Recent Developments in the Methods of Estimating Shooting Distance by Arie Zeichner, Baruch Glattstein

“…A review of developments during the past 10 years in the methods of estimating shooting distance is provided. …”
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Bastardos e órfãos contemporâneos: a arqueologia da infância nos romances de filiação by Alessandra Dalva de Souza Pajolla

“…The reconstruction of the origins sets up a dynamic narrative present in several books in the contemporary literature: the return to the past, without nostalgia, marked by the attempt to explain identities through their origins (real and imaginary). …”
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Introduction. Humanités numériques et analyses spatiales : enjeux et perspectives by Carmen Brando, Francesca Frontini, Dominic Moreau, Mathieu Roche, Éric Masson

“…Three main themes are addressed: (1) the processing of spatial information in textual corpora resulting from work in the human and social sciences, mainly in literary studies; (2) problems of acquisition, spatialisation and dissemination of geographical data of the past and from cultural heritage, thus, here, more connected with research in history; (3) spatial information and its processing and uses in archaeology. …”
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Louise Colet (1810-1876), Promenade en Hollande (1859) : voyage et histoire by Madeleine van Strien-Chardonneau

“…Then we look at the way in which she widens the scope of her travelogue by introducing comments on history. Mixing the past with the present, Louise Colet produces a hybrid account, something in between the traditional travelogue and a journalist’s report, and in doing so she affirms her identity as an author.  …”
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Las series chilenas en la era del streaming: Panorama y desafíos para la formación ciudadana by Lorena Antezana Barrios

“…Both, being based mostly on real events, can be used as input for citizen training by presenting stories that, despite the universality they must have, speak of Chileans, their past, their idiosyncrasy and ultimately their particularities.…”
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„Cartea românească de învăţătură” a mitropolitului Varlaam al Moldovei. Izvoarele şi originalitatea by Dan Zamfirescu

“…The paper summarizes the author monograph „Cartea românească de învăţătură” a mitropolitului Varlaam (Bucharest, 2013, 1100 p.) dedicated to the Metropolitan of Moldavia Varlaam’s Romanian Book of Learning, also known as Homiliary (1643), in which answers are given to problems that have not been solved in the past century: Which were the sources the author worked with? …”
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The Bible and its translations: colonial and postcolonial encounters with the indigenous by Jacobus A. Naudé

“…It seemed to have overcome the natural resistance of a primary oral culture to the written word. In the past the Bible and its translations into the indigenous languages of the colonised represented colonial empowerment. …”
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La face cachée de l’ancestralité. Masques et affinité chez les Matis d’Amazonie brésilienne by Philippe Erikson

“…Faces from the past. Masks, ancestors and affines of the Matis (Amazonas, Brazil). …”
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“If Jesus lived today, he would smell like smoke”: Contemporary Visions of Jesus Christ in Philip Pullman’s Novel and Tumblr Blogs by Danijela Petković

“…The interpretation of Pullman’s novel and the selected poems is placed within the context of past and current struggles over the historicity, human/divine status, and politics of Jesus Christ. …”
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INTELLECTUAL MIGRATION: RUSSIAN AND WORLD TRENDS by Viktoria Yu. Ledeneva

“…Intellectual emigration flows are analyzed over the past 20 years. There is also considered a complex combination of reasons and motives of migration, as well as the demand for scientists and specialists in international markets of intellectual labor. …”
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Gluing for the Einstein constraint equations by Corvino, Justin

“…Constructing interesting solutions of the constraint equations can then lead to interesting spacetime evolutions. Over the past twenty-five years, various gluing methods to construct solutions of the constraints have shed light on some long-standing questions. …”
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Portugal en los primeros años de La Ilustración Española y Americana (1869-1873) by Marta Giné Janer

“…The cataloguing of the Portuguese presence in the newspaper allows to glimpse how is seen Portugal in the newspaper (common history and greatness in the past, Portuguese politics today in order to compare it with the own country, stories and anecdotes of travels, inferior customs…), but also, when talking about the other, in a veiled way, we can see how Spain feels with itself (political trouble, feeling of inferiority, resentment over the loss of an own territory….)…”
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From One Crisis to the Other: History and Literature in The Crisis from 1910 to the Early 1920s by Lamia Dzanouni, Hélène Le Dantec-Lowry, Claire Parfait

“…Rather, we examine the place accorded literature in the Crisis and its role in relation to the rest of the magazine, from news commentary, political essays, and echoes of the African past, to illustrations and advertisements.…”
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Dyspareunia in Postmenopausal Women: A Critical Review by Alina Kao, Yitzchak M Binik, Anita Kapuscinski, Samir Khalifé

“…BACKGROUND: Dyspareunia, or pain during sexual intercourse, is among the problems most frequently reported by postmenopausal women. Past literature has almost unanimously attributed dyspareunic pain occurring during or after the menopausal transition to declining estrogen levels and vaginal atrophy.…”
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Environnements naturel et matériel : vers une culture de l’éducation scientifique by Faouzia Kalali

“…The rapid changes and mutations that have accelerated over the past half century have led to an upheaval in contemporary socio-cultural realities. …”
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Next generation converged media network architecture by Wenjun ZHANG, Yunfeng GUAN, Dazhi HE, Zhiyong CHEN, Li SONG, Yiling XU, Bin XIA

“…In order to cope with the huge impact of the integration of media and network on the broadcast and mobile communication networks that carry media services,and the new requirements for network transmission efficiency,capacity expansion,resource utilization and service quality of new converged media services,a new generation media network system architecture for the development of converged media was proposed based on the summary of media development and network evolution in the past two decades.The new architecture can meet the application requirements of denser connectivity,higher reliability,lower latency and better interactivity.…”
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Os sentidos e desafios da participação by Lígia Helena Hahn Lüchmann

“…Having in mind the use and the widespread appeal to the idea of participation over the past years, the paper presents the different meanings of political participation, which is understood as a process of participation in the decision-making spaces of public policies. …”
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La fin de la diversité ? Démantèlement jurisprudentiel du Voting Rights Act aux États-Unis by Olivier Richomme

“…This article analyses the jurisprudential deconstruction of the 1965 Voting Rights Act by the Supreme Court over the past thirty years. This deconstruction completes that of other race-conscious public policies by the Court (Affirmative Action, school desegregation). …”
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The relation between IT competency and knowledge management processes and its mediators by Susana Pérez-López, Beatriz Junquera

“…The past two decades have seen growing interest in knowledge management and the use of information technologies. …”
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Talent selection and genetics in sport by Bahtiyar Ozcaldıran, Burak Durmaz, Onur Oral, Yeliz Ozveren

“…Whether the performance demonstrated by talented sportsmen is hereditary or acquired later has become subject of research for physical education and sport scientists from past to present. However, training science and trainers wonder how far can reach the higher performance limits emerging as a result of talents available in sportsmen. …”
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