Religious Complexity in Postcolonial South Africa: Contending with the Indigenous by Federico Settler

“…I explore questions about how to account for, ‘classify’, or ‘measure’ change related to everyday African Indigenous religious efforts and practices in the aftermath of and in response to colonialism, where conventional ideas about religious authority and affinity are displaced by Indigenous practices that can variously be described as simultaneously vital, viral, or feral.…”
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La Revelatio ecclesiae sancti Michaelis et son auteur by Pierre Bouet

“…This reform sought to organise the community life ofclerics and to impose the authority of the bishop on all the churches and sanctuaries in the diocese.…”
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A Blockchain Network Admission Control Mechanism Using Anonymous Identity-Based Cryptography by Haibao Zhang, Wenbao Jiang, Jin Ding

“…However, these systems are vulnerable to threats such as DDoS attacks, forged transactions, and certificate authority compromises, primarily due to inadequate network layer admission control. …”
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ISLAMIC ECONOMIC LAW ON MUSYARAKAH AND MURABAHAH: IMPACTS ON ISLAMIC BANKING GROWTH by Adinda Dian Pramita, Khusnul Fikriyah, Sri Abidah Suryaningsih

“…This method allows researchers to understand the natural context of the phenomenon under study through data collection from various relevant literature, such as official reports from Bank Indonesia, the Financial Services Authority, and Islamic economic literature. This qualitative analysis aims to describe the condition and performance of Islamic banking in detail and in depth. …”
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Anton de Kom, historiographe. La construction d’un passé national pour les esclaves du Surinam by Kim Andringa

“…Anton de Kom (1898-1945) was a slave descendant and the author of a History of Surinam, through which he intended to trigger the decolonization of minds, thus giving to the creole population of Surinam what B. …”
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Oppression of Women in Assia Djebar’s So Vast The Prison by Gönül Bakay

“…French, the paternal language of the narrator, is a gateway to freedom in the social world - yet it is the language of colonial authority. It severs the narrator’s ties with her maternal tongue which is Arabic. …”
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Artificial Intelligence and the Financial Security of the State on the Example of Poland by Elżbieta Feret

“…Considering the above, the aim of the study will be to determine the manifestations of this technological interference in the financial sphere of its operation in relation to its inherent financial authority. At the same time, to carry out the considerations, it will be necessary, based on legal acts, doctrine and court decisions, to demonstrate the benefits and threats resulting from the use of AI in relation to budget and tax security of the state on the example of Poland. …”
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Profession, Vocation and Image of Antonio de Lebrija until 1950: From grammaticus to Father of Spanish Linguistics by Joaquín Pascual Barea

“…Lebrija’s figure has also been used politically, both from the nationalist and conservative position of traditional Catholicism, founded on his patriotism and services to the Spanish crown and his dedication to sacred letters, and from a liberal and progressive ideology, which highlighted his firm defence of freedom of expression and reason against the principle of authority. …”
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The Impact of Requiring Completion of an Online Infection Control Course on Health Professionals’ Intentions to Comply with Infection Control Guidelines: A Comparative Study by Annalee Yassi, Elizabeth A Bryce, Deirdre Maultsaid, Helen Novak Lauscher, Kun Zhao

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Un diagnostic de gouvernance basé sur le discours des acteurs : le cas du littoral marseillais « côté mer » (Marseille, France) by Dominique Ami, Juliette Rouchier, Stéphane Calandra

“…We have identified more precisely uses, actors, conflicts, nuisances, and how people define rules and share authority. There are several important element : actors share a common objective that is the protection of littoral that is seen as very busy, fragile, in-between sea and land, they consider that a main legitimate actor (Parc National des Calanques, just born at that time) should be the leader of this governance. …”
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The petitions for the recusal of chair Lina Khan: a matter of due process or delaying the process? by Nathalie Nielson

“…The tech giant pressed the authority, in a letter, to recuse the new Assistant Attorney General, Jonathan Kanter, for his past work in private practice representing competitors such as Microsoft or Yelp. …”
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Senior High School Mathematics Subjects in Queensland: Options and Trends of Student Participation by Musarurwa David Chinofunga, Philemon Chigeza, Subhashni Taylor

“…The objective of this study was to identify broad trends in senior Queensland students’ participation in calculus and non-calculus based Mathematics purely from a statistical viewpoint using a large data set from the Queensland Curriculum and Assessment Authority (QCAA). To this end, trends in Years 11 and 12 students’ participation in calculus based Mathematics B and C, and non-calculus based Mathematics A and Prevocational Mathematics between 2010 and 2019 was investigated. …”
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Navigating the Digital Landscape Spatially: Assessing P2P Lending Influence on Banking Performance and Risk in Indonesia by Fitri Susilowati, Suryanto Suryanto

“…The research method used a quantitative approach with data from the Financial Services Authority (OJK). Data processing employed Arellano Bond's two-step dynamic panel regression analysis (GMM), as the available data range was 2020-2022. …”
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Le paysage à l’épreuve des « nouveaux » défis de l’aménagement du territoire au Maroc : contraintes et perspectives by Mustapha El Hannani, Aude Nuscia Taïbi, Yahia El Khalki, Abdelhalim Benyoucef

“…The Moroccan regional planning was often marked by security concerns, based on historic inheritances of conflicting relations between central authority and tribes. This analysis focused on history/space and security has lead to the marginalization of some regions, in particular the mountain considered as "useless" space. …”
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The Dynamics of Traditional Religion in the Political Economy of Ìkòrodú by Adéyẹmí Balógun

“…This transformation has not only challenged the authority of the traditional institutions in Ìkòrodú, it has also impacted on the religious beliefs and practices which underpin the socio-economic and political systems of the people. …”
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The role of foresight in public policy: lessons from deliberative democracy and perspectival realism by Brian Galvin

“…One of these challenges is in establishing its epistemic authority when compared to natural science and social science disciplines.  …”
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The Principle of Independence in the Fulfillment of Tax Obligations in the Context of Digitalization of the Economy by O. I. Lyutova

“…The study considers the conceptual problem of transforming the content of one of the principles of the institution of tax liability — the independence of its execution — in the context of its development in the information environment and in the conditions of the active use of modern digital technologies in the implementation of tax relations.It is proved that in the modern realities of the digital transformation of taxation in the field of legal regulation of the principle of independence of the fulfillment of the tax obligation, two interrelated trends are realized: firstly, the delegation of the obligation to calculate taxes to the tax authority not only in relation to individuals, but also for organizations and individual entrepreneurs; secondly, there is an expansion of the list of powers of tax authorities related to the fulfillment of the obligation to pay tax.The author analyzes various novelties of the tax legislation of the Russian Federation from the point of view of the use by the legislator of the principle of independence in regulating the tax legal relations of the digital era. …”
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The (In)Human Condition by Vicky Angelaki

“…In so doing, they also powerfully question the primacy of humans over animals, raising important points as to vulnerability and transgression, the assumption of authority over nature, and also to humans in positions of power versus humans in positions of vulnerability.…”
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Preparation, Characterization, and Analytical Application of Ramipril Membrane-Based Ion-Selective Electrode by Hassan Arida, Mona Ahmed, Abdallah Ali

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Revised safety evaluation of the food enzyme glucose oxidase from the genetically modified Trichoderma reesei strain AR‐352 by EFSA Panel on Food Enzymes (FEZ), Holger Zorn, José Manuel Barat Baviera, Claudia Bolognesi, Francesco Catania, Gabriele Gadermaier, Ralf Greiner, Baltasar Mayo, Alicja Mortensen, Yrjö Henrik Roos, Marize L. M. Solano, Monika Sramkova, Henk Van Loveren, Laurence Vernis, Jaime Aguilera, Yi Liu

“…In a previous opinion, the Panel on Food Contact Materials, Enzymes and Processing Aids of the European Food Safety Authority could not conclude on the absence of recombinant DNA from the production strain in the food enzyme due to uncertainties about the limit of detection of the applied methodology. …”
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