Contemplation and social transformation: the example of Thomas Merton by P. Sheldrake

“…It takes as its paradigm the life and writings of Thomas Merton (Fr Louis), an American Cistercian monk at the Abbey of Gethsemani, Kentucky, who became one of the most widely-read and influential spiritual writers as well as Christian social commentators of the mid-twentieth century. …”
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History and trajectory of Rossetti's works ‘after Dante’: between private collections and museums by Yannick Le Pape

“… If we trace masterpieces by Rossetti "from Dante", we can observe that the most part remains in British or North American collections, although we had in mind that museums of the whole world would have got such emblematic items. …”
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Review of strategies to promote active aging in Ibero-America by Claudia Troncoso Pantoja, Ximena Díaz Martínez, Miquel Martorell Pons, Gabriela Nazar Carter, Yeny Concha Cisternas, Igor Cigarroa Cuevas

“…The objective of this review is to identify interventions or recommendations aimed at promoting active aging in Ibero-American countries. The search for evidence was carried out in publications of articles available between 2010 and 2019, using the Medline, Scopus, Scielo, Science-Direct, Virtual Health Library, MEDES and Dialnet databases. …”
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Progress and Criticism of Progress as a Characteristic of Modern Civilizations in the Work of Friedrich Nietzsche and Ludwig Wittgenstein by Ulrich Arnswald

“…Ludwig Wittgenstein explicitly distances himself here from the spirit that defined the prevailing European and American civilization in the 1930s. He does not succumb to the delusions of grandeur of new, higher-level civilization, but leaves progress as the constantly progressing background noise of any civilization. …”
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Coccidioidomycosis of the Vocal Cords Presenting in Sepsis: A Case Report and Literature Review by Curtis Converse, Atish Dey, Samuel Decker, Sarkis Arabian, Michael Neeki

“…Coccidioidomycosis is a predominantly pulmonary disease caused by species of Coccidioides, a fungus endemic to the American Southwest. Most cases involve exclusively pulmonary manifestations while less than one percent present with disseminated infection, usually with meningeal or skin involvement. …”
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MULTIMODAL HUMOUR ON OVERPOPULATION IN JOEL PETT’S ENVIRONMENTAL CARTOONS by Živilė Nemickienė, Dovilė Urbonienė, Julija Zabielinaitė

“…This study examines humour as a social instrument and focuses on the expression of humour, or irony in particular, in famous American cartoonist Joel Pett’s overpopulation cartoons. …”
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Bullous Lupus: An Atypical Case of Refractory Disease in a Patient with Sulfa Allergy by Maria Salgado Guerrero, Oscar Mena Miranda, Ana B. Arevalo, Nevena Barjaktarovic, Barbara Mendez

“…In this case report, we present a case of a 22-year-old African American woman with BSLE and impaired renal function with subsequent nephrotic range proteinuria concerning for lupus nephritis and autoimmune hemolytic anemia, refractory to systemic corticosteroids, immunoglobulin, and mycophenolate mofetil, requiring dapsone after careful desensitization due to prior history of angioedema with sulfa drugs. …”
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Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis as a Cause of Sudden-Onset Bilateral Sensorineural Hearing Loss: Case Report and Recommendations for Initial Assessment by Paul R. Ratmeyer, Benjamin R. Johnson, Luis P. Roldan, Tania L. Kraai

“…A specific diagnostic work-up to rule out autoimmune inner-ear disease in patients with bilateral SSNHL is not clearly stated in the clinical practice guidelines from the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery. …”
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Tunde Kelani: The Man Exceeds the Frame by Toyin Falola

“…In that same month, he was also inducted into the American Oscars—the Academy of Motion Picture, Arts and Sciences. …”
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Estado e proteção social no Cone Sul da América Latina: um panorama do século XXI by Nayara Cristina Bueno, Lislei Teresinha Preuss

“…It presents characteristics of the Latin American society and the movement of the State in the 21st century, between the expansion and retraction in social investments. …”
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Muslim сommunities in the USA and Western Europe: patterns of electoral behavior by Inna V. Shumilina

“…Today, Kamala Harris appears to be a consensus figure for most American Muslims, which increases her chances in the November 2024 elections. …”
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BASIC SOCIAL STEREOTYPES IN TEACHING MARKETING by Lyubov’ M. Naumova

“…As a marketing tool we use some elements of influence technology developed by the American social psychologist Robert Cialdini. At the heart of these technologies are the basic socio( psychological stereotypes of personality. …”
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La violence par partenaire intime : enjeux traductologiques et politiques des catégorisations de la violence by Samantha Saïdi

“…Questioning gender prejudices conveyed in French translations or re-uses of categorizations produced by two American feminist sociologists, Johnson (2006) and Renzetti (1992), the article proposes a linguistic and semantic explanation. …”
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Les funérailles charognardes. Homicide, cannibalisme et sacrifice humain pour les Yurakaré (Amazonie bolivienne) by Vincent Hirtzel

“…In the indigenous societies of the South American Lowlands, the relationship between the homicidal warrior and his victim has been interpreted mainly as an expression of a « cannibalistic logic » of incorporation of the enemy’s point of view. …”
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Aliança, chefia e regionalismo no Alto Xingu by Antonio Roberto Guerreiro Júnior

“…But the ethnographic data on alliance in the Upper Xingu is very limited, having never been subjected to a detailed treatment, and little of it could be appropriated by the most recent developments of South-American ethnology. In this article I present some data on alliance among the Kalapalo, an upper-xinguano carib-speaking group, and explore the recurrence among them of the ideal and practice of matrilateral marriage by chiefs, which coexists with a structure of inclusive restricted exchange. …”
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Enforceability of judgments against sovereign States: critical analysis of the NML vs. Argentina injunction by Alejandro Gabriel Manzo

“…The analysis of this case confirms the restraints presented by the literature about the lack of proper consideration of the requirements that the American legal system imposes for the applicability of an injunction that affects third parties and operates extraterritorially. …”
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Meaning in the semantic theory of Mikhail V. Nikitin and in cognitive grammar of Ronald W. Langacker by Kharitonchik Zinaida A.

“…Nikitin and that of the American cognitive linguist R. W. Langacker. Both authors view meaning as a complex psychic phenomenon whose formation is affected by numerous factors - social, cultural, psychological, situational, etc. …”
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Gastroenterology, notes on its beginnings in the Central Region of Cuba by Ignacio Morales Martínez, Nancy Andreu Gómez

“…The creation, in 1932, of the Gastroenterology and Proctology section of the American Medical Association laid the foundations in this direction. …”
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Une balle blanche dans un roman noir by Sophie Vallas

“…This paper analyzes the place of baseball in Squeeze Play: it first appears as an essential element in the very structure of the plot, but it is also, for Auster, a way of questioning the myth of the hero in an American society whose main aspects (sports, politics, private life) are eaten up by corruption and perversion. …”
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First Reported Case of Proliferative Retinopathy in Hemoglobin SE Disease by Paul Baciu, Christopher Yang, Aldo Fantin, Deborah Darnley-Fisch, Uday Desai

“…A 56-year-old African American man presented to our clinic for routine examination and was found to have sea-fan peripheral neovascularization bilaterally without maculopathy. …”
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