The Impact of Private Standards on Corporate Social Responsibility Compliance and Rural Workers’ Motivation in Developing Countries: A Study of Mango Farms in Pakistan by Honglei Tang, Zeeshan Rasool, Ahmad Imran Khan, Anum Afzal Khan, Mohsin Ali Khan, Ghulam Ahmad Azaz

“…Given that this study is an impact assessment research, the researcher designed a theoretical framework using a mixed method approach to investigate the rationale behind acquiring the standard by the mango growers in Pakistan and what impact (if any) this shift has generated with regard to the farm workers’ job satisfaction and motivation. …”
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Business or Security? Goals and Decision-Making Inside the French Oil Policy of the 1920s by I. E. Magadeev

“…The author demonstrates the heterogeneity and complexity of this policy the diverse nature of motives and interests behind the different attempts to acquire access to the oil. …”
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Książka w środowisku lokalnym i regionalnym by Jacek Wojciechowski

“…The idea still taking shape behind the contemporary public communications is glocalization, i.e. mutual co-operation, binding both spaces together, especially global transmission and local reception. …”
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Pharmaceutical Humanities and Narrative Pharmacy: An Emerging New Concept in Pharmacy by Mita Banerjee, Thomas Efferth

“…., cancer, neurological diseases, and mental disorders) remain uncurable for many patients by current pharmacotherapies, and the old beaten paths in our therapeutic thinking may at least partly have to be left behind. By taking examples from Pharmaceutical Biology, we attempt to illustrate that the transdisciplinary dialogue with the humanities is fertile ground not only for enlarging our understanding of disease-related conditions but also for exploring new ways of combatting diseases. …”
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Measurement and analysis of fish pond water temperature field in summer based on fiber Grating string. by Guoli Li, Fei Feng, Caihua Qian, Bo Wei

“…However, the peak time gradually lags behind. There is a correlation between the temperatures of the water layers in the fish pond, and the smaller the distance between the water layers, the stronger the correlation. …”
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MECHANICAL CALCULATION OF FLEXIBLE WIRES WHEN THE CONCENTRATED FORCES ARE REPLACED BY A DISTRIBUTED LOAD by Yu. V. Bladyko

“…Concentrated loads from spacers, barrier balls, stubs, taps to electrical apparatus and other elements are replaced with the one distributed over the span. On behalf of a span without tension springs of insulators the action of concentrated loads on the wire is considered, an error is determined when replacing the concentrated forces with the one uniformly distributed along the span by the load. …”
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Wartime activities of the Vavilov Institute by I. G. Loskutov

“…The largest and most important part of the collection was left behind in the besieged city. The remaining employees were forced to work under the hardest conditions of the siege, in unheated premises. …”
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Karakteristik Tanah Pada Lereng Sebagai Mitigasi Pasca Bencana Tanah Longsor (Studi Kasus: Nagari Aie Dingin, Kab. Solok, Sumatera Barat) by Agustina Ayunimas, Novy Haryati, Herix Sonata, Meli Muchlian

“…Bencana tanah longsor yang berada di kawasan Nagari Aia Dingin, Kecamatan Lembah Gumanti, Kabupaten Solok yang diakibatkan oleh intensitas hujan yang tinggi dan faktor lainnya diduga karena adanya aktivitas tambang di daerah tersebut yang menyebabkan kontur tanah disana menjadi labil. …”
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COLORATION AND DISCOLORATION OF OLVEOLAR BONE AND TOOTH ENAMEL CAUSED BY MEDICATION by Giurgiu Cristian Levente, George Morarasu, Nicolae Baranov, Pogăcian-Maier Alexandra-Camelia, Radu-Mircea Sireteanu-Cucui, Cristina Pipa, Alina Monica Miftode, Alina Stefanache

“…The study seeks to provide insight into the mechanisms behind intrinsic and extrinsic discoloration and their clinical implications. …”
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Characteristics Analysis of Bus Stop Failure Using Automatic Vehicle Location Data by Rui Li, Xin Xue, Hua Wang

“…Queue forming behind a bus stop on an urban street is common and a traffic bottleneck usually occurs around the bus stop area. …”
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German Policy Towards Muslim Communities by L. R. Sadykova

“…The past two-three decades can be characterized by the period of global migration and sharp jump of migratory streams is connected with globalization and with the economic factor, generating labor movement behind resources from Third World countries to the countries with deficiency of labor. …”
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Young Adult Pop Fiction: Empathy and the Twilight Series by Alicia Otano Unzue

“…The readers that have made Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series an international best-seller in the young adult/adolescent pop fiction market reflect the crucial role popular literature plays in their emotional experience. The message behind this pop fiction phenomenon is as ancient as its legendary vampire and shape-shifter characters yet its massive book sales warrant analysis of the author’s role in manipulating reader affect to successfully transmit her vision of attaining happiness. …”
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Red Stellar Populations and Dust Extinction toward W3 by J. L. Campbell, P. G. Martin, S. Song, M. Rahman, L. Einstein

“…We quantify several dust-to-dust empirical correlations, in particular the IR color excess E ( H − [4.5]) and the optical depth τ _1 of submillimeter dust emission at 1 THz using RGs behind W3, measuring a best fit of $E(H-[4.5])=(1.07\pm 0.04)\times {10}^{3}\,{{\tau }_{1}}_{,{\rm{HOTT}}}+(0.00\pm 0.02)\,{\rm{mag}}$ .…”
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What could make seaports more committed to air quality? A qualitative content analysis of key barriers, drivers, and enablers by Flóra Zsuzsanna Gulyás, Aseem Kinra

“…A wide range of potential best practices exist, but what lies behind the decision to implement them? Prior studies have focused on either barriers, drivers, or enablers in this context. …”
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Modern approaches to the therapy of computer visual syndrome by Zakharova M.A., Zh.G. Oganezova

“…At the same time, the risk of developing a CVS increases with increasing duration of work at the computer. Long-term work behind the computer monitor can be considered as a stress regime for the organ of vision, which is accompanied by a disturbance of the oxidation-antioxidant balance with the formation of free radicals that contribute to the damage of biological membranes, causing tissue hypoxia and the release of inflammatory mediators. …”
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The Role of the London Missionary Society and Church Missionary Society in the Abolition of Oozhiyam (Bonded Labor Service) in Kerala by Ayyappan Balakrishnan

“…Under the system of oozhiyam, the economically under-privileged servants were obliged to render bonded services on all days of the week as required by the government officials and the higher castes. The main force behind this system was the coercive authority of the government and the privileged class. …”
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‘Over-hopefulness and getting-on-ness’: Ruskin, Nature, and America by Sara Atwood

“…The American vision of nature depended on leaving the past behind, shedding the very influences that Ruskin most valued. …”
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Women’s empowerment as a determinant of neonatal mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa: a narrative review focused on Nigeria by Joel-Medewase Victor Idowu, Wada Zechariah Ojima, Sayomi Bukola Adetutu, Adetoye Mayowa Mary, Ashaolu Joseph Oluwakayode, Olowolafe Tubosun Alex

“…Notably, SSA and South Asia are the regions most lagging behind the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 3.2, aiming for <12 neonatal deaths per 1,000 live births by 2030. …”
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Writing papers: literary and scientific by Kun Hwang

“…Medicine stimulated Williams to become a poet, while poetry was also the driving force behind his role as a doctor. Alexander Pope, the 18th century English poet, wrote a poem entitled “The Epistle to Dr. …”
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Improving Fugitive Dust Emission Inventory from Construction Sector Using UAV Images Recognition by Yuyao He, Jicheng Jang, Yun Zhu, Pen-Chi Chiang, Jia Xing, Shuxiao Wang, Bin Zhao, Shicheng Long, Yingzhi Yuan

“…Abstract Over rapidly developing and urbanizing countries, frequent construction activities are the primary drivers behind the substantial emissions and contributors of fugitive dust. …”
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