Why Hair Needs to Be Long by Nicolas Sihlé

“…This study of the Repkong tantrists’ capillary culture will argue that their hair, at the intersection between the bodily, the social and the political, constitutes an overdetermined religious identity marker. …”
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Des TIC au TOC. Contribuer à OpenStreetMap : entre commun numérique et utopie cartographique by Marina Duféal, Matthieu Noucher

“…The object of the analysis is twofold in this article : to highlight the profiles, practices, commitment values of those who constitute the hard core of the OSM community in France and to discuss the underside of this new mapping factory, that operates between utopia and digital common.…”
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Entre la parole et l’image : le système mythopoétique marubo by Pedro de Niemeyer Cesarino

“…The transformation and composition relationships of the previous schemes constitute a specialized mythological and poetic knowledge, characterized by transmission and acquisition processes that are connected to the exo-centered Amerindian cosmologies.…”
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Life on board ship and cultural intimacy. Notes from the Central Mediterranean by Jasmine Iozzelli

“…When they meet aboard seagoing vessels, these currents construct a highly diverse range of shared spaces.Exploring both the macro-structure and some of the micro-practices that constitute these spaces, I attempt to point up some of the contradictions – between humanitarian logic and activist demands, between efficiency and processes of dehumanization, between formal rationality and the unpredictability of events – that arise in the construction of a sense of belonging on board a large SAR ship.…”
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On the Origins of Calculation Abilities by A. Ardila

“…It is emphasized that using historical/anthropological analysis, it becomes evident that acalculia, finger agnosia, and disorders in right–left discrimination (as in general, in the use of spatial concepts) must constitute a single clinical syndrome, resulting from the disruption of some common brain activity and the impairment of common cognitive mechanisms.…”
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Le domaine de Voisins (1892-2008) : essai de définition d’un lieu hors temps by Caroline Scotto

“…This historical approach of the management constitutes a starting point for the reflection on the future of the place.…”
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Les difficultés et les besoins de soutien des enseignants débutants en adaptation scolaire by Fanny Giguère, Joséphine Mukamurera

“…In Quebec, studies on the teacher induction do not enlighten the special situation of those working in the field of special education. Constituting a significant portion of the teaching staff (gouvernement du Québec, 2016) and working with vulnerable and exclusively troubled students, these teachers face relatively different challenges from those of their colleagues working in regular classes. …”
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Es regnete Anfragen und ehe er sich‘s versah, schneite ihm eine Überraschung ins Haus. Zur synchronen Variierbarkeit der Valenz der Witterungsverben by Petra Szatmári

“…Amongst them, verbs describing the weather constitute a rather small and semantically defined verb subclass. …”
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Slope Stability Analysis under Complex Stress State with Saturated and Unsaturated Seepage Flow by Zongyuan Ma, Caihui Zhu, Xiaoliang Yao, Faning Dang

“…Firstly, an elastoplastic constituted model for the soil under a complex stress state is established and as a user subroutine of the finite element method code of FLAC. …”
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Possible Relevance of Receptor-Receptor Interactions between Viral- and Host-Coded Receptors for Viral-Induced Disease by Luigi F. Agnati, Giuseppina Leo, Susanna Genedani, Diego Guidolin, Nicola Andreoli, Kjell Fuxe

“…In view of the existence of receptor-receptor interactions, the hypothesis is introduced that these viral-coded receptors not only operate as constitutively active monomers, but also can affect other receptor function by interacting with receptors of the host cell. …”
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Role of Tc-Sulesomab Immunoscintigraphy in the Management of Infection following Deep Brain Stimulation Surgery by Raquel Real, Paulo Linhares, Hélder Fernandes, Maria José Rosas, Miguel F. Gago, Jorge Pereira, Rui Vaz

“…Infection constitutes a serious adverse event in patients submitted to deep brain stimulation, often leading to removal of the device. …”
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Immunomediated Encephalitis: New Diagnoses on the Neurology–Psychiatry Interface by Daniel Damiani, Aline Ribeiro de Bem

“…The etiologies behind these diseases are represented by paraneoplastic syndromes (including occult tumors) as well as viral infections, in both cases constituting true immunological triggers with exposure of antigens that will lead to a cross-immunological response directed at healthy structures of the nervous system. …”
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On the scaling of digital twins by aggregation by Marcelo Pias, Lawrence Bull, Daniel S. Brennan, Mark Girolami, Jon Crowcroft

“…This mindset emphasises that DT complexity emerges from the framework of connections (Wagg et al. [2024, The philosophical foundations of digital twinning, Preprint]) as well as the (interpretable) units that constitute the whole.…”
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On the frictionless unilateral contact of two viscoelastic bodies by M. Barboteu, T.-V. Hoarau-Mantel, M. Sofonea

“…The bodies are assumed to have a viscoelastic behavior that we model with Kelvin-Voigt constitutive law. The contact is frictionless and is modeled with the classical Signorini condition with zero-gap function. …”
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Recurrent Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis: A Discrete Clinical Entity by Elena Torban, Martin Bitzan, Paul Goodyer

“…However, with the recognition of hereditary FSGS caused by mutations podocyte slit diaphragm genes, it is increasingly clear that the steroid-resistant form of FSGS that recurs in the renal allografts (R-FSGS) constitutes a distinct clinical entity. Capitalizing on recent studies in which patients have been screened for slit diaphragm gene mutations, this review focuses on the natural history and pathogenesis of R-FSGS.…”
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From the curricular to the investigative, a look at COVID-19 by Sandra Williams Serrano, Luis Alberto Mass Sosa, Milagros León Regal, José Aurelio Díaz Quiñones

“…The subject Blood-Immune System includes in its content a large number of health problems due to imbalance in the immune response, which constitutes a clear justification for resizing the scientific training process. …”
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Glucocorticosteroid in Treatment of Severe Pneumonia by Felinda Ariani, Kaixiong Liu, Zhang Jing, Jieming Qu

“…Airway diseases such as pneumonia constitute a major health burden on a global scale; untreated pneumonia may develop to severe pneumonia and consequently lead to to fatal episodes of mortality and morbidity. …”
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Adaptive public spaces. Exploring digital transition for social and environmental benefit by Bianca Andaloro, Martijn de Waal, Frank Suurenbroek

“…Contributing towards a rethink of these spaces, the present paper explores adaptive architecture with responsive technologies and their capability of shaping public spaces to constitute a conversation piece with the surrounding environment. …”
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CATHINONES AND VIAGRA IN CHEMSEX: AN AUTOETHNOGRAPHY OF TOUCH, MASCULINITIES AND AESTHETICS by Jorge Humberto Lucero Díaz

“…The study concludes that chemsex constitutes a space of complex cultural transformation, where new forms of relationship, pleasure, and gender expression are challenged and redefined.…”
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ANALYSIS OF ORGANISATIONAL PERFORMANCE OF NON-PROFIT INSTITUTIONS: THE CASE OF LIFELONG LEARNING INSTITUTIONS IN CROATIA by Zoran Mihanović, Jurica Pavičić, Nikša Alfirević

“… This paper discusses the organisational performance of non-profit institutions of lifelong learning and analyses factors constituting performance of non-profit institutions and educational institutions in particular, as well as the level and structure of performance of these institutions. …”
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