Sickness behaviour and the effect of sex, age, and immune status on individual behavioural variation in Tenebrio molitor. by Antoine Bour, Clint D Kelly

“…How an individual responds to illness is also likely to be mediated by the individual's age because age will dictate the individual's ability to fight a challenge. To date, empirical research on sickness behaviour has focused on the population-level average effect of ill health on behaviour. …”
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Disaster preparedness kits ready or not? Household resilience to flash flooding in Uttarakhand by Praveen Maghelal, Sudha Arlikatti

“…Our findings help to underscore the need to: 1) Ensure disaster kits are recommended by every Panchayat for local at-risk communities and handed to visitors/tourists at points of entry. 2) Revive the National School Safety Programme (NSSP) to help school children create disaster preparedness kits. 3) Conduct additional empirical research in various disaster contexts around the country to demonstrate the benefits for immediate survival and increasing household resilience.…”
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Conceptual foundations of labor motivation system for high-tech enterprises specialists in Iran by A. J. Bonyani, A. V. Vavilina

“…On the basis of empirical research, the needs of the employees of the Iranian company NOSA are determined. …”
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Strengths and weaknesses of European integration for the Republic of Serbia by Đurović Mihajlo, Božović Ivan, Dramićanin Sandra

“…The Republic of Serbia is a candidate for membership in the European Union, and this paper aims to analyze the strengths and weaknesses of the European integration of the Republic of Serbia through theoretical frameworks and empirical research.…”
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Factors of Building and Developing an Academic Career: Systematic Theoretical Analysis by A. V. Pesha

“…The paper presents the results of a theoretical with elements of empirical research aimed at identifying the key factors of building an academic career, disclosed in the works of sci- entists with a proposal to visualize the construct of multifactorial conditionality of career growth in the academic environment. …”
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Global Business Networks and Cooperation within Supply Chain as a Strategy of High-Tech Companies’ Growth by Milena Ratajczak-Mrozek

“…An analysis of the author’s own as well as secondary empirical research, with the focus on high- tech companies located in Poland is presented. …”
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Hasonlóságok és különbségek a pályázati projektek sikerében - az Ausztria-Magyarország határon átnyúló együttműködési program sikervizsgálata (Similarities and Differences in the S... by Zoltán Birkner, Nikoletta Kaszás, Tamás Kovács, Kornél Németh

“…After a brief introduction of the special characteristics of the border region and cross-border programs our aim was to explore the factors by which the success of the tender projects can be measured. Based on the empirical research we conducted that the success of the projects in the studied program can be measured through the time factor, the project management success and the satisfaction of the target groups. …”
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Role of the Human Rights Ombudsman in Ensuring Good Administration in Slovenia by Kornelija Marzel

“…Both theoretical and empirical research methods were used in the preparation of the article. …”
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The relationship between Business Process Management and Knowledge Management - selected aspects from a study of companies in Poland by Agnieszka Bitkowska

“…The article presents the results of empirical research conducted by the author in contemporary enterprises in Poland in 2019, and some solutions, as well as benefits, related to the correlation of these two concepts. …”
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City Cemeteries as Cultural Attractions: Towards an Understanding of Foreign Visitors’ Attitude at the National Graveyard in Budapest by Brigitta Pécsek

“…The paper investigates foreign visitors’ attitude at the National Graveyard in Budapest. During the empirical research 52 questionnaires were correctly filled in, followed by the same number of mini-interviews. …”
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Formation of military position in the valuable system of cadets by Maksim V. Sysolyatin

“…The article presents a brief theoretical review of existing scientific papers that address the problems of social and professional identity, value orientations, as well as studying the relationship of these psychological concepts in the context of the formation of social identity of an individual.It also presents the results of the conducted empirical research, in particular, a comparative analysis of the significance of values for cadets of higher military educational institutions at various stages of military-professional socialization, the dynamics of the integrated structure of their value orientations in each course are examined, and the dependence of military social identity on terminal and instrumental values. …”
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HIV Treatment in the Criminal Justice System: Critical Knowledge and Intervention Gaps by Jaimie P. Meyer, Nadine E. Chen, Sandra A. Springer

“…In illuminating these knowledge deficits, we present a contemporary research agenda for the management of HIV in correctional systems. Future empirical research should focus on these critical issues in HIV-infected prisoners and releasees while interventional research should incorporate evidence-based solutions into the criminal justice setting.…”
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ASSESSING THE DETERMINANTS OF PRIVATE WASTE COLLECTORS’ OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCY AND ITS EFFECT ON REVENUE: A CASE STUDY OF LAGOS WASTE MANAGEMENT SECTOR by Shehu Usman Adam

“…However, little is known on such firms’ efficiency and its effect on firms’ revenue. Empirical research on the role of such firms’ operational efficiency in boosting financial performance is sparse in waste management logistic operations literature. …”
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Perception of modern technologies by the older generation: comparative analysis by T. A. Aimaletdinov, M. V. Tsimbal

“…This article discusses the empirical research results devoted to the study of the older generation attitude to modern technologies: fears, expectations, and motivation to use such technologies. …”
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Public diplomacy of the Republic of Finland and features of its implementation in Ukraine by Olha Anisimovych-Shevchuk, Valeriia Troian

“…Based on the conducted empirical research which confirms the necessity of further cooperation between Ukraine and Finland, aimed at implementation of public diplomacy tools, there were given recommendations concerning the execution of the means and methods of “soft power”. …”
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Research on the cross-contagion between international stock markets and geopolitical risks: the two-layer network perspective by Xiao-Li Gong, Hao-Yang Ning, Xiong Xiong

“…To analyze in-depth the risk contagion path between the international stock market and geopolitics under the impact of extreme events, this paper explores the tail risk interactive contagion mechanism and dynamic effects of the double-layer network between the international stock market and geopolitics from the perspective of complex networks. Empirical research finds that geopolitical conflicts exacerbate risk contagion among international stock markets, and there are significant differences in risk contagion between developed and emerging economies. …”
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Analysis of the Set, Meaning, Range and Frequency of Lodging the Reasons for Judicial Protection Request by Tine Jurič

“…The results of empirical research utilizing the model of challenging the Police decisions regarding misdemeanours present the conduct of research, the methods used, as well as the baseline for a model of judicial protection against the decisions of the Police regarding the Minor Offences Act de lege ferenda. …”
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Sustainability as a determinant of cost management in the accounts of a manufacturing Industry by M. Stępień

“…The second part is a presentation of the results of empirical research on the determinants of sustainable development cost management in a manufacturing company. …”
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HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT PRACTICES AND POLICIES AND EMPLOYEE ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA COMPANIES by Isada Mahmutović, Adisa Delić

“…The paper aimed at examining the impact of   characteristics, organizational characteristics, and HRM practices focused on performance appraisal, job security, employee participation, and career planning on employee organizational commitment in BiH companies with more than 50 employees in four sectors. The empirical research was conducted on a sample of 128 companies. …”
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Causal discovery and fault diagnosis based on mixed data types for system reliability modeling by Xiaokang Wang, Siqi Jiang, Xinghan Li, Mozhu Wang

“…Using the discrete representation in the shared projection direction, causal relationships between heterogeneous non-Euclidean variables can be discovered more accurately. Finally, empirical research is conducted on real-world industrial sensor data, which demonstrates the effectiveness of the proposed method for discovering causal relationships in heterogeneous non-Euclidean data.…”
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