How polarization, populist attitudes, and cultural backlash affect citizens’ support for democracy: Evidence from Spain by Irene Palacios Brihuega, Antonio Garrido Rubia, Antonia Martínez Rodríguez

“…ABSTRACT In recent years, substantial scholarly attention has been devoted to understanding the consequences of three increasing phenomena on democratic legitimacy: populism, polarization, and cultural backlash. …”
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RISALAH NUR DAN GERAKAN TAREKAT DI TURKI: PERAN SAID NURSI PADA AWAL PEMERINTAHAN REPUBLIK by Muhammad Faiz

“…My study is assuming that Risalah Nur plays an important role when the tariqa, mysticism/tasawuf teachings banned by the Turkish government since 1925. For some Muslim scholars the Risalah Nur written in Arabic and Turkish is considered as the treasures of Islamic knowledge in Turkey. …”
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A Narrative Inquiry to Explore Lived Experiences of Women Pursuing PhDs in South Africa by Lianne Keiller, Abigail Ruth Dreyer

“… The journey experienced by women in higher education spans across the areas of teaching, research and leadership. As academics and scholars within these areas, women professionals find few opportunities to share what and how they have navigated this space. …”
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Collaborative Sleep Electroencephalogram Data Analysis Based on Improved Empirical Mode Decomposition and Clustering Algorithm by Xiangwei Zheng, Xiaochun Yin, Xuexiao Shao, Yalin Li, Xiaomei Yu

“…Sleep stage classification (or sleep staging), which studies the human sleep process and classifies the sleep stages, is an important reference to the diagnosis and study of sleep disorders. Many scholars have conducted a series of sleep staging studies, but the correlation between different sleep stages and the accuracy of classification still needs to be improved. …”
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al-Taswîq Muta'addid al-Mustawayât al-Mustawayât fî Daw al-Maqâsîd al-Shar'iyyah al-Khâssah bi al-Mâl by Rais Abdullah, Rabiatul Adawiyah, Abdul Gafur

“…Multilevel marketing is a new case that is not found in the legal explanation of the Al-qur’ān or in the sunnah; to determine the law, the moslem scholars have “ijtihād” by using various approaches, both economic approaches and fiqh approaches. …”
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Norwegian higher education teachers’ beliefs about teaching, motivation, and approaches to researching and developing teaching by Leila E. Ferguson

“…Quality teaching in higher education is enjoying renewed political and scholarly interest in Norway. Building on extant research on teachers at primary and secondary levels, and budding research at the tertiary level, the present investigation focuses on higher education teachers’ beliefs about teaching, motivation, and beliefs about researching and developing teaching. …”
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Attitudes of representatives of major religious movements towards the digitalisation of religion by M. Ja. Yuldashev, A. I. Ivanchenko, O. A. Kulikova

“…The article reflects the peculiarities of this process: it analyses the activities of various religious movements in the Russian Federation in the digital environment and reveals the attitude of religious representatives (official and unofficial) to the process of adapting religion to the digital environment. The scholarly literature on the digitalisation of religion was analysed and the problematic aspects of this process were identified. …”
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Advancing a Holistic Framework for Classifying SAI Performance Audit Impact Factors: Integrated Scientific Assumptions by Asta Šaliene

“…Throughout the study, a systematic exploration of scientific literature is conducted to identify and organize hypothetical and previously researched impact factors discussed by scholars. The identified factors are aggregated according to their characteristics, meaning, or nature, and are divided into ten pillars: accountability, context, legitimacy, political overtones, quality of the performance audit, social relations, stakeholders, logic of public administration, the multifunctional activity of performance audit, and the individual. …”
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Political communication as television news: Party-produced news of the Sweden Democrats during the 2022 election campaign by Ekman Mattias, Widholm Andreas

“…Hence, the study contributes to political communication scholarship by emphasising how news has become an integral part of strategic party communication, challenging established scholarly conceptualisations of alternative media and hyperpartisan news.…”
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Predictors of smartphone addiction and its effect on quality of life: a cross-sectional study among the young adults in Bangladesh by Zubair Ahmed Ratan, Anne-Maree Parrish, Mohammad Saud Alotaibi, Hassan Hosseinzadeh

“…The enigma of smartphone addiction (SA) has plagued academics for the last decade, now scholars believed this behaviour might affect physical and mental wellbeing. …”
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Trajectory Tracking Control Study of a New Parallel Mechanism with Redundant Actuation by Haiqiang Zhang, Hairong Fang, Dan Zhang, Qi Zou, Xueling Luo

“…Parallel mechanisms with redundant actuation are attracting numerous scholars’ research interest due to their inherent advantages. …”
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The Symbolism and Aesthetics of the Window as a Visual Motif in the TV Series “The Handmaid’s Tale” by Ángeles Martínez-García, Mónica Barrientos-Bueno

“…However, there is still a dearth of scholarly works focusing on the analysis of the series’ staging and art direction. …”
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The power of social capital: the significance of relationships in third space practice by Diane Nutt, Emily McIntosh

“…It offers insights into the way that relationships are developed and harnessed and provides a steer on future scholarly investigation, which promotes the importance of high-quality relationships in realising the benefits that third space professionals bring to the academy. …”
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What is Being Said About Internal Marketing? A Study of the Brazilian Business Administration Academic Production by Fernanda Roda de Souza Araújo Cassundé, Nildo Ferreira Cassundé Junior, Salomão Alencar de Farias, José Ricardo Costa de Mendonça

“…It is expected to contribute to the understanding of how scholars are studying the internal marketing of the area in the Brazilian context.…”
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Robustness Analysis of Control Laws in Complex Dynamical Networks Evoked by Deviating Argument by Biwen Lia, Jingjing Huang, Donglun Wang

“…In recent years, robust performance of the system has been broadly studied as a trending topic among a vast array of scholars. This paper discusses the robustness of control laws for complex dynamic networks (CDNs) with a deviation argument. …”
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SOCIETY OF KNOWLEDGES AS SPACE OF DEVELOPMENT OF INTELLECT OF PERSONALITY by G. Moskalyk

“…We consider the views of various researchers on topics studied question, their difference and contradiction, analyzed the degree of research scholars of the subject. The author of the article pays attention to the integrity and consistency – logical properties of the educational process. …”
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Èdè Àyàn: The Language of Àyàn in Yorùbá Art and Ritual of Egúngún by Oláwọlé Fámúlẹ̀

“…Paradoxically, many Yorùbá art scholars often make very little or no effort to explore the relevance of ìlù in their studies on Yorùbá visual culture, such as Egúngún. …”
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