Children in institutional re-socialisation and education – on the edge of contemporary trends by Justyna Kusztal, Sławomir Przybyliński

“…The system of juvenile re-socialisation in Poland, regulated by the Act on Juvenile Delinquency Proceedings of 1982, covers children and adolescents in connection with their depravation or with committing a punishable offence and it provides for institutional educational measures and reformatory measures in the form of sending a minor to a juvenile detention centre. Although a prison sentence passed on minors is an exception to the rule of adjudicating educational and reformatory measures, according to international regulations, the category of juvenile imprisonment is broader than serving a sentence in prison. …”
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4-H Livestock Judging: Activity 1, Parts is Parts by Chad Carr, Justin Crosswhite, Amanda Jhonson

“… This document is an educational guide. It serves as a curriculum resource within the Florida 4-H program, specifically designed for teaching livestock judging to young people aged 11-18. …”
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PANDEMIC OASIS: POPULAR RELIGIOSITIES AS WOMEN’S LIFE-GIVING COMMUNITAS by K.F. Chan

“… This article argues and explores how popular Catholic piety can serve as an agent to create life-giving communitas for women in Macao, China. …”
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SOURCES OF ERRORS IN THE EVALUATION OF PERFORMANCE OF EMPLOYEES IN THE SECTOR OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REFORM IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA by Adisa Delić, Mirela Ćebić

“…The purpose of implementing this process lies in identifying potential employees, providing information that can serve as a basis for human resource planning, forming a basis for assessing the effectiveness of the process of professional selection, establishing training needs and planning employees' training, reinforcing the motivation of employees at work, etc. …”
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INTERVIEW WITH PROF. NICO NORMAN KOOPMAN by M. Laubscher

“…He is also an ordained pastor of the Uniting Reformed Church in Ida’s Valley, Stellenbosch. He served as pastor in the congregations of Atlantis, Westfleur-Atlantis, and Bellville (as university chaplain and youth minister). …”
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EMBODIMENT, IDENTITY FORMATION AND MISSIONAL LEADERSHIP: ROOTS OF THEORY AND PRACTICE IN THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION by J. Barentsen

“…Identity formation is the focus of learning processes that shape selves to create personal, social and religious identities that enable us to engage our social and religious worlds. …”
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Interactive Arabic E-Learning for Prospective Students Studying in the Middle East by Mohammad Zaelani Musonif, Hanik Mahliatussikah, Kholisin Kholisin

“…The research was important as it served as the foundation for aspects that would be developed in the subsequent Research and Development phases. …”
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Controlled-Release Fertilizers for Potato Production in Florida by Guodong Liu, Eric H. Simonne, Yuncong Li, Chad M. Hutchinson, Mark Warren, Steven Lands

“…The numbers provided in this revised 5-page fact sheet serve as a starting point for discussion about the value of using controlled-release fertilizers, which can be a win-win-win opportunity for producers, manufacturers, and regulatory agencies by helping all meet their production, business, and environmental goals. …”
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Evaluating Volunteer Motivation for Sea Turtle Conservation in Florida by Bianca M. Bradford, Glenn D. Israel

“…No study, however, has fully explored the roles that volunteers play in sea turtle conservation. To fill this gap, we conducted a study to reveal the motivations and experiences of people who volunteer for sea turtle conservation in Florida. …”
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Viabilità relazionale: una prospettiva im/mobile delle relazioni nel Gambia transnazionale by Paolo Gaibazzi

“…The conceptual metaphor of viability serves to analyse three aspects of relational im/mobility. …”
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Use of Bismuth in Irritable Bowel Syndrome by T. A. Ilchishina

“…The new coronavirus pandemic supposedly affects most factors involved in functional disorder developments and may serve a fuelling cause of postinfectious IBS. Bismuth salts accumulate cytoprotective, anti-inflammatory and antibacterial properties. …”
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Infrastructured Timescapes of the Anthropocene and Climate Change by Claudio Coletta

“…Second, these timescapes are infrastructured, with infrastructure serving both as a key site for producing, organizing and extracting time and as an analytical category to look at temporal work. …”
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Biblical discourses and the subjugation of Africa: A Decolonial-Foucauldian perspective by T. Shingange

“…This article argues that biblical resources served as modalities of power in the colonial subjugation agenda. …”
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An Afro-Christian contextual analysis of presidential pardon in post-colonial African politics by B.O. Igboin

“…Using the desktop method, the article argues that presidential pardon granted to convicted criminals who are not allowed to serve judicial punishment is a stimulant for inveterate corruption in the polity. …”
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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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BEAUTY LIVED TOWARDS SHALOM: THE CHRISTIAN LIFE AS AESTHETIC-ETHICAL EXISTENCE by A.M. Coates

“…By rightly ordering the appreciation and cultivation of beauty in everyday life, its relationship to works of justice is immediately apparent, as both modes of relating mutually serve as fitting shalom. In this light, fittingness becomes a measure of not only aesthetic but also ethical excellence, the two modes of existence being inextricably intertwined. …”
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Interview with Nadine Bowers Du Toit by M. Laubscher

“…Nadine is the director of the Unit for Religion and Development and serves on the boards of several non-governmental organisations. …”
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Mobile stance-taking in nature: an exploration of gaze patterns during assessments of objects in nature by Barbara Laner

“…Thus, in this context, gazing at each other serves different interactional purposes, as this study will demonstrate.…”
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Cuteness and aggression in military picturebooks by Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer, Jörg Meibauer

“…On the one hand, it is not possible to represent war as a good thing across the board; on the other hand, war is depicted with respect to certain scenarios of self-defence. The narrative solution seems to be that “cute” characters (that is, anthropomorphic animals and vehicles) are introduced who serve as positive military protagonists that have to fight against aggressive characters representing the enemy. …”
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THE BALANCE BETWEEN THEORY AND PRAXIS IN SOUTH AFRICAN PENTECOSTALISM: PATMOS BIBLE SCHOOL AS A MODEL by M.S. Kgatle

“…Patmos Bible School thus serves as a model for synergy between theory and praxis in South African Pentecostalism because of its relevant theological curriculum, embracement of African identity, and African indigenous knowledge. …”
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