Theorizing International Politics of Research, Science, and Technology: Implications for Global Governance, National Security, and Economic Growth by Julius Adinoyi

“… This article examines the value of understanding the international politics surrounding research, science and technology (RST) in today‟s world.It encompasses intricate connections between nations, international organizations, and multinational enterprises,which is essential for economic growth, social development, and national security.The significance of elements like anarchy, capitalism, welfare, and security that influences the global politics of RST is highlighted in the essay.In order to counteract technology misuse, the authors stress the significance of establishing ethical standards. …”
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes Stories: Crime and Mystery from the Text to the Illustrations by Christophe Gelly

“…This essay argues that the illustrations provided for the serial publication of the Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle—mainly by Sidney Paget—constitute a significant supplement that both illustrates common ideological prejudices of the nineteenth century and undermines any complete containment of evil and crime by the investigator. …”
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Disseminating our knowledge in an inclusive society: An inaugural editorial statement by Kananga Robert Mukuna

“…Inclusive research is essential at all stages of research, including data collection and dissemination. This essay investigates how current literature and the practical application of inclusive practices in the academic setting illuminate this critical but often overlooked aspect of research. …”
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Intimità sacra e nuove appartenenze nella devozione dei Mauriziani induisti a Santa Rosalia (Palermo) by Eugenio Giorgianni

“…Through a participatory ethnography of the acchianata pilgrimage, the article examines Hindu Mauritians’ devotion to Santa Rosalia (‘a Santuzza’) in Palermo. The essay contributes to the existing literature on the participation of migrant group in the worship of Santa Rosalia by presenting the specificities of Hindu Mauritians’ ritual practices based on the features of their departure context. …”
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‘Our precious quand même’: French in the Letters of Henry James by Daniel Karlin

“…Nowhere is this more so than when the subject is James’s own art. The essay concludes with some examples of this more intense and deliberate practice.…”
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Tamactún-Acalán: interpretación de una hegemonía política maya de los siglos xiv-xvi by Andrés Ciudad Ruiz, Alfonso Lacadena García-Gallo

“…Recently, new interpretations have posited the development of hegemonic states retaining many structural features of the preceding formations, but also exhibiting a territorial organization fastering the subordination of several autonomous territories under a same authority. This essay applies this last interpretation to the understanding of the political-territorial structure of the Mactun of Tamactún-Acalán in the 14th-16th centuries A.D., and tests its validity for other regions of the Maya Lowlands, from the beginning of the Classic period to the arrival of the Spaniards, highlighting the parallelisms with other political systems found in Mesoamerica at the time immediately preceding the Conquest.…”
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Social Personalism, Its Implications for Education and Implementation in Society by Sławomir Chrost

“…The human-person, colloquially speaking, needs other people to grow, and needs interpersonal relationships to ‘give and take.’ The purpose of this essay is to outline the theoretical underpinnings of social personalism, its implications for pedagogy and selected examples of how it is cultivated in practice. …”
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Gandhi: A Man for our Times? by Judith Brown

“… Following my earlier collaboration with Martin Prozesky, my essay links with three major concerns in Prozesky’s work as he has engaged with a radical critique of religious traditions and structures in the South African context of the end of apartheid: the involvement of dominant religious traditions in sustaining power structures and inequality; the nexus between religious beliefs and organizations and violence; and the failure of many ‘religions’ to meet the needs of serious seekers after meaning and truth. …”
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Territories of Equivalence by Clare Louise Lyster

“…Mechanisation transformed space, in particular the household into an efficient machine, with industrial components and standardised dimensions (from the bathtub to the streamlined kitchen), while military manufacturing efficiencies and emerging technologies allowed consumer goods (from TV sets to Tupperware) to fill the middle class suburban home in the post-war era. This essay contemplates how logisticalisation, the latest incarnation of capitalist production, is permeating the design and conception of contemporary space through an exploration of the gadgets and objects that are increasingly used by the public as portals to the larger world of logistical flow. …”
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Funding for research on cryptococcal disease: an analysis based on the G-finder report by Iraine Duarte, Marcio L. Rodrigues

“…With reduced support for research, new therapies are unlikely to emerge. In this essay, we used the Policy Cures/G-finder platform as a reference database for funding research on cryptococcal disease. …”
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Politik Hukum Penanggulangan Bencana by Zuzi Kurnia Ramadhani, Rangga Prayitno, Radiyan Rahim, Yumai Wendra

“…Both kinds of the problems should be, according the writer, properly addressed by using legal approaches. This essay arguesthat legal politic sofnatural disaster handlingis the construction law and the legal establish menton disaster management. in substance, this legal politics provide a paradigm shift in disaster management. …”
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Ackee and saltfish vs. amalá con quimbombó? A note on Sidney Mintz’ contribution to the historical anthropology of African American cultures by Stephan Palmié

“…In the spirit of Sidney Mintz’ contribution to African American historical anthropology, this essay examines theories allocating differential explanatory weight to African cultural continuities and New World social conditions in the historical development of African American cultures through the lens of a set of culinary allegories built around two Caribbean dishes. …”
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A Night at the Pictures : A Christmas Carol et la séduction du simulacra by Florent Christol

“…Indeed, A Christmas Carol can be read as an essay on the potential intermingling of novel and romance. …”
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Poetry as Pagan Pilgrimage: the ‘Animative Impulse’ of Thomas Hardy’s Verse by Laurence Estanove

“…All Hardy critics have noted how the poet-novelist’s works often dramatize a constant oscillation between the Pagan and the Christian. This essay proposes to observe once again how the two traditions seep into each other, but chooses to focus specifically on Hardy’s verse and to examine this in the light of the poet’s agnosticism and of his appropriation of some folkloristic and positivistic ideas. …”
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Shakespeare en prison : le cas d’Avignon by Florence March

“…This essay offers to explore the structural link between three historical counter-spaces : prison, Shakespeare’s Elizabethan public theatre and the Avignon Festival. …”
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The impact mechanism of AES on improving English writing achievement by Dongmei Wang, Jin Wang

“…Abstract Although there have been numerous studies on the impact of automatic essay scoring system (AES) on English writing, research on the complex relationship between AES, writing motivation, self-efficacy belief, and English writing achievement in Chinese Foreign language (FL) context is still underexplored. …”
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‘Larks in Season’: The Comic Almanack (1835–54) by Brian Maidment

“…One response to such reformist impulses was the comic or travesty almanac, and this essay centrally forms a study of the longest lasting and most successful satirical almanac, The Comic Almanack, which ran from 1835 until 1854. …”
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Mercy Otis Warren, the American Revolution and the Classical Imagination by Eran Shalev

“…Students of American history are aware of Greece and Rome’s immense influence on the ideology and political thought of the Founding Era, while scholars of women studies acknowledge Mercy Otis Warren’s importance as a “Founding Mother” of the American republic. This essay focuses on Warren’s remarkable use of the classics in her popular, if now forgotten revolutionary dramas, and in her magisterial history of the Revolution written years later. …”
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Fresnes, « prison algérienne »*? (1954-1962) by Fanny Layani

“…The inmates strongly close ranks around two existing nationalist organizations, the National Liberation Front (FLN) and the National Algerian Movement (MNA), and Fresnes becomes the origin of widespread hunger strikes during the summer of 1959. Finally, this essay broaches the subject of prisoner politicization and capacity for group action, and the conditions of their potentially pursuing a measure of political activity behind bars.…”
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Literary Translation Techniques in Professor Pamela Smith’s Translation of Akinwumi Is̩ola’s Ogun Omode to Treasury of Childhood Memories by O̩lálérè Adéyemi

“…The findings of the study showed that: the translator adopted many literary techniques that make the TL fascinating and pleasurable to readers, but the following techniques were more predominant, these are modulation; compression; elision/omission; linguistic amplification; borrowing, calque; compensation; adaptation; and particularization. The essay concluded that the translator's high level of bilingual and bicultural competence and the literary translation techniques adopted to make the contents of the source text easily transposed and rendered in impeccable English language in the TL. …”
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