How Architecture Builds Intelligence: Lessons from AI by Nikos A. Salingaros

“…However, the contemporary built environment consisting of raw concrete, plate glass, and exposed steel sharply contrasts with natural geometries. Traditional and vernacular architectures are appropriate for life, whereas new buildings and urban spaces adapt to human biology and are better for raising children only if they follow living geometry, which represents natural patterns such as fractals and nested symmetries. …”
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The Horrible Sepulture of Mannes Resoun: Intoxication and Medieval English Felony Law by Elizabeth Papp Kamali

“…Evidence from non-legal texts, including vernacular literature and guides for confessors, helps explain the concerns medieval English judges and jurors brought with them to the task of felony adjudication when faced with alcohol-laced facts, revealing a world in which tavern culture ensured alcohol’s omnipresence, but in which drunkenness was nevertheless not generally available as an excuse, partial or otherwise, for allegedly felonious behavior. …”
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A review of edible saturniidae (Lepidoptera) caterpillars in Africa by Elizabeth Siago Kusia, Christian Borgemeister, Sevgan Subramanian

“…Details of edible saturniids consumption and food plants are listed as well as vernacular names in different parts of Africa. A comparison of collection, processing, storage and trading methods based on available literature is also included. …”
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Uma tricontinental dialógica: Niemeyer, Molyvann e Zevaco by Christian Pedelahore de Loddis, Felipe de Souza Noto

“…A primeira busca os aspectos dirigidos pela leitura do território, entendido como a conjunção de fatores físicos e humanos do lugar em que se desenvolve a arquitetura; aponta estratégias de aceitação da contribuição vernacular e de sua interpretação à luz do instrumental moderno. …”
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“Radix Saniculae”: Phytochemical Characterization and Potential Adulteration of an Austrian Traditional Wound-Healing Agent by Elisabeth Eichenauer, Christina Sykora, Karin Ortmayr, Sabine Glasl

“…Interestingly, in the Austrian vernacular, “Radix Saniculae” can also refer to the underground parts of <i>Cardamine enneaphyllos</i>. …”
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Ornamental Exterior versus Therapeutic Interior of Madagascar Periwinkle (Catharanthus roseus): The Two Faces of a Versatile Herb by Naghmeh Nejat, Alireza Valdiani, David Cahill, Yee-How Tan, Mahmood Maziah, Rambod Abiri

“…Botanical information with respect to synonyms, vernacular names, cultivars, floral morphology, and reproduction adds to understanding of the plant while the geography and ecology of periwinkle illustrate the organism’s ubiquity. …”
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The Tamil version of Eating Attitudes Test-26: Reliability and factor structure among persons with schizophrenia by G. Swarnameenaa, Jothilakshmi Durairaj, Vaishnavi K. Madhavan, Nithyashri Hariharan, Pavithra Arunachaleeswaran, Lakshmi Venkatraman, Anoop Sankaranarayanan, Thara Rangaswamy, Padmavati Ramachandran

“…Robust tools to assess DEB are needed in the vernacular language to capture symptoms of disordered eating accurately. …”
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Representaciones de la violencia hacia la mujer y la naturaleza: literatura y podcasting en la construcción de resistencia en torno al río Santa Cruz by Gastón Alberto Berezagá, Natalia Mollenhauer, Brenda Palacios, Bárbara Rodríguez Carstens

“…En esta línea, el trabajo describe además cómo se presentan ciertas relaciones temáticas: lo humano (bajo la forma de “la mujer”) y su conexión con lo natural a partir de la filosofía postantropocentrista, y su entrecruzamiento con elementos de la espiritualidad, lo ancestral y lo vernacular. …”
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De la façon de nommer aux usages des plantes adventices des cultures en pays Jbala (nord du Maroc) by Louise Clochey, Yildiz Aumeeruddy-Thomas

“…To illustrate our work, we show the whole body of knowledge revolving around (1) cooking a dish of wild leafy vegetables called beqqula and (2) feeding young calves with spontaneous spring plants. Vernacular taxonomies, and more specifically the ways of naming these spontaneous plants, were analyzed. …”
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Field Pea (Pisum sativum L.) Variety Development for Moisture Deficit Areas of Eastern Amhara, Ethiopia by Yirga Kindie, Aemiro Bezabih, Wubeshet Beshir, Zinabu Nigusie, Zelalem Asemamaw, Antenh Adem, Birke Tebabele, Genet Kebede, Tesfay Alemayehu, Fentaw Assres

“…Considering the seven environments data and field performance evaluation during the variety verification trial, the National Variety Releasing Committee has approved the official release of EH-03-002 with the vernacular name of “Yewaginesh” for moisture deficit areas of Wag Lasta and similar agroecologies.…”
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Aspectos de la gramatización antigua de la lengua vasca by Aurélie Arcocha-Scarcia, Joseba Andoni Lakarra

“…In §4 we include the principal conclusions, among which that publications in the vernacular language needed the establishment of linguistic tools, the development of grammatization and a cultural context that permitted the “enlightening” of the language; for that reason, both the LVP and the NT and the RS were born within a continuum, not ex-nihilo or on an island, which makes it essential to reread these works in relation to the printing workshops, scrutinising their ideological surroundings in the context of the extension of new ideas, in an interconnected geopolitical space which experienced major jumps and evolutions in this period. …”
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Making Maoshan Great Again: Religious Rhetoric and Popular Mobilisation from Late Qing to Republican China (1864–1937) by Qijun Zheng

“…Through a detailed analysis of primary sources, including editions of the <i>Maoshan Gazetteer</i>, liturgical manuals such as the scripture (<i>jing</i> 經), litany (<i>chan</i> 懺), and performative texts such as the precious scroll (<i>baojuan</i> 寶卷) of the Three Mao Lords, this study identifies six key rhetoric strategies employed by Maoshan Daoists, using the acronym IMPACT: (1) Incorporation: Appending miracle tales (<i>lingyan ji</i> 靈驗記) and divine medicine (<i>xianfang</i> 仙方) to address immediate and practical needs of contemporary society; (2) Memory: Preserving doctrinal continuity while invoking cultural nostalgia to reinforce connections to traditional values and heritage; (3) Performance: Collaborating with professional storytellers to disseminate vernacularized texts through oral performances, thereby reaching broader audiences including the illiterate. (4) Abridgment: Condensing lengthy texts into concise and accessible formats; (5) Canonization: Elevating the divine status of deities through spirit-writing, thereby enhancing their religious authority; (6) Translation: Rendering classical texts into vernacular language for broader accessibility. …”
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Patients’ Perspectives on the Preference for the Gender of Medical Professionals in Perioperative Care and Attitudes Toward Anaesthesiologists: A Cross-sectional Study by Usha Devi, Minnu Panditrao, Shilpa Bansal

“…Patients were asked questions from the proforma in their vernacular language and appropriate answers were marked on the questionnaire sheet. …”
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Post-harvest conservation practices, related insect pests of stored pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum (L) R. Br.), and their management in northern Benin by Tayé Obédatou Alagbe, Yeyinou Laura Estelle Loko, Innocent Djègbè, Julien Gandjala, Dieudonné Gavoedo, Manuele Tamò

“…Results Our results showed that farmers perceived insect pests as the most important constraint to pearl millet storage. Vernacular taxonomy and local nomenclature of insect pests of stored pearl millet varied among sociolinguistic groups. …”
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La création franco-chinoise dans sa matérialité. Le symbolisme dans l’œuvre plastique de Xuefeng Chen et son rapport à la matière by Guillaume Thouroude

“…Born in Yunnan and residing in Lyon, Xuefeng Chen draws from personal experience to create universal objects that bring together the traditions of southeastern China and French autofictional writing: a floating temple made of white muslin (vernacular architecture) is adorned with embroideries (a popular art form in Yunnan) that narrate accidents, injuries and abortions (the narrative voice of a contemporary woman). …”
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La poésie lyrique, un outil d’unification linguistique et politique by Anne-Marie Le Baillif

“…The second act was Defence et Illustration de la langue française published by Joachim du Bellay in 1549 ruling on the use of vernacular language in lyrical poetry. Both events gave impetus to the unification of the language, not only in official documents but also in everyday life. …”
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KONSEP PERANCANGAN TAMAN RAMAH DIFABEL PADA TEPIAN SUNGAI MAHAKAM SAMARINDA KALIMANTAN TIMUR by Nur Husniah Thamrin, Hatta Musthafa AP

“…The results of this study are a design concept for the Etam park which is equipped with disability-friendly facilities such as ramps, disabled parking, circulation paths, rest areas, toilets and lactation rooms, as well as other facilities designed in a neo vernacular style typical of East Kalimantan. Keywords :  Park, Disabled, Culture, Samarinda, East Kalimantan …”
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The French connection: Some Icelandic translations of French literature in manuscript and print, ca. 1400-1900 by Matthew James Driscoll

“…Although the bulk of this literature was indigenous and in Icelandic, many works were translated, too, both from Latin and the various European vernaculars. The present essay examines a few of the French literary works that survive in Icelandic translations, both in manuscript and print, from Thomas’s Tristan to Jules Verne.…”
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The Unresolved History and Genealogy of Forced Displacement in Mexico by Carolina Robledo Silvestre

“…The conclusions of this study emphasize the necessity to “vernacularize” the typology of forced displacement in order to challenge the forms of exclusion established by the existing definitions.…”
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