The First Workers of the Ant Camponotus obscuripes Are a Different Allometric Morph with Relatively Long Antennae to Communicate with Other Larger Colony Members by Saori Watanabe, Mamoru Terayama, Ryota Kawauchiya, Natsuki Ogusu, Yusuke Fujita, Syunta Mikami, Yuuka Murakami, Eisuke Hasegawa

“…We report here that, in the ant Camponotus obscuripes Mayr, the allometric rules of the nanitics are different from those of other workers in mature colonies, suggesting that the nanitics constitute an independent caste as with soldiers or queens in other species. In addition, the antennae of the nanitics show the minimum absolute length-difference with the mother queen compared to the other traits measured. …”
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Cuteness and aggression in military picturebooks by Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer, Jörg Meibauer

“…This term encompasses picturebooks dealing with war and the roles of soldiers. In the first part,a taxonomy of military picturebooks is created which is exemplified by telling examples. …”
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L’inattendu du terrain by Claire Vidal

“…In this particularly dynamic microcosm, one finds inhabitants side-by-side with travellers, clerics, soldiers, political authorities, and tourism companies. …”
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The Battle of Žalgiris / Grunwald: Unanswered Questions by Alfredas Bumblauskas

“…The quantity of the heavy mounted soldiers in the tactics of wedge is not decisive - to form spearheads of three corps or wedges the heavy mounted soldiers from the Duke's elite could have sufficed Lithuania, especially having in mind Vytautas' attempts to modernize the army of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania before the battle. …”
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Anaphore possessive et anaphore associative : le cas des noms collectifs by Mathilde Salles

“…This paper is devoted to some anaphoric operations which are specific to the collection-member relation (e.g., regiment/soldiers, caravan/camels, forest/trees). This relation can be extremely flexible from the anaphoric standpoint, compared to closely related semantic relations such as meronymy (e.g., tree/trunk, car/engine), but can also involve surprising impossibilities. …”
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Un établissement pénitentiaire singulier dans «l’archipel punitif» de l’armée française en Algérie : L’établissement des fers de Douera puis de Bône (1855-1858) by Nadia Biskri

“…In the spring of 1855, a prison facility for soldiers and sailors sentenced to chains was set up in Algeria, in the Douera military camp and then in the fortress of Bône. …”
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On Historiography of Fights for Independence and Creation of Lithuanian Army by Vytautas Lesčius

“…., 1917-1919 events, which the Lithuanian soldiers serving in the Russian army experienced. Their diverse activity was elucidated in the periodical press. …”
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Lieux et milieux dans le Théâtre de Béziers (XVIIe siècle) by Jean-François Courouau

“…Domestics, numerous in comedies, include rakish valets and loose chambermaids. The many soldiers present are an echo of contemporary difficulties (the Thirty Years War). …”
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Editorial by Thomas D. Wilson

“…Since we last published (in the middle of December), generative AI continues to make the headlines, particularly with Google’s attempts to satisfy the demands for “diversity”, by generating images of black, female Nazi soldiers. Needless to say, embarrassment all round. …”
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Le camp F de Lautagne à Valence (Drôme) : l’organisation interne et la vie quotidienne d’un camp militaire romain au milieu du ier s. av. J.-C. by Magalie Kielb Zaaraoui, Loïc Buffat, Michel Reddé, Yahya Zaaraoui

“…-Hygin, we have nonetheless attempted to re-imagine how the soldiers would have set up their tents at Lautagne F.…”
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Feminism and the Cold War in the U.S. Occupation of Japan, 1945 – 1952 by Mire Koikari

“…Despite his staff’s concern about possible attacks by enemy soldiers not yet disarmed, MacArthur’s triumphant landing was followed by a smooth procession to the New Grand Hotel in Yokohama and later an entry into Tokyo where he established the General Headquarters (GHQ) of SCAP in the Dai-ichi Seimei Insurance Building. …”
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Revival of the Moral Traditions in Red Army During the Great Patriotic War by E. G. Guzhva

“…This historical and pedagogical analysis is of great importance for the spiritual, moral and patriotic education of youth and soldiers of the Russian army at the present stage of development of society.…”
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Conflicting Visions of War: Winston Churchill and Rudyard Kipling’s Evocation of the Boer War by Laïli Dor

“…Kipling and Churchill witnessed the war in fairly similar conditions, observing the fighting at close range and enjoying friendly contact with British soldiers. Yet this common experience resulted in opposite visions and discourse: Churchill presented the Boers as loyal enemies, to be fought but respected. …”
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Kenya’s 2022 General Elections and Nigerian’s 2023 General Elections: Any Lessons for Democratic Consolidation in Africa? by Godwin Ojanyi Agbiloko, Gerald Ifeanyi Okafor

“…The level and magnitude of electoral and political violence has risen and the political elites have often converted their foot-soldiers who undermine the electoral process by perpetrating these violent acts. …”
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The Crack in the Cornerstone: Victorian Identity Conflicts and the Representation of the Sepoy Mutiny in Metropolitan and Anglo-Indian Novels by Flaminia Nicora

“…The working class was silenced and only one novel portrays the role and point of view of simple soldiers in the Mutiny. The purpose of this article is to outline the differences of perspectives on the event and its causes, shown by novels written by “metropolitan” writers and by members of the Anglo-Indian community, officers and civil servants, who were not professional novelists, but were often eye-witnesses of the Mutiny. …”
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Les noms de tranchées et de boyaux de la Grande Guerre en Champagne by Alain Devos, Pierre Taborelli, Robin Perarnau

“…To improve the operational aspect of trench maps, the soldiers increased the names, designations and numbers associated with nameboards. …”
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THEORETICAL AND METHODICAL APPROACH TO ASSESSMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES POTENTIAL by Yu. A. Zinnurova, E. M. Shironina

“…The matrix model, formed on the basis of scoring data, with four groups of personnel has been proposed in the article: “Stars” (it is characterized by a high level of responsibility and high complexity of the labour functions perfomed), “Experts” (high complexity of work with a relatively low level of responsibility), «Soldiers» (high responsibility with a low level of complexity), «Cogs» (low level of responsibility and complexity of the work performed). …”
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Hall of the Oneg Shabbat and Gemilut Hasadim Society by Putnik-Prica Vladana, Dautović Vuk

“…The construction of the Sukkat Shalom Ashkenazi synagogue was also completed in this period, with the Memorial to Jewish soldiers who died in the Balkans and the First World War at the Jewish Sephardic cemetery in Belgrade and the construction of the monumental hall of the Jewish Church-School Community having also been completed by the end of the 1920s. …”
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RELATIONS BETWEEN RUSSIA AND TURKEY: THE PROSPECTS OF COLLABORATION by A. T. Mozloyev

“…The tragic event is not only about our plane being shut down but also about the murder of our soldiers what, also considering the reluctance of the Turkish elite to make apologies and its aspiration to postpone the normalization of the relations, makes it difficult to at least bring the relations back to their initial level.…”
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