Un dimensionnement des territoires en héritage. Nouvelles tours résidentielles pour un horizon écologique incertain by Geoffrey Mollé

“…The new high-rise buildings planned in Europe since the 2000s crystallize the metropolization of territorial planning and the imaginary of the future. …”
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Montaigne and the rise of modern cultural diplomacy [version 2; peer review: 2 approved, 1 approved with reservations, 3 not approved] by Gabriel Gherasim

“…In the troubling sixteenth century political and religious turmoil in Europe - and particularly in France - the cosmopolitan personality of Michel de Montaigne is not only indicative for acknowledging the more and more meddling resources of culture within the realm of politics, but is also explanatory for reforming and expanding the instruments of traditional diplomacy. …”
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Integrated Optimization of Port Rotation Direction and Fleet Deployment for Container Liner Shipping Routes by Jingxu Chen, Yiran Wang, Xinlian Yu, Zhiyuan Liu

“…The proposed models are applied to an Asia-Europe-Oceania liner shipping network with 46 ports and 12 ship routes. …”
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La formation des paysagistes au premier Congrès international des architectes de jardins (1937) by Luisa Limido, Chiara Santini

“…The first International Congress of Garden Architects, organised in Paris as part of the 1937 International Exhibition of Arts and Technologies by the French Society of Garden Architects (Société française des architectes de jardins, SFAJ), marked the initial phase in a collective reflection on the objectives and challenges in the training of landscape architects in Europe. Following the economic, political and social crisis caused by the First World War, the crisis of 1929, and the rise of a new public demand for open spaces for leisure, sports, and recreational activities, garden architects were called on to address profound changes in the commissioning and in the typology, objectives, and scale of landscape projects. …”
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La collection Campana au musée Napoléon III et la question de l’appropriation des modèles pour les musées d’art industriel by Isaline Deléderray-Oguey

“…In 1861 France purchased part of the Campana collection with a view to founding a museum for the decorative and industrial arts capable of rivalling similar institutions in Europe. The collection was presented to the public in an ephemeral “Musée Napoléon III” for a few months in 1862. …”
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The Fall of Fertility in Tasmania, Australia, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by Helen Moyle

“…Despite Tasmania’s location on the other side of the world, the fertility decline had remarkable similarities with the historical fertility decline in continental Western Europe, England and other English-speaking countries. …”
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Human Flea Pulex irritans Linnaeus, 1758 (Insecta: Siphonaptera: Pulicidae) by Chad L. Cross, Estelle Martin, Lucas Brendel

“…In fact, this species has been found associated with human archaeological sediments in Europe and Greenland, underscoring the long-term correlation between humans and this flea (Buckland and Sadler 1989). …”
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Does the Strasbourg European Court protect all human rights equally? by Javier Borego Borego

“…The author then develops his argument by utilizing the format of a play, metaphorically titled  'Abdi Ibrahim v Norway', as a case study illustrating the impact of Islam on Europe , political correctness and social unrest. …”
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Delving into the Magdalene’s vase by Vicki-Marie Petrick

“…In the art of medieval and early modern Europe, Mary Magdalene can be identified by the vase she holds. …”
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Common Sense Diagrams: The US Two-Party System in Magruder’s American Government, 1917–2023 by Janne Holmén

“…From 1939, the two-party system was considered a trait of English-speaking countries and was contrasted to the chaotic multiparty systems in Europe, which could end up in dictatorship. From the 1950s, the two-party system was explained as an effect of the electoral system and as a reflection of the lack of divisions in US society. …”
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“We must dig our trenches, and win or die”: Voltairine de Cleyre’s Transnational Anarchism by Rita Filanti

“…Far from being a “foreign poison imported into the States from decadent Europe by criminal paranoiacs,” she and her comrades viewed anarchism as a direct legacy of the American literary tradition, sprouted from “native stock and soil” (Havel). …”
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Ash Whitefly, Siphoninus phillyreae (Haliday) (Insecta: Homoptera: Aleyrodidae: Aleyrodinae) by Ru Nguyen, Avas B. Hamon

“…It causes severe damage to pear and apple in Europe. Heavy infestations caused leaf wilt, early leaf drop and smaller fruit (Bellows et al. 1990). …”
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TOP-200 Higher Education Institutions in Four International Ratings: Comparative Analysis by Ivan E. Zadorozhnyuk, Larisa Yu. Korosteleva, Boris K. Tebiyev

“…The authors give an interpretation of a phenomenon of domination of English-language higher education institutions on the top positions and as well as higher education institutions of Europe and North America. The paper dwells on the main ranking parameters in Moscow International University Ranking (MosIR) and its innovative charac teristics, in particular the new parameter “University and Society”. …”
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Meeting Report: International Magnetosphere Coupling IV (IMC‐IV) Workshop GFZ‐Potsdam, Germany, 2–7 June 2024 by Julia Himmelsbach, Yuri Y. Shprits

“…Two topical discussions focused on space weather awareness in Germany, and the future of Heliophysics research in Europe. The workshop concluded with recommendations for improved international mission coordination, better scientific communication, and enhanced public outreach through visualization tools. …”
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Impact of Changes in Accounting Standards in Debt Ratios of Firms: Evidence in Brazil by André Aroldo Freitas de Moura, Antônio Carlos Coelho

“…This result is consistent with past literature in Europe, Australia and New Zealand. Nevertheless, we do not find evidence of a structural break in the Financial Dependency ratio. …”
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Nonspecific Symptoms in a Rare Case of Urethral Adenocarcinoma in a 58-Year-Old Female by Line Winther Gustafson, Anne Gamst Christiansen, Huda Majeed, Peter Humaidan

“…Cancer of the urethra is very rare with an age-adjusted incidence of only 0.6 per million women in Europe. The etiology is multifactorial and the incidence increases with age, with the highest rates in patients 75 years or older. …”
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A shared tradition: transmitting maritime knowledge in print by Margaret E. Schotte

“…Because books traveled so easily across borders, these academic sources also had far-reaching effects, inspiring similar educational programs across maritime Europe. This article recommends adopting a comparative perspective, since much can be learned by tracing the evolution of these shared practices as they traveled from Spain and Portugal to the Netherlands, France, and England, and back again. …”
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Le pacte agriurbain de la vallée ombrienne et les districts agricoles et culturels de Milan by Giulia Giacchè, Biancamaria Torquati, Lionella Scazzosi, Paola Branduini

“…The management of these areas is becoming increasingly important in order to guide the evolution orienteering the development in a perspective of spatial and functional - integration. In Europe, some experiences of territorial planning as agricultural parks, agriurbain projects, agricultural districts, agriurbain pacts, pacts between city and countryside, are been developing. …”
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The Issue of the UK’s Pakistani Community Acculturation by Ulyana V. Klimenko

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BRICS 15 Years On: Challenges and Opportunities for Emerging Countries in the Shifting Global Institutional Landscape by Gabriel Rached, R.M. Rodrigues de Sá

“…This article seeks to examine the positioning of new entities such as the New Development Bank (NDB) and China-led initiatives within a landscape characterized by the coexistence of traditional structures primarily led by the US and Europe. Against the backdrop of recent global developments, the research endeavors to elucidate the effective role of BRICS in the contemporary international arena, fifteen years since their inception. …”
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