A Violent Need for Distance by Laurent Mellet

“…In both Ian McEwan’s The Children Act and The Disappearance Boy by Neil Bartlett (2014), violence is first deciphered in the body contact which calls for a necessary distance between characters but also subplots, so that both protagonists and literary works might be autonomous. …”
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Dispositif d’accompagnement en réalité virtuelle pour adultes autistes dyscommunicants by Cécile Lacôte-Coquereau

“…In collaborative research, we present here a specific support system, via innovative virtual reality systems, aiming at the development of interactions, autonomy and the power to act of dyscommunicating autistic people. Indeed, if the literature shows that digital tools can promote the cognitive availability and stimulate the engagement of autistic individuals, how can we allow their effective participation and support their learning via virtual reality capsules? …”
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Absential Suspension: Malebranche and Locke on Human Freedom by Julie Walsh

“…Instead, the exercise of freedom essentially involves the non-occurrence of something.That being free involves the non-occurrence, that is, the absence, of an act may seem counterintuitive. With the exception of those specifically treated in this paper, philosophers tend to think of freedom as intimately involved with volition, the judging or deciding activity of the will that votes in favor of or against a proposed action. …”
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Les enfermements d’un vagabond criminel. Vacher, tueur de bergers by Marc Renneville

“…Secondly, we will ask to what extent these confinements contributed, after Vacher’s arrest, to the reflection on the motives for his act? In conclusion, we will point out the difficulty of accessing the subjectivity of our objects of study because this approach implies, for the historian, a return to oneself and a deconstruction of transmitted memories.…”
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Udlevering af lovovertrædere – en retshistorisk undersøgelse af retsgrundlaget og nogle statsretlige overvejelser by Ole Terkelsen

“…This article examines the legal framework for Danish extradition as practiced prior to the first extradition acts from the 1960s. First, the article describes the development of international extradition law from a Danish perspective. …”
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Joseph Conrad’s ‘Youth’: A Melting Pot for the Old and New by Samir Elbarbary

“…The old is prominent in the manipulation of narrative framing in multi-layered narratives intertwined with the intimate act of telling and listening to oral stories. Besides, Conrad evokes the standard seafaring story of far-away lands, adapting and yet simultaneously destabilizing it. …”
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Le Græculus et la Chananéenne : Salammbô, le roman des traductions by Agnès Bouvier

“…The other translating character in the novel, the heroine herself, practices translation like the art of seduction, until Flaubert, in a writing act that genetic analysis of the drafts can trace, casts on this novel and on its character Babel’s curse, more severe than Tanit’s. …”
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Autonomy in the Dock: Oscar Wilde’s First Trial by Bénédicte Coste

“…Such a discourse can be seen as Wilde’s political statement about Aestheticism that sustained all his acts including taking the Marquess to court. The individual politics of autonomy that Wilde advocated can also be discussed in relation to the idea of autonomy as elaborated by the 20th–century philosopher C. …”
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Combining Intergenerational and International Justice by Christoph Lumer

“…Such a crime would penalise acts or conduct that amount to serious violations of existing international law regarding economic, social and cultural rights or the environment.…”
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The Elephant in the Room: NAMUDNO, Shelby County, and Racially Polarized Voting by Richard L. Engstrom

“…A key provision of the Voting Rights Act was rendered ineffective by the U.S. Supreme Court in a 5 to 4 decision in 2013. …”
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Lyrik und Fiktion(alität) by Klaus W. Hempfer

“…The present article underlines the fact that my prototypical theory of the lyric is not based on the semantics of speech acts, but on the pragmatics of speech situations and tries to make the concept of ‘fiction of performativity’ more precise. …”
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The EPA Conventional Reduced Risk Pesticide Program by Frederick M. Fishel

“…The Food Quality Protection Act (FQPA) of 1996 initiated the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Conventional Reduced Risk Pesticide Program. …”
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Ovid Underwater: Environmental Dialectics at Achelous’ Banquet by Andrew Feldherr

“…The themes of these stories, sacrifice, nurture, and reproduction, as mythical evocations of distinctively human strategies of survival, help anchor narrative itself as a means of exposing and mediating the alterity of the cosmos and suggest a model for understanding Ovid’s own act of narration in political terms.…”
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Teacher Stress and Free Time as a Space for Dealing with Stress by Renata Jukić, Emanuela Ham

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Entre nature et culture by Manola Antonioli

“…There are also reflections on animals (cows and birds) and on the writing scene, which combines the “natural” dimension of fingers with writing machines (from pen to typewriter and then to computer). In Les gestes, the act of planting becomes the starting point for a reflection on agriculture and ecology, which continues in the unpublished text entitled “‘Ecological’ Considerations”. …”
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Repressor Element 1 Silencing Transcription Factor (REST) Governs Microglia-Like BV2 Cell Migration via Progranulin (PGRN) by Tongya Yu, Yingying Lin, Yuzhen Xu, Yunxiao Dou, Feihong Wang, Hui Quan, Yanxin Zhao, Xueyuan Liu

“…In conclusion, the present study demonstrates that transcription factor REST may act as a repressor of microglia migration through PGRN.…”
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Does electronic data collection perform better than paper-based data collection in health research fieldwork? A participatory action research in Zanzibar by Ving Fai Chan, Fatma Omar, Eden Mashayo, Ai Chee Yong, Christine Graham, Ronnie Graham, Omar Juma Othman, Jamison Jones, Kajal Shah

“…We examined the concerns to use electronic data collection tool in Zanzibar, codeveloped a tool that addressed the concerns and evaluated the process and limitations of incorporating an electronic data collection tool aside from paper-based during a community-based study in Zanzibar.Methods The science of improvement Plan-Do-Study-Act model guided this mixed-method participatory action research (PAR). …”
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Preclinical studies of the falnidamol as a highly potent and specific active ABCB1 transporter inhibitor by Baojie Liu, Yongzheng Lu, Ruihui Lin, Junbao Xu, Zilin Shang, Xinyu Hou, Xulong Shao, Zhifang Pan, Tao Yu, Weiguo Feng

“…In this work, we assessed whether falnidamol could act as an inhibitor of ABCB1 to reverse ABCB1-mediated MDR. …”
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Synesis as a framework to enable safety interventions in complex healthcare environments by Jamie Cargill, Aarti Bavare, Tiffany Wrenn, Anne Lam, Lauren Salinas, Itode Idowu, Asma Razavi, Venessa Lynn Pinto, Eric Williams

“…Postintervention survey showed improvement in leaders’ perceptions about SER reviews.Summary We successfully implemented a sustainable process to comprehensively review, prioritise and act on SERs in our large institution and facilitated safety interventions using a synesis framework.…”
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The role of natural exosomes from SHED-MSC in immunoregulation of M0/M1 polarized macrophage cells by Ali Fallah, Abasalt Hosseinzadeh Colagar, Ayyoob Khosravi, Ayyoob Khosravi, Azadeh Mohammad-Hasani, Azadeh Mohammad-Hasani, Mohsen Saeidi, Mohsen Saeidi

“…The levels of anti-inflammatory and antioxidant markers, including CD206, Arg-1, IL-10, TGF-β, TAC, CAT, and SOD, which act as immunosuppressive macromolecules, were elevated. …”
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