Understanding the WTO Sanitary and Phytosanitary Agreement by Edward A. Evans

“…International trade liberalization and the general globalization of the world economy over the past two decades has meant that growers, businesses, and community groups must become familiar with trade polices and their terminologies to reap the benefits of globalization and to minimize costs. …”
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Current Conveyor All-Pass Sections: Brief Review and Novel Solution by Sudhanshu Maheshwari

“…The study encompasses notable proposals during last the decade or more, and provides a platform for a broader future survey on the topic for enhancing the knowledge penetration amongst the researchers in the specified field. …”
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Agustín Cueva in the 1960´s: Dilemmas about Ecuadorian Culture and Identity by Andrés Tzeiman

“…His works of the 1960s are studied, especially those during the second half of the decade since there is the beginning of the itinerary of his prolific intellectual production and, at the same time, it is the least widespread and more delayed stage in the approach of his work. …”
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Searching for Voices: On the history of OASE, Journal for Architecture by Véronique Patteeuw

“…Founded in 1981 by a group of students from the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, OASE started as a stapled journal called O, referring to the threefold editorial content it aimed for: design, research and pedagogy (in Dutch: ontwerp, onderwijs, onderzoek). Over the past four decades, O turned into an internationally acclaimed bilingual journal, while holding onto many of the editorial choices originally made by the students. …”
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Le poids de l’instant dans le récit ferroviaire contemporain by Mahigan Lepage

“…This article examines the problem of time in three contemporary railroad narratives published in France during the last decade: François Bon’s Paysage fer (2000), Sereine Berlottier’s Ferroviaires (2009) and Arnaud Maïsetti’s La Mancha (2009). …”
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L’universalité de la sylloge épigraphique de Gaetano Marini (1742-1815) : le statut philologique des monogrammes du premier millénaire chrétien by Isabelle Mathian

“…The work of Gaetano Marini (1742–1815) is still largely unknown in the historiography of the last decades of the eighteenth century. He was, however, a first-rate epigraphist, palaeographer, archivist and curator: not only for the quality of his research, but also for his place at the Vatican, at the heart of the museum developments and the vicissitudes of the Napoleonian confiscations. …”
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“Fora do Eixo: Estado ou mercado?” Modos de mediação entre produção cultural, política e mercado no Brasil by Victoria Irisarri

“…This movement emerged in the last decade, and is characterized by its organization in an articulated collective network and the use of digital technologies for work on cultural production. …”
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Splenic artery embolization for trauma: a narrative review by Simon Roh

“…The management of traumatic splenic injuries has evolved significantly over the past several decades, with the majority of these injuries now being treated nonoperatively. …”
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Hurricane Dennis' Impact on Cuban Agriculture by William A. Messina, Jr., Thomas H. Spreen

“…As a Category 4 storm on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale when it came ashore in central Cuba on July 8, Hurricane Dennis brought with it sustained winds reported at nearly 150 mph (240 kph) and wind gusts as high as 155 mph (250 kph), making it the strongest hurricane to strike Cuba in four decades (Havana Journal, July 10, 2005). This is EDIS document FE570, a publication of the Department of Food and Resource Economics, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. …”
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Die pastoor as fluisteraar. Gedagtes oor pastorale identiteit en arbeid na analogie van die perdefluisteraar by Danny Nel

“… Generally, note have been taken that the work of pastoral care and the pastoral counselor are surrounded by identity issues for the latter part of the previous century and in the first decade of this century. In some circles it is even described as a profession without a place or position, looking and struggling for recognition, experiencing a crisis. …”
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Cuando el diablo mete la cola: k´horo, chamanismos y mundos liminales en los Andes centro sur by Verónica S. Lema

“…It compiles background information on the subject, analyses herbarium specimens, lexicographies and specimens obtained in markets in the central-southern Andean area in the last decade. Focusing on this area, the paper explores the relationships and links that the coro or khuru proposes, as it is present in situations and trades (childbirth, illness, shamanism, war and mining) that indicate moments of transition, passage and movement between the limits or edges of the inner and outer worlds of both, space-time and bodies. …”
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Signs of Innovation in European Cinema. Electronic Music in Antonioni and Tarkovsky by Gabriele

“… In the process of the emancipation of film music that took place in the first decades after World War II, the filmography of Michelangelo Antonioni and Andrei Tarkovsky offers multiple points of interest. …”
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Sporting and tourist activities: legal aspects by Katja Sontag, Frédérique Roux

“…The outdoors has become, in a few decades, the playground of millions of practitioners. …”
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‘Sentimental’: Since the Death of Little Nell by Dominic Rainsford

“…Leavis, within the specific literary, social and political circumstances of the early- and mid-twentieth century, and which may be due for reconsideration now, in the wake of the ‘ethical turn’ in criticism which marked the century’s closing decades. Dickens often situates and frames sentimental feeling critically within The Old Curiosity Shop, while not suggesting that it should or even can be transcended by the ‘simple fellows’ that we all ultimately are (in Dickens’s view), given the impossible problems with which life confronts us. …”
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Pourquoi chanter les ragots du passé ? Itinéraire historique d’un chant rituel trumai (Mato Grosso, Brésil) by Emmanuel de Vienne

“…The Trumai manioc ritual has been declared lost for decades. As such, it is a key element in the nostalgic rhetoric upon which group identity is built in contrast with the other groups forming the Upper Xingu system. …”
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THE VALIDATION OF VALUES IN ECOLOGICAL ETHICS by Česlovas Kalenda

“…These changes in ecological research and the constant rapid growth of ecological ethics during the last decades can apparently be considered as evidence that mankind feels an increasing need for new ecological humanism. …”
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Second homes in the Alpine Region by Roger Sonderegger, Werner Bätzing

“…Second homes have grown quickly in numbers in the last decades and played an important role in the development of many municipalities in the Alpine Region. …”
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The ECB’s Evolving Mandate and High Independence: An Undemocratic Mix by Anna-Lena Högenauer, Joana Mendes

“…After over a decade of crisis, the ECB’s functions have expanded considerably. …”
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The illnesses of Herod the Great by Francois P. Retief, Louise Cilliers

“…An able statesman, builder and warrior, he ruthlessly stamped out all perceived opposition to his rule. His last decade was characterised by vicious strife within his family and progressive ill health. …”
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Dog-type : amours de chiens, chiennes d’images et types ordinaires dans le daguerréotype américain by François Brunet

“…After a glimpse at the photographic representation of animals in the medium’s first decades, I sketch out the role of the dog figure in American daguerreotype portraiture. …”
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