The use of empirical data in communal discernment and decision-making processes in the Dutch Reformed Church by L. Bosman

“…This data, when used within a framework of discernment, can play an invaluable role in the development of a theology from below, where the theological foundations and concrete reality of the church’s context are taken into account. …”
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Analysis of Option Butterfly Portfolio Models Based on Nonparametric Estimation Deep Learning Method by Xiangyu Ge, Xia Zhu, Gang Bi, Hao Zheng, Qing Li

“…The option butterfly portfolio is the commonly option arbitrage strategy. In reality, because the distribution of the option state price density (SPD) function is not normal and unknown, so the nonparametric deep learning methods to estimate option butterfly portfolio returns are proposed. …”
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Blacking Up : Une histoire du rock au prisme du blackface by Keivan Djavadzadeh

“…If the blackface makeup practice faded away in the 1950s, the reality behind it has carried on since. On the basis of an analysis of rock music, its origins and its transatlantic circulations, I will examine the racial politics of popular music and postulate a continuity of the blackface cycle. …”
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Adapter les pratiques aux valeurs, adapter les valeurs aux pratiques : compensation et conciliation des habitants du périurbain pour une mobilité durable by Georges-Henry Laffont, Denis Martouzet

“…Using a quantitative approach (a measure of the movements) and a qualitative one (an interview that put people in front of the cartographic reality of their mobility via a logger-GPS) allows us to reach the justifications of practices. …”
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Contactless sociology: new forms of research in a digital age by O. Kryshtanovskaya

“…Nowadays, digital sociology is becoming a reality. Online surveys, polls without the participation of the respondents based on the analysis of activities in social networks give the sociologist a unique opportunity to conduct a “contactless” research in which the respondent doesn’t know about the interest of the scientist to him. …”
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CHANGE IN THE LEVEL OF CORPORATE LENDING IN POLAND DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC by Mateusz Śliwa, Aleksandra Kłosowska

“…The author focuses, on the one hand, on the ability of firms to incur liabilities and, on the other hand, on the changes in bank lending rules over the course of a changing economic reality burdened by the crisis caused by the pandemic. …”
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Ethical issues in online interpreting training by Liu Hongyan, Lei Zhenhui

“…We suggest developing professional interpreting learning platforms and software, adopting virtual reality technology, compiling a multimodal corpus, and establishing a virtual community to achieve better learning outcomes.…”
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Knowledge Encoding in Game Mechanics: Transfer-Oriented Knowledge Learning in Desktop-3D and VR by Sebastian Oberdörfer, Marc Erich Latoschik

“…Using immersive Virtual Reality (VR) has the potential to even further increase the serious game’s learning outcome and learning quality. …”
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Injustices épistémiques : lorsqu’autisme et dyscommunication se conjuguent, comment faire entendre ses choix ? by Cécile Lacôte-Coquereau

“…Taking an anthropocentric approach, the Participe 3.0 programme uses innovative virtual reality systems to help dyscommunicative autistic adults to participate more fully and interact socially in their shared inclusive housing project. …”
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A Novel Computer Virus Propagation Model under Security Classification by Qingyi Zhu, Chen Cen

“…In reality, some computers have specific security classification. …”
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Ekologiczna wymowa dialektyki oświecenia by Zbigniew Łepko

“…Ecological interpretation of such understanding of the dialectic of Enlightenment gives it a modern expression in the sense that it points to one of the most pressing contemporary problems, born of the mythical inspiration functioning of enlightened reason, and today, in the name of being a man claiming to be his task to demythologize reality. Broadly speaking, in the name of human freedom the idea is to overcome the enlightenment tradition of freedom or its’ degeneration in more subtle forms of practical denial. …”
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Językowy obraz świata w tekstach Jana Jakuba Rousseau. „Wyznania” jako narracyjne konstruowanie tożsamości by Anna Wasilewska

“…I recommend reading Rousseau’ s biography again in order to see the intersection of history and fictitious reality, to reconstruct the linguistic strategy of giving meaning by J.J. …”
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Conceptualising religion in the 21st century: Examining the proposal of Mark C. Taylor in After God

“…For Taylor, there are no solid grounds; there is only creative emergence, from which reality is figured and disfigured in an oscillating interplay. …”
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A Longitudinal analysis of the Porterian paradigm utilization in Brazil by Simone Sehnem, Fábio Lazzarotti, Rodrigo Bandeira-de-Mello

“…The analysis of methodology and purpose of comunications indicates that the "porterian life" in Brazil was characterized by the acritical use of its concepts in order to describe the reality of the strategy in Brazil. There are no evidences of consistent and systematic attempts to test or adapt the porterian paradigm for the Brazilian context. …”
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Strategic Management of Agribusiness: Determinants and Trends by Chao-Chien Chen, Hsiu-Ping Yueh, Chaoyun Liang

“…Intense changes have arisen in global agriculture, yielding a new market reality that is more complex and competitive than before. …”
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CHANGE IN THE LEVEL OF CORPORATE LENDING IN POLAND DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC by Mateusz Śliwa, Aleksandra Kłosowska

“…The author focuses, on the onehand, on the ability of firms to incur liabilities and, on the other hand, on the changes in banklending rules over the course of a changing economic reality burdened by the crisis caused by thepandemic. …”
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The Instrumentalization of Metaphors in the Management Field: Reflections from the use of the Book “The Art of War” on Business by Luiz Gustavo Lara, Fabio Vizeu, Elizeu Barroso Alves

“…In this sense, the strategic use of language can inhibit the interpretive autonomy of individuals, that is, colonize their interpretive horizons by the persuasive induction of simplistic and utilitarian worldviews about organizational reality. We use the essay form as a method, and we rely theoretically on Alvesson’s critical approach, on the hermeneutics by Gadamer and Ricoeur, and on Habermas’ Critical Theory. …”
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Differences in Perceptions of Agricultural Water Use between the General Public and Local Officials by Courtney T. Owens, Alexa J. Lamm, Ricky W. Telg

“…Therefore, dialogue must take place to educate and inform the general public and local officials about the reality of agricultural water use. This is the second article in a series describing the differences in perceptions of agricultural water use in Florida between the general public and local officials. …”
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Moral Certainty instead of Moral Objectivity by Aistė Noreikaitė

“…Because of its opposition to everything subjective, moral objectivity stands in an inherent conflict with the practical reality that we experience as persons from a first-person perspective; therefore, Dworkin’s attempt to reconceptualize moral objectivity from within a first-person perspective is inherently contradictory. …”
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HEAR THE UNHEARD VOICES OF VISUAL ART: by S.E. Dry

“…This narrative approach in concept development is subject to the student’s ability to understand and manipulate content, together with the facilitators’ approach to the reality. The researcher proposes the use of the narrative as a starting point to identify and develop a personal theme/concept in “tracing an untold history” of “unheard voices”, not only to add content to art-making, but also to guide art students to trace their “history and meaning of a unique outcome” and rewrite their own alternative stories. …”
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