Le Sénégal dans l’ère de l’information (1996-2006) by Olivier Sagna

“…Influenced by globalization trends, Senegal made its first steps in the era of information during the decade 1996-2006 characterized by the privatization of the national telecommunication company, the liberalization of the telecommunication sector, the creation of a regulatory agency, connection to the Internet and the launch of mobile telephony. …”
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Role and Function of T Cell-Derived Exosomes and Their Therapeutic Value by Yuanyuan Shao, Xiaofeng Pan, Rong Fu

“…In the more than three decades since the discovery of exosomes, several studies have revealed that T cell-derived exosomes play a novel role in cell-to-cell signaling, especially in inflammatory responses, autoimmunity, and infectious diseases. …”
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Advances in Molecular Imaging with Ultrasound by Ryan Gessner, Paul A. Dayton

“…Ultrasound imaging has long demonstrated utility in the study and measurement of anatomic features and noninvasive observation of blood flow. Within the last decade, advances in molecular biology and contrast agents have allowed researchers to use ultrasound to detect changes in the expression of molecular markers on the vascular endothelium and other intravascular targets. …”
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Melanoma: From Melanocyte to Genetic Alterations and Clinical Options by Corine Bertolotto

“…Metastatic melanoma remained for decades without any effective treatment and was thus considered as a paradigm of cancer resistance. …”
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Electricity and Static: Franklin and his British compatriots by Robert Mankin

“…Franklin’s discoveries in electricity have rewarded scholarly attention for many decades. This short essay is not about electricity in the strict sense, but about the context in which Franklin presented some of his work in science and in politics in 1751, and about the way that work was received in Britain. …”
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Overview of US Agricultural Trade with China by Xiuzhi Wang, Edward A. Evans, Fredy H. Ballen

“…One bright spot in the US–China trade deficit is the trade of agricultural products, which continues to reflect a trade surplus that has grown considerably within the last decade. This 11-page fact sheet provides an overview of US–China trade of agricultural products, with special focus on produce, specifically over the period 2000 to 2010, and to highlight the main factors driving the widening of the agricultural trade surplus. …”
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Koselleck, a história dos conceitos e as temporalidades by Jose D\u2019Assunçao

“…On the one hand, we will seek to delineate the History of Concepts as a historical field particularly important in recent decades. On the other hand, we will examine the considerations of Reinhart Koselleck, co-founder of the new field, concerning his studies around a specific concept: Time. …”
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About the History of Design through teaching and innovation by Alberto Caruso

“…This is in line with the technological progress that has characterised the field of industrial design over the last decades. This contribution intends to show that the employment of new technology for industrial design projects does not necessarily lead to the end of traditional professions. …”
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Masonic Ritual and the Display of Empire in 19th-Century India and Beyond by Simon Deschamps

“…Masonic ritual, therefore, held centre stage in the dramaturgy of colonial power in India, and also played a leading role in fostering the cult of Empire, which emerged in the last decades of the 19th century. In that respect, Freemasonry offers a stimulating venue for articulating the local and the global, the material and the cultural, formal and informal Empire. …”
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Romanian Prime Minister Gheorghe Tătărescu in the Capitals of the Little Entente: Belgrade (1936) and Prague (1937) by Marusia Cîrstea

“…The present article presents certain aspects of the relations between Romania, the Czech Republic and Yugoslavia in the interwar period. The fourth decade of the last century in particular was extremely rich in political, diplomatic and military events. …”
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Self-Discipline Makes Policy Advice Better by Gert G. Wagner

“…And both strands of the discussion are barely connected to the figure of the „public intellectual“ who has played an important role in the humanities and social sciences for decades. This is a role that, as discussed in this article, is now played digitally by many scholars with low barriers to entry. …”
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PSYCHEDELICS: CLINICAL EVIDENCE AND THERAPEUTIC MECHANISMS IN PSYCHIATRY by JANI KAJANOJA, OSKARI KANTONEN, JUUSO KÄHÖNEN

“…ABSTRACT Interest and academic research on psychedelics and psychedelic-assisted therapy in the treatment of psychiatric disorders has increased dramatically in the past two decades. In many ways, psychedelics represent a new therapeutic paradigm in the context of medicine. …”
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Chartres, d’Autrikon à Autricum, cité des Carnutes : prémices et essor de l’urbanisation by Dominique Joly, Stéphane Willerval, Pauline Denat

“…Excavations carried out in Chartres during the last decade, systematically sequenced and dated thanks to ceramic studies, provide a collection of reference points for establishing the main stages that marked the town’s evolution during the 1st c. …”
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Sémiotique de l’enterrement prématuré : le féminisme à l’ère du postféminisme by Mary Hawkesworth

“…This essay investigates the strange coincidence of the unprecedented growth of global feminism over the past four decades with recurrent proclamations of feminism’s death. …”
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« Bouter les anglicismes hors de France » by Léopold Julia

“…Wanting to answer this question in an objective and dispassionate way, my previous research led me to analyze the evolution of the rate of anglicisms among the new annual lexical entries in French dictionaries of use, over the last two decades. We will then try in this article, while keeping the prism of lexicometry, to propound a follow-up to this research by evaluating the effectiveness of the process meant for enriching the French language put in place by our institutions, in the deliberate aim of fighting precisely against these anglicisms. …”
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Biology of Gratiana boliviana, the First Biocontrol Agent Released to Control Tropical Soda Apple in the USA by Julio C. Medal, D. Gandolfo, James P. Cuda

“… Tropical soda apple (TSA), Solanum viarum Dunal (Solanaceae), is a perennial weed, native to South America, that has spreading throughout Florida at an alarming rate during the last decade. TSA was first reported in Glades County in 1988. …”
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A Universal Hurricane Frequency Function by Robert Ehrlich

“…Moreover, the rise in recent decades in the numbers of hurricanes in the Atlantic, but not the Pacific basin, is shown to have a simple explanation in terms of the specific form of H(z), which yields larger percentage increases when a fixed increase in sea surface temperature occurs at higher latitudes and lower temperatures.…”
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The Philosomer by Anthony Gritten

“… A decade on from its founding, it is the right time to take stock and consider the manner of Performance Philosophy’s constitution and its projection into and onto the world. …”
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Zeolite Y: Synthesis, Modification, and Properties—A Case Revisited by Wolfgang Lutz

“…However, the origin of the secondary pore system formed in the zeolite structure during dealumination process remained completely obscure over a period of four decades. Open questions concerned also the existence of extraframework siliceous admixture in addition to extraframework aluminium species which can dramatically change the catalytic properties of these zeolites. …”
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Trucking, Owner-Operators, and Florida Perishables by Richard Beilock

“… In the early 1980s, owner-operators accounted for just over half of all interstate movements of Florida's produce/ornamentals (Beilock and Fletcher, 1983). During the past two decades, trucking deregulation and technological developments have favored larger carriers, which may have caused the importance of owner-operators to decline. …”
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