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Rapid exponential stabilization of nonlinear continuous systems via event-triggered impulsive control

open access: yesDemonstratio Mathematica, 2022
This article investigates the problem of rapid exponential stabilization for nonlinear continuous systems via event-triggered impulsive control (ETIC).
Dlala Mohsen
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Need for narrative [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
What do consumers need from a narrative? How can videographers satisfy those needs? Through semi-structured interviews with 55 Eurostar passengers from 14 countries, this film documents how people define narratives, why they need them, and how they ...
Feiereisen, S.   +2 more
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Assessment of the Possibility of Reducing the Thermal Load in the Barn by using Mechanical Ventilation

open access: yesActa Technologica Agriculturae, 2021
The aim of this work is to evaluate possibility of reducing the heat stress of milking cows via climatic indices and the influence of air flow velocity in the object with milking cows using the cross-section method.
Lendelová Jana   +3 more
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Sacrilization of Secular Pilgrimages As Archetypal Transformational Journeys: Advancing Theory Through Emic and Etic Interpretations [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This paper advances pilgrimage tourism theory, particularly religious/secular and sacred/profane dimensions. Documenting the case of the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage, this study examines relationships to Jungian archetypal journeys.
Lloyd, ST
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Does nurses' vulnerability affect their ability to care? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Recent reports from the Department of Health (2008), the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (2011) and the Commission on Dignity in Care for Older People (2012) have been highly critical regarding the care that some patients have experienced ...
Board, Michele, Heaslip, Vanessa
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The effect of housing type on the risk of heat stress in dairy calves in central European conditions [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Central European Agriculture
Heat stress is an increasing concern for dairy farming in Central Europe. Individual calf housing, while common, can create microclimates that either mitigate or exacerbate the thermal load.
Zdeněk HAVLÍČEK   +6 more
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Ethnography: principles, practice and potential [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Ethnography is a methodology gaining popularity in nursing and healthcare research. It is concerned with studying people in their cultural context and how their behavior, either as individuals or as part of a group, is influenced by this cultural context.
Draper, Janet
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Winners and Losers of the Process of Transformation as an Etic Category versus Emic Biographical Perspective

open access: yesQualitative Sociology Review, 2019
One of the common and schematic descriptions in the perspective of the 1989 breakthrough are two ways of dealing with it by people who are respectively called winners or losers of transformation.
Kaja Kaźmierska
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Emic and Etic

open access: yesCambridge Encyclopedia of Anthropology, 2020
The emic/etic distinction originated in linguistics in the 1950s to designate two complementary standpoints for the analysis of human language and behaviour. It has been subject to debates in the humanities and social sciences ever since. Imported into anthropology in the 1960s, etic came to stand for ambitions to establish an objective, scientific ...
Mostowlansky, Till, Rota, Andrea
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La contextualisation : un problème étique ?

open access: yesCorela, 2019
Properly describing the meaning of a term or a statement, often involves using co-text or context. Linguists must then resort to authentic corpora and propose contextualization procedures.
Maud Verdier
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