The Empire of Beasts Then and Now: Political Cartoons and New Trends in Victorian Animal Studies by Irina Kantarbaeva-Bill

“…In exhibiting and displaying such animals as the lion, the tiger, the crocodile and the bear while dealing with colonial issues, the popular British cartoons acted as complex rhetorical structures that helped to powerfully influence mass opinion and consequently harnessed the public support for the Empire. …”
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« Mon parent, ce nouvel ennemi ». Relations matrimoniales et intériorisation de l’Autre chez les Jebero d’Amazonie péruvienne by Ronan Julou

“…The Jebero, who stand for the ancient paragon of « Christian Indians » during the colonial period, are facing a deleterious change of their social relationship, marked by the loss of confidence in their close kin, now considered as potential enemies. …”
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Arguing sovereignty in Songhay by Bruce S. Hall

“…Nonetheless, the historiography of pre-colonial states in Sahelian West Africa, and of Islam’s role in these political formations, retains an attachment to a particular model of statehood derived from Arabic geographies and chronicles. …”
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Adaptive Differential Evolution Algorithm for Forward Position Solution of Parallel Mechanism by Yi Jian

“…Furthermore,the ADE algorithm is compared with basic DE,the adaptive mutation particle swarm optimization,and improved artificial bee colony algorithms,and it is verified that the former outperforms the compared algorithms in term of convergence precision and calculated robustness.…”
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Microbios y mosquitos en la emergencia de la medicina tropical en Brasil y Argentina by Sandra Caponi

“…The distinction between these two research programs is linked to how the two international centers of reference, the Societé de Phatologie Exotique (1908) and The London School of Tropical Medicine (1898), approached the problem of tropical diseases that appeared in the overseas colonies. This historical moment allows us to observe how scientific research is articulated with the fear of otherness that the tropics and their inhabitants represented for the colonialist gaze.…”
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Forward Position Analysis of 3-RPS Parallel Mechanism based on ADE-Newton algorithm by Peng Siyang, Li Ping, Che Linxian, Du Li

“…And the performances of artificial bee colony,particle swarm optimization and differential evolution algorithms in solving forward position of 3-RPS parallel mechanism is compared. …”
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Melez Bir Söylem: Latin Amerikan Büyülü Gerçekçiliğinden İngiliz Sömürgecilik Sonrası Dönem Postmodern Romanına by Defne Tutan

“…A unique recontextualization in itself, postcolonial postmodern fabulation enables opening up a hybrid discourse in which alternative representations of post colonial experiences can be articulated, as well as valued. …”
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Plant Killing by Mutualistic Ants Increases the Density of Host Species Seedlings in the Dry Forest of Costa Rica by Sabrina Amador-Vargas

“…The density of acacia sprouts growing inside clearings was almost twice that in the vicinities of host plants without clearings, and sprouts were inhabited by nestmates of the colony that made the clearing. Clones and seedlings were found in similar proportions in the clearings, and ants did not kill unrewarding acacia seedlings or seedlings unrelated to their host. …”
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Al-Ḥudayyda sous occupation ottomane (1849-1918) by Patrice Chevalier

“…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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Chasing Down Foreigners at the French-Italian Border (Hautes-Alpes) as a Matter of Social and Racial Policing by Sarah Bachellerie

“…The persistence of “police hunts for illegal humans” (Chamayou, 2010) as a control technology helps us, on the whole, to understand how migration control on France’s borders forms part of a “colonial present” (Gregory, 2004).…”
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Research on Path Planning Method of Coal Mine Robot to Avoid Obstacle in Gas Distribution Area by Ruiqing Mao, Xiliang Ma

“…Second, the initial working paths for the coal mine robot are obtained based on Dijkstra algorithm, and then the global optimal working path for the coal mine robot is obtained based on ant colony algorithm. Lastly, experiments are conducted in a roadway after an accident, and results by different path planning methods are compared, which verified the effectiveness of the proposed path planning method.…”
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Un diálogo con Verena Stolcke “La naturaleza y la cultura no son los extremos de un continuum” by Montserrat Ventura

“…Se doctoró en Oxford en 1970, con una tesis sobre sexualidad y racismo en la Cuba colonial. Más tarde realizó trabajo de campo con mujeres jornaleras en una plantación de café de Sao Paulo, mientras cofundaba el Departamento de Antropología social en la Universidad de Campinas (Sao Paulo, Brasil). …”
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Coral Reef Conservation Strategies for Everyone by Kathryn E. Lohr, Joshua T. Patterson

“…Large groups of these animals live together and form huge interconnected colonies called reefs. Coral reefs are some of the most diverse ecosystems on the planet; an essential habitat for a wide variety of animal and plant species. …”
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CARING FOR WOMEN ON THE FRONTLINES: ENHANCING WOMEN WORKERS’ CAPABILITIES AND BUILDING SOCIAL FRIENDSHIP by M.M.-Y. Yuen

“…In addition, the notions of political charity and social friendship in Catholic social thought, particularly the social encyclical Fratelli Tutti, and the multi-axial analysis in post-colonial feminist theology are useful in upholding women’s dignity and moral agency in care situations. …”
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Unfixing the Frame: Visualizing Histories of Transcultural Contact, Exchange & Performance in Prince Roland Bonaparte’s Peaux-Rouges (1884) by Emily L. Voelker

“…Here, however, the author shifts focus to the experiences of the pictured sitters, examining the photographic exchange embodied in the work as a specific moment in ongoing settler colonial relationships between the Umonhon and European, followed by Euro-American, colonizers. …”
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Histoire récente de la forêt littorale du sud du Cameroun by Achille B. Biwolé, Olivier J. Hardy, Jean-Louis Doucet

“…Prior to the pre-colonial period in Central Africa, human populations were dispersed throughout the forests, where they engaged in slash-and-burn agriculture. …”
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Tordre les archives (queering archives) : oui, mais dans quel sens ? by Ruby Faure

“…I defend here the idea that queering the archives constitutes an ethical orientation, seeking to resist contemporary homo-nationalist calls, as well as the separation of the history of sexuality from that of the French colonial empire.…”
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Refugees, Labour and Sectarianism in Syria under the French mandate (1921-1950) by Seda Altuğ

“…It demonstrates how these refugee groups, with diverse histories of past violence and present dispositions, participated in pro-French colonial order and negotiated their terms of belonging to French-Syria in different ways in the decade following their arrival. …”
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The Fall of Fertility in Tasmania, Australia, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by Helen Moyle

“…The paper examines the fall of marital fertility in Tasmania, the second settled Australian colony, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. …”
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Nature, raison et nation dans le modernisme shï'ite de l'Inde britannique by Michel Boivin

“…In South Asia, as in the rest of the Muslim world, colonial domination gave rise to many questions for Muslims. …”
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