Pour une définition de la notion de « langue régionale » by Alain Viaut, Antoine Pascaud

“…The notion of regional language has spread for half a century, particularly in Europe, although we also find it in India where it applies to co-official territorialized languages. In Europe, especially in France, it has taken the place of reference concept. …”
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Can real-time surveillance systems of suspected suicide accurately reflect national suicide rates? Age-specific and sex-specific findings from the first two years of the COVID-19 p... by Nav Kapur, Louis Appleby, Pauline Turnbull, Su-Gwan Tham, Saied Ibrahim, Cathryn Rodway

“…A month-by-month breakdown showed no change during periods of lockdown or social restrictions.Conclusions Our findings demonstrate the viability of RTS to provide timely information on suicide rates at a national level and were later confirmed by official statistics. While suicide rates have not increased, continued vigilance is needed given ongoing effects of the pandemic in the context of current economic pressures. …”
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Features of the initial stage of digitalization of the executive authority of Ukraine: historical and legal overview by E. Najafli

“…It has been found that the key directions of digitalization of the executive power within this stage were the following: creation of the primary legal basis of digitalization; legitimization of informatization of state administration as one of the key functions of executive authorities; creation of the National Agency for Informatization under the President of Ukraine as an institutional center for the primary digitization of the executive power; legitimization of mandatory publication on the Internet of information about the activities of executive authorities; ensuring the functioning of websites of executive authorities of all levels on the basis of uniform standards, their unification and standardization; introduction of the Unified web portal of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, intended for the integration of official websites of executive authorities and placement of information resources in accordance with the needs of citizens; ensuring the coordination of work to ensure the functioning of the Unified web portal, its information content, technical support, support and establishment of regulations and standards for information exchange between its constituent parts; monitoring compliance with information protection requirements in information and telecommunication systems that ensure the content and functioning of official websites (web portals) of executive authorities and the Unified web portal; outline as a prospective task of the transition to a paperless (electronic) form of document circulation in the bodies of executive power.…”
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Multi-platform diagnostic strategy and biosecurity as basis of contagious agalactia control programs in endemic areas by Christian De la Fe, Ana Grau, Olga Minguez, Antonio Sánchez, Rosario Esquivel, Juan C. Corrales

“…This manuscript analysed the efficacy of an alternative non-mandatory official control programme based on a multi-platform diagnostic panel and biosecurity developed and started in 185 herds placed in a contagious agalactia endemic area of Spain, using the data of 74,080 samples collected and analysed during a 4 years-period (2018–2021). …”
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Genetic parameters for milk production traits of Simmental cows with random regression test-day model by A. Otwinowska-Mindur, E. Ptak, W. Jagusiak, A. Zarnecki

“…Genetic parameters were estimated for a multitrait multilactation random regression test-day model for milk in Simmental cattle in Poland. Data came from the official Polish national recording system. Records of 6 447 Simmental cows born from 2002 through 2021 in 1 046 herds were collected. …”
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Analisis Kinerja Sistem Informasi Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat Republik Indonesia Berdasarkan Persepsi Masyarakat Menggunakan Metode Heuristics Evaluation by Alfriyanto Nahas, Hustinawati

“…The existence of the official website of the DPR RI at dpr.go.id is expected to facilitate the public in accessing information. …”
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The Intermediate Data Structure (IDS) for Longitudinal Historical Microdata, version 4 by George Alter, Kees Mandemakers

“…In this publication we present version 4 which is the latest ‘official’ standard of the IDS. Discussions with users over the last four years resulted in important changes, like the inclusion of a new table defining the hierarchical relationships among ‘contexts’, decision schemes for recording relationships, additional fields in the metadata table, rules for handling stillbirths, a reciprocal model for relationships, guidance for linking IDS data with geospatial information, and the introduction of an extended IDS for computed variables.…”
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A categoria raça nas Ciências Sociais: revisitando alguns processos políticos, sociais e culturais na história do Brasil by José Ivo Follmann, Adevanir Aparecida Pinheiro

“…Departing from a reference to three mechanisms, such as the "ritual" of the forgetting tree, the imposture of a new official religion and the disaggregation of blood kinship and ethnic identities, the article emphasizes, as central argument, that the usage of racist theory, as justification, and the effort of the Brazilian State in the way of whiteness's policy, which is a characteristic of Brazilian history, were strongly determinant. …”
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Un sociologue des religions en occitanisme, Jean (-Baptiste) Séguy by Philippe Gardy

“…Jean Séguy (1925-2007), a researcher at the CNRS, devoted a significant part of his time for a period of fifteen years, in parallel with his more "official" career as a sociologist of internationally recognized religions, to research in the Occitan field. …”
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Early Templar Administration in Provence and North-Eastern Spain by Alan Forey

“…From very early on, there was a Templar official with authority on both sides of the Pyrenees, and he came to be given the title of magister, although the first reference to the province of “Provence and a certain part of Spain” does not occur until 1143. …”
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Le patrimoine paysager comme élément constitutif d’un espace de nature protégé touristique by Caroline Pouliquen

“…Even if protected areas seem to accept this activity in their official laws and missions, they often have an ambiguous relationship with tourism. …”
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THE COMPETENCY BASED APPROACH IN PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION, OR IN CONTRADICTION WITH LABOR SCIENCE by V. Serov

“…The content and existing practice, the approach and provisions adopted in official methodological documents for assessing the qualifications of personnel, as well as the content and parameters of qualification requirements for employees during their certification have been considered. …”
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U.S. public television in the digital era: from niche to “Greek marketplace”? by Hélène Palmeri

“…Motivated by the renewed interest for public media in the United States since 2008, as well as the return of a futuristic philosophical bent in official speeches, we examine the reality of public media 2.0 and the place of public television in the context of Obama’s America. …”
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Du Finis Hispaniae à l’Espagne du Plus Ultra, l’hispano-américanisme comme instrument de régénération nationale by David Marcilhacy

“…Between the openly liberal and pragmatic reformist program carried by Rafael Altamira as early as the beginning of the century, and the manifestations of the official Americanism that prevailed under the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera - symbolized by the transatlantic flight of the Plus Ultra seaplane or by the Ibero-American Exhibition - the trajectory of Spanish Americanism reflects the ambiguities of a nation in search of international recognition and torn by an impossible consensus on the ways of its modernization.…”
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Interlibrary relationship development between Baltic republics by Vilija Motiekienė

“…It is suggested that official interlibrary relationships began in 1930 with the organization of the first conference for librarians. …”
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INFLUENCE OF CUSTOMS AND TARIFF REGULATION MEASURES IN FOREIGN TRADE ACTIVITY ON THE FORMATION OF INTERNAL PRICES OF THE EURASIAN ECONOMIC UNION by D. E. Barsegyan

“…The statistical data on the dynamics of prices for some categories of goods presented on the official website of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation and their dependence on the measures of customs and tariff regulation, – have been presented in the article. …”
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L’éducation à l’environnement : l’idée de neutralité entre simplisme, positivisme et relativisme by Carole Voisin

“…Difficulties in the design and implementation of these teachings, however, recommended by the official instructions, in the context of school curriculum disciplines (Lange, 2011, Victor & Lange, 2012), do not explain everything. …”
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The Church History Society of Southern Africa (CHSSA) attempting to come of age: the story of the CHSSA between 1991 and 2005 by J. W. Hofmeyr

“…Without trying to provide an official audit of the society, it is finally concluded that it is attempting to come of age and the prospects for the future are relatively positive. …”
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THEOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON DEVELOPMENT: COMPARING ROMAN CATHOLIC, ECUMENICAL AND EVANGELICAL POSITIONS by T. Kroeck

“…This article reviews theological views on international development. For this purpose, official documents of the Roman Catholic Church, the ecumenical movement and the World Evangelical Alliance/Lausanne Movement are compared regarding concepts of development and its role in the mission of the Church and views on the world and humankind, actions and actors of development and eschatology. …”
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Crime in a Changing Society: Evidence from Romania by Simona Ilie

“…It considers literature-identified risks associated with criminal activity (low level of employment, high-income inequalities), and significant changes of various nature during this time (accession to the EU, financial, political, or migrant crisis, the COVID pandemic). By using official statistics on crime and the socio-economic context, the study finds an overall decline in criminality and relative stability in recent years. …”
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