THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC RELEVANCE OF TRADITIONAL THRIFT AND CREDIT ASSOCIATIONS IN CONTEMPORARY NIGERIAN SOCIETY by ROBERT MARTINS EZE

“…The paper further recommended that membership in thrift and credit associations be open to vulnerable members of society irrespective of gender, age, and ethnicity. …”
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Reflexivity, description and the analysis of social settings by Rodney Watson

“…By contrast, 'essential' reflexivity, as adduced by ethnomethodological sociologists, remains resolutely emplaced in the domain of lay society-members' ordinary sense-making practices: it here refers to the reciprocal, back-and-forth determinations of sense of members' mundane descriptions of their specific circumstances and of the circumstances they describe - description and circumstance reflect upon each other during the sense-making practices. …”
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Spiritual abuse under the banner of the right to freedom of religion in religious cults can be addressed by S. P. Pretorius

“…Although the conventions on religious freedom prohibit the use of unethical coercion in order to proselytise and retain members, the enforcement of this prohibition is problematic. …”
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Debriefing’s Influence on Learning in Business Game: An Experimental Design by Adonai Jose Lacruz, Bruno Luiz Américo

“…MannWhitney´s tests revealed that the quantum of learning perceived by the members of the experimental group was statistically significantly higher than the members of the control group in seven out of nine learning variables assessed (p < 0.05). …”
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A associação em redes de cooperação influencia os resultados de pequenas e médias empresas? by Jorge Verschoore, Alsones Balestrin

“…The association in small fi rm networks has been a decision taken by small and mid-sized companies in order to obtain the gains provided to their members. Several studies have already shown the outcomes obtained by network cooperation, but few managed to verify if such outcomes affect positively the results of the companies that take part of the networks. …”
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Participation in Florida Growth Management Decisions by Roy Carriker

“… FE644, a 2-page fact sheet by Roy Carriker, introduces members of the public to the subject of public participation in official growth management decision processes. …”
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Florida 4-H Dairy Record Book by Karen Hamilton, Chris Decubellis, Chris Holcomb, Sarah Hensley

“… The Florida 4-H Dairy Record book is an animal sciences record book for all members in the dairy project to keep an accurate record of their project work. …”
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Florida 4-H Dairy Record Book by Karen Hamilton, Chris Decubellis, Chris Holcomb, Sarah Hensley

“… The Florida 4-H Dairy Record book is an animal sciences record book for all members in the dairy project to keep an accurate record of their project work. …”
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Participation in Florida Growth Management Decisions by Roy Carriker

“… FE644, a 2-page fact sheet by Roy Carriker, introduces members of the public to the subject of public participation in official growth management decision processes. …”
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Building a diverse national research advisory board by Gayle Valensky, Jeff B. Pawelek, Lauren Serpico, David Rodriguez, Maribel Pieters, Yulissa Perez, Julia Moore Vogel

“…We conducted purposeful recruitment to attract a demographically diverse group of community members across the United States (U.S.) to partner with the All of Us Research Program to inform our strategies including program recruitment, engagement, retention, and incentives. …”
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Synthesis and characterization of original fluorinated bis-cyclic carbonates and xanthates from a fluorinated epoxide by Alaaeddine, Ali, Ladmiral, Vincent, El Malti, Wassim, Haydar, Lolwa, Caillol, Sylvain, Améduri, Bruno

“…The development of efficient methods for the cycloaddition of CX2 (carbon dioxide (X${=}$O) or carbon disulfide (X${=}$S)) with fluorinated epoxides to produce five-membered cyclic carbonates (CCs) or cyclic xanthates (XAs) is a very attractive topic. …”
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Waaihoek se N.G. sendinggemeente in Bloemfontein: 1891-1903 by R. M. Britz

“… This article considers the early history of a unique Dutch Reformed mission congregation in the capital of the Free State Republic. Members, especially elder John Fraser of the local  “Tweetoringkerk”, initiated the establishment of a separate mission congregation in Waaihoek, at that time the non-white residential area of Bloemfontein. …”
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Die Tweetoringkerk as een van die N.G.-Gemeentes van Bloemfontein gedurende die Anglo-Boereoorlog 1899-1902 by R. M. Britz

“…This caused tension among the members of the congregation. Some accepted the new dispensation, and acted accordingly. …”
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SELECTION OF SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS USING FUZZY PROMETHEE METHOD WITH DIFFERENT SCENARIO TYPES by MELİKE KÜBRA EKİZ BOZDEMİR, ATAKAN ALKAN

“…The selection of SMPs, which might be widely and mostly utilized by members or organizations, becomes a critical and complex problem. …”
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The Impact of Blood Flow Restriction Training on Tibial Bone Stress Injury Rehabilitation: An Exploratory Case Series by Andrew P Golden, Kathleen K Hogan, Jamie B Morris, Bryan B Pickens

“…# Background Lower extremity bone stress injuries (BSI) are common injuries among athletes and military members. Typical management involves a period of restricted weightbearing which can have rapid detrimental effects upon both muscle and bone physiology. …”
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Diagnostics of the achievements in mathematics of the fourth-formers gifted for the subject by Danutė Kiseliova, Arkadijus Kiseliovas

“…The results of 453 competition members and expertise of the competi­tion tasks have been presented. …”
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The Effectiveness of a Behavioral Program in Reducing the Aggressive Behavior of Children with Mild Mental Disabilities at the Mu'tah Center for Special Education by Sameer Alremawi, Ahmed A. Arabiyat

“…The results also indicate no statistical differences between the study sample members in the two measures (post and follow up), which indicates the continuity of the effectiveness of the behavioral counseling program.…”
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AUDIT COMMITTEE CHARACTERISTICS AND EARNINGS MANAGEMENT AMONG LISTED DEPOSIT MONEY BANKS IN NIGERIA by Adebowale OGUNSOLA

“…Hence, it is advised to prioritize financial expertise when selecting members for audit committees, as this is expected to help mitigate and decrease earnings management practice. …”
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Poetics of Friction by Nadja Ben Khelifa, Étienne Allaix, Jörg Sternagel

“…Called by these questions, our panel attempts to collaboratively work on corresponding responses within a poetics of friction that is rehearsed, acted out, and tried out in a setting where forces come into play that resist relative motions of solid approaches and beliefs sliding against each other: Whereas the three panelists – a multimedia artist, a cultural theorist, and a philosopher – call with their spoken words, screened images and handout materials, the members of the audience respond to these calls: Like the wheel that needs the concrete surface against its rubber to spin in movement, or the piece of wood that needs the wooden stick rotating against its bark to spark a flame, members of Performance Philosophy need frictions with which both Performance artists and Philosophy scholars slide against each other to spin, to move, to carry on, to reflect, to struggle, to doubt, to aim, to spark flames of inspiration. …”
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Corporate governance and organizational Performance: A case of Institut Polytechnique De Byumba, Rwanda. by Bonaventure, Twagirumugabe

“…Board characteristics considered in this research include board size, board of director role, gender diversity, and educational qualification of board members and decision making and implementation. It adopted quantitative methodological framework through which the primary data collected from a sample of 124 respondents involving 108 employees and 16 board members at IPB and were analyzed using both regression and correlation analysis techniques to find the relationship between corporate governance and organizational performance on one hand and the degree of relationship between corporate governance and organizational performance. …”
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