Unveiling microbial communities with EasyAmplicon: A user‐centric guide to perform amplicon sequencing data analysis by Salsabeel Yousuf, Hao Luo, Meiyin Zeng, Lei Chen, Tengfei Ma, Xiaofang Li, Maosheng Zheng, Xin Zhou, Liang Chen, Jiao Xi, Hongye Lu, Huiluo Cao, Xiaoya Ma, Bian Bian, Pengfan Zhang, Jiqiu Wu, Renyou Gan, Baolei Jia, Linyang Sun, Zhicheng Ju, Yunyun Gao, Waqar Afzal Malik, Chuang Ma, Hujie Lyu, Yahui Li, Huiyu Hou, Yuanping Zhou, Defeng Bai, Yao Wang, Haifei Yang, Jiani Xun, Shengda Du, Tianyuan Zhang, Xiulin Wan, Kai Peng, Shanshan Xu, Tao Wen, Tong Chen, Yong‐Xin Liu

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How the Knowledge of Interactions between Meningococcus and the Human Immune System Has Been Used to Prepare Effective Neisseria meningitidis Vaccines by R. Gasparini, D. Panatto, N. L. Bragazzi, P. L. Lai, A. Bechini, M. Levi, P. Durando, D. Amicizia

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Impact du régime hydrique et de la gestion des récoltes sur la quantité et la qualité du fourrage herbacé dans l’écosystème sahélien au Sénégal by Ange-Jokébed Adjoua N'goran, Ousmane Ndiaye, Ousmane Diatta, Daouda Ngom, Sékouna Diatta, Haftay Hailu Gebremedhn, Cofélas Fassinou, Laurent Bonnal, Denis Bastianelli, Paulo Salgado, Simon Taugourdeau

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Meningococcal Antigen Typing System Development and Application to the Evaluation of Effectiveness of Meningococcal B Vaccine and Possible Use for Other Purposes by Alexander Domnich, Roberto Gasparini, Daniela Amicizia, Giuseppe Boccadifuoco, Marzia Monica Giuliani, Donatella Panatto

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‘If this is of God’: Choosing to Curse in Ghanaian Charismatic Christianity by Mark S. Aidoo

“…In the African Pentecostal/Charismatic ministries, one finds pastors and prophets who are cursing their colleagues openly. …”
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INTERVIEW WITH PROF. NICO NORMAN KOOPMAN by M. Laubscher

“…He is also an ordained pastor of the Uniting Reformed Church in Ida’s Valley, Stellenbosch. …”
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A state-dependent soil model and its application to principal stress rotation simulations by Zhongtao Wang, Peng Liu, Andrew Hin Cheong Chan

“…The plastic strain caused by principal stress rotation is one of the most important factors contributing to substantial deformation under earthquake, wave or traffic loading. The original Pastor–Zienkiewicz Mark III model, a well-known model for the analysis of the dynamic response under cyclic loading, is unable to consider the effects of principal stress orientation as well as state-dependent dilatancy. …”
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The Evolution of Venezuelan Evangelical Involvement in Politics: The Case of the 2024 Presidential Elections by Fernando Adolfo Mora-Ciangherotti

“…After his questionable re-election in 2018, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro Moros (NMM) began a campaign to attract the attention of evangelical leaders, apostles, prophets, pastors, and church members to secure their votes for the 2024 campaign. …”
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Editorial by Maria Frahm-Arp

“…In a different vein, Aidoo examines the phenomena of cursing prayers in which pastors criticize each other and claim other pastors as not being Christians in their prayers. …”
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Bibliometric analysis of empirical studies in Spanish on Working Memory (1999-2014). by Mauricio Cervigni, Ma. del Rosario Sguerzo, Guillermo Alfonso, Melina Pastore, Pablo Martino, Cecilia Mazzoni, Jorge Vivas

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Los dzieci zmarłych bez chrztu – nieznana historia i współczesne pytania by Marta Ficoń

“…Such a presentation of the question serves to formulate responses to the ever-arising problems concerning the baptism of children, the lack of this sacrament, theological perplexities or pastors’ and parents’ behavior. The aim is also to understand that God loves and wills to save everyone, especially the smallest representatives of the human race who has no chance to be baptized.…”
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Creating a holistic excellence model adapted for technology-based companies by Ana Clara Pastor Tejedor, Jesús Pastor Tejedor, Luis Navarro Elola, Manbir Sodhi, Guillermo Pérez Sancho

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Les bénéfices sociaux et environnementaux des systèmes agricoles : une analyse ostromienne de trois terrains d’étude en France by Marielle Berriet-Solliec, Christophe Déprés, Colas Chervier, François-Gaël Lataste, Denis Lépicier, Hai Vu Pham, Virginie Piguet

“…The methodology is based on three case studies in France on sustainable agricultural practices in Langres, about preservation of water quality and quantity in Volvic and on agro-pastoralism in the Cévennes National Park. Five main factors could be identified that point to the importance of public intervention when it matches with concerted local governance between public and private actors at different management scales.…”
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The Transition from Song to Poetry in Latvian Literature in the Second Half of the 19th Century by Māra Grudule

“…As the level of education among Latvians was low and most information spread by word of mouth, the German pastors and the first generation of Latvian poets made use of ziņges as an informative tool. …”
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La capacidad de servicio cuando existe vocación para servir by Luis Alberto Pastor Yañez

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“THE EMPTIED AUTHORITY”: AFRICAN NEO-PENTECOSTALISM, MODERNISATION OF SACRED AUTHORITY, AND GENDERED AND SEXUALISED CONSTRUCTIONS OF VIOLENCE by C.J. Kaunda

“…The article proposes emptied sacred authority as life-affirming and the recovery of holistic imaginations, whereby the pastor becomes a symbolic instrument of a kenotic life. …”
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M. Nel, Identity-driven churches: Who are we and where are we going? by A. R. Tucker

“… From text: I have no hesitation in recommending this book for study by every minister, pastor, priest, bishop, denominational executives, “apostle”, and church leader in South Africa. …”
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THE PANDEMIC AND HOMILETICS 101: A REFLECTION by S. Hoezee

“… The global pandemic of COVID-19 across the year 2020 afforded pastors everywhere an opportunity to engage in some critical reflection on their homiletic practices. …”
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Remarks on the church in the consumer society: similarities and dissimilarities by L. O. K. Lategan

“…The consumer society reminds the church that, although the message of the church cannot change, the style of church services can. Pastors should make it clear that the  gospel message is not a product for sale; however the gospel message should be directed at the needs of people. …”
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Exploration of Wild Edible Plants Used as Food by Gaddis-A Tribal Community of the Western Himalaya by Arti Thakur, Somvir Singh, Sunil Puri

“…The inhabitants subsisted primarily on pastoralism and agriculture and have traditional knowledge on wild edible plants. …”
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