Polemical Reflections about the Possibility of Controversy in Contemporary Philosophy by Milan Uzelaz

“…On the question whether the controversy in the field of philosophy in our time, the author responds negatively, for the following reasons: in the early ages of the real clash of interests could not be, because all the philosophers were inside understanding integrity of the world and their teaching is not consistent; today's thinkers have no more idea of the world that they could unify and give them a uniform basis for the formation of speculative concepts.…”
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S’affranchir des distances : le web de la « diaspora » réunionnaise by Michel Watin, Eliane Wolff

“…Having been for a longtime withdrawn from the world, Reunion Island must now include her "ultramarines" citizens and rethink her spatial boundaries which today stretch across the world.…”
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Comparative Marketing Costs for FCOJ from Florida and Sao Paulo by Ronald P. Muraro, Thomas H. Spreen

“… The states of Sao Paulo (Brazil) and Florida are the two dominant orange juice producing regions in the world. These two states collectively account for approximately 85 percent of the world's orange juice production. …”
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Le réalisme infime d’Annie Dillard dans Teaching a Stone to Talk by Nathalie Cochoy

“…Far from screening the world from view, Annie Dillard’s interwoven references set the texture of language into relief and immediately reveal the rewarding magic of the most ordinary components of natural life.…”
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The tourist imaginary in Costa Rica: from a “way of seeing” to “making a territory” by Linda Boukhris

“…The tourist imaginary is not only a way of “seeing” the world but is “world-making”.…”
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Mega-events and the climate: what’s the game? by David Gogishvili, Martin Müller

“… Introduction: The Olympics and the Men's Football World Cup are both significant carbon emitters, yet they hold potential for raising awareness and driving action on climate change (Chalip, 2006; Martiskainen & Sovacool, 2021). …”
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Standardised protocol for a prospective cross-sectional multicentre clinical utility evaluation of two dual point-of-care tests in non-clinical settings for the screening of HIV an... by James Kiarie, Karel Blondeel, Igor Toskin, Jordi Casabona, Soe Soe Thwin, Massimo Mirandola, Rosanna Peeling, Ronald Ballard, Laura Fernàndez-López, Inga Upmace, Juliana Reyes-Urueña, Mara Vaselova, Mitja Ćosić, Simon Maljevac, William Mejías, Ander Pazos, Andrii Chernyshev

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The dream that never dies: the ideals and realities of cosmopolitanism in science, 1870–1940 by Robert Fox

“…A “national turn” during the 1920s assumed a darker form in the 1930s, as totalitarian regimes in the Soviet Union, Italy, Germany, and Spain associated science ever more closely with national interests. Although the Second World War further undermined the ideal of internationalism in science, the vision of science as part of a world culture open to all soon resurfaced, notably in UNESCO. …”
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The Destruction and Reconstruction of North Korea, 1950 - 1960 by Charles Armstrong

“…American planes dropped 635,000 tons of bombs on Korea -- that is, essentially on North Korea --including 32,557 tons of napalm, compared to 503,000 tons of bombs dropped in the entire Pacific theatre of World War II.2 The number of Korean dead, injured or missing by war's end approached three million, ten percent of the overall population. …”
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Implementation of regional protectionism in aquaculture in foreign countries by V. M. Mikhaylov, A. Yu. Yakovlev

“…Some indicators that determine the trends in the aquaculture development in the world, such as the number of employed and the volume of aquaculture production by continent have been considered as well as a forecast for the development of the industry in comparison with industrial fisheries and an analysis of the volume and growth rate of aquaculture production in some foreign countries have been given. …”
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The polysemy of the colour term white in English, Russian, Tajik and Uzbek by Zayniev Daler

“…Colour is one of the central categories of both a conceptual and a linguistic world of image, correlated with an axiological and an esthetic assessment, a semiotic and value world of image of a given national culture, which allows us to talk about colour preferences, ethnic colour mentality, colour gaps and colour universals, that is, about the colour world of image. …”
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Introduction : « La Duchesse d’Amalfi, des humeurs baroques à une passion moderne ? » by Gisèle Venet

“…Webster’s tragedy, The Duchess of Malfi (1613), shows the weight of the fourteen-century-old Greek conception of compelling passions motivated by « humours », especially the black humour or melancholy. It stages a world still binding together human motivations and the material elements constituting the Cosmos. …”
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Difficulties in assessing the added value created by enterprises of the oil and gas sector of the Russian Federation by M. D. Khabib, P. N. Maksimov

“…There is no unified system of statistical indicators in the world that determine the boundaries and characterize the economy of the oil and gas complexes of the countries of the world. …”
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Evolutionary Traits and Genomic Surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 in South America by Pablo A. Ortiz-Pineda, Carlos H. Sierra-Torres

“…South America, with almost 5% of the world’s population, has reckoned with almost a fifth of the total people infected and more than 26% (>1/4) of the deceased. …”
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Rising Value of Turkish Foreign Policy: Cultural Diplomacy by Fırat Purtaş

“…The opening-up of Turkish people to the world in the 1990ies paved the way to their interaction with other countries which, in turn, played a major role in the transformation of the country. …”
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Owen and Sassoon Reconsidered by Cristina Pividori

“… Poetry, alongside other artistic and scholarly work, has played an invaluable role in preserving the traumatic memory of the First World War, especially after the passing of the last known veteran marked the end of the era of living witnesses to the conflict. …”
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Geography and geographical knowledge contribute decisively to all sustainable development goals and targets by Paulo Pereira, Wenwu Zhao

“…Thus, geographical knowledge is essential for an integrated and consistent understanding of our world. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) established by the United Nations (UN) in 2015 were essential to unifying the world towards a common goal. …”
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Embedding research capacity strengthening in multi-country studies in low-and middle-income countries: learnings from sexual and reproductive health research by Anne M. Khisa, Hesborn Wao, Vanessa Brizuela, Rachidatou Compaoré, Adama Baguiya, Alejandra López Gómez, Mercedes Bonet, Seni Kouanda, Anna Thorson, Evelyn Gitau

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Émilie Du Châtelet’s Metaphysics in Light of her Concept of ‘a Being’ by Clara Carus

“…This paper argues that Du Châtelet’s metaphysical foundations are not meant to ground the science of physics alone, and instead are to lay the foundation for all knowledge of the natural world. By analysing her previously mostly overlooked conception of what ‘a being’ is in chapter 3, we will see that Du Châtelet’s metaphysical foundations address how we gain knowledge of a natural world in our everyday experience of natural beings and thus come to know ‘beings’ in the first place, i.e. prior to scientific judgements on them. …”
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