Les paysages de décharges publiques urbaines au Liban : quelle problématique ? by Nada Chbat

“…The urban waste dumps that have proliferated in Lebanon constitute a real problem in this country. Situated in public locations, these waste dumps provoke several types of social manifestations related to the perception of waste that range between what is thrown and what is useful. …”
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La cuestión religiosa como factor de conflictividad política durante la Segunda República by Miguel Ángel Giménez Martínez

“…However, the weakness of the consecutive Cabinets and the restricted capacity for mediation recognized to the president in the 1931 Constitution hampered the triumph of a commitment strategy that would have corrected the outcome of events.…”
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De la dialectique du « local » et du « national » dans les lois électorales tunisiennes ou comment représenter le « peuple » dans la Tunisie post-Ben Ali by Eric Gobe

“…The emergence of the « local » in the « national » is translated by the adoption of the first electoral law integrating the issue of the region and by the adoption of a largely decentralized state architecture. The new constitution paved the way for the organization of local collectives directed by elected councils for universal suffrage, and has encouraged actors of the post-Ben Ali political stage to cast a new regard on the effects of electoral methods on the operation of the local as well as national political scene.…”
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A Dialectical Social Framework for the Analysis of Media Communication by Ercan Gündoğan

“…The study begins with the determination that a genuine theoretical analysis of mediaand communication must take into account certain constitutive relations and processes within thesocial whole, since communication is not part of a single social structure or a distinctive structurewithin a social system. …”
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Les Rois mages. Iconographie et art monumental dans l’espace féodal (xe-xiie siècle) by Mathieu Beaud

“…Being abstract universal figures, the Three Kings constitute a clear picture of the notion of social group, modulated according to various unifying consciences, from the most basic unit to Christian Holism.…”
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Business philosophy during digital transformation in wartime conditions. The case of Ukraine in critical perspective by Yaroslav Pushak, Nataliia Trushkina, Vitaliy Flyak, Iryna Bezpalko

“…The obtained results allow concluding that, no philosophy develops in an ethereal dimension, isolated from the dialectical forces and contradictions of its time, therefore, every business philosophy constitutes a space where the social representations of a given time and space converge. …”
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La délicate existence locale de l’adaptation aux changements climatiques : avec, sans, ou à côté de l’atténuation by François Bertrand, Elsa Richard

“…Climate policies are usually represented as being constituted by two complementary and balanced components: one for mitigating the causes of climate problem, the other for adapting to its effects. …”
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L’émergence de surfeurs malgaches à Madagascar : comment de nouvelles spatialités participent aux façonnements de paysages by Lilia Khelifi

“…The paradoxical relationship with the coastline shifting between attraction and rejection, provides food for thought regarding what may constitute a landscape for individuals or social groups. …”
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Paese che vai usanza che trovi, tra cosmo e campanile by Pietro Clemente

“…The second one is a general rediscovery of the originality and richness of local cultures inherited from the past, that even today mark not only the sense of places and of belonging to them, but constitute a key resource for the younger generations’ imagination of the future and of their dwelling in it. …”
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Trabalho doméstico: entre o poder simbólico patronal e a luta por reconhecimento jurídico by Attila Magno e Silva Barbosa, Giovanna Iasiniewicz, Maria Emília Valli Büttow

“…This article aims to analyse how social agents perceive social relations between employers and domestic workers after the establishment of the Constitutional Amendment No. 72, 2013, and the Complementary Law No. 150/15, giving an special focus to issues of power relations, affects and professionalization of such employment relationship. …”
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Anthropocentrism and Two Phenomenological Approaches to Animal Life by Mintautas Gutauskas

“…The second part discusses San Martín and Pintos’ approach, which, grounded in Husserl’s analysis of transcendental ego, considers the human-animal relation in terms of egotic subjectivity, corporeality, and the constitution of sense. San Martín and Pintos’ position is very important in the criticism of anthropocentrism, and yet it is considered insufficient when reflecting the diversity of human-animal relations. …”
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The Justification of Tyrannicide in the Chronicle of Dalimil. The Czech Nobility as the “Mystical Body” of the Realm by Éloïse Adde

“…In front of a king who could be weak (Henry of Carinthie), foreign (John the Blind) or too young (Venceslas II at the beginning of his reign), the nobility had to embody the durability of the State, the "community of the realm", in a dialectic that connected the Lords in the idea of constituting the "mystic body of king". In this text, the necessity of the application of the tyrannicide is not however presented as a novelty, but as a fundamental and almost moral duty of the nobility, which was abandoned because of the rise of the authoritarian exercise of the power by the ruler when the duchy of Bohemia became a Kingdom.…”
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14th - 16th centuries Grand Duchy of Lithuania border Pacts and delimitation procedures by Tomas Čelkis

“…The other part is up for State ambassadors (negotiators) board constitution, their functions; treaty formation and confirmation by oath and stamp ceremony. …”
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Beyond Aid: A New Metric for Official Development Assistance Post-2015 by Rafael Domínguez Martín

“…The study attempts to respond to the question, “after 2015, what will constitute the idea of ‘beyond aid,’ whose origins were associated with the policy coherence?” …”
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MAP-ping Queerness? Street Art in Philadelphia by Lara Cox

“…Based on a non-representational model of geography, I also reflect on how street art allows the queer community to constitute spaces for LGBTQIA+ people of colour. Philadelphia’s street art enables individual self-determination, as well as congregation, contestation, and conversation among queer people of colour, and between the queer and wider communities, in Philadelphia today. …”
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The Service of Documents in Administrative Procedural Law – A Comparative Analysis by Ines Golob

“… This article presents a comparative and empirical analysis of the service or the delivery of documents in procedures, as the key procedural action to constitute legal effects in legal relationships. In Slovenia, service is largely defined by the three main procedural laws – the General Administrative Procedure Act, the Criminal Procedure Act, and the Contentious Civil Procedure Act. …”
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The Personal Values of Small-Business Entrepreneurs: Evidence from Brazil by Daniel Lima, Edson Kubo, Eduardo Oliva

“…The finding that only one of the ten independent variables has been considered statistically influential on professionalism constitutes its main theoretical contribution. It rethinks professionalism, no longer as a dependent variable, but as a personal value, like the rest, in independent, innovative and sovereign way.…”
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Nephrotic Syndrome in Children: From Bench to Treatment by J.-C. Davin, N. W. Rutjes

“…Actually the podocyte has become the favourite candidate for constituting the main part of the glomerular filtration barrier. …”
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Entropy and Selection: Life as an Adaptation for Universe Replication by Michael E. Price

“…An organismal trait is more likely to constitute an adaptation if characterized by more improbable complex order, and such order is the hallmark of biological selection. …”
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Effects of Brinkman number on thermal-driven convective spherical Dynamos by MI Ngwueke, TM Abbey

“…The consequence of this exponential dependence of viscosity on temperature is considered to be a thermaldriven convective phenomenon. A set of constitutive non-linear equations were then formulated in which the solutions for the flow variables were obtained by perturbation technique. …”
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