Thinking constructible: laboratory teaching between technology and project by Sergio Rinaldi, Gianmarco Chiribiri, Mariarosaria Arena

“…The paper presents the teaching of a Laboratory of Technological Design in which students are guided in a project experience, on a small scale, in which to verify the relationship between design and construction of architecture. …”
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Enjeux identitaires de la naturalisation des arts dans la culture d’Aotearoa by Christine Lorre

“…Contemporary artists draw on this tradition to answer the questions of their time, linked to their bicultural nation and its relationship to colonial history, to the ethics of cultural appropriation, to consumption in the globalised world… This paper examines the naturalist motif of the spiral in its different avatars—koru (the basic form of the spiral), kowhaiwhai (paintings), moko (tattoos)—to analyse these processes.…”
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CUSTOMS CLEARANCE ISSUES CONCERNING MANAGEMENT OF LOGISTICS PROVIDER ACTIVITIES IN RAILWAY TRANSPORTATION by Y. Zaletov, V. Ostapchuk

“…The study covers the brief history of logistics provider work formation in the transportation industry. …”
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Etude et conservation-restauration d’un Qilin en émail cloisonné chinois provenant du musée des Arts décoratifs de Paris by Aude Lafitte

“…A research was carried out on the use of paper rubbers for the cleaning of copper cloisons gilded with mercury amalgam. …”
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San Felipe de Jesús o las Capuchinas: un convento olvidado by Alejandro Tonatiuh Romero Contreras

“…Due to its total disappearance and the few documents about it, this convent is perhaps the less studied of all those that existed in the colonys capital. This paper shows a part of the social history of the Capuchin order, as well as the architectonic and artistic evolution of this colonial jewel. …”
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Biological security of pig farms by D. A. Lozovoy, A. K. Karaulov, K. N. Gruzdev

“…The paper describes aspects of biological security in pig farming in conditions of worsening of epizootic situation associated with swine viral diseases and African swine fever (ASF) occurrence, as well as the history of ASF occurrence and spread over the RF territory, emergency and control measures against swine infectious diseases, which are developed and implemented by the Rosselkhoznadzor and Veterinary Department of the RF Ministry of Agriculture. …”
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HUMANITARIZATION OF ENGINEERING EDUCATION by Vasily N. Stegny

“…The paper describes the process of realization of the concept of engineering education humanitarization by means of a special organizational form – the faculty of humanities at technical university. …”
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Ben Franklin, America’s Postage Stamp Star — on the Wane? by François Brunet

“…This paper is an assessment of Ben Franklin’s evolving figure in U.S. postage stamps, focusing especially on the contrast between the 2006 tercentennial Franklin 4-stamp panel, a rather high-brow representation of Franklin as an intellectual, and his traditional image as a homely, common face. …”
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Il était une fois la langue inclusive by Emily Lombardero

“…This paper is a stylistic study of feminine nouns in Marie-Catherine d’Aulnoy’s Contes, salient because rare (even coined by the author) and/or subject to a particular use in context. …”
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Brasil: da identidade à marca by Maria Celeste Mira

“…Throughout our history, the idea of Brazil has been the subject of several elaborations, in general combining political and aesthetic aspects. …”
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Encoding Financial Records for Historical Research by Kathryn Tomasek, Syd Bauman

“…This paper focuses on a thought experiment in which the authors propose an encoding system not unlike the contextual markup of prosopographies or gazetteers using TEI P5 that could be used to capture the particular financial semantics involved in HFRs. …”
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REVITALISASI NALAR HUKUM ISLAM: DARI GERAKAN POLITIK MENUJU KESADARAN ETIK by Hijrian A. Prihantoro

“…This paper aims to discuss the revitalization of the logical reasoning’s epistemology of Islamic Jurisprudence using the sociology of knowledge' approach as the reconstructive effort to see the relation of the religious text and political context of Indonesian social reality. …”
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Using ODD for HTML by Martin Holmes

“…Although the ODD (One Document Does it all) language is normally used to create TEI customizations or extensions, it is also a highly effective tool for editors working in other XML markup languages. This paper will discuss the use of ODD to define a highly constrained schema for HTML5 that will enforce stylistic rules and encoding practices, define custom attributes and value lists, and enable easier editing and validation of project content in the Oxygen XML Editor environment. …”
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L’espace, le corps et les aliens dans la science-fiction féminine japonaise by Mari Kotani

“…Women's sf in Japan contains many depictions and expressions of the body. This paper will focus on three themes in particular in a number of works in order to examine the history of Japanese women's sf: A) The Utopia of Women: Suzuki Izumi (The World of Women and Women), Hikawa Reiko (Women Warriors Efera and Jiriora), Matsuo Yumi (The Murders of Balloontown), and Arai Motoko (Tigris and Euphrates); B) The Transformation of Women into Monsters: Hagio Moto (Star Red), Yamao Yuko (The City Where Dreams Live), Ohara Mariko (« Hybrid Child »), Shinoda Setsuko (Gosainthan), and Shono Yoriko (The Development of my Mother); C) The Alteration of Maculinity: Kurimoto Kaoru (The Guin Saga), Sato Aki (The Travels of Balthazar), and Takano Fumio (Vaslaf).…”
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British Environmentalism: A Party in Movement? by Brendan Prendiville

“…Protection of the environment in Britain has a long history going back to the Victorian era when the first activists struggled against the damage caused by industrialisation in the large urban centres. …”
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From Mongolia to Khwārazm: The Qonggirad Migrations in the Jochid Ulus (13th.-15th. c.) by Ishayahu Landa

“…Abstract: The article discusses the Qonggirad migration to the Jochid ulus in the aftermath of the Mongol conquests as well as the roles the Qonggirad elite played in the Jochid and Khwārazmian political history in the late 13th – early 15th centuries. Based on genealogical and numismatic analyses, this paper, on the one hand, provides insights into the formation and developments of the autonomous Qonggirad power in Khwārazm in the second half of the 14th century and, on the other hand, stresses the importance of the Islamisation for the Mongol tribal elite’s accustomisation to the regional and geopolitical historical setting during the troubled period of 1359-1380s in the Jochid ulus.…”
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Figurations of Attachment in Sylvia Plath and Halina Poświatowska by Agnieszka Pantuchowicz

“…The paper addresses the question of attachment to places and the modes of its reflection in the “periautobiographical” (James Olney’s term) texts of Sylvia Plath and Halina Poświatowska. …”
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Second Nature: Adorno and Contemporary Education by Edvardas Šumila

“… The paper aims to provide a conceptual basis for reconciling the radical resistance to totality posed by Adorno’s negative dialectics with contemporary considerations of the environment, capable of developing a more symbiotic educational approach in the context of contemporary crises. …”
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James Africanus Beale Horton on Naturalism, Baconianism, and Race Science in Victorian Philosophical Anthropology by Zeyad El Nabolsy

“…In this paper I show that James Africanus Beale Horton launched an internal critique of race science as it developed in the hands of Robert Knox, Carl Vogt, and James Hunt. …”
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Les paysages de champs surélevés de Guyane française : un patrimoine bioculturel menacé by Stéphen Rostain, Doyle McKey

“…Recent studies have shown their value in documenting the history of human occupation and environments in the region. …”
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