Travail, Mémoires et Femmes dans la ceinture industrielle de Lisbonne (Portugal) by Inês Fonseca

“…While Baixa da Banheira was a pole of attraction, during the sixties, the region experienced a slow decline in the eighties. Over the last 3 decades this deindustrialization has accelerated to the point where industry has been replaced by the tertiary sector of activity. …”
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CHANGES IN THE DYNAMICS AND DEMOGRAPHIC STRUCTURES OF THE ROMANIAN URBAN POPULATION. AN OVERVIEW OF THE POST-COMMUNIST PERIOD by BIANCA MITRICĂ

“…Although in the postwar period and up to the last 20th-century decade the share of Romania’s urban population/total population was steadily growing (55% in 1997), yet the annual average growth rate was gradually declining, the numerical increase of townspeople slowing down. …”
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Multi-modal conditional diffusion model using signed distance functions for metal-organic frameworks generation by Junkil Park, Youhan Lee, Jihan Kim

“…Abstract The design of porous materials with user-desired properties has been a great interest for the last few decades. However, the flexibility of target properties has been highly limited, and targeting multiple properties of diverse modalities simultaneously has been scarcely explored. …”
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Beyond the jab: Unravelling the complexities of vaccine adoption for East Coast Fever in rural Kenya. by Ann W Muthiru, Josphat Muema, Nyamai Mutono, S M Thumbi, Salome A Bukachi

“…East Coast Fever (ECF) is one of the leading causes of livestock mortality and reduced productivity across Eastern Africa, and while a live vaccine against it known as the Infection and Treatment Method has existed for three decades now, its adoption by affected communities remains low. …”
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The EU-Azerbaijan Relations in the Gas Transporting Sector by Maksym Aliiev

“…The war in Ukraine changed the security landscape in Europe, the aggression of the Russian Federation also affected the energy security. For decades European elites negotiated and signed contracts for energy supplies from the Russian Federation, which gave Russia the opportunity to restore and strengthen its military capacity, and as a result, to launch an unprovoked aggression against Ukraine. …”
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Les techniques d’identification inédites mobilisées par Edmond Locard : le graphoscope, le hastoscope et le synchrisiscope by Amos Frappa

“…Locard’s graphoscope, used for the evaluation of written documents, was part of long term research which had been made in Europe for several decades. The hastoscope and the synchrisicope, designed by the two foreign interns Harry Söderman and William Stirling, are the heirs from the first comparator microscope conceived in Russia at the end of the 19th century. …”
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Corporate Culture as a Tool for Improving University’s Competitiveness by Irina V. Trotsuk, Daria V. Sukhoverova

“…They revealed the framework of competing values and showed that over the past decade the share of bureaucratic/hierarchical type decreased due to an increase in the share of market and adhocracy types of culture that are typical for the leaders of world university rankings.…”
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The endocannabinoid system and ophthalmic pathologies: a review of molecular mechanisms and its implications for clinical practice by Tomasz Charytoniuk, Stanisław Półjanowski, Mateusz Michalak, Karolina Kaźmierczak, Bartłomiej Kałużny

“…Within the last decade the role of the endocannabinoid system (ECS) has been a significant part of ophthalmic research, including both ocular physiology and the development of eye pathologies. …”
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Genetic Determinants of Osteoporosis: Common Bases to Cardiovascular Diseases? by Francesca Marini, Maria Luisa Brandi

“…The individuation of genetic factors responsible for osteoporosis predisposition and development is fundamental for the disease prevention and for the setting of novel therapies, before fracture occurrence. In the last decades the interest of the Scientific Community has been concentrated in the understanding the genetic bases of this disease but with controversial and/or inconclusive results. …”
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Introduction by Nataša Vampelj Suhadolnik, Helena Motoh

“… Recent decades have brought the topic of researching East Asian collections in Europe and the world to the forefront of research and academia. …”
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Collaborating for change: reimagining medical education in Jordan through international partnerships by Mahmoud M. Sarhan, James Kelly, Neveen El-Farra, Mohammed Ahmed Rashid

“…Despite significant progress being made, there remain a substantial number of challenges for the Jordanian medical education system that require careful attention in the years and decades ahead. This article provides a historical summary of medical education in Jordan, outlines some of the important areas that require development, and describes plans for a new medical school and teaching hospital in Amman at the newly established Kingdom University of Health Sciences, due to open in 2026. …”
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Risque et démonstration, la politique de capture et de stockage du dioxyde de carbone (CCS) dans l’Union europeenne by Rebeca Neri O’Neill, Alain Nadaï

“…In the EU, a CCS policy emerged during the last decade. The European Commission, in partnership with industry players, has committed to a process of CCS "demonstration", aiming to develop 10 large-scale demonstrators by 2015. …”
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Latinoamérica y la CPI: afrontar la impunidad en Colombia by Bárbara Direito

“…The case of Colombia, a country which has been the stage for innumerable violations of human rights over the past decades and where the conflict is still producing victims, can be a real test case. …”
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The Analysis and Critique of the French Phonetics by Mohamad-Hossein Otroshi

“…In the field of phonetics of French as a foreign language, studies have been conducted in recent decades, among which French Phonetics can be considered as the first book for Iranian students in undergraduate and postgraduate of French as a foreign language. …”
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Reception games of Dušan Taragel (the non-actor) by Peter Darovec

“…A more extensive interpretation is dedicated to this recent novel, as it serves, in many respects, as a bridge between the present and the author’s creatively productive decade of the 1990s.…”
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Les nouvelles frontières des Jeux Anthropologiques de Saint-Louis by Fabrice Delsahut

“…The impact of race studies on the ways of thinking sport, contrary to what the different chairmen of the IOC tried hard to make believe during the new decades, was not only a mere avatar of the Olympic movement. …”
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PRINCIPLE TRAJECTORIES OF THE DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN POLICY CRISES IN MODERN TURKISH REPUBLIC by V. A. Avatkov, M. V. Kochkin

“…Nevertheless, the authors believe that there are also historic and demographic reasons for this transformation that have been developing for several decades. The basis of this transformation is the destructive foreign policy course pursued by the ruling elites aimed at fomenting crises inside and outside Turkey. …”
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Orthodontic Management of Skeletal Class II Malocclusion with the Invisalign Mandibular Advancement Feature Appliance: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Melina Koukou, George Damanakis, Apostolos I. Tsolakis

“…Clear aligners have been part of the orthodontic treatment for several decades but until recently they were only used to correct mild malocclusions. …”
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Communication patterns of some Afrikaans speaking Coloureds and Whites in the Cape Peninsula by Elirea Bornman, H.J. Groenewald, Elsa Hall

“… INTERGROUP relations are of the utmost importance in South Africa where these re- lationships have seriously deteriorated dur- ing the past decade. In this study the focus Is on the communication patterns of Afri- kaans speaking Coloureds and Whites In the Cape Peninsula. …”
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Land, power and conflict in Afghanistan: seeking to understand complexity by Adam Pain

“…The paper draws on a decade of empirical fieldwork in Afghanistan and recent work on livelihood trajectories and the opium economy. …”
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