Le temps, le mouvement et l’immobilité dans les œuvres littéraires et photographiques de Claude Simon by Joanna Kotowska-Miziniak

“…The analysis is mainly based on the philosophical theories of Gaston Bachelard and Henri Bergson, as well as the photographic ones written by Siegfried Kracauer and Roland Barthes. …”
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« Soy feminista y me gusta el perreo » : les conflits de (re)signification dans les politiques sexuelles du reggaeton by Victor Santos Rodriguez

“…While the hypersexualized logic of reggaeton/perreo has traditionally translated into uninhibited sexism, it has at the same time served as a fulcrum for operations of feminist reversal as conceived by queer theories. The article highlights the centrality of the dancing (perreo) body as a semiotic space where redefinitions of the heteropatriarchal gender/sexuality regime play out, thus making a contribution to the literature on popular music, which is struggling to embrace this epistemological turn. …”
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Common Sense Diagrams: The US Two-Party System in Magruder’s American Government, 1917–2023 by Janne Holmén

“…The diagrams are analysed with the help of theories from the cognitive sciences. Magruder’s American Government has dominated the US civics textbook market since its first edition in 1917. …”
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The Architecture of a Lifetime: Structures of Remembrance and Invention in Walter Benjamin and Aldo Rossi by Jolien Paeleman

“…In present-day architectural criticism, Aldo Rossi’s oeuvre still constitutes a rich subject for discussion because of its resistance to easy pinpointing, even if Rossi himself explained his theories and methods of design on numerous occasions. …”
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Formation of new narratives in the field of regional economic research by V. V. Stroev

“…Over the past half a century, the research paradigm in the area of economic sciences has undergone significant changes: the theories of regional economics have changed, significantly evolving, complementing, and mutually reinforcing each other. …”
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Human studies and user studies: a call for methodological inter-disciplinarity (Brenda Dervin) by Brenda Dervin

“…Drawing on extensive literature reviews focusing, in particular, on user (and audience) research in the fields of library and information science and communication studies, the author describes the increasing chaos of human studies and user studies--the plethora of theories, concepts, approaches, methods, and findings which plague researchers within and between fields and bewilder policy maker and practitioner observers. …”
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Metamorphoses of Corpus Christi: Eucharistic Processions & Clashes in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Vienna by Károly Goda

“… Through analysing the processional veneration of the Eucharist in Vienna, this study re-assesses and differentiates the existing theories on the socio-cultural roles of Central European Corpus Christi processions in the context of one of the most significant residential and capital cities of the Holy Roman Empire. …”
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From Epiphylogenesis to General Organology by Robert Alexander Gorny, Andrej Radman

“…As such, it has gained some currency in a stream of neo-materialist theories that have revisited anthropogenesis, or the quasi-causality of becoming human, that operates by way of progressively differentiating environments and technics. …”
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The Desire that Propels Entrepreneurial Intentions by Hernan E. Riquelme, Abdullah Al Lanqawi

“…Specifically, it tests a model that accounts for the motivation of the entrepreneur, a salient factor commonly omitted in current theories of entrepreneurial intentions. We test the role of entrepreneurial desire (a distinct concept from desirability) as a determinant of two distinctive entrepreneurial intentions. …”
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Towards a Chinese Conception of Adolescent Development in a Migration Context by Ching-man Lam

“…Although there are many well-known theories of adolescent development in the West, there is a notable lack of theory with empirical support to understand the process and outcome of Chinese adolescent development. …”
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“Unnatural, unnatural, unnatural, unnatural unnatural” . . . but real? The Toolbox Murders (Dennis Donnelly, 1978) and the Exploitation of True Story Adaptations by Wickham Clayton

“…Through engaging with Todd Berliner’s work on incoherent narration, along with theories of, and approaches to, true story adaptation, this article addresses not only how the film functions, but how it works as an adaptation of “actual events.” …”
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The Feminization of Employment through Export-Led Strategies: Evidence from Viet Nam. by Thi Anh-Dao Tran

“…Surprisingly, most of the earlier studies omit one important empirical fact, namely that the feminization of work contributed significantly to their rapid industrialization. Feminist trade theories argue that export-oriented development strategies have so far been exploitative of cheap female labour in the South. …”
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Astrotheology: The natural interface between hyperspace and the Trinity by A.C. Pieterse

“… Over the past few decades, physicists are seeking a unifying theory that could encapsulate the theories of general relativity and quantum mechanics, our understanding of the very big and the infinitesimal small, into one all-inclusive theory. …”
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Decision-Making Based on Spherical Linear Diophantine Fuzzy Rough Aggregation Operators and EDAS Method by Muhammad Qiyas, Neelam Khan, Muhammad Naeem, Samuel Okyere

“…Many researchers and scholars have suggested numerous fuzzy set theories to resolve these ambiguities and uncertainties. …”
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The Influence of Corporate Governance and Competitive Advantage on Firm Value by Suroto Suroto, Nila Firdausi Nuzula, Saparila Worokinasih

“…This study integrates various theories, including agency theory, resource-based view theory (RBV), and market orientation theory, to explain the relationships between variables. …”
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Pedagogical reflections from a transnational PhD course in ageing by Anne Liveng, Jeanette Eriksson, Jonas Christensen

“…It was inspired by three collaborative learning theories and contained a number of non-traditional learning activities. …”
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Evidências de Patrocínio em Bestiários Medievais by Tiago de Oliveira Veloso Silva

“…It is tried to affirm this theory from material and visual analysis of the manuscripts, where it is focused on the illumination of the bird Pica, called Pêga in Portuguese. …”
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A Rare Colocalization of Lichen Planus and Vitiligo by David Veitch, Georgios Kravvas, Sian Hughes, Christopher Bunker

“…It seems to us that the association between LP and vitiligo is more than coincidental, but none of the theories discussed in this paper can sufficiently account for it. …”
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Christian and secular values for sale: the religious apostasy of celebrity and Disney's "Hannah Montana" star Miley Cyrus by Sanchez Sabate, Gelabert Santané, Badilla Briones, Del Valle Rojas

“…Drawing on a complementary use of sociological, economic and language theories of value, this paper explores Cyrus’ religious apostasy as a transformation from a Christian commodity to a secular one. …”
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South Sea Daggers and the Dead Man’s Eye: Foreign Invasion in Fin-de-Siècle Optogram Fiction by Andrea Goulet

“…This is the age of post-Pasteurian fears of microbial contagion, of pre-Freudian theories of atavistic threats to civilized order, of Lombrosan anthropometry and its identification of the criminal classes in Europe with the ‘primitive’ peoples of Africa, South America, Asia, and the South Seas. …”
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