Insides the shadows of an incremental theorist : the detrimental side of the growth mindset by Toh, Xin Pei

“…Have we as children not heard of our mother’s famous mantra, “you did not do well because you did not try hard enough”? Or of our friend’s willow like whisper, “do not give up, even Thomas Edison merely found 10,000 ways that would not work”. …”
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Abu Bakr Al-Zubaidi 316 - 379 AH by Ameen Al-Saeed

“…And from those who wrote in this art, our friend Abu Bakr Al-Z Baidi - may God have mercy on him -. …”
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Exploiting Small World Problems in a SIoT Environment by Rehman Abdul, Anand Paul, Junaid Gul M., Won-Hwa Hong, Hyuncheol Seo

“…The Smart Social Agent ensures the finding of appropriate friends (i.e., the IoT devices used by our friend circle) and services that are required by the user, without human intervention. …”
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A critical approach to some new ideas about the Dutch flood risk system by Ties Rijcken

“…Eleven quotes describe the idea that ‘water should not be our enemy, but our friend’. Fifteen quotes were based on the idea that flood protection entraps us in a dangerous ‘spiral of risk’, which can be stopped, 44 quotes are related to the idea that flood risk reducing measures should be ‘natural’ or ‘move with nature’. …”
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In memory of Prof. Dr. Karl Mais (1940-2012) by Andrej Kranjc

“…Our friend, colleague, supervisor, chairman... our Charlie, who came back from the underground so many times, entered it the last time, without return. …”
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Vladimir Beekman, Aatomik ja fosforiidisõda / Vladimir Beekman, Atom-Boy, and the Phosphorite War by Elle-Mari Talivee

“…Such books might belong to the genre of popular science for kids (The Walt Disney Story of Our Friend the Atom), face the fears or casualties of the nuclear accidents in power plants (Joe Holliday’ s young adult book series in the 1950s, Leonid Daien’s Chornobyl – the Bitter Grass), or advocate and justify this energy source. …”
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Editorial by Josie Agatha Parrilha da Silva, Marcos Gervânio de Azevedo Melo, Anderson Pedro Laurindo, Elemar Kleber Favreto

“…Os artigos são: A imagem fotográfica: usos e aplicações no ensino de História; Ações evidenciadas na criação de cenas teatrais científicas sobre a Lua mediante a utilização de referenciais imagéticos; Abordagem fílmica no ensino de Física: um estudo com professores e professoras de física da mesorregião do baixo amazonas paraense; Artistas viajantes e a crítica a degradação ambiental brasileira; Leitura de imagem com enfoque CTS: pneus depositados na costa de Fort Lauderdale de Steve Spring; Leitura de imagem: proposições e o caso de Wall-E; Obras Modernistas e a Botânica: a construção de uma brasilidade e suas possibilidades de ensino decolonial; O pensamento complexo e a arte indígena contemporânea: uma leitura da imagem com enfoque CTS no ensino de ciências; “Our Friend The Atom”: uma análise imagética do livro de comunicação científica da Disney; Representações imagéticas de licenciandos de ciências biológicas sobre a vida extraterrestre: uma leitura de imagem interdisciplinar; Rio: um filme de animação para refletir ciência, tecnologia e sociedade (CTS) no ensino de ciências; Rosto Químico: uma relação entre a arte e a ciência. …”
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“Searching for order at all levels”. Antonio Lima-de-Faria (July 4, 1921 – December 27, 2023) by Stefano Serafini, Tatyana S. Turova

“…Professor Antonio Lima-de-Faria was our friend and, in a sense, a teacher. Despite our different fields of study, this master of scientific thought has deeply influenced both of us. …”
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THE EFFECT OF THE MASTERY LEARNING MODEL ON THE STUDENTS’ LEARNING OUTCOMES AT CLASS V OF PUBLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOL 097795 PERASMIAN by Marta S.R Silaban, Patri Janson Silaban, Anton Sitepu

“…This paper discusses the effect of applying the mastery learning model on students’ learning outcomes on the theme of our friendly environment at class V of SD Negeri 097795 Perasmian in the academic year 2022/2023. …”
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In Tribute to Stefan Kunz by Mar Perez

“…We do not always remember the exact moment in which we first met our friends [...]…”
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Disentangling contact and socialization effects on outgroup attitudes in diverse friendship networks by Bracegirdle, C, Reimer, NK, van Zalk, M, Hewstone, M, Wölfer, R

“…Research on intergroup contact has shown that the numbers of outgroup and ingroup friends we have influence our outgroup attitudes, whereas research on socialization has shown that the attitudes held by our friends influence our outgroup attitudes. Past research, however, examined these processes in isolation, which precludes discerning whether having friends, or the attitudes held by our friends, are both important in shaping our outgroup attitudes, and, if so, which is more important. …”

THE IMPACT OF SOCIAL LEARNING ON THE HUMAN BRAIN by Antonie Schmelzeisen

“…The essay investigates how human brains encode their own learning and memory processes, how the topology of one's larger social network shows similar neural patterns to neural patterns of our friends and why safe learning environments are crucial. …”
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The Consequences of Social Media on our Mental Health are Worrisome by Juan Sebastián Amado Rodríguez

“…That kind of information varies from seeing what our friends are doingto watching YouTube videos non-stop. …”
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Editorial Volume 11 Issue 2 2020 by Karen Nelson, Tracy Creagh

“…Despite all these challenges, our friends and colleagues and higher education practitioners across the world have been responsive and innovative in the face of restrictive conditions, have focused on what they can and will learn from these strange times and have continued to share expertise and experiences, and importantly have never lost sight of what really matters – our students and their success.  …”
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Bridging the gap: United World College students' initiatives in work with refugees by Katja della Liberia, Ramita Ratsathanuwati, Everdina Vermaat

“…We, students of one of 15 United World Colleges (UWCs), encounter the topic on a daily basis – be it through direct experiences of our friends, our work in service projects or discussions we have as a school community. …”

Friendship and self-love through the transformed self by Ang, Charlene Hui Xuan

“…It is often assumed that if we loved ourselves, we would love our friends the same way. While Aristotle implied self-love to be one of the important foundations of virtuous, genuine friendships, little has been said about the actual process of cultivating self-love and how it links to one’s capabilities of loving and form a true friendship. …”
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Russian Siberia against background of changes in statehood by S. V. Novikov

“…Statehood remains the object of close attention, both of our friends and opponents. The disintegration and disappearance of Russia was predicted by J. …”
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FROM LEARNING AND MEMORY PROCESSES TO THE TOPOLOGY OF ONE'S LARGER SOCIAL NETWORK by Sarah Bauer

“…On the other hand, collective cognition, beliefs, memories, behavior, and neural similarities can be seen as reasons as to why we are like our friends, family members and community. This is since social network topology shapes collective cognition despite the diverse structures. …”
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OCLC Registry of Digital Masters – Opportunities for European Cooperation by Janet Lees

“…We are all familiar with the concept of a registry through our participation in union catalogues and perhaps also from our experience with microfilms through the European Register of Microform Masters (EROMM) hosted by our friends in Göttingen.…”
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Viewpoints on inclusion in tourism – From accessible tourism to accessible hospitality by Anu Harju-Myllyaho, Salla Jutila

“…Hospitality refers not only to the industry we operate in, but an attitude towards others, may they be our friends, relatives, acquaintances or strangers. …”
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