Pratiques funéraires dans l’Arabie antique : la nécropole de Thaj by Marie Laguardia, Olivia Munoz, Jérôme Rohmer, Patrice Courtaud

“…A remarkable aspect of this "renaissance" was the development of vast tumulus necropolises, which seems to have revived a regional building tradition dating back to the 3rd millennium BCE. …”
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Futures thinking becomes a priority for all globalized societies by Roland Benedikter

“…This text presents the most central buzz words, framings, concepts and overall style prevalent in contemporary global future fora and initiatives, taking them as symptomatic for an ongoing renaissance of approaches towards “futuring” in the advanced forms of “futures staging”, “futures casting” and “futures design” which, if this trend continues, could eventually lead to a more stable, post-conventional and wide-spread trans-national implementation of the discipline of “critical futures studies” in academia, policy and practice.…”
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EUROPEAN PLASTIC ART IN ANTHROPOLOGICAL DIMENSION: FROM THE CLASSICS TO THE POSTMODERNISM by R. M. Rusin, I. V. Liashenko

“…The article is devoted to the analysis of corporality as an attribute of plastic art in the Ancient art, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the modernism and the postmodernism. Theoretical basis. …”
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Lui, « pour toujours, a embrassé ma bouche, toute frémissante » : Paolo et Francesca dans la peinture préraphaélite et esthétique by Anne-Florence Gillard-Estrada

“…Coupin de la Couperie, et par des peintres de la Renaissance. Coupin de la Couperie et J.A.D. Ingres, et par des artistes britanniques, comme William Dyce. …”
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‘Rents in the Veil of Time’: Annie Besant’s Auto-biographies of Giordano Bruno by Muriel Pécastaing-Boissière

“…Meanwhile, Besant penned her first biography of the Renaissance philosopher Giordano Bruno in 1876, a short sketch published in The National Reformer, the NSS weekly. …”
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Poznámky k problematice studia inventářů raně novověkých šlechtických sídel jako jednoho z pramenů poznání kultury společnosti by Andrea Holasová

“…Es handelt sich um eine bedeutende Quelle, die Auskunft gibt über die Entwicklung der Siedlungsstruktur, den Lebenszyklus der Besitzer und Einwohner und der kulturellen Umwelt in der Zeit der tiefgreifenden Veränderungen des Lebensstils unter dem Einfluss der Renaissance und des Humanismus. Es ist möglich an Forschungsbemühungen der Genealogen, Kunsthistoriker und Historiker der Kulturund Sozialgeschichte seit dem Ende des 19. …”
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Humanist foundations for the transformations of higher education under supercomplexity by Юрій Мєлков, Євген Пінчук

“…The authors turn to the historical analysis of the humanist ideal in education (as well as of its criticism) since the Renaissance to the present day, especially noting Kant’s ideas as the grounds for understanding humanism as the concept that affirms the universal equality of all human beings, as the idea of the autonomy of a human and his or her rights and re­sponsibility for one’s life and for the objective world, as well as the idea of the prior­ity of universal identity. …”
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‘Why is it that a photograph always looks clear and sharp, — not at all like a Turner?’ John Ruskin & Perceptual Aberration by Lawrence Gasquet

“…IV, Chapter IV, §11).I shall strive to define in this paper some of the implications of the act of vision according to Ruskin, wondering about differences in effect and form for instance, and seeking their causes; I will attempt to show how some of the obstacles which can actually hamper human sight turn out to be eminently positive for Ruskin, giving birth to the main arguments of his belief in the superiority of Medieval art over Renaissance art. Ruskin’s defence of imperfection thus appears to be closely linked to natural perceptual aberration.…”
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Mushroom β-glucan and polyphenol formulations as natural immunity boosters and balancers: nature of the application by Maja Kozarski, Anita Klaus, Leo van Griensven, Dragica Jakovljevic, Nina Todorovic, Wan Abd Al Qadr Imad Wan-Mohtar, Jovana Vunduk

“…Mushrooms are experiencing a kind of renaissance as a part of the contemporary human diet. …”
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Peníze v životě měšťanek předbělohorského období by Michaela Hrubá

“…In parti- cular it returns to the idea of the emancipation of Renaissance women in the older literature and the opinions of contemporary historiography as regards this topic. …”
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À la recherche des points-clefs de Gilbert Simondon autour d’un système d’information géographique by Stephan Kowal

“…In an effort to link digital cartography to architectural design, this article exemplifies the transition from representations based on the human eye, developed since the Renaissance, to the use of remote sensing devices and computer-generated imageries, pattern recognition, influencing decision-making and design, with the system’s capacity to generate new knowledge with the overlay and combination processes of point elements. …”
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Refugees as a new emigration channel from Tajikistan to Western and Eastern Europe by A. Kh. Rakhmonov

“…Another reason is the ban by the Tajik authorities of two major opposition organisations – the Group of 24 and the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (IRPT). Among the Tajik political refugees who received asylum in European countries, there are also former migrant workers who worked in Russia. …”
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Speaking exams with less anxiety in Intelligent Computer-Assisted Language Assessment (ICALA): mirroring EFL learners’ foreign language anxiety, shyness, autonomy, and enjoyment by Botir Elov, Irodakhon Abdullayeva, Laylo Raupova, Azam Kholikov, Marguba Mirkasimova

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ANTHROPOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF THE CONCEPT OF "CRIME" IN HISTORICO-PHILOSOPHICAL DISCOURSE by I. O. Kovnierova

“…The paper considers the establishment of the paradigmatic determinants of the understanding of crime on the basis of fundamental changes in understanding of the essence of a man in ancient, medieval, Renaissance, modern and postmodern philosophy. Theoretical basis. …”
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"I Fregi del Ceppo”: when artificial intelligence and geomatics meet theatre by Pietro Bartolini, Alessandro Conti, Lidia Fiorini, Grazia Tucci

“…This paper focuses on the performance I Fregi del Ceppo, which exemplifies this trend by using 3D data to bring the Renaissance friezes of the Ospedale del Ceppo in Pistoia, Italy, to life. …”
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Policy and Culture: From Machiavelli’s Political Philosophy to Kipling’s Political Prophecies by K. M. Dolgov, E. I. Starikova

“…Sometimes the direct confrontation between policy and religion, policy and morals, policy and law, policy and literature, policy and art in the broad sense of the word could occur. The greatest Renaissance masters - Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Rafael etc. - actively opposed any evil manifestations: evil ideas, evil words, evil doings, expressing in their masterpieces the highest ideals and values. …”
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RECEPTION OF THE BIOGRAPHICAL METHOD IN HISTORICAL AND ANTHROPOGICAL STUDIES by T. I. Vlasova, G. G. Krivtchik

“…Consideration of the biographical method in historical and anthropological studios carried out in the course of the general theoretical "renaissance" of classical humanitarianism, which is largely due to the uncertainty and ambiguity of theoretical discourses and discursive practices of postmodernism, pose to the researcher a number of new tasks. …”
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Z. Ivinskis: the first objective researcher of St. Casimir's life by Jonas Boruta

“…Casimir was not only a strong-willed ascetic but also an educated and gifted young man of the Renaissance period who actively took part in the country's government and politics; he was a prince who on certain questions of political life had his views which not always concurred with the political line of the Roman pontiffs. …”
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Unfixed Bias Iterator: A New Iterative Format by Zeqing Zhang, Xue Wang, Jiamin Shen, Man Zhang, Sen Yang, Fanchang Yang, Wei Zhao, Jia Wang

“…Solving PDEs numerically is usually done by first meshing the solution region with finite difference method (FDM) and then using iterative methods to obtain an approximation of the exact solution on these meshes, hence decades of research to design iterators with fast convergence properties. With the renaissance of neural networks, many scholars have considered using deep learning to speed up solving PDEs, however, these methods leave poor theoretical guarantees or sub-convergence. …”
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Romantic balticphilia in Latvian istoriography by Zenonas Butkus

“…Many of the Latvian Renaissance men were only slightly interested in history, and they, therefore, drew their attention to the research of culture and art. …”
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