Festivalising Heritage in the Borderlands: Constituting Ethnic Histories and Heritages under the Rule of the Finn Forest Republic by Stein R. Mathisen

“…The Finn Forest Republic is a three-day celebration of cultural heritage and local identity among the Finn Forest population, a people living in small rural communities on both sides of the border between Sweden and Norway. …”
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Assessing the main determinants of entrepreneurship in Portugal by Vanessa Figueiredo, Ana Oliveira Brochado

“…Without question, entrepreneurship is present in all spheres of our lives, especially in economic and social areas. This field is significant in the development of societies and is also considered a useful tool in promoting innovation and job creation in many countries. …”
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Optimization of the Marketing Management System Based on Cloud Computing and Big Data by Lin Zhang

“…The “big data” era is a challenge and chance for companies and has a great impact on social economy, politics, culture, and people’s lives. An accurate marketing system is developed based on J2EE, and the architecture is selected from the user layer, business logic layer, and data layer and the B/S3 layer application (three-tier application), including three layers of crip-dm and semma. …”
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Pastoral leadership for a relevant missional ecclesiology in a context of poverty by M. Maritz

“…Where the professional practices of leaders in congregations within a context of poverty resemble love, caring, understanding, and commitment towards the well-being of the people, congregants allow their leaders to have autocratic authority over their lives. When congregants experience mutual trust and pastoral leaders attend to their needs, they grow in their experiences of their well-being. …”
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Diversion in the settlement of the criminal act of disposal of infants by Sanusi Sanusi

“…This research method uses empirical juridical, where the actions committed by the perpetrators (parents) of baby dumping under the age of 18, are not included in the Child Protection Law, so they must be held accountable and the settlement must use diversion as a form of protection for living babies. The results of this study indicate that child offenders who dump their babies have violated Article 78 B of Law Number 35 of 2014 concerning Amendments to Law Number 11 of 2012 concerning Child Protection, and can be subject to sanctions for babies dumped as babies. …”
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Analysis of the Influencing Factors of Enterprise Environmental Ethics on Enterprise Economic Performance by Yufang Jiang, Xujie Lyu

“…In the information age, people’s awareness of living environmental protection has increased unprecedentedly, and the concept of green environmental protection in enterprise economic behavior has been paid more and more attention by the market and consumers. …”
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Seeking victims’ perspective on remedy: the case of Brasil Verde Farm’s workers by Regiane Cristina de Oliveira

“…The workers’ narratives – collected through oral history methodology, during a fieldtrip to Piauí, in March 2016 –, help to overcome the ongoing debate on remedy studies related to the discourse of victims’ “wants and needs”, and reveal that any reparation measure that intend to promote social emancipation has to deal with the absences of the right to participation, security, adequate standards of living, health, adequate housing, education, and also access to land.…”
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The Role of Traditional Environmental Knowledge in Taytnapam Toponyms by Eugene S. Hunn, Richard H. McClure Jr.

“…The Taytnapam are a poorly known Indigenous community of the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. They lived in the upper Cowlitz River watershed relatively undisturbed by Euro-American colonization until late in the 1800s, avoiding the more radical depopulation and dislocation suffered by neighboring Native communities due to introduced diseases and colonial settlement. …”
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Timelike boundaries in de Sitter JT gravity and the Gao-Wald theorem by Gauri Batra

“…We comment on the implications of our results for the quantum theories living on the timelike boundaries.…”
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Local Media Image Propagation Algorithm and Its Governance in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Ming Guo, Weichen Jia

“…With a large number of images provided by TV and other media flowing into the Internet and the reduction of technical barriers, images have not only become a daily practice for people to record their lives and communicate their behaviors but also become an important means for the public to express their discourse in the cyberspace. …”
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Le Wessex, espace étranger by Isabelle Gadoin-Luis

“…This paper offers a phenomenological interpretation of two key-scenes at the end of Tess of the d’Urbervilles, when Tess and Angel at Flintcomb-Ash then at Stonehenge are progressively alienated from their living world, barred from any form of communion or intimacy with it, and made to realise the insignificance and powerlessness of any rational subject when faced with the raw, primordial forces of nature. …”
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L’emploi de formes d’adresse dans les interactions interculturelles – perceptions et discussions authentiques entre francophones et finnophones by Johanna Isosävi

“…This study illustrates the advantages of living within a target language culture to increase one’s awareness of the uses of address forms and their variations.…”
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Features of economic sectors development in mountain territories of the Republic of Dagestan by A. M. Esetova, I. K. Kerimov

“…Recommendations have been given on increasing economic activity efficiency and improving investment climate in the mountain territories of the region, aimed at ensuring sustainable development and improving the standard of living of the local population. The article concludes that it is necessary to solve a number of problems that hinder development of mountain territories of the Republic of Dagestan. …”
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Refleksje nad zastosowaniem korczakowskich metod partycypacyjnej pracy z dziećmi w obozach dla uchodźców by Urszula Markowska-Manista, Dominika Zakrzewska-Olędzka

“…An ethical and contextual adaptation or inspiration based on Korczak’s methods in work designed for backgrounds connected with children remaining in closed and semi-closed systems, provides a chance for children’s basic participation in decision-making in matters that concern their lives. At the same time, it is an opportunity to learn children’s opinions and an expression of respect for the child as a per-son who functions here and now, in the place and space of his or her temporary stay – a refugee camp, where an international protection system for children and adults is far from effective. …”
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The Social Burden of Witchcraft accusation and Its Victims: An Exercise in Philosophy by Olusegun Stephen Taiwo

“…For in a witch-case the suspect was usually a person who had been involved in a relationship of real or presumed hostility towards the victim, then an accusation of witchcraft originated with someone living in close proximity to the suspect, and was meant to explain some local and personal misfortune. …”
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Post-genomic approaches to understanding interactions between fungi and their environment by R.P. de Vries, I. Benoit, G. Doehlemann, T. Kobayashi, J.K. Magnuson, E.A. Panisk, S.E. Baker, M.-H. Lebrun

“…They have highly varied life-styles including sap robes (using only dead biomass as a nutrient source), pathogens (feeding on living biomass), and symbionts (co-existing with other organisms). …”
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Latest news from the bonobos: Pan paniscus myths and realities by David Beaune

“…Bonobos are our closest living relatives along with chimpanzees. They attract much attention from anthropologists who want to better understand our primate origins and more recently from the public because of their remarkable behavior and matriarchal social system. …”
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Fungal Infections: Their Diagnosis and Treatment in Transplant Recipients by David H. Van Thiel, Magdalena George, Christopher M. Moore

“…Unfortunately, they are often diagnosed late, when the efficacy of the available treatments is low, often less than 50%, and the cost in terms of lives lost, hospital length of stay, and total hospital costs is substantially increased. …”
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My Hijab Covers my Mane, Not My Mind: Challenges Facing South African Muslim Women Academics by Quraisha Dawood

“…Viewed through the lens of social identity theory, the chapter provides insight into the lived experiences of seven Muslim women academics and how they navigate the often-exclusionary spaces of academia. …”
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Children's experiences of play in digital spaces: A scoping review. by Fiona M Loudoun, Bryan Boyle, Maria Larsson-Lund

“…Specifically, the literature was examined with regards to relevance to children's everyday lives, the personal and ecological relevance, and the methods used. …”
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