Komplexität und semantische Transparenz im Deutschen und Englischen by Fischer, Klaus

“…The article analyses a translation corpus and, based on the respective findings, argues that J. A. Hawkins's typology is in need of complementation: both simple and complex German sentences turn out to be less semantically transparent than their English counterparts in a number of respects. …”
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Visual inference of arm movement is constrained by motor representations by Saunier, Ghislain, Paillard, Aurore, Vargas, Claudia D., Pozzo, Thierry

“…Our study highlighted a direction effect: endpoint prediction accuracy was better to infer the final position of horizontal motion directed toward the median line of human body. This finding suggests that the spatial prediction of endpoint is mapped onto implicit biomechanical knowledge such as joint limitation. …”
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Service design for artificial intelligence by Oropallo, Gabriele, Gasparini, Andrea, Mohammed, Ahmed Abdi

“…In this paper, we present the first findings of a project testing Artificial Intelligence (AI) in an academic library with the aim to support and redefine library services. …”
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Coppiced sweet chestnut in UK construction - challenges and opportunities for design development of hardwood building products by Fereday, George, Meech, Nick, Nevill, Guy, Driver, Dougal, Lewis, Harri

“…Five structural building products were designed and fabricated informed by the findings from the focus groups. Simple mobile sawmill and manual cleaving processes were used to align with regional skills and wood processing infrastructure. …”
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Impact of delay on the formation of high-order interactions and structural imbalance by Siboni, M. H. Hakimi, Jafari, Reza

“…Higher-order interaction is required by raising the value of delay. Our finding indicates that in the dynamics of Heider balance, increasing the delay period increases the order of interactions and the presence of imbalanced triangles even at temperatures close to zero.…”

Metacognitive and motivational predictors of surface approach to studying and academic examination performance by Spada, Marcantonio M., Moneta, Giovanni B.

“…The implications of these findings are outlined.…”
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The Role of Communities in Counterterrorism: Analyzing Policy and Exploring Psychotherapeutic Approaches within Community Settings by Spalek, Basia, Weeks, Douglas

“…The role of communities in preventing or responding to terrorism and political violence is increasingly finding prominence within government strategies, nationally and internationally. …”

Guidance for Trust managers : implementing and sustaining routine enquiry about violence and abuse in mental health services (REVA project, briefing 2) by Scott, Sara, Williams, Jennie, McNaughton, Nicholls C., Brown, Ashley, Harvey, Shannon, Kelly, Liz, Lovett, Jo

“…This guidance is based on findings from this study.…”
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The weekly structure of US stock prices by Caporale, Guglielmo Maria, Gil-Alana, Luis A.

“…The most interesting findings are the differences in the degree of dependence for different days of the week. …”
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US Disposable Personal Income and Housing Price Index: a Fractional Integration Analysis by Caporale, Guglielmo Maria, Gil-Alana, Luis A.

“…This paper examines the relationship between US disposable personal income (DPI) and house price index (HPI) during the last twenty years applying fractional integration and long-range dependence techniques to monthly data from January 1991 to July 2010. The empirical findings indicate that the stochastic properties of the two series are such that cointegration cannot hold between them, as mean reversion occurs in the case of DPI but not of HPI. …”
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Community radio and transnational identities by Mitchell, Caroliine, Lewis, Peter M.

“…The chapter reports on the findings of participatory action research carried out in part of the Transnational Radio Encounters project, funded by the EU's agency, Humanities in the European Research Area, 2013-2016. …”
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Geometric method for global stability of discrete population models by Hou, Zhanyuan

“…Then global asymptotic stability is obtained by finding the eigenvalues of the Jacobian matrix at the fixed point. …”
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Casualised academic staff and the lecturer-student relationship: shame, (Im)permanence and (Il)legitimacy by Read, Barbara, Leathwood, Carole

“…This paper is based on findings from an email interview study with 20 academics (17 women, 3 men) in the UK on short-term, insecure or ‘casualised’ contracts. …”

The problem of the public good and the implications for researching educational policies for social justice by Ross, Alistair

“…We identified different types of potential injustices, and the subsequent chapters examined various of these in turn, in a range of educational contexts, through the prisms of research directed towards finding policy initiatives that might counter the effects of particular inequities. …”
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Exploring the cave of the unknown: transnational party politics in the EU by Chryssogelos, Angelos

“…Employing thorough qualitative, participatory and historical research methods, these books open the ‘black box’ of transnational European party politics by analyzing the networks, connections and practices of partisan actors in the European Parliament. The findings of the books demonstrate the highly informal, but no less important, influence party politics exert on the functioning and policy outputs of EU institutions. …”
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Using virtual professional learning communities to foster sustainable learning and close the awarding gap in higher education amidst the COVID-19 pandemic by Meletiadou, Eleni

“…Descriptive statistics and thematic analysis were used to examine the data. Findings suggest that VPLCs can be used as a means to support students through collaboration, peer mentoring/coaching, networking, and sharing of resources.…”

How public engagement can strengthen the work of parliamentary committees: learning lessons from the experience of the Welsh parliament by Stirbu, Diana

“…This article presents findings from this work, as it relates to the public engagement function of the Welsh Parliament.…”
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Beyond individual flow: distributed flow in ice hockey, its antecedents and consequences to performance by Reidelberger, Melissa

“…This dissertation presents three studies that were conducted to identify distributed flow and develop and validate a self-report questionnaire to measure it validly and reliably as well as further exploratory findings of three distributed flow antecedents and two types of metacognitions. …”
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Customers’ loyalty model in the design of e-commerce recommender systems by Abumalloh, Rabab Ali

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Design and operating parameters of a fluidized bed for the combustion of municipal solid waste using standpipes air distributors by Johari, Anwar

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