El cine mexicano de la edad de oro y su impacto internacional by Maricruz Castro-Ricalde

“…Se constató la influencia de este cine en la conformación de la identidad cultural de los mexicanos y su proyección internacional.…”
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Les étudiants francophones et l’anglais à l’université française : mission impossible? by Nicole Décuré, Elisabeth Crosnier

“…The answers to our questionnaires and the interviews that we conducted pinpointed parameters such as the domination of the French language since colonization, the lack of contact with the English language in daily life and English-speaking countries, socio-economic difficulties, cultural barriers, the specificities of the French educational system, etc. …”
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Circulation et transnationalisation de dispositifs et de catégories socio-politiques. Les « transitions vers la démocratie » et la « disparition forcée » au Chili et en Espagne... by Paola Diaz

“…In order to study these phenomena of circulation, this analysis focuses on the social and cultural operations of translating the historical and situated experience in apparatus and categories have acquired a certain abstraction away from their context of emergence.…”
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Conceptualisation des espaces sahéliens chez les auteurs arabes du Moyen Âge by Jean-Charles Ducène

“…The toponymy becomes richer and the cultural observations are more numerous. The more the customs are far from the habits of the observers, the more they are noteworthy.…”
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Towards an agency-oriented model of congregational vitality: by C.A.M. Hermans

“…Functions are dynamic processes of a system that are ‘needs’ in terms of maintenance of stability or production of change Two functions are necessary for survival and continued operation (adaptation and goal attainment) and two functions are related to the quality and internal regulation of cultural patterns and values (integration and pattern maintenance). …”
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Good to love or good to eat? Ethical and ideological implications of hunting, killing and the consumption of anthropomorphic animals in popular picturebooks by Kelly Hübben

“…From an early age, children are taught that animals come in different categories, some of which are good to love, and should be treated with due respect (pets) and others that are good to eat, and, at least in Western cultures, less deserving of our compassion. Focusing on a selection of Little Golden Books, American merchandise books aimed at young readers, I investigate how children learn to distinguish between these two classes of animals. …”
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Le jardin comme post-paysage et projection imaginée by Jean-Simon DesRochers

“…With the idea of proto-landscape, he suggests a transcultural common denominator of environement appreciation in cultures where the concept of landscape is absent. …”
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From Britain to India: Freemasonry as a Connective Force of Empire by Simon DESCHAMPS

“…As a form of sociability, the lodges also contributed to creating a familiar environment, a reservoir of Britishness, that would contribute to making the Briton feel at home, thus creating a social and cultural continuity between the mother country and the Indian Empire, and a degree of of inteconnectedness to the Anglo-Indian world. …”
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Les plantes comme liant actif entre la terre et le paysage. Trois projets artistiques d’Agnes Denes, de Lois Weinberger et de Mali Wu by Catherine Grout

“…Plants are considered by these artists as a manifestation of nature, a vital energy, a focus on food, a symbolic force, as well as a means of establishing a connection to a cultural history, and to actions relating to the maintenance and reconsideration of urban daily life. …”
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Streptococcus anginosus Pyogenic Liver Abscess following a Screening Colonoscopy by Francis Bonenfant, Étienne Rousseau, Paul Farand

“…A previously healthy 58-year-old man presented with a septic thrombosis of the right hepatic vein and a pyogenic liver abscess (PLA) one week after undergoing a screening colonoscopy. Blood cultures and a radiological drainage specimen were both positive for Streptococcus anginosus. …”
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Réflexion et méthodologie: autour d’une prise d’empreinte en papier by Cyril Benoît, Florence Lagger, Noé Terrapon

“…In this article, the ethical questions related to the replication or casting of cultural heritage witnesses are underscored. The authors raise their skepticism about reproductions and consider molds as a simple documentary support. …”
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Portuguese Architecture in Transit(ion) by Bruno Gil, Susana Lobo, José Ribau Esteves

“…This article retraces the Portuguese participation in the Amsterdam Town Hall Competition to refute the generalised idea of cultural mismatch with the European scene of the time and assesses the impact of this particular event on the transition of Portuguese architecture to international recognition, an impact that Portuguese architecture historiography has to this day completely ignored.…”
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Vers une autonomisation du champ des sciences sociales turques by Jean-Baptiste Le Moulec

“…Born out of a revolution that tried to erase part of the ottoman cultural and political heritage, the Turkish Republic enrolled sciences, among which social sciences, and submitted them to its national and nationalist project. …”
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Unfinished buildings, a new point of departure. Designing difference for a sustainable future by Maria Luisa Germanà, Francesca Anania

“…The paper aims to demonstrate that, for the sustainable future of unfinished buildings, a new point of departure is needed, in which the design project should focus on actual differences with regard to the cultural premises of the original, interrupted building process.…”
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On the fundamental social changes in Lithuania in the 19th and 20th centuries by Arūnas Vyšniauskas

“…The main interest lies not so much on the finding of patterns in which the autonomous systems develop, but rather on the interaction of the different social, political, and economic structures of religions, languages, and cultures.   …”
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The Island in R. L. Stevenson’s The Beach of Falesá: Confluence(s) as Subversion by Julie Gay

“…It first examines, at the diegetic level, the cultural, religious and linguistic confluences that are characteristic of the island, and how they potentially question the imperialistic ideal. …”
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Ecosystem Services Provided by Grass-legume Pastures by Jose C. B. Dubeux, Lynn E. Sollenberger, Mark Mauldin, Liza Garcia

“…Ecosystem services (ES) provided by grasslands include not only products such as beef and milk (provisioning services), but also biological N2-fixation (BNF) and nutrient cycling (supporting ES), carbon sequestration and greenhouse gas mitigation, water catchment and purification, shade, windbreaks, habitat for pollinators and wildlife (regulating ES), and finally cultural (e.g., hunting, bird watching) and aesthetical ES. …”
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Hero, Champion of Social Justice, Benign Friend: Theodore Roosevelt in American Memory by Katy Hull

“…The interplay between memories and counter-memories of Theodore Roosevelt suggests that while cultural pluralism enables a multiplicity of memories to flourish within American society, it does not ensure that counter-memories expand beyond those who generate them. …”
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Un palais pour les immigrés ? by Andréa Delaplace

“…The museum presents a historical and cultural approach to immigration as well as works of contemporary art relating to the subject. …”
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Heparan sulphate inhibition of cell proliferation induced by TGFβ and PDGF by lan E. Silber, Jeanine M. Walenga, Jawed Fareed, Elizabeth J. Kovacs

“…The effect of glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) on the proliferation of smooth muscle cells (SMC) and fibroblasts was assessed by culturing cells with or without GAGs. Porcine heparan sulphate (HS) inhibited proliferation in a dose dependent manner. …”
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