VIOLETA DINESCU UND DER SCHLÜSSEL DER TRÄUME. JUBILÄUMS-PORTRÄT by Bianca ŢIPLEA TEMEŞ

“… Fusing together in her artistic background two utterly contrasting worlds such as Romania and Germany, the composer Violeta Dinescu succeded to achieve a unique, distinctive voice in contemporary composition. By means of this dialogue, celebrating the musician’s 60th anniversary, her portrait will be reconstructed in its multiple components: the composition, the teaching activity as well as her unceasing effort of bringing Romanian culture at the forefront of the international artistic life. …”
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Desigualdade e cidadania: uma leitura a partir dos deficientes visuais do Rio de Janeiro by Natália Pacheco Junior

“…To get a better understanding of the social insertion of blind people in the contemporary city, I developed a research project that is divided in two axes: The first one discusses the evolution of the public debate about the rights of this minority; the second one explores three case studies of visually disabled persons and their social integration in the city of Rio de Janeiro. …”
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USER-GENERATED REVIEWS AND OFFICIAL STAR RATINGS: CAN THE TWO WORK TOGETHER IN HOTEL EVALUATION SYSTEMS? by Femi Odebiyi, Vitaliya Gontar

“… The purpose of this study is to understand the emerging influence of e-WOM (electronic word-of-mouth) as a contemporary feedback system, its role for hotels, and importance for guests. …”
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Burial customs, the afterlife and the pollution of death in ancient Greece by Francois P. Retief, Louise Cilliers

“… Funerary practices in ancient Greece were influenced by contemporary views on the afterlife and by concepts of pollution, but also by a desire to limit costs and a need to prevent the process of burial from causing inconvenience to the community or providing an opportunity for exploitation by those with ulterior motives. …”
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The Action Mode: Mile 22 and the Tension of Hypermediated Embodiment by Jonah Jeng

“…Everyday phenomenal experience, in its delineation of a unified spatial field populated with bounded physical objects, exists in palpable tension with the subperceptual digital networks and data flows that underpin contemporary society and are indexed by aesthetics of hypermediacy. …”
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The Narrative Approach: Leveraging Storytelling Techniques for Enhanced English Fluency by Najm Burhan, Nia'am Hasan

“…It attempts to explore the history in the novel as a manifestation of the consecutive exemplification of the contemporary dynasty and how it affects the current social and political status quo. …”
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ITS-based wireless traffic monitoring solution by Natalja Osintsev, Victoria Nozick

“…This paper explores the contemporary approach to traffic monitoring systems and highlights the indispensable role of wireless sensor networks in addressing these challenges.…”
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Unfinished buildings, a new point of departure. Designing difference for a sustainable future by Maria Luisa Germanà, Francesca Anania

“…Contemporary unfinished buildings, which represent a widespread sort of abandoned built environment around the globe, have only recently shaken off the taboo to which they have been relegated by their inescapable condition as symbols of failure. …”
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Marius’ ‘grammar of assent’: Pater’s Dialogue with Newman by John Coates

“…In Marius the Epicurean, contemporary with the unfinished essay, he explores several points in which he differed from a writer he valued. …”
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TRENDS IN Y GENERATION’S BEHAVIOUR ON THE FOOD MARKET by Barbara Kucharska, Mirosława Malinowska

“…The behaviour of this group of consumers determines contemporary trends on the market and the necessity to undertake activities consistent with these trends in terms of the offer, its availability, as well as diversity and price.…”
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The Development of Interim Measures Procedure in Cases Against Poland Before CJEU by Cieśliński Aleksander

“…This article presents a contemporary model of applying interim measures by the Court of Justice of the European Union, drawing on an increasingly rich body of case law in Polish cases. …”
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Miradas cruzadas en la repatriación de saberes. El caso de las grabaciones rituales náayeri registradas por K. Th. Preuss by Margarita Valdovinos Alba

“…My study will also consider the impact that this repatriation process had on the documentation of contemporary versions of the same kind of Náayeri ceremonial chants and its subsequent edition.…”
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Money as a coordinating device of a commodity economy: old and new, Russian and French readings of Marx by Nikolay Nenovsky

“…We reconstruct in a comparative perspective the approaches of two contemporary French scholars, Jean Cartelier and André Orléan and of two Russian economists, Isaak Rubin and Peter Struve who worked in the beginning of the last century. …”
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Knowledge of the earthquake in architecture and its impact on the organization of the geography of habitation by Ali Asgharzadeh, Seyed Gholamreza Islami, Iraj Etessam

“…This article adopts a holistic approach and quantitative-qualitative methodology to identify the role of self-awareness and mental imaging in the complex system of earthquake-qanat-city and its effects on urbanism and architecture in different scales, which has resulted in an earthquake compatible architecture in different periods in the history of Iran and in some contemporary examples too.…”
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Unsettling postscripts and epilogues in A. S. Byatt’s Possession and Ian McEwan’s Atonement by Armelle Parey

“…This paper proposes to look at two contemporary British novels that, contrary to traditional practice, use their final pages to unsettle the conclusion reached earlier, and leave the reader in a state of uncertainty. …”
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Is Shame Morally Relevant to Ecological Ethics? by Andrea Klimková

“…The paper analyses shame as a moral emotion in contemporary moral-philosophical and environmental discourse. …”
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Fairtrade, Food Security and Globalization: Building Alternative Food Systems by Martin Calisto Friant

“…The analysis begins by assessing the main challenges and problems characterizing the contemporary global food system. It then explores the history, vision and certification standards of the Fairtrade label. …”
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Responsive Harmony in the <i>Zhuangzi</i> by Luyao Li

“…This perspective provides a fresh philosophical resource from Daoism for addressing contemporary concerns about harmony in ethical contexts.…”
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Shall we dance? Choreographing hospitality as key to interpersonal transformation by G.W. Marchinkowski

“…Finally, the article formulates principles for the spiritual practice of hospitality for ordinary people in everyday life, by considering the contributions of contemporary spiritual writers, Barbara Brown Taylor and Christine Pohl. …”
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La crise de l’urbain et la condition moderne dans les romans de Saul Bellow by Timea Lönhardt

“…We will close this analysis with a discussion of the accusations of "cultural conservatism" that Bellow sustained during the 1970s and 1980s, and we will offer an interpretation of the writer’s resistance to contemporary canons as a modern literary requirement.…”
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