Language Learning Materials Counteracting Rural Racializations: A Practical Attempt in ELT by Ferney Cruz-Arcila, Sandra Ximena Bonilla-Medina, Vanessa Solano-Cohen

“…Drawing on our research to explore the linkages between L2 education and race, this article examines the racialization of rurality from an ELT angle and introduces a didactic proposal to foster critical consciousness and enact deracialization.…”
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W sprawie techniki dla zrównoważonego rozwoju by Zbigniew Łepko

“…The debate shows the initial confrontation of the antagonized positions. The radical critics of technology rejected the then-contemporary technical and industrial system and supported “alternative technology”, whereas the radical promoters of this system represented a naive belief in the unlimited progress of science and technology. …”
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Limb Body Wall Complex: First Trimester Ultrasonographic Diagnosis of a Case with Exencephaly and Megacystis by Mert Turğal, Aslıhan Yazıcıoğlu, Özgür Özyüncü, M. Sinan Beksaç

“…Prenatal detection of the anomaly is critical since offers an option of pregnancy termination.…”
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Safe Harbor Agreement: A Regulatory Assurance under the Endangered Species Act by Melissa M. Kreye, Elizabeth F. Pienaar, Raoul K. Boughton, Lindsey Wiggins

“… The involvement of the private sector is critical for the conservation and recovery of many species, but landowners’ fears that increased management restrictions could keep them from enjoying their land can present a challenge to securing their trust and assistance in conservation efforts. …”
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Caffeic Acid Phenethyl Ester as a Protective Agent against Nephrotoxicity and/or Oxidative Kidney Damage: A Detailed Systematic Review by Sumeyya Akyol, Veli Ugurcu, Aynur Altuntas, Rukiye Hasgul, Ozlem Cakmak, Omer Akyol

“…In this review, we summarized and critically evaluated the current knowledge regarding the protective effect of CAPE in nephrotoxicity induced by several special medicines such as cisplatin, doxorubicin, cyclosporine, gentamycin, methotrexate, and other causes leading to oxidative renal injury, namely, I/R models and senility.…”
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"...but the poor opted for the evangelicals!" - Evangelicals, poverty and prosperity by Gideon van der Watt

“…In an appreciative, but critical enquiry, this article reflects on the radical claim of dispensing “health and wealth” to the desperately poor. …”
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Pulmonary arteriovenous malformation causing lung sequestration and media infarction: a case report by Raffaella Griffo, Laura V. Klotz, Laura V. Klotz, Lena Brendel, Romina Rösch, Benedikt Niedermaier, Kai Schlamp, Mark Kriegsmann, Mark Kriegsmann, Martin M. Eichhorn, Martin M. Eichhorn, Hauke Winter, Hauke Winter

“…Despite timely multidisciplinary treatment of the malformation, a potentially fatal pulmonary complication occurred, highlighting the critical importance of early, interdisciplinary management and ongoing follow-up of PAVMs, particularly in preventing life-threatening outcomes.…”
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Natūrfilosofinės subjekto ir gamtos apibrėžtys: F. W. J. Schellingas ir I. H. Grantas by Domas Junelis

“…It is explained that naturephilosophy, which treats the subject as produced by nature, and nature itself as absolute productivity, at the same time critically reacts against the inclination of I. Kant’s transcendental idealism to hypostasize the subject by separating it from nature. …”
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Computational Modelling of Thermal Stability in a Reactive Slab with Reactant Consumption by O. D. Makinde

“…The crucial roles played by the boundary conditions in determining the thermal ignition criticality are demonstrated.…”
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The Role of Lipid Rafts in Cancer Cell Adhesion and Migration by Toshiyuki Murai

“…Recently, it was demonstrated that lipid rafts play critical roles in cancer cell adhesion and migration. …”
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Immunomodulation by allograft endothelial cells by Sayantan Bose, Sayantan Bose, Sayantan Bose, Sayantan Bose, Vicki Do, Vicki Do, Chiara Testini, Chiara Testini, Chiara Testini, Chiara Testini, Suchita S. Jadhav, Suchita S. Jadhav, Suchita S. Jadhav, Suchita S. Jadhav, Nicolas Sailliet, Nicolas Sailliet, Nicolas Sailliet, Nicolas Sailliet, Alvin T. Kho, Alvin T. Kho, Alvin T. Kho, Alvin T. Kho, Masaki Komatsu, Masaki Komatsu, Masaki Komatsu, Masaki Komatsu, Leo Boneschansker, Leo Boneschansker, Leo Boneschansker, Leo Boneschansker, Sek Won Kong, Sek Won Kong, Sek Won Kong, Sek Won Kong, Johannes Wedel, Johannes Wedel, Johannes Wedel, Johannes Wedel, Johannes Wedel, David M. Briscoe, David M. Briscoe, David M. Briscoe, David M. Briscoe

“…We also discuss evidence that long-term graft survival is critically dependent on adaptive interactions among immune cells and endothelial cells within the transplanted tissue microenvironment.…”
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Protezione dei dati personali, etica, proprietà intellettuale e antropologia culturale e sociale in Italia by Francesca Declich

“…Cultural and social anthropology, characterized by methods such as field work, ethnography, participatory observation, often involved in information and social criticism tasks, shapes its space in the folds of a regulation whose applicative practices are conceived for other disciplinary fields. …”
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Type A Behaviours and Heart Disease: Epidemiological and Experimental Foundations by Paul Bennett, Douglas Carroll

“…This paper critically examines three strands of evidence that concern the relationship between type A behaviours and coronary heart disease; prospective epidemiological studies of healthy populations, studies of those at high risk for coronary heart disease, and angiographic studies of atherosclerosis. …”
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"Voorberei en toegerus": P.C. Potgieter se beskouing van die opleiding van predikante in kritiese perspektief by L. O. K. Lategan

“…Theological training should also create a sense for critical enquiry. Theological study is directed at the study of the Revelation of God and the church as the body of Christ. …”
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Multiple Encoding in Genetic Editions: The Case of "Faust" by Gerrit Brüning, Katrin Henzel, Dietmar Pravida

“…The aim of the present paper is to show how, and to what extent, the standards of critical genetic editions as applied to Goethe's Faust can be attained within a TEI framework. …”
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A Critique of the Undergraduate Nursing Preceptorship Model by Monique Sedgwick, Suzanne Harris

“…Indeed, the unstable nature of the clinical setting as a learning environment in conjunction with faculty shortages and inadequate preparation for preceptors and supervising faculty calls us to question if the preceptorship model is able to meet student learning needs and program outcomes. In a critical analysis of preceptorship, we offer a deconstruction of the model to advance clinical nursing education discourse.…”
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Baptist ethics of conscientious objection to military service in South Africa: the watershed case of Richard Steele by F. Hale

“… Although the Baptist Union of Southern Africa included relatively few outspoken critics of the apartheid system, during the 1970s and 1980s a small number of its younger members confronted the military system which supported that system of social engineering by refusing to comply with military conscription. …”
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Models, Metaphors and Symbols for Information and Knowledge Systems by David Williams

“…This paper seeks to summarise development of the Data-Information-Knowledge-Wisdom hierarchy, explore the extensive criticism of it and present a more logical (and accurate) construct for the elements of intellectual capital when developing and managing Knowledge Management Systems.…”
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Pour une approche sociale, écologique et économique des transitions territoriales : expériences transdisciplinaires au sein d’un Living lab by Marielle Berriet-Solliec, Dany Lapostolle, Gaëtan Mangin, Alex Roy

“…The analytical grid adopted to carry out this approach combines the contributions of a critical institutionalist reading of Ostrom’s work with those of environmental justice. …”
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Tomato Cultivar Selection Considerations for Open-Field and Protected Culture in North Florida by Blake R. Thaxton, Robert C. Hochmuth

“…Selecting the correct cultivar of tomato is critical and varies depending on the intended season, type of protected structure, training system, expected insect and disease pressure, post-harvest handling techniques, and intended market. …”
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