Mission to people of other faiths in the Old Testament and Eldoret, Kenya: some reflections for engaging Muslims within their context by R. Omwenga

“…With an aim of providing reflections for contemporary practice, this article goes beyond these strengths and weaknesses by providing suggestions for how mission can be effectively undertaken in Eldoret, Kenya. …”
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THE HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT AND CURRENT TRENDS OF POLITICAL SCIENCE AS A FIELD OF STUDY IN NIGERIA by Toye Manuwa

“…In conclusion, this study highlights the importance and relevance of political science as a field of study in Nigeria and beyond. …”
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Co-Creating Knowledge Online: Approaches for Community Artists by Shea Pip

“…This position advocates that practitioners move beyond situating the Internet as a platform for dissemination and a tool for co-creating media, to embrace its knowledge collaboration potential.…”
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Severe deviation in protein fold prediction by advanced AI: a case study by Jacinto López-Sagaseta, Alejandro Urdiciain

“…We observe positional divergence in equivalent residues beyond 30 Å, and an overall RMSD of 7.7 Å. Significant deviation between experimental structures and AI-predicted models echoes the presence of unusual conformations, insufficient training data and high complexity in protein folding that can ultimately lead to current limitations in protein structure prediction.…”
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Application of emerging technologies for gut microbiome research by Wit Thun Kwa, Saishreyas Sundarajoo, Kai Yee Toh, Jonathan Lee

“…As the emerging technologies for microbiome research continue to evolve (i.e. metatranscriptomics, metabolomics, culturomics, synthetic biology), microbiome research has moved beyond phylogenetic descriptions and towards mechanistic analyses. …”
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The Economic Aspects of a Small Equine Boarding Operation in North Florida by Julie Gatlin, Johann Krebs, Peter J. van Blokland, John J. Haydu

“…It includes the costs and revenues of the boarding operation only, not the owner's residence and land beyond these 10 acres. Data refers to 2003 North Florida costs and prices. …”
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Are humans by birth as wicked as the Heidelberg Catechism (3-11) holds? A dialogue between theology and modern sciences by P. Lampe

“…Culture, especially religion, is needed to advance a systematic, and not just spontaneous, altruism reaching beyond one’s group boundaries. Concluding remarks, using Paul, roughly sketch what a modern harmatiology would have to emphasize if it is not moral corruptness. …”
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Slaves and Captives Between Castile, Granada, and the Canary Islands: Frontier and Judicial Dynamics in the 15th and 16th Centuries by Mirko Suzarte Škarica

“…Furthermore, these local practices had global significance once the Spanish Empire expanded its frontiers to America and beyond. …”
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A Bibliometric Analysis of Research on Teachers’ Digital Competences by Gündüzalp Seda, Yaraş Zübeyde

“…In the digital transformation process, education systems have started to evolve within a digital infrastructure and have gone beyond traditional education patterns. This process has reshaped education systems and increased the importance of digital competence. …”
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The NSVZ β-function for theories regularized by higher covariant derivatives: the all-loop sum of matter and ghost singularities by K. V. Stepanyantz

“…This implies that the β-function beyond the one-loop approximation is given by the sum of the singular contributions, which is calculated in all orders for singularities produced by the matter superfields and by the Faddeev-Popov ghosts. …”
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“Lost in translation?” Animal research in the era of precision medicine by Hamideh Frühwein, Norbert W. Paul

“…We argue that the ethical obligation to protect animals extends beyond their instrumental value for human benefit; it is rooted in the intrinsic value of their well-being. …”
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Skepping en evolusie: 'n filosofiese besinning oor tyd, ruimte en materie by P. H. Stoker

“…Physical evolution requires theoretical explanations beyond the very limited observational data at our disposal and cannot be considered as revealed truth. …”
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Territorial Rivalries in Humanitarian Work and Nursing: Critical Examination of Professional Identities and Delivery of Care by Janaka Jayawickrama, Jordan Lindekens

“…This article suggests that drawing on ideas from ancient philosophies beyond the Euro-North American perspective could help to improve learning. …”
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Comparing P300 flashing paradigms in online typing with language models. by Nand Chandravadia, Shrita Pendekanti, Dustin Roberts, Robert Tran, Saarang Panchavati, Corey Arnold, Nader Pouratian, William Speier

“…This result could indicate that further performance improvements on the system lie beyond optimizing flashing patterns.…”
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Is fides quaerens intellectum a scholarly enterprise? Some thoughts on confessional theology at a public university by Gerrit Brand

“… In the context of reflection in South Africa about the place of confessional theology at public universities, and in critical conversation with positions defended by thinkers like Hans Albert, Gerhard Ebeling, Ben Vedder, Vincent Brümmer and Gijsbert van den Brink, a case can be made for a legitimate place at public universities for a theology that goes beyond merely describing and analysing faith to evaluate religious points of view and suggest new ways of expressing faith drawing from a specific faith tradition, thereby serving not only the academy and broader society in general, but also specifically a faith community. …”
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COMFORT WOMEN SURVIVING PANDEMICS: FROM ERASURE TO EMBODIED HOPE TOWARDS A FEMINIST-POSTCOLONIAL THEOLOGY OF RADICAL HOSPITALITY by S.A. Bong

“…Secondly, the article argues that extending hospitality to comfort women (for example, war reparations) goes beyond the “law of ekstasis”, as touted in Fratelli Tutti, as comfort women themselves embody love, reciprocity, and inclusion. …”
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“It Helps if I Don’t Come Across as the Intersex Person but as the Regular Guy”. LGBTIQ* Movements, Credibility, and Mis-Fitting in Knowledge Spaces in Austria by Boka En

“…Thus, members of minoritised groups often have to negotiate their presence in hostile knowledge spaces in ways that go beyond abstract epistemological  considerations. In this paper, I discuss how LGBTIQ* activists and academics in Austria navigate knowledge spaces that may treat them as “space invaders”. …”
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INTEGRATING THEORY AND PRAXIS IN EMPIRICAL MISSIOLOGY by M. Ehmann

“…The article briefly presents the pedagogical model and the methodology behind this concept and then reflects critically, from a missiological perspective, on the prospects and limits of teaching practical science and action research in the academic setting of a University of Applied Science in Germany and beyond. …”
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AWARENESS AND PERCEPTION OF ONITSHA RESIDENTS ON ‘JAPA’ SYNDROME AMONG NIGERIANS by DANIEL T. EZEGWU, GLORIA NWAKEGO CHUKWUEMEKA, CHINELO EDITH UDE-AKPEH

“…The researchers recommended that Nigerian media should keep informing its citizens of the latest trends or developments in the country and beyond. …”
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ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION, TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATIONS (TNCS) AND DEVELOPMENT EQUATION IN THE NIGER DELTA by Prince Eze, Ewelie C. Justice

“…What is sadder in this situation is that the government has not been effective in monitoring and regulating their activities to minimize the negative impact of their operations on the environment, it is in this regard that it is recommended among other things, that government must insist that TNCs adopt international best practices and innovation in their operations, and beyond political speeches and conference communiqué government must also be proactive in enacting and implementing relevant environmental laws and policies that will help in minimizing the harm done to the Environmentenvironment. …”
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