Rethinking contending themes in indigenous and Christian religions in contemporary Africa by O.C. Eze, L.I. Ugbudian, T.A. Adihikon, S.O.S. Nnabuchi, J.U. Eke, C.J. Okolo

“…In the vast majority of deficit-prone literature, such themes as symbolism, liturgy, sacrifice, saints, sinners, and ontology, among others, are far from balanced. …”
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Exodus 2:1–10 and Dialectics on Maternal Virtues in Contemporary Igboland, Nigeria by Onyekachi Chukwuma

“…When Moses was born, his mother, sister and Pharaoh’s daughter displayed age-long maternal qualities such as love, sacrifice, courage, wisdom and patience, to save him from Pharaoh’s plot. …”
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Improve Fine-Grained Feature Learning in Fine-Grained DataSet GAI by Hai Peng Wang, Zhi Qing Geng

“…We propose SpiltAtt and ShuSpilt modules to sacrifice some features to enhance the backbone without introducing any parameters. …”
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Social capital of women who have been subjected to domestic violence by R. M. Sadykov, N. L. Bolshakova

“…The main features and characteristics of women who have been subjected to violence are altruism, self-sacrifice, unstable and low self-esteem, dependence on partner, social passivity, non-self-sufficiency, insecurity, fear of men and anxiety, isolation, etc. …”
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Could the Incentive Policy of Shared Parking Be Sustainable? The Viewpoint of Personal Risk Aversion by Liangpeng Gao, Yue Zheng, Wenliang Jian, Yanjie Ji, Dounan Tang

“…Particularly in some scenarios, FlexPass would sacrifice a certain monetary income to ensure the perceived benefits of parking space providers. …”
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Successful Treatment of Iatrogenic Vertebral Pseudoaneurysm Using Pipeline Embolization Device by Sudheer Ambekar, Mayur Sharma, Donald Smith, Hugo Cuellar

“…Traditional treatment methods have focused on parent vessel sacrifice with or without revascularization. We report the case of a patient who underwent successful treatment of an iatrogenic extracranial vertebral artery pseudoaneurysm using the Pipeline Embolization Device. …”
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Het die Reformasie die leer gered en aanbidding verloor? by B. Spoelstra

“…He viewed the Lord’s Supper as an objective way of preaching the sacrifice and atonement on Calvary and not as a covenantal communion. …”
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Moloch en expansion by Agnès Bouvier

“…The presence of the Gauls in the background of Moloch’s description is no more a writer’s device than the presence of the Greeks in the procession leading up to the children’s sacrifice in chapter XIII. It is deliberately meant by Flaubert to show “Moloch” in its full significance, as an historical, theological and anthropological phenomenon, a terrifying whole. …”
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The tip of an iceberg? Adult children’s experiences with parental suicidal behaviour in childhood by Geir Tarje Bruaset, Jennifer Drummond Johansen, Tine K. Grimholt

“…This instability imposed significant emotional and practical responsibilities on the children, forcing them to sacrifice their own development and sense of security. …”
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Joint Transmit Waveform and Receive Mismatched Filter Design to Suppress Range Sidelobe by Hairui Wang, Haihong Tao, Tiantian Zhong, Wendi Li

“…This method aims to achieve communication transmission while suppressing near-range sidelobe interference (NRSI) with a minor sacrifice in LPG. An environment-based weighted mismatched filter (EWMF) design methodology is proposed to attenuate NRSI to the requisite level, with further control of LPG possible by adjusting communication modulation parameters. …”
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Adaptable Bandwidth for Harmonic Step-Frequency Radar by Anthony F. Martone, Kyle A. Gallagher, Kelly D. Sherbondy, Kenneth I. Ranney, Traian V. Dogaru, Gregory J. Mazzaro, Ram M. Narayanan

“…It is shown that the proposed spectrum sensing technique significantly improves the SINR and the peak-to-average sidelobe power level of the harmonic radar at the sacrifice of range resolution.…”
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Kosovo and Metohija or the European Union ‒ a rhetorical dilemma in the Serbian political discourse by Ksenija Marković, Marko Jovanović, Branka Matijević

“…The aim of this paper is to establish which portion of public opinion is willing to make such a sacrifice in relation to the current attempts at resolution of the Kosovo question. …”
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Relieving the Impact of Transit Signal Priority on Passenger Cars through a Bilevel Model by Ding Wang, Wenxin Qiao, Chunfu Shao

“…However, the TSP may sacrifice the right-of-way of vehicles from side streets which have only few transit vehicles; therefore, how to minimize the negative impact of TSP strategy on the side streets is an important issue to be addressed. …”
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Coordinated Beamforming with Altruistic Precoding and User Selection for MU-MIMO System by Gaofeng Cui, Yanjie Dong, Weidong Wang, Yinghai Zhang

“…Among OCI mitigation schemes, methods that sacrifice ξ degrees of freedom to nullify the OCI have been proven to be helpful to improve the cell edge throughput. …”
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The Influence of a Tuition Fee Increase on the Drop-out Rate of the Nursing Program by Rumyana Stoyanova, Slaveyah Goranova

“…The aim of the study is to further delve into the question of whether an increase in tuition fee could have a significant impact on the positive outcome of the sacrifice-for-gain assessment among Nursing students. …”
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Latino Alzheimer's Caregiving: Neither a Burden nor a "Carga" by Lyda Arevalo-flechas

“…Caregiving is satisfying had three components: Caregiving is my opportunity to give back, knowing that I am doing my best, and a sacrifice.Conclusion:Data support the formulation of a conceptual orientation of the Latino caregiving experience.…”
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Old Wine in New Wineskins: Applying Computational Methods in New Testament Hermeneutics by Christian Houth Vrangbæk, Eva Elisabeth Houth Vrangbæk, Jacob Mortensen

“…The specific problem the article addresses is how computational methods can be wielded and not sacrifice the contact to the text and the historical context. …”
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Public Transmission, and Religious Symbolism in the British Women’s Suffrage Movement: The Cases of Emily Wilding Davison’s Funeral and the Pilgrimage of the National Union of Wome... by Chloé Clément

“…These public processions demonstrate that the sacrifice, devotion, and courage of women for the same sacred political and spiritual purpose could function as internal and external incentives to further the movement. …”
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Combined Safety and Coordination of Connected Automated Vehicles in Merging Area with Featuring Optimal Merging Positions by Bo Liu, Yanqing Cen, Zhihong Yao, Xianghui Song, Liu Hongben, Huan Gao

“…Furthermore, the proposed model does not sacrifice the interests of surrounding traffic to assist in CAV merging. …”
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The histopathologic evaluation of local effects of ozone therapy on the healing of experimental calvarial defects of rats by Tolga Bayar, Ebru Deniz Karslı

“…Ozone was applied for 2 min, three times per week, with one-day intervals, for a duration of 2 weeks post-surgery. Sacrifice was performed on the 14th day for one control and one ozone group, and on the 28th day for the remaining groups. …”
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