The new age and conventional communication by Marco Roodt

“…Communications would in my view be referring to those information-technology-trained experts driving luxury cars at an age when they had barely qualified for a legal driver's licence, or to the richest person in the world who has, by starting a dot.com business, surpassed in stock wealth the software wunderkid of the eighties. They are indeed also part and parcel of communication. The only thing is that they seem to be successful on a large scale where people electing to qualify and practise in the field of conventional communication appear to have much less to be happy about. …”
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Pentecostal Churches and Capitalism in a South African Township: Towards a Communism of the Market? by Thibaut Dubarry

“…We show how Pentecostalism, in contrast to traditional forms of Christianity, is par excellence involved in the immanent/horizontal affairs of believers’ lives. Indeed, the market itself appears to be sacralized, implying a transfer of holiness into the secular domain. …”
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Epigenetic Modifications and Potential New Treatment Targets in Diabetic Retinopathy by Lorena Perrone, Carmela Matrone, Lalit P. Singh

“…Recent studies also underline the role of epigenetic chromatin modifications as mediators of the metabolic memory. Indeed, epigenetic changes may lead to stable modification of gene expression, participating in DR pathogenesis. …”
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Aude Thuries, L’apparition de la danse : construction et émergence du sens dans le mouvement. À partir de la philosophie de Susanne Langer by Aude Thuries

“…This decision not to reduce a priori the field of study allows us to draw a posteriori a clear distinction between dance and any other kind of moves or bodily practices. Indeed, our work tends to claim the fundamental specificity of dance, whatever environments, moments or bodies in or during which it occurs — a specificity that may be explained by its unique symbolic processes and the meanings or senses it may build or give birth to.…”
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Aging Adults and Seasonal Influenza: Does the Vitamin D Status (H)Arm the Body? by Pierre Olivier Lang, Dimitrios Samaras

“…Vitamin D (VitD), although originally described as an essential hormone for bone and mineral homeostasis, appears to have an active role in regulating specific facets of human immunity. Indeed, VitD has been shown to have significant effects on cytokine production and lymphocyte proliferation. …”
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PHILOSOPHICAL-LEGAL CONCEPTUAL FOUNDATIONS REGARDING THE RULE OF LAW AND ITS EVOLUTION. THE CORRELATION BETWEEN POLITICAL POWER, LAW AND THE RULE OF LAW by Iulian NEDELCU, Paul-Iulian NEDELCU

“…Human activity, as a great Italian jurist and philosopher stat 1 it can be considered as being regulated by a complex system of rules; and, indeed, in every historical phase we find such a system.…”
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From Boole to Leggett-Garg: Epistemology of Bell-Type Inequalities by Karl Hess, Hans De Raedt, Kristel Michielsen

“…If the gulf can be bridged, one may indeed derive the said inequality, which is then clearly a demarcation between possible and impossible experience: it cannot be violated and is not violated by quantum theory. …”
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An Introduction to Book Staying Ok by Akbar Zare Shahabadi, Hamideh Shiri-Mohammadabad

“…Over the last two decades, a change has occurred in the paradigm of the development model, especially individual and social development, and the theoretical model of dynamic human training has been attracting considerable interest since then. Indeed, humans and their needs were viewed from a different angle, and the communities set it as their goal to educate and train psychologically and socially good/OK humans. …”
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Plastic Surgery: Under the Skin, Suture, Destructive Plasticity and Post-Cinematic Ontologies by Greg Hainge

“…It is such a form of subjectivity, I argue, that we find in Glazer’s Under the Skin where this narrative plays out not only diegetically, as we witness the alien that has sutured itself inside a human envelope attempt and fail to articulate itself to an external narrative that remains inaccessible to it, but infratextually also. Indeed, ultimately this article suggests that Under the Skin can be read as a commentary on the viewing subject required by (and forms of subjectivity produced by) post-cinematic media forms that at first seem to operate according to a different logic to the cinematic syntax of classical cinema, but which may in fact require us to reconsider some of our assumptions with regard to all forms of cinematic subjectivity produced in the relations between spectator and screen.…”
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Ezetimibe and Improving Cardiovascular Outcomes: Current Evidence and Perspectives by Akshyaya Pradhan, Monika Bhandari, Rishi Sethi

“…It has now been endorsed by major guidelines too in management of dyslipidemia. Yes, ezetimibe can indeed improve cardiovascular outcomes!…”
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An Attempt to Understand Islamic Arts with Deconstruction by Yaşar Özrili

“…Cult is the reversal of canonical clichés, structures, compositions. Indeed, in an example where cultural and artistic interaction is deconstructed, it is demonstrated that new answers can be found with different questions. …”
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A model to quantify fatigue crack growth by cyclic damage accumulation calculated by strip-yield procedures by Samuel Elias Ferreira, Jaime Tupiassú Pinho de Castro, Marco Antonio Meggiolaro

“…To verify if these models are indeed intrinsically better, the mechanics of a typical strip-yield model is used to predict FCG rates based both on Elber's ideas and on the alternative view that FCG is instead due to damage accumulation induced by the cyclic strain history ahead of the crack tip, which does not need or use  Keff ideas. …”
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Generalized Heptagonal Membership Function for Fully Fuzzy Linear Fractional Programming Problems by Israa Hadi, Iden H. Al Kanani

“…For describing the uncertainty, vagueness, or imprecision of information in the real world, triangular and trapezoidal fuzzy numbers are frequently used. Indeed, it is not always practical to limit the membership function to a triangle or trapezoid. …”
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Protein Kinase CK2: A Targetable BCR-ABL Partner in Philadelphia Positive Leukemias by Alessandro Morotti, Giovanna Carrà, Cristina Panuzzo, Sabrina Crivellaro, Riccardo Taulli, Angelo Guerrasio, Giuseppe Saglio

“…The identification of additional pathways that mediate BCR-ABL leukemogenesis is indeed mandatory to achieve synthetic lethality together with TKI. …”
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An outlook on structural biology after AlphaFold: tools, limits and perspectives by Serena Rosignoli, Maddalena Pacelli, Francesca Manganiello, Alessandro Paiardini

“…While the excitement around AI‐based tools led to their widespread application, it is essential to acknowledge that their practical success hinges on their integration into established protocols within structural bioinformatics, often neglected in the context of AI‐driven advancements. Indeed, user‐driven intervention is still as pivotal in the structure prediction process as in complementing state‐of‐the‐art algorithms with functional and biological knowledge.…”
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Aestheticising the Blackfoot Valley (Montana, USA), or How to Reconcile the Mining Frontier and the Eco-Frontier by Sylvain Guyot, Gabrielle Saumon

“…An entirely private, site-specific art project (Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild) creates the possibility of offering an alternative resource to be shared by eco-gentrifiers and a local population adjusting to a post-extractive order, and indeed its site-specific works resonate with both the valley’s mining past and its untamed nature. …”
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Deep Learning algorithm for the assessment of the first damage initiation monitoring the energy release of materials by Dario Santonocito, Dario Milone

“…Nowadays, it is impossible to distinguish the transition between Phase I and Phase II in an objective way. Indeed, it is up to the operator's experiences. This work aims to create a universal methodology that predicts the limit stress by assessing the change in temperature trend by adopting Neural Networks. …”
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Memoryless Systems Generate the Class of all Discrete Systems by Erwan Beurier, Dominique Pastor, David I. Spivak

“…These arbitrarily simple machines can be wired together—so that the output of one is passed to another as its input—to form more complex machines. Indeed, both modern computers and biological systems can be described in this way, as assemblies of transistors or assemblies of simple cells. …”
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Experimental investigation of surface roughness effect on fatigue performance of AISI 1045 carbon steel and fatigue limit prediction by Khadija Kimakh, Abdelkerim Chouaf, Amal Saoud, El Hassan Mallil, Samir Aghzer

“…It could differ greatly among specific cases even for the same solicitations. Indeed, the manufacturing process carries modifications on surface state, residual stresses and the microstructure which affects the fatigue behavior of mechanical parts. …”
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« KOMM, KÜSS MICH COMPUTER / KOMM, PROGRAMMIERE MICH » by Bruno Dupont

“…The literary depiction of a desirable computer has indeed become very frequent in the second half of the 20th century, and can be found in Gert Loschütz’ novella Eine wahnsinnige Liebe (1984). …”
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