Editorial by Anna Oksiutycz

“…In the early days, Communicare’s very lively 'Last Word' slot invited critical comments on contemporary matters of concern, but for the most part, the journal took a hands-off position and followed conventional publishing practice. …”
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Comparative Study of Biotin and Hydroxyapatite on Biological Properties of Composite Coating by Qahtan A. Hamad, Fatimah J. Al-Hasani, Noor K. Faheed

“…The ultimate goal of using biomaterials is to improve human health by restoring the function of natural living tissues and organs in the body. The present work aims to modify the composite coating layer properties by using two different types of bioactive reinforcing materials (biotin and hydroxyapatite) particles in different percentages (5% and 10%). …”
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The Role of the Family in the Restoration and Preservation of Yoruba Cultural Heritage by Emmanuel Oluwasegun Awofeko, Olatunji Olusegun Oyebanjo, Oluwaseyi N. Shogunle

“…  Yoruba people have a unique cultural heritage which engulfs every aspect of their lives; hence, guides them in their daily activities. …”
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Clinical Aspects of Dermatitis Associated with Dirofilaria repens in Pets: A Review of 100 Canine and 31 Feline Cases (1990–2010) and a Report of a New Clinic Case Imported from It... by Walter Tarello

“…Cutaneous dirofilariasis is a parasitic disease caused by the mosquito-borne filarial nematodes Dirofilaria (Nochtiella) repens, living in the subcutaneous tissue of dogs, cats, wild carnivores, and humans. …”
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A Comparative Analysis of Gypsies’ Access to Employment Opportunities and Health Services in Pakistan and Turkey by Muhammad Suliman, Reşat Açıkgöz

“…In this study, employment opportunities and access to health services of gypsies living in Pakistan and Turkey are explored. The researchers delimited the study only to areas of employment and health sectors in both countries, with the aim to comparatively analyze the situation of Gypsies’ access to these services. …”
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The need for adequate argumentation for the protection of biotic community by Marcin Klimski

“…The changing state and quality of the environment is now taken for granted by communities living in many distant parts of the world. It is felt more and more intensely that disadvantageous interference in the natural environment will sooner or later have an impact on the biotic community, including humans themselves. …”
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Âge à la ménopause naturelle à Marrakech (Maroc) et prévalence des symptômes du climatère by Mohamed Loukid, Mohamed Kamal Hilali, Cristina Bernis

“…The discussion of this result focuses on the differences in the methodologies used in the different studies and speculates on the possibility of an increase in this age due to improvement of living conditions in a Moroccan urban environment. …”
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Collective Deformation Modes Promote Fibrous Self-Assembly in Deformable Particles by Hugo Le Roy, M. Mert Terzi, Martin Lenz

“…The self-assembly of particles into organized structures is a key feature of living organisms and a major engineering challenge. …”
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Comparative Dynamic Seismic Analyses of RC Minarets Strengthened with FRP and Buttresses by Erdem Türkeli

“…In recent earthquakes occurred in Turkey, an unexpected number of reinforced concrete (RC) minarets were heavily damaged or collapsed causing loss of lives and economic damages. These structures can be counted as the most common constructed slender structures in Turkey. …”
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Société du risque, environnement et potentialisation des menaces : un défi pour les sciences sociales by Lionel Charles, Bernard Kalaora

“…Confronted with what Ulrich Beck has named risk society, France is hardly finding answers to the complexifications born from the extension of environmental stakes, breaking with its anthropocentric heritage, moving to a dynamic and relational vision echoing the plasticity of life.Owing to the weight of its rationalist discursive tradition and its implications in terms of abstraction and distance from reality, the deep changes born from acceleration, fluidification and globalization processes are lived as vulnerability. Because of the lack of pragmatism and opening to the unpredictability of social action, French society overreacts to threats understood as a breach to its preemption of certainty and its assertion of mastery. …”
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Inter-Faith Dialogue, Peace Building and Conflict Transformation in Nigeria by Emmanuel Achus Jah, Damila Kevin Mabas

“… Nigeria as a nation with diversity has religious plurality as one of its integral parts. Living in diversity surely is a formidable task. Such religious diversity has been a source of violent conflict owing to seemingly irreconcilable religious ideologies of the different faiths. …”
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Recovering the Loss: Infanticide, Ambivalence and Trauma in Shobha Rao’s The Lost Ribbon by Mitali Mishra, Surbhi Saraswat

“…Drawing on theoretical perspectives on maternal ambivalence, the paper expands on Adrienne Rich’s distinction between mothering as lived experience and motherhood as a patriarchal construct. …”
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The Dynamics of Traditional Religion in the Political Economy of Ìkòrodú by Adéyẹmí Balógun

“… In the precolonial period, the coastal town of Ìkòrodú played a prominent role in the traffic of goods and services between traders on its coast and many Yorùbá groups who lived in the interior. While this traffic was sustained by socio-political institutions such as the Oloja and the Osugbo cult, the role of religious groups – including the Ifá priests, Màgbó, Líw`ẹ and Agẹmọ – remained highly influential because they represent the deities and spirits which shaped Ìkòrodú’s inhabitants’ views about social life, economic activities and political institutions. …”
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Socio-cultural resource of management strategy of modern China by L. V. Filindash

“…The socio-cultural vector of the management strategy is interpreted in the discourse of the building socialism theory with Chinese specifics, which implies the living standards improvement with industries development that provide vital human needs and socially important innovation directions in science and economy. …”
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Chemical Composition and Nutritional Value of Three Sonchus Species by Galdino Xavier de Paula Filho, Tibério Fontenele Barreira, Helena Maria Pinheiro-Sant’Ana

“…Species of unconventional food plants of the genus Sonchus are widely consumed in rural populations living in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. This study investigated the nutritional composition of S. oleraceus, S. asper, and S. arvensis species. …”
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Tat[o]ueur : pouvoirs du tatouage dans Little Tulip, de Jerome Charyn et François Boucq by Sophie Vallas

“…Drawing and tatooing are at the heart of the narrative, both Charyn and Boucq attempting to probe their powers: when Pavel/Paul becomes an artist in the Gulag, he learns to adorn captive bodies with insignia that reflect the strict hierarchy of the camp or with codified symbols that tell the stories of the criminals’ lives, but he also learns to penetrate those savage men’s personalities and thus to save his own skin by beautifully inking the skins of others. …”
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Effects of Corporate Social Responsibility on Financial Performance of Manufacturing Companies in Nigeria by Adetosoye Kayode Solomon Kayode Solomon

“…This would enhance the well being of the beneficiaries; Companies should liaise with community head to identify areas or opportunities available to them to better the lives of the people through the provision of social amenities. …”
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Improving the budgetary policy of municipalities by A. B. Urusova

“…The purpose of the article is to disclose and justify measures to increase fairness of the distribution of personal income tax by fixing the share of such a tax for the municipality in which the citizen lives but does not work. The research methods are general scientific (analysis, synthesis, deduction, classification, work with sources) and empirical ones (horizontal analysis). …”
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<i>Armastus, Andestus, Alandlikkus</i>: The Rediscovery of the Orthodox Christianity in Post-Soviet Estonia by Milena Benovska-Sabkova

“…The author strives to demonstrate the living process of reinvention of Orthodox Christianity in Estonia and more generally the ‘making’, creation, of religion. …”
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Examination of the Teacher Candidates’ Environmental Attitudes via NEP Scale in terms of Different Variables by Emine Hande Aydos, Esed Yağcı

“…In the finding of the research, it was investigated that there is a difference in environmental attitudes of teacher candidates in terms of department of science, grade level, region lived during their childhood and get the status of environment education course variables and there is no difference in term of also, some suggestions were given. …”
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