བྱིས་ པའི་ མནོལ་ སྐྲ་ ལེན་ པའི་ སྐོར་ གྱི་ ངོ་ སྤྲོད་ ཆེ་ ལོང་ ཙམ།... by Lhamokyab Noyontsang

“…It is performed when a child enters his/her third year (according to the Tibetan count, i.e. roughly two years in the Western count) and it aims at removing all impurity (drip [grib]) originating from the mother’s womb, an impurity which is said to have impregnated the child's hair. …”
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Le sanctuaire de la Fermerie à Juvigné (Mayenne), de l’âge du Fer à l’époque romaine by Stanislas Bossard, Gérard Aubin, Jacques Meissonnier

“…This case is not isolated at the scale of western France; it fits in a corpus of cult sites where religious practices seem to take roots in the Celtic period.…”
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A filosofia analítica do Direito é etnograficamente limitada? by Valdenor Monteiro Brito Júnior

“…Resumo Este artigo pretende apresentar o potencial caráter WEIRD – Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich and Democratic – das intuições usadas na filosofia analítica do Direito, fornecendo evidência à crítica feita pela Teoria Naturalizada do Direito de Brian Leiter sobre a limitação etnográfica do recurso às intuições dentro da teoria jurídica. …”
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Role of Microglia in CNS Autoimmunity by Tobias Goldmann, Marco Prinz

“…Multiple sclerosis (MS) is the most common autoimmune disease of the central nervous system (CNS) in the Western world. The disease is characterized histologically by the infiltration of encephalitogenic TH1/TH17-polarized CD4+ T cells, B cells, and a plethora of myeloid cells, resulting in severe demyelination ultimately leading to a degeneration of neuronal structures. …”
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Le Leucaena leucocephala et les Bas de l’Ouest à l’île de La Réunion by Morgane Robert

“…The history of Leucaena leucocephala, now considered to be one of the major invasive alien species in the savannahs and gullies of the western slopes of the Island, will be central here; it will show the link between the decline in the uses made of the plant and its propagation dynamics.…”
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The concept of the ancient homeland of the Fenno-Ugric-speaking peoples in light of complex research by József Vigh

“…In the past three decades, some attempts have been made to integrate new results, but the old theory of the Uralic homeland being in Western Siberia could not be challenged. The research presented in the dissertation is based on reassessing previous results of linguistic palaeontology, archaeology, and archaeogenetics. …”
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Large-scale computer-mediated training for management teachers by Gilly Salmon, Ken Giles, John Allen

“…In 1995/6 the Open University Business School (OUBS) trained 187 tutors in the UK and Continental Western Europe in Computer Mediated Conferencing (CMC) for management education. …”
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Sugarcane Borer, Diatraea saccharalis (Fabricius) (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) by John L. Capinera

“… The sugarcane borer, Diatraea saccharalis (Fabricius), is native to the western hemisphere, but not to the United States. …”
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Legal Consciousness in the Polish People’s Republic: The Epistemological Roots of the High Consensus Concept by Tomasz Raburski

“…Three distinct traditions – Western, Soviet, and Polish – are identified, each with varying levels of scholarly consensus and diverse sources of that consensus. …”
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‘Her Room Was Her World’: Nellie Sloggett and North Cornish Folklore by Simon Young

“…Second, to make the point that Sloggett’s writing is useful for folklorists: she has, since her death, been neglected even by south-western scholars. Third, to situate her work in the broader British and Irish folklore movement: her corpus offers some unique challenges. …”
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Le tourisme sexuel vu du Sahara marocain : une économie de razzia ? by Corinne Cauvin Verner

“…Trekking itineraries and camping trips on the edge of the Sahara desert in Morocco are frequently the scene of sexual exchanges between Western female tourists and their guides, who are members of settled Saharan Bedouin tribes. …”
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La fabrique des reliques. Manipulations et production de sacré dans la clôture by Francesca Sbardella

“…These are probably one of the most significant reified examples of the so-called ‘sacred’ as tangible evidence in contemporary western societies. Considering the case of the remains of Breton Blessed Françoise d’Amboise (1427-1485), the analysis will be focused on the transformation process human remains undergo to be turned into relics, this process being implemented by specialised secluded nuns. …”
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Endoscopic Submucosal Dissection in the Colorectum: Feasibility in the Canadian Setting by Marietta Iacucci, Gregory Eustace, Toshio Uraoka, Yutaka Saito, Miriam Fort Gasia, Jon Love, Naohisa Yahagi

“…Colonic endoscopic submucosal dissection is technically challenging and was initially pioneered in Japan but increasingly used in selected western centres. Its use in Canada is currently limited, and the authors review the challenges and opportunities, in addition to the unique training infrastructure required to practice the procedure under supervision. …”
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Tomorrow’s Ethics in a Globalizing World

“…They are as follows: firstly, from the ethics of obedience to an ethic of creative commitment; secondly, from a primary concern with micro-ethics to an equal and even greater concern with macro-ethics; thirdly, from a cluster of regional value systems to a cooperatively created global ethic; in the fourth place, from a conceptual base in western philosophy and theology to an academic base in the social and natural sciences; and in the fifth place, from dependence on religion in important parts of the world, including ours, to what I want to call a relationship with religion characterized by cooperative, critical and creative independence for ethics. …”
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Sous couleur de race… by Jean-Luc Jamard

“…The text first provides a broad overview of the quite recent history of Western racialism. Then, with the help of a few examples, it briefly highlights the ethnological need to probe the reciprocity of body perceptions—how “others” perceive us. …”
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Évolution d’un commun d’altitude : entre matérialité et immatérialité by Isabelle Bagdassarian, Adrien Peneranda, Catherine Baron

“…Collective management of western Pyrenees summer high pastures (estives), based on transhumant pastoralism, has been studied by several authors as a common. …”
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Âmes sensibles s’abstenir : violence à / de l’art contemporain by Catherine Bernard

“…The representation of violence has been central to the history of western art. Modern and contemporary art seems, for its part, to turn violence against art itself in a critical gesture that engages our aesthetic relation and seems to exhaust meaning. …”
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Sugarcane Borer, Diatraea saccharalis (Fabricius) (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) by John L. Capinera

“… The sugarcane borer, Diatraea saccharalis (Fabricius), is native to the western hemisphere, but not to the United States. …”
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Study of carbon-free radiation life support system in spring and autumn periods by V. I. Karagusov

“…In the conditions of the sharply continental climate of Western Siberia allowed us to draw a number of conclusions about the applicability of the radiation life support system for cottages, rural houses and other detached buildings. …”
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Samogitia and Lithuania in 13-18th Centuries: the Splendour and the Poverty of Regional (Provincial) Self-Goveming by Eugenijus Saviščevas

“…In the course of this period, Samogitia experienced different patterns of relationship towards Lithuania: hostile western cultural pressure in the Middle Ages; legitimate agreement on the part of Samogitians with the Lithuanian monarchy which provided for the autonomy of Samogitia in 15-16 c.; the merge of Samogitian nobles with the nobility of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania at the end of the 16 c. to 18 c. …”
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