La croyance en l’école à l’épreuve de la post-modernité : peut-on apprendre sans faire crédit au maître et à la culture enseignée ? by Jean-Marc Lamarre

“…Ce manque de croyance et de confiance relève de processus post-modernes de déliaison et de dissolution. Or l’école repose sur la croyance : apprendre suppose que l’élève fasse crédit au maître et aux œuvres qu’il fait étudier. …”
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International Criminalization of International Terrorizm by A. G. Volevodz

“…Hitherto terrorism and actions connected to it have been criminalized by the majority of states. There are in modern criminal law whole systems of rules on criminal liability for terrorism which differs considerably from country to country. …”
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Synthesis, Characterization, and Applications of ZnO, Ag2O, and ZnO/Ag2O Nanocomposites: A Review by Abel Saka, Leta Tesfaye, Krishnaraj Ramaswamy

“…Nanoscale dimensional materials represent a captivating area of research in modern technology, owing to their unique properties and vast potential applications. …”
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An Automated Profile-Likelihood-Based Algorithm for Fast Computation of the Maximum Likelihood Estimate in a Statistical Model for Crash Data by Issa Cherif Geraldo

“…We study the performance of our new algorithm on simulated data by comparing it to some of the most famous and modern optimization algorithms. The results suggest that our proposed algorithm outperforms these algorithms.…”
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Condição humana, condição cidadã: um ensaio sobre a dignidade da política e os desafios do novo Estado democrático by Adelia Maria Miglievich Ribeiro

“…In the view of Boaventura de Souza Santos, this jeopardizes the modern social contract, demanding its renewal through the public powers commitment to the consolidation of processes of social inclusion. …”
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Aragonese and Bourbons Taught by Giovanni Pontano by Margherita Sciancalepore

“…The paper investigates how these works were read, interpreted, and re-proposed by Grisolia for the education of members of the royal family, confirming the universality of Pontano’s teaching ad institutionem principis, whose validity has spanned the centuries, proving capable of addressing past generations of sovereigns as well as modern ones. …”
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Keeping Warm in Subtropical Winter. When Everyday Life Disrupts the Concept of Hyper-Conditioned Environments in Chongqing (Southwest China) by Madlen Kobi

“…The practice of regulation of indoor climates has spread globally with the rise of modern architecture and has cemented the idea of an air-conditioned indoors as opposed to a non-controllable outdoors. …”
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Rare or orphan diseases. A review study by Ener Mantilla Horna, Jóhel Osorio Fernández

“…Rare or orphan diseases represent a significant challenge to modern medicine due to their low prevalence and lack of effective treatments. …”
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Sustainable energy technologies for emerging renewable energy and electric vehicles by Surender Reddy Salkuti

“…I focused on the integration of renewable energy (RE), energy storage (ES), and EVs into modern sustainable power grids. With the recent advances in power generation technologies, the fluctuations in generation and electrical demand are common in hybrid power systems. …”
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Adaptability and Self-Organization of the Doctoral Training System by T. A. Starshinova

“…Training of highly qualified personnel for science, education and industry is an important factor in the formation of a high-tech economy. The modern system of doctoral training does not always cope with its tasks. …”
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Cluster approach to the development of the mechanism of export of agricultural enterprise products by N. R. Suchkova

“…Based on the conducted research, modern mechanism of export of products (grain) by agricultural enterprises has been presented with the allocation of subjects by stages of the export life cycle depending on the way of its realization (directly, through an intermediary, or as a cluster participant). …”
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Postmodernity, globalisation, communication and identity by Bert Olivier

“…These questions are explored in relation to the so-called postmodern subject – or the subject in the age of globalisation, the age of hypercommunication, or of 'informatization' – which one may assume to be constituted very differently from the 'modern' subject of the 19th-century, or even more radically differently from premodern subjects. …”
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Le paysage spatial dans la bande dessinée de science-fiction by Irène Langlet

“…These two hypotheses are articulated here to show that the spatial landscape witnesses, in the bande dessinée, to the recognition of a visual genre culture but also to the knowledge of a science emblematic of modernity, and of its major technological adventure: the space race.By observing how the SF signature is constituted in a diversion from the astronomical rigor, I establish the architextual framework in which the aesthetic and formal question can be posited. …”
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Humanizacja w XXI wieku nowoczesnego podmiotu by Irena Grochowska

“…The crisis of sense, which affects us badly nowadays, causes us to reflect on and promote new solutions as well as create personalities fulfilling the requirements of the modern world. The answer requires a comprehensive analysis of the problem in order to present the integral vision of the man in the world. …”
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Features of Life Meaning Orientations and Defensive-Coping Behaviour of Russian and Foreign Students by E. L. Perchenko, T. V. Gudina

“…Nevertheless, differences in value-semantic orientations and, in accordance with this, building their own trajectory of protective and coping behavior allow students to adapt in society, coordinating their traditional values  with the modern cultural transformation of society.…”
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Improvement of the Resilience of a Microgrid Using Fragility Modeling and Simulation by Santhan Kumar Ch, N. Karuppiah, B. Praveen Kumar, S. Shitharth, B. Dasu

“…The modern microgrid is designed to withstand various disruptive events that have a high probability of occurrence but have a low impact on the system. …”
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The populistisation of green politics and the greening of populism: an examination of environmental populism in Europe by Cong Fu

“…The populistised environmentalism entails an ongoing exploration of eco-socialism and ecological modernization.…”
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Entre histoire sociale des conflits et histoire des concepts : protestation et ordre public en Espagne dans le dernier tiers du xixe siècle by François Godicheau

“…(1808-1930)» (program called GLOBIBER), a collective investigation is conducted on issues of public order in this context of Spanish imperial renewal; it is an opportunity for a systematic enquiry about social and political conflictuality concepts and categories in modern and contemporary Spain. The historical object we are proposing grows from the association of social and conceptual approaches in a context of connected histories; it also contains a methodological section, based on the processing of a big database, in a complex way, combining network and lexicon analysis.…”
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From a grand hotel to an urban symbol: the Astor Hotel in old and new Tianjin by Taoyu Yang

“…Abstract This article examines the enduring iconicity, multifaceted functions, and changing meanings of the Astor Hotel in Tianjin—one of the first international hotels in modern China—from the mid-19th century to the 21st century. …”
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The Impact of Ecoregional Mobilization on Mountain Policies in the Swiss Alps and California’s Sierra Nevada by Jörg Balsiger

“…Mountain regions have occupied a significant role in the political evolution, economic history, and sociocultural imaginary of Switzerland and California, yet the emergence of the modern state and the global economy have meant their increasing marginalization. …”
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