Japanese Persimmon Cultivars in Florida by Ali Sarkhosh, Peter C. Andersen, Dustin M. Huff

“… Japanese persimmons were first grown in Florida in the 1870s, but as of 2017, most US plantings are on a small scale; however, even as the overall acreage has decreased, the number of farms in Florida growing the fruit increased from 2012 to 2017. …”
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Remembering the Heidelberg Catechism in South Africa today? Some remarks on the commemoration of a 16th Century Reformed confession by R. Vosloo

“…The first part of the article argues that commemorations invite us to be conscious of the close link between memory and identity, as well as to the fact that our memories of the past are often highly contested memories. …”
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Comme une bitch ? Exploration des variations d’usage et de sens entre « bitch » et « chienne » en tant qu’insultes sexistes by Aure Espilondo

“…Evaluating the extent of that gap, by using both conventional and specialized dictionaries, allows us to consider potential semantic evolutions: in the United-States, « bitch » is undergoing a process of positive appropriation driven by its plasticity and by a reevaluation of its connotations. …”
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De la nuit et de l’obscurité : une étude icono-épigraphique maya by Cédric Becquey

“…In this article, we will see that this approach allows us to get a sense of the great complexity of this concept, which can only be understood by diving into Maya cosmovision and mythology. …”
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New Plants for Florida: Grape by Richard L. Jones, Mary Duryea, Berry J. Treat

“…The program has been responsible for a number of pivotal technological advances for grape and has been awarded two U.S. patents for work in genetic transformation. …”
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The Last Word by Jan Boessenkool

“…The concept has a strong metaphoric power for African-based organisational and management theories, as opposed to Eurocentric and Americacentric ones: ‘We Africans will develop our own theories, based on our typical African authenticity and you, westerners can learn from us’. Instead of thinking in dichotomies, as we so typically do, it is possible and more fruitful to stress togetherness and the Rainbow Nation: instead of ‘or – or’ ‘and – and’; taking the African Renaissance as a starting point. …”
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La dimension transitoire et d’expérimentation des tiers-lieux : des trajectoires individuelles à l’essaimage de pratiques by Cécile Gauthier, Pierre Pech, Richard Raymond

“…Through the swarming and networking made possible by its mobile and nomadic actors, the trajectories of committed individuals invite us to think of a “reticular” territory of third places.…”
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THE ISSUES OF ONLINE REPUTATION MANAGEMENT by A. Kosov

“…Company's reputation remains an important resource that can provide a competitive advantage, but the current information environment specificity forces us to rethink the approaches to reputation management. …”
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Apprendre à écrire en vue de contextes professionnels : recherche anglophone Nord Américaine à partir de perspectives socio-culturelles by David R. Russell

“…The goal of this article is to outline how the teaching of university writing in North America (US and Canada) has profited from sociocultural research on the relation between professional writing and writing in the academic disciplines. …”
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Hume’s “Of scepticism with regard to reason” and the Degeneration of Knowledge in Practice by Benjamin Nelson

“…Distinguishing what I call (i) philosophical intuitions from (ii) vulgar intuitions allows us to see why only the latter are subject to degeneration. …”
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A pirataria como campo de possibilidades: apropriações materiais e simbólicas em diferentes sentidos by Fernanda Martinelli

“…Representative fragments are gathered to help us think about (i) the relation of social classes, especially urban middle classes, through the consumption of famous brands and its connection to the piracy of goods; and (ii) how the objects, functioning as supports for these emblems, are immersed in social relations, how they are made available and accessed, and how the interactions around them occur. …”
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Negotiating Identity: A Pilot Study on Cultural Identity, Belonging, and College Student Retention by Terron Phillips

“… Some minority/minoritized college student groups struggle to develop a sense of belonging – a factor in student attrition – at culturally homogenous U.S. colleges and universities. This pilot study tested the reliability and validity of the Cultural Responsivity Index (CRI), a quantitative data collection instrument designed to measure the cultural responsivity of students’ experiences and interactions within collegiate environments. …”
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APPLICATION OF TESTING TECHNOLOGY IN PROGRAM TRAINING by A. E. Makarenko

“…The results of the study allow us to develop an optimal schedule for conducting tests, which contributes to improving the quality of learning material and increasing students’ motivation.…”
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Integration of Russia into the World Economy and Globalization of Stock Markets by A. K. Ivanov-Schitz, S. K. Aityan

“…Particularly, it was shown that Russian stock market is getting more correlated with the European stock market while the leading (pace making) role of the U.S. markets keeps growing in the recession of 2008.…”
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JOHANNINE WOMEN AS PARADIGMS IN THE INDIAN CONTEXT by J. Thomaskutty

“…Women’s positive role and status in the Gospel of John enable us to understand them not merely as passive actors, but as active interlocutors and dialogue partners. …”
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L’art transgenre, vers d’autres expériences corporelles du temps by Luc Schicharin

“…Transgender art thus invites us to think of other bodily temporalities.…”
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Export development of Russian regions under sanctions restrictions by S. S. Krasnykh

“…The article analyses the development of Russian regions exports and proposes a spatial model of exports using local and global Moran indices. The model allows us to determine clusters of high and low values ofthe studied indicator, growth poles, zones of influence of growth poles and a cluster of high values, and potential territories that can become export development centers of the Russian Federation in the future.…”
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La critique de paysage peut-elle être scientifique ? by Catherine Chomarat-Ruiz

“…Incomplete, these solutions enable us to express the hypothesis of a new landscape science which could support the criticism. …”
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Object-field. The multi-resolution study of topological optimization by Samuel Bernier-Lavigne

“…Since the integration of digital tools into architectural design, we have observed a certain reassessment of the notion of ‘structure’, taking us far from known and usually studied schemes. Following the advancement in simulation and topological optimization, we will expose the key projects, study their level of performance, but also underline a common limit: their formal logic defined by this process. …”
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Le Flaubert de Claude Simon by Gisèle Séginger

“…There is a Claude Simon’s Flaubert who is not Robbe-Grillet’s, and its description helps us to better understand the 20th-century writer’s work. …”
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