‘Making audible to one a roar of sound where others find perfect stillness’: Soundscape in George Eliot’s The Lifted Veil and the physiological acoustics by Lilia Miroshnychenko

“…The article suggests how the ideas in physiological acoustics summed up and further developed by Hermann von Helmholtz, a German physicist, whose figure won popularity among Victorian intellectuals from the middle of the century, could be appropriate to George Eliot’s early writing. …”
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La fotografía y la Revolución mexicana. Nuevas perspectivas y enfoques by Alberto Del Castillo Troncoso

“…This article proposes an interpretation of Isidro Fabela’s personal vision, since he’s one of the main intellectuals of the Revolution, since he is a collector and also responsible for the classification prevailing in his photographic archives. …”
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O legado do sistema colonial na América Latina by Sara Almarza

“…At the same time, it revisits the ideas of a few Latin Americans intellectuals belonging to the independence century and tries to display some characteristics of contemporary Latin America’s reality.…”
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« Il futuro ha un cuore antico » : parcours historique des discours sur l’intercompréhension entre langues romanes by Francisco Javier Calvo Del Olmo

“…Based on these observations, we present the epilinguistic speech of several intellectuals (such as Raynouard, Mistral, Bréal, Gaston Paris, Ronjat, Jaurès, Saussure and Eco) which preceded the development of intercomprehension at the end of the 1990s. , as a strictly educational approach (Candelier, 2009). …”
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Le gouvernement de l'Indonésie par l'islam et la science. Visions d'intellectuels en quête de pouvoir by François Raillon

“…With general Suharto's takeover in 1966, Muslim intellectuals thought that they had a chance to advance their views of a scientific Islam and to take control of the Indonesian state. …”
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«En busca de un submarino». Crónica a bordo del buque insignia del exilio republicano en Argentina: el Massilia by Bárbara Ortuño Martínez

“…We will describe the concrete details of the complicated trip on board the flagship of the republican exile in Argentina, which transported the biggest group of intellectuals who entered the country without landing permit before 1940. …”
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Украина начала XX века глазами Константина Паустов- ского by Antoni Bortnowski

“…The author of this article analyzes Paustovsky’s perception of Ukraine and tries to give an answer to the question of how a descendant of Zaporozhian Cossacks and Polish intellectuals could become a Russian patriot.…”
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Friendship: Indigenous Hosts & German Travelers by Renae Watchman

“…The Indigenous – as a site or as a prototype – were imagined, fictionalized, and befriended by German explorer-intellectuals through Travel Literature. The European understanding of the indigenous world was heightened, while, the Indigenous counter-gaze reveals mutual curiosity and resistance through a re-reading of Indigenous acts of song, dance, laughter and silence found in the travelogues of Humboldt and Forster. …”
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Elements of positivism in the Ukrainian philosophy and culture of the second half of the 19th century by Vyacheslav Artyukh

“… This article addresses the appropriation of positivist thought by Ukrainian intellectuals in the second half of the nineteenth century, in particular in the field of philosophy of history. …”
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O conceito de região em três registros. Exemplificando com o Nordeste brasileiro by José William Vesentini

“…It also contains a critical summary of three main conceptions concerning the Northeast region: one of them is traditional and focus on the landscape; the other one is modern and its concerns lay on the territorial division of labor; finally, the last one is postmodern and puts emphasis on the fact that this region has been an invention – produced by certain politicians, intellectuals and the media – since the 1920’s. At the end of this article there is a review showing the pros and cons of each of these regional conceptions.…”
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How I Grow: Months Three and Four by Millie Ferrer, Keith Gouin

“…By creating a stimulating, playful environment, parents help their infant develop physically, socially, emotionally, and intellectually. This document is FCS2218, one of a series of the Department of Family, Youth and Community Sciences, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, University of Florida, IFAS, Gainesville, FL 32611. …”
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The Government of the Indians: An Anthropology of State Formation in Oaxaca, Mexico by Yerko Castro Neira

“…Drawing on ethnographic material it examines how the concept of government of the indians circulates in a variety of contexts in which different actors –legal experts, academics, leaders and indigenous intellectuals– construct this concept through everyday social practices which in turn undergirds the way in which the state constantly produces and reproduces itself. …”
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Corps, ethos et communication. Hommage à Charles Perraton by Charles Perraton, Fabien Dumais

“…Numerous themes are covered including his encounters with renowned intellectuals, his approach to mentoring students, his university careers, his teaching methods, some theoretical diagonals extracted from his articles, and finally, the ethical modalities that he continues to follow. …”
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How I Grow: Months Three and Four by Millie Ferrer, Keith Gouin

“…By creating a stimulating, playful environment, parents help their infant develop physically, socially, emotionally, and intellectually. This document is FCS2218, one of a series of the Department of Family, Youth and Community Sciences, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, University of Florida, IFAS, Gainesville, FL 32611. …”
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Visit of the Soviet Union journalists' delegation to Finland and the Baltic countries in 1937: the report of the leader of the delegation, Boris Michailov, to Stalin and Molotov by Zenonas Butkus, Magnus llmjärv

“…Left-wing intellectuals of the Baltic countries, among whom it is already possible to notice Justas Paleckis and Johanes Vares-Barbarus, leaders-to-be of the puppet governments of the 1940 occupation in Lithuania and Estonia, actively adjoined the delegations. …”
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L’anticommunisme comme patrie chez les intellectuels péruviens José de la Riva-Agüero et Francisco García Calderón dans l’Europe de l’entre-deux-Guerres by Coralie Razous

“…Through the interwar trajectories of two Peruvian intellectuals, José de la Riva-Agüero (1885-1944) and Francisco García Calderón (1883-1953), this article analyses the different dimensions of anticommunism in Peruvian and European aristocratic and diplomatic circles. …”
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Electricity and Static: Franklin and his British compatriots by Robert Mankin

“…And though he may have been touted very generally as an inspiration, he was closer to a foreign force with which, intellectually as well as a politically, it had to contend. …”
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Intelligent metro optical networks and key optical components by Li XIAO, Zhilin YUAN, Chengpeng FU, Weidong MA

“…Driven by the background of escalating internet traffic,the requirements of intellectualization and flexibility on metro optical transportation networks were dramatically increasing,which promoted network architecture revolution.ROADM network element and its dynamic networking technology which played the core role in intelligent all-optical metro networks were introduced.Metro network was cost sensitive,thus low-cost key optical components as the keys for physical realization of ROADM network element were studied,as well as decoupled white box optical components and their programmability.It was concluded that the low cost white box ROADM network elements were the key and effective means for optical metro networks intelligentialization.…”
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Secularizarea şi naţionalizarea unui topos clasic: locus amoenus, Dimitrie Bolintineanu – Traianida by George Neagoe

“…Locus amoenus is conceived according to nation’s the needs, in fact the concept by which romantic intellectuals try to provide the optimal answers to the dilemmas, anxieties and problems of the community. …”
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Religious Discourse and the Public Sphere in Contemporary Pakistan by Muhammad Qasim Zaman

“…This article examines some of the ways in which the traditionally educated Muslim religious scholars, the `ulama, of Pakistan have articulated their conceptions of the Islamic scholarly tradition and how their modes of discourse compare and compete with those of other religious intellectuals. Focusing on extensive debates in Pakistan on whether the Qur’an’s prohibition of usury (riba) also covers modern forms of financial interest, the article analyses facets and consequences of the “incommensurability” between the `ulama’s styles of discourse and those of their modernist critics. …”
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