Ippolit Bogdanovich and Voltaire’s 'Épître à l’impératrice de Russie': Adapting Praise by Andrew Kahn

“…Within its conventional duty to praise, Bogdanovich’s rewriting of Voltaire shifts the emphasis away from the theme of Orientalism and Catherine’s Turkish Wars to the benefits of reason and civilisation. …”
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Fooling the eye: trompe l’oeil porcelain in High Qing China by Chih-en Chen

“…Therefore, in this essay, numerous Chinese classics are reviewed from Warring States period Lilun to Qing dynasty Hong Lou Meng. …”
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The Doomsday Project, Deep Events, and the Shrinking of American Democracy by Peter Dale Scott

“…The first is America's increasing militarization, and above all its inclination, even obsession, to involve itself in needless and pernicious wars. The second, closely related, is the progressive shrinking of public politics and the rule of law as they are subordinated, even domestically, to the requirements of covert U.S. operations abroad.The third, also closely related, is the important and increasingly deleterious impact on American history and the global extension of American power, of what I have called deep events. …”
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Cyber Diplomacy under Increased Competition Between the Great Powers by E. S. Zinovieva

“…Cyber diplomacy, which includes a range of issues of using ICT to achieve the foreign policy goals of the state, as well as new problematic and subject areas of international relations arising in connection with digitalization, is the most important tool for interstate competition and conflicts, as well as a means of conducting information wars.At the international level, there are no internationally recognized norms governing the development and use of digital tools in the framework of foreign policy, interstate competition or confrontation. …”
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المعارض عبر الانترنت ومدى اتاحتها على مواقع المکتبات الوطنية by وسام الزغبى

“…Exhibitions play a vital role in spreading knowledge by basic memoryinstitutions (libraries - archives - museums), but traditional exhibitions faceproblems or restrictions, the most important of which are space and size, andthey may also encounter problems that require their elimination or postponementof some emergency circumstances such as wars and epidemics, as happened inthe last time due to the spread of the Corona virus, which led officials to the ideaof finding replacements to traditional exhibitions, as ideas turned towards onlineexhibitions.From here, the problem of this study crystallized around knowing theconcept of online exhibitions (electronic / virtual), identifying the advantages theyoffer and the defects related to them, studying the characteristics of thoseexhibitions and design steps, in addition to studying the availability of theseexhibitions on the websites of national libraries.The study relied on the descriptive analytical method to achieve itsobjectives depending on the search engines to restrict the society of the study,which restricted the number (222) national libraries all over the world, (73)national libraries were excluded because they do not have a website or only havea page on Facebook , the number of national libraries under study that have awebsite on the Internet has become (149) national libraries, as the study hasproven the existence of (40) national library sites that hold electronic or virtualexhibitions, by 27% from total libraries under study which are (149) NationalLibraries.…”
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A Time(s), space(s) and communication in Castells’s ‘Network Society’* by Bert Olivier

“…This, in turn, is related to what Castells labels ‘timeless time’, which is noticeable where customary time sequences are blurred in certain contemporary practices, such as virtually instantaneous financial transactions, ‘instant wars’ and virtual communication. This contrasts with both ordinary, ‘human’ time and also with evolutionary ‘glacial time’ – a notion operative in the ecological movement and one that increasingly clashes with the demands of ‘timeless time’ in the network society. …”
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Saving a Legacy: Conservation of the paleontology resources within the Garden Park National Natural Landmark, Colorado, USA by Daniel Grenard, Kenneth Carpenter, Andrew Smith, Melissa Smeins

“…The dinosaur quarries played an important part in the "Bone Wars" in the early history of American paleontology. …”
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Identifying enablers for a circular healthcare supply chain: An integrated fuzzy DEMATEL-MMDE approach with hesitant information by Deepak Agrawal, Sumit Gupta, Chandni Dusad, M.L. Meena, G.S. Dangayach, Sandeep Jagtap

“…Over the past decade, the healthcare industries have been facing the issue of resource scarcity due to socio-political wars, the COVID-19 pandemic, the luxury lifestyles of people, and the prevalence of single-use medical devices. …”
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What Radiologist Should Know about MRI Translational Forces and Hazard: An Ex-Vivo Simulation of Retained Metallic Shrapnel by Ali Kanj, Ibrahim Ghosn, Assaad Mohanna, Georges Rouhana

“…In a country immersed in endless rounds of wars, retained metallic foreign bodies remain a significant dilemma in the daily practice of every Lebanese radiologist. …”
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Peace Education and Religion: Perspectives, Pedagogy, Policies, edited by Marcia Hermansen, Ednan Aslan, Evrim Erşan Akkılıç. Springer VS, Wiesbaden, 2022. XII, 530 pp. https://doi... by Anna Aleksanyan

“…Therefore, the need for humanity to protect itself and future generations from the cruelty and violence of those massive scales that have horrified: the most brutal wars, protracted armed conflicts; terrorism; daily encounters with various mental pathologies, disorders, antisocial behavior and dysfunctional relationships, prejudices and discrimination; mass cases of domestic violence, thereby requiring civiliarchic and democratic countries to seek mechanisms to reduce them. …”
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Regards et expériences de voyageurs français sur l’Écosse à travers l’exemple des récits de Pierre-Étienne Denis Saint-Germain-Leduc et de Michel Bouquet dans les années 1830-1850... by Marion Amblard, Sabrina Juillet-Garzón

“…This study will show, on the one hand, that these two travellers’ view of Scotland was representative of the way the French perceived Scotland; on the other hand, that the publications of Saint-Germain-Leduc and Bouquet helped to disseminate the new Scottish identity that was developed after the Napoleonic Wars by Walter Scott, Scottish historians and painters.…”
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Hassan ibn Thabit and his poem praising his fellow tribesmen: A contribution to the study of spiritual culture of the Arab society in early Islamic times by D.Ye. Mishin

“…Hassan ibn Thabit did not participate in wars of the early Islamic times (although some mediaeval writers' assertions that this should be attributed to his cowardice do not appear well-founded) and defended Muslims and their doctrine in his poetry. …”
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Découverte d’une tuile estampillée de la fin du ier s. av. J.-C. à Bibracte (mont Beuvray, Saône-et-Loire) by Florent Delencre, Quentin Verriez, Chiara Martini-Picot

“…This stamped tile can thus be considered as a cultural marker clearly revealing the deep transformations of the Aeduan territory following the Gallic wars.…”
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Enake’s Dairy Shop or About Lactobacillus Bulgaricus in Romanian Avant-Garde by Malamir Spasov

“…The name came from an actual dairy shop that turned into a cornerstone of the Romanian capital’s artistic underground between the World Wars. The original dairy shop was established by a family of Bulgarian peasants, refugees from Western Macedonia, who settled in Bucharest in the 1900s. …”
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Civilian Attitudes of Russian Students in the Context of a Special Military Operation by V. A. Smirnov

“…The study demonstrated the need for further study of the stability of the civic attitudes of Russian youth in the context of the escalation of “new” cognitive wars, as well as an analysis of the effectiveness of state institutions of socialization in a situation of geopolitical instability.…”
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RUSSIA’S INTERESTS AND ROLE IN THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS: THE DYNASTIC UNION WITH THE HOUSE OF ORANGE AS AN INSTRUMENT OF FOREIGN POLICY UNDER ALEXANDER I... by Y. V. Bavykin

“…Motivated by its revolutionary ideas with the aim to spread them throughout Europe, to confirm its political and economic hegemony on the continent, the First French Republic and later the First Napoleonic Empire during its numerous wars conquered and controlled most of western countries, including the Netherlands, which later also became a satellite state of France. …”
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Information Factor Color Revolutions and Modern Technology Dismantling of Political Regimes by A. V. Manoylo

“…But formerly the instruments of dismantling included mostly violent methods in the classical sense, applied in armed coups, local armed conflicts, civil wars and military interventions. And the international community managed to develop effective methods to counter these threats and to create effective mechanisms for political control of these processes, even at the international level. …”
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சோ. தர்மன் படைப்புகளில் இயற்கை வேளாண்மையும் நீர் மேலாண்மையும் / Organic Farming and Water Management in Cho. Dharman’s Novels... by ச. கண்ணகி / S. Kannaki

“… Today, agriculture is facing difficult times due to various factors such as population growth, increasing demand, technological development, globalization, wars, global warming, climate change, environmental damage, unpredictable seasons resulting in severe floods, drought, high temperatures, water scarcity and the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides for rapid production. …”
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Determinants of Muslim’s intention to boycott Israel-affiliated products: Evidence from Indonesia by Uus Ahmad Husaeni, Mohammed Ashfaq Ayoob

“…This study is grounded in the context of ongoing wars and conflicts in the Middle East, specifically in Palestine. …”
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Current state and development of the City park in Skopje by Jasminka Rizovska Atanasovska, Iskra Apostolovska, Nikolčo Velkovski, Vlatko Andonovski, Divna Penčić

“…Only modest documentation could be found, for the period between the two world wars. At the beginning of the 20th century in Skopje a couple of avenues and green areas have been built. …”
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