Research on Optimization of 3D Tourism Virtual Crossover Scene based on Semantic Perception Analysis by Guixia Wang

“…Using the digital elevation model, an empirical study on the semantic perception of cultural landscape in the western Tombs of Qing Dynasty is carried out. …”
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"Showing respect" in Bible translation by R. van der Spuy

“…This article also highlights by way of comparison how Afrikaans and other Western translations use the 2nd person personal pronoun. …”
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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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Framework of Reference for Chinese Language by T. L. Guruleva

“…The author has performed a comparative analysis of the component structure and content of the components of the model of the communicative competence of the Chinese language with western, domestic and European models of communicative competence, as well as comparative analysis of the levels of the framework of reference for Chinese language with the levels of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. …”
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Méditerranéïté et romanité en Tunisie : l’inquiétante étrangeté d’un patrimoine by Habib Saidi

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Biblical discourses and the subjugation of Africa: A Decolonial-Foucauldian perspective by T. Shingange

“… The Western missionaries and colonialists pushed a similar agenda of subjugating the receptor’s core aspects of life. …”
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Documentation et conservation-restauration d’un autel bouddhique en bois laqué et doré, provenant du Japon by Violaine Brard

“…Obviously, the new owners of the altar  intervened by repairing damages caused during  the journey of the artefact and by adapting the appearance  to Western aesthetic standards.…”
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L’insaisissable religion des Taïnos. Esquisse d’anthropologie historique by Giuseppe A. Samonà

“…Having disappea­red shortly after the discovery of the New World, the Tainos today are back in vogue, especially where the zemis are concerned, mysterious multiform objects that had already struck the attention of the earliest Western observers. In this article, these observers, who have too often been overlooked by contemporary anthropology, are revisited in an attempt to draw an outline of what might have been the « religious » thought of the Tainos, the primary characteristic of which is believed to be the cult of the zemis. …”
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Language and the African Philosophical Traditions by Kọ́lá Abímbọ́lá

“… Are there universal principles, categories, or forms of reasoning that apply to all aspects of human experience—irrespective of culture and epoch? Numerous scholars have explored this very question from Africana perspectives: Kwasi Wiredu (1996) explored the philosophical issue of whether there are culturally defined values and concepts; Hallen and Sodipo (1986) examined the question of whether there are unique African indigenous systems of knowledge; Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o (1994) evaluated the role of colonialism in the language of African literature; Oyerò nkẹ ́ ́ Oyěwumi (1997) argued that “gender” is a Western cultural invention that is foreign to Yorùbá systems of sociation; and Helen Veran (2001) argued that even though science, mathematics, and logic are not culturally relative, “certainty” is nonetheless derived from cultural practices and associations. …”
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The formulated microbicide RC-101 was safe and antivirally active following intravaginal application in pigtailed macaques. by Alexander M Cole, Dorothy L Patton, Lisa C Rohan, Amy L Cole, Yvonne Cosgrove-Sweeney, Nicole A Rogers, Deena Ratner, Alexandra B Sassi, Carol Lackman-Smith, Patrick Tarwater, Bharat Ramratnam, Piotr Ruchala, Robert I Lehrer, Alan J Waring, Phalguni Gupta

“…At one and four days following the final application, the presence of RC-101 was assessed in peripheral blood, cervicovaginal lavage, cytobrushed cervicovaginal cells, and biopsied cervical and vaginal tissues by quantitative western blots. One day following the last film application, cervical biopsies from RC-101-exposed and placebo-controlled macaques were collected and were subjected to challenge with RT-SHIV in an ex vivo organ culture model. …”
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Whither Individuality? A Re-reading of Segun Ogungbemi’s Scholarship on Individuality-Community Debate in African Philosophy by Sunday L. Oladipupo

“…Against this background, Segun Ogungbemi contends in his article “An Existential Study of Individuality in Yoruba Culture” that this age-long belief about Africans being communalistic in nature seems to have reduced the possibility of individuality in Africa because it is western-directed. …”
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FROM OPTIMISM TO DISAPPOINTMENT: THE EVOLUTION OF SWAMI VIVEKANANDA’S ATTITUDE TOWARDS THE WEST by E. V. Volgina

“…So the research goal is to trace the transformation of Swami Vivekananda’s attitude to the West and find out how its picture after the author’s close acquaintance with Western countries is different from the one in his earlier works. …”
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Corpi dissonanti: note su gender variance e sessualità. Il caso dei femminielli napoletani by Marzia Mauriello

“…In relation to this “experience of the self”, the author, who has spent almost a decade engaged in field research, here investigates how and when the idea of sexual and gender deviance was constructed and consolidated in so-called Western contexts. Through anthropological analysis of “dissonant bodies”, a metaphor to indicate the different modality, for some subjectivities, of experiencing the self with respect to a constituted order, the analysis shows the cultural, processual and historical nature of the principles of “justice” and “order”, relative to the body and its acts. …”
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The Necessary Accidental by Ashraf Jamal

“…And the peculiarly late-modern Western crisis that underlies it. …”
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The Contemporary Critical Reception of Walter Pater: Retrospective and Proleptical Views by Geoffrey Sadock

“…Since Western culture no longer upholds the restrictions under which Pater labored to define his Weltanschauung, his genius in the use of suggestion—association, transparency, diaphaneity, masochistic delay—has become more recognizable. …”
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Polonization as a Determinant of National Identities of Ukraine and Belarus by Dylan Payne Royce

“…Considering that Rusian culture originally had a high status in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and that Polonization naturally proceeded more intensely in Poland than in Lithuania, the author hypothesizes that: 1) the longer a territory was under Polish rule, the more subject it was to Polonization; 2) the more it was subject to Polonization, the more it developed a western European identity; 3) the more Ukrainian and Belarusian national identities were westernized, the more alienated they became from non-westernized Rusian nationalities, primarily the (Great) Russian (русский / великорусский / российский); 4) the more alienated a national identity is from Russia, the more its bearers seek to separate themselves from Russia. …”
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Secretory Leukocyte Protease Inhibitor Is an Inducible Antimicrobial Peptide Expressed in Staphylococcus aureus Endophthalmitis by Victor E. Reviglio, Ruben H. Sambuelli, Alejandra Olmedo, Micaela Falco, Jose Echenique, Terrence P. O'Brien, Irene C. Kuo

“…At 48 hours, corneas also stained for SLPI. Western blots confirmed increased SLPI expression in all infected eyes. …”
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The Bronze Age Site of Tarangul (Aktobe Cis-Urals): Examining One Casting Mo by Darkhan A. Baitileu, Albina Ye. Yerzhanova, Ilaria Calgaro

“…The shapes attest to the mold was used to cast Kundravinskaya-type sickles widespread across the Late Bronze Age Southern Urals, Middle Volga, and Western Siberia. Kundravinskaya-type sickles are associated with the Alakul culture, the Kozhumberdy cultural group being a local variant of the latter in the region under study. …”
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Advancing poliovirus eradication: lessons learned from piloting direct molecular detection of polioviruses in high-risk and priority geographies by Paula L. Marcet, Brandon Short, Ashley Deas, Hong Sun, Chelsea Harrington, Shahzad Shaukat, Muhammad Masroor Alam, Marycelin Baba, Adedayo Faneye, Prossy Namuwulya, Lea Necitas Apostol, Tamer Elshaarawy, John Kofi Odoom, Peter Borus, Shelina Moonsamy, Yogolelo Riziki, Marie Claire Endegue Zanga, Mesfin Tefera, Anfumbom K. W. Kfutwah, Salmaan Sharif, Varja Grabovac, Cara C. Burns, Nancy Gerloff

“…ABSTRACT In the Global Polio Laboratory Network (GPLN), poliovirus (PV) screening results from acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) surveillance is based on virus isolation (VI) through cell culture, entailing long turnaround times and the amplification of live poliovirus. …”
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Romantic balticphilia in Latvian istoriography by Zenonas Butkus

“… In this article it is shown that romantic Balticphilia (a historical, cultural concept of the authors who treat the past of the Balts, the first Paganism, as a separate, civilized, closed system, putting it in opposition to Western, Christian culture) takes root in Lithuanian historiography and doesn't induce its modernity, nor its overthrowing of historicism; it only weakly influences Latvian historiography. …”
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