The Effect of Shadow Banking on the Systemic Risk in a Dynamic Complex Interbank Network System by Hong Fan, Hongjie Pan

“…After the financial crisis triggered by the subprime mortgage crisis in the United States in 2008, many scholars believed that the unstable transmission of shadow banking business in the banking system is the main factor causing financial turmoil. …”
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What Will the Architect Be Doing Next? How is the profession of the architect evolving as the focus of society shifts from sustainability to resilience or reactivist-driven design... by Alexander Mooi

“…Based upon on an analysis of texts by scholars and written conversations with architects on the subject of sustainable architecture, resilient architecture, agency in architecture and reactivist architecture, supplemented with additional statements by architects on the matter of architectural practice, an evolution of this role made clear and put into perspective. …”
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Text-image Iconicity in Assurnasirpal II’s Northwest Palace by Robin Baker

“…Most attempts to interpret the panel have focused on specific elements of its iconography, particularly the tree and the figure in the winged disk above it. Many scholars have sought to decipher the image by comparing it with series of panels from elsewhere in the palace. …”
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'Green' strategies and approaches. A contribution from the off-site and upcycling of discarded shipping containers by Francesca Scalisi, Cesare Sposito

“…The Earth is in a vulnerable state that most scholars attribute to a model of infinite growth on a planet with limited resources. …”
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Moradores de cortiço, capitães da areia e cobradores urbanos: personagens excluídos da construção da ordem nacional by Eliana Kuster

“…We looked support in the Brazilian literature, used in dialogue with scholars who are dealing with the question under historical and social focuses, through works such as O cortiço, by Aluízio Azevedo (1890), Capitães da areia, by Jorge Amado (1937), and the shot story “O cobrador”, by Rubem Fonseca (1979). …”
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Tangential Points: Aleksandr Bogdanov and Sergei Eisenstein Revisited by Tikka Pia

“…Eisenstein began to establish an international reputation thanks to the originality of his films and his eclectic theoretical writings that have remained a rich source of continuing discoveries for film scholars. I propose that both of these thinkers, in their own right, and by way of their common synergy, can contribute to a systemic understanding of today’s complex world and its cultural reflections.…”
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Théorie de la régulation et histoire du droit :un croisement fertile by Samuel Klebaner

“…The aim of this article is to explore the possible connections between the methods used by scholars in the research domain of the Legal History and the research agenda of the French Régulation Theory (TR). …”
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Googling the US Electoral Cycle, 2004-2016: South African Insights by Bhaso Ndzendze

“…This disproportional share for digital spending is indicative of what scholars have termed as the rise of computational politics, defined by one study as “the application of digital targeted-marketing technologies to election campaigns” (Chester and Montgomery, 2017: 1). …”
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Nobility and domestic conviviality in the paintings of archduchess Maria Christine by Michael Yonan

“… Scholars have long identified Jean-Jacques Rousseau's writings as central texts to the history of the family. …”
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JUVENILE DELINQUECY AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE; THE DYNAMIC DUO by Igbaekemen Goddy Osa

“… This research article offers a critique to the issues raised by other scholars in the possession and use of alcohol and other drugs are illegal for all youth. …”
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Language and the African Philosophical Traditions by Kọ́lá Abímbọ́lá

“… Are there universal principles, categories, or forms of reasoning that apply to all aspects of human experience—irrespective of culture and epoch? Numerous scholars have explored this very question from Africana perspectives: Kwasi Wiredu (1996) explored the philosophical issue of whether there are culturally defined values and concepts; Hallen and Sodipo (1986) examined the question of whether there are unique African indigenous systems of knowledge; Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o (1994) evaluated the role of colonialism in the language of African literature; Oyerò nkẹ ́ ́ Oyěwumi (1997) argued that “gender” is a Western cultural invention that is foreign to Yorùbá systems of sociation; and Helen Veran (2001) argued that even though science, mathematics, and logic are not culturally relative, “certainty” is nonetheless derived from cultural practices and associations. …”
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Matriarchal Exemplarity in Elizabeth Isham’s Booke of Rememberance by Emma Rayner

“…Elizabeth Isham’s Booke of Rememberance (written 1638-9) has emerged in recent decades as one of the seventeenth century’s finest surviving examples of life-writing. Scholars have pointed, in particular, to Isham’s achievement in fashioning a fairly coherent self despite the generic hybridity of her manuscript diary. …”
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THE BALANCE BETWEEN THEORY AND PRAXIS IN SOUTH AFRICAN PENTECOSTALISM: PATMOS BIBLE SCHOOL AS A MODEL by M.S. Kgatle

“…The vast majority of scholars have linked these recent developments with the gap that exists between theory and praxis in South African Pentecostalism. …”
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Power of emperor in Russian legal discourse of second half of 19th– early 20th centuries: justification and options for interpretation by I. G. Adoneva, Yu. V. Druzhinina

“…Russian autocracy was described by jurists in a conceptual and categorical apparatus borrowed from their European colleagues. Legal scholars were looking for a balance between their own personal and scientific ideas and the form of government that existed in the Russian Empire. …”
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Visual Analysis of Research Progress on the Impact of Cadmium Stress on Horticultural Plants over 25 Years by Zhouli Liu, Benyang Hu, Yi Zhao, Shuyan Zhang, Xiangbo Duan, Hengyu Liu, Luyang Meng

“…In recent years, there has been a significant growth in scholarly attention to the effects of Cd stress on horticultural plants, as reflected by the abundance of research articles on this issue in academic publications. …”
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Èdè Àyàn: The Language of Àyàn in Yorùbá Art and Ritual of Egúngún by Oláwọlé Fámúlẹ̀

“…Paradoxically, many Yorùbá art scholars often make very little or no effort to explore the relevance of ìlù in their studies on Yorùbá visual culture, such as Egúngún. …”
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Autographs, Autobiography, and Black History in Britain: the Congo House Autograph Book by Robert Burroughs

“…In retracing black lives, scholars frequently piece together information from archival and print sources. …”
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An Archaeology of Passage: Adrian Piper Passing and Not Passing as the Mythic Being by Cat Dawson

“…Building off of the ambiguous racial and gender markers in the piece, scholars who have worked on the piece have made a range of argument staked not only on fixing the race or gender of the figure, but also conditioning the fixing of one marker or the other. …”
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Development Status and Hotspot Visualized Analysis of Autonomous Vehicles Based on CiteSpace by Lixin Yan, Tao Zeng, Guangyang Deng, Qiujie Xu

“…The research status, hot research topics, and the development trend of autonomous driving are reviewed based on CiteSpace from the aspects of number of articles, national collaboration, institutions, scholars, research areas, literature co-citation, keywords, and trends. …”
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