Syrian Asylum Seekers as Political Factors and Their Effects on Local Politics by Levent Börklüoğlu, Ali Utku Şahin

“…The influx to Turkey amidst the 2011 Syrian civil war has significantly affected the Syrian and Turkish communities socially and economically. …”
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The contribution of p.v. alabin into the development of education and culture in the vyatka province by Vladimir B. Pomelov

“…He proved brightly in various areas: as a soldier, memoirist, writer, civil servant, publisher, archaeologist, creator of schools, museums and libraries. …”
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On the Recent Trends in Expansive Soil Stabilization Using Calcium-Based Stabilizer Materials (CSMs): A Comprehensive Review by Fazal E. Jalal, Yongfu Xu, Babak Jamhiri, Shazim Ali Memon

“…This work will help geotechnical engineers to opt for suitable CSM in the field of geoenvironmental engineering in committing to sustainable construction of civil engineering structures over expansive soils.…”
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Women’s presence in contemporary Italy’s environmental movements, with a case study on the Mamme No Inceneritore committee by Rachele Ledda

“…However, after World War II, Italian women activists focus chiefly on the conquest of civil and political rights. It is only at the end of the 1970s, during a time of major political enthusiasm, that a female figure, Laura Conti, began to stand out in the environmental milieu, by denouncing the environmental disaster of Seveso, a crucial event in the history of environmentalism and political ecology in Italy. …”
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Scaling Geological Fracture Network from a Micro to a Macro Scale by Rouhollah Basirat, Kamran Goshtasbi, Morteza Ahmadi

“…Characterizing fracture systems at various scales, modeling fracture distributions, and clarifying scale relations that correlate total fracture systems are of paramount importance in geology, mining, civil engineering, and petroleum engineering. In this paper, the conditions of fracture network geometry are investigated in a field scale (about 100 m) and a core sample scale (several centimeters). …”
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Pathology of Persian Translations of Texts and Research on Iran-China Relations: With Emphasis on the Critique on the Book Ancient Texts on China-Iran Relations by Hamidreza Pashazanous

“…A considerable part of our knowledge about Iran and its relations with other neighboring civilizations has been based on Greek and Roman texts and sources, some of which have been translated into Persian with acceptable quality. …”
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Progrès et développement économique au Chili durant la République conservatrice (1830-1861)  by Jérôme Louis

“…The estate became shareholder in the railway, major legal disputes and civil war were now spreading like wildfire. On September 18th1861, the Liberals came to power in Chile.…”
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Nouvelles polarisations politiques en Espagne : l’image de l’adversaire dans les discours de Ciudadanos et Podemos (2014‑2019) by Laure Beltran

“…From the start of the democratic transition in 1975, Spanish politics, driven by the ghosts of the Civil War, has been characterised by a process of debate and consensus. …”
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Mechanical properties of compressed earth blocks reinforced with glass fibers and palm fibers: Experiments and simulation by Fidjah Abdelkader, Rabehi Mohamed, Kezrane Cheikh, Rachid Rabehi

“… The civil and mechanical engineers are interested in studying how much load structures can support. …”
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Dimensionando la precariedad laboral en México de 2005 a 2015, a través del Modelo Logístico Ordinal Generalizado by Jorge Alberto Pérez Cruz, Guadalupe Isabel Ceballos Álvarez

“…La evidencia empírica encontrada a través del Modelo Ordinal Generalizado muestra que en 2015 en comparación con 2005 se ha incrementado la probabilidad de que las condiciones laborales en México se precaricen, esto es que existe una mayor proporción de trabajadores que experimentan una disminución en el salario, una disminución en las prestaciones laborales y un aumento en las jornadas de trabajo, sin importar el sector productivo donde labore, el tamaño de empresa, la edad, sexo, estado civil y el grado educativo.…”
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Program for Studying Intergenerational Transmissions in Infant Mortality Using the Intermediate Data Structure (IDS) by Luciana Quaranta

“…They can be used with any longitudinal database constructed from church books, civil registers, or population registers.…”
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Développement, crises et adaptation des territoires du soja au Mato Grosso: l'exemple de Sorriso by Damien Arvor, Vincent Dubreuil, Patricio Mendez del Villar, Carlos Magri Ferreira, Margareth Simões Penello Meirelles

“…The producers are now learning from past failures in order to adapt themselves to the new standards imposed by the civil society and the international markets (environmental certification, forest code application, to mention some). …”
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Mythologies of American violence in Alan Ball's True Blood series by Anne-Marie PAQUET-DEYRIS

“…Vampire, werewolf movie codes and motifs are very often recycled in various episodes of the series to problematize current problems in American society such as the women’s liberation movement, the gay and lesbian rights, the civil rights movement etc. All of them provide starkly original variations on the central notions of trouble and evil.The show addresses some the following key issues: which aesthetic, formal and ideological strategies are adopted to represent the different layers of reality? …”
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The New Apartheid by Masilo Lepuru

“… The fundamental distinction between a Civil Rights movement such as the African National Congress and a liberation movement like Poqo lies in the status of white settlers and Apartheid. …”
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Les TIC et la surveillance des zones maritimes sensibles. Penser globalement, agir localement by Mélanie Fournier

“…They link flows, commercial, civil and military information networks, as well as illegal networks. …”
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Sustainable Development, Digital Democracy, and Open Government: Co-Creation Synergy in Ukraine by Khutkyy Dmytro, Matveieva Olga

“…Public consultations increased awareness about the SDGs in Ukrainian civil society and prompted authorities to implement them. …”
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Application of different hardware and software in the concept of digital pilot training and selection by Aleksandar Z. Knežević, Aleksandar G. Bukvić, Branimir B. Krstić

“…Introduction/purpose: In many military air forces and civil aviation organizations that use or own training aircraft equipped with a digital cockpit, training tools such as trainers and simulators are understood to a varying extent. …”
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The Trump Phenomenon and the Racialization of American Politics by Serge Ricard

“…The following essay attempts to throw light on the permanence of the race factor in American society, its impact on the 2016 election, either by means of its unabashed activation or through a coded rhetoric, its centrality in the Trumpian discourse, the heyday of white nationalism under a President prone to stoking the flames of division and prejudice, together with the disquieting signs of a “new civil war” in a disunited nation.…”
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Non-Fictional Interwar Narratives by English Writers by Barbara PUSCHMANN-NALENZ

“…George Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia (1938) about the Spanish Civil War and the end of the 1930s connects his personal report about a war with his criticism of the conservative British establishment. …”
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USING COAL AS A PRESSURE INSTRUMENT OR ENERGY WEAPON by Teodora LAZAR, Mila Ilieva OBRETENOVA, Marius Daniel MARCU, Adina TATAR, Nicolae Daniel FITA, Dragos PASCULESCU

“…In this context, the energy security of a state becomes an important pillar of national, regional and global security, bringing safety, stability and well-being to consumers, as well as a cause of civil and/or armed conflicts. …”
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