Mulheres, arte e poder: uma narrativa de contrapoder? by Ana Gabriela Macedo

“…My aim in this paper is to build on a fundamental essay by Linda Nochlin preci- sely titled “Women, Art and Power” (1988), where the author convincingly inves- tigates this triad while, in her own words, she “disentangles various discourses about power related to gender difference existing simultaneously with – as much surface as substractum – the master discourse of the iconography or narrative”. …”
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Des mages à Florence au Quattrocento. Autour de la fête de l’Épiphanie de 1443 by Pauline Duclos-Grenet

“…However, it is in Florence by the late Middle Ages that the production of meaning is the most powerful. The purpose of this essay is to draw the frame of this phenomenon and to understand how it pervades the minds of the period, through the urban rituals and pictural representations which structure the Florentine society. …”
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ITG 1000, Risk Detection and Accounting Information: a Theoretical Analysis on the Cost versus Benefit for Micro and Small Enterprises by Mateus Alexandre Costa dos Santos, Luiz Carlos Marques dos Anjos, Paulo Roberto Nóbrega Cavalcante, Paulo Aguiar do Monte

“…This essay aims to discuss aspects related to the incentives that individuals face with regard to the adoption or not of ITG 1000, as well as the possible scenarios resulting from the responses of these individuals to such incentives. …”
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THEATRICAL LIFE AND REPERTOIRE OF THE MARIONETTE THEATRE OF ESTERHÁZ by Kata ASZTALOS

“…The focal point of the essay is an analysis of the functioning of the marionette theatre based on date, authors and works. …”
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Pionieri in paradiso by Simonetta Grilli, Fabio Mugnaini

“… The essay reflects on the processes of redefining the forms of living in a rural community, Trequanda (in the province of Siena), which has experienced a partial repopulation since the 1970s with the arrival of individuals (couples and families of various ages) from diverse socio-cultural and geographical backgrounds. …”
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Nietzsche's Poethics: Poetry as a Way of Life in 'The Gay Science' by Philip Mills

“…To what extent is ethics dependent on poetics? In this essay, I argue that Nietzsche’s life-affirming ethics can be understood only in this poethical framework. …”
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Saline obtaining and time standardization of prothrombin using thromboplastin of human placenta. by María de Jesús Sánchez Bouza, Pedro Sánchez Frenes, Albert Vera Razumova, Miriam Soto González, Deysi González Sarría, Junior Jáuregui Solís

“…<strong>Background: </strong>Determining prothombine ‘s time is an important lab test in the study of coagulation disorders. To develop this essay the main reactive was thromboplastin , a substance that is presented in tissue and that has been obtained habitually from the human brain or certain animals but its extraction in labs or its commercial acquisition is difficult at present. …”
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Organisational resilience: a proposal of an integrated model and research agenda by Cristina Chaves Goldschmidt, Kely César Martins de Paiva, Hélio Arthur Reis Irigaray

“…This theoretical essay seeks to shed light on and synthesise the concept of resilience in relation to employees and organisations and to propose an integrated analysis model. …”
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‘Trustworthy Allies’: International Organisations, Ernest Hemingway, Women Activists, and Spanish Republican Exiles in Cuba by Daniel Fernandez Guevara

“…Notably, if the literature on US private aid groups is scant for the Spanish conflict, the research is simply non-existent for refugees who made their way to Cuba or the women in the United States who facilitated aid for these refugees. Thus, this essay addresses a crucial lacuna in the historiography by examining how US aid groups dealt with the crisis on the island. …”
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Bush versus Bin Laden in Time by Johann de Wet

“…The structural analysis focuses on the identification of the binary oppositions at play, uncovering the cultural code predominant at Time through its viewpoint and essay columns. It was found that the cultural code translates into: the United States and the Western World are the beacons of democracy and freedom, while Islam (more specifically Muslim fundamentalists) represents authoritarianism, repression and bondage. …”
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‘If this is of God’: Choosing to Curse in Ghanaian Charismatic Christianity by Mark S. Aidoo

“…In the African Pentecostal/Charismatic ministries, one finds pastors and prophets who are cursing their colleagues openly. This essay reflects on the cursing prayers of Bishop Dag Heward-Mills, the founder and Presiding Bishop of Lighthouse Chapel International, and Pastor Kelvin Elson Godson, founder of Zoe Outreach Embassy, Ogbodjo, Accra to explore their religious, ethical, and cultural justifications in contemporary neo-Charismatic ministries in Ghana in light of the African religious and cultural values. …”
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When lights turn off. Future perspectives to design smart homes by Matteo O. Ingaramo, Mila Stepanovic

“…Technologies have definitely an essential role in these transformations and global challenges aimed to change. This essay analyses the link between this general phenomenon and its particular effect on private citizens, focusing on the digitisation of spaces and, in particular, domestic spaces. …”
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A FEMININE OF NO ONE’S OWN IN CHARLOTTE TÁBUA RASA by Eider Madeiros, Letícia Simões Velloso Schuler, Mariana Pinheiro Ramalho, Hermano de França Rodrigues

“… This paper aims to essay an open and constructive dialogue between the very rupture that the trans female body evokes and the recent concept of “feminine of no one”, through an inductive approach that the latter could make it possible to be kept in a state of infiniteness, of openness, of incompleteness, of non-wholeness, the aspect that characterizes the surrounding and expressive territories of each one of the specific bodies that allow themselves to be situated more leaned onto the feminine. …”
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THE RECLAIMING CUBAN CULTURAL IDENTITY WHILE LIVING AS A CUBAN DIASPORA IN AMERICA AS DEPICTED IN CAMILA CABELLO “HAVANA” by Tan Michael Chandra

“…This perspective is highlighted through essay from Cabello herself, which notes the notion of cultural exchange and the life of the immigrants. …”
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DECOLONIZING ISLAMIC STUDIES: A VIEW FROM THE SALAFIS SCHOOL OF THOUGHT by EMORDI PROMISE JUDE, OGHENERO KANO BENSON, CHUKWUKADIBIA CHIMAUZOM EZE, CYNTHIA UKA IYADE, AYINOR AZUBUIKE

“… This essay argues for a critical re-evaluation of Islamic studies, challenging the Eurocentric and Arab-centric biases that have historically shaped the field. …”
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The Limits of Computer Science. Weizsäcker’s Argument by Olszewski Adam

“…The main purpose of this paper, which takes the form of an essay, is an attempt to answer the question of the limits of artificial intelligence (AI). …”
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Youth as actors and mediators in Tuareg theater and social life (Urban Niger and Mali) by Susan Rasmussen

“…In particular, there is widespread preoccupation with what many refer to as the experience of youth. This essay analyzes enactments and reformulations of the meanings of youth and intergenerational relationships in popular play plots in Agadez, Niger, and Kidal, Mali, explores what it means to be culturally defined, among Tuareg, as “youth(s),” and examines the connections between acting and its performing specialists, many of whom are culturally defined as “youthful” in emerging new plays considered by many local audiences as “modern.” …”
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Apollo in the North: Transmutations of the Sun God in Walter Pater’s Imaginary Portraits by Lene Østermark-Johansen

“…Walter Pater’s fascination with the Hyperborean Apollo, who according to myth resided north of the home of the northern wind, is explored in two of his pieces of short fiction, ‘Duke Carl of Rosenmold’ (1887) and ‘Apollo in Picardy’ (1893). The essay discusses some of Pater’s complex dialogue with Victorian science, mythography and folklore in the texts, in an attempt to map the topicality of his fiction. …”
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L' Esprit de chrétienté et la question de lʼidentité nationale française dans lʼœuvre polémique de Bernanos by Frano Vrančić

“…En partant de La Grande peur des bien-pensants (1931) et des Grands Cimetières sous la lune (1937), critiques virulentes du monde de la finance et des répressions franquistes pendant la guerre dʼEspagne, jusquʼà ses essais incisifs rédigés au service de la France Libre nous allons essayer de montrer la façon dont les convictions politico-religieuses du « Dostoïevski français » se reflètent dans son écriture qui, faut-il le rappeler, lui sert non seulement comme une source dʼintrospection, mais aussi comme le meilleur moyen dʼillustration et de défense de sa vision christique du monde. …”
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