Elphick, Richard, The Equality of Believers. Protestant Missionaries and the Racial Politics of South Africa by J. J. Kritzinger

“…It gives not only a strong line of argument on the expressed theme, but also provides a wealth of (to me, at least) previous less known details about some of the main actors who played a significant role in the shaping of present and past ideologies in South Africa. In that sense it can also almost serve as an encyclopaedia, a Who’s Who of the South African racial debate (for which the 21 page Index is of great value). …”
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Reminiscence Tours and Pilgrimage Sites by Katja Uusihakala

“…This essay examines how members of the ex-Rhodesian diaspora community in South Africa ‘travel back’ to the past in the present in two ways: firstly by concrete heritage journeys to Zimbabwe on reminiscence tours and secondly by constructing memory sites and commemorative venues, where the journeys back to the ‘homeland’ take the form of imaginative travel. …”
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Incorporating Pet Fish Into Your Small Animal Practice by Ruth Francis-Floyd

“… There are several factors that make it advantageous to consider adding pet fish medicine to your small animal practice at the present time. Over the past five to ten years, some veterinary schools have begun to incorporate aquatic animal medicine into their curricula. …”
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Heart of the Country by Len Kamerling

“…They embrace Principal Yasutomo’s vision of hope for the future, but not without wary glances back to the past. Produced in collaboration with the community of Kanayama, Hokkaido and the Hokkaido University of Education Japan. …”
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Recurrent and current trends in the study of the Book of Psalms by N.L. deClaissé- Walford

“… In the past one hundred years, two approaches to the study of the Book of Psalms have tended to dominate, namely form criticism and shape and shaping (canonical criticism). …”
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Processes of Residential Differentiation in Socialist Cities by Sampo Ruoppila

“…Therefore, developments during socialism did not always challenge the capitalist past, but rather actually often continued its socio-spatial patterns, especially within inner city areas …”
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Verlossing as socio-politieke bevryding? by P. Robinson

“… During the past two decades the theological debate on Biblical meaning of salvation has increased and intensified. …”
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Sytuacja prawna dzieci w Polsce po 1945 r. Wybrane aspekty z A.S. Makarenką w tle by Sylwia Różycka-Jaroś

“…The analysis carried out in the text shows that the law established at that time was not only progressive in relation to the past, but it also kept up to date, about which, after the liberal breakthrough of 1989, we do not want to remember. …”
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Crimson Tide: Hans Zimmer, Subliminal Harmony, and Submerged Voices by Donald Greig

“… Crimson Tide (Tony Scott, 1995) is a signal example of Hollywood action-adventure movies of the past forty years and in particular of the “high-concept” movie. …”
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Amyloids in bladder cancer hijack cancer-related proteins and are positive correlated to tumor stage by Diego Alem, César X. García-Laviña, Francisco Garagorry, Dardo Centurión, Joaquina Farias, Hany Pazos-Espinosa, María Noel Cuitiño-Mendiberry, Carolina Villadóniga, Susana Castro-Sowinski, Martín Fló, Federico Carrión, Brenda Iglesias, Kevin Madauss, Lucía Canclini

“…Abstract Despite the current diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to bladder cancer being widely accepted, there have been few significant advancements in this field over the past decades. This underscores the necessity for a paradigm shift in the approach to bladder cancer. …”
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Empirical prediction intervals applied to short term mortality forecasts and excess deaths by Ricarda Duerst, Jonas Schöley

“…Methods Using weekly death data from the Short-term Mortality Database (STMF) for 23 countries, we propose empirical prediction intervals based on the distribution of past out-of-sample forecasting errors for the study of weekly expected and excess deaths. …”
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EDITORIAL EXPLOSION by Gabriela COCA

“…The Professor Ede Terényi, offers the interested specialists the result of his researches of more then twenty-five years in the area of the harmony of the modern music of the first half of the past century. The volume, The Harmony of the Modern Music (1900 – 1950) treats The Gravitational Harmonic System, the Non-Gravitational Harmonic System (The Geometric One), and The Synthesis of the Two Harmonically Systems. …”
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Causes and Prevention of Emitter Plugging In Microirrigation Systems by D. Z. Haman

“…These systems utilize a network of pipes to distribute water to emitters, which discharge it in various forms such as droplets, small streams, or mini-sprayers. Over the past two decades, microirrigation has emerged as a preferred method for both irrigation and freeze protection in trees and horticultural crops. …”
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Digital ecclesiology and Africa’s digital natives: prospects and challenges by K.M. Ndereba

“…Churches have grappled with ministering to their congregants in light of the changes in physical gatherings over the past two years. While the digital mode of ministry has strengthened the church’s missional outreach, churches have struggled with two foundational questions: the nature and the mission of the church. …”
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The 2023 Mw 7.8–7.7 Kahramanmaraş earthquakes were loosely slip-predictable by Ellis Vavra, Yuri Fialko, Fatih Bulut, Aslı Garagon, Sefa Yalvaç, Cenk Yaltırak

“…Most of large instrumentally-recorded earthquakes have occurred on faults lacking well-documented histories of past events. The 2023 Mw 7.8–7.7 Kahramanmaraş earthquake doublet is exceptional as it ruptured multiple segments of the East Anatolian Fault (EAF) system, where historical records of devastating earthquakes span over two millennia. …”
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PROTECTING THE HARMONY – THOUGHTS ON THE MARGIN OF ANGI ISTVÁN’S BOOK ABOUT AESTHETIC PIETY (ANGI ISTVÁN: A HARMÓNIA MARAD, PARTIUM KIADÓ, NAGYVÁRAD, 2013) by Attila FODOR

“…The sacred field of the sound art situated beyond the proper aesthetic, which became for Angi István a lifelong revelation in the catching beauty of the transcendence music experience from the childhood lauds to the practice of Gregorian chant in the recent past, gives birth to this book solely devoted to the aesthetic piety. …”
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Theoretical framework and experimental validation for monitoring the glass transition temperature of thermosets using a low-cost Fresnel reflection sensor by James DR. Talbot, David King, Francisco N. Bogonez, Venkata R. Machavaram, Dee Harris, Madhav Ramesh, Surya D. Pandita, Liwei Wang, Maximilian Hlatky, Gerard F. Fernando

“…As predicted by the theoretical study, a distinct change in the slope of the Fresnel reflection sensor data were observed as the cross-linked resin was heated past the glass transition temperature. An excellent correlation was observed between the outputs from the Fresnel reflection sensor and the differential scanning calorimeter with regard to the cross-linking kinetics and the glass transition temperature.…”
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Leadership in rural congregations and communities: an exploration in the North-Eastern Free State by P. C. J. Nel, W. J. Schoeman

“…Communities in the north-eastern Free State are typical rural towns with a strong emphasis on agricultural activities and less emphasis in terms of processing products and other activities. Over the past few decades, rural communities have experienced many changes in terms of depopulation, the decline of the rural economy, poverty, and unemployment. …”
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An exploration of the use of technology by congregations by S. Joubert, W. J. Schoeman

“… The internet, cell phones and, more broadly speaking, the social media, have changed the world over the past twenty years, resulting in what is called “the network society”. …”
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Development of anticipatory coarticulation of /u/ in typically Malayalam speaking children in the age range of 3-6 years by Litna A. Varghese

“…Coarticulation is language dependent and can vary from children to adult. Studies in the past have shown that children have more coarticulation than adults; adults have more coarticulation than children; children and adult have similar coarticulatory patterns. …”
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