The Dream House of American Culture: Archives of the Self, Visions of the Future by Myrto Drizou

“… In this essay, I argue that American literature and culture help students draw more expansive geographies of their selves and more articulate narratives of their experiences. …”
Get full text

Quand l’édifice vacille : stupeur et tremblements dans la gestion du risque après le séisme du Teil by Mathias Roger, Stéphane Cartier

“…In this article, we follow seismic risk experts in France in their efforts (1) to make sense of a bewildering event and (2) to draw lessons for the protection of conventional constructions and high-risk facilities (chemical and nuclear). …”
Get full text

Incretin hormone agonists as promising antiobesity drugs - review of literature by Aleksandra Grzegorczyk, Justyna Korus, Marta Dziedziak, Nicol Dardzińska, Natalia Hopej

“… The aim of this work is to draw attention to the recently growing problem of obesity and complications related to it. …”
Get full text

Empirical analysis of the constituent factors of internal marketing orientation at Spanish hotels by José Luis Ruizalba-Robledo, María Vallespín-Arán

“…This study, which draws upon specialized literature and empirical evidence, aims to characterize the underlying structure of the construct ‘Internal Marketing Orientation’ (IMO). …”
Get full text

Alternativas al desarrollo y otras legalidades: el caso de Ecuador by Yesica Álvarez-Lugo

“…In this sense, it seems appropriate to highlight the importance of deepening the study of the relationships between alternatives to development and the legal field, as well as to draw attention to the need to qualify which type of legal pluralism is defended by post-development. …”
Get full text

Forest School and its effect on the community: A brief review by Ziad Dabaja, Simge Yılmaz Uysal

“…In this short manuscript, we draw on the literature to shed light on the demarcating characteristics of this distinctive form of outdoor education. …”
Get full text

Insect Management in Your Florida Lawn by Eileen A. Buss, J. Bryan Unruh

“…This version is enhanced and updated throughout, with color illustrations replacing the black-and-white line drawings of earlier versions. This publication corresponds to pages 120-130 in the Pest Management chapter of the Florida Lawn Handbook, 3rd edition. …”
Get full text

“Little Mecca” in China: Religious central places of the Hui Muslims by Jianping Wang

“…Why were these places named by Chinese Muslims, particularly, the Hui Muslims, as Little Mecca? The paper draws on historical materials and data from fieldwork investigation to trace the origins of Little Mecca, and how this construction was used by Chinese Muslims in order to organize a wide Islamic network of solidarity in the competition with their Han Chinese surroundings.…”
Get full text

De l’enfermement à l’élimination. Quelques expériences de la prison toulousaine et leurs conséquences pénales (fin xviie-xviiie siècles) by Laura Garet

“…From the various prisons as places of safety to the “quartier de force” as a sentence, this contribution aims to draw up a typology of confinement, its spaces and its targets in the Toulouse area in the last third of the Ancien Régime.…”
Get full text

A impossibilidade de se dizer o indizível: reflexões sobre o duplo na novela “O unicórnio”, de Hilda Hilst by Willian André

“…Interpreting the raise of this double-unicorn as the main evidence of this confront, we hope to draw, in the following lines, some reflections on the limits of the language in face of the unspeakable.…”
Get full text

Human-Bird Conflicts and Management Issues: A Case Study of Birds at Uppalapadu Lake, Andhra Pradesh, India by P. Rama Chandra Prasad, J. Asha Kumari, Manju Mathew, Rosina Thomas

“…The study collates the information from field observations and literature surveys and draws conclusions based on the observation data. …”
Get full text

Les chiites et la célébration du gamou au Sénégal by Macoumba Diop

“…I then show how the celebration of this festival by Senegalese Shiites reflects both a desire to draw closer to Sufi brotherhoods, notably in a common opposition to Wahhabi attacks, and a desire to distinguish themselves from the Sunni religious environment.…”
Get full text

Corporate Pension Insurance as the Element of Human Resource Management by L. V. Anikeeva

“…The obligatory pension insurance and voluntary pension insurance are examined in this article. We draw attention to reasons and conditions of corporate pension formation. …”
Get full text

Les « devoirs » : une pratique sociale à la croisée des espaces éducatifs ? by Rémi Bonasio, Philippe Veyrunes

“…They complete the Anglo-Saxon literature on that topic which essentially considered homework in their statistical relationship to academic achievement. We draw up a synthesis of the most recent works to understand this subject’s social construction. …”
Get full text

O clero e as Cortes de 1361 by Hermínia Vasconcelos Vilar

“…In this article, we intend to draw attention to the implications of the frequent presentation of grievances by the clergy to the king or pope and also to the importance of the crisis of 1355 -1356 in the first years of governance of D. …”
Get full text

L’apport de l’étude d’un corpus de cartes anciennes dans la connaissance des jardins : l’exemple du château de Maisons by Marie Morillon

“…Within the framework of a case study, which in this case concerns the gardens of the Château de Maisons, laid out in the mid-seventeenth century by François Mansart for René de Longueil, two lines of research were developed. The first was to draw up an inventory of the maps representing the landscaping of Maisons. …”
Get full text

BASED ON ABAQUS SINGLE POINT INCREMENTAL FORMING NUMERICAL ANALYSIS by ZHANG Yong, LI PengYang, WANG QuanDai, YAO ZiMeng, XU HaiFeng

“…Law of sine on incremental forming reaction sheet thickness variation is verified through simulation,the law of sine draw sheet thickness greater than the numerical simulation of the distribution is analyzed. thickness distribution of the sheet metal forming is presented,it’s application is analyzed.…”
Get full text

Diversité régionale de la prise en compte des zones humides et de leurs dynamiques by Magalie Franchomme, Claude Kergomard

“…The fact of the wetlands decline and spatial recession since 1970 are leading to draw up classifications, inventories and to start preservation actions. …”
Get full text

Les paysages de champs surélevés de Guyane française : un patrimoine bioculturel menacé by Stéphen Rostain, Doyle McKey

“…The objective of this paper is to document the richness of these landscapes, illustrate their value, and draw attention to the threats facing them. We argue that they merit greater protection.…”
Get full text

Memory, Jesus, and Mary Magdalene: Whose memory matters? by N.E. Müller van Velden

“… This article explores how the collective memory of the Christian tradition draws on the characterisation of Mary Magdalene in two sets of writings: the canonical Gospels, and the Gnostic Christian writing, Gospel of Mary. …”
Get full text