Penile Rehabilitation and Neuromodulation by Fernando Facio, Arthur L. Burnett

“…Well-conducted, controlled trials with adequate follow-up are required in order to determine the erection preservative benefits of these therapeutic strategies. The purpose of this essay is to describe the mechanisms related to post-RP ED, assess the need for penile rehabilitation and neuromodulation following surgery, and analyze the basic science and clinical trial evidence associated with these applications for preserving EF following prostate cancer treatment.…”
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The Benefit of Biodiversity – Polemic View of Environmental, Social and Ethical Aspects of Czech Philosophers and Environmentalists by Jan Lípa, Ladislav Rozenský, Petr Ondrušák, Josef Dolista

“…To validate this thesis, the authors of this work chose an essay dealing with professional monographs and professional articles on this topic, focusing on the continuity of ideas of the authors of the Central European region. …”
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POVERTY AND NATIONAL SECURITY: AN OVERVIEW OF NIGERIA’S FOURTH REPUBLIC by ADAMU MOHAMMED

“…It is impossible to overstate the significance of poverty and all of its associated tendencies, dimensions, and points of view when considering national security. Thus, this essay examined the mutually beneficial link that exists in Nigeria between poverty and national security. …”
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PENGARUH PEMBELAJARAN MATEMATIKA BERBANTUAN MEDIA VIDEO PEMBELAJARAN BERBASIS STEAM TERHADAP KEMAMPUAN LITERASI NUMERASI SISWA KELAS V SD NEGERI 01 KEPAHIANG by Neza Agusdianita, Yusnia Yusnia, Melisa Melisa

“…The technique used in this research was a pre-test and post-test which were designed in the form of essay questions, each consisting of 5 questions. …”
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LİVÂYÎ’NİN MANZÛM YASİN TEFSİRİ / LIVAYI’S POETICAL INTERPRETATION OF “YASEEN” (SURA YASEEN) by Ahmet SEVGİ

“…</p><p>Abstract:</p><p>The text of poetical interpretation of “Yaseen” (Sura Yaseen) appeared in Livayi’s, one of the 16th century poets, the work (the beginning part missing) stored under the number Diez A. 8⁰.192 in Berlin Königliche Library, is given in this essay. Poetical interpretations of Suras “Mulk” and “Amme” are included in this work, completed in 1543 and presented to Sultan Suleiman the Lawgiver. …”
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DESCARTES VE SPİNOZA DÜŞÜNCESİNDE GERÇEK İYİ KAVRAMI by Nurten Gökalp

“…The struggle of the searching the actual good is important in the philosophy especially 17. century. In this essay, it will be examined this problem related with Descartes’ and Spinoza’s thoughts. …”
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Layers of Invisibility in Portuguese State Furniture Design, 1940-1974 by João Paulo Martins, Sofia Diniz

“…Yet state-commissioned furniture design can also speak of other aspects of this apparently ordinary, largely invisible side of many architects’ everyday work in government offices. In this brief visual essay, snapshots of a long-term research project recently concluded at the School of Architecture, University of Lisbon prompt us to identify designers and commissioning agencies, locate them within their context(s) of production and discuss significant episodes where diverse aesthetical and ideological stances are followed, each with its own rhetoric: the rift between a generally conservative tutelage and some officials’ drive to keep up with international developments, for example, can be read in these inconspicuous objects and practices of the everyday. …”
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I giovani maoresi e la mobilità. La sfida dell’istruzione tra vecchie e nuove disuguaglianze by Paola Schierano

“…It analyses the educational system of Mayotte, characterized by the integration of republican school and Koranic school, as well as factors and limitations to Mahoran students’ mobility. The aim of this essay is to show how unequal policies, a legacy from the colonial past, reverberate in the present of Mahoran people, deeply conditioning it at migratory, educational and professional level. …”
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Ethnographic Theology: Integrating the Social Sciences and Theological Reflection by Gerardo Martí

“…However, since most theologians are not substantively trained in social scientific methods, their sophistication with this methodology is limited, leading to distortions in recorded observations and proffered interpretations. This essay seeks to address this lack of depth by articulating some of the most essential sensitivities that are crucial to the best practices associated with exemplary scholarship emerging at the intersection of ethnography and theology. …”
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Le Musée instrumental du Conservatoire de Paris pendant la décennie Lang (1981-1993) by Florence Gétreau

“…Having worked for twenty years at the Musée Instrumental and ten at the Musée des Arts et Traditions Populaires (MNATP), I offer here an essay in critical heritage historiography, in which instrument making contributes to the practice of oral music.…”
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Behind the Iron Curtain: Sylvia Plath and Hungary during the Cold War by Dorka TAMÁS

“…From her maternal side, she was also close geographically to Hungary, as her grandmother was from Austria. My essay reflects on the many ways Plath engaged with Hungary’s culture and politics as part of her broader interest in European culture and literature. …”
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Breaking up the Canon of Literary Modernity: Classicism in the Ecopoetics of David Hinton and the Materialism of Zeng Shaoli. A Preliminary Outline of Epistemological Changes in Co... by Frank Kraushaar

“… The target of this essay is to open possible pathways to approach the phenomenon of a self-remodeling of classicist poetry in the 20th and early 21st century by focusing on the process from two different angles rarely perceived as related to each other: first, the remodeling of Chinese lyrical classicism through a strand of modern American poetry harking back to Ezra Pound and currently crystallized in the translations of David Hinton and, second, the transition that modern Chinese poetry written in classical language and conforming to prosodic rules of classical style poetry, sometimes referred to as “old style poetry” jiu ti shi, underwent after its rebirth as “unofficial” poetry online since the beginning of this century. …”
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Dancing to the Bhangra in New York City by Anjali Gera Roy

“…Drawing on Henri Lefebvre’s notion of the production of space, this essay focuses on a performance space to argue that the dancing in the city interrupts its spatial coordinates.…”
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Rise of Love and the People: French Matter and Manner in the Early Victorian Drama of Edward Bulwer-Lytton by Ana Fernández-Caparrós Turina

“…Beyond using French sources and setting the action of these plays in France, the inspiration from French culture and history crucially imbued Bulwer with a sense of freedom to essay his peculiar and intuitive conflation of politics and romance. …”
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The Narrator as Mediator and Explicator in Victorian and Edwardian Retellings of Shakespeare for Children by Laura Tosi

“…In these narrative retellings, motivation is constantly offered to a child in need of acculturation in the national poet’s work (in other, more contemporary words, in need of cultural capital). My essay focuses on the special, multifaceted and often ambiguous relationship that the narrator establishes with the child reader in these collections, by making Shakespeare’s plays available to a child audience in a way they may find congenial and relevant, and yet at the same time controlling the child’s interpretation of the plays. …”
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Désenchanter l’habitat spatial : environnements artificiels et mondes sans nature dans Aurora (K. S. Robinson), Shangri-La (M. Bablet) et Nos Temps contraires (G. Toriko) by Gatien Gambin

“…These fictions are a part of narratives and iconography of space habitats defined notably by Gerard K. O’Neill’s essay The High Frontier (1977) illustrated by Donald E. …”
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Old Nick Crossed the Mississippi: The Figure of the Devil in Late Cold War Era Novels of the American West by Michael Walonen

“…Scott Poole illustrates in his study Satan in America – appears with great frequency within the corpus of the literature of the American West. This essay focuses on Western regional novels of the late Cold War period (1968-1991), analyzing their manner of using the devil figure to variously challenge and/or reinforce mainstream conceptions of evil and come to terms with the meaning and direction of America at a time of crossroads and vast social transfiguration. …”
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Conversing with Readers in Aunt Judy’s Magazine: Building a Community of Young Middle-Class Philanthropists to Fight the ‘Grim Nurses’ by Matthew Dunleavy

“…The magazine and its readers would go on to raise thousands of pounds in individual donations and monthly, quarterly, and annual subscriptions to establish several ‘Aunt Judy’s Cots’ for poor, sick children, in addition to helping with the construction of a new wing of the hospital. This essay does not analyze how Aunt Judy’s Magazine helped the hospital but investigates the ways the ‘Correspondence’ pages were used for the ideological work of creating a new generation of middle-class philanthropists. …”
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Digging the Digital: Beat Modalities and the Representation of the Beats in Video Games by Tomasz Sawczuk

“…The final part of the essay takes a closer look at Fallout 4, making references to such theoretical concepts as Derridean hauntology, Zygmunt Bauman’s retrotopia and Simon Reynolds’ retromania, to further demonstrate how complex and ambiguous Beat video-game figurations can be.…”
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Ravel’s Programmatic Impulse by Peter Kaminsky

“…My essay addresses a central paradox inherent in the notion of program music, which may be termed the “meaning gap.” …”
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