Les montagnes et la montée des clercs dans l’Algérie coloniale. Viticulture, montagnes et réformisme (iṣlāḥ) aux xixe-xxe siècles by Kamel Chachoua

“…Also, and to account for these biogeographical and political characteristics of the Algerian reformist movement, this text reviews the history of viticulture in Algeria which since 1880 split Algeria in two. …”
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When Ancient Lithuanian State Became an Empire and Ceased to Be It? An Answer to Lithuanian Question Using an Estonian Method by Zenonas Norkus

“… The article introduces a Lithuanian reader into the ideas of distinguished American-Estonian political scientist Rein Taagepera on comparative cliometrics of empires and uses them to detect main thresholds in the imperial history of ancient Lithuania. For this goal, its size-time integral (called in the paper Taagepera integral) was measured. …”
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Kabaret as 'n 'Alternatiewe' Kommunikasieverrigting by Stephan Bouwer

“…This article is based on a paper that was read at the annual SACOMM conference on September 6, 1990 at the HSRC, Pretoria …”
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From Mission to Church: Nature, Spatiality, and Catholicism in Kikwit (DRC) by Mick Feyaerts

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Phonetic and grammatical information in the German-Russian dictionaries of the 18th century by L.I. Akhmetsagirova

“…Within the Russian lexicography, one of the important, but still unsolved tasks is the creation of a scientific history of German-Russian lexicography. There are not so many special works devoted to the analysis of the results of its activities in the historical perspective. …”
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A Critical Review of Weltschmerz Pessimism in German Philosophy by Hamidreza Mahboobi Arani

“…He examines the major defenders of pessimism (Philipp Mainländer, Eduard von Hartmann, and Julius Bahnsen) and its chief critic, especially Eugen Dühring. In this paper, I introduce the book’s general approach, aim, and contents, mentioning its privileges as a history of philosophy of an almost forgotten controversy and some wishes about its shortcomings.…”
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AN EVOCATION OF ION VIDU 150 YEARS AFTER HIS BIRTH. HIS ACTIVITY AS A COMPOSER AND A CONDUCTOR by Ion-Alexandru ARDEREANU

“…Thus, in this commemorative year, this paper sets out to highlight yet again not a general portrait of Ion Vidu (in which case the risk of a shallow approach would be very high), but the two most common dimensions of his personality: Ion Vidu, the composer and the conductor. …”
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Parkinson's Disease: Is It a Toxic Syndrome? by Seham A. Gad ELhak, Abdel Aziz A. Ghanem, Hassan AbdelGhaffar, Sahar El Dakroury, Mohamed M. Salama

“…In this paper, a new suggestion is trying to find its way, could it be toxicology? …”
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Home sweet home! Repatriation, reintegration and land allocation in Afghanistan by Nassim Majidi

“…The world has witnessed the largest voluntary repatriation program in recorded history (Kronenfeld, 2011), with over 4.6 million returnees assisted by the Government of Afghanistanand the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). …”
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Finding of Polydactyly and Syndactyly in an Eight-week Human Embryo. A Case Report by Maria Nelia Martínez Lima, María Aimée Vila Bormey, Yanely Surí Santos

“…It was the result of the elective termination of pregnancy using misoprostol in a 41-year-old woman with 9.6 weeks of amenorrhea and a history of good health. The aim of this paper is to inform the diagnostic finding of polydactyly and syndactyly in a stage as early as the eighth week of development. …”
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Le Massif du Sancy et Horizons – Arts Nature : quand Land Art rime avec attractivité by Marie-Ève Férérol

“…Is it the terrain that generates so much enthusiasm or simply the history of the site? We are also interested in the role culture plays in making the area attractive. …”
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Analysis on Forced Vibration of Thin-Wall Cylindrical Shell with Nonlinear Boundary Condition by Qiansheng Tang, Chaofeng Li, Bangchun Wen

“…Forced vibration of thin-wall cylindrical shell under nonlinear boundary condition was discussed in this paper. The nonlinear boundary was modeled as supported clearance in one end of shell and the restraint was assumed as linearly elastic in the radial direction. …”
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L’environnement au profit des plus riches ? Construction et hybridation d’un front écologique métropolitain dans la Péninsule du Cap (Afrique du Sud) by Sylvain Guyot, Julien Dellier, Fabien Cerbelaud

“…Notions of eco-frontier and urban front are employed in this paper to interpret White’s mobilisation to protect Peninsula natural areas, main component of their ‘sense of place’. …”
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Srbija na istorijskoj prekretnici 1944: slom monarhista i pobeda komunističkih snaga by Nemanja Dević

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Troy Is Burning: Epic Archetypes by Alberto Camerotto

“… The paper discusses the Italian project on “Ilioupersis: Epic Archetypes,” which delves into the multifaceted concept of war violence across cultures and history, exploring its representation in various discipli­nes like literature, art, and cinema. …”
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Myth-making and Uchronia: The Advent of a Fascist America in Nathanael West’s A Cool Million (1934) by Frank Conesa

“…As young Pitkin gets dismantled and eventually assassinated, the retrained politician sets out to create his own Revolutionary Party to save his country from decay. This paper will re-articulate the two trajectories and show how they actually inform an American fascist myth. …”
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The Artistic Commitment of Kenyon Cox: An American Neoclassical Artist by Marc S. SMITH

“…Cox developed theories on what painting was supposed to be and what it should be a vehicle of, but also, on what painting had inherited from the past and what its goal for the future should be. The goal of this paper will be to show in what way Kenyon Cox’s general theories on art, on history and on society can be seen as forms of artistic commitment. …”
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Digital Texts in Practice by Christian Wittern

“…For East Asian texts, things were much more complicated because of different and quickly evolving character encoding standards, different textual traditions and approaches to text editing, as well as different institutional embedding. In this paper, I will look back at these developments, first to recount some of the history, albeit from a strictly personal perspective, but also to take stock of the situation and consider where we are now, how we got there, and what remains to be done to realize the dream of the universal digital text, easily shared and annotated, but still tractable, verifiable, and authoritative.…”
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A RESEARCH ON LOAD SPECTRUM STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF T100C TRAIN BOGIE BASED ON KERNEL DENSITY ESTIMATION ALGORITHM by GAO YanJie, YANG YongFa, CHEN Jiong, YANG CanYu

“…In order to overcome the disadvantages of traditional load spectrum statistical methods,in this paper,we use kernel density estimation techniques in statistical work of side frame load spectrum for SRM80 full ballast cleaning machine’s T100 C new bogie,which is based on the use of rain-flow counting method in time-load history statistics. …”
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L’album au cycle 3 : savoirs et croyances dans les pratiques déclarées des enseignants by Fabienne Rondelli, Sophie Paté

“…This paper shows how several teachers explain their ways of using illustrated books for children in the last year of french elementary school, five years after books usually used as teaching materials had to become learning objects, according to official programmes. …”
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