Teaching and Learning Economics through Cinema by Girardi, Gherardo

“…The approach developed here is, in a sense, the reverse of that process since it is the medium of cinema which is allowed to inform and suggest the economic concepts that can be discussed through this medium. …”
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Qucs Equation-Defined Device modelling with a Verilog-A Prototyping Platform by Brinson, Mike, Kuznetsov, Vadim, Grabinski, Wladek

“…Since it was first added to Qucs in 2007 Equation-Defined Device (EDD) modelling has become an established model building technique. …”
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Evaluating Greek equity funds using data envelopment analysis by Babalos, Vassilis, Caporale, Guglielmo Maria, Philippas, Nikolaos

“…Our results have significant implications for the investors' fund selection process since we are able to identify potential sources of inefficiencies for the funds. …”
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Framing the future: sustainability, legacy and the 2012 London Games by Gold, Margaret, Gold, John Robert

“…When the International Olympic Committee (IOC) adopted ‘environment’ as a third pillar of Olympism at its centenary meeting in Paris in 1994, it was partly reacting to an environmentalist lobby critical of the growing scale and impact of the Games. Since then, the Olympic movement has striven to be more proactive in championing sustainable events management and in promoting positive environmental legacies through its bidding procedures for the Summer and Winter Games, its technical manuals and the Impact Studies that monitor a city’s performance. …”
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Seeking remedy and the last hope for returning home by Gasparyan, Narine

“…Seventeen years have passed since 330,000 of the 400,000 ethnic Armenians living in the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic (SSR) sought refuge in Armenia as a result of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. …”
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Twenty-nine years of the BIR annual survey, part 2: changing information work by Tredinnick, Luke

“…This paper is the second part of a review of the Business Information Review Annual Survey, which has been published annually since 1991. The paper explores changes to the professional context for information work revealed by the surveys over the course of its publication. …”
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Protecting against eavesdropping on mobile phones to snip data with Information Security Awareness and Steganography principles by Araujo, Istteffanny Isloure, Kazemian, Hassan

“…Eavesdropping on Mobile Devices is the primary concern here. Since the mobility of computers, including laptops, tablets, PDAs and smartphone, are demanding and criminals now start to target these devices as the usage is more than desktops. …”
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Conflict management and peacebuilding in Africa: the role of state and non-state agencies by Abdulrahman, Imran, Tar, Usman A.

“…Though the all-too familiar derogatory metaphors (such as Kaplan's 'the coming anarchy [1994]) are slightly reversed, particularly since the 2000s, following substantial democratic transformation, the continent continues to experience spates of intra- and inter-state wars with impact on the prospects of peace, stability and security in the continent. …”
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"This is so cool - radio at my fingertips!" Young people’s responses to Radio Garden by Mitchell, Caroline, Lewis, Peter M.

“…Interviews and small scale impact workshops with a range of people and organisations carried out in the years since Radio Garden’s launch provide some clues to the reasons for its popularity in periods of lockdown. …”
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An evaluation of the motivational factors of network marketing independent distributors using Vroom's work motivation theory by Tan, Peter Kia Liang

“…During the 1970s and '80s, many research papers on motivation were published. Since then, there has been a decline in such empirical research. …”
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The internet and small to medium-sized enterprises: research notes by Lawrence, Japhet Eke

“…They are socially and economically important, since they represent 99 % of all enterprises in the EU and provide around 65 million jobs and contribute to entrepreneurship and innovation. …”
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United we stand? Organizational groups and spinoff mortality in the context of academic entrepreneurship by Gotsopoulos, Aleksios, Pitsakis, Konstantinos

“…We study failures between 1993 and 2017 in the complete population of 1731 English and Scottish university spinoffs founded since 1977. We borrow and expand the concept of density dependence from organizational ecology to theorize that a spinoff's propensity to fail is affected by the number of spinoffs active not only in the aggregate population but also within its parent university's portfolio. …”
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A review on aviation restructuring action to survive in COVID-19 challenges: Malaysia perspective by Ariffin, Ahmad Hamdan, Yaakub, Mohd Fauzi

“…The survival of airlines, indeed, the landscape of the domestic and global aviation industry at the end of the crisis, is still unfolding. As few months passed since the Movement Control Order (MCO commenced, Malaysia has successfully flattened the curve for infections in this country by conducting acute case detections and screen those who in high risk group such as Malaysians returning from overseas and so on. …”
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Training functional link neural network with ant lion optimizer by Mohmad Hassim, Yana Mazwin, Ghazali, Rozaida

“…FLNN requires less tunable weights for training as compared to the standard multilayer feed forward network such as Multilayer Perceptron (MLP). Since FLNN uses Backpropagation algorithm as the standard learning algorithm, the method however prone to get trapped in local minima which affect its performance. …”
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Musculoskeletal symptoms and ergonomic hazards among room attendants in hotel industries by Abdol Rahman, Mohd Nasrull, Muhamad Jaffar, Mohd Syahir

“…Ergonomic hazards which contribute to Musculoskeletal Disorders (MSDs) among room attendants were considered as a problem or trouble since these ergonomic problems would affect their work performance for hotel industries. …”
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Mechanically rational forms of curved surface structures shaped from the uniform strain elements by Tanaka, Koki, Ijima, Katsushi, Obiya, Hiroyuki, Zakaria, Muhammad Nizam bin

“…When the uniform strain elements composing a structural form have even isotropic strain in all over the form, the form is an isotropic tension form. Since the uniform strain element has the material stiffness, the method can stably yield a form with the strains varying as narrowly as possible in the curved surface under the condition impossible to shape a minimal surface.…”
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Indium tin oxide thin films: an ideal transparent and conductive oxides contact for solar cells application by Aliyu, Kabiru Isiyaku, Ali, Ahmad Hadi, Nayan, Nafarizal

“…TCOs materials have attracted a lot of interest, since after the first report of transparent and conductive cadmium oxide films in 1907 [2]. …”
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London Irish Women's Conference Planning Group. Minutes 1 November 1989 by London Irish Women's Centre, LIWC

“…Typescript minutes of meeting for the conference organised by London Irish Women's Centre. Main topics are venue, catering, rota for volunteers, speakers, workshops, videos and photographs.…”
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A study of crime potentials and physical design in Taman Melati terrace housing area of Kuala Lumpur City by Mohit, Mohammad Abdul

“…Various place-based crime prevention techniques are employed to create a place that is easy to defend. The main aim of the research is to examine the effectiveness of these techniques in providing a safe environment in two housing areas - terrace housing along main road (AMR) and terrace housing around the open space (AOS), in Taman Melati of Kuala Lumpur City. …”
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Bringing back the lost monument: interactive virtual model of Sompur Mahavihara, Bengal by Rashid, Md. Mizanur, Rahaman, Hafizur

“…However, the limited amount of archaeological resource, literary evidences and epigraphic records at the disposal of the architectural historians appears as the main thicket. This study is an attempt to generate an interactive virtual model of the monument that would accommodate different contesting narratives regarding its architecture. …”
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