Water Symbolism in Yorùbá Folklore and Culture1 by George Olusola Ajibade

“…The study found that water constitutes and creates cultural, social and religious identities among the Yorùbá people of southwestern Nigeria. …”
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The role of religious values in extending social protection: a South African perspective by L. G. Mpedi

“…It also examines various factors that contribute towards informal social security dependency in AICs, namely the influence of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, the limited scope of social security coverage, the restricted family concept (underlying much of the formal system which does not reflect the family context in South Africa), African traditional values, and Christian principles. …”
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Aristotle and the Ọmọlúwàbí Ethos: Ethical Implications for Public Morality in Nigeria by Sunday Olaoluwa Dada

“…The absence of public morality, the essay argues, has resulted in a neopatrimonial framework within which the political elite willfully circumvent constitutional rules and regulation in order to vitiate the public interest. …”
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Reminiscence Tours and Pilgrimage Sites by Katja Uusihakala

“…One reason for this stems from the fact that migrations, diasporas and similar movements are considered constitutive to the conceptualization and understanding of various contemporary social and cultural processes. …”
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Jesus and "the Daniel code" by G. Thom

“…While He enumerated a number of signs that would warn his disciples of the approach of God’s judgment on Jerusalem – together constituting “the budding fig tree” – He emphasized, on the other hand, that there will be no signs to warn them of the approach of his parousia. …”
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Efficacy of Chinese traditional quadruple single pill combination versus valsartan/hydrochlorothiazide for the treatment of hypertension (COSPQ-BP): study protocol for randomised c... by Kai Liu, Yu Yan, Xin Zhang, Yanan Li, Yuanyuan Yao, Lu Liu, Runyu Ye, Si Wang, Xiangyu Yang, Xiaoping Chen, Shanshan Jia, Qingtao Meng, Xianghao Zuo

“…Introduction Hypertension constitutes the primary health burden of cardiovascular diseases, and the global control of blood pressure (BP) remains insufficient. …”
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Approved antibacterial drugs in the last 10 years: from the bench to the clinic by Miguel García-Castro, Francisco Sarabia, Amelia Díaz-Morilla, Juan Manuel López-Romero

“…Bacterial infections constitute one of the major cases of primary medical incidences worldwide. …”
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Trabalho doméstico: entre o poder simbólico patronal e a luta por reconhecimento jurídico by Attila Magno e Silva Barbosa, Giovanna Iasiniewicz, Maria Emília Valli Büttow

“…This article aims to analyse how social agents perceive social relations between employers and domestic workers after the establishment of the Constitutional Amendment No. 72, 2013, and the Complementary Law No. 150/15, giving an special focus to issues of power relations, affects and professionalization of such employment relationship. …”
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“Tratado” e Exercício de ser criança: a infância entre versos, rimas e tintas by Penha Lucilda de Souza Silvestre, Alice Áurea Penteado Martha

“…Indeed, these pictures enable us to rethink how the representation and the constitution of childhood in art are conceived and to under stand them in the weaving of poetry and painting, as well as the act of playing, in a dialectical process.…”
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Analysis of the implementation path of medical-prevention integration in public hospitals in China from an integrated care perspective by Linxiu REN, Tianyi ZHANG, Chunxue YOU, Siyu TAO

“…Public hospitals constitute the main body of China′s healthcare system and are a crucial force in comprehensively promoting the construction of a "Healthy China". …”
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The Laplace Virtual Fields Method for the direct extraction of viscoelastic properties of materials by Marcot, Quentin, Fourest, Thomas, Langrand, Bertrand, Pierron, Fabrice

“…The Laplace transform enables the use of theory of elasticity in the Laplace domain. The constitutive equations are expressed in the plane stress framework with the 2D plane stress stiffness coefficients. …”
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Writing and reading in Montessori preschools in the digital age – A valid teaching approach? by Per Gynther, Eva-Maria Tebano Ahlquist

“…Such studies could constitute an important contribution to the discussion about when and how writing by hand should be introduced within, as well as outside the Montessori community. …”
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Assessment-based Pest Management of German Cockroaches by Faith Oi, Emma N. I. Weeks, J Jonovich, D. Miller

“…The levels described constitute an escalation protocol that may approximate the tiers in a LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) pest-management plan and may meet the requirements of some “green” pest-management certification programs, depending on level. …”
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Unlocking the potential of hydrogen deuterium exchange via an iterative continuous-flow deuteration process by Kevin Tatoueix, Marco Lepron, Cédric Barboux, Marie-Christine Scherrmann, Grégory Pieters, Sophie Feuillastre

“…Abstract Labelled compounds bearing hydrogen isotopes are keystones in diverse areas constituting a multi-billion dollar global market including drugs, diagnostics, biology, toxicology and smart materials. …”
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A Case Report of Embryonal Botryoid Rhabdomyosarcoma of the Uterine Cervix in a 26- Year-Old Woman by Gunel Ziyadova, Altan Kavuncuoglu, Gonca Ozten, Zafer Selcuk Tuncer

“… Botryoid rhabdomyosarcoma originating from the cervix is rare among fertile women and constitutes 0.2% of all uterine cancers. A 26-year-old female patient with a cervical polyp presented with a case of sarcoma botryoides. …”
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Moradores de cortiço, capitães da areia e cobradores urbanos: personagens excluídos da construção da ordem nacional by Eliana Kuster

“…We tried to investigate the construction of an ideal of nation and which are the desired features for the composition of this national order, that is constituted as a factor of Brazilian identity. We looked support in the Brazilian literature, used in dialogue with scholars who are dealing with the question under historical and social focuses, through works such as O cortiço, by Aluízio Azevedo (1890), Capitães da areia, by Jorge Amado (1937), and the shot story “O cobrador”, by Rubem Fonseca (1979). …”
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The Importance of Being Honest: Free Spirits and Idiosyncrasy in Nietzsche by Zachary Stevens

“…The coupling of Dionysus and Apollo has to be replaced with Dionysus and Ariadne because, using key terms from Deleuze's Nietzsche, the sense and value of critique is generated from a labyrinthine, Dionysian meaning as will to power and Ariadne's thread as evaluation based on the eternal recurrence, constituting the idiosyncrasy and the free spirits, respectively. …”
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Assessment-based Pest Management of German Cockroaches by Faith Oi, Emma N. I. Weeks, J Jonovich, D. Miller

“…The levels described constitute an escalation protocol that may approximate the tiers in a LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) pest-management plan and may meet the requirements of some “green” pest-management certification programs, depending on level. …”
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Meeting the psycho-social needs of people with disabilities in Uganda. by Adebayo, Sanni T.

“…It is this situation that tends to constitute a paradox that this paper examines in relation to the psycho-social needs of handicapped children. …”
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The Landbound Chicken and the Deliberate Chameleon yet have their Uses: Yorùbá Art History, Language, and Interpretation. by Kathy Curnow

“…What are the parameters of outsider status? Do they constitute a spectrum? Do insider advantages always trump outsiders’ perceptions? …”
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