<i>Tearas Feollon</i>: Tears and Weeping in Old English Literature by Hugh Magennis

“…Taking account of contemporary theory, the study understands weeping to be a physical manifestation of distress, but also to function as a social gesture, as reflected in the circumstance that most weeping in Old English is public rather than private. …”
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Research Front and Future Prospect: A Bibliometric Study of Metaphor Comprehension by Xunian Wang, Yi Sun

“…The co-citation analysis shows that the Contemporary Theory of Metaphor (CTM) in Cognitive Linguistics has provided the dominant knowledge foundation for the research of metaphor comprehension. …”
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Onde está a paisagem nas políticas ambientais e territoriais do México? by Martín Manuel Checa-Artasu

“…These proposals apparently made the landscape an analytical and public management object but unfortunately, were disconnected from the contemporary theory of the landscape, from research inquiries made at the academy and even had a doubtful legal and operational applicability. …”
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Analytical Kant studies, transcendental idealism, and the thing in itself by Soboleva M. E.

“…In conclusion, the author stresses the significance of Kant’s project from the perspective of the contemporary theory of cognition.…”
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Psychological aspects of power in Hilary Mantel’s The Mirror and The Light by Kabanova, Irina Valeryevna

“…The last novel of Mantel’s Cromwell trilogy is approached through the lens of the contemporary theory of power. As a historical novelist, Mantel opens up the mentality behind political and social forms of power under Tudor monarchy, the dominance of traditional medieval system and, in Cromwell’s attempt to create bureaucratic government, the emergence of power devoid of the coating of sacredness. …”
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Two Types of Withdraw-to-Eat Movement Related to Food Size in Long-Tailed Macaques (Macaca fascicularis): Insights into the Evolution of the Visual Control of Hand Shaping in Anthr... by Laurie A. Hirsche, Camilla Cenni, Jean-Baptiste Leca, Ian Q. Wishaw

“…The details of the evolutionary steps in the transition from nonvisual guidance of hand movements for feeding, as displayed by many non-primate species, to visual guidance of hand movements in primates are sparse. Contemporary theory holds that a small-bodied stem primate evolved visual control of the reach to guide a hand to obtain small insects and fruit items from the terminal branches of trees. …”
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Mobile government public value model for assessing the public institution’s services: Evidence through the context of Jordan by Hasan Alhanatleh, Amineh Khaddam, Fayrouz Abousweilem

“… Having a citizen's opinion is considered the most important method to evaluate a public institution's performance. As a contemporary theory regarding public institutions and private organizations, public value theory provides an alternative approach to evaluating organizations' performance. …”
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Artistic expression: freedom or curse? by Sanja Djajić, Dubravka Lazić

“…The critical evaluation is based on two different but complementary grounds: contemporary theory of art critique of the ECtHR’s understanding of art and critique based on the ECtHR’s own political freedom of expression cases. …”
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From Regionalism to Transregionalism: Some Theoretical Conseptualisation of a New Reality by Kseniia A. Efremova

“…It is argued that the study of regionalism, interregionalism and transregionalism can make an essential contribution to the development of the contemporary theory of international relations.…”
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About Certain Semantic Annotation in Parallel Corpora by Violetta Koseska-Toszewa

“…It relies on logical scope-based quantification and on the contemporary theory of processes, known as “Petri nets”. …”
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11.308J / 4.213J Advanced Seminar: Urban Nature and City Design, Fall 2005 by Spirn, Anne Whiston

“…Each student researches and presents a case, either historical or an example of contemporary theory and practice.…”
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Problems of perception and representation in the novels of Claude Simon by Duffy, J

“…</p> <p>While the thesis situates Simon in the context of recent psychological and linguistic theory, it does not posit conclusive links with any one school. Contemporary theory simply offers a set of co-ordinates by which to gauge Simon's evolution and openness to prevalent ideas. …”

MLearning scaffolding model for undergraduate English language learning: bridging formal and informal learning by Lim Abdullah, Muhammad Ridhuan Tony, Hussin, Zaharah, -, Asra, Zakaria, Abd Razak

“…Although mLearning has a high prospect for future education, it is yet to be incorporated widely in mainstream formal education. The lack of a contemporary theory of learning and model for the mobile era has been one of the main issues hindering the incorporation. …”
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Acting out and working through in Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun by Jamal, Malissa, Jujar Singh, Hardev Kaur

“…Furthermore, since trauma theory has been largely linked to the medical rather than the literary field, it is viewed as a contemporary theory, unlike post-colonialism or feminism. …”
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The level of payment for human capital in Poland and statutorily guaranteed minimum wage by Barbara OLIWKIEWICZ

“…The background of the above considerations, will be a contemporary theory of measuring human capital and fair remuneration. …”
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The Effect of Homocysteine on the Secretion of Il-1β, Il-6, Il-10, Il-12 and RANTES by Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells—An In Vitro Study by Magdalena Borowska, Hanna Winiarska, Marzena Dworacka, Anna Wesołowska, Grzegorz Dworacki, Przemysław Łukasz Mikołajczak

“…The contemporary theory of the inflammatory-immunological pathomechanism of atherosclerosis includes the participation of interleukin-1β (Il), Il-6, Il-10, Il-12, RANTES, and homocysteine in this process. …”
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The constructional shifts in Picassos Ceramics Search by Muhammed Jassim Al- Obaidi

“…With those Innovative Visions, & Composite Systems that has Contradiction that take the artistic Work in Spatial anomalies& structural Shifts that blends its Vocabulary in Counteractions, Shift, & disorder, That makes Figurative glitch in accordance to this Contemporary theory which proportions with technology revolution & Scientific technology. …”
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University students’ attitudes towards their language practices, literacy self-evaluation, and reading comprehension by Stevanović Jelena, Antić Slobodanka, Mijatović Luka, Blažanin Barbara

“…Functional, multiple, contextual literacy (new literacy) constitutes a dominant concept in contemporary theory, research, and education policies. …”
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nARratives of augmented worlds by Shilkrot, Roy, Montfort, Nick, Maes, Patricia

“…This paper presents an examination of augmented reality (AR) as a rising form of interactive narrative that combines computer-generated elements with reality, fictional with non-fictional objects, in the same immersive experience. Based on contemporary theory in narratology, we propose to view this blending of reality worlds as a metalepsis, a transgression of reality and fiction boundaries, and argue that authors could benefit from using existing conventions of narration to emphasize the transgressed boundaries, as is done in other media. …”
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Law and Informal Practices: The Post-Communist Experience

“…Using the framework of contemporary theory, ten specialists in different aspects of social science analyse the status of post-communist law from a variety of perspectives. …”