La identidad nacional ecuatoriana entre límites externos y internos by Chiara Pagnotta

“…This ideology perceives socio-cultural diversities as the legacy of an uncompleted process of nation-state building, meant to be overcome by the mestizaje.…”
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El simbolismo del agua y de la piedra en karra maw’n, de Clemente Riedemann by Yenny Karen Ariz Castillo

“…Debido a la violencia ejercida en las luchas territoriales y a partir de la explotación desmedida de recursos, la utilización y el significado socio-cultural de ambos elementos se transforma, lo que provoca la reacción de la naturaleza en forma de terremotos y maremotos; vale decir, los cambios experimentados por el agua y la piedra representan la violencia histórica ejercida en el sur chileno.  …”
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Źródła antropologii Juliana Haynesa Stewarda by Ryszard F. Sadowski

“…Steward claims that he is the only author of an anthropological approach called cultural ecology and no one affected him in the process of working out the concept. …”
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What Is Artificial about Life? by Alessandro Giuliani, Ignazio Licata, Carlo M. Modonesi, Paolo Crosignani

“…The announcement of “Artificial Life” by the Craig Venter group, and the media stir that arose from the news, provoked thoughts about the current technologies in contemporary science and the cultural tension of such projections on the media. …”
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La place de l’imagination dans le dispositif didactique universitaire : une double fonction identitaire à créer by Marie-Pierre Dencuff

“…More specifically, concerning the dynamics established by this device and the relationship to knowledge for a) the linguistic and cultural dimension of the intellectual task and b) the professional dimension, starting a break with transmissive practices.…”
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Human Cardiospheres as a Source of Multipotent Stem and Progenitor Cells by Lucio Barile, Mihaela Gherghiceanu, Laurenţiu M. Popescu, Tiziano Moccetti, Giuseppe Vassalli

“…Cardiospheres (CSs) are self-assembling multicellular clusters from the cellular outgrowth from cardiac explants cultured in nonadhesive substrates. They contain a core of primitive, proliferating cells, and an outer layer of mesenchymal/stromal cells and differentiating cells that express cardiomyocyte proteins and connexin 43. …”
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Building, Encoding, and Annotating a Corpus of Parliamentary Debates in TEI XML: A Cross-Linguistic Account by Naomi Truan, Laurent Romary

“…In this paper we present a specific application of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) framework applied to a subset of official transcripts of plenary proceedings in three parliamentary cultures. The TEI annotation scheme proposed here has two main applications: first, it serves as a basis for encoding parliamentary corpora by providing a systematic way of annotating both elements within the text (e.g., turns, incidents, and interruptions) and the metadata associated with it (e.g., variables pertaining to the speaker or the speech event); second, it provides a cross-linguistic empirical basis for further annotation projects.…”
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Tracing glass production in urban centers along the Silk Roads in the early Islamic period by Andrew Meek, St John Simpson, Nadine Schibille

“…The chemical variability of glass is therefore limited, allowing economic and cultural exchange networks to be traced from production to consumer sites. …”
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Leer juntos: Una complicidad de toda la comunidad educativa by Carmen Carramiñana La Vega, Mercedes Caballud Albiac

“…Leer juntos es una experiencia de educación literaria y promoción de la lectura, planteada dentro de un contexto cultural amplio, que se inició hace once años en Ballobar (Huesca). …”
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Rethinking Legal Practice, and Its Consideration From the Position of Post-Classical Legal Method by I. L. Chestnov

“…The most promising approach to their study is the method of included observation within the framework of socio-cultural anthropology of law.…”
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Beginnings and development of English teaching in the medical university by Trinidad Atiés Caballero, Susana García Buchaca, Vladimir González Fernández, Liana García Pérez, Ramona Vega Ramírez

“…Various authors have claimed the imperious necessity and significance of the acknowledgement and domain of the English language as a cultural means and way of communication among men. …”
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The palpable dichotomy between animal cruelty laws and implementation – Is there a way forward for Indian jurisprudence? by Bhavya Johari

“…Despite the Supreme Court's recognition of animal rights, socio-cultural and political factors have led to judgments and ineffective jurisprudence contradictions. …”
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New Orleans Sketches et la Nouvelle-Orléans de Faulkner : promenades littéraires et premiers pas dans la fiction by Frédérique SPILL

“…At the beginning of 1925, Faulkner who was then getting ready for his first extended trip to Europe, lived six months in New Orleans, where he was struck by the city’s intense cultural bustle. It is in New Orleans that, encouraged by Sherwood Anderson, he worked on his first novel, Soldier’s Pay, and published in the local press a series of sketches and stories that he wrote day to day. …”
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L’innovation pédagogique en question : analyse des discours de praticiens by Denis Lemaître

“…This study highlights the most common characteristics of what the authors consider to be pedagogical innovation, around the production of tools and the will to adapt the students to contemporary social, economic and cultural realities. A widely-shared, pragmatic and positivist approach is apparent, presenting pedagogical innovation as an adaptation to the market conditions of higher education and employment, rather than a means of intellectual and moral emancipation of the students.…”
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Zoneamento Ecológico-Econômico e territorialidades: um estudo de caso no Litoral Norte paulista by Marcia Itani, Maria de Lourdes Zuquim

“…This article presents an analysis of the main advances and challenges of the Ecological and Economic Zoning (EEZ) of the North Coast of São Paulo State, Brazil, from the territorialities perspective, which are polítical, economic and cultural power relations that configure the territory. …”
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EMPATHY AND REFLEXIVITY AS DETERMINANTS OF ETHNIC TOLERANCE OF STUDENTS OF RUSSIAN AND BELARUSIAN COMMUNITIES by M. M. Karnialovich, V. I. Kazarenkov, T. B. Kazarenkova

“…The results of the study are of interest to specialists in the field of personality psychology, ethnic psychology, cross-cultural communication.…”
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A TELENOVELA COMO PRODUTO SOCIOCULTURAL: refletindo sobre um processo de construção de significados by Maria Elizabete Albuquerque Canuto

“…Nesse percurso, é destacado o referencial teórico-metodológico adotado para esta investigação, que trata da forma segundo a qual práticas sociais e ritos construídos na formação histórico-cultural brasileira articulam-se com elementos diversos, visualizados segundo os códigos valorativos a que se relacionam. …”
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Drzewa – pomniki przyrody jako element krajobrazu kulturowego by Agnieszka Affek-Starczewska, Krzysztof Starczewski, Zbigniew Pawlonka, Janina Skrzyczyńska

“…is study was an attempt at determining the attractiveness of monumental trees as monuments and a part of the cultural landscape. !e analysis was conducted on sites with monumental trees in six regions: Siedlce, Mińsk Mazowiecki, Biała Podlaska, Repki, Czeremcha, and Mrozy, as well as the towns: Siedlce, Biała Podlaska and Minsk Mazowiecki. …”
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Responsible innovation is not comfortable: a call for grounded, embodied reflexivity when doing RI by Karly Ann Burch, Susanna Finlay-Smits, Tara Roberson

“…We believe such grounded, embodied reflexivity can support research teams to better notice when innovation projects committed to responsibility are perpetuating uneven power relations, and to be more proactive in designing ethical, equitable, and anti-colonial research cultures and technologies.…”
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The Spread of Descriptive Geometry in Great Britain Between the XVIII and XIX Century by Stefano Chiarenza

“…In Britain, however, the new science, for both political and cultural reasons, officially arrives very late. Its circulation among professionals, craftsmen and designers, though well attested before, sees it grafted onto a series of independent research experiences, also fueling the attempts by British theoreticians to define a universal system of graphic communication. …”
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