Precarious Values and Mundane Innovations: The Diffusion of Enrollment Management in U.S. Higher Education 1970-2005 by Ventresca, M, Kraatz, M, Deng, L

“…An empirical study of "enrollment management" in liberal arts colleges reveals this ostensibly innocuous innovation's value-undermining effects and identifies the organizational and environmental factors that have made these venerable organizations more or less susceptible to its adoption. …”

Úrsula de Jesús, escribir como mujer y mulata: "asi como beo y me ablan sin que quiera, asi me asen hablar sin querer(lo) yo" by Andrea Nicole Gayet

“… Diario espiritual de la venerable Úrsula de Jesús (ca. 1650-1661) es el escrito dictado por una profesa peruana en un convento limeño en el que pasó de ser esclava a donada luego de un accidente en el que fue salvada milagrosamente. …”
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A Modified Impedance-Frequency Converter for Inexpensive Inductive and Resistive Sensor Applications by Michał Nowicki

“…In this paper an exceptionally simple transducer is presented that is developed for experimental and custom-made sensors with inductive or resistive impedance output. It is based on a venerable 555 Integrated Circuit in a modified astable configuration. …”
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The Heritage of Taixu by Bart Dessein

“…This article discusses the ways in which the ‘reform of Buddhism’ proposed by the famous Venerable Taixu (1889–1947) was shaped by both the political and military events that determined the history of China in the first half of the twentieth century, and by his genuine determination to modernize Buddhism. …”
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Radość zapisanych w niebie. Łk 10, 20 w interpretacji patrystycznej by Leon Nieścior

“…The author portrayed the thought both of Latin, as well as Greek authors, dating back until the exegesis of the Bede the Venerable. The thought of Fathers is concentrated on such aspects as: 1. priorities of the internal attitude, especially of the faith and love, before making miracles; 2. metaphors of „the Book of the Living” and of „the Book of the Just”; 3. theological meaning of Jesus’ promise; 4. parenetic as­pect, and in this case – encouragement to the humility and joy. …”
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A haunted childhood by Tim Edensor

“…In the 16th century, this venerable ecclesiastical building was terrorised by Black Shuck, a fiendish dog who oc- casionally ravaged the surrounding villages. …”
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How to Test the Ship of Theseus by Marta Campdelacreu, Ramón García-Moya, Genoveva Martí, Enrico Terrone

“… The story of the Ship of Theseus is one of the most venerable conundrums in philosophy. Some philosophers consider it a genuine puzzle. …”
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BOOK REVIEW | To the Denmark Strait: Oceanographers Search for a Mysterious Current by Craig M. Lee

“…Dallas Murphy's new book, To the Denmark Strait, captures the excitement and romance of seagoing research by combining, in equal parts, science thriller, subarctic North Atlantic travelogue, and a valentine to the venerable R/V Knorr and the ship's exceptional crew. …”
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“Kankakee”: An Old Etymological Puzzle by Michael McCafferty

“…Abstract All the analyses offered for the venerable old Illinois and Indiana placenames “Kankakee,” including those suggested in the 18th century, have been incorrect. …”
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Una iconografía desconocida de sor María de Jesús de Ágreda (II): corona de la familia Coronel by Letizia Arbeteta Mira

“…C., en el siglo María Coronel y Arana, declarada Venerable por la Iglesia Católica, ha sido honrada durante siglos, preservando su memoria en diversas representaciones artísticas. …”
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Allah Loving to his worshippers The Fact, Its ranks, Causes, Indications And Its Fruits, Refuting Its Deniers by Sahal ben Refaa Alotaibi

“…It also has fruits that worshippers gain in life and life after. It has educational venerable benefits such as: the devotion perfectly to Allah worship and to be charitable to Allah worshippers. …”
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Perceiving and pursuing legitimate power by Saxe, Rebecca

“…For the social sciences, this question is venerable. Yet, for cognitive science, it offers fresh and generative opportunities to explore how adults evaluate legitimacy, how children learn to do so, and what difference legitimate power makes for people's thoughts, feelings, and actions.…”
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Book review : The people vs. democracy: why our freedom is in danger and how to save it / by Yascha Mounk by Haynes, Jeffrey

“…If there is one thing guaranteed to make liberal democrats sit up and take notice it is the idea that the United States, for many a venerable bastion of liberal democracy, is now part of a new and highly unexpected populist landscape.…”
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Productive Second elements in nominal compounds: the matching of Englis and German by Otto Hietsch

“…They are in the hand of Sir William Craigie, that venerable pioneer of lexicographical study. The neat and delicate lines trace out the beginnings of a new venture. …”
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O Hospital e Asilo da Venerável Ordem Terceira de S. Francisco de Coimbra : fundação e adaptação dos espaços (1851-1910) by Ana Margarida Silva

“…This paper attempts to address the origins of the Hospital and Asylum of the Venerable Third Order of Coimbra, Portugal: how and why it was founded (in 1851 and 1884), the adaptation of spaces to assistance functions and its regulations, seeking, whenever possible, giving standard and exceptional examples in order to illustrate the behavior of the Hospital and the Asylum between 1851 and 1910. …”
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The Mirror in Art: Vanitas, Veritas, and Vision by Helena Goscilo

“…Humankind’s venerable obsession with the mirror, traceable to the ancient myths of Medusa and Narcissus, is copiously attested in Western art, which historically relied on the mirror as both practical tool and polysemous trope. …”
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Krása rôznorodosti: Drahé kamene ako celok v kresťanskej obrazotvornosti raného stredoveku by Veronika Pichaničová

“…This idea was repeatedly echoed in the coeval writings of important Christian scholars such as Augustine of Hippo, Bede the Venerable or Hrabanus Maurus. Rather than considering the symbolism of individual types of precious stones, the article focuses on the precious stones as a unified medium that had the quality of being varied, symbolizing the perfect diversity of believers and virtues coming together in the unified Church of God. …”
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Non-Neuronal Transmitter Systems in Bacteria, Non-Nervous Eukaryotes, and Invertebrate Embryos by Yuri B. Shmukler, Denis A. Nikishin

“…A year earlier it was 60 years since his first publication in this field. These data are a venerable occasion for a review of current knowledge on the mechanisms related to classical transmitters such as 5-hydroxytryptamine, acetylcholine, catecholamines, etc., in animals lacking neural elements and prenervous invertebrate embryos.…”
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Deber y finalidad en la ética de Kant by Francisco Javier Iracheta Fernández

“…In this article I intend to show that Kant’s ethics is teleological (ethics of purposes), in contraposition to what a venerable neo-aristotelic and neo-hegelian moral tradition thinks. …”
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Letras de Pironio III by Leonardo Ponce

“… El presente artículo continúa exponiendo una serie de escritos inéditos del Venerable Eduardo Francisco Pironio, que él escribiera durante el año 1938, siendo seminarista y estudiando en el Seminario Mayor San José de la Arquidiócesis de La Plata. …”
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