Photographic self-fashioning. The role of photography in community-formation by the skagen painters by Mette Bøgh Jensen

“…The empirical material consists of the artists’ accounts of being an artist in an artists’ colony such as anecdotes, letters, eyewitness accounts published in contemporary media and some of the photographs of the artists’ communal activities in the collection of Art Museums of Skagen.…”
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Mobilités internationales et ressources en contexte métropolitain : trajectoires centraméricaines à Mexico by Laurent Faret

“…In an attempt to shed light on contemporary migration dynamics, where the situation of "frustrated trajectories" have become more evident as the routes become more complex, the article deals with the relationship between mobility trajectories and installation in the metropolitan area, as with the tensions between migratory resources and urban resources. …”
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THE AXIOLOGICAL ASPECT OF THE NOTION “TOLERANCE” by V. V. Matyushina

“…Moreover, an attempt is made to define the status of tolerance as a value of modern society because contemporary philosophy considers tolerance to be one of the fundamental values of the present. …”
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Vestibular schwannoma: evolution of diagnosis and treatment by Sina Radparvar

“…In this historical vignette, the evolutionary pathways for diagnosis and treatment of Vestibular Schwannoma are analyzed including the historical breakthroughs, contemporary management, and future directions.…”
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Cultural Stereotypes, Literary Agency, and Postcolonial Writing: A Conversation with Shirin Ramzanali Fazel and Simone Brioni by Maria Morelli

“…The focus was on female authors who, through their voices, contribute to the debate on Muslim women’s identity and agency in contemporary Europe, inviting us to rethink traditional analyses that position the “non-Western” as backward and restrictive. …”
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Indigenous cultures in the era of globalisation by Nnamdi Tobechukwu Ekeanyanwu

“…The paper therefore concludes that cultural imperialism theory needs a re-examination in line with the contemporary realities of today’s world as a global village made possible by the advances in information and communication technologies (ICTs). …”
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The State Symbols of Bosnia and Herzegovina during the Twentieth Century by Emir Filipovic

“…In analysing these changes, the author examined a number of legal texts and contemporary discussions, revealing that the political elites responsible for designing Bosnia and Herzegovina’s symbols often oscillated between traditional heraldic inspirations from the Middle Ages and the unconventional modern desire for neutral solutions. …”
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Introduction: Intergenerational Transmissions of Infant Mortality using the Intermediate Data Structure (IDS) by Luciana Quaranta, Hilde Leikny Sommerseth

“…It has previously been shown that infant mortality clusters in a subset of families, a phenomenon which was observed in historical populations as well as contemporary developing countries. A transmission of death clustering across generations has also been shown in Belgium, but it is unknown whether such effects are specific to the studied context or are also found in other areas. …”
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La notion de société civile dans les politiques et pratiques du développement by Gautier Pirotte

“…This article insists on the necessity of promoting researches on “non-western civil societies” based on this by project approach and underlines the necessity of building a more complex and more empirical analytical tool able to by-pass quantitative and associative bias that a large part of contemporary works on civil societies regularly proposes.…”
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Investigations of a journalistic blind spot by Figenschou Tine Ustad, Eide Elisabeth, Einervoll Nilsen Ruth

“…Recent studies argue that the contemporary working class has largely disappeared from the news media. …”
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ICT and agriculture in India by Balasubramanian Dhandapani, Rico Lie, Pierre Grard

“…Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have contributed in one way or the other to many transformations in contemporary society. The contexts and the impacts of such transformations are particularly significant for developing societies like India. …”
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Environments (out) of Control by Lorinc Vass, Roy Cloutier, Nicole Sylvia, Contingent Collective

“…This article examines the contradictory circuits of (neo)cybernetics in contemporary architectural and urbanistic discourse by reframing them within the ‘environmentalitarian’ epoch. …”
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Conservation refugees and environmental dispossession in 21st century critical Geography by Scott William Hoefle

“…Historical geographers have recently taken up these concepts from contemporary Environmental History, and when with allied to the concepts of environmental ethics from Radical Ecology and Environmental Studies and nature enclosures from Political Ecology, a novel critique is produced of the role of full conservation units in debates surrounding global climate change. …”
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Moral passion and legal positivism: reply to Anton Didikin by A. V. Nekhaev

“…A new classification of contemporary legal philosophy theories based on a distinction between «dietary» and «calorie» views on the question of the extent that the substantive content of law needs to be consistent with the moral requirements for it to be legal is proposed and justified. …”
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Peer effects among friends on students' cognitive abilities: An analysis based on emotional distance. by Wenyi Zhou, Junming Xie, Jinsong Kuang, Yongqing Feng, Dag Øivind Madsen

“…In contemporary society, students' cognitive abilities are crucial for the accumulation of human capital. …”
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SUSTAINABLE HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT RELATIONSHIP WITH THE HUMAN RESOURCE RISK REDUCTION by Azra Ahmić, Selma Smajlović

“… Being exposed to tempestuous transformations and complexities in environment, contemporary enterprises are characterized by grand extent of suspense, unsteadiness and changeability.  …”
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L’Angleterre et l’Écosse au miroir de la fureur : L’Écossaise d’Antoine de Montchrestien et Marie Stuard de Charles Regnault by Frédéric Sprogis

“…This article studies the transposition of a contemporary event into a French corpus of tragedies through the integration, in the writing of both plays, of the dramatic motive that goes together with the story as well as with the genre as it evolved in the XVIth and XVIIth centuries: tragic fury. …”
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Capital of Feedback by Nina Stener Jørgensen

“…The body of work by British architect Cedric Price (1934–2003) is largely concerned with architecture’s relationship to technology and its impact on society. As contemporary architecture finds itself confronted with similar issues today, Price’s designs are being revisited and hailed for their prospective and inventive visions. …”
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Digital communication and agency by Jakub Siwak

“…To do so, it turns to a very specific source; the post-structural theorist, Gilles Deleuze, and his conception of digital societies of control, as well as contemporary theoretical works that reflect his concerns over our agency within the virtual spaces we now increasingly inhabit. …”
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The South African Families Database by Jeanne Cilliers

“…Until recently, this valuable resource was not in a format that would enable its use for the type of event-history analyses that have come to dominate the field of contemporary historical demography. This is now changing with the introduction of the South African Families database (SAF). …”
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