Entre archive et pratiques vivantes by Jean-Jacques Castéret

“…Since the mid-2000s, the current Centre international de recherche et documentation occitanes – Institut occitan de cultura (labelled Ethnopôle by the Ministry of Culture) has been working on accessibility to oral archive collections as well as on the inventory and promotion of immaterial cultural heritage through online publication. The past fifteen years have seen the appearance of various thematic websites and web portals, mediation tools gradually building a digital ecosystem that also includes social networks. …”
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Le monde Gothique de Le Fanu : cryptonymes et mots étrangers by Christine Berthin

“…In Uncle Silas, French is used in connection with the return of an ill-buried and ill-repressed personal and collective past. In Carmilla, German cryptonyms point to secret alternative messages that remain partly untranslatable and need to be read against the grain of the narrative. …”
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From Heroic Retribution to Civilized Violence: Victorian Images of War and the Making of General Gordon by Michael Anton Budd

“…Gordon’s example demonstrates the role of technology in relation to the heroic in three ways: by the atavistic desire for the pure categories of the past, which seemed to have been swept aside by capital and new industry; by virtue of the role of print, image and communication technologies to spread the knowledge of the new hero’s exploits, and by the fact that the hero, in military and other contexts, was increasingly a technologist. …”
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Experiments on double diffusive convection by Tilgner, Andreas

“…Double diffusive convection is a form of convection that was studied in the past mostly for its application in oceanography and which receives increasing attention in the context of planetary cores. …”
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Mésentente temporelle. La fabrique du patrimoine culturel urbain de Rio de Janeiro à l’épreuve des temps du territoire carioca by Véronique Zamant

“…This article proposes to analyze the heritagization’s process of Rio de Janeiro (« Rio de Janeiro, carioca landscapes between the mountain and the sea ») at the Unesco as a particular moment when relations between past, present and future are interrogated, in regard of their imbrications with the temporalities of the urban transformations that this city undergoes in the context of « mega-events ». …”
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Machine learning models and methods for solving optimization and forecasting problems of the work of seaports by M. N. Lukashevich, M. Y. Kovalyov

“…Machine learning techniques have made significant advances and expanded application sphere over the past decade to include problems of port operations. …”
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Interpretation of the mass possession in Morzine by contemporary Austrian press by Peter Ondreička

“…The next discourse focuses on the description of the condemnation of Morzine as a case of superstitions belonging to the past. The case of Morzine as a disease of women is presented in the fourth part of the study. …”
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Choose MyPlate: Drink Water Instead of Sugary Drinks by Jeanine Beatty, Karla Shelnutt, Gail Kauwell

“…The regular consumption of sugary drinks has greatly increased over the past few decades. Most adults consume about 400 calories per day as beverages, and regular soda is the number one drink. …”
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Peace in History and Heritage. Some thoughts on a Museum of Peace in Northern Ireland by Karine BIGAND

“…In post-conflict Northern Ireland, the debate is ongoing about how to deal with the past, both in history-writing and in the heritage sector. …”
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A Longitudinal Historical Population Database in Asia. The Taiwanese Historical Household Registers Database (1906–1945) by Chia-chi Lin, Shu-juo Chen, Ying-chang Chuang, Wen-shan Yang, James Wilkerson, Ying-hui Hsieh, Ko-hua Yap, Yu-lin Huang

“…For the past 35 years, the Taiwan Historical Household Registers Database (THHRD) has been significant for historical demographic research on Asia. …”
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Establishment of Native Wildflower Plantings by Seed by Jeffrey G. Norcini, James H. Aldrich

“… Interest in planting native wildflowers along Florida's roadsides and in meadows has grown steadily over the past 30-40 years, and especially so more recently. …”
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Policy capacity research: An overview and bibliography of the international literature, 1978 to 2023 by Bobby Thomas Cameron, Bryan Evans

“…The purpose of this article is to provide an overview and bibliography of international policy capacity research that has developed over the past 40 years and to highlight themes that constitute the field. …”
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Marriage of convenience... In search of new analytical methods in oral history by Wiktoria Kudela-Świątek

“… I believe that a combination of perspectives deriving from a variety of disciplines leads to a more convincing, truthful, and richer reconstruction of the image of the past. The mail goal of this paper is to present the ways in which the methodologies of various disciplines within the humanities have so far been combined in oral history, as well as to discuss a new proposal, inspired by the methodology of ethnolinguistics and fully compatible with the needs of the field I represent. …”
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Conditions d’émergence du projet personnel de l’étudiant au sein de situations d’apprentissage formel by Dominique Lagase-Vandercammen, Jean-Pierre Boutinet

“…In the past, numerous studies have been carried out on the student’s personal project. …”
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Swimming through asymmetry: zebrafish as a model for brain and behavior lateralization by Alessandra Gobbo, Andrea Messina, Giorgio Vallortigara

“…The left and right sides of the brain show anatomical, neurochemical and functional differences. In the past century, brain and behavior lateralization was considered a human peculiarity associated with language and handedness. …”
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The effect of climatic changes on vertical moisture exchange in soils (the Volga river basin as an example) by Sergey A. Lavrov

“…On the example of the Volga basin, changes in moisture flows in soils over the past decades are considered.…”

“Insular hobbits”? Englishness, Euroscepticism and the Brexit vote in Jonathan Coe’s Middle England (2018) by Guillaume Clément

“…In Middle England (2018), novelist Jonathan Coe revisits some events of Britain’s recent past in order to highlight, in fictional form, some potential reasons for the Brexit vote and to illustrate the widening political divides among the population. …”
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Preface by Francois P. Retief, Louise Cilliers

“… From text: This volume is the result of a most satisfying ongoing research project undertaken by a classicist and a physician over the past six years. Most of the articles are review works which bring together existing knowledge, placing the medical findings of the time in a broad historical context in order to give a better understanding of ancient medical views. …”
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L’iconographie et le symbolisme du palmier dattier dans l’Antiquité (Proche-Orient, Égypte, Méditerranée orientale) by Fanny Michel-Dansac, Annie Caubet

“…The date palm (Phoenix dactylifera) plays an important role in the ideologies of past civilisations. This paper addresses the origin and development of the motif in the vast zones of agricultural production (oases of Egypt and Mesopotamia) from the late 4th millennium BC, as well as its diffusion towards the Eastern Mediterranean world where the date palm, although deprived of real economic value, still retains or acquires new and multiple symbolic significations. …”
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TRENDS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF TECHNOLOGIES AND THEIR INFLUENCE ON MANAGEMENT OF INDUSTRIAL ENTERPRISES by A. V. Nikonorova

“…The paper considers the main trends in the development of technologies, shows the dynamics of their changes over the past three years. The strongest positions in the market are  held by companies that have determined the right vector for their development on time, and adaptation as a reaction to the emergence of new technologies becomes the key factor for successful functioning of an industrial enterprise in turbulent environment. …”
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