Democracy and digital disintegration: Platforms, actors, citizens by Widholm Andreas, Ekman Mattias

“…The digital transformations of contemporary media systems have had severe consequences for democracy and public debates. …”
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Storia e significati della Nerezza nel Sud della Tunisia: per una nuova prospettiva by Marta Scaglioni

“…On the contrary, today’s Tunisia is a “post-colonial” and “post-slavery” society, and slavery left a profound legacy onto contemporary racial dynamics. This is particularly evident in the South of the country, where racial regimes are made by social categories which are racialized according to skin colour, origin, and social status. …”
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Transdisciplinary techno-artistic experience in university teacher training by María Dolores Soto González, Ramona Rodríguez López

“…The experience seeks to promote the use of technologies with a contemporary approach through new creative forms such as sound-visual cartographies. …”
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Zofia Szczupaczyńska wobec wyzwań swoich czasów. Uwagi na marginesie lektury cyklu „krakowskich kryminałów” Maryli Szymiczkowej [właśc. Jacek Dehnel i Piotr Tarczyński] by Adam Mazurkiewicz

“…Among them, there were also considerations that situated the tetralogy against the backdrop of contemporary transformations of the ‘crime and punishment’ story (whether the cycle itself can be considered as representative to crime fiction is a separate issue). …”
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Human Rights: is the concept truly coherent with the Christian moral teaching? by Aleksander Stępkowski

“…The conclusion acknowledges the contemporary dominance of the rights-focused ethics but warns against the temptation to create a new "Christianity" compatible with this framework, urging a recognition of the anti-Christian nature of the ethical foundations of the modern Western society. …”
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Essential oils – a review of the natural evolution of applications and some future perspectives by Stanislava Ivanova, Yana Gvozdeva, Radiana Staynova, Daniela Grekova-Kafalova, Vanya Nalbantova, Niko Benbassat, Nina Koleva, Kalin Ivanov

“…Currently, EOs represent not only an important part of the contemporary pharmaceutical and cosmetic industry but are also considered as sources for novel drug candidates. …”
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The Role of Information War in the Strengthening of Stereotypes about Russia in the Western Political Space by Irina Milutinović, Aleksandar Gajić

“…Therefore, the aim of this research is to point at the role of media discourse in supporting and forming negative stereotypes about contemporary Russia. In the introductory part of the Paper, the problem of stereotyping the notions of Russia and the Russians in the Western political space is contextualized, and then the case study on the empirical basis describes the role of the so-called Western media in supporting the established stereotypes in modern times. …”
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Srbija na istorijskoj prekretnici 1944: slom monarhista i pobeda komunističkih snaga by Nemanja Dević

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A study of two Chinese-style Clarinet Works Colors from China and Hommage to China from the Perspective of Cultural Holism by Congjie Zhao

“…It was proposed mainly based on the background of increasingly frequent cultural exchanges in the world today, and contemporary Western classical music works illustrate this trend by increasingly incorporating non-Western music elements. …”
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Stratégies argumentatives dans les discours politiques américains sur la législation des substances psychoactives : quel emploi du pathos à l’ère de la post-vérité ? by Sarah Bourse

“…The term “post-truth” was declared word of the year in 2016 by The Oxford Dictionary due to its relevance in the contemporary English-speaking world. Even though this word initially relates to lies at the core of political scandals (Iran-Contra scandal, Persian Gulf war), it recently has taken on another meaning, referring to a situation where objective facts have less impact than appeals to emotion and personal belief to influence public opinion (https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/word-of-the-year/word-of-the-year-2016).In this post-truth era where emotions take center stage the study of pathos in political discourse has never been more relevant. …”
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Villa et ateliers sidérurgiques à l’est de la forêt de Sillé-le-Guillaume (Sarthe) : un exemple de production domaniale du fer durant l’époque romaine ? by Florian Sarreste

“…This short interval of time, the mass production and the regular distribution of workshops suggest that all of these sites have operated simultaneously. They are also contemporary with a villa discovered in the 19th c. a few hundred meters north of the forest. …”
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COACHING AS A TOOL FOR UNLOCKING LEARNING POTENTIAL by Ieva Brazauskaitė-Zubavičienė, Asta Pukienė, Claudia Saccone

“…In contemporary European educational contexts, equal access to education and learning opportunities have become one of the main issues. …”
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The Principle of Mathematical Induction: Applications in Physical Optics by Joseph Ivin Thomas

“…The bare rudiments of the principle of mathematical induction as a method of proof date back to ancient times. In the contemporary university milieu, the demonstrative scheme is taught as part of a course in discrete mathematics, set theory, number theory, graph theory, group theory, game theory, linear algebra, logic, and combinatorics. …”
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Cluster management standards in Poland in the context of sustainable development by P. Kuraś

“…It also indicates the role and significance of clusters in the contemporary economy. Subsequently, the author has conducted an analysis of cluster activities in Poland. …”
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Green actions for innovative cities. The new agri-food landscape by Emanuele Sommariva, Nicola Valentino Canessa, Giorgia Tucci

“…In order to encourage good practices within the contemporary agro-urban scenario, the contribution outlines novel ideas on circularity and recycling of waste from across the food chain from the European project Creative Food Cycles. …”
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The Mustachioed Woman, or The Problem of Androgyny in Victoria Cross’ Six Chapters of a Man’s Life by Ana Raquel Rojas

“…While Victoria Cross’ novel Six Chapters of a Man’s Life has now largely fallen into obscurity, it has a new relevance in terms of contemporary theories of performativity and gender identity. …”
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Perspectives of the cooperation between Vietnam and the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) by Novikova E.S., Nguyen Phu Huu

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The Role of Islamic Banks in Tackling Financial Exclusion in North-East Nigeria by Tijjani Muhammad, Zanna Khalil

“…The purpose of this study is to explore the level of financial exclusion in North-East Nigeria and determine the reasons and barriers behind the huge percentage of financial exclusion. The contemporary Islamic bank is considered as a solution to tackle financial exclusion. …”
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To Know Is To Be – Wisdom in Philosophy as a Way of Life and Its Implications for our Understanding of Knowledge by Lucas Nascimento Machado

“…I then connect this discussion to contemporary philosophical debate and critique of our current society by Byung-Chul Han and Ailton Krenak, pointing out how the PWL conception of knowledge is relevant to that debate and, thus, crucial for the reflection on alternatives to the way we live today, led by demands of productivity and utility.…”
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Des données textuelles et planimétriques à l’analyse des dynamiques paysagères et foncières. Le cas de Blandy-les-Tours (Seine-et-Marne) du XVIe au XIXe siècle by Albane Rossi

“…This doctoral study is largely based on the parallel processing of textual and planimetrics data, be they modern or contemporary, incorporated into a geographical information system. …”
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