Architectural research facing the challenges of the 21st century: Criticality, creativity and diversity by Francisco González de Canales, Ramón Pico Valimaña, José Manuel Almodóvar Melendo

“…Current environmental degradation can be understood as a symptom of a crisis of civilization, marked by a model of living that does not recognize the need to understand ourselves and our built environment in relation to nature.…”
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CULTURAL MEANINGS OF FORWARD AND REVERSE PERSPECTIVES IN FINE ART by Maxim S. Lytov

“…The result of the study was the revealed contradiction between the fact of dominance of reverse perspective in the perception of children of different nationalities and representatives of indigenous peoples who have not been exposed to civilization, on the one hand, and the teaching in modern schools of direct linear perspective in drawing as the only “correct”, the formation of stereotypes of geometric representation of the surrounding world in students. …”
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Examining Doctrinal Strategies to Counter the Promotion of Western Lifestyles through Ayatollah Khamenei's Quranic Perspective by Hossein Rezaei

“…This article explores monotheistic strategies within the Supreme Leader’s thought to pave the way for a new Islamic civilization and secure both worldly and eternal well-being. …”
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Biblical Leadership Spirituality in Developing the Quality of Catholic Education by Florensius Sutami, Fransiskus Gregorius Nyaming, Subandri Simbolon, Angga Satya Bhakti, Yusi Kurniati

“…Even though they live in a time of globalization and modernity, there are still a lot of areas in which civilization has not been particularly developed. Border areas are in many cases being ignored, like places that are sometimes still harder to get to than the development of government centers, like roads that are hard to get to. …”
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Towards the Coupling Coordination Relationship between Economic Growth Quality and Environmental Regulation: An Empirical Case Study of China by Huan Huang, Fan Wang, Yi Xiao, Jiaxin Kuang

“…Our conclusions are significant for promoting the integrated development of regional economy and ecological civilization, and provide a theoretical reference for other countries and regions to explore the relationship between ER and EGQ.…”
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Heritage of the Golden Horde Tatars: scientific events by Giniyatullina R.R.

“…It is one of the recognized and authoritative regional centers in Russia and an important link in international academic cooperation in the field of studying the history of the Tatars, Tatarstan, Eurasian history, and Turkic-Tatar civilization. Researchers from the Usmanov Center for Research on the Golden Horde and Tatar Khanates of the Marjani Institute of History of the Tatarstan Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with colleagues from other research centers in the Russian Federation and abroad, not only investigate the historical realities of the past, including the Golden Horde state and Tatar Khanates but also develop common approaches to its history, which is essential in modern conditions. …”
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ابن رشد کےکلامی وسیاسی افکاراور مغربی فکر وتہذیب: ایک تحقیقی مطالعہ by Dr Ahmad, Kamran Ali

“…It is said that he can bridge the dialogue between Muslim and the western civilization. His study and influence on Western political thought has been examined in this article. …”
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Safety Assessment of Ancient Buildings under Adjacent Subway Blasting Construction Based on the Optimized Fuzzy Optimal Method by Bo Wu, Pingting Liu, Wei Huang, Guowang Meng

“…Fragile ancient buildings are recognized as an eloquent testimony to human civilization, and their safety should arouse more attention. …”
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O istotnych kontrowersjach wokół oceny zagrożeń środowiska i jego naprawy by Konrad Gałuszko

“…Subsequently to the above were discussed: the criticism of some misconceptions and the evolution of scientists. opinions about derivations of the greenhouse effect, toxicity and carcinogenesis criteria, evidence supporting the threshold dose versus the linear hypothesis at the evaluation of harmful environmental effects, examples of ecological utopia assuming a possibility of “life in the world without toxins”, the consequences of acts of law created with the idea, untrustworthy examples of alleged hazards, Poland’s law delay with the assimilation of the new toxicological and carcinogenesis evidence, DDT application dilemma concerned with the latter, the acceptance of the threshold dose also for radioactivity, the latest news about ravages of the Chernobyl catastrophe, the author’s belief in better cooperation of humanists, ecophilosophers, scientists and mass media people to create sensible social attitudes of the public in the face of the ecological and civilization crisis.…”
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PARADIGM FOR CONTEMPORARY SYMBOLIC REALITY by Elena Korableva

“…Objective: Civilization development in its concrete historical specificity is embodied in symbolic forms that require interpretation and understanding of its meaning. …”
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Debating Balkan commonalities: Is there a common Balkan culture? by Markovich Slobodan G.

“…The efforts of Traian Stoianovich to define a “Balkan civilization” remained in the borderland between global history and Balkanology. …”
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De la Mer du Nord à la Méditerranée, l’imaginaire maritime des Victoriens by Béatrice Laurent

“…The second half of the century invents the Mediterranean Sea as the cradle of civilization, whereas Northern beaches are gradually given up to the middle- and then working-classes. …”
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Application of an Improved TF-IDF Method in Literary Text Classification by Lin Xiang

“…Literature is extremely important in the advancement of human civilization. Every day, many literary texts of various genres are produced, dating back to ancient times. …”
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Gauguin, Buffalo Bill, and the Cowboy Hat by Nancy Mowll Mathews

“…In Gauguin’s interpretation of both Buffalo Bill’s gender performativity and of the avant-garde scout, we gain a new appreciation of Cody’s daring embrace of androgyny and rejection of the narrowness of western civilization, all of which makes him more “modernist” than the twentieth-century cowboy mythology has previously led us to believe.…”
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ON THE THRESHOLD OF TECHNOLOGICAL SINGULARITY: HUMAN READINESS TO THE NEW STAGE OF EVOLUTION by М. L. Lazareva

“…The author not only analyzes the challenges that humanity faces during its transition to a new type of civilization, but also explores the obstacles that hinder this process directly in the Ukrainian society. …”
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Hydrological Information related Existed Dam Sites Assessment using ArcGIS in Zawita District by Zahraa Mahmood Klari, Dadvan Hakeem Abdulrahman

“…One of the critical pillars that sustain human civilization is meeting the water demand for different purposes like storage, electricity, flood control and others. …”
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Kwestia ochrony życia ludzkiego - czyli konieczność uznania miłości do człowieka za podstawę szacunku do naturalnego środowiska by Stanisław Biały

“…Because of this, the author comes to the conclusions that among the fundamental tasks that are before the world of today, one must also include the equiping of man with an ecological knowledge (that is: with a determined set of information connected in a causal-consecutive system on the subject of the functioning of the natural environment and the dependences between it and civilization), but above all: with a system of values and their normative equivalents. …”
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Le maïs et la mémoire bioculturelle de Mésoamérique by Víctor M. Toledo, Narciso Barrera-Bassols

“…The milpa crop fields are seen as a historical and current result of ten thousand years of civilization during which biocultural efforts have been revolving around agriculture. …”
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Influencing Factors Analysis of Local Environmental Regulation Implementation Behaviors in China: Theoretical Analysis and Empirical Test by Feng Pan, Lin Wang

“…It is a necessary means and a powerful point to promote the construction of ecological civilization by in-depth investigation of the implementation behaviors of local environmental regulation and effective identification their influencing factors. …”
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Domestication of Arabo-Islamic Words in the Ilọrin Dialect of Yorùbá by Abdulrazaq Mohammed Katibi

“…Forty (40) of such words are selected in the areas of Islamic doctrine, civilization and materials. Meanwhile simple percentage is used to analyze some variables in the work. …”
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