Revenir vers les habitants, revenir sur les territoires by Elizabeth Auclair

“…Sustainable development was supposed to be a “civilization” concept, but the power of the economic interests and the pressure of the environmental issues have fragilized the concept. …”
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SETTLEMENTS IN THE RUCĂR – BRAN CORRIDOR. DYNAMICS OF FUNCTIONAL TYPES by LUCIAN DAVID

“…., correlated with the existence of extensive pastures and hayfields have encouraged the development of a pastoral civilization in the Rucăr – Bran Corridor, which is well known both at home and abroad.…”
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LES SAXONS DE TRANSYLVANIE ET LEURS ÉGLISES FORTIFIÉES: UN RICHE PATRIMOINE CULTUREL DE LA ROUMANIE by DANIEL IOSIF

“…A great German civilization is living for about 800 years in Transylvania. …”
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Le Græculus et la Chananéenne : Salammbô, le roman des traductions by Agnès Bouvier

“…The translatio in Salammbô is the captatio: civilization working for barbarity. 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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L’Université américaine dans le débat public après le 11 septembre by Pierre Guerlain

“…The so-called war on terrorism threatens the civil liberties that some academics wish to preserve.…”
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The impact of vaccines and vaccinations: Challenges and opportunities for modelers by Roy Curtiss III

“…This review focuses on how infectious diseases and their prevention and control by development of vaccines and widespread vaccination has shaped evolution of human civilization and of the animals and plants that humans depend on for food, labor and companionship. …”
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Le végétarisme dans l’Allemagne contemporaine et l’héritage de la Lebensreform by Anne-Marie Pailhès

“…According to Norbert Elias, the study of a society’s relationship to the consumption of food, especially of meat, gives an important indication of the evolution of civilization. In contemporary Germany, a strong school of thought, apparently imported from the USA, praises veganism. …”
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Être le dernier : Ishi, l’homme-archive by Carine Trevisan

“…Ishi, sole survivor of the Yana Indian tribe, which was exterminated after a policy of predation and a brutal colonization of his land, the last man to speak the language of this tribe and to know all the technical skills dating back to Stone age (tool making, hunting…), gets into the white “civilization” in 1911. He lived on the Parnassus campus, where the University of California Museum of Anthropology was located. …”
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Rosja Katarzyny II w Zapiskach Louisa Philippe’a de Ségura by Jolanta Kazimierczyk-Kuncer

“…Exposing the delusion of Russia’s civilization progress, “the country of dumb obedience and anarchy” whose nation, superficially absorbing European customs, is still plunged into slavery, he simultaneously revisits “the Russian mirage”.…”
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“The Ecological Person” in the Digital Era by D. Z. Akhmetova

“…The author of the article raises a topical question: “How will digitalization turn the humanity – towards civilization or collapse?” With a reliance on the “The Human quality” by Aurelio Peccei, a new project was justified aimed at preserving a person and educating a healthy personality. …”
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Preservation of Yoruba Indigenous Drumming Heritage by Olusegun Adebolu Oladosu

“…Despite the importance of the heritage, it shows that modernization and civilization have brought different reflections on the nature of Yorùbá drumming and this in a way reduces the cultural values of the drumming performance. …”
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Sociocultural dynamics of nutrition practicies by M. A. Sharova

“…The article examines the socio-cultural dynamics of semantic meaning of food and traditions of eating in different periods of civilization. The relevance of the study is due to the fact that the nutrition culture of an individual society demonstrates the basic social and cultural characteristics of the whole group, determining its specificity and mechanism of behavior in various situations. …”
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Application of Bat Algorithm for Transport Network Design Problem by Sweta Srivastava, Sudip Kumar Sahana

“…The requirement of the road services and transportation network development planning came into existence with the development of civilization. In the modern urban transport scenario with the forever mounting amount of vehicles, it is very much essential to tackle network congestion and to minimize the travel time. …”
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Marshall McLuhan : un spectre hante-t-il les études médiévales canadiennes ? by Patrick Moran

“…The media-based paradigm developed by McLuhan allows him, in The Gutenberg Galaxy, to depict the Middle Ages as a transitional period, a composite civilization that tends towards the massive domination of visual media and the invention of print, but still retains a foothold in the earlier media environment of the ear and of synaesthesia. …”
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PHILOLOGY AS A SCIENTIFIC AND EDUCATIONAL PROJECT by Pavel P. Shkarenkov

“…The most important impetus to the creation and subsequent development of philological education in the RSUH was the idea of the fruitfulness of the comparative approach to the content of the educational process and to the research work supplying this content as well as the necessity to actualize the logic of the «general and special» in the formation of ideas about the development of culture and civilization. The institutionalization of comparative studies as a complex specialization - not only for philologists but also for historians, translators, theatre and cinema critics and experts - has already proven its heuristic value and educational effectiveness over the years.…”
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Historyczne i współczesne postawy wobec śmierci by Wojciech Bołoz

“…In the last years in the area of western civilization the increased interest in this issue occurred. …”
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Le cens, l’autel et la ville chef-lieu : Auguste et l’urbanisation des Trois Gaules by William Van Andringa

“…This essay proposes to trace and understand the fundamental process of urbanization of the Three Gauls – it marks the advent of municipal civilization in these areas – by looking at the textual sources in the light of the results of recent urban archaeology. …”
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Huculszczyzna w II Rzeczpospolitej Polskiej. Romantyczny mit „Nowej Arkadii” w racjonalnym społeczeństwie/ Hutsul Region in the Second Republic of Poland. The Romantic Myth of the... by Włodzimierz Osadczy

“…It was perceived as a center of life unspoiled by civilization, possessing great energy and spontaneity. …”
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“The Old Wild West in the New Middle East”: American Sniper (2014) and the Global Frontiers of the Western Genre by Lennart Soberon

“…By generically restructuring historical events, American Sniper analogizes the Iraq War with the mythic struggle of civilization/wilderness and portrays Kyle as a trailblazing frontiersman leading the way to Western expansion. …”
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Du lecteur automate aux émotions universelles by Guillaume Pinson

“…Emotional life in a media context brings together "the interior" (the affected reader’s body) and "the outside" (the social body moved), which leads us to propose that the "civilization of the newspaper" has given rise to a profound remodeling of sensibilities since the Nineteenth century, and that emotions have played an important role in the history of communication.…”
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