into the situation of college students with learning disabilities (SLD) can provide essential information to governments and educational institutions. This, in turn, can facilitate the development of more inclusive education policies, ensuring that the needs of students with learning disabilities (SLD) are comprehensively addressed.…”
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A longitudinal study of the tax capacity and tax effort of the Malaysian state government by Abdul Jalil, Ahmad Zafarullah, Harun, Mukaramah, Che Mat, Siti Hadijah

“…The main objective of this paper is to measure the effort and capacity of the state governments in Peninsular Malaysia for their land tax for the period of 2000-2008 using the Representative Revenue System (RRS).Our findings show that state governments differ significantly in term of their capacity and their effort.The findings of this study also show that there is little movement in the ranking of the state governments with respect to the level of their tax effort.This implies that state governments especially the ones found to be exerting below average tax effort have shown little initiative to change their effort.This in turn may be due to the way the whole tax system is managed…”
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Regulation of Adenine Nucleotide Concentration at Endothelium-Fluid Interface by Viscous Shear Flow by Shen, Jian, Gimbrone, Michael A. Jr., Luscinskas, Francis W., Dewey, C. Forbes Jr.

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Performance of sideslip perching maneuver with an adaptive gain control feature by Feroskhan, Mir, Go, Tiauw H.

“…The avian-inspired sideslip perching maneuver is an aggressive flight scenario that involves high turn rates and high rates of change of aerodynamic angles to decelerate and descend the aircraft rapidly for a precision landing. …”
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Study on the regulation of focal adesions and cortical actin by matrix nanotopography in 3D environment by Han, Jingjing, Lin, Keng-Hui, Chew, Lock Yue

“…It has been proposed that nanoscale topography is possible to modulate the tensions which direct the formation of cytoskeleton and the organization of the membrane receptor within the cell, which in turn regulate intracellular mechanical and biochemical signaling. …”
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Borocarbonitride, (BN)x(C)1-x, nanosheet-reinforced polymer nanocomposites for high mechanical performance by Sreedhara, M.B., Barua, Manaswee, Chaturvedi, Abhishek, Rao, C.N.R., Ramamurty, Upadrasta

“…The enhancement in mechanical and thermal properties of polymer matrices upon reinforcing with nanoparticles strongly depends on the extent of molecular-level interactions and interfacial adhesion between the nanofiller and the matrix material, which are, in turn, governed by the surface functionalities on the nanofiller. …”
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Missing links in The China Model by Li, Chenyang

“…For example, when the Chinese government was [End Page 568] using harmony as a leading motif for policies, while some people would say anything in praise of harmony in order to please the government, there were also many who chose to turn their back on topics related to harmony in order to avoid being perceived as dancing to the music of the government.…”
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