A Text-centred rhetorical analysis of 1 Thessalonians 2:13-16 by H.J. Prinsloo

“…Unlike previous attempts by scholars to analyse the letter in terms of ancient rhetorical theory, this article illustrates how the rhetorical strategy can be reconstructed from the text itself; therefore, it is identified as a text-centred rhetorical analysis, which follows a minimum theoretical approach. …”
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THE EUROPEAN UNION (EU) AND THE CLIMATE-SECURITY NEXUS: CSDP MISSIONS AND OPERATIONS by Ayfer Genç Yılmaz

“…Since the mid-2000s, the climate-security nexus has come to the forefront of scholarly debates. For some scholars, the linkages between climate change and security should be analyzed from the national security perspective, whereas others from a human security perspective. …”
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A New Approach to General Interpolation Formulae for Bivariate Interpolation by Le Zou, Shuo Tang

“…The general interpolation formulae include general interpolation formulae of symmetric branched continued fraction, general interpolation formulae of univariate and bivariate interpolation, univariate block based blending rational interpolation, bivariate block based blending rational interpolation and their dual schemes, and some interpolation form studied by many scholars in recent years. We discuss the interpolation theorem, algorithms, dual interpolation, and special cases and give many kinds of interpolation scheme. …”
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‘Her Room Was Her World’: Nellie Sloggett and North Cornish Folklore by Simon Young

“…Second, to make the point that Sloggett’s writing is useful for folklorists: she has, since her death, been neglected even by south-western scholars. Third, to situate her work in the broader British and Irish folklore movement: her corpus offers some unique challenges. …”
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دلالة حروف العطف في التفسير البديع للشيخ محمد شريف الله: سورة البقرة والنساء والأنعام أنموذجاً (دراسة تحليلية)... by SAMIA ABBASI

“…The topic aims to clarify and figure out the approach of Sheikh Muhammad Sharif Allah regarding the meaning of conjunctions with the common aspects and differences between opinions of the scholars. It also talks about the meaning of the conjunction linguistically and terminologically, their rules and meanings in context, and it also talks about the author’s life and the methodology in his book. …”
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It Does Not Stop at Treaties: Filling the Void of Indigenous Governance by Yamina Sfiat

“…This article seeks to address this issue and provides an agenda of questions for scholars to explore. Tribal public administration must be placed at the core of public administration rather than at the margins, and in doing so, public administration as a field must prioritize Indigenous voices. …”
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Le langage de la diversité by Sara Ahmed

“…Feminist and postcolonial scholars have offered powerful critiques of the language of diversity. …”
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Entre document immédiat et fiction de mémoire : Histoire et enjeux du désenchantement des actualités visuelles  by Émilie Houssa

“…If "memory is fiction," as many scholars claim (such as Jacques Rancière, Bernard Stiegler and Paul Ricoeur), it seems more and more difficult to set up a space and a time of fictionalisation in this stream of images experienced as the trace of a present and presented soon forgotten. …”
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Inquiry into the Conceptual Dimensions of Project Portfolio Management by Pedro Bruno de Souza, Jorge Carneiro, Rodrigo Bandeira-de-Mello

“…By building from a review of the scant literature on project portfolio management , conversations with expert scholars on project management, interpretations provided by managers, and theoretical reflection by the authors of this study, it was possible to identify main aspects that seem to tap how the degree of “accomplishment” of project portfolio ma nagement can be conceptually defined and operationally measured.…”
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Islamic Feminism in Morocco: A Generational Comparison Between Fatima Mernissi and Asma Lamrabet by Francesca Neri

“…Through a study of the traditional Islamic theories and texts translated by them, these two scholars illustrate a generational change in Moroccan activism. …”
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Workplace violence: Prevalence, risk factors and preventive measures across the globe by Daniela ACQUADRO MARAN

“…The investigation of this phenomenon is essential, because the knowledge about the nature of the prior relationship victim-perpetrator, the behaviour acted by the perpetrator and the strategies adopted by the victim to cope with the experience of victimization, the consequences on individuals, society and organization, give to scholars and practitioners significant information that could be useful to improve the organizational prevention and intervention. …”

Medicalisation of Birth in Transylvania in the Second Half of the 19th Century. A Subject to be Investigated by Luminiţa Dumănescu, Ioan Bolovan

“…A research tool like a historical population database could help the scholars to address the issue of birth medicalisation, starting from the main research question: can we discuss the medicalisation of birth given that more than half of the women assisted in the delivery of just one child?…”
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φόβος καὶ φόνος : peurs et fureurs guerrières lors des chasses des vaincus à la fin du IIIe et dans la première moitié du IIe siècle av. J.-C. by Rémi Saou

“…Almost all combats outside fortified areas ended in the partial or total rout of one of the opposing sides. Scholars have paid little attention to this fact. Yet routs and their escorts, fear and bloodshed, were at the heart of Greek conceptions of war. …”
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The Multiple Modernities of Sweden by Janina Gosseye

“…Through twelve contributions by a group of international scholars, Mattsson and Wallenstein aspire to initiate the construction of an emblematic Swedish modernism. …”
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Internet et ses espaces : vers une économie politique de la production urbaine par les centres de données by Émile Pronovost, Julia Frotey, Morgan Mouton

“…Ever since the early development of the Internet, scholars in urban studies and geography have sought to examine the infrastructures that subtend the development of this new telecommunication network. …”
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IN THE TREND OF THE 21^st CENTURY: BIOLOGY AND BIOMEDICINE by Alexey V. Sem'yanov, Viktor B. Kazantsev

“…The role of visiting scholars in attracting extra-budgetary funding and improving the quality of scientific publications is discussed.…”
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Peace journalism and the usage of online sources by Ylva Rodny-Gumede

“…Based on data collected from questionnaires and interviews with journalists, media scholars and media monitors in South Africa, the article explores their responses to suggestions that Internet sources are more politically biased than are traditional sources and determines both the extent to which journalists use them and the extent to which they should rely on online sources. …”
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Gathering and Scattering Emily Dickinson’s Poetry by Antoine Cazé

“…It has fiercely divided scholars over what it has meant to “collect” Dickinson’s poems. …”
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Kreis in Verse: Robert Duncan and the Masters in Poetics Program at New College of California by Nicholas James Whittington

“…The paper plays on the aural cognates (to the ear most accustomed to English) of the German kreis and the French crise to show how this close circle of poets and scholars banded together to face the perceived crisis of professionalization and careerism represented by the explosive growth of the creative writing complex and the long devaluation of poetry as a vital form of knowledge.…”
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Los límites de la humanidad. El mito de los ch’ullpa en Marcapata (Quispicanchi), Perú by Pablo F. Sendón

“…This paper presents and discusses the myth of the ch’ullpa – beings of the pre-solar time – such as it is narrated by the members of the ayllu Collana from the district of Marcapata (province of Quispicanchi, Cusco) in relation to three kind of sources: a) the archaeological information about the geographical and spatial localization of the mortuary monuments which received that name in the Central Andes; b) the ethnological information about other versions of the myth registered among other indigenous-peasant populations from Southern Peru and the Bolivian altiplano; c) the ethnohistorical information which, in relation with the myth, has been registered by several scholars. The main objective of the review is to lay the foundations of a comparative perspective of the myth with the aim to transcend the specificities of a case study.…”
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