From a Habit to a Husband by Danson Sylvester Kahyana

“…Data is collected through a close reading of the play under analysis, within the socio-political context in which it was written and produced, that is, the politically turbulent decade following Uganda's flag independence in 1962, characterised "among others" by events like the abolition of kingdoms by the Prime Minister, Milton Obote, and his ouster in a military coup by his army commander, General Idi Amin, on 25 January, 1971. …”
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Peter the Great and the “modernisation” of serfdom in Russia by O. Yu. Yakhshiyan

“…The substitution of the serfdom’s grounds is seen primarily in the rejection by the state of the conditionality principle of noble rights to the estate by compulsory lifelong service in the army, namely, this followed from the extension to estates of the patrimony’s possessory format. …”
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The role of computed tomography in the diagnosis of encapsulating peritoneal sclerosis in patients undergoing peritoneal dialysis by Aomei Li, Longkai Li, Fujia Guo, Dan Zhou, Wei Yang, Wengting Cui, Shuran Wu, Lin Li, Changqing Yu, Hongli Lin

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Les conflits fonciers comme analyseurs des guerres civiles : chefs de guerre, militaires américains et juges Taliban dans la Kunar by Adam Baczko

“…An analysis of the war through the study of land conflicts helps us to more fully understand why the warlords are currently getting weaker, why the people of Kunar are rejecting the US Army, and why the Taliban movement has taken root locally.…”
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La science‑fiction institutionnelle chez Julian Bleecker et Brian David Johnson by Thomas Michaud

“…These could be competitors of a company, enemies of an army, social groups condemned by an interest group such as an association or a state, etc. …”
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Ièu, Bancel, oficièr d’Empèri, una singularitat literària by Daniel Ollive

“…These three officers have a common destiny: seized by doubt in the face of the course of History, initially irresolute, they gradually forge their own conviction and end up leaving the army to obey their brand new conscience. They are then traitors. …”
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Sudanese totalitarianism: violent jihad as a state policy [version 2; peer review: 1 approved, 3 approved with reservations] by Karolina Zielińska

“…The Islamic state used violent jihad, by the army and by militias, as a way to impose unitary rule (state-building) and shari’a law upon a significantly diversified population. …”
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Deep Blue Cannot Play Checkers: The Need for Generalized Intelligence for Mobile Robots by Troy D. Kelley, Lyle N. Long

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ONE DRAFT OF A POSSIBLE CONSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENT FOR KOSOVO AND METOHIJA by Bojan Bojanic, Zaklina Spalevic

“…In none of the proposed models, the so-called Kosovo would not have full international legal subjectivity, Serbia would not recognize Kosovo’s self-proclaimed independence, nor could so-called Kosovo become a member of the United Nations, and there would be no Kosovo Army. The province would have internal sovereignty.…”
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The Special Archive in Moscow by Sigitas Jegelevičius

“…First of all, the documents of the second department (reconnaissance) of the Polish Army General Staff, which are important to Lithuanian history, are presented: the structure of this holding, its volumes, contents, and character. …”
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Armenia Towards a "New Economy": Defense Industry by A. B. Harutyunyan

“…As a small country, Armenia needs an economy-army coalesced “intelligent” system that will respond adequately to any, even the slightest threat to the country's security. …”
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Al-Ḥudayyda sous occupation ottomane (1849-1918) by Patrice Chevalier

“…Little fishing harbor on the Red Sea coast, al-Ḥudayyda’s status and dimension progressively change with the arrival of the Ottoman army in 1839. The town is then chosen as one of the strategic points (military and political) of the Ottoman colonial system.Thanks to the various infrastructures set up by the Ottoman administration, but thanks also to the opening of Suez canal in 1869, al- Ḥudayyda slowly attracts a multiethnic and cosmopolitan population: a part of it having come for trading aims, another part just taking refuge in the town, the political context being quiet unsettled in the area. …”
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Research on Complex Multiconstraint Path Planning Based on ACA Hybrid Algorithm by Hongyun Wang, Min Gao, Weiwei Gao, Wenzhao Li

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Sharpshooters, Leafhoppers, Cicadellidae (Insecta: Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae) by Chris Tipping, Russell F. Mizell, III

“…Disturbed sharpshooters will slip quickly behind branches and stems to avoid predators, an action not unlike the behavior of army sharpshooter riflemen who would hide behind the trunks of trees to avoid detection by the opposition as they passed by their position. …”
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A’joot  : Ethics, Rights and Values Spoken from the Stomach and Heart by Araceli Rojas

“…Emphasis is given to the concept of dignity developed by the Zapatistas (Zapatista Army of National Liberation), which entails the recognition of present living without dignity while fighting to achieve it, as a scream-protest against invisibilisation and an ongoing development of its meaning.…”
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Impact of Conflict Resolution on the Performance of Workers of Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), Abuja: An Econometrics Approach by Abubakar Orlando Ijoko, Ogakwu Julius Ogbaji, Samson Galadima Simon

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Living in the Making of History! Two Victorian Female Travellers’ Representations of the 1879 Anglo-Zulu War by Ludmila Ommundsen

“…In the late 1870s and early 1880s two courageous women travelled to South Africa: Mrs Louisa Hutchinson, married to an army officer, who wrote In Tents in the Transvaal (1879) and Lady Florence Douglas Dixie—the first female war correspondent—who published In The Land of Misfortune (1882). …”
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Transfer Matrix Method to Vibration Analysis of Rotors with Coupler Offsets by Chao-Yang Tsai, Shyh-Chin Huang

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THE NEXUS BETWEEN ARMED CONFLICT, SECURITY, PEACE EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA by SAMUEL BULUS WADZANI, OGUNDAIRO KAYODE EMMANUEL, AUGUSTINE ECHOBU OGWUCHE

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Tălmăcitori în „Graiul Nou” by Carmen Brăgaru

“…The present study aims to describe as thoroughly as possible an important propagandistic newspaper, today obscure, significantly entitled The New Voice (or The New Language) which was issued in Romania by the Red Army Political Direction between 1944 and 1948. The subjective (read: not objective) information used to influence or tame the Romanian audience was signed by important Russian writers of the period who played an essential part not only in the literary field but also in the manipulative approach of the social, historical and political aspects. …”
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