Snake and staff symbolism and healing by Francois P. Retief, Louise Cilliers

“…In classical times it became the herald’s wand (caduceus) of Hermes, messenger of the gods who guided departed souls to the Underworld, and was seen as the protector of travellers, shepherds and merchants. In the latter capacity Hermes also conveyed a negative connotation as protector of thieves. …”
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Are Consumers Interested in Ornamental Plants That Benefit Pollinator Insects? by Hayk Khachatryan, Alicia Rihn

“…It covers consumers’ current actions to aid pollinators, their interest in purchasing plants to help pollinators, and their perceptions about plant availability, and it describes strategies for merchants and producers to cater to consumer preferences for in-store communications/promotions and help them to find and purchase plants that aid pollinator insects. …”
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Povoar e enquadrar by Maria Filomena Andrade, João Luís Fontes

“…The very peculiar qualities of the city, possessed of an intense economic life, a growing population, a royal court that sojourned there with increasing regularity and for increasingly prolonged periods, attracted more and more people from diverse regions and stimulated the rapacity of noblemen and rich merchants who contributed to its rise as the capital city of the Kingdom. …”
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La maison urbaine, cadre de production du statut et du genre à Anjouan (Comores), XVIIe-XIXe siècles by Sophie Blanchy

“…On this island, the regular integration into the dominant families of literate merchants, members of the maritime trade networks of the Indian Ocean, in particular Bā ʿAlawī sharifs, has contributed to the formation of a specific urban category, the makabaila. …”
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MOSCOW KINDOM AND THE EUROPEAN INNOVATION OF THE TIME OF TROUBLES by T. V. Chernikova

“…A lot of them were the military; doctors of the Tsar had a huge power; some merchants (for example, Jerome Horsey) carried out special orders of the Russian government. …”
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COMPARISON OF LEGAL CONSUMER PROTECTION SYSTEMS IN E-COMMERCE TRANSACTIONS TO SUPPORT DIGITAL ECONOMIC GROWTH IN INDONESIA by Fajar Sugianto, Ellora Sukardi, Tomy Michael

“…Consumers in e-commerce transactions have a greater risk of loss than business actors or merchants. In other words, consumer rights in e-commerce transactions are very vulnerable, so that consumers in e-commerce transactions are in a very weak bargaining position. …”
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Movement in the streets: Significant spatial features of the historic center of Quito by Estefanía Piñeiros

“…Therefore, this research seeks to understand how the residents, merchants and artisans of the city centre experience, think and value their space. …”
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Metamorfoses da cidade medieval. A coexistência entre a comunidade judaica e a catedral de Viseu by Anísio Miguel de Sousa Saraiva

“…Viseu’s status as political, ecclesiastical and commercial centre acted as a factor of development and attraction of merchants and Jews. The first testimonies of the Hebraic presence in this city are from the late 13th century, whose commune prospered mainly from the early 15th century, at the time when Viseu initiated a major process of rebuilt, after three decades of conflict and destruction which characterized the Ferdinand Reign and the first years of D. …”
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Recommendation System with Biclustering by Jianjun Sun, Yu Zhang

“…The massive growth of online commercial data has raised the request for an automatic recommender system to benefit both users and merchants. One of the most frequently used recommendation methods is collaborative filtering, but its accuracy is limited by the sparsity of the rating dataset. …”
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Early Islam in Nusantara by Muhammad Farid

“…Secondly, nutmegs and cloves were the main commodity trade that has captivated Muslim merchants to come to Banda Islands in the early period, thus, it made the region as the gate of Islam entrance in North Indonesia. …”
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Displacement Approach to Determine the Effective Tensile and Torsional Modulus of Nanowires by Lin Fang, Quan Yuan, Bin Wu, Honglin Li, Mengyang Huang

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Bentyia (Kukyia): a Songhay–Mande meeting point, and a “missing link” in the archaeology of the West African diasporas of traders, warriors, praise-singers, and clerics by Paulo Fernando de Moraes Farias

“…Fishermen and other waterfolk along the river, oral traditionists and other craftspeople, priests and priestesses of African cults, and Islamic clerics, as well as armies, long-distance merchants, and enslaved human beings, moved along it. …”
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The Social Structure and Ideology of the Rebel Movement in Yakutia during 1921–1922 by E.P. Antonov, V.N. Antonova

“…The financial support was provided by the merchants. Having analyzed the programs, charters, appealings, private letters, and other papers, we have made the following conclusions: most rebels were for the All-Russian Constituent Assembly, building of the national state by providing provincial autonomy, as well as the multiparty system and democratic liberties. …”
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India in Africa: Trade goods and connections of the late first millennium by Jason D. Hawkes, Stephanie Wynne-Jones

“…The ways that archaeologists have approached this topic have been dominated by historical paradigms that focus on the Persian Gulf and the agency of Arab merchants and consider Indian Ocean connections primarily in terms of trade. …”
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Kebijakan Politik Pragmatis Strategis Maulana Hasanuddin Banten (1546-1570) terhadap Portugis by Mufti Ali

“…The study of the European primary sources, especially letters of Portuguese Catholic missionaries, accounts of the scribes of the Portuguese viceroys in Goa India, travelogues of Portuguese merchants as well as works by the Portuguese historians, unravels a piece of very important information that the relation between Banten and Portugis can be regarded as the closest one. …”
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The Influence of Moisture Content on the Time-Dependent Characteristics of Rock Material and Its Application to the Construction of a Tunnel Portal by Xiaojun Liu, Chao Yang, Jing Yu

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THE LEVEL OF USING PAYMENT INSTRUMENTS IN THE TRANSFER OF DIGITAL CURRENCY by Nicoleta PANAIT, Mădălina RĂDOI

“…Electronic payments provide full visibility and transparency throughout the entire payment process for both the customer and merchants. It is certain that digital payments and e-commerce will continue to be major drivers of global economic growth and innovation, and the main purpose of digital payments is to increase the convenience, speed and security of conducting financial transactions.…”
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Legal nihilism in resolving family conflicts of nobles and peasants of Russian Empire in the first third of XIX century by S. P. Volf

“…The results of the study allow exploring the alternative ways of resolving family conflicts based on representatives of other classes of Russian society in the first third of the 19th century (clergy, merchants, philistines, foreigners) as well, using wider range of sources (journalism, normative acts, fiction, paperwork). …”
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Immigration patterns inferred from oxygen isotope analysis of human teeth from the Tylos-period Maqaba burial mounds in Bahrain by Yu Itahashi, Kenji Okazaki, Kazuhisa Yoshimura, Yumiko Oyabu, Kiyohide Saito

“…Therefore, immigrants who traveled as merchants for cross-regional trade are possible candidates for the buried remains. …”
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A multigrained preference analysis method for product iterative design incorporating AI-generated review detection by Zhaojing Su, Mei Yang, Qingbo Zhai, Kaiyuan Guo, Yuexin Huang, Yangfan Cong

“…With the surge of generative artificial intelligence (AI) technologies such as ChatGPT, some merchants might exploit them to fabricate deceptive positive reviews, and competitors may also fabricate negative reviews to influence the opinions of consumers and designers. …”
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