Covid-19 Anti-lockdown Rallies: A View from America by William D. Slicker

“… Much of the world has been under lockdown orders in the past few months, due to fears about the possible impact of Covid-19. …”
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Felisa López, une réfugiée espagnole à Rennes en 1937 by Jean-François Botrel

“…Using a few photos and family memory, we reconstruct, through a microhistorical approach, the reception conditions in Rennes, between June and October 1937, of a Basque refugee and her two children, the behavior of the administration and population, daily life and the transitory world that Felisa López, born in 1907, shared with more than 500 women and children forced to leave their country.…”
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Quelques grammes d’histoire pour des tonnes de riz : produire plus suffira-t-il à éradiquer la faim dans le monde ? by Ben Wisner, Jean-Christophe Gaillard

“…This article questions the conclusions of the recent world food security conference held in Rome in June 2008. …”
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Caribbean Fruit Fly Management in Florida Peaches by Amanda Coleen Hodges, Cory Penca

“… The Caribbean fruit fly, Anastrepha suspensa, is a member of the fly family Tephritidae, which contains some of the most destructive fruit pests in the world. This 4-page fact sheet written by Amanda Coleen Hodges and Cory Penca and published by the UF/IFAS Department of Entomology and Nematology provides information about the biology and management of the Caribbean fruit fly. …”
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Lessons from the History of Internet Studies by Allen Matthew

“…Matthew is Australia’s first Professor of Internet Studies, having established the world-leading Internet Studies department at Curtin University where he worked from 1993 to 2012.…”
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Reframing Leadership by Matthew Sowcik, Hannah S. Carter, Valerie McKee

“…Our own leadership is a product of how we see the world. The article looks at Bolman and Deal's book Reframing Organizations and the different frames to address organizational issues and leadership. …”
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International Travel in Unsettled Times by Mickie Swisher

“…While you do need to take certain basic precautions when traveling outside the United States, you can travel safely in today’s world. This document is FCS9196, one of a series of the Department of Family, Youth and Community Sciences, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, IFAS, University of Florida, Gainesville FL 32611. …”
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La crise de l’Etat belge by Christian Vandermotten

“…The Belgian State current crisis is described, with a focus on its roots (Flemish growing rancors vis à vis the French-speaking Belgians since the XIXth century, reinforced by the two World Wars), its forms (twister structure of the federal Belgium), its stakes (economic inequalities between the regions, as well as Brussels question) and potential scenarios to end crisis.…”
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Hypertension and Diabetes: Entry Points for Prevention and Control of the Global Cardiovascular Epidemic by Shanthi Mendis, Eoin O'Brien, Yackoob Kassim Seedat, Salim Yusuf

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Míticas do envelhecimento: em busca de uma vida saudável by Monique Borba Cerqueira

“…The aim of this work is to learn how healthy life ideas dialogue with the real world of those who are getting old. It is an ethnographic study with a social-anthropological perspective that assesses contemporary aging, based on its social remodeling process.…”
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Boyle’s Reductive Occasionalism by Daniel Layman

“…I argue that Boyle’s position is best understood as reductive occasionalism, according to which (a) bodily powers are relations between bodies and God’s action in the world, and (b) there is no causal efficacy in bodies that is not strictly identical to God’s nomological causal efficacy.…”
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The Social Rewards of Online Gambling by Jani Kinnunen

“… Gambling games have been played around the world in most cultures where money has been in use (Binde 2005). …”
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USE OF HIGH-STRENGTH BAINITIC CAST IRON FOR PRODUCING GEAR WHEELS by A. I. Pokrovskiy, L. R. Dudetskaya

“…The advantages and drawbacks of high-strength cast irons with bainitic structure are reviewed basing on the authors’ own experience in the production of critical partsfrom this material and on the analysis of world trends. A possibility of the replacement of alloy steels by bainitic cast iron in manufacturing critical machine parts is discussed.…”
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Africa in the Year of Geopolitics by Siphamandla Zondi

“… The year 2023 ended with the world on the precipice. The war in Gaza, a disproportionate Israeli military response to Hamas attack on a festival in Israel, is among the deadliest in decades. …”
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The legal framework governing International trade in services by salima REKIBA

“… The General Agreement on Trade in Services, which came into force on 1 January 1995 with the creation of the World Trade Organization, applies to government measures affecting services provided on a commercial basis.        …”
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Increasing of size and fastness of adhesive binding in system steel wire cord — rubber, offered by RUP “Belarussian metallurgical works” by S. A. Isakov, V. V. Flippov

“…There are analyzed the existing world directions of the development of new metal cord coverings. …”
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Les grandes lignes de développement du pragmatisme by Shunsuke Tsurumi

“…It continues with a critical analysis of the evolution of pragmatism in the United States after the Second World War. The article concludes with a reflection on the possibility of accommodating pragmatism in Japan in a popular rather than technocratic mode.…”
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People’s Network for Land and Liberation (Commentary) by Melanie E. L. Bush

“…In the context of end-stage capitalism, with intensifying global, economic, ecological, political and social crises this article discusses a formation in the United States that seeks to resist this trend, and imagine and build the new world centred on cooperative, regenerative and balanced systems. …”
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The Ideal Cardinal and the Role of the Papacy in Dell’uffizio del cardinale (1599) by Giovanni Botero by Blythe Alice Raviola

“… The paper aims to highlight the principal topics of Giovanni Botero’s speech Dell’uffizio del cardinale (1599), the first part of it being dedicated to show what cardinals could do to improve Catholicism in the Reformation world, and the second one, known as Discorso intorno allo Stato della Chiesa, is based on the analysis of the papacy as an independent state: a state that was regional but with universal pretensions. …”
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Building Impactful Extension Programs by Understanding How People Change by Laura A. Warner, Sebastian Galindo-Gonzalez, Michael S. Gutter

“… Extension is reported to be one of the world’s most successful change agencies, and the ability to encourage behavior change remains critical to its success. …”
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