ASPECTS OF THE HARMONY OF CULTIC CHOIRS FROM OEDIPUS BY GEORGE ENESCU by Constanţa CRISTESCU

“…The case study is conducted on the four moments of the old Athenian cultic invocation of Act IV. It shows that the modal structures that Enescu uses are found in the diatonic and chromatic harmony of the ancient modal system, having continuity in the modal systems of Byzantine succession, until today. …”
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Open Your Eyes Wider: Overexposure in Contemporary American Film and TV Series by Monica Michlin

“…Finally, although as a technique, it plays on the hypnotic attractions of excessive light, it also points to the artifice of lighting and acts as a reflexive sign that what we are gazing upon is unreal, in a contemporary enactment of the baroque allegories of life-as-dream.…”
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Family of Bistable Attractors Contained in an Unstable Dissipative Switching System Associated to a SNLF by J. L. Echenausía-Monroy, J. H. García-López, R. Jaimes-Reátegui, D. López-Mancilla, G. Huerta-Cuellar

“…This work presents a multiscroll generator system, which addresses the issue by the implementation of 9-level saturated nonlinear function, SNLF, being modified with a new control parameter that acts as a bifurcation parameter. By means of the modification of the newly introduced parameter, it is possible to control the number of scrolls to generate. …”
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Marie-Antoinette : la reine refusée by Christine Dousset

“…An imaginary Marie-Antoinette has acted as a foil to allow French people to challenge the legitimacy of monarchy.…”
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Impermanence and Architecture. Ideas, Concepts, Words by Massimo Perriccioli

“…In reconsidering the concepts of stability and permanence within the process that establishes a new relationship between architectural space and time, a design approach oriented to the experimentation of innovative solutions and new structures of living is urged, towards a building philosophy in which construction becomes an act of conscious and continuously definable transformation, which arrange the time of technique to the life of man and re-establishes the importance of the temporal dimension as an environmental issue of the project.…”
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THE FEATURES OF STATISTICAL CHARACTERISTICS TERRORISM ON TRANSPORT by M. Karmanov, S. Kuzin

“…In this case, the number of terrorist acts committed in public transport, for a certain period of time or a year, as well as the damage caused to society should be taken into account.…”
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The Chicana Narrator as Healer: Reconciliation in Ana Castillo’s So Far From God by Cahit Bakır

“…Although the narrator is not fully characterised, unlike other female protagonists in the novel, this essay aims to explore how the narrator is one of the female figures in the novel, and similarly, how she attempts not only to bring about the displacement of the male figure and reposition of the female, but also acts as a healer for her community. …”
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Géographie du corps féminin et pratiques de la naissance en Jordanie. Une ethnographie du milieu obstétrical by Irene Maffi

“…The author investigates how obstetrical acts interact with female body geography, determining the way birth attendants and pregnant women negotiate the contact with the intimate parts of the latter’s body, and analyses the manifestations and medical treatments of labour pain as expressions of local somatic culture. …”
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Comprehensive analysis of latent reserves of innovative potential development by M. A. Korkin

“…In the conditions of global economic relations transformation, the complex analysis of latent reserves of innovation potential development acts as one of the main elements of development and strategic growth of enterprises’ innovation potential. …”
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Levosimendan for sepsis-induced myocardial dysfunction: friend or foe? by Xinxin Du, Xinxin Du, Fang Xiong, Yafei Hou, Xiangyou Yu, Pengfei Pan

“…Levosimendan is a novel inotrope that acts in a catecholamine-independent manner. However, study results regarding the treatment of SIMD with levosimendan are inconsistent, and the use of levosimendan is highly controversial. …”
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Pesticide Emergencies: Fires and Spills by Frederick M. Fishel

“…Those using pesticides must be prepared to respond to fires and spills as emergencies and act promptly and correctly. This 6-page fact sheet explains how to reduce fire and spill hazards and what to do if a fire or spill should occur. …”
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Love and Education. Love in Education by Maria Amilburu

“…This endeavour is understood as an act of love towards the students, and towards the wisdom that is condensed in the cultural traditions – scientific, humanistic, religious, artistic, etc. – we have inherited, and must pass improved to next generations, as their legitimate human inheritance.…”
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The pragmatic function of asides that stage an event in the Fourth Gospel by R.S. Hobyane

“…It therefore seeks to contribute to Johannine research by analysing these specific asides from a speech act interpretive perspective. It aims to demonstrate that these asides are inherently performative, representing a deliberate communicative strategy by the implied author to engage and compel participation from the reader. …”
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Antropología y radicalidad literaria. Zola, Warburg, Artaud, Debord, Pasolini by José Antonio González Alcantud

“…Always under the condition of writing as an act of power and counter-power. A debate, therefore, that despite its tradition, cannot be considered closed, and that fertilizes literature in times of creative crisis.…”
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Contratación verbal y buena fe: una visión crítica de la buena fe de los contratistas en la contratación verbal by Abel Blanco Montañés

“…This article develops a critical view of the good faith of contractors or suppliers and tries to specify the consequences that the lack of good faith in their conduct may have within the legal mechanisms that the Public Sector Contracts Act establishes to purge these cases. In order to do both, the case law and the doctrine of the advisory bodies are taken into account.…”

Transcending Individual Approach of Consumption: an Investigation of Automobile Meanings by The Household Perspective by Maribel Carvalho Suarez, Leticia Moreira Casotti

“…Based on inte rviews and observations with several members of ten São Paulo families, this study highlights the cars as artifacts able to demarcate family values and hierarchies, it acts as an important "educational" and transition tool to adult life of the children.…”
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Les stratégies poétiques du refus de vieillir dans « Ulysses » de Tennyson by Jean-Charles Perquin

“…The poem should also be read in the light of elegy, especially if we take into the account Arthur Hallam’s death in September 1833, and we should also focus on the numerous indices of irony that appear in the soliloquy, as Tennyson’s oblique intrusions in a complex, unexpected act of poetic speech.…”
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Cellular Reprogramming toward the Erythroid Lineage by Laura J. Norton, Alister P. W. Funnell, Richard C. M. Pearson, Merlin Crossley

“…Currently, the main forms of treatment for these diseases are packed red blood cell transfusions and the administration of drugs which act to nonspecifically reactivate the production of foetal haemoglobin. …”
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Controllability of a fluid-structure interaction system coupling the Navier–Stokes system and a damped beam equation by Buffe, Rémi, Takahashi, Takéo

“…We show the local null-controllability of a fluid-structure interaction system coupling a viscous incompressible fluid with a damped beam located on a part of its boundary. The controls act on arbitrary small parts of the fluid domain and of the beam domain. …”
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Covid-19 : le retour à la plage dans quatre grandes villes méditerranéennes après le confinement du printemps 2020 : Marseille et Nice (France), Barcelone et Valence (Espagne)... by Samuel Robert, Brieuc Cabioch, Marie-Laure-Tremelo, Nelly Pares, Éric Carroll, Alexandra Schleyer-Lindenmann

“…The post-containment period of spring 2020 in Western Europe was a time of hope and hesitation about the possibility of a return to normality after the first act of Covid-19. This article reports on the specific case of the return to the beach in four major Mediterranean cities (two in Spain and two in France), where a user survey and field observations were conducted to identify the effects of the pandemic on practices and management. …”
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