THE PERFORMATIVE FUNCTION/POWER OF LITERARY DEVICES IN JUDITH: A SPEECH ACT CONTRIBUTION by R.S. Hobyane

“… The compositional brilliance of the book Judith has, in research on it, been overshadowed by debates on its fictional nature, historical inconsistencies, canonical debate, gender and moral/ethical issues. While Judith scholars have made significant contributions on historical, ethical and gender matters, this article contends that the composition of Judith is a topic still wide open for exploration. …”
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Correctional officers and the ongoing health implications of prison work by William J. Schultz, Rosemary Ricciardeli

“…Likewise, recent literature suggests correctional employees are facing a mental health crisis, with high prevalence of mental health disorders and self-harming behaviors, even when compared to other law enforcement personnel. Further, scholars have expressed concerns about the social and cultural wellbeing of staff, factors that directly impact daily prison operations. …”
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Working with all nations and all relatives in feeding the future by Shaileshkumar Shukla

“…Many international agencies (including those affiliated with the United Nations), food systems scholars, grassroots organizations, and community members are grappling with the very imminent challenges of addressing the alarmingly high level of food insecurity in Turtle Island (Council of Canadian Academics, 2014; Fieldhouse & Thompson, 2012) and the global South (Kuhnlein et al., 2013). …”
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The Greek shamans, the Scythian Psychonauts and the Spirit of Eranos by Putnik Noel

“…By analyzing the theoretical premises and methodological approaches of these scholars, as well as the scientific community’s feedback, I aim to contextualize the thesis of Greek shamanism more closely within the intellectual currents of the twentieth century and earlier periods. …”
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Buen Vivir or Sumak Kawsay. In Search of New Referential Frame for Public Action in Ecuador by Margarita Manosalvas

“…Many scholars saw in the emergence of terms such as good living (buen vivir), sumak kawsay, or sumac qamaña a radical breaking with the development paradigm. …”
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AN ANALYSIS OF THE MEDIA AND GOVERNMENT RELATIONSHIP by Yusuf Yüksel

“…By taking into account these factors, scholars have suggested different theories and models to explain this relationship. …”
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Categorical and concept apparatus for the transformation of catering enterprises’ marketing strategies by V. M. Sedelnikov

“…In particular, the study considers the views of domestic and foreign scholars concerning the definitions of the concepts of “loyalty”, “satisfaction” and “engagement”. …”
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What constitutes a new party? The lack of a standard operationalization and the way forward by Gideon Rahat

“…This mini-review examines scholars' responses to the question, “What constitutes a new party?” …”
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The Concept of a Method for Predicting the Cascade Effect Under Conditions of Hybrid Warfare by WRÓBLEWSKI Wojciech, WIŚNIEWSKI Michał

“…Features of hybrid warfare, such as multidimensionality, synergistic effects, blurring of boundaries, or asymmetricity, force practitioners and scholars to consider new threats. The article examines how the characteristics of hybrid warfare affect the emergence of cascade effects. …”
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Indicating Dependency between Spoken Sentences by Prosodic Means by Mari Wiklund

“…In certain languages and in certain types of data, prosodic features are used to group prosodic units called by some scholars spoken sentences into larger units, often called speech paragraphs. …”
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Explaining the prevalence of marital conflict: conceptual bifurcation and sociological explanations by Wing-Chung Ho

“…This conceptual paper aims to address this issue by first critically reviewing how scholars have assessed the prevalence of marital conflict in human societies. …”
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Investigating and Completing Khanlari’s Theory on Metrical Units by Abbas Jahed Jah

“…Metrical units have a special place in the study of prosody, and as such, scholars have always paid particular attention to their scansion and naming. …”
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Assessing the visibility and public engagement of bone marrow and stem cell transplantation research: An altmetric analysis by Mohammad Ahmadian, Shaban Alizadeh, Azadeh Omidkhoda, Fatemeh Sheikhshoaei, Brenda Van Wyk

“…This study aims to investigate and analyze research in this field using altmetrics in a world outside the academic scholarly and publishing environment. Methods: This study examines articles in the field of bone marrow and stem cell transplantation in a ten-year period (2013–2022) extracted from the Web of Science database. …”
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Determining the Factors and Evolutionary Trends of Customer Engagement in Businesses: A Bibliometric Analysis by Reza Abbasi Mobarakabadi, Amir khanlari, Nader Seyyedamiri

“…Conclusion Based on the results of the histogram mapping, three main pathways of scholars in this field were elucidated. The first one focuses on the customer-centric approach for organizations. …”
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Imagined Libya: geopolitics of the margins by Luca Raineri

“…Whether referring to the artificiality of its (post-)colonial construction or to the fragmentation of its sovereignty since 2011, the weakness of Libya’s statehood is a recurrent theme in policy and scholarly discourses. Scholars of history and international politics have expanded the framework to apprehend the processes of state (de/)formation underpinning Libya’s fragilities beyond the problematic “failed state” paradigm to accommodate longue-durée and multi-scalar perspectives. …”
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The Influence of Network Position on Executives’ Preference for Imitation over Innovation: A Scenario-Based Experimental Approach by Guojian Zhang, Francis Boadu, Yu Xie

“…This study contributes to the literature by revealing how different network structures uniquely influence strategic decision-making in uncertain environments, offering valuable insights for scholars and practitioners. The scenario-based experimental method enhances the precision of the findings and provides actionable implications for real-world decision-making in venture development.…”
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UGA SUNDANESE AHMADIYYA: LOCALITY OF MAHDIISM IN WEST JAVA by Jajang A Rohmana

“…Studies on Ahmadiyah have been very extensive both in their focuses and approaches. However, few scholars consider local culture as an important means of the Ahmadiyya movement. …”
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ALMAWARDI DAN KONSEP KHILAFAH ISLAMIYYAH: RELEVANSI SISTEM POLITIK ISLAM KLASIK DAN POLITIK MODERN by Muzayyin Ahyar

“…The long debate on the relevance of the concept of Islamic caliphate government to the modern political concept has been occurring among scholars up to nowadays. This situation leads to an important question about, to what extent the relevance/irrelevance of an Islamic political concept, when it is contextualized to the modern political conditions? …”
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Differences in Linguists’ Perceptions of the History of Korean Language: Focusing on the Causes by Hyun-Soo Moon

“…Notably, they disagree on the timing of Old Korean and Medieval Korean. North Korean scholars place Old Korean into the period from the early 30th century to the 3rd century BC, and Medieval Korean into the period from the 3rd century BC to the 19th century AD. …”
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