Théorie comptable de la monnaie et de la finance by Maxime Izoulet

“…From this interpretation of the history of money, drawing on an accounting theory of value, this thesis aims at demonstrating that contemporary financial markets work as a substitution for money, by developing autonomously during liquidity shortages, and maintaining a negative causal relationship with inflation, as shown by many econometric studies.…”
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Głosy współczesnych dzieci w sprawie "Kajtusia Czarodzieja" – śladem Korczakowskiego pisarskiego eksperymentu by Marzenna Nowicka

“…The linguistic layer is acceptable, while the transfer of the fairytale aspect to real life does not suit the contemporary young recipients. The children’s suggestions regarding the new plots of reading were mainly of mimetic character in relation to the original. …”
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Reminiscence Tours and Pilgrimage Sites by Katja Uusihakala

“…One reason for this stems from the fact that migrations, diasporas and similar movements are considered constitutive to the conceptualization and understanding of various contemporary social and cultural processes. The notion of pilgrimage seems to capture both the physical as well as the emotional aspects that such movements contain. …”
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Concession, intensité assertive et argumentation – étude comparée de deux constructions concessives en anglais by Stéphane Gresset, Gérard Mélis

“…The main purpose of this article is to examine the difference between two concessive constructions in contemporary English: the clause introduced by ALTHOUGH (ALTHOUGH+P) in initial position before the main clause and MAY-BUT. …”
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Tempo e espaço: onde as teorias da natureza se encontram com as da cultura by Geovane Ferreira Gomes

“…As a result of the analysis, it points to the approximation of Aristotle’s theories with Marx, Weber with Galileo and Newton, and contemporary authors of the human sciences with Einstein.…”
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ESTIMATION OF FINANCIAL STABILITY OF AGRARIAN ENTERPRISES IN UKRAINE by Nadia Davidenko, Natalia Wasilewska

“…In this paper the system of factors influencing the formation of financial solvency was investigated, the financial sustainability of agricultural enterprises of Ukraine was evaluated, and an approach was developed to define and help ensure the financial sustainability of enterprises in the face of contemporary economic and market challenges. According to the research, the main principles for maintaining financial sustainability are: responsiveness to internal and external changes; governance systems; risk management; analysis of financial ratios; real assessment of the financial solvency of the enterprise; integration with the overall management system; orientation towards achieving the strategic goals of the enterprise; use of qualitative methods to inform financial decisions in the face of uncertainty and risk.…”
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The "turn" to spirituality by C. Kourie

“…Post-patriarchal and telluric, contemporary spirituality affects all areas of society, including the business world, education, health care, the arts, ecology, politics, religion and particularly the academy, where new programmes in spirituality are attracting a large number of students. …”
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Everyday agency and centred marginality: being “youth” in the oil-rich Niger Delta of Nigeria by Akin Iwilade

“…This paper uses an ethnography of youth gangs in the oil-rich Niger Delta region of Nigeria to explore the distinctions between being young and being youth and to argue that, in order to understand the complexities of a category whose politics have profoundly influenced the history of contemporary social transitions in many African societies, one must analytically disaggregate its various components and highlight the interesting ways in which various contexts can shape it. …”
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BEAUTIFUL PLACES AND RECREATING HUMANITY IN SOUTH AFRICA by G.J. Van Wyngaard

“… The article investigates the connection between beauty and justice, by exploring everyday aesthetics through ordinary life, specifically the very concrete reality of contemporary urban South Africa. On the one hand, it delves beneath the statement that apartheid is ugly, by exploring the ugly spaces apartheid created, the devastation of an aesthetic built on segregation, and the distortions of whiteness. …”
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The vision of divine light in Saint Gregory Palamas's theology by F. T. Tomoioagă

“…The entire study in couched in the frame of a personal reflection over the type of spirituality fit for contemporary man – a contemplative one of a mystical type or a much more practical one, based on social virtues? …”
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L’histoire muette by Sabine Ehrmann

“…For 25 years, the Observatoire photographique national du paysage, or OPNP, (National Photographic Observatory of the Landscape) has generated an unprecedented number of visual documents of contemporary French landscapes. A pressing question today is the future and possible use of this mass of documents. …”
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Le mouvement ouvrier dans l’art académique espagnol : une légitimité politique contrariée by Stéphanie Demange

“…The paintings exhibited in the regime's National Fine Arts Exhibitions showed these major social transformations, reflecting in a very contemporary repertoire the emergence of a «social question» in which strikers and anarchists were the leading figures. …”
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Błogosławieni wychowawcy świętej Teresy z Lisieux by Henryk Sławiński

“…First of all however the short biographies of Louis Martin and Zelie Guerin have been presented followed by the detailed description of their educational method and its validity for the contemporary parents.…”
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KHAWARIJISME: PERGULATAN POLITIK SEKTARIAN DALAM BINGKAI WACANA AGAMA by Fahmy Farid Purnama

“…Khawarij became symptom of the radicalization of religious discourse in the realm of contemporary politics that is often termed as neo-Khawarijism.…”
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Selective index of the publications in the journal <I>Proceedings on Applied Botany, Genetics and Breeding</I> dedicated to Nikolay Vavilov’s life, activities and scientific works... by article Editorial

“…All of them were dedicated to the life, activities and scientific achievements of Nikolay Vavilov as well as to his contribution to the contemporary research trends. The main attention is focused on Vavilov as a researcher, founder and leader of VIR. …”
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Historical reality and „understanding" the hermeneutical approach by Kęstutis Dubnikas

“… The contemporary philosophy of historiography widely discusses a problem of the cognitive claims. …”
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Le paysage comme contre-pouvoir au service des habitants by Cyrille Marlin

“…The result challenges two major institutional and practical fundamental notions in landscape architecture embodied by the contemporary figure of the landscape architect : 1. A form of action conducted with a specific notion of the future : the project ; 2. …”
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Activisme culturel au Centre Georges-Pompidou. Le photoreportage exposé (1977-1997) by Assia Quesnel

“…The Centre Pompidou thus appears as a place for the consecration of photo-reportage and the media. As for contemporary art, the institution was a place that activated photo-reportage especially in the decision to defend young artists, to show an interest in non-Western countries, and the commissioning of reportages.…”
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Italijansko nasilje na območju Bloške planote, 1941–1943 by Mirjam Dujo Jurjevčič

“…The paper discusses the time of the Italian occupation (April 1941– September 1943) on the Bloke Plateau, i.e. the former and contemporary Municipality of Bloke. In April 1941, the Bloke Plateau was occupied by Italian forces, who caused the highest number of deaths during the Second World War in the area in question, i.e. 23% of all casualties, most of which were civilians. …”
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URBANISATION ET CONTREURBANISATION DANS L’EUROPE D’APRÈS-GUERRE by IONEL MUNTELE

“…The most important purposes of this analysis, presented at the „Academic Days of Iaşi” (Sept. 2008) has been the followings: the constitution of one database about the dynamics of the urbanization in modern and contemporary Europe; the analysis of the measure were the classical models of the urban dynamics study (rank-size rule, the model of the central places) may be adapted of the recently complicated evolution derived from the change-over of the spatial reports between the urban system components, at everyscale; the obviousness of the various types of the urbanization, including the perspective of the engendered effects:urban displaying, urban congestion, periurbanization etc.…”
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