Analysis of the need for learning media for children with a certainty by Heriani Thamrin, Sunardi Sunardi, Supriyadi Supriyadi

“…Scholarly communication for children with special needs is significantly different from children in general. …”
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South Africa, Sweden, and Good International Citizenship by Suzanne Graham

“…A good international citizen (state) must also be a proponent of multilateral cooperation, usually manifesting in global platforms such as the United Nations (UN). Scholars refer to middle power states being ideally situated in the power rankings of international affairs, respected by major and minor powers, to become custodians of emerging international norms and to pave a pathway forward for the community of states. …”
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Research on Personal Loan Default Risk Assessment Based on Machine Learning by Liu Guangsen

“…This paper analyzes the current research status of other scholars on machine learning in personal loan default risk assessment in recent years, and selects Logistic Regression, Support Vector Machine, Naïve Bayes and Deep Neural Networks as research model. …”
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Radical orthodoxy and protestantism today: John Milbank in conversation by J. Milbank

“…The majority of the stories I shall tell are based on scholarly research on RO, much thereof generally accepted by experts, if not always well disseminated. …”
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Al di qua e al di là del muro: movimenti sociali in Israele e Palestina by Sabina Leoncini

“…Right here the movement has attracted the interest of scholars, especially for the ferocity with which "the movement of the tent" (or July 14) has been repressed. …”
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The Emotional Costs of Solidarity: How Refugees and Volunteers Manage Emotions in the Integration Process by Neeltje Spit, Evelien Tonkens, Margo Trappenburg

“…We argue that to promote solidarity in diversity, scholars and policymakers should pay more attention to these different forms of emotional labor and the painful and joyful emotions involved.…”
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Initiations in the Burmese Ritual Landscape by Bénédicte Brac de la Perrière

“…This rich ritual landscape remains under-examined due partly to the Buddhist-studies bias of most of the scholars looking at religion in Burma. In this paper, I develop comparative analysis of a class of ritual, namely that of initiation, in three components of Burmese religion: Buddhist monasticism, Buddhist esotericism, and spirit worship. …”
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Les voyages dans les ghost stories de Montagu Rhodes James : à la découverte d’horizons inattendus by Françoise Dupeyron-Lafay

“…These prim and fussy bachelors embark on their scholarly field studies in a very buoyant mood, hoping to make key discoveries in situ although the prospect of travelling somewhat disturbs them, the more so as four out of five of them have to go abroad and stay at foreign inns or hotels... …”
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The Older Gamer in Games Studies: Marginalised or Idealised? by Wu Huan, Guo Chen

“…It is suggested that scholars undertaking future studies avoid ageism and ableism when studying older gamers or disabled gamers. …”
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Conceptualising Fan Persona by Kim Barbour, Mark Stewart

“…In this issue, we invited scholars to bring understandings of identity from fan studies into conversation with ideas of a strategic performance of self, extending existing work on fan personas from both within the Persona Studies journal and beyond. …”
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Thematic Preoccupations of D. A. Ọbasá and Ṣóbọ̀ Aróbíodù on Religion and Colonialism by Ìyábọ̀dé Baliquis Alága, Luqman Abísọ́lá Kíaríbẹ̀ẹ́

“…Ọbasá and Ṣóbọ̀ Aróbíodù, the two intelligensias of Yorùbá poetry, have been the focus of earlier scholarly works in Yorùbá, with little attention given to the comparative study of their poetry. …”
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Stakeholder Theory for Sustainable Cities and Society: A Humanist and Environmental approach for integrating People, Institutions, and Environmental Ecosystems by Donizete Beck

“… It needs to be clarified in the literature as to how humanism could embrace environmental ecosystems in cities and society. Some scholars argue that Stakeholder Theory could help bridge the environmental ecosystems under a humanist approach. …”
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How Do College Students with Disabilities Do? Law, Self-determination, Self-advocacy, and Campus Resources by Jeong IL Cho, Kate Jones

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Anarchy Is What Explains the History of International Relations by William C. Wohlforth

“…The great war of 1914 to 1918 underlined the tragic wastefulness of the institution of war. It caused scholars to confront one of the most enduring puzzles of the study of international relations, why humans continue to resort to this self-destructive method of conflict resolution? …”
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Professors Call it Cheating, Students Call it Teamwork by Jeffrey Walsh, Jessie Krienert, Kevin Cannon, Samuel Honan

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Power, tourism, and ecology: a critical inquiry into aconcagua’s power structures and conceptions of nature by Henry Mooney

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The Ubiquity of Strange Frontiers: Minor Eschatology in Richard Powers’s The Echo Maker by Zachary Tavlin

“…This essay first considers the recurring epistemological frontiers in American literature and culture, including within the scholarly American Studies tradition that located ever-present links between Puritan millennialism, American Romanticism, and the settlement of the American continent. …”
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The Ethical Significance of the Consequences of Our Actions: Contemporary Theory of Action, Aquinas, and the Utilitarian Point of View by Stefan Hofmann

“…From the point of view of normative ethics, scholars give different ethical weight to the consequences. …”
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La figure du tout intégré et les noms discrets collectifs by Viviane Arigne

“…Isomorphism between a discrete whole and similarly discrete homeomerous parts accounts for the fascination collective discrete nouns hold for scholars, be it in English or French linguistics. The features pertaining to prototypical or collective integrated wholes help explain how collective mass-nouns are very frequently excluded from the class of collective nouns and how a number of collective discrete nouns are hardly ever mentioned in linguistic or grammatical works. …”
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PUBLIC POLICY AND INEQUALITY IN NIGERIA: AN INTERROGATION by MOSES DANJUMA BOT, MARIA ELEYI IGOCHE, ANOMNIHE UDOKA TIMDIR

“…The paper adopts a qualitative research design, drawing on secondary sources such as policy documents, scholarly articles, official reports, relevant blog post, newspapers and books to examine the correlation and impact of public policy on inequality in Nigeria. …”
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