Professor Vanda Zaborskaitė: Why Classic? by Dalia Čiočytė

“…She used the sociological method as interpreted by Marxism, but she never accepted its philosophical determinism. She considered it important to put a literary work in the contextual frame of the literary history; however, she did not accept the view according to which literature is ruled by the laws of the social and cultural history. …”
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The healing hand: the role of women in ancient medicine by Francois P. Retief, Louise Cilliers

“…Thus, although there were never very many female doctors, the classical world does not seem to have placed insurmountable obstacles in the way of women who wished to practise medicine. …”
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The homily as a way to the synodal Church.The possibility of building a responsible laity by Janez Vodičar

“…We would follow the words that Pope Francis wrote in The Joy of the Gospel: “We are not asked to be flawless, but to keep growing and wanting to grow as we advance along the path of the Gospel; our arms must never grow slack.” The fear of losing touch with the sources of Revelation and from the diversity of faith experiences must not stop us from seeking a word that would, as at the first Pentecost, inspire people to live the gospel. …”
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Skuld, ansvar och tillräknelighet by Bettina Schütz-Gärdén

“…On this background, the present article examines the Swedish system from a comparative point of view, contrasting it with the German system, which has never abandoned the notion of mental incapacity. …”
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Evolution of Access Routes to High Mountain Refuges of the Mer de Glace Basin (Mont Blanc Massif, France) by Jacques Mourey, Ludovic Ravanel

“…These changes have almost never been studied. Also, this research seeks to identify and explain the evolution of access trails to five refuges, located in the Mer de Glace basin (Mont Blanc massif), over more than a century. …”
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Call for Papers: IJPS volume 12, issue 1 by Stephanie Gingerich, Stephanie Doscher

“… The importance of interdisciplinary partnerships to address interconnected local and global challenges has never been more pressing. The Interdisciplinary Journal of Partnership Studies (IJPS) invites scholars, practitioners, and thought leaders from all disciplines to submit original articles for our first issue in 2025. …”
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Adieu, de Balzac : « Une absence au monde qui vient de se déclarer au cœur de l’histoire » by France Vernier

“…The fate of many “forgotten” victims of the Napoleonic campagnes was never far from Balzac’s literary concerns, and in addition to Le Colonel Chabert, one can find throughout his work various examples of soldiers of the old guard, either maimed or barely surviving on a meagre pension. …”
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“One of the most prolific smut writers on Tumblr” by Khaliah Reed

“… Most fanfiction writers never imagine the worlds they create could become television content. …”
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Being ‘excluded from the world of sound’: Deafness, Invalidism and Resilience in Harriet Martineau’s Writings (1834–1855) by Manuela D’Amore

“…Before she lost her hearing as a young adolescent, she enjoyed singing and ‘was never out of tune’: it was only after she became fully aware of her disability that she urged her ‘fellow sufferers’ to trust even experimental science to gain ‘every breath of sound’ and play an active role in the public sphere. …”
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„Paraklet (…) przekona świat o grzechu, o sprawiedliwości i o sądzie”. Jana Pawła II pneumatologiczna hermeneutyka J 16, 7–8 by Agnieszka Dudek-Kowalska

“…In this meaning the truth is always on the side of man’s good. It is never against him. The Truth is the answer to the untruth, to the sin. …”
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The Hypertextual Process of Rewriting a Plurimedial Work: Joan Fuster and Vicent Garcés’ Ballet Marinada by Xavier Hernàndez i Garcia

“…Although this project will never come to fruition, it will lay the foundations of a friendship that will crystallise in Fuster’s only literary collaboration on a musical composition: the symphonic ballet Marinada, which was written in the late 1940s, during a stay of Garcés’ in Paris and premiered in València in 1957. …”
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The Tipping Point? The Covid-19 Crisis, Critical Animal Studies and Academic Responsibility by Émilie DARDENNE

“…Or should the line that separates academia from advocacy never be crossed? Here are some of the questions that this paper will broach. …”
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Adaptive Neural Network Control for Nonlinear Hydraulic Servo-System with Time-Varying State Constraints by Shu-Min Lu, Dong-Juan Li

“…Based on analyzing the stability of the hydraulic servo-system, we show that the error signals are bounded in the compacts sets; the time-varying state constrains are never violated and all singles of the hydraulic servo-system are bounded. …”
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To be digital or not to be, that is the ESG question by Luis Martín, Noelia Sánchez-Ortiz

“…We live in an interconnected world which has never seen before. And there is a tool to allow this connectivity among stakeholders, without barriers and at a fraction of the cost of any other solution: the digital technology. …”
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Path Scheduling and Target Trajectory Optimization in UAVs Based on Dragonfly and Firefly Algorithm by Methaq Hadi Lafta

“…It is hoped that there will never be a war in the world, but one of the defensive requirements of any country during the war is the using Unmanned Aerial Vehicle used for destruction and defense. …”
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Potency of Indigenous Epiphytic Yeast to Control Colletotrichum capsici, the Cause of Anthracnose Disease in Red Chili by Darnetty Darnetty, Utari Hermaleni, Yunisman Yunisman

“…Controlling using indigenous epiphytic yeasts has never been done. The study aimed to determine the ability of indigenous epiphytic yeast isolates to control C. capsici on red chili. …”
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The enlightenment of fiction: Literature to learn to philosophise by Edwige Chirouter

“…Free from the constraints of empirical reality, the laws of physics, and the laws of morality, fiction allows us to experience by proxy what we will never actually experience in the real world. Fiction creates a healthy emotional distance, making it easier to think deeply and rigorously. …”
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Role of plasticity-induced crack closure in fatigue crack growth by Jesús Toribio, Viktor Kharin

“…Simulation reproduces the experimental trends of FCG concerning the roles of stress intensity factor range and overload, but PICC has never been detected. Near-tip deformation patterns discard the filling-in a crack with material stretched out of the crack plane in the wake behind the tip as supposed PICC origin. …”
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Replicas, Revivals and Restorations: a Scottish Political Miscellany by Aonghus MacKechnie

“…The European Counter-Reformation church of the Gesù was used a model for James VII & II’s Canongate Kirk (1688); whereas the Tudor Gothic style was imported from England during the Napoleonic period of high British nationalism, evoking and celebrating a British past that never existed.…”
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Benjamin’s gamble: commodifying life in the age of heroic demise by Stephanie Polsky

“…The spectre of the crowd is never far from this scene of bodily danger.…”
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