US Consumer Preferences for Home Lawn Fertilizers by Hayk Khachatryan, Alicia Rihn, Michael Dukes

“…Understanding the disconnect will help turf industry educators better address consumers’ misperceptions about fertilizers, and help industry stakeholders design more appealing products and educate consumers effectively as they promote them. …”
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Global hip-hop culture and the scopophilic spectacle of women in South African hip-hop music videos by Ntebaleng Mpetsi, Toks Oyedemi

“…The analysis reveals that appealing to the male gaze, processes of objectification, gender division of labour and camera techniques are ways of presenting a sexualised spectacle of women for the visual pleasure of male characters and audiences of the videos. …”
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Dynamic Decoupling Control Optimization for a Small-Scale Unmanned Helicopter by Rui Ma, Li Ding, Hongtao Wu

“…Such a strategy is based on the active disturbance rejection control (ADRC) method. It offers an appealing alternative to existing control approaches for helicopters by combining decoupling and disturbance rejection without a detailed plant dynamics. …”
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The Problem of Non-Execution of Decisions of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation by V. R. Borisova

“…The necessity of allowing the courts of the Russian Federation to allow the possibility of appealing against the inaction of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation according to the rules of Chapter 22 of the Code of Administrative Procedure is substantiated. …”
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Data Cost Games as an Application of 1-Concavity in Cooperative Game Theory by Dongshuang Hou, Theo Driessen

“…The motivation for the study of the 1-concavity property is the appealing theoretical results for both the core and the nucleolus, in particular their geometrical characterization as well as their additivity property. …”
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Framing a Knowledge Base for a Legal Expert System Dealing with Indeterminate Concepts by Michał Araszkiewicz, Agata Łopatkiewicz, Adam Zienkiewicz, Tomasz Zurek

“…The main objective here is to discuss problems of framing an intuitively appealing and computationally efficient knowledge base that can adequately represent the indeterminate legal concept of the well-being of the child in the context of continental legal culture and of Polish law in particular. …”
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Accurate 2-D AOA Estimation and Ambiguity Resolution for a Single Source under Fixed Uniform Circular Arrays by Le Zuo, Jin Pan

“…Numerical examples are provided to verify the effectiveness and appealing performance of the proposed 2-D AOA estimation algorithm.…”
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US Consumer Preferences for Home Lawn Fertilizers by Hayk Khachatryan, Alicia Rihn, Michael Dukes

“…Understanding the disconnect will help turf industry educators better address consumers’ misperceptions about fertilizers, and help industry stakeholders design more appealing products and educate consumers effectively as they promote them. …”
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Charles Dickens et le « nouveau pittoresque » by Nathalie Vanfasse

“…Its success can be explained by the fact that it appealed to all classes of society and did not require any extensive artistic knowledge to be appreciated and commented upon. …”
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Who’s afraid of Sahra – Understanding the shift in votes towards Germany’s Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht by Leon Heckmann, L Constantin Wurthmann, Sarah Wagner

“…Our findings reveal that while the BSW struggles to attract core AfD supporters, the party has been notably more effective in appealing to recent AfD supporters. Overall, opposition to Ukraine support is the single most important issue that drives voters towards BSW.…”
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Product, services and technology review blogs by Gené van Heerden

“…Demographic variables – and particularly gender – are commonly employed to segment target audiences in an attempt to fit appeals specifically directed at males or females, or both. …”
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FFS et RCD : partis nationaux ou partis kabyles ? by Ouali Ilikoud

“…They compete with public authorities and position themselves in the national political arena all the while appealing to community and ethnic roots and employing indigenous arguments. …”
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The Action Mode: Mile 22 and the Tension of Hypermediated Embodiment by Jonah Jeng

“…I contend that cinema, which simultaneously appeals to phenomenal experience and has itself become permeated by hypermediacy and the related aesthetic tendency of post-continuity, is a key site for expressing this larger cultural tension. …”
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Erasing Synapses in Sleep: Is It Time to Be SHY? by Marcos Gabriel Frank

“…According to SHY, sleep promotes net synaptic weakening which offsets net synaptic strengthening that occurs during wakefulness. SHY is intuitively appealing because it relates the homeostatic regulation of sleep to an important function (synaptic plasticity). …”
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Marius’ ‘grammar of assent’: Pater’s Dialogue with Newman by John Coates

“…Newman’s concepts of the organic developement of doctrine and of the ‘illative sense’, an innate human faculty which perceives when the convergence of probabilities amounts to truth, particularly appealed to him. However, the fact that Pater left his essay on ‘The Writings of Cardinal Newman’ unfinished is suggestive. …”
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Descartes on Natural Signs and the Case of Sensory Perception

“…Descartes used the notion of sign to describe three phenomena: language, the external movements of the passions, and sensory perception. For this, he appealed to conventional, external, and natural signs respectively. …”
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Partial Extraction Therapy with Early Implant Placement in the Esthetic Zone: A Clinical Case Report by Saleh N. Almohammed, Reem S. Abdel-Hafez, Duaa D. Ailabouni

“…Immediate replacement of teeth designated for extraction is an appealing treatment rationale for both the patient and the operator. …”
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The Effects of Slavery on Enslaved People and Eighteenth-Century Antislavery Arguments by Julia Jorati

“…After examining this argumentative strategy and what makes it appealing, this paper investigates several ways in which it is problematic. …”
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Psychocardiology, discipline is essential in these times by Teresa Rodríguez Rodríguez

“…It emphasizes the importance of giving the study and psychological interventions in heart disease and a gender focus to include the study of the family as the cradle of learning styles of life, social support agent, as well as subjects that involved directly in the complex network of heart disease by genetic markers. It appeals to the need to sensitize medical professionals and doctors in the multifactorial approach of these diseases, as the only way to reduce morbidity and mortality from this cause and raise the quality of life of coronary patients.…”
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De la revendication kabyle à la revendication amazighe : d’une contestation locale à une revendication globale by Nassim Amrouche

“…By creating and mobilizing historical references such as appealing to ethnic identity and sense of Tamazgha, these local disputes have garnered support and acquired a transnational dimension. …”
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