Pratiques et logiques de parents face à l’impératif d’investissement scolaire : l’exemple d’une association d’éducation populaire parisienne by Aline Grasperge

“…The study takes place through immersion in a community education organization in the 20th arrondissement of Paris, which is involved in a local contract for educational support (CLAS). This article provides an analysis of approximately forty in-depth interviews conducted with parents seeking assistance from the organization as part of the educational support program, supplemented by materials from participant observations conducted in the association's field.…”
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The Impact of the 2007-09 Credit Crunch on the Funding of Public Sector Infrastructure in the UK by Stephen J. Bailey, Darinka Asenova

“…Commercial banks are now generally only willing to lend to replace collapsed PFI bond financing if new PFI contracts reduce financial risks. By such means, PFIs can be expected to survive but within an increasingly diverse mixture of procurement methods.…”
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Market Development Strategies for Fresh Sweet Corn: Findings from 2001 Retailer Surveys by Kimberly Morgan, Robert Degner

“… In order to better utilize limited marketing dollars, the Fresh Supersweet Corn Council contracted with the Florida Agricultural Market Research Center (FAMRC) in 2001 to conduct surveys of produce retailers and fresh sweet corn consumers. …”
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Chefs d’établissements scolaires privés du premier degré multisites by Bruno Grave

“…The dynamics of professionalization of the heads of Catholic educational establishments (CESP) (Private education under contract in France) have led them for several years to take charge of multi-site groupings. …”
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UNDECLARED WORK OF SOCIALLY EXCLUDED PEOPLE IN LIGHT OF SURVEY RESEARCH by Mariola Szewczyk-Jarocka

“…The aim of the research is to present opinions of respondents on the local labor market about work performed outside of an actual contract by socially excluded people. The analysis was conducted using a survey of the opinions of socially excluded people registered at the Municipal Labor Office in the city of Plock. …”
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Market Development Strategies for Florida Fresh Sweet Corn: Findings from a Consumer Survey, 2001 by Tom Stevens, Robert Degner, Kimberly Morgan, Chris deBodisco, Lisa House

“…In 2001, the Council contracted with the Florida Agricultural Market Research Center at the Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences to conduct a consumer survey to evaluate existing and potential impediments to future market growth for both wholesale and retail stages and to make recommendations for specific marketing strategies that could increase Council members' profitability. …”
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A Fast Region-Based Segmentation Model with Gaussian Kernel of Fractional Order by Bo Chen, Qing-Hua Zou, Wen-Sheng Chen, Yan Li

“…In this proposed model, the energy function with value of [−1, 1] is built, the local mean and global mean of the inside and outside of the evolution curve are employed, and the segmentation results are obtained by controlling the expansion and contraction of the evolution curve. The model is simple and easy to implement; it can also protect weak edges because of considering more statistical information. …”
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Legal Regulation of Economic Processes at the Macro Level by M. N. Semyakin, A. V. Gubareva, S. P. Stepkin

“…Recommendations are made aimed at strengthening the role of the contract in economic management, improving legislation, and eliminating excessive administration of the activities of economic entities.…”
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Market Development Strategies for Florida Fresh Sweet Corn: Findings from a Consumer Survey, 2001 by Tom Stevens, Robert Degner, Kimberly Morgan, Chris deBodisco, Lisa House

“…In 2001, the Council contracted with the Florida Agricultural Market Research Center at the Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences to conduct a consumer survey to evaluate existing and potential impediments to future market growth for both wholesale and retail stages and to make recommendations for specific marketing strategies that could increase Council members' profitability. …”
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Optimum Intervention in Transportation Networks Using Multimodal System under Fuzzy Stochastic Environment by Gurupada Maity, Vincent F. Yu, Sankar Kumar Roy

“…Multimodal transport refers to the transportation of goods under a single contract but performed with at least two different modes of transport. …”
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Investigating smart water distribution via sensor networks: a brief examination by Dmitriy Vladislav

“…An attempt is made in this place studies illustrations to justify water encumber customers; facts losses, able to be contracted helping cure selections and moreover to build a clean, reliable and unfamiliar water transfer finish. …”
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Geology of the eastern tip of the El Tordell Fault, Southern Pyrenees by Eloi Carola, Josep Anton Muñoz

“…Along strike variations of frontal structures at fold and thrust belts allow us deciphering the evolution of contractional structures at early stages of deformation but also, how processes such as salt mobilisation, thrust emplacement, and folding develop. …”
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In vivo Evaluation of Patellar Tendon Stiffness in Individuals with Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome by Hsin-Yi Liu, Michelle Boling, Darin Padua, R. Alexander Creighton, Paul Weinhold

“…Subjects were asked to perform isometric maximal voluntary contractions of the knee extensors while their knee extension torque was monitored and the displacement of the patellar tendon was recorded with an ultrasonic system. …”
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Prevention of Healthcare-associated Infections of Oncologic Patients by Lourdes Elizabeth Menéndez Oña, Gabriela Alejandra Valbuena Salazar, Gerardo José Sánchez Velásquez

“…Due to their health, cancer patients are more likely to contract infections, so prevention and control against infections associated with health care is an important challenge in nursing.…”
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Multiple Osteomas in Middle Ear by Yongxin Li, Qiuhuan Li, Shusheng Gong, Honggang Liu, Zilong Yu, Luo Zhang

“…Here we describe a patient with multiple middle ear osteomas arising from the promontory, incus, Eustachian tube, and bony semicanal of tensor tympani muscle. This patient also contracted the chronic otitis media in the ipsilateral ear. …”
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Analytical solutions for Maxwell-scalar system on radially symmetric spacetimes by I. Andrade, D. Bazeia, M. A. Marques, R. Menezes, G. J. Olmo

“…The stability of the solutions against contractions and dilations, following Derrick’s argument, and around small fluctuations in the fields is also investigated. …”
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Design and Driving Characteristics of Rehabilitation Robot Flexible Joints Based on Polyvinylidene Fluoride by Xie Guanghui, Sun Hong, Sun Fanwei, Wang Guangjian

“…The preparation and the electric deformation mechanism of PVDF gel are introduced, the monomer-muscle with the function of contraction and extension is designed based on electric deformation mechanism, and then multiple monomer-muscles are combined up and down in series to form a hierarchical artificial muscle. …”
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Projets et conception de l’entrée monumentale de la cathédrale Sainte-Marie d’Auch : les apports du De re aedificatoria d’Alberti by Sophie Fradier

“…The construction of the monumental entrance to the Saint Mary of Auch Cathedral spans just over a century from 1560 to 1680. A number of labour contracts exist illustrating the completion of the work (17th Century) but few documents describe the initial construction phase (16th Century). …”
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Analysis and improvement of ZG off-line TTP non-repudiation protocol by LIU Dong-mei1, QING Si-han 2, LI Peng-fei4, LI Shang-jie1

“…Based on the weakness of ZG off-line TTP（trusted third party） non-repudiation protocol because of using pro-tocol deadline, the improvement of the ZG off-line TTP non-repudiation protocol was given, which eliminated the delay-ing resolve request attack and ensured non-repudiation and fairness.Therefore, two kinds of improvement of ZG off-line TTP non-repudiation protocol were given, which had different point of focus.Among them, the first one could eliminate delaying message attack in ZG protocol;the second one also had the property of preventing the abuse of sub-protocol be-sides eliminating delaying message attack.The first one is suitable for electronic payment and certified email, but the second one is suitable for digital contract signature.…”
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Pricing American Options Using a Nonparametric Entropy Approach by Xisheng Yu, Li Yang

“…Finally, we conduct the comparative analysis based on simulations and IBM option contracts. The results demonstrate that this nonparametric entropy approach yields reasonably accurate prices for American options and produces smaller pricing errors compared to other competing methods.…”
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