(Post)utopian Vineland: Ideological Conflicts in the 1960s and the 1980s by Lovorka Gruic Grmusa

“…This paper delineates a revolutionary period in postmodern America: the sixties from the vantage point of the eighties as presented in Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland. It brings controversial aspects of U.S. history and culture into view: the blacklist period in the 1950s, the rise of counterculture and the hippie movement, and the politics of the eighties. …”
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G. Călinescu la Universitate şi la Academia Română – precizări şi adăugiri – (I) by Pavel Țugui

“…Pavel Ţugui reveals that Calinescu biography is still controversial, but he brings into the light documets that no one would contradict. …”
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Retours sur les nationalismes sexuels by Alexandre Jaunait

“…This combination of critique and criticism illustrates the way gender and sexuality studies are permanently influenced by the political controversies that run through social movements and logics of mobilization.…”
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Les ambiances des hydrocarbures by Tobias Etienne-Greenwood

“…For a decade, the exploitation of the Vaca Muerta hydrocarbon formation in Argentina has brought its share of political and economic controversies as well as serious environmental damages. …”
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The Lexicon of Argumentation for Argument Mining: methodological considerations by Patrick Saint Dizier

“…An argument being a relation between a controversial statement (claim) and a support or an attack, we deal with the marks specific to each class and those related to the expression of the relations which hold between them. …”
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Les plateformes numériques révolutionnent-elles la mobilité urbaine ? by Gaële Lesteven, Sylvanie Godillon

“…In many cities, its development is controversial as taxi drivers accuse it of unfair competition. …”
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Enjeux textuels d’une lecture féministe de la science-fiction by Richard Saint‑Gelais

“…This paper upholds such a view, while qualifying it at once by adding that the role of theory is not to settle debates by providing authoritative interpretations but to shed light on the stakes of texts as well as of reading strategies. A look on controversies surrounding U. Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness, J. …”
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The Politics of Circularity in Todd Phillips’s Joker (2019) by Guillaume Mouleux

“…In the wake of the worldwide box office and critical success of Todd Phillips’s movie Joker (2019) and of the controversies which accompanied its release, this article focuses on the notion of circularity both in the film’s storytelling and its interactions with the viewer, especially through the numerous intertextual references and evocations which are developed on screen. …”
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The Ongoing French Reception of the Objectivists by Abigail Lang

“…Focusing on issues of poetic theory, this paper brings out the landmarks and articulations of the French reception of the Objectivists and shows how the controversies attending the interpretations of Objectivist poetics served to clarify and advance certain issues of French poetics. …”
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Francis Bacon’s Concept of Science and Scientific Method by Seyed Mohammad Reza Hosseini Beheshti

“…The “forerunners” of philosophy and science sought the way out of the skepticism, that emerged from the endless controversies concerning the universals and the possibility of rational and philosophical knowledge about nature during the High and Late scholasticism, in the concept of “method”. …”
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A Case of a 5-Year-Old Boy with a Blauth Type IIIB Hypoplastic Thumb Reconstructed with a Nonvascularized, Hemilongitudinal Metatarsal Transfer by Mika Nakada, Kaoru Tada, Tadahiro Nakajima, Masashi Matsuta, Hiroyuki Tsuchiya

“…The treatment methods used for Blauth type IIIB hypoplastic thumbs are controversial. We performed a nonvascularized, hemilongitudinal metatarsal bone transfer on a 5-year-old boy with a type IIIB hypoplastic thumb. …”
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Successful Use of Plasma Exchange in the Treatment of Corticosteroid-Refractory Eosinophilic Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis Associated with Gastrointestinal Manifestations by Kohei Tsujimoto, Masato Yagita, Masashi Taniguchi, Masaaki Fujita

“…Indication of plasma exchange for EGPA remains controversial; however, it may represent a valid option in cases with gastrointestinal involvement.…”
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Informação, meio ambiente e atores sociais: mediação dos conflitos socioambientais by Aloisio Ruscheinsky

“…The approach emphasizes the limitations and controversies that encompass the process of social information in a society marked by the movement of goods by a consumer culture, the environmental conflicts and the growing scarcity of natural resources. …”
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Treatment of Endometrial Cancer in Association with Pelvic Organ Prolapse by Asama Vanichtantikul, Ekkasit Tharavichitkul, Imjai Chitapanarux, Orawee Chinthakanan

“…Concurrent adenocarcinoma and POP can be a difficult clinical situation to treat, and optimum management is controversial.…”
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Corpses, Embryos, Animal by E. V. Loginov

“…Will I be my corpse someday? This is a controversial philosophical question. If I’m a material being, that question is an important part of the metaphysics of material beings. …”
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Du témoignage : à propos de quelques portraits d’Abd el-Kader en Oriental by François Pouillon

“…In the course of analyzing a seemingly irrelevant detail - the eye color of the Emir - we noted that the information was not only different but contradictory: based on incomplete, disparate and sometimes controversial documentation, how can one not give into relativism and still manage to provide the evidence?…”
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Universal behavior of tunneling time and barrier time-delay decoupling in attoclock measurements by Ossama Kullie

“…The measurement of the tunneling time-delay is hotly debated and remains controversial. In previous works, we showed that a model that accurately describes the time-delay measured by the attoclock experiment in adiabatic and nonadiabatic field calibrations. …”
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Savoir et valeur. Pour une conception émancipatrice des « Éducations à » by Michel Fabre

“…In french curriculum, the PSHE (Personal Social and Health Education) seem to import values’ considerations beyond traditional knowledge. That is controversial. But this weberian dualism (facts versus values) must be critiqued. …”
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Revisiting Estrogen: Efficacy and Safety for Postmenopausal Bone Health by Sandra M. Sacco, Wendy E. Ward

“…The aim of this paper is to continue the dialogue regarding the benefits and controversies of HT with the goal of encouraging the dissemination of-up-to date evidence that may influence how HT is viewed and prescribed.…”
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An Unusual Neck Mass: A Case of a Parathyroid Cyst and Review of the Literature by Anand Goomany, Amy Rafferty, Ian Smith

“…Treatment of nonfunctioning cysts remains controversial and includes needle aspiration, injection of sclerosant, or surgical excision. …”
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