Friedrich Hölderlin or Emanuele Severino? The Sacral Dimension of Nature in the Context of Modern Technology by Andrzej Kobyliński

“…It is a space inhabited by the sacred. Nature constitutes the sacred All, beyond which nothing else exists. …”
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Ductile damage evolution law for proportional and non-proportional loading conditions by Riccardo Fincato, Seiichiro Tsutsumi, Hideto Momii

“…In this paper, an unconventional coupled elastoplastic and damage constitutive model with a Mohr-Coulomb failure criterion is presented. …”
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Comparative evaluation of two physically based models for the description of stress-relaxation behaviour of 9% chromium containing steel by J. Christopher, C. Praveen, B.K. Choudhary

“…An attempt has been made to evaluate the applicability of two constitutive models related to the dislocation-obstacle interactions for the description of stress-relaxation behaviour of E911 tempered martensitic steel. …”
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Desenvolvimento desigual e turismo no Brasil by Rita de Cássia Ariza da Cruz

“…In addition, we consider that the notion of unequal development constitutes a central interpretative key to understand the place of tourism in the conflicting and contradictory process of production of space. …”
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THE IMPOVERISHED AND THEIR ENTITLEMENT TO ADEQUATE HOUSING: A SYNTHETIC ANALYSIS by DAVID KUMIJE, ABUBAKAR ZUBAIRU AGUYE

“…Shelter is a crucial key among the basic necessities of life, and it is one of the fundamental rights recognized by many constitutions worldwide. Content analysis of relevant legal instruments and literature was employed as a research methodology. …”
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Atmospheric Brown Carbon: Sources, Optical Properties, and Chromophore Composition by Ashmeet Kaur Alang, Shankar G. Aggarwal

“…Abstract Brown carbon (BrC) constitutes a significant portion of organic carbon (OC) and exerts a substantial influence on air quality, atmospheric chemical processes, and the impact on climate dynamics. …”
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Voice Quality in British English. Its Nature, Functions and Applications by Stephan Wilhelm

“…On a sociolinguistic level, we give evidence that, in some cases at least, voice quality constitutes a reliable marker of geographical or social origins. …”
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Game Play Schemas: From Player Analysis to Adaptive Game Mechanics by Craig A. Lindley, Charlotte C. Sennersten

“…Predesigned schema models are knowledge representations constituting anticipated or desired learned cognitive outcomes of play. …”
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Static and Dynamic Compression Performances of Hybrid Fiber-Reinforced Lightweight Aggregate Concrete by Yan Zhou, Ming-Gao Chen

“…Based on the statistical damage theory, the compressive damage constitutive model of fiber LAC is established; fiber improves the ductility and energy absorption capacity of LAC and shows better impact resistance. …”
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Preservice Teachers’ Knowledge Levels, Risk Perceptions and Intentions to Use Renewable Energy: A Structural Equation Model by Mehmet Demirbag, Sirin Yilmaz

“… In today’s world, energy consumption constitutes a topic on countries’ main agendas. In parallel with the military, technological and scientific developments associated with the increasing population, countries are generating policies that highlight energy sources that play a part in global competition. …”
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Acute Form of Sarcoidosis (Löfgren Syndrome): A Case Report by Ali Abduljabbar

“…Löfgren syndrome represents a sudden manifestation of sarcoidosis, constituting approximately 10% of all cases. The classical signs and symptoms include bilateral symmetric hilar lymphadenopathy, fever, multiple joint swelling, and skin lesions known as erythema nodosum. …”
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Once more on musical topics and style analysis. A critical examination of Agawu’s analysis of the introduction to Beethoven’s Pathetic Sonata by Ana Stefanovic

“…Subsequently, the question may be asked, “What constitutes a musical topic/topos?” If it is supposed that it represents a sign-function (Umberto Eco), what is a minimal entity that is sufficient to be referred to as a topic/topos? …”
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Silent Protesters or Acceptors? The Reaction of the Russian-speakers to the Removal of the Soviet Monuments in Latvia and Estonia after Russia’s Full-scale Invasion of Ukraine* by Aleksandra Kuczyńska-Zonik

“… For a long time the approach of the both two Baltic states to the Soviet heritage was formed by: (1) international and bilateral agreements which obliged states to protect monuments and memorial sites of the Soviet Army as well as (2) numerous Russian-speaking community for whom the Soviet statues constitute its cultural identity. The situation has significantly changed due to Russia’s aggressive policy against Ukraine, when the authorities made several attempts to remove the Soviet monuments. …”
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Optimal Approaches for Measuring Tongue-Pressure Functional Reserve by Catriona M. Steele

“…Reduced FR is thought to constitute a risk for developing functional swallowing impairments. …”
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Análise de um empreendimento de economia solidária sob a ótica da sociologia das ausências e das emergências by Marília Veríssimo Veronese

“…However, they seek possibilities of a new beginning, showing that the field presents emancipatory potentiality, where collective can permit the subjects particularization, which can be recognized and constituted by themselves.…”
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The Crisis of Managerial Information Flows in Education: Theoretical Aspects and Social Realities by A. M. Osipov

“…The redundancy, intensity and formalization of these flows constitute one of the painful aspects of work in this sphere, along with unfairly low wages. …”
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Mechanistic Study of Rail Gouging during Hypersonic Rocket Sled Tests by Xuewen Zhou, Huadong Yan, Cheng Chen, Yuanfeng Yu

“…The critical condition for gouging was derived based on a thermoviscoplastic constitutive model supplemented by a three-variable criterion for an adiabatic shear instability. …”
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(Auto)pathography, Photography, Trauma in Aleksandar Hemon’s The Lazarus Project by Angeliki TSETI

“…Aleksandar Hemon’s The Lazarus Project (2008) consists in a disguised autobiography and a fictional biography, and constitutes an eloquent example of Leigh Gilmore’s suggestion that life-writing trauma is often performed by an individual narrating their life story through the experience of others. …”
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Algorithmic agency and “fighting back” against discriminatory Instagram content moderation: #IWantToSeeNyome by Marissa Willcox

“…Though biases online are reflective of discrimination in society at large, these biases are co-constituted through algorithmic and human processes and the entanglement of these processes in enacting discriminatory content removals should be taken seriously. …”
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The effect of COVID-19 on operating costs: The perspective of hotel managers in Antalya, Turkey by Kaplan Ugurlu, Bayram Akay, Sevda Demirel

“…The data obtained were analyzed by frequency, content, and word cloud analysis. 4- and 5-star hotels in Antalya, Turkey's coastal tourism paradise, constitute the universe of research and the sample of 10 hotel managers located in Kemer region of Antalya. …”
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