Histoire des idées : une certaine idée de l’histoire by Gérard Raulet

“…Reflection on this reveals its specificity and its fruitfulness both in the research on past systems of knowledge (‘archives’) and in the intellectual and ideological debates of the present. …”
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Avoidance High-Frequency Chattering Second-Order Sliding Mode Controller Design: Buck Converter in Wind Power System by Yigeng Huangfu, Ruiqing Ma, Abdellatif Miraoui

“…Because the wind energy of nature is always unpredictable and intermittent, the robust control such as sliding mode control is adopted in past literatures. In order to remove the high frequency chattering problem when the traditional sliding mode achieves convergence, the second order sliding mode algorithm is reviewed firstly. …”
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Speech Recognition System Based on Machine Learning in Persian Language by Shahed Mohammadi, Niloufar Hemati, Neda Mohammadi

“…In today's world, where speech recognition has become an integral part of our daily lives, the need for systems equipped with this technology has increased dramatically in the past few years. This research aims to locate the two selected Persian words in any given audio file. …”
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A combined method for the treatment of grade IV internal haemorrhoidal disease by Georgios-Ioannis Verras, Francesk Mulita, George Theofanis, Levan Tchabashvili, Ioannis Perdikaris, Theano Perri, Charalampos Kaplanis, Dimitrios Filis

“…The patient’s prior medical history included known grade IV haemorrhoidal disease for the past 33 years, as well as one more instance of hospitalization for haemorrhoid-associated blood loss. …”
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Infectious Disease Management: Lessons from Cuba by Noni E Macdonald, Beth Halperin, Enrique Beldarrain Chaple, Jeff Scott, John M Kirk

“…Over the past decade in Canada, infectious disease outbreaks have repeatedly been in the public spotlight. …”
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Evaluating Pomegranate Cultivars for Resistance to Anthracnose Fruit Rot, a Severe Fungal Disease in Florida and Southeast United States by Alexander Schaller, Zhanao Deng, Gary E. Vallad, John M. Chater

“… Pomegranate (Punica granatum L.) has primarily been cultivated at home in Florida and other southeastern states. Over the past 15 years, growers, nurseries, researchers, and Extension agents have explored the potential of pomegranate as an alternative fruit crop. …”
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The Discovery of Novel Experimental Therapies for Inflammatory Arthritis by Charles J. Malemud

“…Because of these concerns it is imperative that novel targets be continuously identified and experimental strategies designed to test potential arthritis interventions in vitro, but more importantly, in well-validated animal models of inflammatory arthritis. Over the past few years, sphingosine-1-phosphate, interleukin-7 receptor, spleen tyrosine kinase, extracellular signal-regulated kinase, mitogen-activated protein kinase 5/p38 kinase regulated/activated protein kinase, micro-RNAs, tumor necrosis factor-related apoptosis inducing ligand and the polyubiquitin-proteasome pathway were identified as promising novel targets for potential antiarthritis drug development. …”
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HIV Vaccine Research: The Challenge and the Way Forward by Hai-Bo Wang, Qiu-Hua Mo, Ze Yang

“…Therefore, the development of a safe and effective HIV-1 vaccine is on top of the global health priority. In the past few years, there have been many promising advances in the prevention of HIV/AIDS, among which the RV144 Thai trial has been encouraging and suggests optimization of the current vaccine strategies or search for novel strategies. …”
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Development of anticipatory coarticulation of /u/ in typically Malayalam speaking children in the age range of 3-6 years by Litna A. Varghese

“…Coarticulation is language dependent and can vary from children to adult. Studies in the past have shown that children have more coarticulation than adults; adults have more coarticulation than children; children and adult have similar coarticulatory patterns. …”
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Informal networks of corruption in contemporary Lithuania: Between practice and interpretation (an attempt to study evolution of blat) by Donatas Brandišauskas

“… Over the past decade, the corruption has become a popular concern, the subject of considerable investigation, and the target of international efforts in Lithuania. …”
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Money laundering rate modelling by J. M. Beketnova, E. S. Anisimov

“…This forecast for the past 6 months has been verified by comparison with the actual values by calculating the relative error and the RMSE (root mean square error). …”
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How does education promote green digital finance? Evidence from China by Chien-Chiang Lee, Fuhao Wang, Chi-Chuan Lee

“…Abstract This study constructs a new composite green digital finance index and describes its development in China over the past decade. Based on province-level panel data covering the period 2011–2020, we examine how education contributes to the development of green digital finance. …”
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Destination image, satisfaction and destination loyalty in cruise tourism: the case of Malaga (Spain) by Elena Cruz Ruiz, Guillermo Bermúdez González, Dolores Tous Zamora

“…Over the past decades, cruise tourism is a sector that has experienced a tremendous growth around the globe. …”
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Children’s Pain: A Mandate for Change by Andrea L Brennan-Hunter

“…There have been tremendous research advances in the past 15 years in knowledge about children's pain, and strategies for recognizing and managing that pain. …”
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Tourism research: A systematic review of knowledge and cross cultural evaluation of doctoral theses by Cristiana Oliveira, Adriaan De Man, Sergio Guerreiro

“…Tourism studies have become distinct in the past years due to the emergence of specialized journals, but also of universities, departments and research centers offering PhD programs, fundamental for the development of research and for the foundation of new scholars across the world. …”
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Aphthous Esophagael Ulceration: A Novel Presentation of Crohn’s Disease? by Paul L Beck, Philip K Blustein, Melvin A Andersen

“…On questioning, she admitted to three to four episodes of nonbloody diarrhea, each lasting less than one week, over the past two years. The patient denied other symptoms of gastrointestinal, collagen-vascular, respiratory or cardiovascular disease. …”
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Toxicity of Usnic Acid: A Narrative Review by Nicoletta Croce, Michele Pitaro, Valentina Gallo, Giovanni Antonini

“…Its use as pharmacological agent is widely described in traditional medicine, and in the past few years, the product has been marketed as a food supplement for the induction of weight loss. …”
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The Pharmacotherapy of Chronic Pain: A Review by Mary E Lynch, C Peter N Watson

“…The past two decades have contributed a large body of preclinical work that has assisted in our understanding of the underlying pathophysiological mechanisms that cause chronic pain. …”
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Interpreting Myocardial Enzymatic Biomarkers in the Setting of Acute Myocardial Infraction AMI by Khawla A. Kasar, Maha H. Al-Bahrani, Ahmed A. Mohsin

“…The most fatal diseases in the world are known to be those involving the cardiovascular system. Over the past decade, biochemical marker testing are an important step in the diagnosis, and management of heart failure and in lowering one's risk of developing cardiovascular disease. …”
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Acute respiratory failure induced by belly dancer’s syndrome: A glance to a rare case report by Ruth Elizabeth Abraham, Gan Lay Min, Ahmad Luqman Bin Md Pauzi, Noor Hafizah Abdul Salim, Iskasymar Ismail

“…A 25-year-old male with a known case of BDD presented with an exacerbation of involuntary and continuous writhing movements of the abdominal wall muscles associated with abdominal pain and shortness of breath over the past 2 days. Subsequently, he was intubated due to worsening respiratory distress a few days after his admission. …”
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