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Christian marriage and values are pegged on the radical teaching of Jesus Christ in marriage. His comments on marriage in the New Testament, which are primarily tangential in nature which include pictures, analogies, and fragments, also show this radicalism. The purpose of the study to was evaluate the Church Doctrines and Their Implication to the stability of Christian marriage among the SDA Church members in Keroka Station, Kenya. The study was conducted at Keroka Station of Nyamira West Field of Seventh Day Adventist Church. The target population is 17,997 members of SDA Church in Keroka station. The study employed purposive and random sampling. The sample size was 17 church elders, 364 Senior church members and youths and 4 pastors totaling 385 respondents which was spread out equally in the four Districts. The data collection tools used were questionnaires and interview schedule of group focus. Data was analyzed using statistical package for the social sciences (SPSS version 23) to describe the findings of the study. The findings were reported through tables, charts and verbatim. The study found that the SDA church teachings centered on monogamy, faithfulness, mutual respect, forgiveness, and spiritual unity are highly regarded by members of the church. Most respondents agreed that these teachings are biblically grounded and form the foundation for strong Christian marriages. The researcher recommends for future scholars to conduct studies to explore how Christian marriage values are perceived and practiced across different denominations to identify unique or shared challenges and strategies for marriage stability, an investigation on the attitudes and expectations of youth regarding Christian marriage to tailor church teachings to younger generations and examination of the impact of gender expectations within SDA marriage doctrines on marital satisfaction and stability.

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This qualitative study investigates the effects of the pursuit of sporting excellence on the health of Ivorian athletes, examining the tensions between the imperative of overperformance and prevailing institutional logics. Its objective is to elucidate how sociocultural and institutional pressures shape the physical and mental well-being of these sportsmen and women. A triangulated methodology combines semi-structured interviews with elite athletes, participant observations during competitions, and documentary analysis of national sports policies. The findings reveal that athletes are subjected to intense pressure to achieve exceptional performances, often to the detriment of their physical and mental health. Such pressure is exacerbated by national expectations, financial stakes, and the paucity of adequate psychological support. The discussion underscores the need for a holistic approach incorporating mental health support schemes and institutional policies that prioritise athletes’ well-being. The study concludes that a critical reassessment of the sporting structures in Côte d’Ivoire is essential to promote a more balanced relationship between performance and athletes’ health.

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This research explores the traditional use of beads in Benin culture, Midwest Nigeria, examining craftsmanship, symbolic meanings, and social significance. It investigates the various materials used for adornment, features and significance of beaded adornments, stages of beaded adornment, and major forms. The study also unveils the values placed on bead use in Benin culture and discusses the sustainability of beaded culture amidst cultural diffusion and dynamism.

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This chapter examines the impact of modernism on peace mechanisms in Cameroon, exploring how modernisation processes have shaped the country’s peace landscape. Using a historical research approach with the consortium of primary and secondary sources, including archival documents, oral histories, and scholarly literature, the study analyses the evolution of peace mechanisms in Cameroon from the pre-colonial period to the present day. The research reveals that modernism has had a profound impact on traditional peacebuilding mechanisms, often undermining their effectiveness and creating new conflicts. The study also highlights the challenges and limitations of modern peacebuilding mechanisms in Cameroon, including the failure to address underlying causes of conflict and the neglect of traditional peacebuilding practices. This chapter thus concludes by recommending a balanced approach to peacebuilding in Cameroon, one that combines the strengths of traditional and modern peacebuilding mechanisms.

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Under the background of the integration of culture and tourism, the development of intangible cultural heritage archives resources has become an important measure to inherit local culture and promote local economic development. Anyang, as one of the eight ancient capitals in China, is rich in intangible cultural heritage resources, but the development of its intangible cultural heritage archives resources still faces many challenges. By analyzing the present situation of intangible cultural heritage archives resources in Anyang City and combining with the development trend of cultural and tourism integration, this paper puts forward a series of targeted development strategies, aiming at promoting the effective protection and utilization of intangible cultural heritage archives resources in Anyang City and promoting the deep integration of culture and tourism.

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Traditional lead discovery has relied on quantitative structure–activity relationships (QSAR) and physics-based screening, but exhaustively searching chemical space is infeasible. Modern workflows therefore employ deep learning to learn predictive structure–property mappings. Graph neural networks (GNNs) and transformer models have become widely adopted for molecular property prediction and design, as they natively operate on graph-structured or sequential chemical representations. Variational autoencoders, generative adversarial networks and related architectures embed molecules in continuous latent spaces, enabling inverse QSAR: one can sample or optimize structures to match target bioactivity and physicochemical criteria. These generative models can propose entirely new scaffolds with desired attributes, effectively ‘designing’ candidate leads beyond known libraries. Despite these advances, significant challenges remain. Data sparsity and bias limit model robustness, and many molecular properties (e.g. ADMET endpoints) are measured on limited datasets. Interpretability is limited – deep models often act as black boxes, motivating development of explainable AI techniques. Ensuring scalability to ultra-large libraries and embedding chemical constraints (synthetic feasibility, drug-likeness) is nontrivial. Moreover, lead optimization is inherently multi-objective: models must balance potency, selectivity, and pharmacokinetics, requiring complex trade-offs during design. Looking ahead, emerging strategies promise to address these gaps. Self-supervised pretraining on massive unlabelled chemical corpora is improving feature learning, while explainable AI methods aim to highlight key substructures driving predictions. Early quantum-enhanced machine learning frameworks show promise for accelerating optimization and generation of candidates. Multimodal models that integrate chemical structure with biological assays and omics data may yield richer lead profiles. Federated

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This sociological study analyses the normative regimes and heterogeneous logics of action mobilised by carers and patients in the management of dengue fever at Bingerville General Hospital. It examines power relationships, social imaginations and medical devices in a context of biocrisis. Based on a methodological triangulation (interviews, participant observation, documentary analysis), the study highlights dissonances between biomedical norms and lay knowledge. These discrepancies compromise the co-production of care. The analysis thus calls for therapeutic protocols to be reconfigured to incorporate local rationalities, with a view to more reflexive, situated and intersubjectively negotiated health governance.