Construcción con tierra en climas lluviosos by Silvio Ríos Cabrera

“… Este trabajo busca establecer la relación entre los pobladores de la antigua provincia del Paraguay en la etapa colonial y la utilización de la tierra como material de construcción. …”
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Henry Rider Haggard’s Posthumanist Eco-consciousness by Sinan AKILLI

“…Ranging from a Darwinian notion of the oneness of all living animals to a highly skeptical attitude toward the reckless exploitation of the resources of colonial lands and peoples, Haggard’s Weltanschauung included notions that were not only antithetical to imperialist discourses, but also ‘ahead of [their] times’ by more than a century. …”
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Environmental Aspects of Domestic Cat Care and Management: Implications for Cat Welfare by Judith L. Stella, Candace C. Croney

“…Often, however, cats’ needs are inadequately met in homes and some aspects may also not be well met in research colonies and shelters, despite the fact that similar problems are likely to be encountered in all of these environments. …”
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Hornets and Yellowjackets, Vespula and Dolichovespula spp. by E. E. Grissell

“…All species are social, living in colonies of hundreds to thousands of individuals. These wasps are adept at stinging and are especially aroused if danger threatens the nest. …”
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Sur les « fantasias » marocaines d’Eugène Delacroix  by François Pouillon

“…Because only at about 1850, hence after Emir Abdelkader had put down his arms, we can observe a formalization of these horse plays, as part of an attempt of the colonial powers to charm the local elites. Here we witness the coming about of a sudden historical rupture: the transformation of a warlike practice into folklorized ritual.…”
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Ethnic disloyalty or federal loyalty? A case of contesting Baloch representation in postcolonial Pakistan by Shahal Khoso

“…Not restricting its scope to periodisation, the research further investigates if there are linkages between the British colonial view of the Baloch, their treatment as a belligerent ethnic group and the submission of their ethnic loyalty in the postcolonial federation of Pakistan. …”
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Activités rituelles autour d’une source entre la France et l’Espagne (vie s. av. J.-C.-vie s. apr. J.-C.) : la Fajouse à Argelès-sur-Mer (Pyrénées-Orientales) by Ingrid Dunyach

“…It was recently discovered at the top of the massif des Albères, on the Pyrénées’ eastern limit Mediterranean sea and the Greek colonies of Rhode and Emporion. Brought to light between 2012 and 2014, the remains allowed to put in evidence cult activities around a source from the 6th century BC. …”
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Efficacy of Sakacin on Selected Food Pathogenic Microorganisms Isolated from Fermented Milk Products by SSD Mohammed, D Damisa, TV Balogu, E Bala

“…The L .sake was isolated using the pour plate technique and was characterized based on it colony, cell morphology and some biochemical tests. …”
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«Diferencia-como-colonia», gubernamentalidad/biopolítica y Vivir bien (en-común): derivaciones decoloniales del pensamiento de Derrida, Foucault y la crítica poscolonial by Leticia Katzer

“…En este artículo proponemos en el cruce de y en simpatía con la deconstrucción, el pensamiento de Foucault, la crítica poscolonial, la antropología de la naturaleza y la ecología política pensar los riesgos de individualización epistémica que acechan a las formulaciones más abiertas sobre la subjetividad colonial/moderna. Mostramos una específica lectura de estos corpus teóricos desde un marco antropológico-filosófico e incursionamos en el potencial epistemológico de dicha lectura en la exploración del campo de la etnopolítica. …”
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The South African Families Database by Jeanne Cilliers

“…Very little is known about what family life looked like for settlers in colonial South Africa during the 18th or 19th century, nor how events over these centuries might have affected demographic change. …”
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Imigrantes Poloneses em Curitiba (PR): histórico, influência no desenvolvimento da cidade e reconhecimento de antepassados nos endereços by Rafaela Mascarenhas Rocha

“…This immigration is motivated by some Paraná’s authorities, with the intention of, as soon as they were living in the rural colonies on the outskirts of the city, the immigrants produced vegetables and create small animals, to serve the city market. …”
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Descripción del Fondo Protocolos Notariales resguardado en el Archivo General del Estado Bolivariano de Mérida correspondientes a los años 1577-1867 by Neida Durán Ramírez

“…Esta documentación se divide en expedientes civiles y criminales, los cuales están formados por un conjunto de manuscritos que fueron realizado por los escribanos públicos, quienes fueron los encargados de registrar las escrituras notariales, tanto públicas como privadas, dando fe de los actos que se desarrollaban ante él. El fondo colonial, de gran relevancia debido a su antigüedad y volumen, cuenta con un total de 797 tomos, con una media de 250 folios, organizados por series documentales que son descritos en el presente artículo. …”
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Evaluation of SAR Distribution in Six-Layer Human Head Model by Asma Lak, Homayoon Oraizi

“…The six layers are skin, fat, bone, dura (the outer membrane of brain and spinal cord), CSF (colony stimulating factor), and brain. An antenna as a source of exposure is simulated too. …”
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Regard sur les Lazarets en Terre Canadienne by Jean Milot

“…Il présente un bref aperçu de la maladie, ses symptômes, ses signes ainsi que ses complications oculaires et rappelle les premiers moyens thérapeutiques à base d’huile de chaulmoogra introduits dans la colonie de Tracadie vers 1901. Il illustre son propos en évoquant la vie dans les lazarets de l’île de Sheldrake (1844–1848) et de Tracadie (1848–1965) au Nouveau-Brunswick, puis dans ceux des îles D’Arcy (1891–1924) et de Bentinck (1924–1957) en Colombie-Britannique.…”
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TRAYECTORIAS DE NEGRIDAD: DISPUTAS SOBRE LAS DEFINICIONES CONTINGENTES DE LO NEGRO EN AMÉRICA LATINA by Roosbelinda Cárdenas González

“…Comienzo en el periodo colonial para conceder la debida atención a las intensas luchas que se dieron por definir y desestabilizar la categoría del esclavo africano. …”
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Bionic Optimization Based Stability and Congestion Aware Routing Algorithm for Airborne Highly Dynamic Network by Yunlong Yu, Le Ru, Sheng Mao, Kangning Sun, Qiangqiang Yu, Kun Fang

“…This algorithm integrates biological behavior and dynamic source routing algorithm, which can sense the congestion level of routes and the stability of routes. Ant colony optimization algorithm and the mathematical model of Physarum's behavior exert effort in the process of route discovery and maintenance. …”
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«Nos damos por convidados», la voz de los esclavos en la hacienda «El Paraíso» by Nara Fuentes Crispín

“…Primero, el escenario es una hacienda del siglo XIX, institución que conservó la mentalidad terrateniente y paternalista del periodo colonial de la Nueva Granada. Segundo, la ficcionalización romántica recrea condiciones culturales especiales: la mirada del narrador describe la cultura de los esclavos privilegiando solo los elementos compatibles con el mundo de los amos. …”
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Modo de vida puestero, Estado y capitalismo: inconclusión en los bordes abigarrados de lo nómade y lo trashumante by Oscar Humberto Soto

“…En el presente trabajo realizamos un recorrido sobre la caracterización de la ruralidad y lo campesino en América Latina, en contextos colonial/modernos, con la intención de situar la vida rural periférica de puesteros/as dedicados a la labor caprina y su movilización trashumante/nómade, por la vasta espacialidad que les es propia. …”
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Introduction by Nataša Vampelj Suhadolnik, Helena Motoh

“… Recent decades have brought the topic of researching East Asian collections in Europe and the world to the forefront of research and academia. The colonial and postcolonial frameworks of collecting practices, the cultural and socio-political settings in which the collectors assembled their collections, as well as the history of displaying East Asian objects in museums and other institutions, were researched both in the political centres of those practices and on their peripheries. …”
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The Role of Traditional Environmental Knowledge in Taytnapam Toponyms by Eugene S. Hunn, Richard H. McClure Jr.

“…They lived in the upper Cowlitz River watershed relatively undisturbed by Euro-American colonization until late in the 1800s, avoiding the more radical depopulation and dislocation suffered by neighboring Native communities due to introduced diseases and colonial settlement. A majority of descendants are now citizens of the Yakama Nation and the Cowlitz Indian Tribe. …”
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