Vie et œuvre d’Eugène Poilane (1888-1964) by Ariadna Burgos, Benoît Carré

“…This article presents the life and work of Eugène Poilane (1888-1964), prospector, planter and explorer during the first half of the 20th century in French Indochina. The scientific legacy of E. …”
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Archéologie d’un jardin de sculptures du xxe siècle by Aline Gheysens

“…Let’s take a moment in order for us to imagine a large bramble bush which, as time goes by, has become a garden secretly gathering the sculptures collection of a great art dealer of the 20th century. It is on this unusual garden that this research will be borne, which will take the appearance of an archaeology whose modalities will be precisely determined – alternately borrowing from the methods of the anthropological investigation, from Art history or literary analysis, from the concepts of philosophy or psychoanalysis, from the practise of photography and the theories of all fields. …”
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Simulating the Tone River eastward diversion project in Japan carried out 4 centuries ago by J. Trošelj, J. Trošelj, N. Hanasaki

“…One limitation is that we only reconstructed historical land maps in the present study; the meteorological forcing inputs employed were identical to those of the 20th century. The historical inputs are not known.</p>…”
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Telomere length varies with sex, hatching rank and year of birth in the Little Owl, Athene noctua by Criscuolo, François, Fache, Inès, Scaar, Bertrand, Zahn, Sandrine, Bleu, Josefa

“…Little Owls’ populations in Europe showed a marked declined in the end of the 20th century. Nowadays, in the studied Alsatian population, the population is increasing. …”
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Advances and trends of modern and contemporary research on the geology of coal-measure minerals in China by Yong QIN

“…Advances Based on textual research and the analysis of logical relations, this study generalized the advances in research on the geology of CMMs in China into four aspects. (1) Increasingly improved geological theory system of CMMs: China’s classic theoretical system of coal field geology was formed in the second half of the 20th century, and the geological theory system focusing on coals, coal-measure gas, and coal-measure critical metals has been gradually developed since the 21st century. (2) Research on the origin and genesis of coals, advancing the international coal geology: The advancements include the development of the new coal metamorphism theory, the discovery of the world's youngest soft lignite, the reveal of late-stage coalification jumps, the establishment of the ordinary organic petrology, and the comprehensive ascertainment of the formation and evolutionary mechanisms of coals. (3) The unique CMM accumulation, distribution, and metallogenic theory: The specific outcomes include the establishment of multiple sedimentary and structural coal-controlling patterns, the reveal of the fundamental framework of coal accumulation in sea areas, the identification of deposits of various coal-measure critical metals, and the determination of the division schemes for coal-controlling geotectonic units and the metallogenic zones of coal-measure critical metals, and the development of a geological theory system for coalbed methane. (4) Significant achievements in the geological surveys and assessment of special coal resources: Specifically, the methodological system for the geological prediction and assessment of special coal types and high-quality, eco-friendly, and clean coal resources has been developed, the methodological system for the resource potential assessment of tar-rich coals and underground coal gasification has been formed, and the coal resources for related purposes have been preliminarily investigated. …”
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Unpacking the ‘explorer’ narrative and its impacts on African palaeoanthropology by Rebecca R. Ackermann, Keneiloe Molopyane, Sheela Athreya

“…Here we briefly outline the colonial origins of these ideas, and use this crystallised understanding of the explorer myth to consider how African palaeoanthropology in the 20th century and up to the present continues to carry many of these biased, outdated overtones – some more overtly than others. …”
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Evolution of CFD as an engineering science. A personal perspective with emphasis on the finite volume method by Runchal, Akshai Kumar

“…It was, however, the electronic computer in the middle of the 20th century that led to its birth and its widespread use. …”
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IUENNA – openIng the soUthErn jauNtal as a micro-regioN for future Archaeology: A «para-description» by Hagmann, Dominik, Reiner, Franziska

“…Despite more than a century of research—initially launched by citizen scientists in the early 20th century and later expanded by various actors—the Hemmaberg site is just one element in a broader cultural landscape. …”
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La tranchée supérieure de l’aqueduc du Gier à Saint-Joseph (Loire) : nouvelles données et synthèse by Kilian Blanc, Guillaume Maza

“…The few complete maps that we have date from the first studies, in the second half of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. In these, a number of hypotheses had been proposed as to its nature and function, the most commonly accepted being that it represented an early route of the Gier aqueduct which was abandoned because the work involved in developing it in the large valleys that it bypasses would have been too extensive and costly.The 2008 excavation that followed this evaluation, led by Guillaume Maza (Evéha), focused only the upper trench, its immediate surroundings and an ancient ground level section observed to the northeast of it. …”
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The ground beneath our feet: A critical reflection on 135 years of landscape evolution models for southern Africa by Rivoningo Khosa, Vela Mbele, Kelly Kirsten, Robyn Pickering

“…We examine the work of 20th-century researchers who developed models of landscape evolution; however, almost all of these models have been qualitative. …”
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Codicology in Lithuania in 1918-1990: Between Book History and Palaeography by Rima Cicėnienė

“…How did the science of codicology develop in the turbulent 20th century? Why did codicology failed to become the subject of a separate research and is hardly mentioned in Lithuanian science? …”
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Legal Disputes of Emigrant Periodical Publishers from the End of the 19th Century to 1904 by Remigijus Misiūnas

“…This tradition became customary in the emigrant community, and legal disputes among periodical publishers became not an exceptional occurrence but a common practice, sometimes resolving ideological disagreements in court, throughout the 20th century. …”
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From non-human to human primates: a translational approach to enhancing resection, safety, and indications in glioma surgery while preserving sensorimotor abilities by Matteo Gambaretti, Matteo Gambaretti, Luca Viganò, Luca Viganò, Matteo Gallo, Giovanni Pratelli, Tommaso Sciortino, Lorenzo Gay, Marco Conti Nibali, Alberto Luigi Gallotti, Alberto Luigi Gallotti, Leonardo Tariciotti, Luca Mattioli, Lorenzo Bello, Lorenzo Bello, Gabriella Cerri, Gabriella Cerri, Marco Rossi, Marco Rossi, Marco Rossi

“…Since the pivotal studies of neurophysiologists in the early 20th century, research on brain functions in non-human primates has provided valuable insights into the neural mechanisms subserving neurological function. …”
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Analysis of drought and extreme precipitation events in Thailand: trends, climate modeling, and implications for climate change adaptation by José Francisco de Oliveira-Júnior, David Mendes, Helder Dutra Porto, Kelvy Rosalvo Alencar Cardoso, José Augusto Ferreira Neto, Emannuel Bezerra Cavalcante da Silva, Marlúcia de Aquino Pereira, Monica Cristina Damião Mendes, Bernardo Bruno Dias Baracho, Punyawi Jamjareegulgarn

“…The projections were based on three scenarios: historical (20th century); intermediate forcing (RCP 4.5) and high forcing (RCP 8.5). …”
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Recent centennial drought on the Tibetan Plateau is outstanding within the past 3500 years by Yu Liu, Huiming Song, Zhisheng An, Qiang Li, Steven W. Leavitt, Ulf Büntgen, Qiufang Cai, Ruoshi Liu, Congxi Fang, Changfeng Sun, Kerstin Treydte, Meng Ren, Lidong Mo, Yi Song, Wenju Cai, Quan Zhang, Weijian Zhou, Achim Bräuning, Jussi Grießinger, Deliang Chen, Hans W. Linderholm, Ashish Sinha, Hai Cheng, Lu Wang, Ying Lei, Junyan Sun, Wei Gong, Xuxiang Li, Linlin Cui, Liang Ning, Lingfeng Wan, Thomas W. Crowther, Constantin M. Zohner

“…Our findings reveal that the 20th century drought extremes are severe within the past three millennia, and likely linked to the weakening of both the Asian Monsoon and Westerlies due to anthropogenic aerosol emissions. …”
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L’aqueduc de Fontanières : un cinquième aqueduc romain à Lyon ? by Jean-Yves Barbier

“…An examination of ancient references demonstrates that the remains of an aqueduct were known to exist in the Balme de Fontanières, but that they were too imprecise or had been misinterpreted and thus remained nearly entirely ignored throughout the 20th century.Curiously forgotten, F. Gabut’s description of a section of buried canal uncovered in the second half of the 19th century during groundworks for the construction of a house recently reappeared in a cultural heritage guidebook, thus re-launching the survey that would allow for the successive description of three remains found in situ. …”
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Gas drainage and utilization in coal mines in China: History, technological advances, and prospects by Guofu LI, Chao LI, Bichuan ZHANG, Yun XU, Zheng WANG, Xianjun ZHOU

“…From the 1980s to the end of the 20th century, with a substantial increase in the gas outflow from the mining face, pressure-relief gas was effectively drained using various methods including gas pre-drainage in target coal seams, as well as gas pumping in adjacent strata and goaves. …”
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Le Musée des Beaux-Arts du Canada : une histoire du vivre ensemble by Véronique Stahn

“…This paper tries to put the birth of the museum in the context of history, memory and patrimonial transmission, which are central problematics in regard of the history of museums in the 19th and 20th centuries.…”
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Paysages transalpins : la vallée du Pô et les enjeux de l’écriture paysagère dans les Géographies Universelles (1810-1934) by Federico Ferretti

“…The first three Universal Geographies by Malte Brun (1810-1829), Elisée Reclus (1876-1894) and Paul Vidal de la Blache’s fellows (1927-1947) are the great and well-known representations of the contemporary world produced by French geography between the 19th and the first half of the 20th centuries. How do they concern the writing of landscape as it has been developed in their age ? …”
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Des amphores de l’oppidum de Châteaumeillant (Cher) : le matériel des fouilles des xixe et xxe s. by Fanette Laubenheimer, Céline Barthélemy-Sylvand

“…Châteaumeillant is famous for its “amphorae cellars or pits” discovered during the 19th and 20th centuries. The chronology of the findings and the analysis of existing information about these deposits lead to the detailed study of the finds kept in the Émile-Chénon museum. …”
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