Le Paradoxe de la comédienne : Peg Woffington selon Charles Reade by Laurent Bury

“…At the climactic point of the plot, the actress, a professional deceiver, pretends to be a painted portrait. This episode summarizes Reade’s approach : is a living art like theatre to be compared with those « dead » or lifeless arts, painting and sculpture ?…”
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Happiness in the Psalms by Gordon McConville

“…Finally it seeks to build up a picture of the person at the centre of the Psalms, particularly as the one who speaks, chiefly from the perspectives of speech itself, the ‘soul’, and praise, in the expectation that this may provide a portrait of the fulfilled human being. …”
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RESULTS OF THE SHORT COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF MATHEMATICAL MODELS OF INFLUENCE OF THE IONOSPHERE OF THE EARTH ON ULTRA BROADBAND SIGNALS X-RANGE by M. M. Kasperovich, V. A. Kondratyonok

“…For range portrait formation at usage ultrabroadband linearly frequency-modulated signal in radar it is necessary to consider all distortions of an electromagnetic wave on a radio route. …”
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Para não ser trapo no mundo: as mulheres negras e a cidade na narrativa brasileira contemporânea by Regina Dalcastagnè

“…The city, in their books, is not just landscape or portrait, but element of subjectivation and space of empowerment, which become effective f rom the writing itself. …”
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Sages comme des images ? Les héroïnes sensationnalistes et le monde de la mode by Laurence Talairach-Vielmas

“…In Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret (1861-1862), the detective must learn to read pictures, from a Pre-Raphaelite portrait to books of beauties, so as to unveil the identity of the eponymous heroine, discovering in the process the way consumer society breeds female duplicity.…”
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Dynamic Analysis of the Nonlinear Chaotic System with Multistochastic Disturbances by Lingling Geng, Yongguang Yu, Shuo Zhang

“…And its dynamic behaviors are gained including the phase portrait, the bifurcation diagram, the Poincaré section, and the maximum Lyapunov exponent.…”
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Faith, hope and love - a missionary perspective on three seminal motifs in 1 Thessalonians 1:3 by P. G. R. de Villiers

“…In a concluding section the function of this portrait is spelled out. …”
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« Le goût amer de la couleur au Cap » by Chloé Buire

“…Stuart Hall’s notion of positioning helps to articulate two meta-narratives: the trauma caused by forced removals and the double-edge complex encapsulated by racial hierarchy. A short video portrait eventually shows how an individual pragmatically makes use of those scientific discourses. …”
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Conseiller, expert et consultant en patrimoine : la construction d’une figure de l’Éthiopie contemporaine by Guillaume Blanc, Marie Bridonneau

“…Through the history and the geography of Semèn and Lalibela, this article sketches the portrait of this key figure of the Glocal Ethiopia.…”
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Qui sont les « élus de l’eau » ? À propos de l’investissement sectoriel des élus locaux by Sylvain Barone, Bastien Sannier, Maylis Razès, Myriam Campardon, Laetitia Guérin-Schneider, Audrey Richard-Ferroudji

“…Based on two quantitative surveys, this article draws a portrait of "water representatives". It analyzes their mandates and functions, their sociological and political profiles, their relationship to water, before placing their sectoral involvement in the wider range of their political.…”
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Les camps d’internement du sud en Algérie (1991-1995). Contextualisation et enjeux by Saphia Arezki

“…It is thus a question of recalling the context in which these camps were open, explaining the decision-making process which led to their establishment while sketching a first collective portrait of the men who were sent there. In doing so, this article hopes to contribute to writing the history of the Algerian Civil War, many aspects of which are still unknown.…”
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Le désert des héros : récits de vies solitaires dans les séries américaines de fiction by Joseph Belletante

“…In a post-critic perspective, this article offers a portrait of human “states of mind” that will restitute the spectator his symbolic autonomy, through singular solitudes or the loneliness of a group as is shown by four television series that are no longer in production (Friends, The Sopranos, The West Wing and Ally McBeal) in order to allow a global interpretation and that correspond to the main genres of fiction broadcasted by the American network (comedy, drama, and dramedy).…”
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Quelques notes sur Pierre Bec éditeur critique du texte occitan médiéval  by Gilda Caiti-Russo

“…To focus on the way people edit medieval occitan texts is like making a scientific portrait of critical editors. Pierre Bec‘s secondary PHD thesis was on the Saluts d’amour du troubadour périgourdin Arnaut de Maruelh. …”
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Constructing the Second Order Poincaré Map Based on the Hopf-Zero Unfolding Method by Gen Ge, Wang Wei

“…Then, the second order Poincaré map in a generally analytical style helps to portrait the double pulse dynamics existing in the tubular neighborhood of the principal homoclinic orbit.…”
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Le jardin comme post-paysage et projection imaginée by Jean-Simon DesRochers

“…The analysis of post-landscape allow us to precise the relationship of humans with their perception of the environment and the interactions they wish to promote, but mostly, it presents a portrait of the relation between humans and the perception of their own conscience.…”
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« Je ne suis pas homme de lettres ni littérateur de profession » : la question de l’auteur.e dans les autobiographies de courtisanes du XIXe siècle by Lola Gonzalez-Quijano

“…Based on a collection of autobiographies by courtesans, this article shows how this literary sub-genre, by its necessary collaboration between these women and men of letters, blurs the boundaries between masculine and feminine writing, autobiography and novel, literature and advertising. The portrait of the courtesan as a victim of (business)men is thus as much the reflection of female writing about prostitution, than that of a prostitution feeling among male writing proletariat at that time of press and edition development.…”
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La matière des images dans The Duchess of Malfi by Anne-Valérie Dulac

“…Much like the poisoned portrait in The White Devil, some of the painted and sculpted images that appear in The Duchess of Malfi seem endowed with equally terrifying power over whoever looks at them. …”
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Photography and Archive Fever in Richard Kalinoski’s Beast on the Moon (1995) by Laurence Petit

“…The play, which addresses the 1915 Armenian genocide, revolves around an object which, along with an old coat, works as the one and only familial “archive”, namely a central family photograph whose heads were actually cut out by Aram Tomasian after he witnessed the terrible massacre of his entire Armenian family and fled to America. The family portrait, which in the course of the play suffers both a decapitation and an indirect crucifixion but somehow manages to survive, becomes the repository not just of individual destinies – or of one individual’s destiny – but of the diasporic fate of a whole people, the Armenians.…”
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A Day in the Life of the American Woman: Construction and Mediation of the “American Woman” in Photographic Essays by Jane Bayly

“…In 2005, fifty women photographers participated in a project to capture the everyday lives of over seventy American women on the same day in order to provide a composite portrait of the modern American woman in the twenty-first century. …”
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Multistability in a Fractional-Order Centrifugal Flywheel Governor System and Its Adaptive Control by Bo Yan, Shaobo He, Shaojie Wang

“…Dynamics including the multistability of the system with the variation of system parameters and the derivative order are investigated by Lyapunov exponents (LEs), bifurcation diagram, phase portrait, entropy measure, and basins of attraction, numerically. …”
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