THE COMPETENCE-BASED FOCUSED FORMS OF ESTIMATION OF PROFESSIONAL FOREIGN-LANGUAGE COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE (CRITERIA ESTIMATION) by I. A. Mazaieva

“…The article contains a description of an experimental criterion referenced assessment marking schemes design based on the theory of the socio-cultural approach to cognitive development (Zimnaya I.A.). …”
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Bacteremia and conventional diagnosis of Sphingobacterium spiritivorum. A case report by Elio Jesús Núñez Tamayo, Susana Chamero Melgarejo, Rafael Gómez Marrero, Nancy Ramírez Martínez, Eva María García Mauri, Remberto González Enoa

“…Sphingobacterium Spiritovirum was diagnosed by the conventional diagnosis of growing in the marrow tests and serial blood cultures. Susceptibility antimicrobial tests were sensible to sulphametoxazole – trimetropin and resistant to tetracycline, aztreonam, ceftriaxone and imipenem. …”
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المکتبات العامة فی ریف محافظتی أسیوط والوادی الجدید: دراسة میدانیة by د. مها محمود ناجى ق

“…This paper studies all public libraries established by the CulturalDevelopment Fund with the name (Child and Youth Library). …”
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Nouveaux indices de fréquentation du Val d’Orléans (Loiret) par les premiers mésolithiques by Sandrine Deschamps, Morgane Liard, Johannes Musch

“…Preliminary studies of the lithic assemblage combined with C14 dating confirm the identification of the remains as belonging to the early Mesolithic.Since these sites are in a high risk flood zone where building is forbidden, they are not threatened by development and therefore will not be excavated.These finds reopen the debate on the settlement of the Loire valley bottom in an early stage of the Holocene in social and cultural anthropology terms since they indicate recurrent occupations of the area.…”
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FRANZ SCHUBERT AND THE MUSICAL ROMANTICISM by Boróka GYARMATHY-BENCZE

“…Most musicians of that age possessed a vast cultural background, often being poets, composers and performers at the same time. …”
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Scale Insects and Mealybugs on Ornamental Plants by Eileen A. Buss, Jay Cee Turner

“…Includes sections on biology and behavior; armored scales, soft scales, mealybugs and sooty mold; detecting infestations; and cultural, biological, and chemical control; and tables listing pesticides available for professional use on ornamentals. …”
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APPROPRIATE AND INAPPROPRIATE USES OF HUMOR BY TEACHERS AND THE EFFECT OF IT IN LEARNING by Fitriah Fitriah

“…The result informed that joking about sexual matters, religion, sexist issues, racism, appearance, sarcasm, ethnicity and cultural value was claimed as inappropriate humor, and 83% of students commented that these types of humor had a negative impact on their learning. …”
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Opportunities for collaboration: the synergy between antimicrobial and diagnostic stewardship in pediatrics by Brandy M. Hoyt, Kevin Messacar, Anna C. Sick-Samuels, Preeti Jaggi, Stacey L. Hamilton, Sarah Janelle, Sarah K. Parker

“…We offer a targeted narrative of examples in current literature using common relatable scenarios (ie, endotracheal aspirates, blood cultures, gastrointestinal samples, and urine testing) including impact on financial and environmental waste.…”
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Les Transparences by Lorraine Alexandre

“…In my artistic practice, I use masks and stereotyped body postures as visual discourses that make the body into a screen on which a culturally recognisable identity is displayed. I question the relationship between art and life. …”
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An In-depth Exploration of an Unexamined Reliquary in the Church of Mar Tadros-Blat, Syria by Dana Khouli

“…The research aims to shed light on its cultural and historical importance. By conducting a detailed analysis of its carvings and symbolic iconography, the study seeks to unravel the religious motifs embedded in its design and interpretation, elucidating their connections with saints, pivotal figures intricately associated with sarcophagus reliquaries. …”
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Shaping Pedagogy Through Practice: Reflections on the Spanish Program in International Studies at UTS by Elena Sheldon

“…Drawing on collaborations with Spanish universities and integrating cutting-edge resources, I have witnessed the transformative impact of these initiatives on students' preparation for in-country study and their ability to navigate academic and cultural challenges. These experiences have also shaped my teaching philosophy, highlighting the value of research-informed practices in enhancing language proficiency and intercultural competence. …”
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Diplomacia e sociabilidade intelectual na viagem a Itália de D. Francisco Manuel de Melo by Paulo Silva Pereira

“…Francisco Manuel de Melo a Itália na década de 60 do século XVII, para abordar o cruzamento entre política, diplomacia, atividade cultural e convivialidade discreta, em especial durante o tempo da sua permanência na cidade de Roma. …”
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Self-Effacing Barbie: The Ideal, the Real and the Quest for Authentic Selfhood by John Michael Corrigan, Justin Prystash

“…This metaphysical quandary is what propels the protagonists on a Buddhist-inspired quest for authentic selfhood, a selfhood characterized by both the effacement of the discrete self (the Buddhist concept of anatman) and the eclipse of monumentalized cultural and commercial idols, like Barbie, that organize and disseminate ideology.…”
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Knowledge Graphing Art Archives: Methods and Tools from the Semantic Lab’s E.A.T. Project by M. Cristina Pattuelli, Matthew Miller, Ava Kaplan, Calista Donohoe

“…This approach aims to reduce barriers to creating knowledge graphs and expand reuse opportunities for research, applications, and data integration in cultural heritage contexts.…”
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Contributors to the Edition by Prof Ronit Frenkel

“…Ronit Frenkel, as the incoming editor, plans on maintaining the pan-African scope of the journal while increasing its coverage into fields such as books, art, literature and popular cultures. The Thinker is a ‘hybrid’ journal, publishing both journalistic pieces with more academic articles and contributors can now opt to have their submissions peer reviewed. …”
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Configurações territoriais dos cursos de formação de professores de Sociologia no Brasil (1934-2017): disputas e implicações by Cristiano das Neves Bodart, Caio dos Santos Tavares

“…It is noted that the initial concentration was marked by the interests of an elite that, wishing to maintain its social distinction, sought to appropriate a (cultural) capital that could enable them to maintain their economic and political power in a modernizing society. …”
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On the dilemmatic creole condition : identity building and strategies of survival and catharsis in some poetry of Macau by Vera Borges

“…The condition of Creole communities is per se dramatic and dilemmatic, if one considers them in the perspective of H. Bhabha (1998), as culturally hybrid, "interstitial" societies, emerging in contact zones, as defined by Pratt (2008) in a colonial context. …”
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Eine natürliche Ordnung der Geschlechter? by Elisabeth Petereit

“…On the basis of the novella Regine, this paper explores on the one hand the imaginary dimension of female ‘nature’, which thus appears less ‘natural’ than culturally constructed, and on the other hand is devoted to the figure of the maid, raising the issue of service and self-sacrifice as defining a specific female destiny. …”
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Movilización y protesta estudiantil en Colombia (1971). Una lectura desde la organización gremial por el cogobierno universitario y la memoria de protagonistas y testigos by Álvaro Acevedo Tarazona, Diana Crucelly González Rey

“…Estas conquistas y protestas universitarias son relacionadas con la revolución cultural mundial de 1968.…”
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THE SHADOW ECONOMY AND ITS IMPACT ON A COUNTRY’S FINANCIAL POTENTIAL by Nadiia Davydenko, Ivan Olifer, Natalia Wasilewska, Mirosław Wasilewski

“…We have discovered that the shadow economy is an objective phenomenon which is inherent in the economic systems of all countries, and that its level is determined by the level of development of the economic system, the difficulty of identifying all possible variants of the shading processes, and the moral and cultural characteristics of the country. It has been established that the shadow economy plays a major role in developing countries and that the level of the shadow economy in advanced economies is significantly lower. …”
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