Heart of the Country by Len Kamerling

“…Shinichi Yasutomo, the extraordinary principal of a rural village school in Hokkaido, Japan, passionately believes he knows the way - by giving children a moral compass to guide their lives, by educating their hearts as wells as their minds.  Heart of the Country takes time - a full calendar year, to follow the life of this extraordinary man and the families and children he has dedicated himself to. …”
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Un point de vue critique : La Finlande, vers un modèle éducatif néolibéral ? by Luc Leguérinel

“…We shall try to answer this question in this article. With this aim in mind, we shall start with the analysis of the reasons for which the Finnish educational system better lends itself to PISA studies than its French counterpart. …”
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Le LiDAR : vers une meilleure connaissance des paysages du karst by Kamila Bensaadi, Anne Hecker

“…When talking about water landscapes, rivers, coastlines or wetlands come to mind. However, apart from these “open” landscapes, there is a landscape that is often forgotten, that of the karst landscape shaped by the erosive action of water. …”
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The Visible Aspect of Things: Towards a Synchronic Reading of Donald Barthelme by Surya Bowyer

“…Arguing that Barthelme is an unusually visually-minded writer, this essay examines the use of fragments in a range of his short stories. …”
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Looking back at the parcoursArianna in the Val d'Anniviers by Thierry Amrein

“…When evoking development policies and projects, it is rare that Switzerland comes to mind. However the object of this text is a project conceived specifically for the women of the Swiss alpine valleys. …”
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Jean Jaurès : neutralité, religion, socialisme et école laïque by Jean-Marc Lamarre

“…He expands his teaching to all major problems and raises the child's mind toward its embodied awareness of infinity. …”
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Editorial: Sulforaphane and isothiocyanates in health by Jed W. Fahey, Jed W. Fahey, Diego A. Moreno, Paul Licciardi, Paul Licciardi, Francesco Grassi, Tom C. Karagiannis, Nadia Mazarakis, Nadia Mazarakis

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Zhýralci a psychopati Trestání homosexuality za první republiky a česká medicína by Jan Seidl

“…At the same time, some reform-minded physicians actively participated in efforts to repeal the general criminalization of homosexuality in the Czechoslovak law - in this respect, however, their efforts were not crowned with success. …”
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Matriarchal Exemplarity in Elizabeth Isham’s Booke of Rememberance by Emma Rayner

“…A principal source of that hybridity is the advice and templates for conduct that Isham “calls to mind” from her mother, grandmother, and sister – familial inheritances that gain posthumous currency as her life narrative progresses, and the cycles of illness and death it traces subsume these female relatives one by one. …”
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L’Extraction du sable au Maroc, de la ressource au produit by Duncan Driffort

“…To do this, sand is discussed through two input analyses: as a constitutive element of dune landscapes considered a public good and as a commercialized product oriented to make armed-concrete. With this aim in mind, this research first analyzes littoral alterations due to construction in Mohammédia, then shifts its point of view towards sand extraction and its consequences on the coastline. …”
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Big Data Analytics: A Tutorial of Some Clustering Techniques by Said Baadel

“…We hope this paper can be beneficial to students, educational institutions, and any other curious mind trying to learn and understand the k-means clustering algorithm.…”
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Architecture vernaculaire de terre et évacuation des eaux by Blandine Besnard

“…Gradually abandoned since the 1970s, the vernacular heritage of the interior region of Oman is experiencing its last fires and there is an urgent need to collect both ethnological and architectural data before they definitely fall into the domain of History and Archaeology.With this in mind, a survey aiming to identify water drainage installations in three traditional mud-brick neighbourhoods in the interior of Oman (Birkat al‑Mawz, Izkī and al‑Ḥamrā') was carried out in March 2020.This survey highlighted the techniques and facilities related to water drainage in traditional Omani neighbourhoods that had never been the subject of any particular attention, but also opened up ethnoarchaeological perspectives, a discipline that postulates that ethnography can enrich the interpretation of archaeological data, or even the absence of the latter.Out of 359 identified installations, gargoyles represent 99% of the sample. …”
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Relacja człowieka do jego wytworów w aspekcie etyki środowiskowej by Wiesław Sztumski

“…That is why I come down just to one issue - to the responsibility for the excessive intensity of human environment by the new technology products which are used as the assistance to human organism and mind. This type of responsibility fits environmental ethics which relates to the relation between human and the environment and this is why it is something new and wider in comparison with traditionally understood moral responsibility usually limited to the relation “ human - human”. …”
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An Unusual Presentation of Idiopathic Lymphatic Cyst of the Thigh by Chairat Burusapat, Sophilak Sringkarawat, Sineenard Thanapurirat, Rapeepat Sapruangthong, Chatchai Pruksapong, Kantang Satayasoontorn

“…To our best knowledge, idiopathic lymphatic cyst of the thigh in young adult has never been reported and should be kept in mind in the patient who presents with abnormal thigh mass.…”
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Traffic management systems: A classification, review, challenges, and future perspectives by Allan M de Souza, Celso ARL Brennand, Roberto S Yokoyama, Erick A Donato, Edmundo RM Madeira, Leandro A Villas

“…With this question in mind, this article presents a classification, review, challenges, and future perspectives to implement a traffic management system.…”
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Discontinuation of Hemodialysis in a Patient with Anti-GBM Disease by the Treatment with Corticosteroids and Plasmapheresis despite Several Predictors for Dialysis-Dependence by Yoshihide Fujigaki, Chikayuki Morimoto, Risa Iino, Kei Taniguchi, Yosuke Kawamorita, Shinichiro Asakawa, Daigo Toyoki, Shinako Miyano, Wataru Fujii, Tatsuru Ota, Shigeru Shibata, Shunya Uchida

“…Physician should keep in mind that active anti-GBM disease shows even high procalcitonin value in the absence of infection. …”
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Leading causes of fever in patients with liver function disorders by V. T. Ivashkin, M. A. Morozova, M. V. Mayevskaya

“…If the site of infection is not detected, it is necessary to keep in mind the option of development of non-infectious fever within acute phase reaction, neoplastic process or reaction to applied pharmaceutical agents.Conclusion. …”
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Revenue diversification strategies in Ethiopian higher education system: A brief reflection by Kibrom Mengistu Feleke

“…In an effort to establish financially sustainable ground, public universities need to generate revenues from non-governmental sources. With this in mind, this reflection discusses university financing trends and the subsequent financial austerity in Ethiopia. …”
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The status of the Prime Minister in the sphere of security by Mirosław Karpiuk, Marek Klimek

“…It allowed assessing the measures which the government administration body in question can take with the state security in mind. Results The status of the Prime Minister in the sphere of security has been regulated by the legislator, who grants him managerial competences in this area. …”
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MÜŞTERİ İLİŞKİLERİ YÖNETİMİ SÜRECİNDE SÖZSÜZ İLETİŞİMİN ROLÜ: TÜRKİYE'DEKİ 5 YILDIZLI OTELLER ÜZERİNE BİR ÇALIŞMA - THE ROLE OF NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION IN CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MAN... by Bahar Urhan Torun, Abdullah Koçak

“…The most important of the research results are the most important expectation from a 5-star hotel is the quality of service; the customers’ perception about quality is shaped by the quality of communication; the employees’ NV communication skills are very highly minded by the customers.…”
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