Postictal Psychosis: Case Report and Literature Review by Joana Regala, João Lourenço, Francisco Moniz-Pereira, António Bento

“…Postictal psychosis (PIP) is one of the most common types of psychosis in epileptic patients. By virtue of the paucity of research on PIP, its pathophysiology remains not completely understood. …”
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Guerre et récit chez les Indiens ayorés du Chaco boréal paraguayen by Salvatore D’Onofrio

“…This sort of pantomime, little known among other Indians of the lowlands, is related to myth by virtue of the canonical manner in which it unfolds and of the connexions it establishes with other aspects of Ayoreo culture: body painting, hunting, shamanic powers, ritual activities. …”
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« Est-ce que ça marche ? » À propos du tasfih, rituel protecteur de la virginité des jeunes filles tunisiennes by Ibtissem Ben Dridi

“…A field survey conducted in 2001 revealed a rather facetious ritual, which would undoubtedly preserve virtue but at the same time allowed certain liberties. …”
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Research on Dynamic Modeling and Application of Kinetic Contact Interface in Machine Tool by Dan Xu, Zhixin Feng

“…Then, equivalent stiffness and damping of guideway are obtained in virtue of single-freedom-degree mode fitting method. …”
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Die Individualisme-kollektivismedimensie van kulturele variasie by Frederick Terblanche

“…This article pOliti the communication implications that certain individualism- collectivism related trends and patterns haYe in a teaching context. This is achieved by virtue of a comprehensive overview of recent scientific literature, as well as the findings of a research project conducted on the campus of the UOFS. …”
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Le public et le privé dans Mesure pour Mesure by Michèle Vignaux

“…The initial black-and-white picture and clear-cut dichotomy of sin and virtue gradually gives way to an increasingly complex and unsettling picture resulting from the intricacies of doubts, uncertainties, fears, casuistry, perversion, and various forms of manipulation. …”
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Comment (sa)voir ? Diana of the Crossways de George Meredith : la transparence paradoxale by Marina Poisson

“…In a first movement, the article studies the moral quest for transparency as a natural virtue contrasting with the social vices of hypocrisy and opaqueness. …”
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The thermodynamic natural path in chemical reaction kinetics by Moishe garfinkle

“…The reaction velocities arising from the particular rate equation chosen by kineticists to best represent the kinetic behavior of a chemical reaction are the natural outcome of the Natural Path approach. Moreover, by virtue of its thermodynamic roots, equilibrium thermodynamic functions can be extracted from reaction kinetic data with considerable accuracy. …”
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RUSSIAN RURAL SOCIOLOGY: ITS SOCIAL SPACE, SUBJECT SPECIFICITY AND GENESIS by V. Novikov

“…The social space of rural sociology is dichotomous urban, the opposite and at the same time ontologically similar to it by virtue of genetic relations, the social sphere of the village.…”
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The Use of the Stoic Concept of Phronēsis by Irenaeus and Lactantius by Gábor Kendeffy

“…As for Lactantius, he combined them in the Divine Institutes and in the Epitome, with the doctrine expounded by Seneca on the providential training of virtue by the adversaries. These conceptions were incorporated by the African theologian into his dualistic theological system in a very substantial way, serving to give account for why Satan was produced and allowed to operate by God. …”
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Farthest Points and Subdifferential in 𝑝-Normed Spaces by S. Hejazian, A. Niknam, S. Shadkam

“…We study the farthest point mapping in a 𝑝-normed space 𝑋 in virtue of subdifferential of 𝑟(𝑥)=sup{‖𝑥−𝑧‖𝑝∶𝑧∈𝑀}, where 𝑀 is a weakly sequentially compact subset of 𝑋. …”
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Superconvergence Analysis of a Multiscale Finite Element Method for Elliptic Problems with Rapidly Oscillating Coefficients by Xiaofei Guan, Xiaoling Wang, Cheng Wang, Xian Liu

“…The proposed method is based on asymptotic analysis and careful numerical treatments for the boundary corrector terms by virtue of the recovery technique. Under the assumption that the oscillating coefficient is periodic, some superconvergence results are derived, which seem to be never discovered in the previous literature. …”
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Comparaison théorique sur la performativité de l’insulte homophobe. Austin, Bourdieu, Butler by Grégoire Ben-Aïssa

“…What does the homophobic (or racist, transphobic, misogynist, etc.) insult do to the person who receives it, and by virtue of what power relationship ? This question leads us to compare the approaches of Judith Butler and Pierre Bourdieu to the performativity and reappropriation of the insult. …”
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Die geheim van die prediking: om mondig te word by J. Cilliers

“…The function of the voice of the preacher should, however, not be understood as a new, homiletical moralism, but in its relationship to (a) the salvation works of God, (b) the relational integrity of the preacher, (c) the integration of prayer within the framework of the preacher's theology, and (d) a life of virtue before God. The main thrust of the argument is that preaching is constituted simultaneously by a deeply human and profoundly divine activity in the life of the church. …”
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Potential Effects of Delay on the Stability of a Class of Impulsive Neural Networks by Nan Zhan, Ailong Wu

“…For the case of small delay, a sufficient condition for the stability of delayed INNs is obtained by virtue of the average impulsive interval (AII) method. …”
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Dangerous Conversations in The Duchess of Malfi by John Gillies

“…The result is a moral ambiguity which is difficult to square with virtue ethics, and which calls for a reading in terms of the totalitarian contexts of the revenge play and the Tacitean history play then gaining ascendancy in Jacobean England. …”
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Identity-formation and alterity in John Chrysostom's In epistulam ad Galatas commentarius by Chris L. de Wet

“…Chrysostom views Paulinomorphism as the operation of four interrelated discourses, namely the discourse of: a) transformation and mimesis; b) virtue and masculinisation; c) the zealotic, and; d) medicalisation. …”
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Convertible Bonds with Higher Loan Rate: Model, Valuation, and Optimal Strategy by Haiyang Wang, Zhen Wu

“…We study the pricing problem for convertible bonds via backward stochastic differential equations (BSDEs). By virtue of reflected BSDEs and Malliavin derivatives, we establish the formulae for the fair price of convertible bonds and the hedging portfolio strategy explicitly. …”
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INTERPRETATION, ETHICS, AND THE COMPLEX RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN A PROPHET AND AN ??????? ????????? by C J Redelinghuys

“…To illuminate this matter, three prominent ethical theories (consequentialism, deontology, and virtue ethics) are used as interpretative frameworks. …”
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The Impact of Intercultural Perspectives on Environmental Ethics by Molotokienė Ernesta

“…The article hypothesizes that a synthesis of classical Aristotelian virtue ethics, Confucian ethics, and African ubuntu philosophical ethics could underpin intercultural ethics, embodying the universal environmental ethical values of Western and Eastern cultures in intercultural environmental ethics theory.…”
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