The Government as Shareholder and Principal-Principal Conflicts in the Brazilian Electric Power Industry by Murialdo Loch, Jaison Caetano Silva, Giovana Bueno, Rosilene Marcon

“…Our main findings suggest that while a government stake in a firm’s ownership structure can provide a useful channel for the government to seek support and resources, in counterpoint, it can also create distortions and uncertainties, and exacerbate principal-principal conflicts. …”
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The Fundamenta compositionis Jean Kuhnaus 1703. Edition, Translation, and Commentary by Frederik Kranemann, Derek Remeš

“…Therefore the ultimate value of the Fundamenta is not its originality, but rather its explication of topics such as consonance and dissonance, modes, clausulae, cadences, invertible counterpoint, and fugue in a highly condensed, practical manner with numerous musical examples. …”
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La désobéissance civile aux Etats-Unis contemporains : triomphe incomplet du libéralisme sur la gauche, routine et réactivation par les mouvements sociaux de l’immigration by Mathieu Bonzom

“…Secondly, drawing on examples from the immigrant mobilizations of the 2000 and 2010 decades, with a counterpoint to the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 60s, the article shows how the diversity of civil disobedience practices is structured by cyclical mutations, between routinization and defusing on the one hand, revival and reactivation on the other, where reactivation depends on the taking of certain forms of risk which is then turned against the authorities by drawing on mass mobilization.…”
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Dystopia, surveillance and the spaces of social control in Jenni Fagan’s The Panopticon (2012) by Claire Wrobel

“…The dystopian space par excellence seems to be that delimited by the walls of the Panopticon, here an institution for young delinquents, which finds a counterpoint in the shape of an island utopia, a destination that becomes a symbol of harmony and freedom. …”
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Envisioning Metropolis—New York as Seen, Imaged and Imagined by Heinz ICKSTADT

“…Although this latter tradition of an urban sublime loses impetus in the course of the twentieth century, it nevertheless remains a distinct counterpoint in the history of New York’s literary representations.…”
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MOZART’S MINUET by Ecaterina BANCIU

“…Indications referring to character appear: Menuetto-galante, Menuetto Maestoso On conclusion, the initial simplicity of the phrase and harmony allowed a series of innovations required by the aesthetics of the Rococo: harmonic and tonal contrasts, the infiltration of new ternary styles and the counterpoint writing. …”
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Dé-finir le langage dans The Names de Don DeLillo by Karim Daanoune

“…Yet, the novel offers as a counterpoint against the end and at the end the unexpected fiction of Tap, the son of James Axton, the narrator. …”
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May Sinclair’s Romantic Corpus by Leslie de Bont

“…In Mary Olivier, the numerous quotes and gloss of Romantic poems become a textual network that forms an interesting counterpoint to the Modernist aesthetics of fragmentation. …”
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Zum aktuellen Stand der professionellen Musikausbildung in Russland by Irina Susidko, Pavel Lucker

“…The focus is on a number of features in Russian music education: the continuity of three levels of education as a state system; training in conservatories not only for musicians, but also for musicologists; the large weight placed on the curriculum of disciplines aimed at fostering practical skills in counterpoint, harmonization, musical form analysis, orchestration, as well as methods of musical teaching, along with disciplines with an academic profile. …”
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Multiple Scattering of P1 Waves by Arbitrarily Arranged Cavities in Saturated Soils by Miaomiao Sun, Huajian Fang, Xiaokang Zheng, Ru Zhang, Shimin Zhang, Lianying Zhou

“…The isolation properties of elastic waves with rectangular arrangement (counterpoint) are weaker than that with hexagonal arrangement (counterchanged) when the row-distance of barrier is uniform.…”
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Traum-A-Rhythmia On Debbie Tucker Green’s In-Yer-Ear Stage by Lea Sawyers

“…Armed with silence and the weight of the unsaid, tucker green carves a musical score haunted by ghost melodies produced by compositional techniques akin to musical counterpoint, arpeggios and the canon. This paper proposes a reflection on the political consequences of such patterns. …”
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Wie wissenschaftlich muss Musiktheorie sein?. Chancen und Herausforderungen musikalischer Korpusforschung by Markus Neuwirth, Martin Rohrmeier

“…These problems are discussed in reference to prominent studies in the domains of harmony, counterpoint, melody, and rhythm/meter. The article concludes by making a case for the integration of quantitative approaches in music theory into the overarching framework of a ›mixed methods‹ paradigm.…”
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Smart Sustainable City: Concept, Aspects and Indices by afshar hatami, farzaneh sasanpour, alberto ziparo, mohammad soleymani

“…This paper beside introducing smart sustainable approach as a counterpoint to Neoliberal approach, assessing emergence, evolution, aspects, indices, and differences between similar approaches like smart city. …”
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TIKROVĖS POSTMODERNIOS GRIMASOS by Audronė Žukauskaitė

“…POSTMODERN GRIMACES OF THE REAL Audronė Žukauskaitė Summary The article focuses on the concept of the Real and interprets it as a counterpoint to the discursive character of postmodern philosophy. …”
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TIKROVĖS POSTMODERNIOS GRIMASOS by Audronė Žukauskaitė

“…POSTMODERN GRIMACES OF THE REAL Audronė Žukauskaitė Summary The article focuses on the concept of the Real and interprets it as a counterpoint to the discursive character of postmodern philosophy. …”
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Zoltán Kodálys Harmonielehre – ein Rekonstruktionsversuch by Anna Dalos

“…Until his retirement in 1942, he introduced several generations of Hungarian composers, music theorists and musicologists to the subjects of musical form, counterpoint and harmony. The present article attempts, with the help of currently available sources on Kodályʼs harmony, to shed new light on and reconstruct the principles of his harmonic theory and some basic features of his thought. …”
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Contribution à l’histoire de la boulangerie romaine : étude de « pains/galettes » découverts en Gaule by Andreas G. Heiss, Véronique Matterne, Nicolas Monteix, Margaux Tillier, Camille Noûs

“…Over the past several decades, both the philosophy of cultural, social and historical anthropology have focused on the many avenues of study relating to food, or rather modes of consumption, by focusing on the construction of individual and collective identities. As a counterpoint to these theoretical considerations, archaeological experience brings its share of concrete, though uncertain observations, discoveries, and interpretations that arise from both the artefacts and their related contexts. …”
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The Deer Hunter : essai de topologie imaginaire américaine by Jacques Pothier

“…In this film the dichotomies between civilization/the wilderness, male space / female territory, national vs. ethnic identities present in the American imagination from Cooper to the classic western through Washington Irving or Mark Twain, are thoroughly revisited through the tragic counterpointing of a Russian working-class community in a Pennsylvania small town and an Asian heart of darkness. …”
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A Madame Bovary’s Daughter: David Lean’s Visual Transliteration of Flaubert by Franck Dalmas

“…The analysis of key scenes and characters is envisaged from a counterpointing angle while matching a subtle evocation of Flaubert’s style.…”
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Ilhas, parentesco e mobilidade infantil: Diálogos Brasil-Cabo Verde (passando pela França) by Fernanda Bittencourt Ribeiro

“…From an ethnographic study made at an institution of child protection, located on Yeu island (France), it offers some counterpoints between these two ethnographic contexts, on the Boa Vista and Yeu islands. …”
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