Gliding down the slopes by Michaël Attali, Natalia Bazoge, Sandrine Jamain-Samson, Jean Saint-Martin

“…Following a study of the introduction of alpine skiing in the mountainous regions of the French Alps, this research hopes to understand the women’s role in the sport. …”
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Alpine research today by Jean-Jacques Brun

“…Alpine research benefits from several international coordination networks, only one of which – ISCAR (the International Scientific Committee on Research in the Alps) – works solely in the Alpine arc. The creation of ISCAR is a consequence of the input and involvement of various Alpine partners around the Alpine Convention. …”
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Le rôle des TIC pour et dans le développement touristique des zones de montagne : un levier pour articuler durée et durabilité ? by Grégoire Feyt, Laurent Collet, Pierre-Antoine Landel, Françoise Papa

“…This analysis is based on the case of the Valley of Maurienne (Alps, France) which has been studied in the frame of a research project with France Telecom R&D department. …”
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Em busca de um lugar ao sol: a viagem de Goethe à Itália by Geraldo José Diogo Filho

“…In the course of landscapes very different from those of his homeland, the celebrated poet finds, in the south of the Alps, environmental conditions much more favorable to the study of nature, in view of the lower latitudes, the less frigid thermal conditions and the more luxuriant vegetation of the Mediterranean Region, as we tried to emphasize in the title of this article. …”
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L’Idée latine du Félibrige et la Renaissance romanche 1874-1914 by Bettina Berther Desax

“…From 1874 onwards, the RLaR regularly published Romansh literary texts, often accompanied by studies on this minority Romansh language spoken in the Swiss Alps. In this period of literary and linguistic revival of Occitan language, the Romansh Renaissance movement followed the example of the Félibres. …”
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Qualité de l’air et nuisances sonores dans les vallées alpines de transit by Jürg Thudium

“…In respect of the share of transport passing through the Alps in transport as a whole, there are in part considerable differences between the valleys under investigation as well as within the individual valleys. …”
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What Do Closed Mountain Roads Tell Us About Territories? A Critical Analysis of Abandonment, Re-Appropriation and Valorisation in the Vercors (19th-21st Century) by Emma-Sophie Mouret

“…In the Alps, mountain roads offer clear examples of the 19th-century policy of modernising road networks. …”
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The Mystery of “those icy climes” (Shelley 269): Literature, Science and Early Nineteenth-century Polar Exploration by Catherine Lanone

“…While glaciers become the sublime site of Romantic poetic epiphany, Mary Shelley subverts the euphoric associations of pristine settings by choosing to locate a crucial confrontation between creature and creator in the Alps, then by opting for Walton’s search for the North Pole and the Northwest Passage as a frame for Victor’s narrative. …”
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The air and noise situation in the alpine transit valleys of Fréjus, Mont-Blanc, Gotthard and Brenner by Jürg Thudium

“…In respect of the share of transport passing through the Alps in transport as a whole, there are in part considerable differences between the valleys under investigation as well as within the individual valleys. …”
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La recherche alpine aujourd’hui by Jean-Jacques Brun

“…Alpine research benefits from several international coordination networks, only one of which – ISCAR (the International Scientific Committee on Research in the Alps) – works solely in the Alpine arc. The creation of ISCAR is a consequence of the input and involvement of various Alpine partners around the Alpine Convention. …”
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Oltre i margini: comunità, risorse, prospettive by Laura Bonato, Damiano Cortese, Roberta Clara Zanini

“… Making use of the ethnographic observation that the UR of Turin is carrying out as part of the Prin 2020 project on four localities in the Piedmontese Alps, an attempt will be made to analyse the presence of community planning and awareness of the cultural and social meanings of their actions with a view to producing meaning and culture. …”
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A comparative study of the effect of capsular repair in the Latarjet procedure by Andrew P. McBride, Thibault Lafosse, Alex N. Karanja, Laurent Lafosse, Ian P. Hughes, Gregory A. Hoy, Eugene T. Ek, Shane A. Barwood, Fraser Taylor, Ezekiel Tan

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Searches for BSM physics at a gamma-gamma collider with Energy < 12 GeV based on European XFEL by Berger Marten, Moortgat-Pick Gudrid, Wüst Monika

“…In this paper we want to discuss the possibility of observing ALPs at such a collider. We will use a simplified description of the compton backscattering process to get a first look at cross sections and extend this to the full beam dynamics included prediction.…”
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Changes in the Alpine environment by Philippe Schoeneich, Carmen de Jong

“…This could lead to climates never before seen in the Alps, resulting in a major and lasting environmental crisis. …”
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Construction interdisciplinaire d’une trajectoire socio-écologique de vulnérabilité à l’exemple du territoire des Quatre Montagnes (Isère, France) de 1950 à 2016 by Thomas Spiegelberger, Agnès Bergeret, Émilie Crouzat, Leita Tschanz, Delphine Piazza-Morel, Jean-Jacques Brun, Dominique Baud, Sandra Lavorel

“…It reports on an interdisciplinary experience, its research context as well as its conceptual and methodological framework, illustrated with an example coming from the Quatre-Montagnes in the Vercors (French Alps). It proposes an applicable protocol for monitoring the vulnerability trajectories of a collective of municipalities and its environmental resources in an interdisciplinary perspective. …”
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A strategy of development based on innovation by Pierre-Olaf Schut

“…Petzl is a company located in the Grenoble region, in the northern French Alps. Its activity is centred on the production of equipment for mountain sports. …”
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La principauté médiévale savoyarde by Florentin Briffaz

“…The medieval principality of Savoy offers a real case for studying the political uses of the medieval past in the 21st century, in a contemporary transnational context. On this side of the Alps, the Savoyard autonomy and independence movements, which are losing momentum, use more or less implicit references to the former medieval duchy in their communication. …”
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An alpine enigma: Plant pathogens at Kosciuszko, Australia—A review by Paul L. Guy, Adrian J. Gibbs

“…This review is the first synthesis of studies on these pathogens in the Australian alps and highlights the enigma they present.…”
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Second homes in Tyrol by Axel Borsdorf

“…Second homes are quite popular in the Alps. Many people living in urban agglomerations endeavor to spend part of their time in fresh nature and a beautiful landscape and to participate in local culture. …”
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Interdisciplinary Construction of a Socio-ecological Vulnerability Trajectory Based on the Quatre Montagnes (Isère, France) Area from 1950 to 2016 by Thomas Spiegelberger, Agnès Bergeret, Émilie Crouzat, Leita Tschanz, Delphine Piazza-Morel, Jean-Jacques Brun, Dominique Baud, Sandra Lavorel

“…It reports on an interdisciplinary experience, its research context, as well as its conceptual and methodological framework, illustrated with the example of the Quatre Montagnes in the Vercors Mountains (French Alps). It proposes a protocol that can be applied to monitoring the vulnerability trajectories of an association of municipalities and its environmental resources in an interdisciplinary perspective. …”
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