Superstition, Idolatry and the Advancement of Learning. by Dana Jalobeanu

“… In this article, I offer a survey of Bacon’s use of the term superstition, tracing the evolution of his views on the matter, as well as the articulation of what I call a “problem of su- perstition.” …”
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Thinking, Totalitarianism, and Tribunals: The Notion of Responsibility in Repressive Regimes by Andreea Norica Bălan

“…The observations of Stanislav Aseyev, a Ukrainian journalist, corroborates Arendt’s reflections, underscoring her perennial relevance on this matter.…”
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‘Everything is Plastic’:The Faith of Unity Movement and theMaking of a Post-Catholic Religion in Uganda by Asonzeh Ukah

“…Chidester uses an approach of multi-sensorial imagination of matter to investigate the plasticity and elasticity of religion to innovate and accommodate changing religious and spiritual desires and how such adaptions ensure the popularity of religious participation in a contemporary, technology-saturated society. …”
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« Au fracas de la foudre, les animaux intelligents s’éveillèrent » by Agnès Bouvier

“…Félix Pouchet, in Heterogeny or Spontaneous generation Treatise (1859), argues, against Pasteur and Milne-Edwards, for the existence of a « genesical force » inside matter at the beginning of the universe, still active in the formation and transformation of species. …”
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Communal discernment in the early church by Pieter G. R. de Villiers

“…The article then investigates the way in which discernment takes place: it is first and foremost a communal matter which brings together all parties in order to participate in intense debate and weighing of possibilities. …”
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Images du corps nikkei à São Paulo by Helena Prado

“…By considering a few common expressions from popular language and by examining recorded discourse, it aims to analyse what is presented as obvious: the body designated as “Japanese” in Brazil, one that is foreign, different and excluded from the body representations at work in the “national myth”.It will therefore be a matter of identifying the phenotypical markers at play, and showing what directly follows from them, namely a series of representations “naturally” associated with the Nikkei ethnicity, having to do with norms of aesthetics and social behaviour, with moral and intellectual values, and with collective and individual practices expected from Japanese Brazilians.…”
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Investigating boredom among EFL teachers by Dumančić Dino

“…The findings pointed to different causes of boredom in the Croatian FLT context, such as grammar tasks and uninteresting subject matter. Croatian teachers reported various manifestations of boredom, i.e. cognitive and motivational, as well as diverse emotion regulation strategies employed, such as introducing new content or engaging in physical activity. …”
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Elearning levels by Antanas Baskas

“…Presented results show that all thirty institutions of course redesign online learning program reduced cost by about forty percent on average, increased course-completion rates, improved retention, better student attitudes toward the subject matter. All universities and colleges of this program have realized promise of technology by means of whole course redesign, active learning, computer-based learning resources, mastery learning, on-demand help, alternative staffing. …”
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Theoretical Basis for Classifying Hyperuniform States of Two-Component Systems by Hiroshi Frusawa

“…Hyperuniform states of matter exhibit unusual suppression of density fluctuations at large scales, contrasting sharply with typical disordered configurations. …”
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Cover Crop Benefits for South Florida Commercial Vegetable Producers by Qingren Wang, Yuncong Li, Edward A. Hanlon, Waldemar Klassen, Teresa Olczyk, Ikechukwu V. Ezenwa

“… This article describes how and why to use cover crops in South Florida vegetable production systems, and identifies several cover crops that work in Florida's climate, that contribute to nutrient conservation, and whose biomass can be incorporated to improve soil organic matter. Updated October 2018. SL-242/SS461: Cover Crop Benefits for South Florida Commercial Vegetable Producers (ufl.edu) …”
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AMBIGUOUS PROCESSES IN HIGHER EDUCATION PEDAGOGY by Alevtina S. Robotova

“…The paper dwells on the discrepant events that take place in higher school pedagogy. Above all, the matter concerns the implementation of a competence approach, its risks, limitations, unsolved and unsolvable problems. …”
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Science Behind the Blinds: Scientist and Society in The Invisible Man by Steve McLean

“…Griffin’s unwillingness to do so is understood in the context of ‘Popularising Science,’ an article in which Wells outlines the mistakes made by men of science who refuse to popularise their subject matter. Griffin’s eventual alienation from society is understood both as a consequence of the public inability to grasp scientific thinking and his own reticence to communicate.…”
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La médiation culturelle pour les sourds dans le milieu muséal au Québec by Ingrid Valent

“…This research is developed as a qualitative exploratory survey and its topics will enable to clarify a matter not much developed and to delimit its specifics. …”
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Reformierte dogmatik zwischen konfessioneller bindung nd der verpflichung zu weiterführender (auch konfessionsübergreifender) theoriebildung by M. Beintker

“…Moltmann indicate, it was indeed a matter of reformed theology flourishing from its roots, rather than the conservation of tradition as such. …”
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Hadry a hadrnice: od důchodkového deliktu k průmyslové surovině a sběračkám odpadu by Marie Macková

“…She became a subject matter for artists, journalists and cabaret performers. …”
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The Capacity Expansion Path Problem in Networks by Jianping Li, Juanping Zhu

“…We investigate the polynomial equivalence between the GCEP problem and the constrained shortest path problem (CSP) and present a pseudopolynomial algorithm for the GCEP problem, no matter the graph is acyclic or not. Furthermore, we investigate two special versions of the GCEP problem. …”
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W.E.B Du Bois and the Place of African American Youth in Histories of Environmental Thought. by Katie Taylor

“…In this article I reflect upon the development of my research on African American environmental thought as it emerged through the coincidence of my PhD research with the COVID-19 pandemic and the international Black Lives Matter protests of 2020. I situate my research at the intersection of Environmental American Studies and literary studies to highlight the intersections between environmental thought and racial justice movements through a focus on the ways that childhood and race are intertwined in African American thought and literature. …”
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« A thrust at truth and a lie » : The Crying of Lot 49 ou le langage en quête de vérité by Jean-Yves Pellegrin

“…The relation of The Crying ofLot 49 to the detective novel may not be a simple matter of borrowing some of the characteristic patterns and features of the genre. …”
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Vers une tentative d’uniformisation du traitement accentuel des composés savants suffixés en anglais contemporain by Pierre Fournier

“…The creation of a typology of bases, which could be built according to the attractiveness-based concept and could be effective no matter what the suffix may be, turns out to be problematic as other factors appear to be fundamental regarding to stress location.…”
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Soil pH and Liming Issues Affecting Bahiagrass Pasture by Maria Silveira, Joao Vendramini, John E. Rechcigl, Martin B. Adjei

“…Adjei, presents results of research conducted to evaluate the long-term effect of liming and N fertilization on dry matter yields, nutritive value, and ground cover of bahiagrass pastures. …”
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