A ascensão dos pobres a posições de elite político-administrativa no contexto do Cabo Verde pós-independente by Crisanto Barros

“…This article aims to analyze the rise of grassroots individuals to the political and administrative elite with the institutionalization of the National State from 1975 onwards. In the scope of this essay, we will focus our analysis on the trajectories of the political and administrative elite coming from the most disadvantaged social strata of the Cape Verdean society. …”
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No ordinary rules. More on organizational behaviour: a discussion on forms and hibrydisms of post-bureaucratic organizations by Pierfranco Malizia

“…Assuming what has been said above, then, it follows (and this is the sense of this essay) that complex organizations, in as much as they are sociocultural (sub)systems, cannot be considered, perhaps today more than in the past, systems impervious to the sociocultural world of which they are a part, or in other words, it is not possible to speak of a culture of organizations as if it were a unique, coherent system of models and values: the plurality of cultural influences present in the highly differentiated contemporary societies is reflected also on the situations inside these organizations.…”
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Raymond Aron, les sociétés démocratiques modernes et l’éducation by Camille Roelens

“…We then return to the analysis and understanding of modernity and democratic individualism that Aron developed in his essay on May 68 (2). Finally, we outline the lineaments of a specifically Aronian political philosophy of education, and what makes it particularly relevant to today's thinking on democratic socialization.…”
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Une géopoétique : du récit de voyage à Canaima, de Rómulo Gallegos by François Delprat

“…The reflection about links which join the travel story with the novel as life story, memory with project, discovery and its part of dream with knowledge, and art with real experience has lead Kenneth White to elaborate his concept of « geopoetics ». In his essay he applies it to the trip across time and space undertaken by the main characters of Canaima (1934), Rómulo Gallegos’ novel. …”
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L’ange Gabriel dans la forêt du centre du Chili by Meredith Root-Bernstein

“…In this ethnographic essay, I explore how the forest in Central Chile is being transformed. …”
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Dorosły w świadomości przedszkolaka. Esej prawie naukowy by Alicja Jurgiel-Aleksander

“…Despite the fact that this research ought to be treated only as a case study, the outcome shown in the essay depicts the children’s world. What is more it also shows how we, the adults, rear children. …”
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Not just skin – Object module and measure module in the composition of the architectural envelope by Paola Scala

“…The objective of this essay is to bring the attention of designers back to the importance of reflecting on the architectural quality of the envelope and its expressive capacity of facades, especially in consideration of the current historical moment in which environmental, cultural, and economic reasons increasingly urgently demand the transition from traditional construction techniques to dry assembly systems.   …”
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Academic Dependency and Neoliberalism: Emerging Trends in Tourism Studies from a Latin American Lens by Gabriel Comparato, Florencia Viviana Moscoso

“…The present essay is a critical study that reflects on the main intellectual debates concerning neoliberalism and academic inequality in Latin American tourism studies. …”
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Ermenautica delle relazioni interspecifiche by Sergio Marchetti

“…In this essay, from my experience as an ethnographer-mariner in the Ermenautica project, I initially propose a perspective on the reduction of the dimensions of the sea by comparing wet ontologies (Steinberg, Peters 2019), the reflections on the subjective signification of the oceans (Helmreich 2010, 2019) and the discourse on planetarity regimes in the humanities (Chakrabarty, Latour 2020). …”
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‘The Dream of the Unified Field’: Originality, Influence, the Idea of a National Literature and Contemporary American Poetry by Ruediger Heinze

“…This failure is argued to be the result of an inability of poets to free themselves from incapacitating literary influences due to the “academization” and “inbred professionalism” (Altieri) of the creative writing programs. Both ideas, this essay will argue, although apparently oppositional, are based on the same – inherently inconsistent – notion of influence and predominantly appear in the context of discussions around the project/idea of a national poetry/literature. …”
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DISCRETE VARIABLE OPTIMUM DESIGN FOR THE PRESSURE VESSEL BASED ON IMPROVED FIREFLY ALGORITHM by CHEN DingLiang, ZHUO HongMing, CHEN QianQing

“…It takes the minimum quality of the pressure vessel shell as its optimization object,the inner diameter and wall thickness as its discrete design variables. The essay puts forward an improved firefly algorithm and it can improve the overall searching ability and the convergence performance of the algorithm by adopting the self-adaptive step size strategy,ignoring the local optimal strategy and the spatial domain constraint strategy. …”
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Lost Happiness — Loss of Life Satisfaction in the Corona Crisis by Michael Ahlheim, Stefan Bruckmeyer, Kai A. Konrad, Lisa Windsteiger

“…Building on the data collected by Windsteiger et al. (2020) and their internet interviews at the peak of lockdown measures, and looking at specific population subgroups, this essay illustrates that many solo self-employed and women report a significant decline in life satisfaction, and that these effects are strongest where solo self-employment coincides with economic losses and childcare responsibilities for women with children of dependent age.…”
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Analyser les pratiques d’enseignement-apprentissage de la lecture des textes littéraires : quelle modélisation pour quels enjeux ? by Jean-Louis Dufays

“…Conceived as an essay of theoretical discussion, the article starts from the observation that the analysis of teaching-learning practices in the reading of literary texts is torn between two types of competing modeling: one centered on the expected activity of the teacher and / or students, the other centered on observing actual practices. …”
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Perdus dans l’espace : survivre à la mondialisation dans Gravity et Seul sur Mars by Siobhan Carroll

“…Noting the ocean’s historical function as a signifier of internationalism, this essay examines these science-fictional stories of shipwreck in space as expressions of anxiety in the face of globalization. …”
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Animals, Mimesis, and the Origin of Language by Kári Driscoll

“…This essay takes a pivotal scene in Richard Wagner’s opera Siegfried, in which the eponymous hero attempts to communicate with a forest bird by imitating its song, as a point of departure for an exploration of Enlightenment theories of the origin of language, specifically those of Rousseau and Herder. …”
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Tsunamis in the Japan Major: Shifting Tides and Resilience by Emi Otsuji, Luke Sharp

“…Using the word ‘tsunami’ both literally and metaphorically, this essay explores how such shifts challenge and inspire pedagogical approaches. …”
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Coda: The War of Poetry: Duncan’s Heresies by Michael Heller

“…This essay focuses on Duncan’s Tribunals: Passages 31-35, originally published as a separate chapbook in 1970, and the prose surrounding it, such as the earlier “The Sweetness and Greatness of Dante’s Divine Comedy” of 1964, as a central focus of the struggle of Duncan’s war with and for form, the site of risk, undoing and resolution. …”
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Jakość pracy naukowej, jej potwierdzenie a recenzja partnerska. Odbiór w środowisku naukowym i nieporozumienia. Postawy wobec recenzji partnerskiej (przekł. Tomasz Olszewski) by Adrian Mulligan

“…., Public Knowledge: An Essay Concerning the Social Development of Science, London 1968. …”
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The syntactic Order and its Role in the Rhetoric by Mahmood Fotoohi Rudmajani

“…The term "verse" in the Persian Dari literature refers to two meanings: one's poetry rhyme and another is syntactic. This essay describes the concept of order as aesthetic quality in syntax and separates it from the term "verse" meaning "poetry rhyme". …”
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Affinités électives de la littérature espagnole avec la philosophie by Thierry Nallet

“…The examples chosen here are taken from philosophical essays with a strong literary component coming from José Antonio Marina and above all from the narrative opus of Álvaro Pombo. …”
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