Religious and Pedagogical Education in Theology Faculties in Türkiye in Their 100th Year: A Comparative Analysis with Similar Programs in the World by Ahmet Koç

“…In addition, it is necessary to ensure that contemporary educational approaches are integrated into all undergraduate courses and that a holistic approach is applied.…”
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Home, Physical Disability and Sense of Belonging in Nina Raine’s Tribes by Nurten Çelik

“…Home transforms into a site of oppression and discrimination as the denial of impairment in the sphere of the home leads to psychological and emotional disturbance and the distortion of a sense of belonging. One contemporary play that explores the complicated relationship between impairment, home, and culture is Nina Raine’s Tribes. …”
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IMPACT OF FINANCIAL ENGINEERING INNOVATIONS ON PROFITABILITY: A CASE STUDY ON THE COMMERCIAL BANK OF IRAQ (TBI) FOR THE PERIOD (2012-2021) by Ksma Saber Awdh

“…The data covered a total of five years before the bank approved the services for the years (2012-2016) and a period of (5) years after the adoption of the bank's new financial innovations (2017-2020) as contemporary sources of financing aimed at achieving efficiency in current financial products and developing them in a way that enhances renewable and diversified financial needs. …”
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Ji-Yong Lee, La gouvernance d’entreprise et l’hybridation : Le cas de l’Asie by Ji-Yong Lee

“…Understanding of the changes in corporate governance lies at the heart of contemporary debates about transformation of capitalism. …”
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Defending Against Advanced Persistent Threats Using Game-Theory. by Stefan Rass, Sandra König, Stefan Schauer

“…The diversity and usual stealthiness of APT turns them into a central problem of contemporary practical system security, since information on attacks, the current system status or the attacker's incentives is often vague, uncertain and in many cases even unavailable. …”
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Creative tourism special issue - foreword by João Filipe Marques, Alexandra Rodrigues Gonçalves, Sónia Moreira Cabeça, Mirian Tavares

“…The concept’s growing use is related to two significant contemporary societal trends. The first is a shift from ‘mass cultural tourism’ to an increased interest in authentic ‘everyday life’ in destinations (Guerreiro & Marques, 2017). …”
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Adébáyọ̀ Fálétí, Icon on Screen by Toluwanimi Ibikunle

“…For over two decades of contemporary Yorùbá cinema practice, Adébáyọ̀ Fáléti ́ remained one of the most prominent and culturally renowned actors that filmmakers have used in portraying, presenting and accentuating different cultural values of the Yorùbá. …”
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The Home and the World: Analysing Socio-Spatial Dynamics and Identity-Formation in Indian Picturebooks by Aditi Bhardwaj, Devjani Ray

“…This paper locates fourteen contemporary Indian picturebooks within two arenas of conceptual enquiry – space and self-identity within childhood, and the multicultural experientiality of childhood as encompassing differences and structural inequalities – and studies the links between marginalisation and space in children’s literature. …”
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Trams: Bridging the Past and Future—Example Guidelines for Tram Redesign Illustrated by a Case Study from Korea by Fabio Dacarro, Guido Musante

“…This study was inspired by an emerging trend in contemporary cities: the transformation of trams into mobile spaces for recreation, education, and work. …”
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Les marqueurs de changement de topique du discours en roumain : évolution sémantique et rôle pragmatique by Alice Ionescu, Cecilia-Mihaela Popescu

“…This paper attempts to describe how adverbs and adverbial expressions of manner and space came to function as discourse markers of topic shifting in contemporary Romanian and to sketch a possible typology of these markers. …”
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Health Status Monitoring of Cuplock Scaffold Joint Connection Based on Wavelet Packet Analysis by Liuyu Zhang, Chenyu Wang, Gangbing Song

“…The looseness of cuplock scaffold connection plays a significant role in the stability of the structure. Contemporary structural health monitoring method is reviewed in this paper at first, and then we proposed wavelet packet analysis based method. …”
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Statistical expertise in the Ecuadorian public administration: Emergence and legitimation mechanisms by Byron Villacís

“…Statistics are an essential tool for governance in contemporary public administration. The advent of this discipline in Ecuador hinged on the role played by a field of experts that appeared and achieved legitimacy in the period running between 1927 and 2020. …”
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A Wideband Eight-Port MIMO Antenna with Reduced Mutual Coupling for Future 5G mm-Wave Applications by Muhammad Kabir Khan, Shaobin Liu, Muhammad Irshad Khan

“…The eight-port antenna is compared with contemporary antennas considering size, isolation, impedance bandwidth, diversity characteristics and radiation properties, confirming that the presented antenna is a promising candidate for future 5G mm-wave applications.…”
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Food: Transformation in Social Networks by D. N. Karpova

“…Beside the point, the conception of «trust» used in the text is based on science works of contemporary sociologist P. Sztompka. Both socialized and communicative functions of food are described through theories of R. …”
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Restoring Autonomy out of Context. Selective Heritagisation of the Drama Theatre in Veliky Novgorod by Ksenia Litvinenko

“…This article considers the politics of heritagisation in relation to late Soviet built environments within a contemporary authoritarian context. It examines the imaginaries underpinning the 2020 competition for the renovation of the Novgorod Drama Theatre in North-West Russia (1970–1987), designed by Vladimir Somov of the Giproteatr Institute and completed as part of a state-sponsored theatre-building program. …”
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The Notion of “Philosophy as a Way of Life”: Ambiguities and Open Questions by Eli Kramer, Marta Faustino, Hélder Telo

“…Ever more prominent in contemporary debates, PWL has become a banner under which a very diversified work is being developed by scholars with originally very different areas of research and expertise, who gather under PWL by their dissatisfaction with what has become of philosophy (an abstract and purely theoretical undertaking) and their hopes about what philosophy can be (a way of thinking about and transforming one’s life). …”
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Theoretical Approaches to Nuclear Proliferation by K. S. Tarasov

“…Detailed study of the proliferation puzzle contributes to a greater understating of contemporary international realities, helps to identify mechanisms that are most likely to deter states from obtaining nuclear weapons and is of the outmost importance in predicting short- and long-term security environment. …”
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SUSTAINING LIFE WITH TREES: ECOCRITICISM PERSPECTIVE IN SELECTED PICTURE BOOKS by Christy Tisnawijaya, Geni Kurniati

“… The issue of the environmental problem has been prevalent especially in the contemporary era. The fact that Mother Earth is currently facing a lot of environmental concerns is the central discussion of the selected children’s picture books. …”
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Bottom-up urban datafication via digital platforms: a toolkit for hybrid ethnographers by Nerea Viana Alzola

“…By offering practical examples and methodological reflections, this article aspires to inspire urban ethnographers to adopt hybrid methodologies, thus fostering a deeper connection to the complexities of contemporary urban dynamics.…”
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Stratégies de subsistance et analyse culturelle de populations néolithiques de Ligurie : approche par l’étude isotopique (δ13C et δ15N) des restes osseux by Gwenaëlle Le Bras-Goude, Didier Binder, Vincenzo Formicola, Christine Couture-Veschambre, Jean-Jacques Hublin, Isabelle Richards, Henri Duday

“…This method is able to determine the relative importance of marine foods in the diets of the early Neolithic agriculturalists and pastoralists, as well as indicate dietary differences between contemporary populations. Two coastal Neolithic sites were the subject of our study: Pendimoun (France) and Arene Candide (Italy). …”
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