4D printing for modular construction components – Applications and main developments by Renata Morbiducci, Salvatore Polverino, Caterina Battaglia

“…However, despite being able to contribute to mitigating the effects of climate change, they are still scarcely used. This essay intends to analyse the main peculiarities of 4D printing techniques for the production of modular elements for architecture, highlighting their main limitations and potentialities that influence their use.   …”
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Spatial design. Experiences and experiments of urban regeneration for a possible taxonomy by Carlo Martino, Meltem Eti Proto, Silvia Cosentino

“…Through recent case studies, this essay proposes an embryonic taxonomy of public space, basing its perspective upon the scientific principle of the recurrence of certain design solutions.…”
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Blood on the Leaves / Blood on the Roots by Brendan Brown

“…This paper, then, demonstrates a previously undiagnosed influence of Nietzsche on Wynter and the role that anarchy plays in her construction of the ‘human being as praxis’. The essay concludes with an amelioration of Schürmann’s epochal genealogy to account for a racialized lacunae present in his Western genealogy of thought. …”
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Ageing population and urban spaces – New digital challenges for elderly well-being by Maria Rosario Chaza Chimeno, Rosaria Revellini, Cristiana Cellucci

“… The essay proposes a critical reading of some of the main issues currently underway globally concerning the growing percentage of elderly people living in urbanised contexts affecting their well-being. …”
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Reflexões sobre as incidências tributárias no Brasil e suas relações com o desenvolvimento socioeconômico nacional by Luciano Henrique Fialho Botelho, Luíz Antônio Abrantes

“…This essay, based on theories of public finances and the optimal taxation model, sought to reflect on the national tax landscape. …”
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Vers une justice multi-espèces : cadre théorique, enjeux et programme de recherche pour les théories et politiques environnementales by Danielle Celermajer, David Schlosberg, Lauren Rickards, Makere Stewart-Harawira, Mathias Thaler, Petra Tschakert, Blanche Verlie, Christine Winter

“…This essay seeks to open a conversation about multispecies justice in environmental politics. …”
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Trasversal territories. Rural and industrial small towns in Sicily and Spain by Guido Cimadomo, Renzo Lecardane, María Isabel Alba Dorado

“…Although very different from each other in terms of topographical location, traditions and cultural and linguistic specificities, it is possible to find constants of criticality and potential. This essay illustrates new readings and settles meanings to initiate a collaborative work in Sicily and Spain along the Trasversale Sicula and in the mining landscape of the Minas de La Reunión in the province of Seville. …”
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Participation as “attingere” and Saint Thomas’ commentary on John 6:57 by Johannes von Voorst

“…Saint Thomas Aquinas’ notion of participation is developed by Cornelio Fabro with the notion of ‘attingere’. In this essay I address the importance of ‘participare’ as attingere by uncovering it in Aquinas’ commentary on John 6:57. …”
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Call for Papers: Demography Prize for Young Researches 2016/2017 by IF and FRFG

“… The Stuttgart-based Foundation for the Rights of Future Generations (FRFG) and the London-based Intergenerational Foundation (IF) jointly award the biennial Demography Prize, endowed with EUR 10,000 (ten thousand euros) in total prize-money, to essay-writers who address political and demographic issues pertaining to the field of intergenerational justice. …”
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DZENBUDIZMO FENOMENOLOGIJA by Algis Mickūnas

“…The latter is constituted by two mutually exclusive and mutually referring structures: permanence and flux. This essay extricates these structures and their correlations at the level of their mutual constitution as they appear in Zen and its practice. …”
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Application Analysis of the Language Model by Cai Bochao

“…But at the same time, they may have problems about privacy, decision affectivity, ethics, and unemployment. This essay will hopefully provide a suggestion for the use and specification of LMs that will come later. …”
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Les Montand-Signoret jouent Arthur Miller. La première française des Sorcières de Salem by Julie Vatain-Corfdir

“…It was not uncommon at the time for renowned French artists to champion American art on stage – though perhaps their presence was also meant to compensate for any flaws, in the eye of critics who readily hinted at Europe’s superiority in terms of drama. This essay explores the French cast and crew’s interpretation of Miller’s play, and the conception of it which they presented to Parisian audiences. …”
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«Pasa la vida»: Cartografías Urbanas de Madrid en la Post-Transición (1982-1994) by Vicente Rodríguez Ortega

“…This essay analyzes representations of the everyday in the Madrid cityscape from the beginning of the 1980s until the mid 1990s. …”
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Portrayal of Yorùbá Socio-cultural Heritage in the Practice of the Kegite Movement in Nigerian Tertiary Institutions by Hezekiah Olufemi Adeosun

“… This essay examines some aspects of the Yorùbá socio-cultural heritage portrayed in the practice of the Kegite Movement in Nigerian tertiary institutions. …”
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Spinoza’s ‘Infinite Modes’ Reconsidered by Kristin Primus

“…My two principal aims in this essay are interconnected. One aim is to provide a new interpretation of the ‘infinite modes’ in Spinoza’s Ethics. …”
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Opening up Bodyspace: Perspectives from Posthuman and Feminist Theory by Xenia Kokoula

“…Such a search for new visions and concepts of corporealities can start at different places. This essay attempts a cross-disciplinary, speculative foray into the terrain of posthuman, nonhuman and feminist theory. …”
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Des lieux pour un « non-lieu » : Le camp algérien Paul-Cazelles et Hocine Kahouadji, militant FLN by Susan Slyomovics

“…Although French prison camps in Algeria varied, this essay concentrates on Camp Paul-Cazelles located in Ain Ousseras, 195 km south of Algiers. …”
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Apophasis, Abnegation, and Liturgy by David W. Fagerberg

“…This apophaticism feels like a wave that washes away every cataphatic sand castle we build. In this essay, I would like to change the street address of apophaticism to the house of liturgy. …”
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Des esclaves et des bêtes : fables de la sauvagerie en Amérique dans Letters from an American Farmer, de St John de Crèvecoeur by Agnès Derail-Imbert

“…In the sequel to this philosophical essay, the narrator resumes his naturalist account with the description of local reptiles, whose murderous behavior hardly fails to evoke slavery, as if servitude and the violence it entails were merely a law of nature. …”
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A Model of Influential Factors in Franchise Operations by Helder de Souza Aguiar, Marcos Roberto Luppe, Paulo Tromboni de Souza Nascimento

“…The objective of this theoretical essay was to construct a model of those factors that might at any time have an influence on the operation of a franchise unit. …”
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