La primauté du modèle de l’homme grec dans les manuels d’histoire du premier franquisme by Bertrand Noblet

“…In this article the author questions the nature of the role models proposed for young boys in the chapters about Antiquity found in their history books during the Second Republic and during the early Francoist period. …”
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Ocular injuries by less-lethal weapon: a view from Switzerland by Anna Fierz

“…Our rubber scattershot is comparatively small and light but has led to an uninterrupted series of severe eye injuries since 1980. Legal authorities have long questioned whether these were due to rubber ammunition, though ophthalmologists always knew what was going on. …”
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Lead poisoning in ancient Rome by Francois P. Retief, Louise Cilliers

“…Skeletal lead content increased significantly in the Roman era, but peaked at a level only 41-47% of that of modern Europeans. The authors thus suggest that chronic lead poisoning did not contribute significantly to the fall of the Roman Empire in the West. …”
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Les Novelettes astrales (1912) ou l’utopie subversive de Paul Scheerbart by Yves Iehl

“…Paul Scheerbart (1863-1915) has certainly been passed over as a science-fiction author. Yet, this eccentric writer has created an outstanding fantasy mode in his Astrale Novelletten (Astral Short Stories, 1912) which appeared as a very special form of science fiction at the beginning of the 20th century. …”
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Aux sources du sensationnel : Wilkie Collins lecteur de l’abbé Prévost ? by Shelly Charles

“…This study offers a new hypothesis about the « fact » upon which Wilkie Collins’s Basil is supposed to be founded and reads this first sensational novel not as an alleged biography but as a meticulous rewriting of an 18th-century newspaper anecdote : « Histoire du désespéré », published by Prévost in his journal Le Pour et contre. It analyses the author’s particular strategy in amplifying this « true story » and tries to explain the more general pertinence of Prévost’s work as a journalist and a « documentary novelist » for the formation of Wilkie Collins’s poetics of fiction. …”
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Max Weber's concept of feudalism and history of Lithuania by Zenonas Norkus

“…Weber's concept of feudalism is formulated in terms of political sociology and is localized in the middle of this continuum. The author suggests that the relations of political domination in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the 13th-17th centuries can be accounted for by applying Weber's terms „fruendenfeudalismus," „ständische Herrschaft," and „Geschlechterstaat," but not the term „Lehnsfeudalismus." …”
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Michel Foucault : drôle de genre pour une psychanalyse ? by Laurie Laufer

“…This article relies on queer authors such as Gayle Rubin, Eve Kosofsky-Sedgwick, and Judith Butlers, but also on Freud, Lacan and Allouch, to reflect on how we can possibly think the sexual, sexuality and gender identity in the Freudian field and beyond a hetero-normative gender binary perspective. …”
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Vector control for the Chikungunya disease by Yves Dumont, Frederic Chiroleu

“…Based on new results on the Chikungunya virus, its impact on mosquitolife-span, and several experiments done by health authorities, we studiedseveral types of control tools used in 2006 to contain the epidemic. …”
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On a New Modification of Baskakov Operators with Higher Order of Approximation by Ivan Gadjev, Parvan Parvanov, Rumen Uluchev

“…The new operator suggested by the authors is linear but non-positive. However, it has the advantage of a higher order of approximation compared to the Goodman–Sharma variant of the Baskakov operator defined in 2005 by Finta. …”
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LONG-TERM FORECASTING THE DEVELOPMENT OF RELATIONS BETWEEN LOCAL HUMAN CIVILIZATIONS: CONCLUSIONS AND PROPOSALS by A. I. Podberezkin

“…Based on this assumption the author builds the most probable scenario of intercivilizational relations which is military coercive interaction. …”
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The Bricoleur Economy by Annie Barbara Chikwanha

“…With gold deposits found all over the country, and in the absence of supporting organisational structures, the Bricoleurs’ self-empowerment through devious means has become accepted by mining authorities. Data for this article was collected mostly through interviews with different stakeholders in the gold mining industry in Harare, Shurugwi and Chakari in Zimbabwe. …”
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Humanitarian aspects of project activity in the engineering high school: criteria for the efficiency of the interdisciplinary commands activity by Olga V. Yusupova, Ekaterina V. Bakshutova

“…Unfortunately, when evaluating the activities of such interdisciplinary project teams, selecting the evaluation criteria, the "engineering approach" is practiced too literally - we evaluate only the innovative product. In the article, the authors draw attention to some humanitarian aspects of the project activity at an engineering university and the need for psychological and pedagogical support for students activities in interdisciplinary project teams.…”
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The Gig Economy and Its Impact on Women in Iraq by Hawra Milani, Zahra Shah, Rikke Bjerg Jensen

“…This paper traces the experiences of Iraqi women in the gig economy, drawing on both individual and collective insights grounded in the authors’ work in this context. These experiences reveal the dual nature of the gig economy: providing flexible work options while perpetuating vulnerabilities such as discrimination and economic insecurity. …”
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Evaluation of MALDI-TOF Mass Spectrometry and Sepsityper Kit™ for the Direct Identification of Organisms from Sterile Body Fluids in a Canadian Pediatric Hospital by Manal Tadros, Astrid Petrich

“…Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time of flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) can be used to identify bacteria directly from positive blood and sterile fluid cultures. The authors evaluated a commercially available kit – the Sepsityper Kit (Bruker Daltonik, Germany) – and MALDI-TOF MS for the rapid identification of organisms from 80 flagged positive blood culture broths, of which 73 (91.2%) were blood culture specimens and seven (8.7%) were cerebrospinal fluid specimens, in comparison with conventional identification methods. …”
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Historical overview of the dementia syndrome's emergence and evolution by Eslaidi Mendoza Clavel, Juana Adela Fong Estrada, Ariadna Céspedes Moncada

“…The aim of this Review is  to set out a historical overview of the emergence and evolution of the dementia syndrome, based on data supported by authorized and scientifically endorsed documentary sources. …”
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Ethical and legal aspects of using generative artificial intelligence technologies in preparing qualification and scientific papers by V. V. Ivanov, A. Yu. Nesterov, I. P. Yanchenko

“…The relevance of this issue is due to the avalanche-like growth in the use of generation by students and postgraduates in the 2023/24 academic year, the heated discussions that arose in this regard within universities, a series of publications in the media, the lack of development of the legal aspects of the use of generation, the ambiguity of its ethical grounds and consequences. The goal of the authors' collective is to formulate a collective position of teachers of classical humanitarian knowledge, which consists in the inadmissibility of using generative AI in the preparation of qualification and scientific papers. …”
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MASTER’S PROGRAMME FOR ADULT EDUCATION IN SOCIAL WORK by Irina M. Vorotilkina

“…The article presents the experience of the magistracy in the direction of social work of the Department of the Service, advertising and social work of Sholom Aleichem Priamursky State University. The author substantiates the urgency of the problem of adult education in the magistracy, shows the difficulties the adult students face. …”
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A Critical Review of the Book of Administrative Law by Ghazale Taheri Attar, MohammadAli HasaniNik

“…The Book of Administrative Law is the work of Bijan Abbasi, one of the last authors in this field that tries to explain the basics of administrative law knowledge to researchers and practitioners in the six chapters. …”
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Néomuralisme et militantisme féministe dans l’Argentine du XXIe siècle by Caroline Prévost

“…Nevertheless, the work of these women muralists remains on the fringes of artistic academism and cannot count on any real support from the public authorities. Therefore, in this article, we will try to demonstrate how the feminist mural aesthetics they deploy contribute, from regional spaces, to the enrichment of an (inter)national artistic activism.…”
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Insecure Attachment to Father after a Panic Attack in 5/5Year-Old Child by Maghsoud Nader Pilehroud, Mohammad Ebrahim Maddahi

“… The impact of anxiety and injuries caused by severe stress can contribute to the manifestation of more severe disorders in children. The authors of this article have reported a case involving a five-and-a-half-year-old child who formed an insecure attachment or reliance on his father after experiencing several instances of anxiety attacks (panic attacks). …”
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