Poetics of Friction by Nadja Ben Khelifa, Étienne Allaix, Jörg Sternagel

“…While the sources of such an inspiration are manifold, three of them come into movement and display during the rehearsal: (1) excavation, (2) meaning, and (3) sense. …”
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Parameter Evaluation for a Statistical Mechanical Model for Binary Choice with Social Interaction by Alex Akwasi Opoku, Godwin Osabutey, Charles Kwofie

“…This work differs from the previous work that motivated this work in the following sense: (a) the reference population is divided into subgroups with unequal subgroup sizes, (b) the proportion of individuals in each of the subgroups may depend on the population size N, and (c) the method of partial least squares is used for estimating the parameters of the model with social interaction as opposed to the least squares method used in the earlier work.…”
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Les prés vergers de pommiers à cidre et les agroforêts de cacaoyers by Samuel Perichon

“…The public policies have a great influence on the strategies of exploitation favoured by the farmers, in the sense where they offer them – deservedly or not – some economic perspectives. …”
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Presumed Sturge Weber Syndrome in a Haitian Boy: A Case of Delayed Diagnosis by Gian Paolo Giuliari, Ama Sadaka, Maria Angelica Cortez, Adalgisa Corona

“…The presentation was not typical in the sense that no evident port-wine stain was observed on the face. …”
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Defective Laplacians and paradoxical phenomena in crowd motion modeling by Maury, Bertrand

“…This operator is defective in a certain sense: although it is the microscopic counterpart of the macroscopic Laplace operator, this discrete operator indeed lacks some properties, in particular the maximum principle. …”
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Kobus Schoeman: A “bridge-builder” practical theologian, bridging divides in the publics of the church, the academy, and society by D.N. Andrew

“…These endeavours show the many ways in which Schoeman can be described as a “bridge-builder” who refused to be irrelevant and impractical in his theological journey and who demonstrates how the local congregation can become a safe space for reflexive praxis, an “ecclesiology from below” in the truest sense. …”
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Staying in Marriage is Not Enough: Influence of Marital Commitment and Adult Attachment Style on Marital Flourishing by Sri Juwita Kusumawardhani, Anggi Mayangsari, Reny Rustyawati, Ilham Phalosa Reswara

“…This study concludes that young adults who develop secure attachment patterns and a strong sense of marital commitment are more likely to experience high-quality marriages.…”
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O que o Estado quer dizer quando fala sobre COVID-19: a adesão dóxica em narrativas presidenciais e ministeriais de respostas ao cenário da pandemia by Rafael Borim-de-Souza, João Gabriel Dias dos Santos, Camilla Atibaia Cestari

“…By consequence, it was recognized the President of the Republic and the Ministers of State as homo narrans, whom narratives were apprehended in a collective sense of argumentation and narration. …”
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Violence and the Displacement of Rail Workers of Altsasu-Alsasua in the Spanish Civil War and its Aftermath by Daniel Oviedo Silva, Esther Aldave Monreal, Juan C. García-Funes, Imanol Satrustegui Andres

“…First, we examine the circumstances that produced early flights, which only make sense if we bear in mind the myriad experiences of socio-political conflict which preceded the war and heralded its beginning. …”
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In-between spaces for today's city: Historical review for identifying their beneficial characteristics by Aimar Santos-Garcia, Izaskun Aseguinolaza Braga

“…These spaces offer the opportunity to feel comfortable and safe, foster a sense of community, and facilitate connections.Little has been written about these spaces and, particularly, their characteristics. …”
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The Self-Perceptions of Twice-Exceptional Children: A Systematic Review by Louise Küry, Christian Fischer

“…A lack of understanding on the part of teachers and parents, insufficient attention to giftedness in and outside of school, and a sense of being different were identified as negative influencing factors. …”
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Music’s ability to foster prosocial behavior: a teleofunctionalist perspective by Jin Hyun Kim

“…By discussing a proper function of a musical activity, the author refines her own considerations concerning the minimal necessary conditions of music and musicality that can be conceived in a broader sense.…”
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Research on the Design of Interactive Children’s Vocal Enlightenment Toys Based on Audiovisual Association Experience by Quan Bai

“…Interaction design applied to toy design is a new direction in terms of traditional toy design, which enhances the interactivity of toys and enhances the user’s sense of experience and participation in the use of toys; it can improve the affinity and fun of toys.…”
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Nonlinear System Identification Using Quasi-ARX RBFN Models with a Parameter-Classified Scheme by Lan Wang, Yu Cheng, Jinglu Hu, Jinling Liang, Abdullah M. Dobaie

“…Firstly, a clustering method is utilized to provide statistical properties of the dataset for determining the parameters nonlinear to the model, which are interpreted meaningfully in the sense of interpolation parameters of a local linear model. …”
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CHRISTIAN SELF-FORMATION: AN AUGUSTINIAN CONTRIBUTION by F. England

“…By referring to the Trinitarian images in De Trinitate and recurring to Augustine’s self-searching mode in the Confessiones (AD 397-401), his quest may be said to inspire a mode of Christian self-formation that, sub specie humanitatis, rejects the “discovery” of one’s “true self” – the sense that one really does possess a stable authentic core self, and that one can find it by following some process of interior self-scrutiny. …”
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Yoruba Culture in a Changing World by Arinpe G. Adejumo

“…It further revealed that the changes that the culture witnesses could be seen as a two-edged sword, with both positive and negative impacts. Positive in the sense of elements that enhance sustainable development and negative from the purview of elements that degrade, diminish, and decimate human flourishing. …”
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L’Architecte et le programme en situation de concours : une quête de réassurance et d’ouverture by Alexandre Delbos, Jodelle Zetlaoui-Léger

“…Meanwhile, professionals tasked with writing the program are often encouraged by clients to provide specifications at the competition stage, setting out design solutions without justification and ultimately fostering a sense of mistrust.…”
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Multivariate Regression Analyses of Yield Associated Traits in Rapeseed (Brassica napus L.) Genotypes by Valiollah Rameeh

“…Significant genotypic effects were found for phenological traits, yield components, and seed yield, indicating significant genetic differences among the genotypes. High broad sense heritability was estimated for phenological traits, seeds per pod, and seed yield, signifying high selection gain for improving these traits. …”
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On the Neutrix Composition of the Delta and Inverse Hyperbolic Sine Functions by Brian Fisher, Adem Kılıçman

“…The composition F(f(x)) of F and f is said to exist and be equal to the distribution h(x) if the limit of the sequence {Fn(f(x))} is equal to h(x), where Fn(x)=F(x)*δn(x) for n=1,2,… and {δn(x)} is a certain regular sequence converging to the Dirac delta function. In the ordinary sense, the composition δ(s)[(sinh⁡-1x+)r] does not exists. …”
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Urbanisation, migration, depopulation and virtual ritual community - the village kurban as a shared meal by Hristov Petko, Manova Tsvetana

“…In studying a variety of feasts, the analytical focus is on the collective gathering and the shared meal, which is celebrated by the small village community as its “homeland”, a sense of belonging to a virtual community consisting of people from all over the world. …”
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