EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH ON FAILURE OF COMPOSITE SANDWICH π-JOINT by CHENG LiNan, CHI Jian, QU TianJiao, YU Xin

“…The test result demonstrates that filler area is the weakest part of the sandwich π-joints where the damage first appears,and determines the capacity of structure. …”
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Asymptotic Methods for Solitary Solutions and Compactons by Ji-Huan He

“…Some ideas on this paper are first appeared.…”
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Ancrage au sol et (nouvelles) mobilités dans l’espace saharo-sahélien : des expériences similaires et compatibles by Charles Grémont

“…Although these two processes might at first appear contradictory, empirical investigations show instead that they are complementary and respond to similar rationales. …”
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Fille d’Octobre. Générations, engagement et histoire by Malika Rahal

“…This article first appeared as an online research blog, Textures of Time. …”
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Board diversity and firm performance: an empirical investigation in the Brazilian market by João Batista Fraga, Vinícius Augusto Brunassi Silva

“…The study covers all companies without majority control, a type of corporate structure that first appeared in Brazil in 2005. The results indicate that greater diversity in the educational disciplines and the presence or absence of independent board members negatively affect performance, while diversity in years of schooling has a positive effect. …”
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‘L’Amour aux Antipodes’: Tasma, Australia and the French Connection by Judith Johnston

“…This article investigates Tasma's only known French publication, ‘L'Amour aux Antipodes’ (‘Love in the Antipodes’) which first appeared in August 1880 in the Parisian periodical La Nouvelle Revue, possibly to capitalise on the popularity of a series of lectures on Australia which she had delivered in various French and Belgian cities. …”
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Le rôle des monastères dans le droit pénal et religieux : la pratique de la pénitence dans la Russie du xviiie siècle by Elena Marasinova

“…Particular attention is paid to the reign of Catherine II, when, on the initiative of the empress herself, sentences of penance in a monastery began to be pronounced. These decisions first appeared in the empress’s confirmations of sentences before becoming a widespread practice in secular courts. …”
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O “pacto sucessório” revisitado: o texto e o contexto by Abel Estefânio

“…If we had read the text so-called "pacto sucessório" between the counts Raymond and Henry in the century when it first appeared published, it would be possible to date it around 1085, during the siege of Toledo. …”
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Le poids de l’instant dans le récit ferroviaire contemporain by Mahigan Lepage

“…Here is the question that arises: how could one make narrative, i.e. duration and continuity (Jean-Paul Goux), from what first appears to be a chaos of atomized instants or snapshots? …”
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Mal du siècle et mal du lieu : bovarysme et romantisme mêlés dans les deux grands romans modernes de Flaubert by Philippe Chardin

“…With a global comparison between Flaubert’s two chief modern novels, Madame Bovary and L’Éducation sentimentale, and a superposition of suggestive examples taken from both of them, this article intends to prove that the sequence of contrasts that firstly appear must not conceal the subtle variations on the same narrative patterns and the same psychological climates. …”
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“A Tool for Social Change” : Community Photography at Belfast Exposed by Mathilde Bertrand

“…The article analyses the evolution of community photography practices in the history of this organisation, starting from the premise that community photography first appeared in the 1970s on the back of a very strong rhetoric of empowerment. …”
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“Death Drive, Martyrdom, and Deathbed Scenes. The Narration of Death in Harriet Wilson’s Autobiographical Novel” by Karima ZAARAOUI

“…Published without anyone noticing in 1859 and resuscitated in 1981, Our Nig; or, Sketches in the Life of a Free Black, North first appears as a commercial failure but most importantly as a voice coming from the vault. …”
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L’anglais d’Afrique du Sud : indigénisation et affirmation politique. Le cas du Dictionary of South African English on Historical Principles by Bernard Cros

“…When it first appeared in 1996 the Dictionary of South African English on Historical Principles (DSAEHP) intended to reflect the linguistic reality of South African English, a ‘contact language’ spoken as a home language by comparatively few people. …”
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Une balle blanche dans un roman noir by Sophie Vallas

“…This paper analyzes the place of baseball in Squeeze Play: it first appears as an essential element in the very structure of the plot, but it is also, for Auster, a way of questioning the myth of the hero in an American society whose main aspects (sports, politics, private life) are eaten up by corruption and perversion. …”
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Gestes et images du voyage en Orient by Monique Sicard

“…In fact, the presence of photography in his letters and his travel notebooks is more important than it might first appear. These large negatives, that result in a symbolic and effective link with the book, are not to be confused with the use of photo-cards that later led Flaubert to reject photographic objects. …”
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The Abuse of Right in Constitutional Law: Problem Statement by A. I. Evstafyev

“…Historically, it first appeared in private Roman law; it found doctrinal development and application in legal sciences associated with private law. …”
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Le succès du crime sur scène avec Robert Macaire : modernité théâtrale et protestation sociale au xixe siècle by Noémi Carrique

“…This paper focuses on the literary and political strength of Robert Macaire, a criminal who first appeared on stage in 1823 when it was played by Frédérick Lemaître. …”
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« Gettiamo la semente comunista fra le donne proletarie » : Compagna et la révolution by Barbara Meazzi

“…Compagna, a four-page, four-column magazine, first appeared in Rome on 5 March 1922. It was designed to be the platform of the central office of the Communist Party of Italy, a forum for use by women: workers, housewives, labourers and proletarians. …”
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ENSEMBLES MUSICAUX REPRÉSENTATIFS DE LA PHILHARMONIE « TRANSILVANIA » DE CLUJ-NAPOCA. LES QUATORS À CORDES PENDANT LES ANNÉES 1955 – 1989 by Simona-Mihaela SPIRIDON

“…Considered one of the most prestigious Romanian chamber ensembles that have captured the audiences worldwide, the “Transilvan” Quartet first appeared on stage in Cluj in 1985 under the name “Allegro”. …”
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Un pays à l’image d’une jambe humaine : anatomie de l’imaginaire géographique et paysager italien by Justine Balibar

“…This highly contemporary image is actually rooted in a much older image, which was just as popular during the Renaissance and which represented Italy as a human leg. This image first appeared in a geography book by Leandro Alberti dating from 1551, entitled Descrittione di tutta Italia, which was very successful during the Renaissance. …”
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