A long way to the man (sources, ideals, ideologies) by Alexandr E. Razumov

“…Today a man is facing a crucial problem: he must choose, which way to take: either hefollows one of the roads to humanism, or, if he chooses otherwise, mankind may be doomed to untimely extinction. …”
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DEBATE ON REFORMING THE RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES by Vitaly G. Gorokhov

“…The author reflects upon the requirement of matching the science activities with theinternational and domestic “bureaucratic virtual reality”, touches on such themes as real science and pseudoscience, debate between natural scientists and humanities researchers, the importance of a national language for the development of national science.…”
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Ambrogio Traversari – „pokrytec“ pod Sluncem Bernardina Sienského? by Jan Stejskal

“… The subject of the text is a dispute between humanism in the early Renaissance and the Franciscan Observance. …”
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La nocturnité au quotidien chez les Indiens tseltal du Chiapas (Mexique) by Aurore Monod Becquelin, Marie Chosson

“…This analysis invites us to scrutinise the Tseltal night from the perspective of its role as an agent of behaviours, thoughts, attitudes, and corporeal habits among these natives of the Mexican Highlands.As the home of sleep, night enables the dreamer to mix with supernatural beings, making accessible and visible a dynamic cosmos in which plants, animals, humans and nonhumans interact. However, certain traits that define this night extend beyond the nocturnal part of the nychthemeron in order to emerge on its diurnal side, what we call manifestations of nocturnity. …”
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A Most Eminent Victorian: Thomas Henry Huxley by Sherrie Lyons

“…Huxley maintained that the question of “man’s place in nature” should be approached independently of the question of origins, yet at the same time argued passionately and eloquently that even if humans shared a common a origin with the apes, this did not make humans any less special. …”
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Plasma Gelsolin Levels Decrease in Diabetic State and Increase upon Treatment with F-Actin Depolymerizing Versions of Gelsolin by Neeraj Khatri, Amin Sagar, Nagesh Peddada, Vikas Choudhary, Bhupinder Singh Chopra, Veena Garg, Renu Garg, Ashish

“…The study aims to map plasma gelsolin (pGSN) levels in diabetic humans and mice models of type II diabetes and to evaluate the efficacy of gelsolin therapy in improvement of diabetes in mice. …”
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Recommendations for the Development of Artificial Intelligence Applications for the Retail Level by Jim Hartman

“…Humans would still have to do the environmental assessments. …”
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Specialists and generalists by I. V. Anokhov

“…A qualitatively new difference may be the difference between the values and meanings of humanity, on the one hand, and the dehumanized technosphere, on the other. …”
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Using Participatory Crowdsourcing in South Africa to Create a Safer Living Environment by Bhaveer Bhana, Stephen Flowerday, Aharon Satt

“…Data collected through observations (utilising humans as sensors) of the city surroundings can be used to improve decision making in terms of managing these resources. …”
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Ausweis, Exil, Flucht und Migration by Patrice Djoufack

“…Against this background, the paper questions the possibility of a more humane treatment of refugees and points at the new risks which could be connected to such a treatment.…”
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First Case of Respiratory Infection in Rabbits Caused by <i>Alcaligenes faecalis</i> in Romania by Vlad Iorgoni, Ionica Iancu, Ionela Popa, Alexandru Gligor, Gabriel Orghici, Bogdan Sicoe, Corina Badea, Cristian Dreghiciu, Călin Pop, Timea Bochiș, Janos Degi, Luminita Costinar, Corina Pascu, Viorel Herman

“…<i>Alcaligenes faecalis</i> is a Gram-negative, obligate aerobic bacillus commonly found in environmental settings, particularly in soil and water, as well as within the intestinal microbiota of humans and various animal species. This bacterium has the potential to act as an opportunistic pathogen, capable of causing severe infections in both humans and animals, which can sometimes result in fatal outcomes. …”
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Stories of Water/Storied Water: Agential Realism and New Thalassology in the 21st-century Literary Classroom by Jasmine Sharma

“…This article will attempt to make four contributions: (1) it will describe the concepts of materialist ecocriticism, and new thalassology, and situate the conceptualizations within the broader fields of environmental humanities, (2) it will reinscribe the image of water as a densely plural and a tentacular living organism using Karen Barad’s theory of agential realism and Stacy Alaimo’s notion of transcorporeality, (3) it will briefly overview hydroficion as a critically apt genre for interrogating the disoriented dialectics between humans and nonhumans, and consider Emmi Itäranta’s young adult dystopian fiction, Memory of Water (2012) as the primary entry point in de-anthropocising wet matter, and (4) it will delineate the relevance of water narratives and the inclusion of such narratives in higher education curricula. …”
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Self-rerouting sensor network for electronic skin resilient to severe damage by T. Ozaki, N. Ohta, M. Fujiyoshi

“…This advancement significantly boosts robots’ collaborative potential with humans.…”
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A Case Report of Monkeypox in a 4-Year-Old Boy from the DR Congo: Challenges of Diagnosis and Management by Anna Korsgaard Eltvedt, Michael Christiansen, Anja Poulsen

“…Monkeypox (MP) is a rare zoonotic disease that most commonly transmits from bush animals to humans in the Congo Basin of Africa. However, an increase in cases of MP has been observed over the past decades with frequent outbreaks as well as export of the disease out of the African continent. …”
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De la bibliothèque au « Tesseract » : une représentation borgésienne de la littérature dans le film de Christopher Nolan Interstellar (2014)  by Emmanuel Buzay

“…Because it is decisive for understanding the way in which the library, as a memory of the world, rethinks humanity, its mutations, and its limits in a journey through time, the constant represented by the figure of the “book in the film” reveals a double identity which, although based on scientific knowledge, nonetheless reactivates an immemorial imaginary with its mythologies. …”
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Reprezentacje obiektów przyrodniczych z dziecięcej perspektywy by Monika Wiśniewska-Kin, Eliza Rybska

“…The presented research showed also that children make conceptualization mainly through personal experiences and that when describing animals, children focus on observable animal activity and behavior, as well as animal appearance, size, the environment of living and the relation with humans. …”
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Under the Skies of Olympus: Three Types of Divine Landscapes in the Homeric Hymns by Vaiva Vasiliauskaitė

“… The paper discusses the landscapes of Apollo, Hermes, Pan, and Demeter in the Homeric hymns, analysing how particular landscape representations articulate the gods’ functions and identities, their relationship to humanity and the structure of the Olympic cosmos. It is argued that an in-depth examination of the representation of landscape in Ancient literature reveals patterns of representation that contribute to a deeper understanding of the religious worldview of the ancient Greeks. …”
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Review essay: On the state of the debate in ecological theology by E. M. Conradie

“… This review essay assesses the state of the debate on a Christian Ecological Theology with specific reference to the important volume of essays Christianity and ecology: seeking the well-being of earth and humans edited by Dieter Hessel and Rosemary Ruether (2000). …”
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Regional university as a center of science by Petr A. Savintsev

“…The article reveals that in contemporary science and contemporary Russia most of the problems existing in the humanities that are traditionally referred (and refer) to the “local and insignificant” ones become urgent issues of national and global importance.…”
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Megacolon due to Chronic Schistosomiasis: A Case Report and Review of Literature by Amer R. Alzahrani, Homoud Alawfi, Sara Almeman, Thamer Altayeb, Hasan M. Al-Dorzi

“…Although Schistosoma infection in humans commonly involves the intestines, megacolon is a rare finding. …”
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