Poorly Recognized and Uncommonly Acknowledged Limitations of Randomized Controlled Trials by Chittaranjan Andrade

“…This article briefly touches upon this and other well-recognized limitations and presents, in greater detail, less commonly acknowledged limitations with examples from contemporary literature. Important among the less commonly acknowledged limitations are biases in RCTs of interventions to which patients cannot be blinded, weaknesses in the design of maintenance therapy RCTs, and, ubiquitously, post-randomization biases. …”
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Canaux anciens et puits récents : usages de l’eau d’irrigation, identité et territoire dans le Haouz (Maroc) by Violaine Héritier-Salama

“…By associating an ethnography of contemporary practices and a diachronic approach, this article tries to show the co-construction over time of an irrigated soil and of a social group, in a locality in Marrakesh’s plain (Haouz). …”
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Métropole, cosmopolitisme et médiation by Gilberto Velho

“…Through an examination of classic authors like Simmel, it considers the discontinuities between objective and subjective cultures in modern-contemporary society. One of its central aims is to identify the circulation between multiple fields and different currents of cultural tradition. …”
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Poemas entre músicas: dialogia melopoética e(m) uma didática contemporânea by Robson Coelho Tinoco, Marília de Alexandria

“…In that current context historical of globalization and multise- miotic informations it is believed that, in the measure in the individual-student notices the due relation / integration of those levels, the contact with the implicit musicality in the verses of poems will make possible that she is apprehended bet- ter until as contemporary melopoetic element. With such concern, and leaning on in analyses of Mikhail Bakhtin, Octavio Paz, José Miguel Wisnik, Luiz Tatit e Jusamara Souza, the theoretical foundations of the didatic process consider, basi- cally, a conception dialogical and interactionist of that of those artistics language).…”
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Tautologies toponymiques : comment apprivoiser l’espace entre continuités et fractures by Fabio Armand, Jean-Pierre Gerfaud

“…The study of tautologies, which are part of a historical succession linked to the occupation of the places, represent a useful tool for identifying and formulating the issues of continuity and fracture that are at stake in our contemporary societies.…”
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A censura ao direito de sonhar em Quarto de despejo, de Carolina Maria de Jesus by Luciana Paiva Coronel

“…Therefore, we understand that Carolina‟s work found echo of many authorized voices and thus enriches Brazilian contemporary li terary scene with greater representativeness.…”
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Kenelm Digby (and Margaret Cavendish) on Motion by Daniel Whiting

“…This is a view of motion—as change in relations of parthood—that Alison Peterman attributes to Digby’s contemporary and acquaintance, Margaret Cavendish. Having shown that Digby’s presentation of the view predates Cavendish’s by more than a decade, I make a case that Digby’s work influenced Cavendish’s on this topic. …”
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Reflexiones sobre los procesos de patrimonialización de los caminos antiguos en los Andes colombianos by Alejandro Bernal Vélez

“…Commencing with an exploration of contemporary concepts pertinent to heritage-related matters, this article proceeds to delineate the treatment afforded to select regional cases of roads as objects of academic study and as objects that fall within the field of conservation and valuation heritage in Colombia. …”
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The Sexed or Unsexed Voice on the Lyrical Stage in 18th-c. London by Pierre Dubois

“…The fascination exerted by this type of voices was closely linked to a contemporary conception of sexuality. This article consequently attempts to analyse, by opposition, the meaning and impact of the emergence of the oratorio genre. …”
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Trento, which kind of future? Perspectives for a resilient city by Matteo Aimini

“…This category includes strategies for landscape design approaches capable of tackling the challenges posed by our contemporary era.…”
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Governance dashboards. Monitoring of key performance and aggregate indicators by Adriano Magliocco, Maria Canepa

“… The recent increase of smart city policies around the world has meant that digital infrastructures play increasingly central roles for data collection and processing in contemporary city governance. The ‘dashboards’, as tools to communicate the state and development of the city through the display of data, can play an interesting role in supporting the implementation of initiatives by public administrations, as well as in making citizens more aware of them. …”
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La création d’une nouvelle filière dans le cadre de la requalification de friches industrielles à grande échelle : les paysages productifs by Julien Lahaie

“…This article focuses on the contemporary context marked by a resumption in the development of this large industrial platform by the local authorities (principally the Lyon metropolis). …”
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On difference. Lack and politics in Pierre Clastres by Sebastián Barros

“…Finally –and briefly–, the article puts forward a way in which the analysis of contemporary political processes like Latin America populisms or the Indignants Movement in Europe could benefit from Clastres’ conception of politics and difference.…”
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EINE BETRACHTUNG DER DARGESTELLTEN LEHRMETHODEN JESU IM MATTHÄUSEVANGELIUM AUS DER PERSPEKTIVE DER METHODEN DER ERLEBNISPÄDAGOGIK by M. Hagel

“…The results of Jesus’ teaching methods are subsequently compared with contemporary experiential education. The presentation and characteristic of the teaching methods of Jesus are compiled in this manner in order to discover any non-obvious presentations of Jesus’ teaching methods. …”
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Le nahualli-tlahuipuchtli dans le monde nahuatl by Roberto Martínez González

“…In the first part of the article, we review the ancient data; secondly we attempt to define the contemporary stereotype of the tlahuipuchtli and then describe how the Spaniard witchcraft concepts participated in the construction of modern tlahuipuchtli image. …”
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La revalorización del medievo en la estética masónica: Inglaterra y Escocia (siglos XIX y XX) by David Martín López

“…Freemasonry, considered as one of the first “social network”, emerged in contemporary society of the pre-Enlightenment in England (1717), draw a global map of corporatism – whether philanthropic, educational, ethical, moral and even political senses could met there – with the principles and aesthetic values associated with arts and architecture. …”
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The dispute over classical sociobiology by Zbigniew Łepko

“…The dispute is the contemporary version of the old one about the nature of man. …”
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The Meaning of 'Refutation' in Kant's Refutation of Idealism by Hyoung Sung Kim

“…By examining Kant's legal, logical, and critical uses of 'refutation', I argue for what I call a ‘diagnostic’ reading of the Refutation: Kant seeks to identify the grounds for why someone might be attracted to Cartesian skepticism and then appeals to his doctrines concerning space and time in the Transcendental Aesthetic to show how such grounds contains a difficult-to-see error. In contemporary terms, Kantian 'refutations' resemble so-called ‘debunking arguments’ which seek to undermine a belief’s rational standing by characterizing the grounds for the belief in question as flawed, defective, or unfavorable.…”
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Nordic Noir from Within and Beyond by Hansen Kim Toft

“…The three largest contemporary commercial players on the Nordic market – Viaplay, HBO, and Netflix – have been able to, in very different ways, tap into the ideology of banal Nordism and the geopolitical unity of the Nordic region, and they have done so by producing and acquiring content that has deep associations with one of the Nordic region's main international brands: Scandinavian crime fiction and Nordic Noir.…”
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Renaissance des études afromexicaines et production de nouvelles identités ethniques by Odile Hoffmann

“…During the past few years, studies regarding Mexican black populations have begun to multiply and to diversify towards a more contemporary approach. These studies are responding to a small but real mobilization of some Afro-Mexican groups, which are venturing into the cultural and public arenas, and less frequently into the political realm. …”
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