The essay seeks to disentangle the meaning or meanings of the catch word “cosmopolitanism”.To contribute to its clarification, the essay distinguishes between three main interpretations: empirical, normative, and practical or interactive.In the first COLOR CONDITIONER reading, the term coincides basically with “globalization&#x
AbstractThis study investigates the effect of diversification in the underwriting activities and insurance portfolio on the level of risk-taking in the investment activities of insurance companies.According to the coordinated risk management hypothesis, it is expected that there is a negative relationship between investment risk and underwriting ri
Unstructured citizen-science data are increasingly used for analysing the abundance and distribution of species.Here we test the usefulness of such data to predict the seasonal distribution of migratory songbirds, and to analyse patterns of migratory connectivity.We Religious Art used bird occurrence data from eBird, one of the largest global citiz
This paper presents a method for calculating the health degree (HD) of a braking system of a mine hoist combined with three-level fuzzy comprehensive assessment (TLFCA) and a back-propagation neural network (BPNN).Firstly, the monitored values of a sensor are fused by multi-time fusion and the fuzzy comprehensive assessment values (FCAVs) of the he
Misalignment between career and education aspirations has been associated with poorer achievement during adolescence and unstable employment in adulthood.In this study, we evaluated whether a brief in-school intervention improved career decision self-efficacy and aspirational alignment.We sampled 211 teenagers living in disadvantaged areas of Weste