Simple Sources for Complex Problems. Where Did Californians Come From in 1940? by Myron P. Gutmann

“…Kees Mandemakers has been a leader in the study of linked population data, but not every society has the sources or resources to create linked data. This essay is about one approach that derives from a source that does not offer all that is possible with linked longitudinal data, but that nonetheless has significant value. …”
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Des architectes urbanistes au cœur d’une lutte entre des écologies concurrentes. « Quartier libre des Lentillères » contre « écocité Jardin des maraîchers » à Dijon... by Pierre Bouilhol

“…These new forms of activism and civic engagement, both local and global, have become increasingly divisive, often pitting environmentalists against one another. This essay proposes to examine the history, the narrative regimes and the unfolding consequences of a specific case of socio-environmental mobilization, the “quartier libre des Lentillères” on the outskirts of the French city of Dijon. …”
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The Development of Wheeled Transportation in Osun Division of Southwestern Nigeria, 1900-1960 by AbiodunAjayi

“…However, with the advent of the wheeled transportation technology, economic horizon became broader as people were provided with more profitable endeavors to engage themselves with. This essay attempts to analyze the development of wheeled transportation as a factor that was fundamental to the new developments in colonial Osun Division of Southwestern Nigeria. …”
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Staging identity: When poets read themselves and their translations by Larisa Cercel

“…The translation-performance nexus in the translator’s act of reading will be explored in the essay in terms of the parameters of (a), the voice, (b), the public persona and (c), the effect of the performance. …”
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Rubric Design: A Designer’s Perspective by William Furman

“…But in the end, they can also provide real value to the student and instructor. This reflective essay takes on the design and development of the rubric, challenging the notion there are different types of rubrics or inherent evaluation methodologies, offers an alternative layout, and reviews rubrics through the designer’s lens, approaching them through concept development and design thinking. …”
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Investigating AI systems: examining data and algorithmic bias through hermeneutic reverse engineering by Nishanshi Shukla

“…Considering Artificial Intelligence systems as boundary objects, which are interdisciplinary objects sustained differently by diverse fields while providing shared discourses between them, this essay summarizes the approaches of examining bias in AI systems. …”
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Dubai transient city. Anatomy of a post-urban phenomenon by Tiziano Aglieri Rinella

“…Shall Dubai demonstrate skills of resilience and urban regeneration, facing the nowadays fast and unpredictable transformations of the economic and geopolitical scenarios of the Gulf region? The essay aims to investigate the dynamics that led to the current dystopian scenario of the nowadays urban landscape of Dubai, proposing possible solutions to relieve the impact of the existing contradictions.…”
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Espaço vivido e espaço mental: Dalton Trevisan e a dicotomia social do urbanismo curitibano by Nelson H. Vieira

“…This essay deals with the short stories of Dalton Trevisan and the city of Curitiba within the context of urbanism as “lived space”, using André Lefebvre’s terminology, with the aim of understanding the social dichotomy between a rural mentality and an urban modernity. …”
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Voices in the Urban Wilderness: Reimagining the Terms of Order in “Renaissance” Boston by Jeffrey Helgeson

“…They also built on what has been called a “neoliberal rationality” that, in part, sought to create profit centers and market-oriented ways of living in everything from public schools, public universities, and public infrastructure to residential housing and artistic culture. This essay focuses on the work of two Bostonians in particular—writer and activist Fanny Howe and Black Power artist and activist Dana C. …”
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The Benefit of Biodiversity – Polemic View of Environmental, Social and Ethical Aspects of Czech Philosophers and Environmentalists by Jan Lípa, Ladislav Rozenský, Petr Ondrušák, Josef Dolista

“…To validate this thesis, the authors of this work chose an essay dealing with professional monographs and professional articles on this topic, focusing on the continuity of ideas of the authors of the Central European region. …”
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POVERTY AND NATIONAL SECURITY: AN OVERVIEW OF NIGERIA’S FOURTH REPUBLIC by ADAMU MOHAMMED

“…It is impossible to overstate the significance of poverty and all of its associated tendencies, dimensions, and points of view when considering national security. Thus, this essay examined the mutually beneficial link that exists in Nigeria between poverty and national security. …”
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PENGARUH PEMBELAJARAN MATEMATIKA BERBANTUAN MEDIA VIDEO PEMBELAJARAN BERBASIS STEAM TERHADAP KEMAMPUAN LITERASI NUMERASI SISWA KELAS V SD NEGERI 01 KEPAHIANG by Neza Agusdianita, Yusnia Yusnia, Melisa Melisa

“…The technique used in this research was a pre-test and post-test which were designed in the form of essay questions, each consisting of 5 questions. …”
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LİVÂYÎ’NİN MANZÛM YASİN TEFSİRİ / LIVAYI’S POETICAL INTERPRETATION OF “YASEEN” (SURA YASEEN) by Ahmet SEVGİ

“…</p><p>Abstract:</p><p>The text of poetical interpretation of “Yaseen” (Sura Yaseen) appeared in Livayi’s, one of the 16th century poets, the work (the beginning part missing) stored under the number Diez A. 8⁰.192 in Berlin Königliche Library, is given in this essay. Poetical interpretations of Suras “Mulk” and “Amme” are included in this work, completed in 1543 and presented to Sultan Suleiman the Lawgiver. …”
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DESCARTES VE SPİNOZA DÜŞÜNCESİNDE GERÇEK İYİ KAVRAMI by Nurten Gökalp

“…The struggle of the searching the actual good is important in the philosophy especially 17. century. In this essay, it will be examined this problem related with Descartes’ and Spinoza’s thoughts. …”
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I giovani maoresi e la mobilità. La sfida dell’istruzione tra vecchie e nuove disuguaglianze by Paola Schierano

“…It analyses the educational system of Mayotte, characterized by the integration of republican school and Koranic school, as well as factors and limitations to Mahoran students’ mobility. The aim of this essay is to show how unequal policies, a legacy from the colonial past, reverberate in the present of Mahoran people, deeply conditioning it at migratory, educational and professional level. …”
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Ethnographic Theology: Integrating the Social Sciences and Theological Reflection by Gerardo Martí

“…However, since most theologians are not substantively trained in social scientific methods, their sophistication with this methodology is limited, leading to distortions in recorded observations and proffered interpretations. This essay seeks to address this lack of depth by articulating some of the most essential sensitivities that are crucial to the best practices associated with exemplary scholarship emerging at the intersection of ethnography and theology. …”
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Breaking up the Canon of Literary Modernity: Classicism in the Ecopoetics of David Hinton and the Materialism of Zeng Shaoli. A Preliminary Outline of Epistemological Changes in Co... by Frank Kraushaar

“… The target of this essay is to open possible pathways to approach the phenomenon of a self-remodeling of classicist poetry in the 20th and early 21st century by focusing on the process from two different angles rarely perceived as related to each other: first, the remodeling of Chinese lyrical classicism through a strand of modern American poetry harking back to Ezra Pound and currently crystallized in the translations of David Hinton and, second, the transition that modern Chinese poetry written in classical language and conforming to prosodic rules of classical style poetry, sometimes referred to as “old style poetry” jiu ti shi, underwent after its rebirth as “unofficial” poetry online since the beginning of this century. …”
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Dancing to the Bhangra in New York City by Anjali Gera Roy

“…Drawing on Henri Lefebvre’s notion of the production of space, this essay focuses on a performance space to argue that the dancing in the city interrupts its spatial coordinates.…”
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Rise of Love and the People: French Matter and Manner in the Early Victorian Drama of Edward Bulwer-Lytton by Ana Fernández-Caparrós Turina

“…Beyond using French sources and setting the action of these plays in France, the inspiration from French culture and history crucially imbued Bulwer with a sense of freedom to essay his peculiar and intuitive conflation of politics and romance. …”
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The Narrator as Mediator and Explicator in Victorian and Edwardian Retellings of Shakespeare for Children by Laura Tosi

“…In these narrative retellings, motivation is constantly offered to a child in need of acculturation in the national poet’s work (in other, more contemporary words, in need of cultural capital). My essay focuses on the special, multifaceted and often ambiguous relationship that the narrator establishes with the child reader in these collections, by making Shakespeare’s plays available to a child audience in a way they may find congenial and relevant, and yet at the same time controlling the child’s interpretation of the plays. …”
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