Les mécanismes législatifs de l’autoritarisme algérien face au hirak : entre répression de la mobilisation et prévention de toute organisation du mouvement by Massensen Cherbi

“…To repress the mobilization of this peaceful “Movement” and prevent its structuration, the authorities already had at their disposal a wide range of repressive provisions restricting rights and freedoms – a legacy of the colonial era, the single party, the Black Decade and the containment of the Arab Springs. …”
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Les Arméniens communistes en France, une histoire oubliée by Astrig Atamian

“…The fact that a part of the Armenian “colony” in France participated in the Communist movement is often ignored. …”
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The role of violence in the classics of Brazilian Social Thought by Bruno de Souza Lessa, Jaqueline Silinske

“…Furthermore, by taking advantage of each author’s conceptual apparatuses, we introduced a discussion not only about the role of violence in the Brazilian colonial era, but also about its continuity over time and the social-historical manifestations it has in contemporaneity. …”
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Tres espacios narrativos más allá de Macondo (Ángel, Fayad, Espinosa) by Cristo Rafael Figueroa

“…Este artículo pretende visualizar tres de los trayectos narrativos que adopta la novelística colombiana posterior a El otoño del patriarca de Ggarcía Márquez: exploración de nuevas formas literarias para evidenciar las secuelas de la violencia colombiana en la infancia femenina y el papel de la mujer dentro de la misma (Estaba la pájara pinta sentada en el verde limón de Albalucía Ángel); búsqueda de estéticas neorrealistas para focalizar los complejos procesos y consecuencias de la modernización de Bogotá (Los parientes de Ester de Luis Fayad); y opción por una escritura neobarroca capaz de relativizar y cuestionar concepciones hegemónicas sobre la historia colonial (La tejedora de coronas de Ggermán Espinosa)…”
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Formazione, tecnologia e mercati nel contesto di una multinazionale by Elena Bougleux

“…The training program in advanced technology and related applicative competences remains framed inside a market oriented strategy, and it responds to logic of asymmetric power typical of a post colonial scenario. The higher education program becomes a pretext to hide persistent cultural and gender prejudices and to enforce existing or newly established relations of subalternity.  …”
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Mujeres en el ballet: maestras, bailarinas y productoras en Guadalajara by Cristina Castellano

“…The history of classical dance in Latin America is linked to the colonial history of the continent and to its emancipation movements. …”
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La querelle des noms. Chaînes et strates ethnonymiques dans le Chaco boréal by Nicolas Richard

“…Based on work by different authors, this article analyzes the different ethnonymic strata in the northern Chaco beginning with the most recent ones and reaching back to those from the colonial era. As a result, the Chaco – which 18th century Jesuits called the « American Babel » because of its unstable linguistic fragmentation – will become more intelligible.…”
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Blackness at the End of the World by Antavius Franklin

“…As such, black theology should position itself to imagine black theology beyond the confines of the science of faith and other colonial markers of life and humanity. In essence, this paper seeks to make two theological claims/interventions; first, it questions the use of the category of the human as a liberatory figure through which the black can attain freedom. …”
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Occurrence of Fungi on Duck Egg Shells and Drug Resistance Analysis of <i>Aspergillus</i> spp. Isolates by Andrzej Gaweł, Magdalena Siedlecka, Magdalena Karwańska, Milena Skrok, Iwona Przychodniak, Piotr Knap, Aleksandra Chmielina, Violetta Truszko, Maciej Kuczkowski, Karolina Bierowiec, Anna Woźniak-Biel, Barbara Szczepankiewicz, Kamila Bobrek

“…An investigation was conducted on 200 duck eggs from 10 flocks to determine total fungal contamination on the eggshells. The colony types were identified morphologically and microscopically, and a representative group was identified using PCR. …”
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High Antimicrobial Susceptibility of Cloacal Enterococci and <i>Escherichia coli</i> from Free-Living Dalmatian and Great White Pelicans with Detection of Cefotaximase CTX-M-15 Pro... by Teresa Cardona-Cabrera, Sandra Martínez-Álvarez, Carmen González-Azcona, Carlos Javier Gijón-García, Olga Alexandrou, Giorgos Catsadorakis, Panagiotis Azmanis, Carmen Torres, Ursula Höfle

“…<b>Background/Objectives:</b> In 2022, an outbreak of H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) killed 60% of the largest breeding colony of Dalmatian pelicans (DPs) in the world at Mikri Prespa Lake (Greece), prompting a multidisciplinary study on HPAI and other pathogens. …”
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Genomic characterization and radiation tolerance of Naganishia kalamii sp. nov. and Cystobasidium onofrii sp. nov. from Mars 2020 mission assembly facilities by Patrick Leo, Marcus de Melo Texeira, Atul M. Chander, Nitin K. Singh, Anna C. Simpson, Andrey Yurkov, Fathi Karouia, Jason E. Stajich, Christopher E. Mason, Kasthuri Venkateswaran

“…Abstract During the construction and assembly of the Mars 2020 mission components at two different NASA cleanrooms, several fungal strains were isolated. Based on their colony morphology, two strains that showed yeast-like appearance were further characterized for their phylogenetic position. …”
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Succinate supplementation alleviates liver cancer by inhibiting the FN1/SQLE axis-mediated cholesterol biosynthesis by Shuyuan Chang, Ayaka Tomii, Yunfei Zhou, Xun Yang, Yihong Dong, Jun Yan, Aodi Wu, Yumeng Wang, Qingxin Zhang, Hongxue Meng, Lei Yu, Wei Sun, Dabin Liu

“…Succinate supplementation exhibits an anti-tumorigenic effect, inhibiting cell proliferation and colony formation in liver cancer cells but not in non-tumor LO2 cells. …”
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Improved Bat Algorithm Applied to Multilevel Image Thresholding by Adis Alihodzic, Milan Tuba

“…We improved standard bat algorithm, where our modifications add some elements from the differential evolution and from the artificial bee colony algorithm. Our new proposed improved bat algorithm proved to be better than five other state-of-the-art algorithms, improving quality of results in all cases and significantly improving convergence speed.…”
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The Role of Cornelis Chastelein in the Development of the Depok Region, 1693-1714 by Hari Naredi, Ahmad Ruslan, Amar Septian, Nunung Siti Nurjanah, Anwar Jadid, Fras Bagaskara, Iqbal Gagah Soekarno, Imam Rizki Al Fatih

“…His legacy in the form of colonial buildings can be found in the Depok area, West Java. …”
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A Novel Algorithm of Quantum Random Walk in Server Traffic Control and Task Scheduling by Dong Yumin, Xiao Shufen

“…In the end of the paper, we compare the quantum random walk optimization method with GA (genetic algorithm), ACO (ant colony optimization), and SAA (simulated annealing algorithm). …”
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Dynamical Model Identification for a Small-Scale Unmanned Helicopter Using an Integrated Approach by Rui Ma, Li Ding, Kailei Liu, Hongtao Wu

“…With the flight experiment data collection and preprocessing, a hybrid identified algorithm combining the improved artificial bee colony algorithm and prediction error method is proposed to obtain the unknown dynamical parameters of the linear model. …”
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A Case of Autoimmune Neutropenia in a Patient Undergoing Breast Cancer Surgery by Mio Adachi, Goshi Oda, Masatake Hara, Yuichi Kumaki, Tomoyuki Fujioka, Toshiyuki Ishiba, Ukihide Tateishi

“…After 7 months of treatment, the surgery was performed. Granulocyte colony-stimulating factor was administered before the surgery, but the patient’s neutrophil count did not increase. …”
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Las Instrucciones de Manuel Riesco a su hijo Miguel: emigración, redes y aprendizaje entre Chile y España a principios del siglo XIX by José Saldaña Fernández, Jaime J.  Lacueva Muñoz

“…In short, the analysis ranges from the most intimate and private realm to the sphere of public and social characterisation; this has allowed, not only for the general outline of the commercial company of the Riesco to be revealed, but for the main tenets of Atlantic commerce during the final years of the colonial period to be defined.…”
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Fluconazole-Pyridoxine Bis-Triazolium Compounds with Potent Activity against Pathogenic Bacteria and Fungi Including Their Biofilm-Embedded Forms by Marsel R. Garipov, Roman S. Pavelyev, Svetlana A. Lisovskaya, Elena V. Nikitina, Airat R. Kayumov, Alina E. Sabirova, Oksana V. Bondar, Albina G. Malanyeva, Alexander M. Aimaletdinov, Alfia G. Iksanova, Konstantin V. Balakin, Yurii G. Shtyrlin

“…While no biofilm structure destruction occurred, all compounds were able to diffuse into the matrix and reduce the number of colony-forming units by three orders of magnitude at 16 × MBC. …”
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African army ants at the forefront of virome surveillance in a remote tropical forest by Fritz, Matthieu, Reggiardo, Bérénice, Filloux, Denis, Claude, Lisa, Fernandez, Emmanuel, Mahé, Frédéric, Kraberger, Simona, Custer, Joy M., Becquart, Pierre, Mebaley, Telstar Ndong, Kombila, Linda Bohou, Lenguiya, Léadisaelle H., Boundenga, Larson, Mombo, Illich M., Maganga, Gael D., Niama, Fabien R., Koumba, Jean-Sylvain, Ogliastro, Mylène, Yvon, Michel, Martin, Darren P., Blanc, Stéphane, Varsani, Arvind, Leroy, Eric, Roumagnac, Philippe

“…Using 209 army ant samples collected from 29 colonies and the virion-associated nucleic acid-based metagenomics approach, we showed that a broad diversity of bacterial, plant, invertebrate and vertebrate viral sequences were accumulated by army ants: including sequences from 157 different viral genera in 56 viral families. …”
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