Rethinking the <i>Unio Mystica</i>: From McGinn to Ibn ʿArabī by Arjun Nair

“…What purpose, for instance, can generic cross-cultural categories serve when they mean little or nothing to scholars in each tradition? …”
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Plac8 regulates the fibrogenic ability of cardiac fibroblasts in mice with myocardial infarction by Ting Fu, Jianping Gong, Lei Xu, Ningning Ji

“…In addition, primary CFs of the neonatal mice were isolated, cultured and treated with hypoxia for in vitro cell model construction. …”
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Analysis of Oleksandr Kulchytskyi’s Anthropological Research in the Context of European Philosophy by A. S. Synytsia

“…The ways of forming the key ideas of his philosophical anthropology are determined, their originality is substantiated, despite the cooperation with Twardowski’s school, as well as despite numerous discussions and researches of Western European philosophico-anthropological, existentio-ideological and socio-psychological issues. …”
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Understanding career calling: historical roots and practical relevance for school counselors by Robbani Alfan, M Solehuddin, Juntika Nurihsan, Yusi Riksa Yustiana

“…The evolution of the term "calling" from its traditional religious roots to a more secular interpretation highlights the broadening scope of the concept in modern contexts, reflecting shifts in Western cultural norms and values. This transformation underscores the ongoing debate among scholars about the definition of calling, with some advocating for a return to its historical, prosocial origins and others embracing its contemporary relevance to individual fulfillment and professional identity. …”
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Legal Transplants, Legal Survivals, and Legal Revivals: Towards a Reconceptualisation of The Circulation of Legal Forms in Time and Space by Rafał Mańko

“…However, his notion of a legal transplant conflates two quite different realities: on the one hand, the borrowing of legal forms from other, simultaneously existing legal systems (such as the transplant of the Swiss Civil Code to Atatürk’s Turkey) and, on the other hand, the rediscovery of old legal forms and their “borrowing” from long defunct legal systems (such as the rediscovery of Justinian’s Corpus Iuris Civilis by medieval lawyers in Western Europe, and the infusion of Roman ideas about contract law into existing customary rules). …”
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Becoming smart “digital natives”: cultivating Chinese English majors’ new media literacy via Journalism English Reading and Listening by Zhang Danyang, Wu Yang

“…English majors are responsible for learning English languages and western cultures and serve as interlocutors between the East and the West. …”
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Reimagining quality education for pastoralists through Maasai elders’ eyes in Monduli, Tanzania by Joseph C. Pesambili

“…Findings – The results illuminate the Maasai’s endorsement of education for self-improvement, cultural preservation, self-reliance and community service as essential components of quality education. …”
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Cancer cells avoid ferroptosis induced by immune cells via fatty acid binding proteins by Maria Angelica Freitas-Cortez, Fatemeh Masrorpour, Hong Jiang, Iqbal Mahmud, Yue Lu, Ailing Huang, Lisa K. Duong, Qi Wang, Tiffany A. Voss, Claudia S. Kettlun Leyton, Bo Wei, Wai-Kin Chan, Kevin Lin, Jie Zhang, Efrosini Tsouko, Shonik Ganjoo, Hampartsoum B. Barsoumian, Thomas S. Riad, Yun Hu, Carola Leuschner, Nahum Puebla-Osorio, Jing Wang, Jian Hu, Michael A. Davies, Vinay K. Puduvalli, Cyrielle Billon, Thomas P. Burris, Philip L. Lorenzi, Boyi Gan, James W. Welsh

“…Methods included mass spectrometry-based lipidomics, targeted lipidomics, Oil Red O staining, Seahorse analysis, quantitative PCR, immunohistochemistry, PPARγ transcription factor assays, ChIP-seq, untargeted lipidomic analysis, ROS assay, ex vivo co-culture of CD8+ T cells with cancer cells, ATAC-seq, RNA-seq, Western blotting, co-immunoprecipitation assay, flow cytometry and Imaging Mass Cytometry. …”
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The Transcription Factor Creb is Involved in Sorafenib-Inhibited Renal Cancer Cell Proliferation, Migration and Invasion by Huang Shuaishuai, Cui Pinger, Lin Shuangxia, Yao Xuping, Wang Xue, Ren Yu, Weng Guobin

“…Renal cancer cells were cultured in medium containing sorafenib for 12, 24, 48 and 72 h. …”
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Cost Management at Higher Education Institutions – Cases of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Slovenia by Martina Dragija Kostić, Tatjana Jovanović, Jelena Jurić

“…The above academic challenges led us to pioneering an attempt to evaluate the capabilities of financial management tools for three Western Balkan countries, i.e. Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Slovenia. …”
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Job crafting in an emerging economy from South Asia: What do we know and where should we be heading? by Priyanka, Shikha N. Khera, Pradeep Kumar Suri

“…As job crafting was conceptualized and later evolved mostly in the western context, our study assumes greater significance as it is the first study which attempts to systematically review the job crafting literature to understand how job crafting manifests in the Indian context and presents a conceptual framework for the same.…”
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Ethnobotanical study of wild edible plants in Metema and Quara districts, Northwestern Ethiopia by Daniel Tadesse, Getinet Masresha, Ermias Lulekal, Asmamaw Alemu

“…Despite Ethiopia’s vast area and cultural diversity, there remains a need for further investigation of WEPs. …”
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Barriers and Strategies to Lifestyle and Dietary Pattern Interventions for Prevention and Management of TYPE-2 Diabetes in Africa, Systematic Review by Hirut Bekele, Adisu Asefa, Bekalu Getachew, Abebe Muche Belete

“…The main barriers to adherence were both systemic (population changes, poor access, western cultural influences, and low-quality healthcare) and personal (poverty and cost, educational status, and perceptions about the disease) in nature. …”
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An Ex Vivo Study on Release, Uptake, and miRNA Profile of Exosomes in Rat Lens by Junfang Zhang, Jiawei Luo, Guowei Zhang, Bai Qin, Xiumei Ren, Huaijin Guan

“…The rat lenses were cultured ex vivo and the medium was collected. The exosomes were isolated from medium and measured in size and concentration by nanoflow cytometry (nFCM) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and verified with CD63 and TSG101 by Western blot. …”
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Academic and recreational reading attitudes among primary students in a rural Malaysian village by Astri Yulia, R. Malatesha Joshi, Nor Azilah Husin, Na~Thinamalar Magiswary Nadarajan, Norhayati Mohd Zin, Cheli Nadarajan

“…Positive reading attitudes are linked to better reading achievement, but research on these attitudes among ESL speakers in non-Western, rural contexts remains limited. This study explores the attitudes of 4th and 5th graders towards recreational and academic reading in a rural Malaysian village, assessing students who participated in a reading program. …”
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WELTKRIEGSPHILOSOPHIE AND SCHELER'S PHILOSOPHICAL ANTHROPOLOGY by V. Y. Popov, E. V. Popova

“…The theoretical and methodological basis of the study is the philosophical legacy of Max Scheler, as well as the work of domestic and Western researchers devoted to this issue. Problems of Weltkriegsphilosophie become comprehensible based on the historical, logical and comparative principles of historical and philosophical analysis, which allowed to theoretically reconstruct the cultural and historical context, philosophical sources and ideological intentions of the German philosopher. …”
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The 2019 Social Protests in Latin America: Global Context and Ecuadorian Case-Study by A. N. Pyatakov

“…The author considers the most striking manifestations of this phenomenon that occurred in the Middle East, North Africa, Western Europe, and Asia. The paper provides a periodization of several waves of anti-globalization movement in the 21st century, whereby the current global unrest represents the third wave. …”
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"NEO-OTTOMANISM" IN THE REGIONAL POLICY OF TURKEY by E. T. Mehdiyev

“…Turkey's rapprochement with the Islamic world during the 'Arab Spring' demonstrated that Ankara supported in conjunction with the Western nations protest and opposition movements in Egypt, Libya and Tunisia, aims to demonstrate to the West the growth of its influence in the region. …”
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The Economics of Immortality: The Demi-Immortal Oriental, Enlightenment Vitalism, and Political Economy in Dracula by J. Jeffrey Franklin

“…Dracula has fulfilled the ambition of Dracula: it has colonized and enthralled the industrial and post-industrial Western world, achieved the integration into modern free-market capitalism that its namesake was unable to achieve. …”
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Political and Institutional Approaches to Advancing International Religious Freedom in the U.S. Foreign Policy in 1998–2020 by V. A. Shchipkov

“…The concept became popular after the end of the Cold War when the defense of religion against socialistatheist ideas had lost its relevance due to political (the collapse of the Eastern bloc) and cultural (the growing importance of religion in many non-Western countries of the world) reasons. …”
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