Une stratégie analytique et opérationnelle pour les transformations du territoire métropolitain de Vérone : paysage-infrastructure by Daniela Perrotti, Chiara Locardi

“…The analytic approach Landscape-Infrastructure works towards the strategic and functional integration of the new infrastructures in the metropolitan landscape of Verona and it brings out the potential of the production landscape in the territorial network. …”
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Communication management in a millennium of chaos and change by Ursula Stroh

“…Positive chaos implies an unstable, seemingly disordered situation that could bring about productive, creative, and improved results. …”
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Recriar o espaço de voz do poeta: a memória entre dois mundos by Joseilda de Sousa Diniz

“…His name is linked to a period deemed the golden age of Brazilian cantoria and brings a privileged testimony of this effervescent moment, marked by the transition to new technologies of information. …”
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Not just skin – Object module and measure module in the composition of the architectural envelope by Paola Scala

“…The objective of this essay is to bring the attention of designers back to the importance of reflecting on the architectural quality of the envelope and its expressive capacity of facades, especially in consideration of the current historical moment in which environmental, cultural, and economic reasons increasingly urgently demand the transition from traditional construction techniques to dry assembly systems.   …”
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La danse du wititi by Maria José Freire

“…The hypothesis put forward is that this dance renders intergesturality processes visible. It encompasses and brings into dialogue different corporealities generated through processes of intensification of the social relations of this region. …”
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The Renin-Angiotensin-Aldosterone System as a Therapeutic Target in Late Injury Caused by Ischemia-Reperfusion by Simón Quetzalcóatl Rodríguez-Lara, Leonel García-Benavides, Alejandra Guillermina Miranda-Díaz

“…Connection in diverse systems of survival brings about cellular dysfunction or even apoptosis. …”
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The Influence of Negative Surprise on Hedonic Adaptation by Ana Paula Kieling, Vinicius Andrade Brei, Valter Afonso Vieira

“…The findings suggested that negative surprise makes adaptation happen more intensively and faster as time goes by, which brings consequences to companies and consumers in the post-purchase process, such as satisfaction and loyalty.…”
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Resistências de povos e comunidades tradicionais ante o Estado e a colonialidade by Josiane Carine Wedig, João Daniel Dorneles Ramos

“…The ethnographic research on which this article is based was carried out with the Rede Puxirão de Povos e Comunidades Tradicionais do Paraná – an organization that brings together indigenous people, quilombolas, faxinalenses, cipozeiros, slanders, artisanal fishermen and healers –, seeking to understand their forms of resistance to coloniality. …”
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Key-in-hand or Self-managed Production? Socio-urban Effects of Public Policies for Popular Housing by María Cecilia Zapata

“…Public access to housing for the popular sectors has set up, in the last years, as one of the most pressing problems due to the segregating effects that it brings. This paper compares and evaluates the results of the new social housing production policy (key- in-hand and self-managed) carried out in the city of Buenos Aires between the years 2003 to 2013. …”
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Response of a Two-Degree-of-Freedom Vibration System with Rough Contact Interfaces by Zhiqiang Huang, Xun Peng, Gang Li, Lei Hao

“…Moreover, it is inferred from the bifurcation diagrams that, increasing the excitation force, the system can bring about chaotic motions on rough contact interfaces.…”
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Maker: the return of the builders. A possible digital transition for Architecture by Sergio Pone

“…By establishing these lines of development, it would be possible to bring architecture close to the people and restore a central role for the designer in the making of buildings. …”
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Urbanisme de rattrapage, marquage territorial populaire et conflits d’odonymies dans les quartiers de Yaoundé (Capitale du Cameroun) by Gaston Ndock Ndock

“…This disorientation and subjugation of city-dwellers brings about the rejection of official odonymy, resulting in the dualism which is observed.…”
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Klang gegen Rhythmus. Die Entwicklung von Texturen in Vladimir Tarnopolskis Foucault’s Pendulum by Hannes Oberrauter

“…The title of this ensemble piece that alludes to a famous experiment intending to prove the fact of earth rotation brings up the question of the music’s potentially referential quality.…”
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LE MASQUE COMIQUE DE L’OPÉRA DANS L’ITALIE DU XVIIIe SIÈCLE by Diana TODEA

“…Opera performances are characterized in the seventeenth century by heterogeneity which brings together in the musical-drama perspective, both tragic and comic situations. …”
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#RAINMUSTFALL – A THEOLOGICAL REFLECTION ON DROUGHT, THIRST, AND THE WATER OF LIFE by Nadia Marais

“…This paper argues that the theological rhetoric of water is embedded in soteriological imagination, which requires remembering – through the sacrament of baptism – the significance of the giving God who wills human and ecological flourishing.2 Moreover, it is argued that the good news of salvation brings rhetoric and ethics, doctrine and life, into a dynamic communicative process, so that water, as that which is freely given by God, has nothing less than abundant life or ecological and human flourishing as its apparent intended focus. …”
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« La peur du désir » : A Mummer’s Wife et Esther Waters de George Moore by Fabienne Gaspari

“…Literally consuming the characters and bringing the body—whose disorders are staged—to the fore, alcoholism and consumption echo the fires of industry and reveal a fear of desire which, according to Leo Bersani, characterizes Realism. …”
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Lire/voir The Ballad of Reading Gaol d’Oscar Wilde à la lumière de l’expressionnisme by Xavier Giudicelli

“…A hybrid object, an illustrated book brings together two sets of distinct signs that complement, illuminate each other and weave dialectical relationships. …”
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Capítulo 4 — Restauración de los Árboles Después de Un Huracán by Edward F. Gilman, Traci Partin

“…Gilman and Traci Partin, is the Spanish language version of ENG-1054, Restoring Trees after a Hurricane. It is part of the Urban Forest Hurricane Recovery Program series. …”
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Comment définir l’humain à partir de sa diversité ? Questions épistémologiques et enjeux philosophiques by Mathilde Lequin

“…Through a review of the history of debates on past human diversity and an analysis of the different biases that influence assessments of the number of hominin species, this note puts forward several avenues to update the theoretical framework of palaeoanthropology, by proposing a critique of the bush-like model of evolution in favour of a reticulate model, by bringing out the philosophical assumptions underlying the systematic description of new hominin species and through a discussion on the specifically anthropological dimension of past human diversity.…”
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The Influence of User Protection Behaviors on the Control of Internet Worm Propagation by Yihong Li, Jinxiao Pan, Lipeng Song, Zhen Jin

“…These are new findings in the worm propagation model that bring new challenges to control the spread of the worm and further demonstrate the importance of user behaviors in controlling the worm propagation. …”
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