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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Séries literárias juvenis: autoria e circulação da cultura by Andréa Borges Leão

“…Observing the phenomenon of cultural movement since the onset of Brazilian publishing industry, the essay offers some ideas on the status of authorship in contemporary series books for young adults. …”
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Realismo afetivo: evocar realismo além da representação by Karl Erik Schøllhammer

“…This essay will discuss different kinds of literary expression in search for ways to “realism” without giving continuity of the historical realism that appears during the 19th and 20th century. …”
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The Restoration of the Panel Painting depicting the Adoration of Shepherds with a Saint Bishop by Claudia Cricchio

“…A careful historical and artistic study as well as a diagnostic analysis preceded the restoration that aimed to re-establish a good reading of the painting. The essay focuses on the possibility to reintegrate a missing element of the frame with materials used in the 3D printing, in order to restore its function of “spatial connection” between the painting and the expositive environment. …”
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How to Compute the Economic Impact of a Sudden Stop of Gas Imports from Russia by Tom Krebs

“…Abstract In this essay, I outline a method to compute the economic impact of a sudden stop of natural gas imports from Russia. …”
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Un-Haunted House : Spirits, Solid Citizens, and Babbitt by Russ Castronovo

“…By considering Sinclair Lewis’s 1922 novel, Babbitt, this essay examines the continuum between the paranormal and the normal, the supernatural and the natural. …”
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Design is Everywhere, But Nowhere in Patent Analytics by Taek-Kyun Shin, Jieun Kim

“…Through the prism of a patent professional, data analyst and designer, this photo essay demystifies the complexity of design patent data and sheds light on the underlying value of design as it features among a range of diverse innovation activities. …”
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Diaspora and Syncretism: Marriage Rites in Yorùbá Homeland and Abroad by Olanike Lawore

“…As Yorùbá people are found all over the globe, the marital rites are transferred from the original soil to the diaspora, the result of which is the syncretic practices that are associated with marital practices abroad. This essay therefore engages in a comparative exercise, identifying marital rites in the diaspora that have maintained close ties with homeland and those that have diverged from them. …”
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Yorùbá Films in Time Perspective: Past, Present, and Future by Ifeoluwa Theophilus Akinsola

“… This essay (re)views the development of Yoruba films according to the Yoruba traditional worldview about time: a term used synonymously with life, season or period, for it is not linear but cyclical, just as life, it is not straight. …”
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The Elephant in the Room: NAMUDNO, Shelby County, and Racially Polarized Voting by Richard L. Engstrom

“…It further found that protected minorities were vulnerable to dilutive elective schemes because of the pervasive presence of racially polarized voting (RPV) in those jurisdictions. This essay examines the extensive evidence of RPV relied upon by Congress but ignored by the Court majority and also the legal import of this evidence as identified in numerous briefs before the Court, also ignored by the majority.…”
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Dark Aesthete: Gothic Elements in the Fiction of Walter Pater by Geoffrey Johnston Sadock

“…It should now be acknowledged that he is also a master of the Gothic, whose synthesis of the beautiful and the horrific invests his fiction with a delayed but unforgettable urgency.After reviewing Pater's status in recent scholarship and defining ‘Gothic,’ ‘Dark Aesthete’ considers the kinds and instances of Gothic writing in his short stories, Marius the Epicurean, and unfinished novel Gaston de Latour (1889, revised text 1995). The essay elucidates the absent, ghost-like father-surrogate whose ‘half-hostile’ attitude leads to the tragic death or suffering of a blameless son, thereby providing the intersection of autobiography and Gothic literary tradition in these texts.…”
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Metamorfoses do cinema brasileiro na era da mundialização neoliberal: em busca de uma identidade estética? by Jorge Nóvoa

“…This essay intends to define from a conceptual argument related to underdevelopment, growth, underdeveloped movies, movies of the colonized and of the conqueror, the historical phases of the evolution of the Brazilian movies, arriving to the present phase, of the neoliberal globalization of the national economies, and, consequently, of the Brazilian one. …”
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Towards an anthropology of youth in Africa by Anne-Marie Peatrik

“…Deconstructing the “young people” category in Africa, in order to place its study on new foundations: such is the aim of this anthropological essay. Understood through its emergence and its historical establishment, particularly during the sequences of events that followed decolonisation, the “young person” category is separated out from the tangle of connected concepts (cadet social, junior, young generation), enriched with components of its construction that have gone unnoticed (calendar age, demographic and political category), explored taking account of the uncertainty surrounding the delimitations and characterisations of that phase of human development. …”
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Music’s Vibratory Enchantments and Epistemic Injustices. Reflecting on Thirty Years of Feminist Thought in Music Theory by Judy Lochhead

“…These new perspectives have, in part, resulted in an increased diversity in the demographics of musicology, but there have not been changes of sufficient significance in either content or methodology in North American music theory and the demographics of music theory remain dominated by white, male practitioners. In this short essay, I propose two ways that music-theoretical practice can be transformed in order to overcome the “epistemic injustices” of past work in music theory. …”
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Tourismus und erotische Imaginationen des besetzten Paris: Französinnen und Deutsche während der deutschen Besatzung von 1940 bis 1944 by Bertram M. Gordon

“…Dieser Essay beschäftigt sich mit den Intersektionen von Tourismus, Krieg und Erotik im besetzten Paris während des Zweiten Weltkriegs. …”
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Alliance between the right to identity and the right to family life as a constitutional/conventional basis to rethink adoption in a contemporary key by Marisa Herrera

“…In this essay we propose to rethink the centrality of the right to identity as the base human right or backbone of the adoptive legal system in Argentine law. …”
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Congenital Extrahepatic Portosystemic Shunts: Spectrum of Findings on Ultrasound, Computed Tomography, and Magnetic Resonance Imaging by Pankaj Gupta, Anindita Sinha, Kushaljit Singh Sodhi, Anupam Lal, Uma Debi, Babu R. Thapa, Niranjan Khandelwal

“…Focal liver lesions, most commonly nodular regenerative hyperplasia, are an important clue to the underlying condition. This pictorial essay covers imaging characteristics in abdominopelvic region.…”
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Paesaggi di coesistenza, ovvero come attorno ad un passeriforme si articola l’abitare in una zona di montagna by Lia Zola

“…Based on field research carried out in three alpine valleys, Valle Susa, Val Chisone and Val Troncea, my essay tries to broaden the understanding of landscapes of coexistence by arguing that they are complex sites of relationships where humans and non humans alike shape and co-shape them through interactions but also frictions and conflicts that revolve around a small bird, Petronia petronia. …”
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Paesaggi di coesistenza, ovvero come attorno ad un passeriforme si articola l’abitare in una zona di montagna by Lia Zola

“…Based on field research carried out in three alpine valleys, Valle Susa, Val Chisone and Val Troncea, my essay tries to broaden the understanding of landscapes of coexistence by arguing that they are complex sites of relationships where humans and non humans alike shape and co-shape them through interactions but also frictions and conflicts that revolve around a small bird, Petronia petronia. …”
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La Société des Américanistes de Paris : une société savante au service de l’américanisme by Christine Laurière

“…In the third part, this essay sketches out the main geographical, disciplinary and subject trends of the articles published in the Journal.…”
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