The intellectualization of multiculturism: Implications for Positive Psychotherapy by Andre Marseille

“… Western multiculturalism has emphasized reason, categorization, and a methodical analysis of race, identity, culture, and belonging. …”
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Chrześcijański argument „z sensu życia i świata” wobec buddyjskiego poglądu na rzeczywistość by Andrzej Persidok

“…The aim of such a confrontation is to locate potential weak points of this type of argumentation, which can help refine it so that it is also convincing for people outside Western culture.     …”
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Historyczne i współczesne postawy wobec śmierci by Wojciech Bołoz

“…In the last years in the area of western civilization the increased interest in this issue occurred. …”
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Paesaggi di coesistenza, ovvero come attorno ad un passeriforme si articola l’abitare in una zona di montagna by Lia Zola

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Du voyage initiatique à l’enseignement : le programme inter-up « Ville orientale » by Diane Aymard

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Così lontane, così vicine. Famiglie migranti, ruoli familiari e nuove configurazioni di genitorialità by Francesca Crivellaro

“…Research has acknowledged the family as a useful conceptual entity to analyse the migration experience of women and men whose life cycle and reproductive choices span between different cultural contexts. Migrant families’ practices are often constructed in public discourse as a threat to the social cohesion of the receiving countries, as they are deemed incompatible with “Western modernity”. …”
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Known Unknowns and Unknown Knowns: What we know about the cannabis and the Hashish trade in Afghanistan by James Bradford, David Mansfield

“…During the 1960s, the growing demand from Western nations for Afghan hashish helped forge key global trafficking networks, as well as significant changes to the cultivation of cannabis and production of hashish. …”
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The Social Construction of Motherhood in Bengali Folklore by Sraboni Chatterjee, Pranab Chatterjee

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Rousseau i nowożytne spotkanie z Innym by Sylwester Zielka

“…The paper also discusses consequences of this debate for shaping anthropology as a field of knowledge and understanding culture of the time. The idea of a “noble savage” according to which non-Europeans, i.e., the “primitive” people living in the state of nature as free and equal, without concerns and inconveniences of civilization, is contrasted with an opposite project of a “degenerate savage” of Thomas Hobbes, who used it as a justification for absolute monarchy in European countries and of European societies over non-Western ones. …”
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Intercultural and Intertextual Crossings in Sarah Howe’s Loop of Jade (2015) by Yasna Bozhkova

“…A Borgesian epigraph – a surprising abecedary of apparently arbitrary categories of animals given in a “certain Chinese encyclopedia” – becomes a structuring device for the whole collection, announcing its project to reflect on real or imaginary cultural differences. Working through various constructions and misconceptions of Asia in the Western imagination, the poems ultimately develop a complex sense of belonging. …”
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Cognitive Therapys from Rumi’s Point of View by Mehmet Ak, Elif Eþen, Faik Özdengül

“…Thus, in order to be effective in psychotherapeutic interventions, it is neccessary to use the language by considering the client’s believes, culture, religion and background. Comprehending and using of psychotherapy only from the Western point of view could reduce the efficacy of psychotherapy. …”
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Autonomia świata a podmiotowość człowieka w ekoteologii by Jarosław Horowski

“…One of the most difficult problems, which is to be solved by contemporary culture, is the ecological problem. It concerns the culture because the hedonistic and consumerist mentality of man plays an important part in it. …”
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The Official Lithuanian Language in the Interwar Years by Aldonas Pupkis

“…Reform of the economy, development of culture and education, the choice of the Western way of life, and formalising Lithuanian as the official language in the 1922 Constitution, created favourable conditions for the Lithuanian language and culture to function independently in the entire public life. …”
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ULTIMA RATIO DEORUM by Alexis V. Halapsis

“…Purpose of this article is to investigate the role that the "miraculous" – that is, everything that goes beyond “natural” – plays in the worldview of Western man. Methodology. I do not consider “miracles” as the facts of nature, but as the facts of culture, so in this article I am not talking about specific cases of violation of “laws of nature”, but about the place of “miraculous” in the view of the world of Western man and those transformations, that occur with this element outlook influenced the development of information technologies. …”
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German Policy Towards Muslim Communities by L. R. Sadykova

“…Western Europe became one of the most important centers of gravity of migrants. …”
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Verbascoside Inhibits the Activation of NLRP3 Inflammasome and Improves BV-2 Cell Inflammatory Damage by Wenjing HUANG, Fang CHENG, Min DU, Jiayi CHEN, Wei XIANG, Ke SHI, Xingliang XIE, Yanmei SHENG

“…The release of lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) in the culture supernatant was measured using an LDH cytotoxicity assay kit to assess the impact on the cell membrane. …”
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Evaluation of extracts from used Xpert MTB/RIF cartridges for detection of resistance to second-line anti-tuberculosis drugs in patients with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in Et... by Tilahun Ketema, Mulualem Tadesse, Zegeye Bonsa, Getu Balay, Wakjira Kebede, Mekidim Mekonnen, Gemeda Abebe

“…Objective This study aimed to evaluate the feasibility of using extracts from used Xpert MTB/RIF cartridges for detecting resistance to second-line anti-TB drugs by MTBDRsl assay in patients with rifampicin resistant-TB (RR-TB) in Eastern and Western Oromia, Ethiopia. Methods A cross-sectional diagnostic evaluation study was conducted from June 2020 to May 2021 at two TB Referral Laboratories in Eastern and Western Oromia, Ethiopia. …”
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The Efficiency of Direct Maturation: the Comparison of Two hiPSC Differentiation Approaches into Motor Neurons by Catherine Schaefers, Simone Rothmiller, Horst Thiermann, Theo Rein, Annette Schmidt

“…Differentiation into MNs was performed with standardized, chemically defined, and antibiotic-free culture media. The identity of hiPSC, neuronal progenitors, and mature MNs was continuously verified by the detection of specific markers at the genetic and protein level via qRT-PCR, flow cytometry, Western Blot, and immunofluorescence. …”
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A Brief Survey of Gender Parity in the Theatre Industry by Yeliz Biber Vangölü, Florentina Gümüş

“…Throughout centuries, women have been excluded from theatre, an otherwise significant part of Western culture. Even after they have been allowed to attend theatrical performances, perform on stage, and publish their work, their contributions have been obscured or downgraded. …”
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Illegal cannabis cultivation in Europe: new developments by David Weinberger, Michel Gandilhon, Jalpa Shah, Nacer Lalam

“…Illicit cannabis cultivation is not new to Western Europe. It first emerged on the scene in the 1970s, in the wake of the counter-culture following the 1968 Protests. …”
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