The treachery of authority through Banville and Atwood by Lau, Qian Yu

“…The texts negate traditional forms of authority through varying topics, such as governance, morality, writing and truth.…”
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Solving the modern marriage puzzle : the problems of creating value in marriage by Ang, Claudia Hui Lin

“…I argue that while incentivizing marriage solves the modern marriage puzzle, it promotes irrational and morally problematic marriage decisions that threaten the well-being of not just the marrying agents themselves, but also the general non-married population peripheral to their marriages.…”
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Human genome editing after the “CRISPR babies”: the double-pacing problem and collaborative governance by Wang, Leifan, Shang, Lijun, Zhang, Weiwen

“…The current article analyzes this event-driven regulatory reform in China by elaborating the most salient provisions designed to prevent risk and protect individual rights, public health, and social morality relating to human genome editing in four important sectors of law: biosecurity law, civil code, criminal law and patent law. …”
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Authenticity in the Workplace: What does it really mean? by Pervaaz, Viquar A.

“…Making a promise of authenticity without delivering on it may have a negative impact on the individual and organizational morale/culture and a longer-ranging impact in terms of employee engagement and retention. …”
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A treasury of virtues: sayings, sermons, and teachings of 'Ali, with the One Hundred Proverbs attributed to al-Jahiz by al-Quḍāʿī, A-Q

“…Included are aphorisms, proverbs, sermons, speeches, homilies, prayers, letters, dialogues, and verse, all of which provide instruction on how to be a morally upstanding human being. The shorter compilation included here, <i>One Hundred Proverbs</i>, is attributed to the eminent writer al-Jahiz (d. 255/869). …”

Making mutineers? Reimagining religious education for the promotion of virtuous digital citizenship by Tridgell, J

“…Young people increasingly need new skills and knowledge to navigate this digital world morally. By drawing on literature around digital citizenship, literacy and other associated terms, this dissertation develops the concepts of <em>virtuous digital citizenship</em> and <em>practical digital wisdom</em>, employing the metaphor of sailors navigating a complex world. …”

Mapping psychosocial capital, commitment, and crisis self efficacy for improving VUCA e-learning environment by Mad Baguri, Ezza, Roslan, Samsilah, Hassan, Siti Aishah, Krauss, Steven Eric, Taresh, Sahar M.

“…These transformations have a profound impact on teachers' commitment and overall morale. The acronym VUCA, which stands for Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity, aptly characterizes these intricate challenges that have been thrust into the spotlight by the COVID-19 pandemic. …”
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Finding meaning behind immortality of Anne Rice’s vampires. by Nurhayati Zakaria.

“…The persistent question of immortality highlights humanity’s unwavering spirit to survive despite the ambiguous relationships between self and question of morality; the physical and psychological tensions between guilt and redemption; and the tug-of-war between desires for isolation and self-destruction. …”
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What Dicey forgot by Barber, NW

“…In each case, a link is drawn between the community and the law that regulates it, a link that renders the rule of law morally defensible and efficacious. This chapter argues that Dicey’s rule of law becomes radically less attractive when it is divided from the community the law governs, and that a fuller understanding of the rule of law shows that the principle weighs against the imperial project.…”

Sowing the seeds of love: Ovid's Sementivae (Fasti 1.655-704) by Armstrong, RM

“…In the gaps between the composition of these central intertexts and the emergence of the Fasti, literary time has passed, and so too has the political situation shifted; Ovid can now both update and reignite Vergilian and Tibullan debates on the moralities of agriculture and war in the context of Augustan Peace and Concordia. …”

Atypical DNA methylation, sRNA-size distribution, and female gametogenesis in Utricularia gibba by Cervantes-Pérez, Sergio Alan, Yong-Villalobos, Lenin, Florez-Zapata, Nathalia M. V., Oropeza-Aburto, Araceli, Rico-Reséndiz, Félix, Amasende-Morales, Itzel, Lan, Tianying, Martínez, Octavio, Vielle-Calzada, Jean Philippe, Albert, Victor A., Herrera-Estrella, Luis

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Human factors in agile software development by Lin, Jun

“…• How does the developers' mood or team morale swing affect the task performing process and the quality of artifacts? …”
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Patterns of User Behavior and Token Adoption on ERC20 by Morales, Alfredo J., Somin, Shahar, Altshuler, Yaniv, Pentland, Alex S.

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Interferon-α promotes HLA-B-restricted presentation of conventional and alternative antigens in human pancreatic β-cells by Carré, A, Samassa, F, Zhou, Z, Perez-Hernandez, J, Lekka, C, Manganaro, A, Oshima, M, Liao, H, Parker, R, Nicastri, A, Brandao, B, Colli, ML, Eizirik, DL, Aluri, J, Patel, D, Göransson, M, Burgos Morales, O, Anderson, A, Landry, L, Kobaisi, F, Scharfmann, R, Marselli, L, Marchetti, P, You, S, Ternette, N

Behave The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst / by Sapolsky, Robert M., author 656050, Penguin Random House (Online service) 655978

“…Sapolsky builds on this understanding to wrestle with some of our deepest and thorniest questions relating to tribalism and xenophobia, hierarchy and competition, morality and free will, and war and peace. Wise, humane, often very funny, Behave is a towering achievement, powerfully humanizing, and downright heroic in its own right"-- …”
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'The burglar's mate'? How London's probation officers persuaded magistrates in Social Enquiry Reports, 1958-72 by Lunan, J

“…Regardless of how liberal or not Britain became in the sixties, the courtroom was not considered to be a place where a rethink of morality had occurred. The university graduates therefore invoked normative character ideals in SERs because they believed it was likely to be the best way to achieve the desired outcome in court. …”

LLload: Simplifying Real-Time Job Monitoring for HPC Users by Byun, Chansup, Mullen, Julia, Reuther, Albert Iwersen, Arcand, William, Bergeron, William, Bestor, David, Burrill, Daniel, Gadepally, Vijay, Houle, Michael, Hubbell, Matthew, Jananthan, Hayden, Jones, Michael, Michaleas, Peter, Morales, Guillermo, Prout, Andrew, Rosa, Antonio, Yee, Charles, Kepner, Jeremy, Milechin, Lauren

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For Christ and Germany: German Catholicism and the Second World War by Brodie, TO

“…The thesis examines the oscillations of morale within the Catholic ‘milieu’ during the war years, and analyses its responses to German defeats from 1943 onwards. …”

Mental health with gender differences in internet pornography-viewing-disorder (IPD): analysis in educational guidance and counseling by Kurnanto, Muhammad Edi, Kamaruddin, Mohd Shahrul, Ma’rof, Aini Azeqa, Yahya, Fatahya, Sabil, Surena

“…The availability of pornographic videos on the internet harms the morale and image of adolescents and adults of both sexes. …”
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Maternal neonaticide, shame and social melancholy in Hsu-Ming Teo's Love and Vertigo by Zhou, Qiaoqiao, Omar, Noritah

“…This article refutes the cultural and radical feminists’ reductionist essentialization of maternal morality depicted in most literary works by probing into the ambivalence in motherhood represented by maternal neonaticide in the selected novel. …”
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