ELECTORAL VIOLENCE AND POLITICAL APATHY IN NIGERIA FOURTH REPUBLIC by Stephenson Grace Ladi, Samuel Agwojogwa Stephenson

“…Electoral violence is one of the factors that precipitate the contemporary political apathy that threaten democratic consolidation because; democracy cannot thrive without popular majority participation in electioneering process. …”
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Representation and Reception of the Image of the Zulu. From Travel Accounts to the Public Sphere in Mid-Victorian and Edwardian Great Britain (1850–1914) by Patricia Crouan-Véron

“…These written descriptions have become precious sources for the contemporary readers and scholars as they produce knowledge on local ethnic groups living in distant places at that period and they also inform on the people who met them for the first time. …”
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Sur les traces de Tupaia entre Tahiti, Ra’iātea et Nouvelle-Zélande. L’héritage de la navigation ‘traditionnelle’ by Francesco Lattanzi

“…I will discuss the contemporary imaginary of the ‘traditional’ navigation heritage in French Polynesia, starting from the TUIA-Encounters 250 commemorations, organized in New Zealand to celebrate both the 250th anniversary of James Cook’s – Captain of the British Navy – arrival from Tahiti and the tradition of transpacific voyages in a wider sense, following a process of decolonization of the event. …”
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The Question of Metropolitan Form: Introduction by Anne Vernez Moudon, François Claessens, David Prosperi

“…Many of the papers in this issue begin with the straw-man notion of a formless agglomeration of activities and spaces, the – for lack of a better phrase – postmodern urban experience.[1] There is a persistent theme in the related literatures of architecture, urban design and urban and regional planning that the physical form of the contemporary metropolis is un-describable. Soja’s six metaphors (post-Fordist industrial, cosmopolis, expolis, fractal city, carceral archipelago, simcities) are being indicative of the wide range of possible images.[2] The eight papers in this issue of Footprint take an opposite approach. …”
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La Greta Thunberg du Le grand livre du climat by Ludovic Aubin, Renaud Hétier, Cécile Redondo, Nathanaël Wallenhorst

“…Our study focuses on Greta Thunberg and her Great Climate Book, with a view to identifying the key principles that inspire democratic socialisation in and through education. This contemporary activist is involved in media coverage of the climate and ecological cause, and embodies a message that concerns the transmission of biogeophysical scientific knowledge, and a political and media commitment to achieving socio-political breakthroughs that will guarantee the sustainability of human life in society in the Anthropocene epoch. …”
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New paradigm of a company’s competitiveness: complex approach by V. I. Pyatanova

“…Some researches had a tendency to fragment or disintegrate the important parts of this problem, but the purpose of this paper is to integrate the main elements of the competitiveness phenomenon into the complex system and offer a wide practical view over the cornerstones of a company’s competitiveness in a contemporary environment. In this article the author reveals her understanding of the concept of modern company’s competitiveness, then in the main part offers the qualitative model – the system of company’s competitiveness which should lead to financial competitiveness. …”
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Role of Regulatory T Cells in Pathogenesis and Biological Therapy of Multiple Sclerosis by Milan Buc

“…In this review, we describe known mechanisms of action, efficacy, and side-effects of contemporary and emerging MS immunotherapeutical agents on Treg cells and other cells of the immune system involved in the immunopathogenesis of the disease. …”
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Criteria of eligibility of patients with ischemic cardiomyopathy for revascularization and other surgical procedures by N.D. Oryshchyn

“…The aim of this review is to summarize contemporary approaches to the management of ischemic cardiomyopathy taking into consideration myocardial viability and geometric changes of left ventricle (LV). …”
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Szkoła dla dziecka – cyfrowego tubylca. Postrzeganie szkoły przez uczniów edukacji wczesnoszkolnej – uczestników projektu „Wychować człowieka mądrego” by Adrianna Sarnat-Ciastko

“…This presentation is built upon two resources used by the contemporary Polish school – information and communication technologies and personalization of education. …”
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Cugoano on Redressing Slavery: The Demands of Liberty by Iziah C Topete

“…To elucidate the arguments that make Cugoano radical in his context, this article compares Cugoano with his abolitionist contemporary Thomas Clarkson. Clarkson developed a social contract theory, claiming that mentality endows all humans with liberty as a natural right. …”
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Heteronormativity, Masculinity and Prejudice in Mobile Apps: The Case of Grindr in a Brazilian City by Luiz Alex Silva Saraiva, Leonardo Tadeu dos Santos, Jefferson Rodrigues Pereira

“…Main results suggest that Grindr is used as a contemporary form of sociability, mainly because it provides comfort and distance from segregated spaces. …”
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A relação entre ciência e ideologia em tempos de hegemonia financeira: a biotecnociência e o mercado de promessas by Leandro Módolo Paschoalotte

“…This work seeks to put on the scene a critical theoretical approach about how the social construction of biotechnologies and the scientific discourses that underpin them are biased by subordination to the financial market, making in contemporary society the social relations between science and ideology are resignification. …”
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Un pays à l’image d’une jambe humaine : anatomie de l’imaginaire géographique et paysager italien by Justine Balibar

“…Advertising images and images promoting tourism have accustomed us to associate Italy with the image of a boot. This highly contemporary image is actually rooted in a much older image, which was just as popular during the Renaissance and which represented Italy as a human leg. …”
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PURSUING THE IDEAL OF INTEGRATION IN PENTECOSTAL THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION: by D. Quampah, M. Naidoo

“…In addition, the contextual and contemporary relevance of such a curriculum is critical for maximum effect. …”
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Mission to people of other faiths in the Old Testament and Eldoret, Kenya: some reflections for engaging Muslims within their context by R. Omwenga

“…With an aim of providing reflections for contemporary practice, this article goes beyond these strengths and weaknesses by providing suggestions for how mission can be effectively undertaken in Eldoret, Kenya. …”
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Youth and the politics of generational memories: The Soweto uprising in South Africa by Sandrine Gukelberger

“…Taking the narrative of the Soweto generation from apartheid to democracy as a point of departure, this article suggests that a historicising, gendered perspective is vital to understanding the continuities and discontinuities in the speeches, representations, and rationales for action in youth activism and local politics in contemporary South Africa. The diverse ways of experiencing and remembering Soweto not only structured pathways for specific actors, but became part of the symbolic repertoire of politics as such in South Africa.…”
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Penser l’éducation au temps de l’anthropocène : conditions de possibilités d’une culture de l’engagement by Jean-Marc Lange, Sonia Kebaïli

“…The entry of the contemporary world into the Anthropocene would impose on the world of education to participate in the changes under way in order to enable the public, in their cultural and geopolitical diversity, to meet the resulting challenges. …”
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The Maximum Effectiveness of Finding the Lexical Definition through Obscurity and Circularity by nurvita wijayanti

“…The two problems are mostly attached in the definition from both online and written dictionary of Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English. The topic is chosen since it contains the daily problem encountered when consulting the dictionary. …”
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Du concept psychiatrique à la métaphore théâtrale : le miroir de l’Autre dans les dramaturgies postcoloniales de Caryl Churchill et de Nick Gill by Liliane Campos

“…Nick Gill’s most recent play, Mirror Teeth (2011), examines contemporary Britain’s xenophobia by reworking ethical questions and metaphors from Churchill’s early plays. …”
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Mitochondrial Heterogeneity: Evaluating Mitochondrial Subpopulation Dynamics in Stem Cells by D. C. Woods

“…While it has been well established that mitochondria in different tissues have distinctive ultrastructural features consistent with differential bioenergetic demands, recent and emerging technical advances in flow cytometry, imaging, and “-omics”-based bioinformatics have only just begun to explore the complex and divergent properties of mitochondria within tissues and cell types. Moreover, contemporary studies evaluating the role of mitochondria in pluripotent stem cells, cellular reprogramming, and differentiation point to a potential importance of mitochondrial subpopulations and heterogeneity in the field of stem cell biology. …”
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