The Quest for Restoration of the African Renaissance through Indigenous African Music and Globalisation: A Case Study of South Africa by Sakhiseni Joseph Yende, Nsizwazonke Ephraim Yende

“…Employing a qualitative content analysis methodology, the study draws from a comprehensive array of scholarly sources including articles, book chapters, and theses. …”
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Conceptual Metaphor and Creative Literary Individualism by Seyyed AmirHossein Mortezaei, Mahmood Fotoohi Rudmajani

“…On the other hand, the tenors of conceptual metaphors are subjective and abstract. In the next part, we draw the borderline of cultural metaphor and poet's innovative metaphor, and passing this line, we introduce methods that make metaphors poetic. …”
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Global research trends in zero-waste cities: a comprehensive bibliometric analysis by Han Wang, Bin Zhao, Shaban G. Gouda

“…These data were analysed by bibliometric methods to draw the research trends and recent advances in zero-waste cities comprehensive overview. …”
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THE FEATURES OF CLINICAL COURSE, DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF LITTRE'S HERNIA by V.I. Lyakhovskyi, M.O. Dudchenko, T.V. Horodova-Andrieieva, A.V. Sydorenko, P.V. Savchuk

“…The aim of this research is to describe the features of the clinical course, diagnosis, and treatment of Littre's hernia, as well as to draw attention to the existence of such a disease. …”
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A mmWave Transmitting Time Modulated Array Using Bespoke GaAs Integrated Circuits—Prototype Design and Laboratory Trials at 73 GHz by Edward A. Ball, Sumin David Joseph

“…The MMICs provide a measured average gain of 4.4 dB and draw 61.2 mW. The TMA is demonstrated steering the first harmonic beam to +/−12 degrees and the second harmonic beam to +/−30 degrees. …”
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FROM OPTIMISM TO DISAPPOINTMENT: THE EVOLUTION OF SWAMI VIVEKANANDA’S ATTITUDE TOWARDS THE WEST by E. V. Volgina

“…He used it as a “soft power” to draw attention of the West to the national liberation struggle just starting to unfold in India. …”
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Reliability of Upper Extremity Functional Performance Tests for the Non-overhead Athlete by Bryan L Riemann, George J Davies

“…# Background While there have been reliability studies conducted on several upper extremity functional performance tests (UEFPT), there are several complicating factors that inhibit the ability to draw definitive consensus about the reliability of the tests in both females and males. …”
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Taxing data when the United States disagrees by Tarcísio Diniz Magalhães, Allison Christians

“…We show that an ambulatory interpretation approach could achieve the underlying goals of taxing data-driven businesses, in some cases even without any domestic law or treaty reform, with treaty-based rules for dispute resolution a ready tool to draw upon if and when the United States disagrees.…”
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Evidence-based economic policy at the regional level by Elena G. Kropinova, Andrey E. Shastitko

“…This study elucidates the need to draw on the ideas of regional and spatial economic development of the Kaliningrad region reflected in the works of Prof. …”
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An Ottoman map of Sanjak of Herzegovina and Sanjak of Scutari from 1853 by Elma Korić

“…The goal: The aim of the work is to draw attention to the cartographic material of Ottoman origin as a very exhaustive historical source for the study of the history of Bosnia and Herzegovina. …”
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Worn but not forgotten: the soviet shoes recycling in Ukraine in the by Tetiana Perga

“…Research methodology: The study draws on previously unexplored Ukrainian archival materials, statistical collections of USSR and Soviet legislation, enabling a comprehensive and multi-dimensional analysis of the economic, social, and political implications of shoe recycling. …”
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Quand les paroles s’envolent : réflexions sur les caractéristiques et la forme phonétique du High Rising Terminal en anglais contemporain by Stephan Wilhelm

“…Britain 1992, Fletcher & Harrington 2001, Barry 2007), however, suggests that the HRT may differ somewhat from this description.Based on a corpus of personal conversational narratives containing recordings of different geographical varieties of contemporary English, this paper enquires which definitions of the HRT really match the facts and investigates the phonetics of uptalk. It draws a typology of the contours used as phonetic realisations of the High Rising Terminal and identifies some of its peripheral characteristics. …”
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Comparing imputation approaches to handle systematically missing inputs in risk calculators. by Anja Mühlemann, Philip Stange, Antoine Faul, Serena Lozza-Fiacco, Rowan Iskandar, Manuela Moraru, Susanne Theis, Petra Stute, Ben D Spycher, David Ginsbourger

“…Certain measurements needed to calculate disease risk may be difficult to acquire, e.g. because they necessitate blood draws, and may be systematically missing in the population of interest. …”
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Frugal Innovations: Implementation in Regions of Poland by Jacek Woźniak

“…The research conducted indicates that greater emphasis should be placed on spreading knowledge about frugal innovations in the C Region, which can draw on the experience and support of the A region. …”
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A novel pansharpening method based on cross stage partial network and transformer by Yingxia Chen, Huiqi Liu, Faming Fang

“…In response to the above issues, this paper draws inspiration from the FusionNet network, harnessing the local detail acquisition capability of CNNs and the global data procuring capacity of Transformer. …”
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Tackling somatic DNA contamination in sperm epigenetic studies by Anamika Kumari, Anamika Kumari, Rajender Singh, Rajender Singh

“…However, detecting and dealing with somatic DNA contamination in semen samples can be a challenging task.MethodsIn the present study, we worked out a detailed and robust plan to deal with somatic cell DNA contamination in sperm epigenetic studies in order to draw error-free scientific conclusions. Apart from incorporating simple quality checks, such as microscopic examination and somatic cell lysis buffer (SCLB) treatment, we compared the Infinium Human Methylation 450K BeadChip data for sperm and blood samples to identify the CpG sites that were highly methylated in blood samples in comparison to sperm, but were unrelated to infertility.Results and discussionThe comparison of Infinium Human Methylation 450K BeadChip data for sperm and blood samples identified 9564 CpG sites that can be used as markers for analyzing somatic DNA contamination. …”
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The Responsibility of the Foreman for the Sale of Project Remaining Materials According to Wahbah Az-Zuhaili by Ahmad Riansyah Lubis, Sahmiar Pulungan

“…After the data is collected, the author analyzes and draws conclusions from the data collected. The results of the study found that after examining the losses in the Mentari Kempinski construction project, various reasons that contributed to the losses could be determined. …”
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Problematic issues of the legal regulation of local self-government officials’ remuneration by V. S. Govorov

“…The article draws attention to the fact that the current legislation on local self-government and service in local self-government bodies contains a number of problematic issues in terms of regulation of remuneration of officials. …”
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INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND DIPLOMATIC SERVICE: RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS AND PROSPECTS OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER by E. V. Ohotskii

“…The author focuses readers attention on the regularities of formation, development and peculiarities of legal regulation of international relations, considers these relations as an ongoing, highly controversial and multidirectional developing process of the formation of the world system of States and international relations, explores the driving forces, events and phenomena, who had in his time, and many still have a decisive influence on international policy the leading powers of the world in the framework of nonlinear processes of globalization and the current, seriously flawed by today's standards, world order and system of international law. The article draws readers attention to everything presented in the tutorial main substantial characteristics and patterns of international relations in their historical context. …”
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A systematic review of neurological symptoms and brain abnormalities in SARS-CoV-2 infections by Daniel Montoya, Jacobo Albert, Sarah Lopez-Martin

“… The aim of this systematic review is to show some clear evidence of COVID-19 infections in the human brain and draw attention to the neurological symptoms that were described during the early stages of the pandemic. …”
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