« Faire un tri dans le monde des applis » by Esteban Bopp, Johnny Douvinet, Damien Serre

“…Results obtained on 50 applications deployed in France show that most of them do no achieve the objectives of the alert, in the sense defined by civil security, due to a single-hazard approach, a unique sense of communication, and a low participation of the smartphone users. …”
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The state makes migration—and migration makes the state? by Lorenzo Ghione

“…Repression, manifested in migrants’ deportations and crackdowns on civil society organisations, has further enhanced state control. …”
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El ala germanoparlante del antifascismo en la Argentina. Oposición a Hitler, política e identidad by Germán C. Friedmann

“…Los discursos, las concepciones del mundo y las polarizaciones impulsadas por la guerra civil española y la Segunda Guerra Mundial se instalaron fuertemente en el ámbito político. …”
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Like Mother, Like Daughter. Intergenerational Transmission of Infant Mortality Clustering in Zeeland, the Netherlands, 1833-1912 by Ingrid K. van Dijk, Kees Mandemakers

“…In this paper, we focus on the intergenerational transmission of mortality clustering in the Netherlands in the province of Zeeland between 1833 and 1912, using LINKS Zeeland, a dataset containing family reconstitutions based on civil certificates of birth, marriage and death. …”
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Like Mother, Like Daughter. Intergenerational Transmission of Infant Mortality Clustering in Zeeland, the Netherlands, 1833-1912 by Ingrid K. van Dijk, Kees Mandemakers

“…In this paper, we focus on the intergenerational transmission of mortality clustering in the Netherlands in the province of Zeeland between 1833 and 1912, using LINKS Zeeland, a dataset containing family reconstitutions based on civil certificates of birth, marriage and death. …”
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A Review of the Book The Art of Islamic Banking and Finance by S.M.Reza Amiri Tehrani

“…The prominent characteristic of an ‎Islamic banking system is not only its ‎interest-free feature but also its civility and social responsibility. The main pitfalls of the book include a lack of comprehensive discussion and a lack of reporting the Islamic banking systems of other Muslim countries. …”
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Investigation of Time Series Representations and Similarity Measures for Structural Damage Pattern Recognition by Wenjia Liu, Bo Chen, R. Andrew Swartz

“…The test data used in this study are from the System Identification to Monitor Civil Engineering Structures (SIMCES) Z24 Bridge damage detection tests, a rigorous instrumentation campaign that recorded the dynamic performance of a concrete box-girder bridge under progressively increasing damage scenarios. …”
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OnlineLino—A Website on Architect Raul Lino’s Built Heritage at <i>Médio Tejo</i>, in Portugal by Anabela Moreira, Inês Serrano, Paulo Santos, Regina Delfino, Pedro Matos, Ana Gracio, Ana Xavier

“…The work was carried out by a multidisciplinary team in an academic setting, involving the areas of architecture, civil engineering, computer engineering and design. …”
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Promiscuous, diseased and unfit: Discourses and embodiments of Indian indentured women across the British Empire, c. 1840–1920 by Morag Flora Wright

“…In doing so the colonial states involved in indentured labour positioned themselves as father, as correctors of racial deviancy and indenture as a system, by extension, as a means of stepping into subjecthood, history and civility.…”
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La nature et les ruines : anciennes présences humaines dans le récit climatique de science‑fiction by Rémi Auvertin

“…European modernity and romanticism have made the human ruin a symbol of the passage of time and the fall of civilizations. The motif persists durably in contemporary culture and in the archaeological imagination of most people. …”
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Elastoplastic analysis of cracked Aluminum plates with a hybrid repair technique using the bonded composite patch and drilling hole in opening mode I by Wahiba Nessrine Bouzitouna, Wahid Oudad, Mohamed Belhamiani, Djamel Eddine Belhadri, Leila Zouambi

“…These repair techniques can apply in different branches of engineering: mechanical, aerospace, civil, naval, etc. The finite element method with the ABAQUS code was used to model the mechanical behavior of the different repair techniques. …”
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US Foreign Policy on Transitional Justice and Democratization in Tunisia: Pacted Transition or Democracy Reduction? by Oussema Othmeni

“…The second school puts forward a Democracy Reduction Critique, arguing instead that US policymakers fell for the electoral democracy fallacy and fetishized the role of civil society. This paper critically accounts for both schools and argues that they represent two sides of the same coin.…”
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Thoughts Regarding Amendment in Non-Pecuniary Damages on Turkish Administrative Judicial Procedure Law by Seyit Rasim Doru

“…In order to express these, we will first examine the concept of amendment in civil procedure law in general and its application by substantiating with the Court of Cassation rulings. …”
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Ibero-American Studies by A. V. Shestopal, L. S. Okuneva

“…The formation of the first generation of iberoamerican scholars at MGIMO took place in an atmosphere marked by fresh memories of the Spanish Civil War and the convergence of the USSR and the countries of Latin America, with the majority of which diplomatic relations were established. …”
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Réflexions beyrouthines sur la verticalité et la précarité. by Hervé Flanquart

“…Puis sont arrivées les questions sur ces hommes, ces femmes, ces enfants qui ont fui la guerre civile et trouvé refuge dans un immeuble dépourvu de façade et du moindre confort. …”

South Sea Daggers and the Dead Man’s Eye: Foreign Invasion in Fin-de-Siècle Optogram Fiction by Andrea Goulet

“…This is the age of post-Pasteurian fears of microbial contagion, of pre-Freudian theories of atavistic threats to civilized order, of Lombrosan anthropometry and its identification of the criminal classes in Europe with the ‘primitive’ peoples of Africa, South America, Asia, and the South Seas. …”
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Investigation of Soil-Structure Interaction for Design of Reinforced Concrete Structures under Earthquake Load by Saffet Kılıçer, Korhan Özgan

“…Prediction of earthquake magnitude in advance is a great importance in the civil engineering discipline to minimize possible damages during the earthquake. …”
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Self-assessment policy and perspectives for learning and organizational innovation in postgraduation programs in business administration in brazilian northeast region by Marcio Roque dos Santos da Silva, Maria Conceição Melo Silva Luft, Maria Elena Leon Olave

“…There was also an assertive perception regarding the perspectives for Organizational Innovation, highlighting, among other aspects, changes in the training process, approximation to other sectors of civil society, and changes in the management model. …”
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Les représentations filmiques de Marie Stuart– Une femme de pouvoir dans l’air du temps by Armel Dubois-Nayt

“…It starts by focusing on the way the Scottish Queen is depicted as a Catholic ruler who had to deal with the Scottish Reformation and the civil strife it entailed. These cinematic representations are considered in the wider scope of Marian myth-making as it developed in the sixteenth century with the aim of showing that until recently cinema has merely harped on the tropes found in her early modern detractors and defenders. …”
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Unmanned aerial vehicles: factor decisivo en el conflicto bélico de Ucrania by Román Fernández Chiclano, César Augusto Giner-Alegría, Rubén Américo Durán Rodríguez

“…Este artículo aborda la historia de esta tecnología en el ámbito civil y militar, así como la evolución de sus características técnicas y sus ventajas en escenarios bélicos, para analizar el papel ahora protagónico de las aeronaves no tripuladas en el conflicto iniciado con la invasión rusa de Ucrania en 2022. …”
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