Appetitus Socialis Berolinensis by Jan Thiessen

“…This article examines how jurists of different professions, that is, legislators, judges, lawyers and scholars, gradually re-shaped the traditional landscape of national statutory law and case law in times of global commerce, competition and communication. …”
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Une écologie symbolique totonaque. Le municipe de Huehuetla (Puebla, Mexique) by Nicolas Ellison

“…Totonac found their identity on their special relation with wooded or agro-forestry areas, using a hot/cold classificatory system. Scholars have often focused on this dualistic principle in therapeutic and culinary practices, but its application at the level of symbolic classification of ecological spaces has rarely been studied in the Mesoamerican area.…”
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Nursing Leadership in a Rapidly Aging Society: Implications of “The Future of Nursing” Report in Japan by Harue Masaki, Hiroko Nagae, Megumi Teshima, Shigeko Izumi

“…The recent US Institute of Medicine (IOM) report about the future of nursing highlights the areas where nurses can serve, contribute, and move forward to improve health care in the United States. Japanese nursing scholars examined the IOM report for its implications in the Japanese context and explored the future of nursing in Japan. …”
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L’Irlande et le documentaire à travers le parcours controversé de L’Homme d’Aran by Isabelle Le Corff

“…We will analyse the documentary’s formal construction and endeavour to understand why Irish scholars unanimously denounce the negative effects the film seems to have had on the perception of the Irish landscape.…”
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Phenomenographies: describing the plurality of atmospheric worlds by Federico De Matteis, Mikkel Bille, Tonino Griffero, Andrea Jelić

“…In recent years, the theory of atmospheres has extended beyond phenomenology and aesthetics, informing a wide variety of descriptive practices in the humanities. Diverse scholarly fields such as anthropology and architecture, musicology and art criticism now include the notion of atmospheric space in their methodological toolkits. …”
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What Is This Thing Called Evaluation Theory? by Sebastian Lemire, Bianca Montrosse-Moorhead, Christina Christie

“…Over the years, and as the range of evaluation theories has continued to grow, evaluation scholars and practitioners have developed various visualized classification frameworks of evaluation theory, invoking images such as trees, rivers, the periodic table, metro maps, concept maps, and most recently gardens. …”
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"Nightown", "Necropolis", "Jerusalem" : les figures de la ville dans Ulysses de James Joyce by Philippe Birgy

“…Leaving aside the questions of the town-like or maze-like structure of the text itself and the hieroglyphic tracery of the flâneur's path—for these aspects have already been amply documented by Joycean scholars—it concentrates on the communal dimension that underlies Joyce's writing and on the stylistic inscription of a democracy to come that reaches beyond nationalism and citizenship (the latter being comically presented as Bloom's celestial Jerusalem). …”
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سوء السلوک البحثى فى العالم العربى : دراسة تحليلية من واقع سحب المقالات العلمية المنشورة by ضياء الدين عبدالواحد حافظ

“…Hence, the current study tried to shed light on thisphenomenon and the extent of its spread in the Arab world, through the ArabRetracted articles. We found 416 scholarly publications retracted. Although theyaccount for 0.027% of all articles published,The rate of retraction is rising. …”
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Du presque-rien au presque-tout : le dévoilement de l’invisible dans Trifles (1916) de Susan Glaspell by Emeline JOUVE

“…Produced in 1916 by the Provincetown Players, the play Trifles by Susan Glaspell, defined by scholars as “the mother of the Modern American theatre,” stages the unveiling of the invisible. …”
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Los niños de la Transición : nuevos paradigmas autobiográficos en la literatura española de la última década by Concepción Martín Huertas

“…Although in recent years many scholars talk about a period of « memory crisis », with the advent of the new century –and more noticeably since the last decade– there is a new stream in the field of Spanish literature in which personal and collective memories seem to be vindicated by the authors as a source of prestige. …”
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Menanamkan Wawasan Islam Moderat Melalui Pendidikan Akidah Ahlussunnah Wal Jama’ah An-Nahdiyah: Belajar dari Pendidikan Pesantren by Segaf Baharun, Sodikin

“…The tradition of Islamic scholars' thought in the archipelago also contributes to strengthening moderate Islamic insights…”
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Retraction notice: Volume removed – Publisher’s Disclaimer

“…This proceeding volume has been retracted from the publication because we found some solid reasons to believe that it has infringed our integrity criteria and now presents a risk for our journal and scholarly science in general. Different types of malpractice are involved, in particular citation manipulation and inappropriate references. …”
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Critiques et enjeux du Dark tourism à travers la focale sud-africaine by Fabrice Folio

“…Research into visits associated with dramatic episodes, suffering and death is relatively recent among francophone scholars. But this theme has attracted more attention among English speakers where the term ‘dark tourism’ is used. …”
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Retraction notice: Volume removed – Publisher’s Disclaimer

“…This proceeding volume has been retracted from the publication because we found some solid reasons to believe that it has infringed our integrity criteria and now presents a risk for our journal and scholarly science in general. Different types of malpractice are involved, in particular citation manipulation and inappropriate references. …”
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Managing community-based conservation in Bobaomby, Madagascar by Élysé Rabearivola Nomenjanahary, Hortensia Rasoanandrasana, Andrew Walsh

“…Conservation and development projects that prescribe the participation of local stakeholders in decision-making around the sustainable management of their own ecosystems have become commonplace in Madagascar in recent decades, as have scholarly critiques questioning the likelihood that such “community-based conservation” (CBC) efforts can achieve the win-win scenarios they purport to offer Malagasy communities and ecosystems. …”
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Gender, race, and life writing in the ethnography of Ruth Landes in Bahia by Sally Cole

“…This article examines how Landes’s theory of culture, methods of fieldwork, and personal writing style went against the grain of the approaches taken by leading scholars at the time who treated Afro-Brazilian culture in terms of race-based psychological characteristics and “African survivals” and harshly critiqued her work.…”
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RUSSIAN WRITING CENTERS CONSORTIUM by E. M. Bazanova, I. B. Korotkina

“…At the core of these challenges is a lack of awareness among the Russian scholarly community of academic writing as a separate branch of scientific and methodological knowledge in addition to insufficient number of specialists, inadequate training and rare publications in this field. …”
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Overview of Crown Gear Coupling Contact Theory by Guan Yongqiang, Wang Jianmei, Ning Ke, Wang Bo

“…Due to special tooth surface morphology, the crown gear coupling achieves misalignment compensation while causing the non-uniform carrying of tooth pairs, which destroys the stability of the tooth surface contact. Scholars at home and abroad have carried out extensive research on the contact theory of tooth pairs, reviewed the contact characteristics and the theoretical research of crown gear couplings, and pointed out the contact theory model of clearance of tooth pairs, contact stress of tooth surface, and load distribution of tooth pairs, which is the key technology to achieve the optimal design of high-performance crown gear couplings.…”
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Gee die Bybel nog vandag aan ons morele oriëntering oor kwessies soos homoseksualiteit? by E. de Villiers

“…The next section highlights the emphasis by contemporary biblical scholars on the influence of the context within which the various books of the Bible were written. …”
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Autofictions in Co-labouring by Diana Damian Martin, Daniela Perazzo, Nik Wakefield

“…Engaging autofiction as a scholarly mode with different models of co-authorship, the Key Group move through critical engagements with working conditions, temporalities of labour and its instrumentalisation within and beyond universities and cultural ecologies. …”
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