Percursos da cidade em João Antônio by Júlio Cezar Bastoni da Silva

“…The city in João Antônio’s writings seems to be composed by the particular language and focus of the narrator, who wants himself identified to the lower classes, emulating the talk of the excluded people by a linguistic treatment, with its syntactic, rhythmic and vocabulary implications, building a point of view apart from the representations of the upper classes. …”
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Flatid Planthopper, Oormenaria rufifascia (Walker) (Insecta: Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Flatidae) by Forrest W. Howard, Susan Halbert

“…Both the adults and nymphs are conspicuous insects that often arouse people's curiosity.  This document is EENY-351 (IN643), one of a series of Featured Creatures from the Entomology and Nematology Department, UF/IFAS Extension. …”
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Raising Healthy Children: Age Four by Kate Bennett, Gail Kauwell, Karla P. Shelnutt

“… As children continue their preschool years, they learn many new things and develop their own opinions and ideas. During this time, people inside and outside of the home may greatly influence them. …”
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General Recommendations for Fertilization of Turfgrasses on Florida Soils by Jerry B. Sartain

“… In many neighborhoods, people envy the individual with the most beautiful lawn and think they cannot grow a lawn of equal quality. …”
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Conducting the Needs Assessment #4: Audience Motivations, Barriers, and Objections by Laura A. Sanagorski Warner, Matt Benge

“… A successful needs assessment is contingent on participation from the right people, so understanding potential motivations, barriers, and objections specific to your participants is critical. …”
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Pesticide Storage: Keep It in the Container by Fred Fishel

“…Anyone storing pesticides, especially in the presence of children, needs to take precautions by keeping them in their proper, original containers. Several people have died when they unknowingly drank pesticides from containers that originally held soda, other beverages, or foodstuffs. …”
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Breast Cancer: When the Woman You Love Has Breast Cancer by Martha C. Monroe, Barbara F. Shea, Linda B. Bobroff

“…FCS8826, a 3-page fact sheet by Martha Monroe, Barbara Shea, and Linda Bobroff, is designed to help partners of people who have been diagnosed with breast cancer. …”
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Healthy Eating: Folate by Linda B. Bobroff

“…Folate is especially important for women of childbearing age, pregnant and nursing women, growing children, and older people. If you don’t get enough folate in your diet, you could get anemia. …”
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Climate Change and Ecosystem Services of Florida’s Largest Water Body: Lake Okeechobee by Karl Havens

“…If these changes are not compensated for by more rainfall, the state’s largest water body, Lake Okeechobee, could experience prolonged periods of very low water levels and catastrophic loss of its ecosystem services, which are the benefits that people receive from ecosystems. This 7-page fact sheet provides background, optimal and actual water levels, projected changes in South Florida climate and their effects on water levels in Lake Okeechobee, their effects on ecosystem services, and possible remedies. …”
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Shopping to Get the Most for your Money by Mary N. Harrison

“… People must make choices about food, clothing, and housing as well as non-essentials. …”
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La Conquista y la Colonia en el Códice Azcatitlan by María Castañeda de la Paz, Michel R. Oudijk

“…However, the register of events by indigenous people in this time of profound changes indicates that the same attention was given to Spaniards matters as to those of themselves. …”
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Teaching to Different Personality Types by Alexa J. Lamm, Ricky W. Telg

“…Extension programs can use an understanding of different learning styles and preferences to reach the greatest number of people. This EDIS document is the first in the Teaching to Different Personality Types series, and provides a broad overview of how understanding and acknowledging personality types can assist in Extension program development. …”
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Guidelines for Writing Quality Impact Statements for Workload and Marketing by Amy Harder, Ruth Borger

“… There’s nothing like a great story to catch people’s attention. Extension faculty can use storytelling techniques to develop strong impact statements that communicate the results of their programming. …”
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Nauka o szatanie i demonach w ujęciu Sulpicjusza Sewera by Józef Pochwat

“…Convinced of the real presence of Satan, he warns against the smartness and deviousness of the spirit of iniquity, and presents the examples of their real impact on people. Looking at his statements on the devil we should pay attention to the fact that Sulpicius Severus tells of the coming of the Antichrist, and he inextricably links this fact with the persecution of Christians.…”
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Valuing Florida’s Water Resources: Ecosystem Services Approach by Tatiana Borisova, Tara Wade, Xiang Bi, Kurt Oehlbeck, Kelly A. Grogan

“…It explains three values people assign to water resources and presents a brief overview of the methods that economists employ to measure the value of water. …”
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PAULINE “ETHICS OF RELINQUISHING”: by R. Zimmermann

“… Enhancing life in the world of the future will only be possible if people relinquish their claim to some of the legitimate rights to which they are entitled. …”
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Deklarowane przekonania dotyczące uczenia się matematyki w czasach szkolnych przez kandydatki i kandydatów na nauczyciel(k)i edukacji wczesnoszkolnej by Adam Mroczkowski

“…The empirical material was collected using an authorial questionnaire. Most of the people participating in the study declared, among other things, that the most effective strategy in the times of school education was learning mathematics by heart, and the key reason for possible failures is the lack of mathematical talent. …”
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Nanowastes riscos para saúde humana e meio ambiente: diálogos entre o princípio da precaução e a sociedade de risco by Liziane Paixão Silva Oliveira, Maria Edelvacy Marinho, Ellen de Oliveira Fumagali

“…However, little has been discussed about the impacts of these wastes into the environment, the health of people, animals and plants. Because of the scientific uncertainties the application of the precautionary principle is a subtle instrument that allows the management of risks caused by nanotechnologies. …”
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Protesto indígena na Colômbia: a Minga em questão by Elizabeth del Socorro Ruano

“…The study of the Minga, a protest that took place in October and November of 2008 in Colombia, intends to explore the category of “protest” by showing the specificities of contemporary relations between the national State and the indigenous people. The analysis dialogues with scholars who have highlighted the political character of the social protest. …”
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Cette rivière qui divise au Canada : les Métis de part et d’autre de l’Outaouais by Michel Bouchard, Sébastien Malette, Guillaume Marcotte

“…The Métis of Canada were included as an Aboriginal people in the Constitution Act of 1982, but in the intervening decades we have observed a great disparity in the political and legal treatment of the various Métis communities by the federal and provincial governments. …”
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