‘L’Amour aux Antipodes’: Tasma, Australia and the French Connection by Judith Johnston

“…This article investigates Tasma's only known French publication, ‘L'Amour aux Antipodes’ (‘Love in the Antipodes’) which first appeared in August 1880 in the Parisian periodical La Nouvelle Revue, possibly to capitalise on the popularity of a series of lectures on Australia which she had delivered in various French and Belgian cities. …”
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O “pacto sucessório” revisitado: o texto e o contexto by Abel Estefânio

“…If we had read the text so-called "pacto sucessório" between the counts Raymond and Henry in the century when it first appeared published, it would be possible to date it around 1085, during the siege of Toledo. …”
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Le poids de l’instant dans le récit ferroviaire contemporain by Mahigan Lepage

“…Here is the question that arises: how could one make narrative, i.e. duration and continuity (Jean-Paul Goux), from what first appears to be a chaos of atomized instants or snapshots? …”
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Mal du siècle et mal du lieu : bovarysme et romantisme mêlés dans les deux grands romans modernes de Flaubert by Philippe Chardin

“…With a global comparison between Flaubert’s two chief modern novels, Madame Bovary and L’Éducation sentimentale, and a superposition of suggestive examples taken from both of them, this article intends to prove that the sequence of contrasts that firstly appear must not conceal the subtle variations on the same narrative patterns and the same psychological climates. …”
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Une balle blanche dans un roman noir by Sophie Vallas

“…This paper analyzes the place of baseball in Squeeze Play: it first appears as an essential element in the very structure of the plot, but it is also, for Auster, a way of questioning the myth of the hero in an American society whose main aspects (sports, politics, private life) are eaten up by corruption and perversion. …”
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Gestes et images du voyage en Orient by Monique Sicard

“…In fact, the presence of photography in his letters and his travel notebooks is more important than it might first appear. These large negatives, that result in a symbolic and effective link with the book, are not to be confused with the use of photo-cards that later led Flaubert to reject photographic objects. …”
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ENSEMBLES MUSICAUX REPRÉSENTATIFS DE LA PHILHARMONIE « TRANSILVANIA » DE CLUJ-NAPOCA. LES QUATORS À CORDES PENDANT LES ANNÉES 1955 – 1989 by Simona-Mihaela SPIRIDON

“…Considered one of the most prestigious Romanian chamber ensembles that have captured the audiences worldwide, the “Transilvan” Quartet first appeared on stage in Cluj in 1985 under the name “Allegro”. …”
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Un pays à l’image d’une jambe humaine : anatomie de l’imaginaire géographique et paysager italien by Justine Balibar

“…This highly contemporary image is actually rooted in a much older image, which was just as popular during the Renaissance and which represented Italy as a human leg. This image first appeared in a geography book by Leandro Alberti dating from 1551, entitled Descrittione di tutta Italia, which was very successful during the Renaissance. …”
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Freak Shows on the Page: Defining ‘criminanimality’ in Newgate Fiction (1830-1847) by Hubert Malfray

“…Through Newgate texts and engravings, the animal metaphor first appears as an ideological tool used to deprecate vile human beings who disrupted the law, linking their misdeeds to their apparent savagery. …”
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COMPARATIVE OVERVIEW OF THE ZIONIST MOVEMENT IN CROATIA AND SERBIA UNTIL THE BEGINNING OF WORLD WAR II by Ljiljana Dobrovšak, Haris Dajč

“…The Zionist movement in the area of the former Yugoslavia first appeared at the beginning of the 20th century. It emerged first in Croatia, where attorney Hugo Spitzer founded the Zionist Society in his home city of Osijek and started publishing the Zionist magazine, Židovska smotra, and organised several Zionist congresses (in Osijek, Slavonski Brod, and Zemun) in order to connect Jews not only within Austria-Hungary, but also from the neighbouring Kingdom of Serbia. …”
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Seismic Response Analysis of Jointed Rock Slope under Pulse-Like Ground Motions by Xijun Jia, Yu Zhang, Ziyi Zhang

“…In the progressive failure process, the displacement first appears at the slope toe, then the fractures in the slope crest are opened, and the rock blocks slide along the bottom surface. …”
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Common Sense Diagrams: The US Two-Party System in Magruder’s American Government, 1917–2023 by Janne Holmén

“…That year, the textbook referred to “the four leading parties,” and the two-party system concept first appeared in a diagram in 1930. From 1939, the two-party system was considered a trait of English-speaking countries and was contrasted to the chaotic multiparty systems in Europe, which could end up in dictatorship. …”
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Issues Impairing the Success of Neural Implant Technology by A. Spiers, K. Warwick, M. Gasson, V. Ruiz

“…Further, results achieved may not be as expected or as they at first appear. This paper describes a comparative study investigating different implant types and procedures. …”
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The Idea of «Concept» in the Studies of Culture by T. D. Tatarskaya

“…Meanwhile, the discourse about "concept" firstly appeared in philosophical literature. Then at the early twentieth century an interest to "concept" arose in Russian linguistics. …”
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« This narrative is my written memory » : transcrire la mémoire dans David Copperfield de Charles Dickens by Céline Prest

“…He exhumes the memories stored in his mind, which has become an archival space preserving the traces of the past. David first appears as the successor of the Greek arkheions whom Derrida defined as the keepers and interpreters of all official documents (of which the word ‘archive’ will be derived). …”
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Reading the Background: The Textual and the Visual in Steve Tomasula’s The Book of Portraiture by Pawel Frelik

“…The Book of Portraiture, the author’s 2006 novel, at first appears to be a much more humble affair in this respect. …”
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Numerical Simulation of Aircraft Icing with an Unsteady Thermodynamic Model considering the Development of Water Film and Ice Layer by Xiaobin Shen, Zicheng Qi, Wenzhao Zhao, Guiping Lin, Yu Zeng, Zuodong Mu

“…Icing simulations were performed for a NACA0012 airfoil, and the results show acceptable agreement with the data in the literature. Water film first appears near the stagnation point, and then, the film thickness increases, and the runback water region expands with time, affecting the icing rate, the surface temperature, and the ice type. …”
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On Existence of Stabilizing Switching Laws within a Class of Unstable Linear Systems by Sendren Sheng-Dong Xu, Chih-Chiang Chen

“…The equivalence of two conditions, condition (3) and condition (4) stated in Problem Statement section, regarding the existence of stabilizing switching laws between two unstable linear systems first appeared in (Feron 1996). Although Feron never published this result, it has been referenced in almost every survey on switched systems; see, for example, (Liberzon and Morse 1999). …”
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Resilience and Hopelessness in Turkish Society: Exploring the Role of Spirituality in the COVID-19 Pandemic by Hakan Gülerce, Hafza Aroosa Maraj

“…COVID-19 is an infectious disease that first appeared in China, and turned into a global pandemic. …”
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Experiences of Science Teachers during the Pandemic-Based Distance Learning Process and Their Recommendations about the Post-Pandemic Process by Serpil Deli, Ozlem Koray, Emine Kahraman

“…In the study, the “first period” referred to the period when the pandemic first appeared (the period between March-June 2020) and the “second period” referred to the post-summer holiday period (the period between August-November 2020). …”
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