The polysemy of the colour term white in English, Russian, Tajik and Uzbek by Zayniev Daler

“…The conceptual space of the colour term white in lexicographic work tends to be kept compact rather than articulated in great detail, just like in the case of other types of colours, i.e. in an attempt to minimize polysemy, its senses are typically lumped, rather than split. …”
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Talent Management in the Public Sector – Empirical Evidence from the Emerging Economy of Romania by Barrington Everton Graham

“… Purpose: This paper aims to investigate how talent management is conceptualized and practised within Romanian public sector organizations. Just like their private sector counterparts, public sector organizations need talented employees or high performers to support their operations and enhance public service delivery. …”
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Urban Immunity Against the Pandemic within the Framework of Public Administration, City and Citizens by Nilüfer Negiz, Pınar Savaş-Yavuzçehre

“… The circumstances arising in connection with the Covid-19 pandemic indicate that outbreaks are inevitable and that new pandemics are quite likely. Cities, just like people, need to protect themselves from pandemics. …”
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Optimal Acceleration-Velocity-Bounded Trajectory Planning in Dynamic Crowd Simulation by Fu Yue-wen, Li Meng, Liang Jia-hong, Hu Xiao-qian

“…Various simulation results demonstrate that these three steps give realistic crowd phenomenon just like the real world.…”
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Nigerian blogosphere and identity change of women by Angela Nkiru Nwammuo, Abiodun Salawu

“… Nigerian women face patriarchal subjugation and intimidation both politically, economically and socially, just like most women in all parts of Africa. But this scenario seems to be different in the social media landscape, where young Nigerian women are not only making waves but are calling the shots as well. …”
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Modo de vida camponês e identidade indígena na Comunidade Dom Pedro II, em Barcelos, AM by Talita Pedrosa Vieira de Carvalho Benfica, Martha Benfica do Nascimento de Carvalho, Antônio Carlos Witkoski

“…The indigenous became a form of resistance, just like the peasant. Therefore, identities are triggered, according to context, interest and situation. …”
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Damping Based Traffic Allocation in Wireless Machine-to-Machine Communications Networks by Ruiguo Yu, Zhenxia Yuan, Mankun Zhao, Mei Yu, Xu Lu

“…When we tried to analyze the load on different paths using the simplest multipath routing algorithms, we found that the load changes just like simple harmonic motion, which inspires us to use physic and mathematic methods and tools to analyze the loading balance problems. …”
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Sankce vůči českým královským městům roku 1547 v kontextu habsburské politiky první poloviny 16. století („Gentský ortel“ v politické propagandě stavovského odboje)... by Petr Vorel

“…The author compares the sanctions by King Ferdinand of Habsburg against the Bohemian royal towns (which, in 1547, had accepted the monarch‘s promises in good faith, just like Ghent) with the long-term anti-municipal policy of the Habsburgs, as well as with Emperor Charles V‘s actions in 1546 against Imperial towns that were members of the Schmalkaldic League. …”
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A Study on Uniqueness of Lip Print Patterns: Sexual Dimorphism, Twins, and Across Three Generations by Qudusia Sultana, Vanessa Fernandes, Ashwini Shetty

“…Background and Aim: Lip prints just like fingerprints follow unique patterns in every individual and are said to vary significantly even within the same family. …”
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LA ROUMANIE AU BOUT DE LA TRANSITION DÉMOGRAPHIQUE: DISPARITÉS ET CONVERGENCES RÉGIONALES by IONEL MUNTELE

“…These analyses prove the fact that Romaniahas got out of the paradigm of the imbalances that opposed the areas with labour force deficit to the areas with man power excess (triggering ample internal migratory flows), entering the paradigm of exhausting its own labour resources, just like most Western countries.…”
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Voiles et caravansérails : l’Orient dans Lolita by Monica Manolescu

“…Their trips across the United States are presented as an endless postponing of the fatal ending, as fragmented narratives interrupted by pauses and breaks – just like the Arabian Nights. Moreover, the fundamental association between narrative and sensuality brings together Lolita and the Arabian Nights. …”
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Corporate income tax: Experiences of implementation in the Republic of Serbia by Božić-Miljković Ivana M.

“…As such, companies act in the market, are in the role of buyers and sellers, enter into contracts, own property, incur debts and resolve potential problems in legal disputes. Just like any other person who engages an activity and earns income from it, the company must pay taxes on the profit it earns from this activity. …”
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Combustion Rate of Solid Carbon in the Axisymmetric Stagnation Flowfield Established over a Sphere and/or a Flat Plate by Atsushi Makino, Masahiro Hojo, Masahito Shintomi

“…Explicit combustion-rate expressions by use of the transfer number in terms of the natural logarithmic term, just like that for droplet combustion, have further been obtained for the combustion response in the limiting situations. …”
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« Leprous literature » : le modèle de la transmission contesté par les théories esthétiques d’Oscar Wilde by Carole Delhorme

“…It conveyed the idea that just like a contagious disease, the immorality of a book could be transmitted to the reader and could corrupt them. …”
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India’s Policies in Support of the New Space by I. V. Danilin, E. P. Shavlay

“…Just like in the Cold War, space has re-emerged as an arena of international rivalry. …”
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Le traducteur et les italiques. Omniscience et redressement dans Madame Bovary by Sophie Sarrazin

“…As an emphatic device, the italics contribute to the sentence structure, just like grandiloquence does, from a rhetorical or a syntactical point of view.The large number of passages in italics in Flaubert’s novel has been discussed for a long time. …”
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A Precessing-Coin-like Rotary Actuator for Distal Endoscope Scanners: Proof-of-Concept Study by Nirvana Gharib, Mohammad Reza Yousefi Darestani, Kenichi Takahata

“…This scanner uses a magnetic rotor designed to have a mirror surface on its backside, being electromagnetically driven to roll around the cone-shaped hollow base to create a motion just like a precessing coin. An optical probing beam directed from the probe’s optic fiber is passed through the hollow cone to be incident and bent on the back mirror of the rotating inclined rotor, circulating the probing beam around the scanner for full 360° sideway imaging. …”
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Lessons Learnt from the Monetary System of Guernsey by Gábor Sárdi, József Varga

“…Bailiwick of Guernsey, situated in the English Channel off the coast of Normandy, just like Jersey and the Isle of Man, is an UK Crown dependency and an autonomous jurisdiction. …”
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Anthropodermic Bibliopegy, or, Using Human Skins in Books Binding: A historical study by د. حامد معروف الزیات

“…Despite theallegations surrounding binding of books with human skins generally, and someof them correctly proved, but others have not yet proved, just like a copy of the“Holy Quran” with the skin of an Arab sheikh named Bashir bin Salem al-Harthythat had been found in the Cleveland Public Library, U.S.A. …”
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Ustilago maydis Trf2 ensures genome stability by antagonizing Blm-mediated telomere recombination: Fine-tuning DNA repair factor activity at telomeres through opposing regulations. by Shahrez Syed, Sarah Aloe, Jeanette H Sutherland, William K Holloman, Neal F Lue

“…Consistent with a similar inhibitory activity in vivo, over-expression of Trf2 induces telomere shortening, just like deletion of blm, which is required for efficient telomere replication. …”
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