Woven Identities: Socioeconomic Change, Women’s Agency, and the Making of a Heritage Art in Jølster, Norway by Sallie Anna Steiner

“…This article focuses on the recent history and contemporary practice of a kind of traditional tapestry weaving known as smettvev in the rural county of Jølster in mountainous western Norway. Jølster has a rich fibre arts tradition and a rapidly changing society and economy, which make it an exemplary study in material culture as its fibre arts transform to accommodate these changes. …”
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Sweden Against Apartheid: A Historical Overview by Anna-Mart van Wyk

“…In addition to moral support and about $400 million dollars in financial support, Sweden became the first Western country to give official political support to the anti-apartheid movement. …”
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Devletlerarası İlişkilerde Kurumsallaşma Örneği Olarak Şanghay İşbirliği Örgütü by Tamer KAŞIKCI

“…However, while the effort to institutionalize inter-state relations with these regulations had been reached a higher level of institutionalization in Western societies where permanent and effective organizations such as the EU and NATO were produced, they did not have similar levels in the rest of the world. …”
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Robbing Behavior in Honey Bees by Ryan Willingham, Jeanette Klopchin, James D. Ellis

“… Western honey bee workers can invade and steal honey/nectar from other colonies or sugar/corn syrup from feeders used to deliver syrup to other colonies. …”
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Robbing Behavior in Honey Bees by Ryan Willingham, Jeanette Klopchin, James D. Ellis

“… Western honey bee workers can invade and steal honey/nectar from other colonies or sugar/corn syrup from feeders used to deliver syrup to other colonies. …”
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Rat Bite Fever Resembling Rheumatoid Arthritis by Ripa Akter, Paul Boland, Peter Daley, Proton Rahman, Nayef Al Ghanim

“…Rat bite fever is rare in Western countries. It can be very difficult to diagnose as blood cultures are typically negative and a history of rodent exposure is often missed. …”
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Les « coups de foudre » de Jupiter et l’exportation de la religion romaine en Gaule by Nicolas Laubry

“…The practice of burying or enclosing the fulgur is better attested in south-eastern Gaul than in any other province of the Western Roman Empire. The presence of this ritual of Roman origin has generally been connected to a supposed pre-Roman lightning cult which would have continued in that way during the Principate, especially in the countryside as a consequence of a form of syncretism favoured by its inhabitants. …”
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Des mages à Florence au Quattrocento. Autour de la fête de l’Épiphanie de 1443 by Pauline Duclos-Grenet

“…The theme of the Magi is among the most popular ones in the imaginary of the Western Middle Ages, and its resonance is absolutely unique. …”
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REALITY AND FAITH by Arvydas Šliogeris

“… This article asks a traditional question of Western metaphysics: what the reality is all about? …”
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Cornsilk Fly, Euxesta stigmatias Loew (Insecta: Diptera: Otitidae) by John L. Capinera

“… The cornsilk fly, Euxesta stigmatias Loew, is found in tropical and subtropical areas of the western hemisphere. It occurs throughout the Caribbean Islands, Mexico, Central and South America south to Bolivia and Paraguay, and in Florida. …”
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Heat flow, thermal anomalies, tectonic regimes and high-temperature geothermal systems in fault zones by Guillou-Frottier, Laurent, Milesi, Gaétan, Roche, Vincent, Duwiquet, Hugo, Taillefer, Audrey

“…Based on these parameters, we propose new potential targets for the geothermal exploration of fault zones in Western Europe.…”
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Defining and preparing for diversity teacherhood—Chinese Minzu (“ethnic”) teacher education as an example by Ning Chen, Fred Dervin

“…These elements show some similarities between Minzu teacher education and, for example, (“Western”) multicultural/intercultural (teacher) education. …”
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Bilateral Total Hip and Unilateral Knee Arthroplasties in a Young Adult with Arthropathy-Associated Intestinal Epithelial Dysplasia (Tufting Enteropathy) by Colin Ng, Kurt Magri, Ryan Giordmaina, Duncan Whitwell

“…Low prevalence rates of 1 in 100,000 live births in Western Europe exist, with higher rates in North Africa and Middle Eastern countries. …”
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Rozvoj infrastruktury komunálního podnikání v kontextu externího zajišťování komunálních služeb (Development of Infrastructure of the Municipal Enterpreneurship in the Context of t... by Karel Lacina, Hana Matoušková

“…The procurement of public services for individual settlements proved to be quite successful by means of collective communal enterprises or through the joint contracting of these services by a group of municipalities with the private entities in Western countries. Unfortunately such a co-operation does not find place in the Czech Republic.…”
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Avian Influenza a (H5N1) Infection with Respiratory Failure and Meningoencephalitis in a Canadian Traveller by Naheed Rajabali, Thomas Lim, Colleen Sokolowski, Jason D Prevost, Edward Z Lee

“…While H5N1 infections in humans have been reported in Asia since 1997, this is the first documented case of H5N1 influenza in the Western Hemisphere. The present case demonstrated the typical manifestation of H5N1 influenza but, for the first time, also confirmed previous suggestions from human and animal studies that H5N1 is neurotropic and can manifest with neurological symptoms and meningoencephalitis.…”
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Augustine on election: the birth of an article of faith by Erik A. de Boer

“… The doctrine of divine election is part of the heritage of Western Christianity. Discussions in the reformed tradition point to the older Augustine as the one who developed the doctrine of double predestination in the controversy with the semi-Pelagians. …”
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Relationships between Plant Diversity and Grasshopper Diversity and Abundance in the Little Missouri National Grassland by David H. Branson

“…In this study, the objective was to determine if variation in grasshopper abundance and diversity between 23 sites in western North Dakota (USA) could be explained by variation in plant species richness and diversity. …”
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« Une constellation dans la nuit de l'histoire, une tache lumineuse devant les ténèbres de la mort » : l'œuvre d'Ernst Wilhelm Nay vue par Werner Haftmann by Vincenza Benedettino

“…On the other hand, Haftmann forged around the work and the figure of the painter the exemplary demonstration of his theories proclaiming the triumph of abstract art respectively as the art of the future western democratic post-war world as well as a free and independent creative performance.…”
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Prośrodowiskowe kształtowanie terenów zieleni - propozycje dla dzielnicy Ursynów m.st. Warszawy by Justyna Staroszczyk, Antoni Skowroński

“…It presents selected methods of shaping green areas and nursing plants, which are in common use in Western Europe and USA, but are under-used in Poland, the main aim of the article is to propose solutions which allow to shape green areas in the Ursynów district of Warsaw in favor of environmental protection e.g. in a way that makes it possible to preserve biodiversity or reduce drink water use.…”
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The Library Visit Study: user experiences at the virtual reference desk by Nilsen Kirsti

“…It is part of a long-term research project, The Library Visit Study, which has been conducted in three phases at the University of Western Ontario for more than a decade. Phases One and Two examined perceptions of users who approached physical reference desks in libraries with reference questions. …”
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