Itō Toyō et la question de « l’agir technique et social » by Xavier Guillot

“…Two actions carried out in the Tōhoku region and in the Seto Inland Sea which bear witness to this are analyzed in this article: one concerns the construction of a community house, the other concerns the regeneration of an island community: Omishima. …”
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Love and anger in Amazonia and in academia: a disciple’s account of Joanna Overing’s oeuvre and teachings by Carlos D. Londoño Sulkin

“…Meeting him was the first in a chain of fortunate events that led to my doing a Ph.D. under Joanna’s supervision and witnessing a golden but embattled era in her career. …”
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Where does the truth lie? Petty violence in the light of court records in Poland in the first half of the 18th century by Bożena Popiołek

“…The social acceptance for some types of behaviour – “reasonable correction” of wives by husbands, children by parents, servants by masters or mistresses – caused that the judges regarded such complaints with reservation and required evidence and witnesses, temporizing verdicts. Contrary to the popular belief, a tendency to resolve conflicts by force was not exclusive to men, but characterised also women, weaker in terms of physical strength. …”
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Guest Editorial Vol5 no2 by Deirdre Watson

“…During the eighteen years I spent as Director of Who Cares? Scotland, I witnessed many new initiatives but was often somewhat frustrated at the unrealistic way in which some of these were resourced. …”

Idololatria Vilnensis: The Confessional Debates of Jesuits and Protestants on Sacred Images in the 16th Century Lithuania by Tomas Riklius

“…In response, the Catholic theologian Andrzej Jurgiewicz defended the use of sacred images, emphasising their role as visual witnesses of Catholic tradition in a post-Tridentine aesthetic paradigm. …”
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Skrif en kerkorde by A. Celliers, P. J. Strauss

“…This enables the congregation to adhere to its calling for obedience, love, and witness, so that the church  can continue to exist. …”
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Le jardin du présent intensément by Nicolas Fiévé, Florence Mercier, Frank Salama, Manuel Tardits

“…At the end of the article, Françoise Ged, director of the Observatory of Contemporary Chinese Architecture at the Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine and a connoisseur of Japan and China, provides her perspective as a visitor and an "objective" witness of the result.…”
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Photographic self-fashioning. The role of photography in community-formation by the skagen painters by Mette Bøgh Jensen

“…The analysis thus emphasises the importance of the photographic act itself, arguing that the photographs not only function as witnesses to events that have taken place, but that they also convince the viewer of community formation. …”
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Measles Outbreaks in Afghanistan by Abubakr Yosufi, Hedayatullah Ehsan, Ali Maisam Eshraqi, Abdul Majeed Momeni

“…As Afghanistan is currently witnessing a severe humanitarian crisis, controlling measles outbreaks has become very challenging due to the country's nearly collapsed health infrastructure. …”
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Veniamin Mikhailovich Samosudov — man and scientist at crossroads of times (1926–2010) by S. V. Novikov

“…He was a man of his time: a witness to the socialist transformation of the village, a participant in the war, an organizer of education in the region. …”
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Extracorporeal Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation for Management of Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest in a Patient with Fulminant Myocarditis by Alexander J. Meyer, Michael A. Biersmith, Ernest L. Mazzaferri, Konstantinos Dean Boudoulas

“…A 68-year-old male with a witnessed out-of-hospital cardiac arrest while jogging who was managed with extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation (ECPR) is presented. …”
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Digestive Disease Mortality Dynamics During New Coronavirus Infection Pandemic in Different Subjects of Russian Federation by V. T. Ivashkin, A. A. Sheptulin, O. P. Alekseeva, S. A. Alekseenko, A. Yu. Baranovsky, O. Yu. Zolnikova, N. V. Korochanskaya, S. N. Mammayev, I. B. Khlynov, V. V. Tsukanov

“…In most subjects of the Russian Federation, the first half of 2021 enduring the COVID-19 pandemic has witnessed a higher overall mortality from digestive diseases and from peptic ulcer, liver and pancreatic illnesses compared to the same period in 2020. …”
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Effects of Natural Disasters on Children and Adolescents by Derya Karabulut, Tolga Bekler

“…Natural disasters are unpredictable natural phenomena that can result in a large number of life and property losses, with an unknown level of impact. We are witnessing different natural disasters every year in the world and in our country, and the effects of these disasters on communities. …”
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Crystal growth principles, methods, properties of silicon carbide and its new process prepared from silicon cutting waste by Shengqian Zhang, Yongsheng Ren, Xingwei Yang, Wenhui Ma, Hui Chen, Guoqiang Lv, Yun Lei, Yi Zeng, Zhengxing Wang, Bingxi Yu

“…With the concept of carbon peak and carbon neutrality, the photovoltaic industry has witnessed rapid development. In the process of silicon wafer production, nearly half of the crystalline silicon is lost in the form of silicon powder into silicon cutting waste (SCW), which results in a great waste of resources and severe environmental pollution, and therefore the use of SCW for the preparation of SiC materials has received great attention in recent years. …”
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eDAAAS: Efficient distributed anonymous authentication and access in smart homes by An Braeken, Pawani Porambage, Milos Stojmenovic, Lambros Lambrinos

“…The smart home field has witnessed rapid developments in recent years. Internet of Things applications for the smart home are very heterogeneous and continuously increasing in number, making user management from a security perspective very challenging. …”
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Gender and ethnoracial disparities in Veterans’ trauma exposure prevalence across differing life phases by Fernanda S. Rossi, Yael I. Nillni, Alexandria N. Miller, Annie B. Fox, Johanne Eliacin, Paula P. Schnurr, Christopher C. Duke, Jaimie L. Gradus, Tara E. Galovski

“…., sexual assault, physical assault, community violence, captivity, serious accident, witnessing violent death) at each wave of data collection using items from a modified Life Events Checklist. …”
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Retourner en forêt quinze ans après sa thèse : quelle place nouvelle pour le paysage dans la gestion forestière depuis le début des années 2000 ? by Véronique Fourault-Cauët

“…The literature bears witness to gradual change over a long period of time which, from a methodological point of view, justifies going back into the “field" or more precisely re-examining the research "object" at regular intervals.…”
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Wedding mirages: Salesian representations of the Shuar marriage¸1893-1925 by Rosana Posligua

“…The study covers the 1893-1925 period, which witnessed the earliest arrival of the Salesian missionaries into de Gualaquiza-Mendez Apostolic Vicariate, in what is now the Morona-Santiago province in Ecuador. …”
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Occupational Situation of the Rural Farming and Landless Population in Poland in 2002-2017 by Włodzimierz Kołodziejczak

“…Aggregated weighted data and non-aggregated, non-published non-weighted BAEL (Polish LFS) data was used as source material. The study period witnessed a considerable improvement of the rural population’s occupational situation. …”
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