How Peace Operations Work: Power, Legitimacy, and Effectiveness by Jeni Whalan by Umair Khalid Ameen

“…The author explores the moral and ethical debates surrounding international interventions, referencing key scholarly works on sovereignty, state-building, and conflict resolution. …”
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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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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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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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Is the expulsion of women as foreigners in Ezra 9-10 justifiably convenantal? by Emmanuel Usue

“…Consequently, the story has generated various viewpoints among Old Testament scholars. However, in this article, the author has attempted to show that Ezra and his associates did not provide convincing reasons for these massive expulsions. …”
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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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Mini Worldlit: A Dataset of Contemporary Fiction from 13 Countries, Nine Languages, and Five Continents by Andrew Piper, David Bamman, Christina Han, Jens Bjerring-Hansen, Hoyt Long, Itay Marienberg-Milikowsky, Tom McEnaney, Mathias Iroro Orhero, Emrah Peksoy, Pallavi Rastogi, Sebastian Rasmussen, Roel Smeets, Alexandra Stuart, Mads Rosendahl Thomsen

“…Mini Worldlit employs consistent cross-cultural selection criteria, overseen by scholarly experts, to ensure geographic, linguistic, and stylistic coherence. …”
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The mirage of a triune rainbow by E.M. Conradie

“…Rian Venter, one of the senior scholars contributing to this debate. It is written in the form of an “academic letter” that assumes the requisite scholarship, but deliberately engages in a conversation that is appropriate to the exploratory approach that is adopted and honours the correspondent upon his retirement. …”
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Controversy About Management of Osteoarthritis with Disease-modifying Anti-rheumatic Drugs by CUI Hanshu, LIU Bin

“…As its pathophysiological mechanisms are not well understood, it is hard to identify the specific targets of OA and standardize its pharmacological treatments. Some scholars believe that synovial inflammation is the main factor of pain and progression of OA, so disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (DMARDs) for inflammatory arthritis could be used to treat OA. …”
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Survey on terminology extraction from texts by Kang Xu, Yifan Feng, Qiandi Li, Zhenjiang Dong, Jianxiang Wei

“…In recent years, automatic terminology extraction (ATE) has attracted widespread attention from scholars, and rich research results have been achieved. …”
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Citoyenneté et identités religieuses dans la doctrine allemande du droit public ecclésiastique au XIXe siècle. Aux sources intellectuelles du modèle allemand de sécularisation... by Florian Reverchon

“…The conception of a »Christian state« – that is to say, a state that always seeks to translate Christian principles in its law and in its actions and cannot, therefore, admit non-Christians among its citizens – prevailing among 19th-century scholars, and recognition extended only to Christian churches. …”
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Responding To: In Defense of Merit in Science by Georgina Tuari Stewart

“…Below, I list and discuss its key ideas, summarise its scholarly flaws, and comment on its meta-level significance in context.…”
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Strategic and Policy Responses to COVID-19 Recovery in Hospitality and Tourism Industry: Evidence from Emerging Economy by Rajesh Katiyar, Divesh Kumar, Diptiranjan Mahapatra, Sneha Badola

“…The results of this research are of substantial importance to scholars and practitioners and make important theoretical and policy contributions for handling similar scenarios in the future. …”
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IN SEARCH OF THE ORIGINS OF ISRAELITE ANICONISM by S I Kang

“…The issue of aniconism has, therefore, been the subject of much scholarly debate. In discussing the concept of aniconism, this article follows Mettinger’s (1995:18) distinction between de facto aniconism (the mere absence of iconic representations of a deity) and programmatic aniconism (the repudiation of such representations). …”
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Creativity and disinformation in artificial intelligence-driven fashion communication by Sigita Kamašauskė, Živilė Sederevičiūtė-Pačiauskienė

“…The findings of this research show the emerging machine-washing concept as the topics that scholars are mostly focused on – the recreation of reality using deepfakes and altered images, digital influencers, and their messages. …”
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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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Food packaging films from natural polysaccharides and protein hydrogels: A comprehensive review by Mou Zhao, Ping Han, Hongyan Mu, Suling Sun, Juan Dong, Jingtao Sun, Shiling Lu, Qingling Wang, Hua Ji

“…The development of innovative, biodegradable food packaging materials to combat plastic pollution has garnered significant attention from scholars and government agencies worldwide. Natural polysaccharides and proteins exhibit excellent modifiability, biodegradability, high ductility, and compatibility with food products, making them ideal candidates for constructing hydrogels. …”
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Alienation and emancipation at the university through performing arts by Ramiro Tau, Laure Kloetzer, Aneth Sacher, Anna Zolotareva, Yemariam Abebayehu

“… This paper, co-written by three students and two lecturers of a master’s course called "Arts-based Approaches to Research and Teaching", focuses on the way in which the performing arts can contribute to the identification and definition of a scholarly research question. Based on a discussion of the phenomenon of learners' alienation in formal education systems, and its restrictive effects frequently pointed out in the specialized literature, we address the problem of the opening towards autonomy in the definition of an original research problem. …”
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Understanding Feminism Perspective on Informal Women Entrepreneurs in Kyengera Town Council by Henry Stanley, Mbowa, Siraje, Kaaya

“…The paper is guided by a documentary-based review design using mixed methods, and data collected through on desk review from scholarly articles. The paper indicates various philosophical descriptions, epistemological experiences and perspectives and socio-cultural experiences of informal women entrepreneurs in Kyengera Town Council. …”
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