Forest Semiosis by Jacob Vangeest

“…In turn, Stiegler is brought closer to the theories of entangled care presented in the work of theorists such as María Puig De La Bellacasa and Natasha Myers, allowing for a more dynamic design process. …”
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On Topics Today by Nicholas McKay

“…It charts its development through two ‘generations’ of ‘topic theorists’. The first is constructed around three influential texts: Leonard Ratner’s seminal book that established the discipline in its own right, Classic music: expression, form and style (1980); Wye Allanbrook’s Rhythmic gesture in Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro and Don Giovanni (1983); and Kofi Agawu’s Playing with signs: a semiotic interpretation of classical music (1991). …”
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L’âge du nouveau taylorisme by Laurent Baronian

“…But a disagreement remains among the labour theorists on the nature and significance of the breaking with Taylorism. …”
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Translation studies and Bible translation

“…Descriptive translation theorists attempt to account not only for textual strategies in the translated text, but also for the way in which the translation functions in the target cultural system. …”
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A Feminist Ethics of Abortion by Anna Réz

“…I argue that although feminist theorists are right to say that defenses based on bodily autonomy set the wrong agenda for public discourse, thus contributing to a misleading and uninformed debate, Thomsonian arguments still have considerable advantages, both in philosophy and in the public discourse. …”
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Metabolic cities of the future. Between Agriculture and Architecture by Leonardo Zaffi, Michele D'Ostuni

“…The constant migratory phenomena and the displacement of part of the world’s population from the countryside to the city are bringing great part of the agricultural workforce in the big cities, changing their work sector from agriculture to industry. In this context, theorists and promoters of urban farming have seen in this industry a powerful tool to find spaces suitable for cultivation within the urban fabric, while promoting a new green development of the city. …”
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L’usure iconique. Circulation et valeur des images dans le cinéma américain contemporain by Mathias Kusnierz

“…Postmodern Hollywood cinema has been characterized as a highly reflexive art, in which images refer to other images or to themselves—not to the world. As a result, theorists often come to the conclusion that Hollywood cinema no longer speaks about the real. …”
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La Pensée technocritique de Gaston Bardet by Antoine Perron

“…The architect and urban planner Gaston Bardet (1907-1989) is probably one of the most original and prolific French urban theorists of the twentieth century. After being marginalized in the 1950s and 1960s, his work has been the subject of several articles and scientific papers since the late 1970s. …”
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Une analyse de la souffrance enseignante : Horkheimer, Adorno et l’humain comme être souffrant by Arianne Robichaud, Marie-Hélène Masse-Lamarche

“…This article aims to understand the phenomenon of teaching difficulties and suffering from a theoretical point of view, through the sociological and philosophical perspectives of Frankfurt School’s first generation theorists Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno. Its main goal is to highlight the possible relation between the microsociological manifestations of suffering experienced in teaching work (adaptation problems, stress, disenchantment vis-à-vis the profession, professional and personal identity changes) and the concept of the instrumental rationalization of the educational systems. …”
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Grading Prediction of Enterprise Financial Crisis Based on Nonlinear Programming Evaluation: A Case Study of Chinese Transportation Industry by Zhi-yuan Li

“…As the core of the effective financial crisis prevention, enterprise finance crisis prediction has been the focal attention of both theorists and businessmen. Financial crisis predictions need to apply a variety of financial and operating indicators for its analysis. …”
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An overview of recent developments in translation studies with special reference to the implications for Bible translation by J. A. Naudé

“…Descriptive translation theorists attempt to account not only for textual strategies in the translated text, but also for the way in which the translation functions in the target cultural system. …”
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The Liberal Political Realism of Bernard Williams by Annamária Csornay

“…Nevertheless, Williams’s realist arguments are indeed compelling for contemporary theorists. …”
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Exploring Development Challenges in Uganda Using Modernization Theory by Gloria Nambassa, Eko Priyo Purnomo

“…Drawing on works by theorists like Schwartz and Levy, the critique examines how these frameworks inadequately capture Uganda's complex modernization realities. …”
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Le Paysage. Une médiation héritée entre l’homme et la nature face à l’écologisation contemporaine des sensibilités esthétiques by Serge Briffaud

“…The first part presents the critical review of the theorists of this movement which considers the perception of nature through the landscape and the inherited codes guiding such a perception. …”
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The surplus approach to rent by Franklin Obeng-Odoom

“…To unravel long-term inequalities that characterise rent and rentier economies, it is crucial for surplus theorists to engage stratification economics which, in turn, can drive the surplus approach to rent.…”
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Theories of the End of the Novel by Barış Mete

“…Although all those pessimistic prognostications have failed to predict the future of the novel truly, it is essential to comprehend why a number of writers and literary theorists participated in the discussions.…”
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La teoria dell’arte di Flaubert nell’interpretazione di Croce by Paolo D’Angelo

“…According to Croce Flaubert embodies the figure of a writer who, while lacking an actual training in philosophy, was capable of conceiving artistic phenomena with greater depth than most theorists of his time. Thus Croce places Flaubert next to Charles Baudelaire or Henri Becque and in opposition to academic critics. …”
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Professionalization of Civil Service in Hungary: The Potential Impacts of Centralizing Public Administration Education by Márton Gellén

“…Legalism and professionalism are displayed as contrary notion by a considerable number of theorists. It appears that »legalism« is an appropriate label for the past status of public administration that reformists long to abandon. …”
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Visualisierung harmonischer Prozesse mithilfe des Circular Pitch-Class Space am Beispiel der Tristan-Sequenz by Ansgar Jabs, Pascal Rudolph

“…The article expands on the concept of circular pitch-class space as used by Neo-Riemannian theorists Richard Cohn and Dmitri Tymoczko. Using this concept as a method of visualization, it presents harmonic processes as a result of virtual voice-leading between pitch classes. …”
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