Associativismo civil e movimentos sociais populares em São Paulo by Maria da Glória Gohn

“…The assumption is that, in order to understand the existing associativism today, it is necessary to go back to its predecessors not only because the origins of several current movements date back to last century, but also because the transformations such movements went through as well as the explanation for the rise of new associative and movementalist ways also date back to the last decades of the 20th century. The methodological procedure will present a brief characterization of the associativist scenario in São Paulo in the last decades of the 20th century along with the list of the social movements developed in the capital in those decades. …”
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Die eerste dekade van Interkulturele Kommunikasie by H.J. Groenewald

“… The first decade of intercultural communication: An overview of some important books This paper deals with eleven of the more important books on intercultural communication published over the past decade. …”
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L’Académie d’Égypte à Rome, miroir des politiques culturelles étatiques pour les arts visuels (2001-2011) by Catherine Cornet

“…Through an in-depth study of both the Academy’ cultural actors and the artists’ works and narratives that are associated to the Academy though exhibitions or grants received between 2001 and 2011, the study allows to grasp the official state narrative on the arts during this decade. The Academy of Egypt still represents an important reference point for the local art scene, but it also illustrates the pulling off of the Mubarak State in the last decade of his presidency. …”
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The Heritage-scape: Origins, Theoretical Interventions, and Critical Reception of a Model for Understanding UNESCO’s World Heritage Program by Michael A. Di Giovine

“…Written by the author of The Heritage-scape: UNESCO, World Heritage and Tourism (Lexington 2009), this article is a critical reflection of the heritage-scape concept nearly a decade after it was introduced in the literature. …”
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Flexibility of Older Adults Aged 55–86 Years and the Influence of Physical Activity by Liza Stathokostas, Matthew W. McDonald, Robert M. D. Little, Donald H. Paterson

“…Shoulder abduction showed a significant decline averaging 5 degrees/decade in men and 6 degrees/decade in women. Piecewise linear regression showed an accelerated decline in men starting at the age of 71 years of 0.80 degrees/year, whereas in women the onset of decline (0.74 degrees/year) was 63 years. …”
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Data capture in the 80's by M. Brighton

“…The use of increasingly sophisticated and cos: effective electronics equipment will at first extend and improve existing techniques of data capture, but by the end of this decade electronic developments will have brought about fundamental and permanent changes in the way data can be collected.Survey research data capture techniques are going to change dramatically in the next decade, but this change can be expected to come about as the result of any single development in facilities, fashion, or philosophy. …”
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The Changing Phenotype of Inflammatory Bowel Disease by Carthage Moran, Donal Sheehan, Fergus Shanahan

“…It is widely known that there have been improvements in patient care and an increased incidence of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) worldwide in recent decades. However, less well known are the phenotypic changes that have occurred; these are discussed in this review. …”
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Drought Trends and Temperature Influence in Zhanghe River Basin, China by Bakhtawar Wagan, Zhanyu Zhang, Feng Baoping, Si Han, Amos T. Kabo-bah

“…Results depicted both dry and wet periods in the study area; occurrence of dry span with different frequency and magnitude was increased over last decades (2000–2010) at most of the stations. Statistical results demonstrated that temperature was decreased in the 1st decade in most of stations but in two decades from 1990 to 2000 and 2001 to 2010, temperature was increased except in Changzhi station. …”
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Tendencies in the Historiography of Latvian Philosophy by Andris Hiršs

“…However, during the last decade, the approach of intellectual history has been gaining popularity among the Latvian historians of philosophy. …”
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Authors of Lithuanian books in the first part of 19th century by Aušra Navickienė

“…The analysis of the biographical facts of the authors shows that in every decade during 1795-1864, about 18 new names commonly appeared. …”
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Research Trends on Pillared Interlayered Clays (PILCs) Used as Catalysts in Environmental and Chemical Processes: Bibliometric Analysis by Iván F. Macías-Quiroga, Julián A. Rengifo-Herrera, Sandra M. Arredondo-López, Alexander Marín-Flórez, Nancy R. Sanabria-González

“…Over the last four decades, a large number of studies have been published on pillared interlayered clays (PILCs) used as adsorbent materials and catalysts or supports for transition metals in heterogeneous catalysis. …”
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Expressions of a backlash: Challenging the story of success in Norwegian cinema of the 1980s and 1990s by Fosheim Lund Maria, Kielland Servoll Johanne, Holtar Ingrid Synneva

“…In Norwegian film history, this decade is known as “the helicopter period” and is associated with a turn towards commercial genre film and classical dramaturgy. …”
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Conversions to Catholicism among Fin de Siècle Writers: A Spiritual and Literary Genealogy by Claire Masurel-Murray

“…During the last decade of the 19th century, a number of English writers converted to Roman Catholicism: the “Decadent” poets John Gray, Lionel Johnson and Ernest Dowson joined the Church in 1890 and 1891, while Oscar Wilde flirted with the Catholic faith during his college years at Oxford, and received the last sacraments on his deathbed in 1900. …”
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Déconstruction des injonctions de genre by María Jesús Fariña Busto

“…Women’s disobedience towards cultural mandates is not a recent plan of action, nor is it from a few decades ago, even though conceptualization of this kind of disobedience can be considered recent. …”
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A Primer on Finance-Led Capitalism and Its Crisis by Robert Guttmann

“…The burst of the latest bubble, centered on the U.S. housing market, has triggered the most serious financial crisis in decades and a serious global downturn. The article ends with a discussion of likely implications of this systemic crisis.…”
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From the History of State Examinations in Higher Medical School by N. T. Eregina

“…The content of the article is illustrated with photographic documents that clearly demonstrate the atmosphere of the exams of the past decades.…”
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Entre memoria y política: las historietas de Felipe Hernández Cava sobre la España del siglo xx (1973-1996) by Eduardo Hernández Cano

“…The comic works of Felipe Hernández Cava developed during the first decades of the new Spanish democracy constitutes one of the most coherent intellectual interventions on the role of memory in society and its political function. …”
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Thyroid Function in Chronically Transfused Children with Beta Thalassemia Major: A Cross-Sectional Hospital Based Study by Suraj Haridas Upadya, M. S. Rukmini, Sowmya Sundararajan, B. Shantharam Baliga, Nutan Kamath

“…Among them two belonged to the first decade and the other two to the second decade of life. …”
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Trends and determinants of home delivery in Ethiopia: further multivariate decomposition analysis of 2005–2016 Ethiopian Demographic Health Surveys by Malede Mequanent Sisay, Ayenew Molla Lakew, Sofonyas Abebaw Tiruneh, Seblewongel Tigabu Yigizaw, Zemenu Tadesse Tessema

“…Level of statistical significance was declared at a two-sided p value <0.05.Outcome measure Trends of home delivery.Participants A total of 33 482 women were included.Results Home delivery has been decreased by 21% over the last decade in Ethiopia. In the last decade, 39% of the decrements in home delivery attributed to change in women’s compositional characteristics. …”
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The non-standard in writing: A look at West African and Southeast Asian literature by Michael PERCILLIER

“…A diachronic investigation of these linguistic feature profiles shows that far from being static or stable, practices of representation vary from decade to decade.…”
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