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  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,259 Views
5 Pages

In modern society, people are becoming increasingly addicted to mobile phones, resulting in the alienation from objective real life and in people becoming captives of mobile phones. As the saying goes, since there is such a social phenomenon, there w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,356 Views
12 Pages

24 March 2023

This article seeks to examine R. Dr. Isaiah Aviad’s outlook with regard to the Land of Israel, worldly labor, and redemption, as reflected in his teachings. R. Dr. Isaiah Aviad (Oskar Wolfsberg) (1893–1957) was born in Germany. He was one...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
6,518 Views
15 Pages

19 August 2019

Lance Armstrong’s achievements in cycling will forever be overshadowed by his admittance of using unethical performance enhancing means to win. However, Armstrong’s positive social impact of raising awareness, hundreds of millions of doll...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
7,103 Views
15 Pages

12 January 2018

In this article, I show how the relationship between race, violence, and redemption is articulated and visualized through film. By juxtaposing DW Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation and Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained, I contend that the latter inv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,740 Views
14 Pages

16 August 2025

Redemption, as a response to guilt and a path toward self-realization, is a fundamental theme in human narratives. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini poignantly explores this theme through the protagonist’s moral conflict, internal struggle, an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,172 Views
12 Pages

27 July 2023

Orson Scott Card’s Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus is an interesting work of fiction that belongs to the genre of Alternate History, which is a subgenre of speculative fiction. The novel poses the question of: “what woul...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,482 Views
19 Pages

19 August 2025

Turning-point memories, experiences that impact personal development, may be interpreted in ways that emphasize positive, negative, or mixed development because the memory prompt is open-ended with regard to event valence (i.e., it does not elicit ‘h...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,324 Views
10 Pages

7 May 2021

This article is a comparison of two works of fiction, a film and a novel, that both address the question of how people deal with intense memories of tragic events from their past. Both works are characterized by crucial references to religious phenom...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,180 Views
11 Pages

Preventive Metformin Monotherapy Medication Prescription, Redemption and Socioeconomic Status in Hungary in 2018–2019: A Cross-Sectional Study

  • Csilla Nagy,
  • Attila Juhász,
  • Péter Pikó,
  • Judit Diószegi,
  • György Paragh,
  • Zoltán Szabó,
  • Orsolya Varga and
  • Róza Ádány

This study was designed to characterize the spatial distribution of metformin medication used as first-line monotherapy for prevention of T2DM in relationship with the socioeconomic status (level of deprivation) and T2DM mortality at district level i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,378 Views
18 Pages

14 June 2024

This paper analyzes redemptive narratives constructed by Mashhadi Jewish immigrants through oral histories, memoirs, and life stories collected across generations. It examines how conceptions of religion, community, and family shaped their meaning-ma...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5,388 Views
12 Pages

26 May 2020

This paper aims to examine the ambiguity of faith in the intersection of religion and state violence. I pay attention to the state-operated system of apartheid in South Africa and critically analyze the Afrikaner community’s faith that motivate...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,098 Views
13 Pages

29 October 2021

In his book The Star of Redemption, F. Rosenzweig formulated a new philosophical system, which is based not on thinking, or being, but on language. At the same time, Rosenzweig not only postulates language but deduces it as a procedural reality that...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,901 Views
20 Pages

This paper develops a formula to numerically estimate the unsubsidized, fair-market value of the toxic assets purchased with Federal Reserve loans. It finds that subsidy rates on these loans were on average 33.9 percent at origination. In contrast, b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,161 Views
10 Pages

12 February 2025

This article embarks on a profound theological journey through the sacred Scriptures, illuminating Jesus Christ as the central figure of the entire biblical narrative. It posits that the ultimate purpose of preaching, emphasized in this discourse, is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
6,855 Views
16 Pages

15 May 2020

This paper compares the ritual management of fortunate and unfortunate dead (hungry ghosts) by a Chinese new religious movement named Déjiāo 徳教 (lit. Teaching of Virtue), which emerged in Chaozhou (the northeast of Guangdong province) in 1939,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,632 Views
16 Pages

Antithrombotic Preventive Medication Prescription Redemption and Socioeconomic Status in Hungary in 2016: A Cross-Sectional Study

  • Attila Juhász,
  • Csilla Nagy,
  • Orsolya Varga,
  • Klára Boruzs,
  • Mária Csernoch,
  • Zoltán Szabó and
  • Róza Ádány

This work was designed to investigate antithrombotic drug utilization and its link with the socioeconomic characteristics of specific population groups in Hungary by a comparative analysis of data for prescriptions by general practitioners and the re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,493 Views
14 Pages

An Investigation of Social Ecological Barriers to and Facilitators of WIC Farmers Market Nutrition Program Voucher Redemption

  • Renata Blumberg,
  • Emily Fowler,
  • Yeon Bai,
  • Pankaj Lal,
  • Alyssa Smolen and
  • Ilana Dubrovsky

29 April 2022

In the United States, many communities lack sufficient access to fresh produce. To improve access to fresh fruits and vegetables, the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) provides eligible participants voucher...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,548 Views
24 Pages

24 May 2022

Rosenzweig’s principal interlocutors are commonly taken to be idealist and existentialist philosophers. Rosenzweig’s disparaging remarks at the beginning of Part Two of The Star of Redemption regarding modern theology and its progenitor,...

  • Review
  • Open Access
43 Citations
7,343 Views
11 Pages

AR-V7 in Metastatic Prostate Cancer: A Strategy beyond Redemption

  • Navid Sobhani,
  • Praveen Kumar Neeli,
  • Alberto D’Angelo,
  • Matteo Pittacolo,
  • Marianna Sirico,
  • Ilaria Camilla Galli,
  • Giandomenico Roviello and
  • Gabriella Nesi

Metastatic prostate cancer is the most common cancer in males and the fifth cause of cancer mortality worldwide. Despite the major progress in this field, leading to the approval of novel anti-androgens, the prognosis is still poor. A significant num...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,925 Views
16 Pages

27 July 2022

The theme of suffering is intimately tied to the possibilities of the blood as redemptive in theology. Potentially considered a universal pathway to salvation and racial transcendence for people of African descent, “Da Blood of Shesus” as...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4,346 Views
12 Pages

29 December 2020

Intermarriage between Jews and non-Jews during the Third Reich occupied a dangerously ambiguous position. Although the 1935 Nuremberg Laws declared intermarriage illegal, the Jewish wife or husband was at first exempted from anti-Semitic persecution....

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,513 Views
13 Pages

11 June 2022

Few produce prescription programs have taken place in rural areas, in the context of existing public health programs. Thus, the purpose of this mixed-methods study was to examine voucher redemption rates, change in fruit and vegetable intake, and sug...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,566 Views
20 Pages

29 October 2024

This paper explores the savior narratives of the Messiah in early Judaism and Maitreya in Buddhism focusing on the structural and thematic similarities between the two savior figures. Through an analysis of the Hebrew Bible, Talmud, and Buddhist text...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,555 Views
13 Pages

13 September 2024

The African religiosity that permeates all human existence is driven by a consuming desire for connection with the spiritual world that provides and protects human flourishing. African neo-Pentecostal prophets (ANPPs) respond to this need by imposing...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,347 Views
14 Pages

This study investigates whether, and to what extent, dividend-paying firms follow pecking order behavior when altering their capital structure. Using a panel of 3173 U.S. firms from 1960 to 2020 (49,424 firm-year observations), we examine four financ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,276 Views
11 Pages

17 January 2023

The COVID-19 pandemic is worsening the disparities in food access in the United States. As consumers have been increasingly using grocery online ordering services to limit their exposure to the COVID-19 virus, participants of federal nutrition assist...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4,805 Views
29 Pages

17 April 2025

Seeking to examine cases of sacrificial love for another that is empathetic, unconditional, and morally redemptive, I focus on writer Jeff Lemire’s and artist Dustin Nguyen’s heralded comic series, Descender and Ascender (published by Ima...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,428 Views
9 Pages

15 September 2024

In this paper, it will be shown that Genesis 3:16 parallels the Messianic prophecy of Genesis 3:15 with which it also shares significant linguistic links and literary features. From this literary observation, it will be established that the two key w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
251 Views
15 Pages

9 March 2026

Casta Meretrix articulates the Church’s paradoxical identity as simultaneously holy and sinful, a motif profoundly reconfigured by Hans Urs von Balthasar. Drawing on biblical typology, patristic interpretation, and historical allegory—fro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,624 Views
10 Pages

23 February 2022

In this article, I argue that scholars of the field of New Testament theology need to be familiar with and listen to the various voices in the discourse of contemporary Christian spirituality in order to give voice to the ancient texts, as well as he...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,977 Views
21 Pages

27 March 2025

Drawing from The Temple, a seventeenth-century volume of devotional poems written by George Herbert, this essay sets out to unfold how deliberately choosing constraint can lead to a spiritual experience. Beginning with a formal analysis of Herbert&rs...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,690 Views
22 Pages

14 February 2025

Roman Bordun’s twenty-first century photograph The Apartment After the Artillery Bombardment. Heat resistant Ceramic Vase. Irpin [Ukraine]. June 2022 uses light to express the Christian paradox of suffering that leads to redemption and eternal...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,414 Views
14 Pages

15 October 2024

This paper provides a fresh redemptive reading of Gen 3:16, viewed in light of a whole mosaic of canonical contexts and intertextual connections. These include, among others, the full equality without hierarchy of man and woman in Gen 1–2; the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
14,174 Views
21 Pages

4 April 2019

In the medieval Chinese context, snakes and tigers were viewed as two dominant, threatening animals in swamps and mountains. The animal-human confrontation increased with the expansion of human communities to the wilderness. Medieval Chinese Buddhist...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,859 Views
13 Pages

19 January 2023

Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) participants faced unprecedented challenges during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic including financial concerns, a national infant formula shortage, and ri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,833 Views
11 Pages

The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) is a nutrition assistance program in the United States (U.S.). Participants in the program redeem their prescribed food benefits in WIC-authorized grocery stores. Onlin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,080 Views
12 Pages

29 November 2024

The Protestant Reformation’s insistence on forensic justification developed the distinct concepts of justification and sanctification. The alien righteousness of Christ is all that is needed to justify the sinner rather than the co-operating of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
14,166 Views
15 Pages

8 October 2018

Directed by Ryan Coogler, the film Black Panther portrays the heroes of the fictional African kingdom of Wakanda as godlike. They possess otherworldly sophistication by virtue of their blackness, in contrast to longstanding tendencies in mainstream f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,779 Views
13 Pages

B’more Healthy Corner Stores for Moms and Kids: Identifying Optimal Behavioral Economic Strategies to Increase WIC Redemptions in Small Urban Corner Stores

  • Caroline R. Wensel,
  • Angela C.B. Trude,
  • Lisa Poirier,
  • Riyad Alghamdi,
  • Antonio Trujillo,
  • Elizabeth Anderson Steeves,
  • David Paige and
  • Joel Gittelsohn

Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) redemption rates have been declining in many low-income urban settings, potentially related to aspects of the food environment. B’more Healthy Corner Stores for Moms...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,105 Views
20 Pages

8 March 2025

Pastoral supervision and spiritual direction are inherently personal in nature. They reveal a transformative life of spiritual and soul care demanding the formation of theological reflection, healing, guidance, and discernment. Whilst pastoral superv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
7,506 Views
16 Pages

24 July 2019

In this essay, I argue that Psalm 23 serves as a thematic rubric through which to understand how Prospero’s machinations affect the progress of the redemption of King Alonso throughout the play. At the same time, however, recognizing Prospero&r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,817 Views
15 Pages

Online frauds have pernicious impacts on different system domains, including waste management systems. Fraudsters illegally obtain rewards for their recycling activities or avoid penalties for those who are required to recycle their own waste. Althou...

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