Research work on informational demands of scientific workers and specialists of other branches in the Lithuanian SSR: the main tendencies, methods, and results by Lolita Krominaitė

“… In Lithuania, as well as in the Soviet Union, research work on informational demands began in the mid-seventies. Over two decades of research on this problem, the professional informational demands of scientific workers and specialists in other fields—such as farming, medicine, chemistry, and technology—were investigated. …”
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Nuancen des Anthropomorphismus in Waldemar Bonsels’ Mario und die Tiere (1928) by Stefan Hecht

“…Drawing on research of the last decades in behavioral psychology, neuroscience and empathy, this article renders plausible and analyses sequences of human-animal-contacts, where the young hero anthropomorphizes animals.The diagnosis of a natural tendency of humans to anthropomorphize animals, is compared with ambivalent effects of anthropomorphism such as the act of domesticating wild animals. …”
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Condomínios populares horizontais fechados: um novo produto imobiliário na periferia metropolitana by Patricia Baliski

“…The popular horizontal gated communities are real estate products developed within the scope of the Minha Casa Minha Vida Program (PMCMV) that have spread in brazilian urban/metropolitan areas in the last decade, especially in more peripheral areas. With the case study of the city of Fazenda Rio Grande, a member of the Metropolitan Region of Curitiba (Parana / Brazil), this paper seeks to understand the spatial transformations resulting from the insertion of these real estate development in the metropolitan periphery. …”
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Diversité alimentaire et prééminence du riz dans les habitudes de consommation au Cameroun by Sariette Batibonak, Claudine Defo

“…Despite this wealth of food resources, only fifteen are part of the people's food choices. However, for decades, it is clear that people primarily use rice, neglecting other food resources available. …”
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Evaluation of Trachelium Cultivars as Cut Flowers by RongNa Liang, Brent K. Harbaugh

“… Trachelium caeruleum has been grown in the United States as a cut flower for about a decade. Only two cultivars, 'White Umbrella' and 'Purple Umbrella', were readily available for commercial use before 1997, but nine new cultivars became available in the last few years. …”
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Crisis and constitutional politics in Central Europe by Peter Smuk

“…This paper aims to examine the impact of significant crisis situations on the constitutional framework over the past decade, including financial crisis, migration, pandemics and war. …”
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Benjamin and Koolhaas: History's Afterlife by Frances Hsu

“…Dialectical images are at the core of the methods suggested by two books written four decades apart yet published around the same time. …”
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A Critical Assessment of Select Editorial Opinions in The Yoruba News by Taiwo Olunlade

“…Obasa in Ibadan, especially through its editorial opinions for over two decades from 1924-1945. Tis essay is an attempt to revisit selected editions of the newspaper for critical re-assessment of the editorial opinions as regards topical issues of that period. …”
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Contributors to the Edition by Prof Ronit Frenkel

“… The University of Johannesburg acquired The Thinker in April 2019 from Dr Essop Pahad. Over the last decade, The Thinker has gained a reputation as a journal that explores Pan-African issues across fields and times. …”
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El discurso del fracaso en el cine peruano de temática LGTBIQ+ by Richard Leonardo-Loayza

“…The LGTBIQ+ issue is one of the things that has been addressed the most in Peruvian cinema in recent decades. However, in several of these films the same discourse will be repeated, in which dissenting sexual identities are represented in terms of social disability, that is, homosexuals are considered as individuals who do not have the capacity to face the various circumstances that it is assumed that one lives in a heteropatriarchal world, which results in a presentation of stories of lives marked by weakness, helplessness or misfortune. …”
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Une ethnologue parmi des enfants qui grandissent en Chine urbaine by Gladys Chicharro

“…This article looks back at long-term research conducted since 2001 in what was then a small “new town” in Hebei province, but in one decade became simply a suburb of the capital. In a rapidly changing urban environment, I evoke field relationships that are established and then evolve in a quickly changing urban environment, between an ethnologist and family members who grow up, age, and change status and generation in parallel. …”
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Rasga Coração, de Vianinha, e Hair: aproximação e distanciamento num contexto de contracultura by Éwerton Silva de Oliveira

“…Considering the plays’ formal and content structure, and the political and cultural movements of the 60’s and 70’s youth  the counterculture among them  in the North - American context and in the B razilian historical process (including the dictatorship present in Brazil in these decades), this article aims to analyze how the musical called Hair (1967), by the American actors James Rado and Gerome Ragni, and Rasga coração (1974), a play by the Brazil ian playwright Oduvaldo Vianna Filho (Vianinha), represent the presence of the counterculture, with its innovations and contradictions, similarities and differences, in Brazil and in the United States. …”
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Cywilizacyjny wymiar inwazji Federacji Rosyjskiej na Ukrainę by Adam Zamojski

“…According to the accepted assumption, in Ukraine, counted by many authors as part of the civilization, the core of which is Russia, in recent decades there have been processes leading to its separation and incorporation into the Latin civilization. …”
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Carajás: crescimento do produto social, da pobreza e da degradação ambiental na Amazônia by Maurílio de Abreu Monteiro

“…The article analyzes what underpinned, in the first two decades of the 21st century, the economic growth of the Amazon region of Carajás, far above what occurred in other Brazilian regions. …”
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The problem of nationalism in contemporary Western historiography by Saulius Pivoras

“… Historiography in the article is understood in a broad sense, including all major conceptual works devoted to the problem of nationalism during the last decades. Three approaches to the studies on nationalism are outlined: evolutionistic, constructionistic, and phenomenological. …”
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Vivre avec ou par le risque à l’île de Sein ? by Annaig Oiry

“…This island is considered as a symbol of natural hazard territory: indeed this low island has been confronted for decades to face significant flood hazard that is nowadays strengthened by the consequences of global warming and a lack of infrastructures. …”
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The Problems of the Society Human Resources Management in Market Conditions by A. I. Turchinov

“…The author gives an overview of facts that characterizes the condition of the human resources potential in Russia for the past decades. In the article it is noted, that over the years the polity rashly confided the regulatory role of market in the creation of highly complex mechanisms of understanding professional man as a precious asset of society, the state, the organization. …”
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La politique de revitalisation de la langue basque dans la communauté autonome basque by Eguzki Urteaga

“…It appears that this language policy is relatively effective, having enabled the training of 300,000 additional Basque speakers in the space of three decades.…”
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The Value of Gambling and its Research by Pauliina Raento

“…Most people in Western societies have some experience of   ambling, and many buy a lottery ticket, play slot machines, or bet on sports as a regular part of their leisure. Over the past decades the gambling industry has  grown massively, due to its entry into new territories, the increased popularity of gambling, and new globally influential innovations, such as televised poker  tournaments and online gambling. …”
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Concentração no varejo alimentar brasileiro: o grupo Carrefour na encruzilhada? by Juscelino Eudâmidas Bezerra

“…Brazil is one of the major centers for the expansion of food retail in the world, due to the size of its territory and a broad base of consumers in urban spaces. Over the last decade of the 20th century, there was a high increase in the capital participation of multinational retail chains in the domestic market, with mergers and acquisitions of companies with national and regional operations. …”
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