INTERNET TECHNOLOGIES AS A FACTOR OF INCREASING THE COMPETITIVENESS AND COMPETITIVE STABILITY OF SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS by A. K. Kiryukhin, D. V. Akopyan, I. A. Suvorov

“…The increasing unpredictability of the external environment, the variability of consumer preferences are increasingly transforming competition in the markets of goods and services, from the industrial to the information plane. …”
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Can’t Help Lovin’:David Chidester’s Pop Culture Colonialism by Kathryn Lofton

“…West and Smith offer an opportunity to argue the connection between these two strands of scholarly observance, showing the fractal effects of colonialism in Africa on the preferences of pop culture consumption in America.The attraction to West’s unlikability is the other side of the easy adorationfor Jordan Smith: like those colonists who gave religion to those colonized subjects they dominated, pop consumers refuse to admit their intimate and needful connection to those idols who resist theircontrol. …”
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Évaluation participative de la performance des mesures de conservation et de restauration du bassin versant de la rivière Mulet (Roche-à-Bateau, Haïti) by Zurcher Mardy, Jean-Philippe Waaub, Sebastian Weissenberger

“…This approach allows comparison and ranking of the identified measures while considering the values and the preferences of the various actors involved, in order to facilitate negotiations towards the building of a consensual and shared solution, consisting in baskets of measures. …”
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Scenic spot path planning and journey customization based on multilayer hybrid hypernetwork optimization. by Chunqiao Song

“…To address this challenge and enhance the overall service quality of tourist destinations, as well as to better understand individualized preferences of visitors, this study proposes a novel approach to scenic route planning and itinerary customization based on multi-layered mixed hypernetwork optimization. …”
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Wildflowers Susceptible to Deer Damage in North Florida by Holly K. Ober, Lucas W. DeGroote, James H. Aldrich, Jeffrey G. Norcini, Gary W. Knox

“…Unfortunately, deer foraging preferences vary geographically and studies conducted with captive deer aren’t always accurate. …”
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Are Consumers Interested in Ornamental Plants That Benefit Pollinator Insects? by Hayk Khachatryan, Alicia Rihn

“…It covers consumers’ current actions to aid pollinators, their interest in purchasing plants to help pollinators, and their perceptions about plant availability, and it describes strategies for merchants and producers to cater to consumer preferences for in-store communications/promotions and help them to find and purchase plants that aid pollinator insects. …”
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Legislative Effectiveness: The legislative performance of house representatives of the 16th Philippine Congress by Joanna Marie Baroman

“…The study concluded that the 16th Congress House of Representatives comprises policymakers who are averagely effective in pushing for policy preferences into the legislative process and to laws. …”
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The Foreign Commission of the Soviet Writers’ Union in 1950s-1960s: Boundaries, Obstacles, Tricks, Embarrassment, Impact by Kristina Buynova

“…In selecting new contacts, the FC relied on the assessments of translators, writers and critics rather than on party preferences, and then presented itself as a ‘progressive’ entity. …”
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COMPETITIVENESS OF REGIONAL UNIVERSITIES: CONSIDERATION OF THE VIEWS OF CONSUMERS by I. V. Zakharova

“…The assessment of consumer preferences of universities of the Ulyanovsk region has been made, the professional interests of school leavers have been determined. …”
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Navigating Deeply Uncertain Tradeoffs in Harvested Predator-Prey Systems by Antonia Hadjimichael, Patrick M. Reed, Julianne D. Quinn

“…Our results show that classical assumptions for fisheries management can yield severe instabilities in our quantified views of socioecological tradeoffs, making their ability to inform stakeholder preferences questionable. The complex ecological interactions implied by different parameterizations of such systems yield highly complex and nonlinear dynamic properties with multiple distinct basins of attraction. …”
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NEW DIRECTIONS FOR BOUNDARYLESS AND PROTEAN CAREERS: WHAT DO HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGERS MAKE DIFFERENTLY? by Meltem Onay, Burcin Ataseven

“…In first section there were no differences between foreign invested and domestic companies based on career attitudes preferences. In second section the results found support for that the people with “career authenticity” and “goal orientation” prefer “psychological satisfaction” while the people with “proactive personality” and “openness to experience” prefer “physical satisfaction”. …”
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PERILAKU PEMILIH PEREMPUAN ETNIS BATAK TOBA PADA PEMILIHAN LANGSUNG WALIKOTA DAN WAKIL WALIKOTA MEDAN TAHUN 2010 DI LINGKUNGAN XIV KELURAHAN SIDORAME TIMUR KECAMATAN MEDAN PERJUANG... by Susi Elfrida Marpaung

“…This study highlights the problem of voter behavior Female Ethnic Batak Toba in Lingkungan XIV Kelurahan Sidorame Timur Kecamatan Medan Perjuangan Medan in the direct election of Mayor/ Deputy Mayor of first and second round of Field in 2010 by using the factors: 1) Ethnicity 2) Political Preferences Family 3) Gender 4) Identification of Party 5) Political Money 6) Image of the candidate. …”
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Un universo en mil hojas. La configuración de sentidos generadores de hipermediaciones en un grupo de Facebook construido por fanáticos latinoamericanos tras el consumo audiovisual... by Carlos  Soto  Antunez, Antoine Faure

“…It enables the understanding of hypermediations in a virtual community, to evidence changes in the modalities and preferences of cultural consumption in subscription video on demand (SVOD) platforms. …”
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Tourists' attitudes toward green product buying behaviors: The role of demographic variables by yeliz Pekersen, Fatma Canöz

“…As a result of the research, foreign tourists' demographic variables were determined to affect their green product buying behaviours, with factors other than marital status and income level not contributing to tourists' environmental product preferences or their environmental sensitivity. Research has found that single tourists are more sensitive to the environment than married tourists. …”
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An application of geomarketing to coastal tourism areas by María Pilar Peñarubia-Zaragoza, Moisés Simancas-Cruz, Geraldine Forgione-Martín

“…Geomarketing allows geographical units to be defined with a certain degree of homogeneity in terms of tourists’ preferences, behaviours, needs, expectations, purchase and consumption patterns and analogous attitudes. …”
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AN INTRODUCTION TO FACTORIZATION TECHNIQUE FOR BUILDING RECOMMENDATION SYSTEMS by Nguyen Thai Nghe

“…Recommender System (RS) is successfully applied in predicting user preferences. For instance, RS has been used in many areas such as in e-commerce (for online shopping), in entertainments (music/movie/video clip... recommendation), and in education (learning resource recommendation). …”
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PEMBELAJARAN BERDIFERENSIASI PADA KERAGAMAN KARAKTERISTIK PESERTA DIDIK DALAM PEMENUHAN TARGET KURIKULUM by Arif Bima Fajar Wahyudi, Puguh Darmawan Darmawan

“…The findings of the literature review demonstrate that the aim of differentiated learning to coordinate learning by paying attention to learning interests, learning readiness and learning preferences, accommodating students so that learning objectives can be achieved by all students, increasing motivation and learning outcomes, establishing teacher and student interaction and building attitudes appreciate diversity. …”
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The power of health economics and outcomes research (HEOR) in making decisions that matter by Oscar Herrera Restrepo

“…Balancing out clinical performance, epidemiological implications, burden of disease, economic value, and patient preferences, among other factors, is in itself a challenging endeavor. …”
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Un printemps arabe ? L’émulation protestataire et ses limites by Michel Camau

“…We attempted to address those issues based on the idea of crisis of legitimacy as a criterion of differentiation between the “Arab revolutions”, and of pluralistic ignorance with regard to the unclear preferences of those in authority positions and finally of the rulers’ learning in relation to their methods of prevention and management of crises of legitimacy.…”
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The crisis of the political left in Northern Europe (the example of the Labour Party in Norway) by Ivan R. Skripka

“…It analyzes the impact of foreign policy tensions, economic difficulties, internal party scandals and changes in voter preferences on the party’s decline in popularity. Particular attention is paid to the results of local elections, which showed a significant decrease in support for the LP against the backdrop of the growth of right-wing forces. …”
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