Visioning the Body Mosaic: Enchanted Transracial Selfhood in Postsecular American Literature by Erick Sierra

“…Emerging from a matrix of “postsecular” texts—by Don DeLillo, Charles Johnson, Tony Kushner, Toni Morrison—is a counter-argument to such a notion of selfhood. This paper explores the ways in which this recent American literature re-imagines the human self as porous and energetic and capable of deep inter-ontological communion with other open selves across space.  …”
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Approach to: the Patient with a Palpable Breast Mass by Rose Di Ioia

“…A systematic approach to history-taking, to clinical breast examination and to imaging is important for the adequate evaluation of a palpable breast mass. …”
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The urgency of evidence in psychotherapy by Alvaro Paredes-Rivera

“…Currently, and after a long history of development and evolution, psychotherapy is a field where different models of intervention meet together, and everyone wants to obtain its own recognition and promotion. …”
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Developments in the Internal Affairs of the Patriarchate of Jerusalem in the Aftermath of the Bulgarian Schism (1872–1877) by Maria Litina

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Gestes et images du voyage en Orient by Monique Sicard

“…Indeed, he closely witnessed the complex gestures and production of paper negatives, beautiful photographic objects whose novelty cannot have left him indifferent. …”
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Problèmes de définition ou définitions du problème ? La « pornographie » dans « l’affaire Baise-moi » by Damien Simonin

“…Coming back to that history enables to show heterogeneous definition’s and classification’s criteria, allies or competing groups in those processes and effects on sex representations and on movies diffusion. …”
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Technology for the People? Humanity as a Compass for the Digital Transformation by Thomas Franke, Mourad Zoubir

“…This paper explores how this perspective may be used as an orientation for future technological innovation. …”
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Virtue Depends on Natural Law and Divine Commands by J. Caleb Clanton, Kraig Martin

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A Critical Review of Structural Topology Optimization Algorithms by Jiao Yuhang

“…In the past 30 years , the field of structural topology optimization has developed rapidly, and many representative algorithms such as homogenization algorithm, solid isotropic material with penalization algorithms and evolutionary structural optimization algorithms have emerged. In this paper, the above three representative algorithms’ principles and development history are briefly introduced. …”
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Le caveau de l’église Saint-Pierre d’Épernon (Eure-et-Loir) et ses vestiges : protocole d’étude et premiers résultats by Philippe Blanchard, Sacha Kacki, Jérôme Rouquet, Matthieu Gaultier

“…The study reveals specific burial practices. The paper examines the history of this burial place, the aims of its study, and the main results, with particular focus on the protocol developed to study the ossuary. …”
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De l’incident de terrain à l’écriture de l’évocation by Claire Vionnet

“…Moving towards a collaborative epistemology between art and anthropology, this paper reflects upon writing forms that attempt to reduce the epistemic violence of ethnographic encounters. …”
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Reading the subtext - site location and settlement systems in roman Moesia by Diers Lina

“…This paper argues that there is a political, social, economic or even historical substratum to the location and development of settlement that is significant to the diachronic understanding of settlement systems but may easily get neglected in favour of discussions of settlement hierarchy or single events in settlement history. …”
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(Recovering) China’s Urban Rivers as Public Space by Kelly Shannon, Chen Yiyong

“…This article focuses on the revered role rivers in China once held – in cartography, history, mythology, festivals, cities, and everyday life. …”
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Pathophysiology of Portal Hypertension and Esophageal Varices by Hitoshi Maruyama, Osamu Yokosuka

“…Optimal management of esophageal varices requires a clear understanding of the pathophysiology and natural history. In this paper, we outline the current knowledge and future prospect in the pathophysiology of esophageal varices and portal hypertension.…”
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Cold spray technology: future of coating deposition processes by S.B.S. Kalsi, Harminder Singh, T.S. Sidhu

“…Cold spray (CS) belongs to a wide family of thermal spray technology with the difference that it is a solid state process in which spray particles are deposited via supersonic velocity impact at a temperature much below the melting point of the spray material. This paper briefly describes the various aspects of this rapidly emerging technology, with almost all the important parameters which affect the deposition behavior along with advantages and limitations; applications and history of emergence of this process is also reviewed. …”
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Savi’s pipistrelle (Hypsugo savii) in Ukraine: analysis of records and evidence of expansion by Igor Polischuk, Igor Zagorodniuk

“…The paper is devoted to the records of a species that until recently has been considered to be limited to the southernmost territories of Ukraine (the southern coast of the Crimea), but for which a number of facts of expansion in the northern direction have been revealed. …”
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Inclusive Storytelling: Immigrant Experiences and Community Reaction in Georgia by Darlene Xiomara Rodriguez, Paul N. McDaniel, Lina Tuschling, Lara Smith-Sitton

“…Through examination of a multiyear, interdisciplinary, qualitative, community-based participatory research project that began in 2017, this paper explores the role of storytelling in the transference of knowledge, history, and sense of purpose. …”
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Strategic Stability: Dynamics and Factors of Transformation by K. V. Bogdanov

“…The paper provides a comparative analysis study of the dynamics and mechanisms of the strategic stability transformation both during the Cold War and at present. …”
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‘Empty signifier’: The concept of ‘populism’ in the contemporary mainstream political science by L. G. Fishman

“…The author advances a hypothesis that both the extreme diversity of the views regarding the nature of populism and the impossibility to develop an all-encompassing defi nition of this paradoxical phenomenon directly stem from the characteristic features of this dominant discourse. The paper shows that this discourse emerged from the overlapping narratives of transition, modernization, free market, unlimited economic growth and ‘the end of history’ and establishes an hierarchy of global knowledge based on three principles: Western dominance, capitalism and liberalism. …”
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Doppler Effect Estimation and Compensation for Satellite Systems in Geolocation Problems by Marcello Asciolla, Angela Cratere, Francesco Dell'Olio

“…The main goal of the paper is to give real-time estimation and compensation strategy for the Doppler factor considering only the current instantaneous kinematic information, without the information on the history of the signal over time. …”
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