"And Africa will be saved!"? Nadenke oor die kerk, die sending en die nood van Sub-Sahara-Afrika by P. Verster

“…In this sense Christ and his Kingdom should be proclaimed as the essence of mission. …”
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Ecumenical ecclesiology as a tool for township congregations to facilitate transformation of the (South) African society by K.J. Pali

“…This study aims to explore how congregations in the townships (in Mangaung, Bloemfontein, and Qwaqwa), through their local ecumenical organisations, function together to facilitate the transformation of their identity and mission. This empirical study implements a critical theory approach to analyse sources and data used in this study. …”
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The Illusion of Power or Relentless Reality? Ceremonial and Ritual Practices at the Court of Moscow in the Middle of the 17th Century through the Eyes of the Imperial Diplomats by Monika Konrádová, Rostisalv Smíšek

“… The main aim of the contribution is to show upon the background of the diplomatic missions of the Habsburg diplomats – Allegretto Allegretti and Johann Theodor of Lorbach (1655–1656), Johann Christoph of Fragstein and Christoph Beuer of Binnen (1657–1658) – how the ceremonial and ritual practices at the Tsar’s court were perceived by these mentioned diplomats. …”
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Ritual, Power and Historical Perspective: Baptism and Name-giving in Lithuania and Latvia by Rasa Paukštytė-Šaknienė

“…As indicated by scholars investigating into Soviet rituals and by my fieldwork data collected in 1999 in Northeast Lithuania and in 1998 in Southeast Latvia, the mission of creating communist traditions has not always been successful. …”
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Torre David au Venezuela : récits sur fond de politiques publiques menées par le gouvernement d’un « État magique » by Yaneira Wilson

“…Within this framework, we are interested in exploring the production of the Great Housing Mission Venezuela (GMVV) and the case of the invasion of the squatted Torre David in 2004 by a first group of homeless people. …”
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Analytical Predictor-Corrector Guidance Algorithm Based on Drag Modulation Flight Control System for Mars Aerocapture by Yu-ming Peng, Bo Xu, Bao-dong Fang, Han-lun Lei

“…Aerocapture is one of the essential technologies for future large-scale space exploration missions, as it can significantly reduce the Δv and fuel requirement. …”
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RUSSIAN INTELLECTUAL POTENTIAL AND TEACHER EDUCATION by Alice P. Valitskaya

“…The author offers to consider the methodological errors of the educational policy of the last decades: the orientation to the Euro-American economic model; the assignment of secondary and higher education to the service sector and commercialization; the definition of education as a process (standard quantitative parameters of quality, scientometrics in the ranking ofscientific personnel, and others), the loss of valuable meanings in the content of education, the speculative replacement of the main ideological mission of education with a set of competences - the destruction of teacher education. …”
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History, propaganda, and glory in the early Dominican chronicles of the Philippines by Jorge Mojarro

“…Although only two were finally printed, the chronicles served as essential discursive tools to propagandize their achievements in far-away missions. Without exception, all missionary orders engaged in producing these complex texts, which formed part of the typical literary genres of colonial literature. …”
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United Nations Peacekeeping and the Principal of Non-Intervention: A TWAIL Perspective by Jennifer Giblin by Madeeha Umair Malik

“…The book challenges whether contemporary peacekeeping missions truly adhere to the principle of non-intervention or serve as instruments of Western influence. …”
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Dr. Andries Albertus Odendaal Snr., evangeliedraer in 'n multi-dimensionele konteks. 'n Kort historiese oorsig en sendingkundige evaluering van sy lewe en werk (Deel 1) by P. Robinson

“…Part 1 discusses the following aspects: The hardships of life on a small farm in South Africa during the 1920s and 1930s; the difficulty in obtaining thorough school education; the demands of training as a DRC missionary; challenges of running a so-called “mission congregation” within the same geographical borders as the sending church or churches; language acquisition in multi-language situations, and the lonely road of improving academic qualifications. …”
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Cooperative Search and Rescue with Artificial Fishes Based on Fish-Swarm Algorithm for Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks by Wei Zhao, Zhenmin Tang, Yuwang Yang, Lei Wang, Shaohua Lan

“…The mobile nodes’ moving in mission space is similar to the behaviors of fish-swarm in water. …”
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Ecological Initiatives of the Global Catholic Climate Movement by Cecilia Dall’Oglio

“…The efforts to prevent effects of climate changes are indicated as an important mission for believers, in accordance with Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato si’. …”
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Overview of development and challenges of attitude determination for rotary wing UAVs based on GNSS by Yejia Zeng, Zukun Lu, Zukun Lu, Yuchen Xie, Yuchen Xie, Binbin Ren, Binbin Ren, Yi Yu, Shaojie Ni, Shaojie Ni

“…Attitude determination of rotary-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (RUAVs) is crucial for grasping their motion state and is a necessary condition to ensure the correct execution of flight missions. With the continuous development and the constant enhancement of measurement accuracy related to the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), attitude determination based on GNSS have become the mainstream high-precision attitude measurement approach. …”
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LUOJIA Explorer PMS: Panoramic Odometry and Mapping with Structural Information by Y. Xu, Y. Xu, Y. Xu, C. Chen, C. Chen, C. Chen, B. Yang, B. Yang, B. Yang, L. Li, Z. Wang, Z. Wang, Z. Wang, S. Sun, S. Sun, S. Sun, Z. Yan, Z. Yan, Z. Yan, S. Wu, S. Wu, S. Wu

“…Accurate dense reconstruction of unknown spatial environments is crucial for applications such as underground exploration and planetary missions. Existing methods face challenges like observing blind spots and the difficulty of edge feature extraction in point clouds with non-repetitive scanning LiDARs. …”
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UNIVERSITY WRITING CENTERS IN RUSSIA: GOALS AND PROSPECTS by Irina B. Korotkina

“…The author gives an overview of the first few academic writing centers in Russian universities and compares their missions and functions in terms of target audience and outcomes for the universities. …”
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Rolverwagtinge van AGS-pastors: voorstelle vir 'n voortgesette teologiese opleidingsprogram by A. P. J. Putter, G. A. Lotter

“… In this article, the focus will be on the findings of two qualitative research investigations of the role expectations of the Apostolic Faith Mission (hereafter AFM) pastor. It indicates the importance of a continuous theological training programme for the pastor. …”
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Selective index of the publications in the journal <I>Proceedings on Applied Botany, Genetics and Breeding</I> dedicated to Nikolay Vavilov’s life, activities and scientific works... by article Editorial

“…Besides, there are publications with Vavilov’s photos and other materials submitted by him as the leader and plant explorer of collecting missions to the authors of Proceedings on Applied Botany, Genetics and Breeding.…”
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Analyses et réflexions à partir du symposium « Éduquer au vivre ensemble ou éduquer à la citoyenneté » by Hélène Marquié-Dubié

“…., Nursery schools, Green Houses, etc), were discussed the first needs of the very young child(emotional and cognitive needs) and the specific answers which are brought by each of structure together with their missions. In the same way the question of learning as vectors of development as much as material of it. …”
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PCOT: An open‐source toolkit for multispectral image processing by James Finnis, Helen C. Miles, Ariel Ladegaard, Matt Gunn

“…It is in active development in support of the ExoMars mission and intended to be used on data from the Rosalind Franklin rover, but it has much greater potential for use beyond this specific context. …”
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"By patience, labour and prayer. The voice of the Unseen God in the language of the Bechuana nation." A reflection of the history of Robert Moffat's Setswana Bible (1857) by J. J. Lubbe

“… The translation of the Bible into Setswana by Robert Moffat in 1857 was the first in an African language in sub-Sahara Africa and also the first Bible to be printed here — at the mission station at Kuruman, 150 years ago. This Bible translation had an enormous influence, reaching the Batswana people in different countries in Southern Africa and is still held in high esteem by them. …”
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