Technical insights on adjustable velar extension and safety mechanism in Tübingen palatal plate for Pierre Robin sequence by Hemwati Nandan, Bert Braumann, Teresa Kruse, Michael Wolf, Pragjyoti Jha, Srinivas Gosla Reddy, Prasad Nalabothu

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Cosmovisión mágica y religiosidad protestante: una mirada a las tensiones y transiciones en el mundo Achagua y Piapoco by José Ignacio Bolaños-Motta, Enith Zulema Astaiza-Grande

“…El método desarrollado es la Etnografía, y a partir de realidades encontradas, mediante diálogo y observación; se derivan como resultado las categorías cosmovisión mágica y religiosidad protestante a través de las cuales se indica la existencia de un proyecto colonial religioso al interior de dichos pueblos étnicos.…”
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Changing Medium: The Contemporary Reception of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness in Two Graphic Novels by Nathalie Martinière

“…Changing medium allowed them to revisit both the colonial past and the meaning of a novella like Heart of Darkness since both graphic novels perform an implicit criticism of the source text and serve to reexamine its controversial aspects in the 21st century. …”
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The Illicit Production and Consumption of Ògógóró in Coastal Yorùbáland and the Niger Delta by Dọlápọ` Z. Olúpàyímọ´

“…The article adopts the use of sources which include oral interviews with resource persons, police information and intelligence reports, newspaper publications and archival documents from the colonial period deposited in the National Archives, Ibadan. …”
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Colonialismo y alteridad: el debate racial y cultural en la conquista de Argelia by María Luisa Sánchez-Mejía

“…La raza, la religión y el estado de civilización fueron los ejes centrales de un debate que muestra las contradicciones y las fisuras de la política y de la sociedad francesas ante la cuestión colonial.…”
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The Empire of Beasts Then and Now: Political Cartoons and New Trends in Victorian Animal Studies by Irina Kantarbaeva-Bill

“…In exhibiting and displaying such animals as the lion, the tiger, the crocodile and the bear while dealing with colonial issues, the popular British cartoons acted as complex rhetorical structures that helped to powerfully influence mass opinion and consequently harnessed the public support for the Empire. …”
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« Mon parent, ce nouvel ennemi ». Relations matrimoniales et intériorisation de l’Autre chez les Jebero d’Amazonie péruvienne by Ronan Julou

“…The Jebero, who stand for the ancient paragon of « Christian Indians » during the colonial period, are facing a deleterious change of their social relationship, marked by the loss of confidence in their close kin, now considered as potential enemies. …”
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Plant Killing by Mutualistic Ants Increases the Density of Host Species Seedlings in the Dry Forest of Costa Rica by Sabrina Amador-Vargas

“…The density of acacia sprouts growing inside clearings was almost twice that in the vicinities of host plants without clearings, and sprouts were inhabited by nestmates of the colony that made the clearing. Clones and seedlings were found in similar proportions in the clearings, and ants did not kill unrewarding acacia seedlings or seedlings unrelated to their host. …”
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Research on Path Planning Method of Coal Mine Robot to Avoid Obstacle in Gas Distribution Area by Ruiqing Mao, Xiliang Ma

“…Second, the initial working paths for the coal mine robot are obtained based on Dijkstra algorithm, and then the global optimal working path for the coal mine robot is obtained based on ant colony algorithm. Lastly, experiments are conducted in a roadway after an accident, and results by different path planning methods are compared, which verified the effectiveness of the proposed path planning method.…”
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Un diálogo con Verena Stolcke “La naturaleza y la cultura no son los extremos de un continuum” by Montserrat Ventura

“…Se doctoró en Oxford en 1970, con una tesis sobre sexualidad y racismo en la Cuba colonial. Más tarde realizó trabajo de campo con mujeres jornaleras en una plantación de café de Sao Paulo, mientras cofundaba el Departamento de Antropología social en la Universidad de Campinas (Sao Paulo, Brasil). …”
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Coral Reef Conservation Strategies for Everyone by Kathryn E. Lohr, Joshua T. Patterson

“…Large groups of these animals live together and form huge interconnected colonies called reefs. Coral reefs are some of the most diverse ecosystems on the planet; an essential habitat for a wide variety of animal and plant species. …”
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CARING FOR WOMEN ON THE FRONTLINES: ENHANCING WOMEN WORKERS’ CAPABILITIES AND BUILDING SOCIAL FRIENDSHIP by M.M.-Y. Yuen

“…In addition, the notions of political charity and social friendship in Catholic social thought, particularly the social encyclical Fratelli Tutti, and the multi-axial analysis in post-colonial feminist theology are useful in upholding women’s dignity and moral agency in care situations. …”
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Unfixing the Frame: Visualizing Histories of Transcultural Contact, Exchange & Performance in Prince Roland Bonaparte’s Peaux-Rouges (1884) by Emily L. Voelker

“…Here, however, the author shifts focus to the experiences of the pictured sitters, examining the photographic exchange embodied in the work as a specific moment in ongoing settler colonial relationships between the Umonhon and European, followed by Euro-American, colonizers. …”
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Tordre les archives (queering archives) : oui, mais dans quel sens ? by Ruby Faure

“…I defend here the idea that queering the archives constitutes an ethical orientation, seeking to resist contemporary homo-nationalist calls, as well as the separation of the history of sexuality from that of the French colonial empire.…”
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The Fall of Fertility in Tasmania, Australia, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by Helen Moyle

“…The paper examines the fall of marital fertility in Tasmania, the second settled Australian colony, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. …”
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Approche historique de l’agriculture urbaine au Dahomey (Bénin) by Dominique Juhé-Beaulaton

“…The first contacts with the Europeans (residents of forts and trading posts, Christian missionaries) promoted the development of a truck-farming agriculture; then, the colonial administration contributed strongly to rethink the city and agriculture by creating agricultural stations and a new town planning. …”
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Living in the Making of History! Two Victorian Female Travellers’ Representations of the 1879 Anglo-Zulu War by Ludmila Ommundsen

“…In 1877 the Zulu kingdom remained a major obstacle to Lord Carnarvon’s scheme to federate Natal and the Cape Colony with the Boer Republics. Two years later it was invaded and eventually annexed to Natal in 1887. …”
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Contemporary Painting as Reflector of Yoruba Cultural Values by Michael Olusegun Fajuyigbe

“…The study traces the origin of painting in Africa, from its earliest forms in African caves, shrines, and palaces, through the colonial and postcolonial eras to the present. Based on their contexts, eight (8) paintings that portray specific values of the Yorùbá and are ingrained with symbolic motifs, patterns and imageries are selected. …”
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La recomposition des savoirs au Maghreb à l’époque de la coopération by Jean-Robert Henry

“…In the social sciences, it was an age of deconstruction and reconstruction of colonial knowledge, for inventing north-south relations, a time for reconfiguring the concept of cultural space and a time of intense multidisciplinarity. …”
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Colonialidad y turismo: la fábrica de las identidades y alteridades en India by Anthony Goreau-Ponceaud

“…País atravesado por la matriz colonial, India constituye un ejemplo adecuado para pensar las situaciones turísticas y mostrar cómo los actores institucionales (gobierno indio) y no institucionales (empresas, turistas domésticos, miembros de la diáspora) conjugan imaginarios turísticos para apoyar o redefinir las identidades colectivas y las alteridades –a veces incluso para reforzarlas. …”
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