"Showing respect" in Bible translation by R. van der Spuy

“…Problems often arise when the original languages are followed too literally without taking into account the target culture, or due to the translators’ perception of the social status of the engaging referents. Issues discussed and principles drawn from this study not only apply to the Russian world, but also influence all translations that have a set of 2nd person personal pronouns that distinguishes between 2nd person singular, plural and polite forms. …”
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Sirtuins in kidney homeostasis and disease: where are we now? by Zhongyu Fan, Xuejiao Wei, Xiaoyu Zhu, Yujun Du

“…Sirtuins, identified as (NAD+)- dependent class III histone deacetylases, engage in a spectrum of biological functions, encompassing DNA damage repair, oxidative stress, immune modulation, mitochondrial homeostasis, apoptosis and autophagy. …”
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How to Read (With) Benjamin: From Cultural History of Materialism to Materialist History of Culture by Patrick Healy, Andrej Radman

“…With regard to the architectural theory Benjamin engaged directly with the tectonic tradition, especially the work of Bötticher. …”
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Neither “Platformization” Nor “Infrastructuralization”: Government as a Platform in China by Jingyan Elaine Yuan, Yuchao Zhao

“…Critically engaging with the prevalent theses of “platformization” and “infrastructuralization” in the mainstream platform studies literature, this empirical study identifies socio-economic actors and examines their relations in digital governance mediated by data-driven platforms in the Chinese context. …”
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“The Enchanted Hunters and the Hunted Enchanters: the dizzying effects of embedded structures and meta-artistic devices in Lolita, novel and film” by Marie Bouchet

“…This paper explores some of the various mises en abyme and metatextual devices in Nabokov’s and Kubrick’s Lolita, so as to explore how such devices create a poetics of reflections, and themselves reflect the manner in which the relationship to the reader/spectator is engaged by the literary and filmic narratives. As underscored by Lucien Dallenbach, internal duplications or self-reflexive devices are double-layered: they serve a purpose in the fictional universe, and have a reflexive function aimed at disclosing one of the text’s components. …”
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Pionieri in paradiso by Simonetta Grilli, Fabio Mugnaini

“…They largely embody the values of the so-called «neo-ruralism» and share a desire to experience the area not as tourists but as genuine inhabitants: they engage with local social networks, participate in political and economic life in various ways, and move towards sharing and negotiating their presence and experiences with the locals. …”
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‘Ulamā’ and the Formation of Islamic Knowledge: Learning from Two Historical Experiences in Sumatra by Jajat Burhanudin

“…As such, the study of two areas demonstrates the fact that the real politics appears to have provided the ‘ulamā’ with circumstantial options to engage in certain settings of discourses.…”
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ACCESSIBILITY OF FINANCIAL INFORMATION IN RELATION TO CHANGES IN SIZE OF ENTITIES CAUSED BY THE COVID‐19 CRISIS by Małgorzata Garstka

“…The accessibility of information is connected with the level of security of engaging in business activities. Making changes in the criteria of an entity’s inclusion as an SME and in its obligation to audit can be one solution for the problem of insufficient information. …”
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Writing Out of Place: Wordsworth and Woolf in London by Laurent Folliot, Juliana Lopoukhine

“…Reading Wordsworth and Woolf alongside each other should make for an enriched understanding of urban flânerie in British literature, by suggesting how its course was shaped along various ideological and gender fault lines, and also what enduring perplexities beset the writer’s task of engaging with the modern city.…”
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The Culture of Organizational Performance Impact of Remote Working: The Case of Yeme Architect by ALKESTID STERJO

“…Synthesis suggests, to preserve the existing values, employers should seek to constantly engage with employees through frequent communications, demonstrate actions in favour of the values and reenforce them through reward and recognition. …”
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Écrire collégialement en formation pour soutenir la construction d’une identité collective au sein d’un nouveau corps de professionnel·le·s by Gaëtan Botty, Sandrine Biémar

“…In the context of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation of Belgium, engaged in a reform of the governance of its educational system, these intermediary actors provide a link between administration and schools. …”
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From resilience to viability: a case study of indigenous communities of the North Rupununi, Guyana by Andrea Berardi, Céline Tschirhart, Jayalaxshmi Mistry, Elisa Bignante, Lakeram Haynes, Grace Albert, Ryan Benjamin, Rebecca Xavier, Deirdre Jafferally

“…In this paper, we propose a framework - System Viability - able to coherently engage with six distinct properties of all systems, from ecosystems to communities, allowing the identification of trade-offs and synergies for maximising the chances of systems persistence. …”
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Virtual Reality in China: Is There a Sustainable Business Model for Virtual Reality Content Enterprises? by Shan Yu

“…Research with Chinese VR content enterprises provides an opportunity to rethink many of the opportunities and challenges confronting Chinese VR content creators as they seek to implement this disruptive technology to engage consumers and adapt to the huge market in the future. …”
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Ré-enchanter les sols pour les rendre visibles : le regard des enfants en question by Aurélie Javelle, Pascale Scheromm, Béryl Muller

“…Our results show that children, in spite of the naivety of their remarks, are fully engaged in addressing current scientific and epistemological questions and could contribute to inventing new ways of relating to the soil, provided children’s re-enchanted views become sources of inspiration for adults.…”
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Discourse of the Toxic Relationship: Violence Against Men from a Victim Precipitation Theory by Chazizah Gusnita, Riski Melinda

“…Some of the crimes committed involved the victim, who in this case was a youngster who became a victim of violence and engaged in the commission of crimes done by his partner. …”
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Les rouages et les ressorts territoriaux de la « démocratie du faire » – le cas de Saillans (2014-2020) by Sabine Girard

“…The concept of a "democracy of making" encompasses diverse initiatives where citizens autonomously identify and address problems without waiting for or depending on external actors, thereby working towards societal democratization based on the principle that power belongs to those who act or are engaged in making society. This article examines the mechanisms and territorial dynamics of this performative democratic model through an in-depth examination of an archetypal case study: the municipal governance of Saillans, a village in the Drôme region, during the period 2014-2020, which emerged following the election of a citizen-led list. …”
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Confronting the cataracts of whiteness to see the invisible: reflections on the transmission and reception of the Bible in post-apartheid South Africa by J. Kok

“… The goal of this article is to draw on some of the latest insights in biblical studies on the challenges posed to the reflection, transmission, and reception of the Bible with relevance to a post-apartheid South African context. The author engages with prominent figures in the field of Biblical Studies and critical race theory such as David Horrell, in order to address the issue of whiteness and its impact on marginalisation. …”
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Afrodescendentes em São Leopoldo: memória coletiva e processos de identidade by José Ivo Follmann, Adevanir Aparecida Pinheiro

“…We stress the technique called "focus collective hermeneutics", through which we try, by means of workshops with a group of Afro-descendants, to construct a contextualized and pedagogically involving and engaging comprehension, starting from life stories and personal and other reports, collected among the black population of São Leopoldo. …”
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Book Review: Decolonizing the Mind (by Sandew Hira) by Patrick Delices

“…The aim of Hira’s Decolonizing the Mind is to deeply engage decolonial theory and practice as an alternative to the prominent thinking of the West as illuminated in liberalism and Marxism. …”
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What Will the Architect Be Doing Next? How is the profession of the architect evolving as the focus of society shifts from sustainability to resilience or reactivist-driven design... by Alexander Mooi

“…A more engaging and visionary role for architects is emerging, altering focus from a technological advisor to a more sociological engineer or entrepreneur. …”
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