Open Water Jumping: Clearing Obstacles in the Negotiation of French Rights to The Black Stallion by Cécile Cottenet

“…The story of the introduction of the series in France in the aftermath of World War II, and its inclusion in this now-classic library of children’s texts, is largely unknown. …”
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About some limitations in researching the human being. Theological perspective by Andrzej Jastrzębski

“… The concept of a person has gone through several stages of development in the history of thought. In the classical tradition, a person is considered to be a substance. …”
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The Making of The Tourist by Dean MacCannell

“…The author reflects on the historical context and intellectual and institutional foundations for his (1976) study The Tourist: A New Theory of the Leisure Class, especially its connections to classic social and critical theory, and its fit with post structuralism and deconstruction. …”
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The Contours of Locke’s General Substance Dualism by Graham Clay

“…My way of establishing Locke as a general substance dualist is to be as minimally committal as possible at the outset, especially with respect to the classic debates on Locke’s positions in this domain, including those concerning substrata, real essences, and the like. …”
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“Depth of field” or “negative forms”: space/syntax from HDR digital photography to hypermedia navigation by Marie-Madeleine Martinet

“…It then looks at the broader chronological context of the interplay of distance and foreground, such as framing structures and brushwork texture in classical landscapes, the role of shadows in painting from Leonardo to Enlightenment theories on perception, the exploration of atmospheric effects and of lighting by Victorian artists and scientists ranging from stage sets to physicists’ experiments. …”
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Soul-foods as pharmaka: female bodies and poisons in the Upper Rio Negro by Pedro Lolli, Geraldo Andrello

“…Setting out from the mythical genesis of tobacco, coca, paricá, and caapi (ayahuasca), we examine the relationship between these substances and diverse aspects of female bodies and their reproductive powers, suggesting that these psychoactives can be conceived as pharmaka in the classic sense of the term, acting both to increase a person’s vital force and/or to harm and kill. …”
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La subsistance de l’homme : l’économie selon Karl Polanyi by Pierre Alary

“…It discusses the theoretical foundations of neoclassical, or classical schools in some respects, and offers: firstly a battery concepts to explain the embedding or disembedding of the economy; secondly different models to explain institutional differences between old economies and economies where the market system plays a crucial role. …”
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A dimensional analysis approach to fatigue in quasi-brittle materials by Marco Paggi

“…In this study, a generalized Barenblatt and Botvina dimensional analysis approach to fatigue crack growth is proposed in order to highlight and explain the deviations from the classical power-law equations used to characterize the fatigue behaviour of quasi-brittle materials. …”
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Price Forecasting Through Multivariate Spectral Analysis: Evidence for Commodities of BM&Fbovespa by Carlos Alberto Orge Pinheiro, Valter de Senna

“…ABSTRACT This study aimed to forecast the prices of a group of commodities through the multivariate spectral analysis model and compare them with those obtained by classical forecasting and neural network models. The choice of commodities such as ethanol, cattle, corn, coffee and soy was due to the emphasis in the exports in 2013. …”
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Dov’è la libertà? by Onofrio Romano

“…After a preliminary analytical distinction between political contents and regulatory path, classical liberalism is then recognized as a first form of translation of the emancipatory aspirations inscribed in the spirit of modernity. …”
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Mary as the Ark of the Covenant in the Scene of the Visitation (Luke 1:39-56) Reconsidered by Jan M. Kozłowski

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La présentation des objets africains dans DOCUMENTS (1929/1930), magazine illustré by Coline Bidault

“…But the objective of Documents was above all to break down the barriers between the various disciplines by adopting a particular aesthetic: the juxtaposition of a wide variety of methods, ideas, texts and images, as well as of ways of thinking about African objects, meant that these could be considered in ways that went beyond the classic opposition of ethnographical and aesthetic approaches.…”
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Marking time among the Ch’orti’ Maya: an expressive act of culture by Kerry Hull

“…Finally, I propose that several aspects regarding the notion of time among the Ch’orti’ have their roots in the ancient Classic Maya period.…”
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Frontiere oltre confine: fronti e interstizi della gestione migratoria nello spazio EurAfricano by Paolo Gaibazzi

“…The article adapts two classic notions of frontier in order to analyse the delocalisation of migration control and management in the Euro-African space. …”
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Statement of Managerial Education’s Rapid Development Methodology by A. V. Raychenko

“…The methodological basis of scientific research and professional managerial education are the classical and elaborating approaches. Their statement and use are realized in traditional, innovative, and aggregated forms, and it becomes a constructive condition for improving the research and education process in the management area. …”
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Epistemic Roots, Universal Routes and Ontological Roofs of African “Ritual Archives”: Disciplinary Formations in African Thought by Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju

“…The distinction I advance between Yoruba philosophy and òrìṣà cosmology and the effort to map their interrelations is useful in categorizing and critically analyzing various postulates that constitute classical Yoruba thought. This mapping of convergence and divergence contributes to working out the continuum in Yoruba thought between a critical and experiential configuration and a belief system. …”
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Identifying and prioritizing appropriate strategies for customer loyalty in a mass environment (case study: clothing house) by Zahra Joorbonyan, Ali Sorourkhah, Seyyed Ahmad Edalatpanah

“…Based on this, combining the matrix approach to robustness analysis with classical strategic planning approaches will be a response to the above problem.…”
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TAX COMPLIANCE RISK AS AN ELEMENT OF THE TAX RISK MANAGEMENT CONCEPT IN AN ENTERPRISE by Olha Mashchenko, Anastasiia Khodus

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POTENTIAL OF THE KANTIAN NOTION OF SOCIAL JUSTICE by Z. Kieliszek

“…Furthermore, Kantian understanding of justice falls within the scope of the classical notion of contractual justice and remains present in the modern debates on justice, as exemplified by the thought of Rawls, Nozick and Höffe. …”
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Is the convergence insufficiency symptom survey applicable to elderly individuals? by Saeid Abdi, Haleh Kangari, Saeed Rahmani, Alireza Akbarzadeh Baghban, Zahra Kamary Rad

“…This study investigated the psychometric properties of the CISS in presbyopic adults via classical and Rasch analysis. Methods A total of 100 presbyopic individuals (40–60 years) were selected with far and near acuity of 20/20 with their habitual spectacles; 50 had convergence insufficiency and 50 had normal binocular vision. …”
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