Multilingualism in Lithuanian Children’s Folklore by Anglickienė Laimutė, Macijauskaitė-Bonda Jurgita

“…Since the last decades of the 20th century, due to changes in lifestyle influenced by factors such as globalization, intense migration, development of social media, and information technologies, manifestations of multilingualism and multiculturalism have become even more noticeable and, in consequence, are becoming an important feature of contemporary folkloric creation. …”
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Rechtsgeschichte als Geschichte von Normativitätswissen? by Thomas Duve

“…The results of such a legal history might be less suggestive and fascinating than the big legal historical narratives of rationalization, professionalization and the formation of Western law that have inspired legal historians from the northern hemisphere during the 20th century. It can, however, offer a more complex picture of the past and provides us with the intellectual tools for a better understanding of norm production in the 21st century. …”
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Banda Bekali and local knowledge in flood management: 100 years of social and environmental interaction in Padang City by Handrian Ginting Jonson, Afrida, Arifin Zainal

“…Floods have plagued Padang City for centuries, with severe events recorded almost annually between 1890 and the early 20th century, peaking in 1904. The damages during that period reportedly reached two million guilders. …”
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Medicalização do parto: a apropriação dos processos reprodutivos femininos como causa da violência obstétrica by Kenia Martins Pimenta Fernandes, Carlos Mendes Rosa

“…Childbirth, conducted in western societies exclusively by midwives until mid-16th century, became medicalized and institutionalized in the second half of the 20th century. The medicalization of childbirth, as a result of social medicalization that attributes medical and pathological characteristics to natural aspects of life, was marked by the removal of midwives from the management of labor, which then became a predominantly male knowledge, given the prohibition of formal education for women. …”
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The Official Lithuanian Language in the Interwar Years by Aldonas Pupkis

“…The article aims to show the state of the Lithuanian language in the years of the national movement at the turn of the 20th century and its functioning in the restored independent Lithuanian state from 1918 up to 1940 when it was occupied by the USSR. …”
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Le jardin alpino-japonais Les Roches Fleuries, un proto-manifeste in situ du mouvement de réforme belge Le Nouveau Jardin Pittoresque ? by Ursula Wieser Benedetti

“…The Alpine-Japanese garden of Les Roches Fleuries, located in Genval in the Walloon Brabant region, is one of the most astonishing Belgian works of landscape architecture of the first half of the 20th century. Created between 1910 and 1932 by the geologist, palaeontologist and botanist Ernest Van den Broeck (1851-1932), a leading figure in the natural sciences at the time, it remains largely unknown today. …”
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WHERE TWO WORLDS MEET: LIGETI AND ROMANIAN FOLK MUSIC by Bianca Ţiplea TEMEŞ

“… It is hard to grasp how a composer acknowledged as a symbol of the 20th century musical avant-garde, re-formed in the laboratory of electronic music in Cologne at the end of the 1950s and always eager to take on fresh stylistical challenges, resorted to folk music as a source of inspiration. …”
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Analyse de l’enseignement en architecture de paysage à travers la recherche sur l’évolution de la profession d’architecte-paysagiste en Lituanie by Vaiva Deveikienė

“…At the end of the 17th century, the ancient University of Vilnius created chairs and studies in the fields of the fine arts and natural sciences and published works establishing the foundations of the profession in garden arts. In the 20th century, between the two world wars, architects, town planners and landscape architects trained in French schools. …”
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Population mobility : spatial spillover effect of government health expenditure in China by Simin Wan, Mengying Wang

“…Background Since the 20th century, pursuing Universal Health Coverage (UHC) has emerged as an important developmental objective in numerous countries and across the global health community. …”
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Song Melody and Speech Tone Conflict in Translated Yorùbá Christian Hymns by Tolulope Owoaje, Tunde Adegbola

“… This article engages song melody and speech tone conflict in translated Yorùbá Christian hymns between the late 19th and early 20th century. In their effort to make early Yorùbá Christian converts sing Christian hymns in the church, European missionaries translated English hymns to Yoruba, and sang them to the original European hymn tunes. …”
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A History of the Migration and Emergence of an Enclave Settlement of Gobirawa in Kano since Nineteenth Century by Abdulaziz Mamuda, Mustapha Kabiru, Maryam Yusuf Ilu, Musa Datti Kurawa

“…By the end of the 20th century, this new founded settlement witnessed an increasing number of people who were mostly from Gobir and settled in the area for one type of business or the other. …”
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Effect of mesenchymal stem cells on animal semen during storage by E. Yu. Zakirova, A. G. Malanyeva, A. M. Aimaletdinov

“…Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) have been known to mankind since the mid-20th century. The comprehensive study revealed their high biologically active potential. …”
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John Collier’s Paintings of Clytemnestra by Georgina Muskett

“…These were followed in the early 20th century by archaeological excavations on Crete, revealing Minoan society, including those by Arthur Evans. …”
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Pathology of the Gastrointestinal Tract in Patients with Primary Hyperparathyroidism by I. A. Baranova, A. V. Baranov

“…At the beginning of the 20th century PHPT was considered a severe endocrine disease with specific bone and kidney complications, however in 1957 W.T. …”
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Les lacs d’Hanoï, quelle place pour une pièce urbaine endémique ? by Martin Jaillais Neliaz

“…In addition to these two functions the lakes started to play a role as public spaces in the beginning of the 20th century with their redevelopment which was planned throughout the city. …”
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Attractive lives on attractive pages. Polish illustrated biographical books for young readers by Anita Wincencjusz-Patyna

“…The author also looks back at the history of Polish illustrations included in biographies published in the second half of the 20th century. By combining the traditions of Polish applied graphic art with its up-to-date condition the author wants to trace the impact of the old and the novelty of contemporary books. …”
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Poszanowanie wolności religijnej w prawodawstwie kościelnym by Dariusz Mazurkiewicz

“…It was, in a way, a reflection of the way of thinking of the secular rulers of that time, for whom the use of forms of coercion was a common way of imposing their will. The 20th century concept of human rights, however, allowed us to rediscover the beauty of the Gospel, which imposes itself only by the force of truth itself. …”
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High-level radioactive waste repository: How Geology combined with societal principles can lead to public acceptance—the German experiment by Schafmeister, Maria-Theresia

“…Using nuclear power for civil energy generation was a promising idea in the second half of the 20th century. Compared to fossil fuels, nuclear power results in almost no $\mathrm{CO}_{2}$ bearing emissions, which are known to have triggered and enhanced the global climate change. …”
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Current Views of Torque Teno Virus (TTV) in Liver Diseases by I. V. Maev, T. I. Karlovich, A. I. Burmistrov, I. A. Chekmazov, D. N. Andreev, V. I. Reshetnyak

“…We review published evidence on the torque teno virus (TT virus, TTV), which was discovered in the late of the 20th century.Key points. TTV is frequently confirmed in patients with hepatitises of viral origin or no definite viral aetiology, as well as in healthy people. …”
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„L’ uomo nuovo” nei testi di Virginie Despentes e Sandro Veronesi by Magdalena Lange-Henszke

“…The issue of subjectivity regains fundamental importance for humanistic thought in the second half of the 20th century, among others, thanks to the reflections proposed by feminist theory. …”
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