Foresight, Partnerships, and Cross Sector Collective Impact: Strategies to Build A Partnership World by Daniel Pesut

“…Strategies and tactics to support the development of foresight, data with action, and collective impact efforts to build a partnership world are outlined. …”
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Facial expression recognition through muscle synergies and estimation of facial keypoint displacements through a skin-musculoskeletal model using facial sEMG signals by Lun Shu, Victor R. Barradas, Zixuan Qin, Yasuharu Koike

“…The development of facial expression recognition (FER) and facial expression generation (FEG) systems is essential to enhance human-robot interactions (HRI). The facial action coding system is widely used in FER and FEG tasks, as it offers a framework to relate the action of facial muscles and the resulting facial motions to the execution of facial expressions. …”
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A woman’s place is in theatre: women’s perceptions and experiences of working in surgery from the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland women in surgery working grou... by Maria Irene Bellini, Yitka Graham, Catherine Hayes, Roxanna Zakeri, Rowan Parks, Vassilios Papalois

“…The ASGBI acknowledges these perceptual issues and relative implications as the first of many steps to create an action-oriented change by allowing all staff, regardless of gender, to reflect on their own behaviour, perceptions and the culture in which they work.…”
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Dynamic responses characteristics of bedrock and overburden layer slope with anchored frame piles based on shaking table test by Lei Wang, Qianhui Pu, Guangpeng Chen, Jing Lian, Changwei Yang, Mingming Dai

“…Slopes under 0.4 g earthquakes first form cracks at the top and then expand downward through them. Under seismic action, the peak dynamic earth pressure in front of the front pile occurs near the bottom of the pile, and the dynamic earth pressure behind the pile occurs near the slip surface. …”
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Editorial by Jörg Tremmel, Markus Rutsche

“…The fourth paper, by Adriano Mannino (LMU and Parmenides Foundation, Munich), delves into the question how future generations will assess our actions and our response to the current pandemic. …”
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Managing Insecticide and Miticide Resistance in Florida Landscapes by Nicole Benda, Adam G. Dale

“…With few new modes of action coming onto the market, landscape managers need to be good stewards of existing products. …”
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Transformation in love in Paul's letter to the Galatians by Pieter G. R. de Villiers

“…After a discussion of the polemical nature of the letter, the article analyses Paul’s presentation of divine love in the letter as the origin of God’s salvific and transformative action and of love as a divine characteristic, and how divine love marks the identity of the believing community. …”
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Męczeństwo – chrześcijańska wyłączność? by Krzysztof Kościelniak

“…Martyr, one who voluntarily suffers death rather than deny his religion by words or deeds; such action is afforded special, institutionalized recognition in most major religions of the world.…”
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Insect Management for Tomatoes, Peppers, and Eggplant by Susan E. Webb, Philip A. Stansly, David J. Schuster, Joe E. Funderburk

“…Scouting guidelines and action thresholds for tomatoes are from the Florida Tomato Scouting Guide, SP 22, 2nd edition. …”
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Corn wireworm Melanotus communis Gyllenhal (Insecta: Coleoptera: Elateridae) by Harsimran K. Gill, Gurminder Chahil, Gaurav Goyal, Jennifer L. Gillett-Kaufman, Ronald Cherry

“…The corn wireworm is a serious agricultural pest and was added to the EPPO A1 action list of quarantine pests in 2002. This 6-page fact sheet was written by Harsimran K. …”
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Topology of black hole phase transition in JT gravity by Hemant Rathi, Dibakar Roychowdhury

“…We also construct the Schwarzian for the boundary theory using the 2D gravitational action in the bulk and comment on the dual SYK like model where similar observations can be made.…”
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ABC model and the management of costs by Pravdić Predrag, Kučinar Rada

“…In highly detailed systems based on the management of costs or ABC (activity based costing) systems, the cost of activities often result in erroneous evaluation of aggregate costs of the action. Improvements in information technology and monitoring decrease of technology costs enabled the ABC system to become a feasible system calculating costs in many organizations.…”
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Correction: Strategic entrepreneurship in the future: Theoretical views (2016, vol.4, no.2, str. 35-42) by Martinović Milan, Martinović Saša

“…Strategic Enterprise includes a set of entrepreneurial action taken for strategic perspective. The paper describes the characteristics that must have contemporary entrepreneurship strategic analysis of business opportunities and possibilities of business operations in terms of major changes that are shaping the world today.…”
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INTEGRATIVE MINISTERIAL TRAINING: A CASE STUDY IN THE BAPTIST TRADITION OF SOUTH AFRICA by M. Naidoo

“…This article reports on an action research on integrative curriculum development. …”
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Holistic education – a model based on three pillars from cognitive science. An example from science education by Eliza Rybska, Maciej Błaszak

“…Within this approach, an educational activity (and a child’s learning that derives from it) can be characterized in three dimensions: 1) safety, inclusion and participation; 2) interaction, cognition and representation; and 3) affective action leading to imagination and creativity. A holistic approach nurturing the full cognitive development of a child requires going beyond what a conventional school offers, but still presumes designed but liberating processes. …”
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Current Prospects of Herbal STW 5 Agent in Treatment of Functional Gastrointestinal Diseases by A. A. Sheptulin

“…The article reviews the Iberogast® mechanisms of action and evaluates its treatment efficacy in FD and IBS.Conclusion. …”
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INCREASING STUDENTS’ VOCABULARY ACQUISITION BY MASTER AND MASTERY CARDS GAME by Venolia Sahrin, Mulyadi Hasan

“…This research was carried out with a classroom action research design. Field notes were the instruments to collect the qualitative data. …”
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Czy wiara decyduje o normach moralnych? by Jan Orzeszyna

“…The consequence of such an action is relativism of moral norms which subsequently lose their foundation which proceeds from the authority of the Church.…”
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Zastosowanie elementów metody Marii Montessori w tradycyjnym przedszkolu. Refl eksja nad badaniami w działaniu z pozycji zewnętrznego obserwatora by Kamila Zdanowicz-Kucharczyk

“…The research method, which is action research, makes it possible to observe how the researcher-teacher involves children in all activities and enhances their self-esteem. …”
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DEVELOPMENT OF QUICK RETURN MECHANISM FOR EXPERIMENTATION USING SOLIDWORKS by NURUDEEN OLATUNDE ADEKUNLE, KOLAWOLE ADESOLA OLADEJO, ISMAILA OLASUNKANMI SALAMI, ADEWALE OREOLUWA ALABI

“… Quick Return Mechanisms (QRMs) are one of the essential accessories used in machine tools which involve reciprocating cutting action with a quick return stroke and a constant angular velocity of driving crank. …”
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