Note sur les fondements des postcolonial studies by Béatrice Collignon

“…Yet, although the term is the same ("postcolonial"), the meaning it is usually given in France by those who qualify their work as such is quite different from the one it has in the anglo world. In this context, this note aims at clarifying the situation for French geographers and others by presenting briefly some of the main aspects of postcolonial theory.…”
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Una arqueología del nation branding : las exposiciones binacionales del Londres eduardiano by Jorge Villaverde

“…The emergence of exhibitions as a medium, the rise of mass consumption and mass media as well as the increased differentiation of leisure practices produced an environment where some developing countries used the setup of bi-national exhibitions to sell their country in the capital of the leading world power. The governments of these countries sought to renegotiate their national image abroad by displaying both their cultural idiosyncrasy and economic development in order to find foreign investments, forge political alliances and improve their country’s outside perception.…”
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RE-ORG: A methodology for reorganizing museum storage developed by ICCROM and UNESCO by Simon Lambert

“…All over the world, 60% of museum storage areas are in such appalling conditions that collections can no longer be used for public benefit through learning, research or exhibitions. …”
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Brief History of Interlibrary Cooperations in Turkey and Today’s Applications by Halime Atıl Yörü

“…Our world has changed so much in 42 years. The usage of Internet has gradually become widespread since the use of ARPANET for military purposes in 1969. …”
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How I Grow: Months Three and Four by Millie Ferrer, Keith Gouin

“…Through play, babies learn about themselves and the world around them. A loving parent is the best toy any baby can have. …”
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Détective et Police Magazine à l’heure américaine (1931) by Laetitia Gonon

“…Simultaneously, reporters adapt the information, draw parallels between american and french civilizations in order to get the readers’ attention, and, in doing so, differentiate themselves from the american world, because it is considered more extreme, more violent. …”
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Fractional Versions of Hermite-Hadamard, Fejér, and Schur Type Inequalities for Strongly Nonconvex Functions by Wenbo Xu, Muhammad Imran, Faisal Yasin, Nazia Jahangir, Qunli Xia

“…In modern world, most of the optimization problems are nonconvex which are neither convex nor concave. …”
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« Amongst the Gods I Psyche will translate »: la réécriture par Thomas Shadwell de la tragédie-ballet Psyché (1671) de Molière, Corneille et Quinault by Pierre Degott

“…If Shadwell’s play can be read as an allegory of the political situation of the Restoration, this article attempts to show that the English Psyche, boldly subtitled “The English Opera” by the musician Matthew Locke in his edition of the work, can also be seen as an allegorical representation of the operatic world itself. The third part of the article is therefore an examination of the various elements likely to support this interpretation.…”
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Postgraduate Researcher Special Issue: Editorial by Michael Thomas, John Goulding, Mireille Patrick

“…Over 500 participants registered for this fully online event delivered via videoconferencing from over 17 different countries, just as the first of our several lockdowns were occurring throughout the world due to the COVID-19 pandemic. …”
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A Lady with Generalized Nodular Lesions by Ho Tung Wong, Tin Wai Chay, Chi Kit Au, Tin Lok Lai

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Teaching of decimal positional number system and decimal fractions in the 5-th grade by Albertas Bakštys, Irena Šukienė, Albina Viliminė

“… Long, almost 3500 years delay was observed, until the notion of positional number system originating from Babylon was introduced in Western Europe and, afterwards, in aIl over the modern world. This proves that acquaintance with such a complex concept as decimal fraction is must be started long before the arithmetic of decimal fractions is introduced. …”
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The Heidelberg Catechism on prayer: relevance of a 16th Century confession for 21st Century households? by E. Mouton

“… In a world characterized by power abuse and violence, where and how would people with the life-affirming ethos of God’s alternative kingdom be formed? …”
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An Overview of the U.S. Bell Pepper Industry by Trina Biswas, Zhengfei Guan, Feng Wu

“…Bell pepper is one of the most widely cultivated vegetable crops in the world; it is widely grown all over the United States, and production of bell pepper has been a major economic contribution to the vegetable industry in Florida and California. …”
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The global engineering deans council: transforming engineering education in a time of change by A. K. Ashmawy

“…Moreover, the prospects for the development of engineering education in themodern global world are given.…”
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Meeting Review – Helicobacter pylori: Basic Mechanisms to Clinical Cure 2000 by Raymond G Lahaie, Naoki Chiba, Carlo Fallone

“…The meeting Helicobacter pylori: Basic Mechanisms to Clinical Cure 2000, held in Bermuda from March 26 to 29, 2000, gathered physicians and scientists from all corners of the world. State-of-the-art reviews and the most recent developments in the field were presented. …”
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La chevelure féminine et la religion (au Tibet) : entre renoncement et pouvoir by Nicola Schneider

“…Whereas nuns give up their hair during a more or less formal ceremony as a sign of detachment from the world, the khandorma’s hair holds some of their magic power, and can therefore function as a kind of substitute for the woman in magic rites, or as a relic bringing benedictions and protections to the person who possesses it.…”
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Entangled Borders by Sarah Green

“…It is obvious that this is not always, or perhaps even often, successfully achieved: the world is full of unfinished, contested and overlapping political borders. …”
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The meaning of Time magazine’s sign representation of visuals of 9/11: by Marla Koonin, Andrea Crysta

“…As such, visuals, because they contextually reflect a situation, play a powerful role in the representation of major world events. This is particularly true of photographs. …”
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Sorting Out Animal Policy: Ideas, Problems, and Solutions by Jerry Mitchell

“…Animals are the focus of public policy around the world. Nonetheless, animal policy has not been established as a separate domain. …”
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Friendship: Indigenous Hosts & German Travelers by Renae Watchman

“…The European understanding of the indigenous world was heightened, while, the Indigenous counter-gaze reveals mutual curiosity and resistance through a re-reading of Indigenous acts of song, dance, laughter and silence found in the travelogues of Humboldt and Forster. …”
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