Foreword by Babalola Joseph Balogun, Emnet Tadesse Woldegiorgis

“…Its central objective was to analyse the nature of African scholars’ contributions to knowledge production with the specific goal of influencing and/or shaping the higher education landscape, discourses, policies, and practices in Africa. …”
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A CASE STUDY OF REPORTING OF NEWSPAPER BH DANI DURING THE WAR IN BOSNIA by Ivica Mladenovic, Dragoljub Kaurin

“…The article is then concluded with the recapitulation of key ideas and also its contribution to knowledge is discussed.…”
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DNA Damage and Base Excision Repair in Mitochondria and Their Role in Aging by Ricardo Gredilla

“…During the last decades, our knowledge about the processes involved in the aging process has exponentially increased. …”
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Anti-Inflammatory Nutrition as a Pharmacological Approach to Treat Obesity by Barry Sears, Camillo Ricordi

“…These molecular targets range from reduction of proinflammatory eicosanoids to the modulation of features of the innate immune system, such as toll-like receptors and gene transcription factors. From knowledge of the impact of these dietary nutrients on these various molecular targets, it becomes possible to develop a general outline of an anti-inflammatory diet that can offer a unique synergism with more traditional pharmacological approaches in treating obesity and its associated comorbidities.…”
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Shakespeare for all Seasons ? Richard II en Avignon : de Jean Vilar (1957) à Ariane Mnouchkine (1982) by Isabelle Schwartz-Gastine

“…In 1947 Jean Vilar opened the first Avignon Festival with an ascetic, charismatic eponymous hero who came to an inner knowledge of himself in his bare prison cell; in 1982 Ariane Mnouchkine offered a splendid visual display by transposing the play into the kabuki tradition; this offered the audience breath-taking and dynamic tableaux of elaborate court ceremonies and rebellious lords.At such a distance in time, the English medieval code of honour was dealt with according to completely different theatrical principles of ethics and aesthetics, mirroring the changes in perspective within French society.…”
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D’une auto-prescription à une mise en œuvre d’investigation. Étude de cas en SVT au collège by Maryline Coquidé, Estelle Flatter

“…To contribute to better knowledge of the factors that influence the workings and implementations of inquiry based teaching, we propose a case study of four biology teachers at middle school. …”
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Smoking in Health Science Students with Asthma by Georgios Krommydas, Evangelia Kotrotsiou, Vasilios Raftopoulos, Theodosios Paralikas, Konstantinos I Gourgoulianis, Paschalis-Adam Molyvdas

“…It is expected that asthmatic students in a health science department would avoid the hazards of cigarette smoking due to the knowledge they gain through their studies. Surprisingly, health science students with asthma had a higher prevalence of smoking than their healthy colleagues.…”
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Sains-du-Nord (Nord) : une agglomération de la cité des Nerviens by Pascal Neaud

“…In spite of difficult contexts of intervention (reduced deadlines and sites partially destroyed by the building of new constructions), these operations contributed to increase our knowledge about this ancient settlement, which has been, from then on, characterised as a small town. …”
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Art and art history in cultural publishing of the second half of the 20th century by Irene Piazzoni

“…Therefore, by placing art and art history within the framework of cultural life in the second half of the 20th century, this volume allows us to grasp aspects that contribute to enriching our knowledge.…”
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High-cycle fatigue strength of a pultruded composite material by L. Vergani, M.Guagliano, C. Colombo

“…However, their use is still limited by the partial knowledge of their fatigue behaviour; in many applications it is, indeed, required a duration of many millions of cycles, while most of the data that can be found in literature refer to a maximum number of cycles equal to 3 millions. …”
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Le bruit qui court : rumeur et contagion dans Deerbrook (1839) de Harriet Martineau by Marie Duic

“…While Harriet Martineau (1802-1876) made a name for herself with her works dedicated to the transmission and popularisation of knowledge, as was the case of her Illustrations of Political Economy (1834) which brought her an almost overnight fame, in her first novel Deerbrook (1839) she is concerned with yet another form of transmission : that of rumours and of epidemics. …”
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Conceptualisation des espaces sahéliens chez les auteurs arabes du Moyen Âge by Jean-Charles Ducène

“…The medieval Arab authors are an invaluable source for the knowledge of Sahelian spaces. However, these observers defined these lands according to geographical or ethnic concepts, fitting with the spirit of their time (9th-10th centuries). …”
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Assessing Economic Impacts and Benefits of Commercial Horticulture Extension Programs by Alan Hodges, Shawn Steed, Jane Morse, Peggy Dessaint, Donald Rainey, Charles Vavrina

“…As fiscal pressures increase from federal and state government agencies to spend public dollars more effectively, it is imperative that the outcomes from educational efforts be clearly documented in terms of measurable changes in knowledge and behavior of clientele or stakeholders. …”
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Usages participatifs des technologies et désir d’émancipation : une articulation fragile et paradoxale by Serge Proulx

“…Or, in other words, the construction of a social and political regime in which people could have full rights to access knowledge, a right which tends to diminish with the gradual hyperspecialisation of disciplinary thinking in natural and social sciences. …”
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Regulation of Apoptosis in African Swine Fever Virus–Infected Macrophages by Laslo Zsak, John G. Neilan

“…Here we review the present knowledge of the recently identified ASFV genes with special attention to those which affect viral virulence, host range, and pathogenesis by regulating viral-induced apoptotic mechanisms.…”
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Intercultural competencies of Polish and Kazakh teachers explored in their Facebook profiles by Adam Jagiełło-Rusiłowski, Zhandarbek Immanchiyev

“…The rationale for intercultural learning was derived from the pedagogies of Abay and Korczak while the list of attitudes, skills and knowledge to be observed was adapted from Deardorff’s (2009) model. …”
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« Tu n’as rien vu à Constantinople » : Thackeray au pays des harems by Laurent Bury

“…Thackeray had a personal knowledge of colonial matters, but his text is presented as the trite reflections of a blasé tourist, who constantly asserts England’s superiority. …”
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Ficções da memória ou a memória da ficção: Dulce María Loynaz e Cecília Meireles by Aimeé G. Bolaños

“…This article thinks about temporality, knowledge and gene- alogy, main memory’s functions, and examines Últimos días de una casa (1958) and Solombra (1963), poems-books on the problematic of the being in the temporality and the process of doing/undoing identity that occur, precisely, in the human time of memory. …”
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Hepatitis B Associated Monoclonal Gammopathy That Resolved after Successful Liver Transplant by P. Sreenivasan, S. Nair

“…Here, we report a case of IgA-kappa light chain gammopathy secondary to Hepatitis B infection, which resolved after liver transplantation. To our knowledge, this is the first reported case of M protein spike seen in the context of Hepatitis B infection only.…”
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Inclusion of Diverse Learners in the Educational System by Eric D. Rubenstein, Andrew C. Thoron

“…Forms of diversity such as socioeconomic status, ethnicity/race, learning style, cognitive ability, gender, and ability to process and store knowledge can cause an “achievement gap” between students. …”
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