Multilingualism and Plurilingualism in Teaching the Lingua Franca: A Critical Review by Marzieh Ebrahimi

“…To address this intricate task in an effective manner, it is imperative for future scholars to embrace a dual approach characterized by boldness and humility, while acknowledging the extensive global ramifications involved. …”
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Caste or qualification? Chaitanya Vaishnava Discussions about Brahmanas in Colonial India by Martin Fárek

“… Despite the general conviction about functioning of caste system in India we are far from understanding even its basic units, called varna and jati. If many scholars are not able to provide convincing solutions to problems with definition of caste and subcaste in India, it is necessary to anlayse the whole framework of thinking within which our modern discussions about caste developed. …”
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Deepfake Dilemmas: Imagine Tomorrow’s Surveillance Society through Three Scenarios by Fatma Doğan Akkaya

“…This analysis highlights the ethical dilemmas surrounding deepfakes, particularly in relation to mass surveillance, digital self-control, and resistance movements. Contributing to scholarly discourse, the study underscores the need for proactive social and ethical frameworks to navigate the evolving deepfake landscape and highlights the importance of ongoing research for the responsible development and use of this powerful technology.…”
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Eclecticism in child welfare by Terje Halvorsen

“…The presentation is largely based on the author’s observations from debates between Norwegian scholars over the last four decades. The conclusion, however, may have a general validity. …”
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Teamwork Makes the Dream Work: Scaling Up Effective Peer Feedback in a Large-enrollment Project-based Course by Logan Paul, Alexis Peirce Caudell

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A Reflection on the Current State of Active Learning Research by Amedee Marchand Martella, Darryl Schneider

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Tamactún-Acalán: interpretación de una hegemonía política maya de los siglos xiv-xvi by Andrés Ciudad Ruiz, Alfonso Lacadena García-Gallo

“…At the same time, there is no agreement among scholars about whether the ancient Maya were politically organized in decentralized states of segmentary nature, or in regional centralized states. …”
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The Body in New Age from the Perspective of the Subtle Body: The Example of the Source Breathwork Community by Katre Koppel

“…The concept of the subtle body as a scholarly tool is applied in the analysis of fieldwork data collected between 2011 and 2013 in Estonia. …”
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American Weed: A History of Cannabis Cultivation in the United States by Nick Johnson

“…Understanding how the US became one of the premier cannabis-growing regions of the world in the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries will help scholars pinpoint major themes in the world history of cannabis, such as its adoption and distribution by marginalized peoples, its transnational appeal in a globalized capitalist system, and how the plant embeds itself within the urban and rural ecology of human civilization. …”
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Virtual Simulation-Based Training and Person-Centered Care by Christen Page, Morgan Blaydes, Leah Simpkins, Casey Humphrey, Kellie Ellis

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Towards Deep Learning in Online Courses: A Case Study in Cross-Pollinating Universal Design for Learning and Dialogic Teaching by Qiongli Zhu, Sarfaroz Niyozov

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Theory and Application of Gob-Side Entry Retaining in Thick Three-Soft Coal Seam by Junchao Shen, Ying Zhang

“…With the characteristic of less roadway excavation and high resource recovery, gob-side entry retaining (GER) technology is a safe and efficient green mining technology. Many experts and scholars have done extensive research on its principle and application. …”
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Rhetorical Mixture: Hermogenes and Hybridity in English Renaissance Literary Criticism by Javiera Lorenzini Raty

“…Through an examination of work by scholars and poets such as George Puttenham, George Chapman, William Scott, and William Carew, this article demonstrates that Hermogenes both shapes and sheds light on these authors’ main discussions on literary hybridity, informing alternative and radical understandings of poetic form.…”
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Digital Texts in Practice by Christian Wittern

“…This requirement includes use of texts for reading, translating, annotating, quoting, and publishing, thus integrating with the whole of the scholarly workflow. At that time theories of electronic texts started to appear and the Text Encoding Initiative had already begun to create a common text model and interchange specification, based mainly on European languages. …”
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Investigating Soil Adhesion and Antiadhesion Performance of Nonsmooth Subsoiler Surfaces by Jinguang Li, Hongyan Qi, Yunhai Ma, Peng Gao, Baoguang Wu

“…Soil adhesion is one of the main factors affecting the working resistance and energy consumption of agricultural machinery. Many scholars have been doing much research on the method of soil antiadhesion, but the conditions for the occurrence of adhesion need to be further discussed. …”
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Decolonizing the Study of Religions:Muslim Intellectuals and the Enlightenment Project of Religious Studies by Abdulkader Tayob

“…Abduh (he diedin 1905) to recent scholars like Na?r ??mid Ab? Zayd (he diedin2010) have used religion as a critical term to develop a critique of tradition and modernity, and a strategy for renewal. …”
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Law and Politics in FCPA Prosecutions of Foreign Corporations by Elizabeth Acorn

“…Abstract The expansive reach of US prosecutions addressing corporate and economic crimes has piqued the interest of many commentators and scholars. This is perhaps nowhere more evident than in the enforcement of the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (“FCPA”) against non-American corporations. …”
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The Publishing Race by A.W. Misbach

“…The Thinker encourages a scholarly engagement of  ideas and does not serve as a vehicle for potentially litigious comment. …”
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The lowest canonical denominator: electronic literary texts, and the role of the information professional by Claire Warwick

“…This issue should concern not only literary critics, but also information professionals. Humanities scholars need diverse resources, rare texts and multiple editions of works. …”
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Water insecurity is human: why social science must be at the core of water security research and practice by Amber Wutich

“…Many water scholars believe we are at an inflection point in which new approaches to water research and management are needed, and I agree. …”
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