“Resilient City”? The Double Face of the 2006 Mardi Gras Celebrations in New Orleans by Aurélie GODET

“…Six months after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast, the residents of New Orleans decided to follow the tradition and organize a scaled-down Mardi Gras despite the perception that the city was still inundated with water. …”
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Descending Necrotising Mediastinitis: A Case Report Illustrating a Trend in Conservative Management by B. A. P. Jayasekera, O. T. Dale, R. C. Corbridge

“…The decline in mortality has been attributed to earlier diagnosis by way of contrast-enhanced computed tomographic (CT) scanning and aggressive surgical intervention in the form of transthoracic drainage. …”
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A novel motion control approach for tethered wheeled mobile robot on extreme terrain by Xiaotao Wang, Xingyu Wang, Jiayou Zhang

“…The tethered mobile robot with one end fixed to the mother robot or an anchor point has the ability to rappel down steep slopes and traverse rocky terrain, and is a reasonable solution to the above missions. …”
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Bouvard et Pécuchet et le savoir médical by Norioki Sugaya

“…Then we will examine Flaubert’s critical reflection on knowledge, in particular the way he hunts down and constructs contradictions. …”
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Ants from Northwestern China (Hymenoptera, Fomficidae) by Cedric Collingwood, Harold Heatwole

“…A largely boreal fauna occupies the spruce forest zone at high elevations of the Tienshan Mountains, giving way, lower down, in elm forest, to a mixed, but primarily mesic temperate fauna. …”
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Numerical and Analytical Study of Bladder-Collapse Flow by M. Tziannaros, F. T. Smith

“…The bladder performance in terms of the urinary velocities produced tends to be dominated by the internal fluid dynamics involved, in the sense that the bladder wall moves in a body-prescribed way. The enclosed urine flow responds to this wall movement, and there is relatively little feedback on the wall movement. …”
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A MULTICRITERIA DESCRIPTION OF RULES FOR PUBLIC PROCUREMENT by MALIŠA ŽIŽOVIĆ, MILUTIN ŽIVKOVIĆ

“…Methods of decision-making come down to selecting the best bids, because mistakes in the selection should be excluded. …”
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The Geometry of Black Hole Singularities by Ovidiu Cristinel Stoica

“…Black hole singularities are then compatible with global hyperbolicity and do not make the evolution equations break down, when these are expressed in terms of the appropriate variables. …”
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Flowart, a physical activity at the level of hypermodernity, even hypomodernity by Romain Roult, Frédéric Martineau

“…These participants see a way to slow down the frenzy of their daily life in this practice while becoming more aware of their place in a cosmic and metaphysical whole.…”
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Sisyphe à Mexico : risques et politiques urbaines by François Mancebo

“…The reason is an all-prescriptive and centralized tradition combining with complete lack of interest in peripheral districts, which resources are solely exploited to improve sustainability of wealthy, touristic or historic metropolitan areas (actually creating an imported sustainability artifact). In much the same way as in Sisyphus myth, mexican planners and developers try hard to take the risk-boulder up the unsustainable-slope, but the boulder always comes down, again and again. …”
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Des œuvres en morceaux et des trous sur les murs. La difficulté d’écrire la vie des œuvres du Pérugin au XIXe siècle by Éloïse Dumas

“…In Perugia, their absence gave way to a memory that froze scholarship and contributed to the crystallisation of the collective consciousness. …”
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The virtual environments potential for postgraduate education by Jaqueline García Rodríguez, Reynaldo Fernando Hernández Zayas

“…Education was forced to return in their footsteps. The ways of teaching were rethought; The way of learning was verified in line with contextual demands. …”
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Migratory trajectory and recomposing of Alpine societies by Thierry Amrein

“…On the one hand, we questioned the motivations behind the ever-increasing number of migrants settling over the past two or three decades in 14 villages situated in the Bagnes and Entremont valleys, as well as a commune in the Rhône plain, and the way in which they have managed to become “social actors” and put down roots in their respective communities. …”
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Freestanding Osteolipoma of the Left Upper Extremity: A Case Report by Manuel Rodriguez-Leiva, APRN-BC, Rajshri Shah, MD, Elizabeth Anne Ouellette, MD, MBA

“…The diagnosis was a rare osteolipoma found underneath the fascia of the muscles extending all the way down to the interosseous membrane and the periosteum of the radius and ulna. …”
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Parameterised design of robust point‐to‐point fast motion controller by Wentao Yu, Guoyang Cheng

“…The controller initially resorts to a saturated control signal for the fastest acceleration or braking if possible and then seamlessly gives way to a linear control strategy once the motion slows down. …”
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Life insurance premium and Covid-19 by Glušac Danijela

“…Those who are able to adapt quickly to changes in the environment, who prioritize the insurance consumer and who see this crisis as an opportunity to start from scratch and fundamentally rethink the way they do business will quickly find their place when things calm down.…”
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A socially responsive university by Mariekie Burger

“…This conceptual article draws on a class project to suggest a way in which the three tasks can be combined to respond so a particular social need. …”
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Construction of cyberspace security course system of comprehensive practice and graded customs clearance by Kai CHEN, Cai FU, Deqing ZOU, Weizhong QIANG, Yongquan CUI, Lansheng HAN

“…The demand of cyberspace security promotes the development of cyberspace security,and the core task of the development of cyberspace security is to train high-quality professionals.In view of the problems existing in the current training of cyberspace security talents,such as scattered knowledge system,lagged professional knowledge,independent course content and insufficient interest in learning,according to the students' learning rules and cognitive process,a top-down approach is adopted to construct the curriculum system,aggregate and refine practical knowledge and skills,and a hierarchical training model of cyberspace security comprehensive practice is put forward.Breaking through the traditional learning assessment mechanism,the customs clearance mode of game is introduced.By setting test barriers for each knowledge and skill point,each training level and final comprehensive training students' ability level is examined in the way of actual customs clearance finally.Therefore,the course system of comprehensive practice and graded customs clearance of cyberspace security is constructed in order to cultivate high-quality cyberspace security professionals.…”
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THE IMPACT DYNAMIC CHARACTERISTICS OF RELEASE DEVICE FOR MICRO-SATELLITE by LI Biao, ZHANG ShiLong, WU Jun, WANG DaPeng, LI DongDong

“…To avoid the formation of space trash by the broken hold-down rod,the unlocked rod needs to set the capture cap to limit its movement. …”
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Protéger le patrimoine hospitalier au titre des monuments historiques by Dominique Perrin, Frantz Schœnstein

“…The hospital administration is often wary of historic monument protection, fearing that it will be in contradiction with the way equipment must evolve, or, if the hospital is closed down, that it will discourage potential buyers.…”
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