Spatial imbalances in the United Kingdom after the Millennium: a focus on the cities by Zsuzsanna Zsibók

“…During the recovery after the economic crisis, much academic and policy attention was diverted to the role of cities as growth hubs all over Europe and the world. Significant economic disparities are a longstanding problem for the United Kingdom as a whole, which have been growing for decades and are remarkably high among the most developed OECD and EU countries. …”
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Pluralistic ambiance and urban socialisation by Virginie Milliot

“…It is both a source of cultural inspiration and rejuvenation, and a popular “cosmo-political” scene, a multi-faceted world subjected to constant tension. We study the spontaneous gatherings prompted day after day by the spectacle of the street, the dynamics of communication and concern stirred up by public life. …”
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Survey of several key technologies for 5G by Ping ZHANG, Yun-zheng TAO, Zhi ZHANG

“…The fifth-generation (5G) mobile communications system has got extensive attention and research by enter-prises, research institutes and universities of the world at present. The development history and domestic and abroad re-search progresses of 5G were described and summarized in detail. 5G network architecture based on virtualization were analyzed. …”
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Existence of solutions for asymptotically periodic quasilinear Schrödinger equations with local nonlinearities by Jianxin Han, Yuting Wei, Yanfang Xue

“…By using a Nehari-type constraint and Moser iteration, we get the existence results which is a complement to the ones in Chu and Liu [Nonlinear Anal. Real World Appl. 44(2018), 118–127]. Moreover, we consider a new reformative asymptotic processes of the potential function and the nonlinearity term is only locally defined.…”
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Managing Insecticide and Miticide Resistance in Florida Landscapes by Nicole Benda, Adam G. Dale

“… Resistance to insecticide or miticide is a worry for landscape managers. Around the world, chinch bugs, leafminers, and other insect and mite pests have become resistant to dozens of insecticides, but with diligent insecticide resistance management, we can still maintain long-term effective chemical control. …”
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"One Hundred False Starts" : l’espace fitzgéraldien ou la quête d’un ailleurs impossible by Pascal Bardet

“…In Scott Fitzgerald’s fiction, departures become drifts.This article is, therefore, an invitation to explore the symbolic landscapes of his works and should allow the reader to better perceive the different components of Francis Scott Fitzgerald’s imaginary world and sense of place.…”
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Metaheuristics for a Large-Scale Vehicle Routing Problem of Same-Day Delivery in E-Commerce Logistics System by Yi Tao, Changhui Lin, Lijun Wei

“…The proposed method is tested on a large family of instances, including real-world data collected from JD.com, and the effectiveness of the VNS algorithm and also the algorithm components are analyzed.…”
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Digital (Dis)connection, Agency, and Imagination in a French Rural Community by Fabienne Darling-Wolf

“…While certainly useful in helping us understand the dynamics of digital practices and spaces, these narratives often fail to provide a fuller portrait of individuals’ broader relationship to the technological world shaped not (only) by their digital media use (or lack thereof) but also by their mere awareness of the existence of digital tools. …”
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Evaluation of Iron Ore Deposits in Elayiram Pannai, Sattur Taluk, Virudhunagar District and Tamilnadu using 2D Electrical Resistivity Imaging by Ravindran A Anthony

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The Politics of Voice in Duke Ellington’s Beggar’s Holiday (1946) by James O’Leary

“…By analyzing a number of recordings of Beggar’s Holiday’s opening song, “In Between,” I demonstrate that Ellington and Latouche simultaneously invoked and undermined this aesthetic dichotomy to make an intervention into post-World War II left-wing political debates.…”
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Human Diseases and Microbes

“…We are still far from our illusion of a disease free world.  …”
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Advancing the Understanding of Accountability Processes in Collaborative Governance: Lessons from Research on ‘Agencification’ by Yannis Papadopoulos

“…Policy-makers’ strategies for avoiding accountability have been emphasized, but to advance the understanding of real-world accountability processes, we must consider that control deficits can be caused by the passivity of accountability ‘forums’, while policy-makers may find their accountability valuable.…”
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Emigration and tobacco smoking among those staying behind by Artjoms Ivlevs, Roswitha M. King

“…Migration may thus contribute to socioeconomic development of source countries by reducing one of the world's biggest health epidemics: smoking.…”
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La banque en Iran après 1979 : enjeu de discours religieux et identitaire by Julien Pelissier

“…It is noted that the Iranian debate on the subject is organized in terms of an ethics of conviction and an ethics of responsibility – assumed to be contradictory in the Weberian world view – according to criteria variable in both nature and intensity such as religious legitimacy, economic efficiency, the nationalistic identity ... …”
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Entre caminhos e fronteiras: a gênese do conceito de "campo literário" em Pierre Bourdieu e sua recepção no Brasil by Wander Nunes Frota, Enio Passiani

“…The second way discusses the reception of Bourdieu’s works in the Brazilian academic world and points out the transfer of the concept from its original environment. …”
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Cardinality-constrained structured data-fitting problems by Fan, Zhenan, Fang, Huang, Friedlander, Michael P.

“…Numerical experiments on real-world datasets support the analysis and demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed approach.…”
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Stigma of poverty. The discursive construction of ­"South" term in Latin American countries by GÓMEZ QUINTERO, Juan David, FRANCO MARTÍNEZ, Juan Agustín

“…In particular we analyze the artificiality of the discursive construction of certain categories that represent geopolitical stigma of poverty, such as ­Third World® or ­South® or ­underdeveloped® adopted in the field of international relations and the development cooperation. …”
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Comparison of human computer interaction on Windows and Linux operations systems by Viduka Dejan, Kraguljac Vladimir M.

“…We are witnesses of a long discussions about their applicability and superiority in the IT world. One of the main obstacles to the wider use of Linux is just a habit of using existing tools and interfaces which users have contact with. …”
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Changes on Perception of Ethnic Identity after the End of Mass Migration. The Basques in the United States by Óscar Álvarez Gila

“…Even though early theories that proposed the idea of American society as a melting-pot in which all Old-World identities will merge and disappear, the strongest of these identities have reached the present throughout generations, even after the waves of mass migration declined and almost vanished. …”
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