Sentencing equilibrium in rape cases: a legal and political explanation of jurisdictional uniformity in China by Moulin Xiong, Yiwei Xia, Xiaohong Yu

“…Abstract Sentencing disparity dominates in American scholarship and has been leading global research in past decades, however, few studies have addressed sentencing equilibrium across countries. …”
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Doubleness on the New York Contemporary Experimental Stage: Bodies and Technology by Emeline Jouve

“…“Doubleness on the New York Contemporary Experimental Stage: Bodies and Technology” explores the representations of bodies in a corpus of plays by New York artists from the “New American Avant-Garde.” Intermediality, or the co-presence or superimposition of different artistic media, creates dual bodies: technological monsters that are half-human and half-video, grotesque minotaurs at once men and puppets. …”
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‘Trustworthy Allies’: International Organisations, Ernest Hemingway, Women Activists, and Spanish Republican Exiles in Cuba by Daniel Fernandez Guevara

“…Buoyed by files in the American Friends Service Committee archive and my research in Cuba, I reveal that the confluence of Cuban state hostility against Spanish exile settlement, US private aid´s penchant for advancing a ‘national’ image abroad, and the author Ernest Hemingway´s close relationships to the ‘loyalist’ cause and its exiles, resulted in a selective distribution of aid by mostly women at ‘neutral’ private aid organisations. …”
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De Dolores, CO à Lolita, TX : Détours et retours à travers "the crazy quilt of forty-eight states" by Marie Bouchet

“…In an attempt at mapping the protagonists’ journeys, the present paper also identifies two geographical poles of the immense American territory: one is in the North-East, and stages the satisfaction of Humbert’s desire, and the other is in Colorado, where Lolita’s suffering is emphasized, and from where she escapes. …”
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Confronting stereotypes: the dual narratives of ethnic minority youth in Aotearoa New Zealand by Vartika Sharma, Rodrigo Ramalho, Rachel Simon-Kumar, Shanthi Ameratunga, Kristy Kang, Renee Liang, Arier Lee, Roshini Peiris-John

“…Asian, Middle Eastern, Latin American, and African ethnic origins) constitute 20% of the youth population in Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) and yet their experiences remain invisible in the mainstream discourses. …”
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Yorùbá Values and the Environment by John Ayọtunde Iṣọla Bẹwaji

“…It argues that in contrast with the Judeo-Christian tradition of environmental anthropomorphic domination as the destiny of humanity or American pragmatism which encourages no stable traditions of values but what conduces to desired ends, the Yorùbá value system is by far more advanced in being more eco-respecting, eco-friendly and geared toward sustainable human habitation in a world in which he/she constitutes one small fraction of sentience. …”
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Oral Health and Hygiene Content in Nursing Fundamentals Textbooks by Rita A. Jablonski

“…Best mouth care practices included evidence-based and consensus-based practices as published primarily by the American Dental Association and supported by both published nursing research and review articles specific to mouth care and published dental research and review articles specific to mouth care. …”
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Más allá del mar, un inmenso jardín. El trato a la figura de Rafael del Riego en la prensa de México, Colombia y Buenos Aires tras su muerte (1823-1830) by Alberto Cañas de Pablos

“…Because of that reason the news of his execution in November 1823 travelled fast around the world. The case of American territories that were fighting for sparing from their mother country presents several special features, because they were at the same time next and far from what was happening in Spain, in different ways. …”
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La documentación de las lenguas patagónicas en el gabinete de Samuel A. Lafone Quevedo. El Vocabulario Guenaken by Marisa Malvestitti, María Emilia Orden

“…Concerned about the configuration of a Latin American ethnic map, he established lexical-grammatical patterns in order to detect structural patterns allowing the recognition of genetic links or diffusion processes. …”
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A Dynamic Analysis of a Record Breaking Winter Season Blocking Event by Andrew D. Jensen

“…This blocking event had many outstanding dynamical characteristics, the chief of which was that it survived an abrupt change in the planetary-scale flow when the Pacific North American pattern index changed from positive to negative in early February. …”
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Examining the application of nominalization in segmented abstracts: a corpus-based study by Yuan Yuwei

“…The study adopted a corpus-based approach, querying nominalization tokens using suffixes of nominalization, to analyse different sections of abstracts from 30 research articles in the American Journal of Psychiatry. Statistical analysis revealed that the Conclusions section among the four sections (Objective, Methods, Results, and Conclusions) utilized nominalizations most frequently, and a significant difference was found in the frequency of nominalizations between the four sections. …”
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Autoportraits photographiques américains : De la blancheur à l’ombre chez Alfred Stieglitz ; de la nudité au pastiche chez Lee Miller by Marie Cordié-Levy

“…This self-portrait which acts as a signature gave full power and independence to American photography for the next hundred years. Shadows in Lake (1916) corresponds to Stieglitz’s return to anonymity and privacy. …”
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New Insights into the Androgen-Targeted Therapies and Epigenetic Therapies in Prostate Cancer by Abhijit M. Godbole, Vincent C. O. Njar

“…Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men in the United States, and it is the second leading cause of cancer-related death in American men. The androgen receptor (AR), a receptor of nuclear family and a transcription factor, is the most important target in this disease. …”
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La crise de l’urbain et la condition moderne dans les romans de Saul Bellow by Timea Lönhardt

“…We will then analyze in more detail the Bellovian critique of the urban crisis which is the core of the writer’s "city novel", Dean’s December, and which created a lot of controversy in the highly politicized American letters of the 1980s. We will close this analysis with a discussion of the accusations of "cultural conservatism" that Bellow sustained during the 1970s and 1980s, and we will offer an interpretation of the writer’s resistance to contemporary canons as a modern literary requirement.…”
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EXCHANGE RATE DETERMINATION BY ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS: TURKISH CASE by Ayça Sarıalioğlu Hayali, Hasan Babacan

“…This paper aims to analyse the exchange rate determination between Turkish Lira and American Dollar by using Artificial Neural Networks through the Monetarist Model. …”
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Potentially Inappropriate Medications Use among Older Adults with Comorbid Diabetes and Hypertension in an Ambulatory Care Setting by Monira Alwhaibi

“…The study objectives were to estimate the prevalence and factors associated with PIMs use based on the 2019 American Geriatric Society (AGS) Beers criteria. Results. …”
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Lateral Subtalar Dislocation with Tarsometatarsal Dislocation: A Case Report of a Rare Injury by Samik Banerjee, Mostafa M. Abousayed, Douglas J. Vanderbrook, Kaushik Bagchi

“…His Foot and Ankle Disability Index and American Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society scores were 64 and 65 points, respectively. …”
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Preferencia de dígitos en la declaración del año de entrada a Estados Unidos de los inmigrantes nacidos en México by Román Álvarez González

“…A partir de los resultados de la American Community Survey ( ACS ) se emplean índices de regularidad para los años de declaración terminados en 0 y 5, y se encuentra que la preferencia de dígitos es de hasta 46% respecto a la declaración de años adyacentes. …”
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Earthquake Influence on the Rail Irregularity on High-Speed Railway Bridge by Zhipeng Lai, Xin Kang, Lizhong Jiang, Wangbao Zhou, Yulin Feng, Yuntai Zhang, Jian Yu, Leixin Nie

“…Results show that existing power spectrum density and time-domain displacement samples of rail irregularities in the American code are the largest, while the irregularities of the Germany railway are higher than those of China in a specific range of rail wavelengths. …”
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Research Status and Challenges of Data-Driven Construction Project Management in the Big Data Context by Yao Huang, Qian Shi, Jian Zuo, Feniosky Pena-Mora, Jindao Chen

“…To fill the void, related works published in the databases of Web of Science, Science Direct, and American Society of Civil Engineers library are systematically reviewed. …”
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