Les types de climats annuels au Brésil : une application de la classification de Köppen de 1961 à 2015 by Vincent Dubreuil, Karime Pechutti Fante, Olivier Planchon, João Lima Sant'anna Neto

“…The statistical and cartographic treatment of this information makes it possible to define the limits of the climates of Brazil: here we apply the concepts of « strong nuclei », defined as the regions where the ACT are systematically or mostly the same, and « transition areas », i.e. regions where there is a great diversity of ACT. This approach allows us to propose a detailed study of the transitions between the tropical climates types (mainly Aw, Am and Af) and those of the south, subtropical and temperate (Cwa and Cfa in particular) and discuss these climatic limits.…”
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Are We Faced with Two Human Species? by Mladen Davidovic

“…The identification of those two groups would allow us to find more realistic results in studies and therefore a more efficient therapy of certain diseases. …”
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‘I will never concede’: Donald Trump’s discourse of denial on Twitter (Nov. 4th 2020 – Jan. 8th 2021) by Sandrine Sorlin

“…This article concentrates on US President Donald Trump’s last months in power and studies how he manages to deny defeat until the very last day of his presidency. …”
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Incubation-time distribution in back-calculation applied to HIV/AIDS data in India by Arni S.R. Srinivasa Rao, Masayuki Kakehashi

“…If we assume truncation,the optimum truncating point was sensitive to the HIV growth assumed.This procedure was applied to US data for validating the resultsobtained from the Indian data. …”
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SCIENTIFIC DISCUSSION ON THE ESSENCE OF STATE FINANCIAL REGULATION IN MODERN CONDITIONS by M. L. Dorofeev

“…There is no doubt that the role of the state and its regulatory intervention in the economy in the era of regulated market economy is very high, since it allows us to overcome unprecedented challenges such as the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. …”
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La molteplicità e la crisi by Stefania Consigliere, Cristina Zavaroni

“…Managed in a way that both conceals and naturalizes postcolonial geopolitical violence, current migratory flows bring the anthropological field in our backyards, facing us with unprecedented forms of crisis both among migrants and among operators. …”
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Développement durable : pourquoi l’homme ne peut pas être seul au centre du concept de "sustainability". Le point de vue d’écologues marins by Gérard Bellan, Jean-Claude Dauvin, Denise Bellan-Santini

“…This definition appears to us to be very biased. The objective of this paper is to provide the point of view of marine ecologists on the concept of sustainable development. …”
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Using Seasonal Climate Variability Forecasts to Plan Forest Plantation Establishment by Norman Breuer, Matthew Langholtz, David Zierden, Clyde Fraisse

“…Knowledge of climatic conditions allows us to develop a seasonal management strategy for forest plantations and managed natural forests. …”
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Usage des technologies de l’information et de la communication et humanisation pour des élèves en soins-études by Séverine Colinet

“…We conducted observations and asked the students to use their computer before us. This research highlights the role that ICT(E) play in the student status restoration in hospitalized children. …”
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Body Fat and Health: How Can I Tell if I am at Risk for Health Problems? by Kohrine A. Counts, Anne E. Mathews

“…In fact, over 30% of all US adults were obese as of 2012, and more than two-thirds are either overweight or obese. …”
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Worker Protection Standard: Respirators by Frederick M. Fishel

“… In 1992, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a comprehensive regulation called the Worker Protection Standard for Agricultural Pesticides (WPS). …”
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A Homeowner’s Guide to the Living Shoreline Permit Exemption Part 2: United States Army Corps of Engineers by Savanna C. Barry, Sara Martin, Eric Sparks

“… Living shorelines are coastal shoreline stabilization interventions that rely on natural elements such as native vegetation and oyster reefs to protect property. The US Army Corps of Engineers, among other entities, regulates the placement of living shorelines through a permitting process to ensure project activities do not conflict with the public interest. …”
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Retour d’expérience sur le développement participatif d’un jeu sérieux à destination des professionnels de l’acte de construire et d’aménager by Fanny Coulombié, Véronique Dufour

“…Eventually, these first games led us to change in a significant way the balance between maximum likelihood and pedagogy.…”
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Two-Dimensional Fuzzy Spatial Relations: A New Way of Computing and Representation by Nadeem Salamat, El-hadi Zahzah

“…We also propose an algorithm for defuzzification of relations which provides us a binary topological and directional relation between a 2D object pair. …”
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Comprendre le changement institutionnel by Arnaud Buchs

“…On the one hand, the water use mode allows us to describe the evolution of uses in four periods: the first three correspond to the phases of genesis, regime and crisis of a particular water use mode, while the fourth one reflects the emergence of a new mode to address the limitations of the previous one. …”
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2003 Handbook of Employment Regulations Affecting Florida Farm Employers and Workers: Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act (MSPA) [Federal] by Leo C. Polopolus, Michael T. Olexa, Fritz Roka, Carol Fountain

“… The Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act (MSPA) establishes federal standards specific to farmworkers. (No other U.S. industry has a labor standard that applies solely to its workforce.) …”
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Benefits and Challenges of Over-Actuated Excitation Systems by Norman Fitz-Coy, Vivek Nagabhushan, Michael T. Hale

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Techniczny, epistemologiczny i kulturowy wymiar metod kształcenia. Casus metody Montessori by Jarosław Jendza, Ewa Zalewska, Piotr Zamojski

“…We perceive them as equally important in the process of (re)creating and using any educational method. It seems to us that the technical dimension is quite often the only one or at least the most essential one in the area of Polish educational practices, and sometimes also in the theory of education. …”
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Forecasting Directions, Dates, And Causes of Future Technological Revolutions concerning the Growth of Human Capital by Ning Chen, Masoud Vaseei, Ali Peivandizadeh

“…Accordingly, in this paper, for technological research in the field of solar energy, the patents extracted from one of the most famous renewable energy databases in the United States (US patent database) between 200 and 2020 were examined. …”
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Modernidade e revolução social: uma digressão sobre os significados da imanência e da transculturação nas sociedades modernas e contemporâneas by Luís Antonio Groppo

“…It highlights the configuration of both notions in the bourgeois revolutions and considers the present moment, the global era, as a new acceleration of processes of socio-economic modernization, rather than a breaking of paradigms that would lead us to post-modernity. However, a reflection about some notions proposed by critical thinkers who at some point identified with post-modernism must be done in order to better understand both moments of modernity the present one and the moment of the bourgeois revolutions. …”
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