Gilded-Age Entrepreneurs and Local Notables: The Case of the California “Big Four,” 1861-1877 by Evelyne Payen-Variéras

“…This article proposes an analysis of the network and transactions management practices of the California “Big Four”, the group of former Gold Rush merchants who built the Central Pacific and Southern Pacific Railroad companies in the 1860’s and 1870’s. …”
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Franc Jeza v Trstu by Ivo Jevnikar

“…A Christian socialist, member of the Liberation Front, and former camp prisoner, Jeza left Yugoslavia after the Second World War, permanently settling in Trieste. …”
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Mauritanie 1956-1963 : les multiples dimensions d’une indépendance contestée by Camille Evrard

“…The multi-scale analysis shows how the specificities of the Mauritanian entity and those of the colonial state in the Saharan zone interact with both the long-term regional dynamics of the West-Saharan region, and the global context of an era of reconfigurations that sees former colonies integrate international organizations.…”
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New Rights and the Space of Practices: Italian Contributions to a Theory of the Urban Commons by Michele Vianello

“…A particular emphasis is placed on the difference between customs and practices, the former being the base for traditional arrangements of commoning, the latter being the potential principle for new types of arrangements today. …”
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NEW SEVEN COARSE-GRAINED PALEOGENE TETHYAN AGGLUTINATED FORAMINIFERAL SPECIES ON BOTH SIDES OF THE ATLANTIC OCEAN by Haidar Salim Anan

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La guerre au-delà des langues : ex-Yougoslavie (1991-1999) et Tadjikistan (1992-1997) by Ksenija Djordjević Léonard

“…The wars in former Yugoslavia, on the one hand, and in Tadjikistan, on the other hand, were among the most dramatic conflicts at the end of the 20th Century, following the collapse of Communist regimes in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. …”
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Comparison between European Protestant and Catholic Economic Development through Modern Painting by Bernadett Balassa

“…As a result of the study the former hypothesis of Weber could be verified from multidisciplinary approach.…”
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Reparation for Victims of Human Rights Violations and Crimes Against Humanity in Ecuador by María Cristina Solís

“…In May of 2007, former President Rafael Correa created a Truth Commission for Ecuador (CVE), assigned with the task of clarifying the events of political violence that took place in the country between 1984-2007. …”
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Experiment and Analysis of Active Vibration Suppression via an Absorber with a Tunable Delay by Yixia Sun

“…The inherent and intentional time delays in the feedback control loop are taken into consideration. The value of the former is fixed, while the value of the latter is tunable in the controller. …”
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Reclaimed Water Use in the Landscape: What's in Reclaimed Water and Where Does It Go? by Gurpal S. Toor, Mary Lusk

“…Reclaimed water is former wastewater from households, schools, offices, hospitals, and commercial and industrial facilities that has been disinfected and treated to remove certain impurities such as nutrients and pathogens. …”
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De l’activisme à la négociation urbaine. Dynamiques d’engagement politique et environnemental à la Floating University de Berlin by Antoine Apruzzese

“…The project came after ten years of temporary urban interventions on the site of the former Tempelhof airport. Raumlabor’s projects aimed to set up the cultural conditions for the development of a local community that shares common social and environmental values and is capable of acting upon its own condition of inhabiting the city. …”
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Transnational religious actors and international order – the case of the Gülen Movement by Mirela Lončar

“…Hizmet Movement is a transnational Islamic movement formed in the Republic of Turkey in the 1960s by the former Turkish Imam Muhammad Fethullah Gülen. Today, this Islamic movement has many institutions, organizations and members around the world. …”
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L’investiture du 44e président des Etats-Unis :Le National Mall, le village global et le Green New Deal by Cynthia Ghorra-Gobin

“…It also illustrates the choice of a president willing to take some distance with the former administration while taking the exemple of climate change. …”
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Charles Bukowski’s Online Reading Community: Safeguarding the Author’s Work by Building a Consensus by Amélie Macaud

“…They share the belief that John Martin, Charles Bukowski’s former publisher, heavily edited his poems after his death, to the point of making them unrecognizable. …”
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Neural Network Identification and Sliding Mode Control for Hysteresis Nonlinear System with Backlash-Like Model by Ruiguo Liu, Xuehui Gao

“…Firstly, only one neural network is designed to estimate the unknown system states and hysteresis section instead of multiscale neural network at former researches since that can save computation and simplify the controller design. …”
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« Si vous votez la loi d’exclusion aujourd’hui, c’est vous qui serez exclus demain » by Bilel Kchouk

“…As in the case of the fall of communism, we defend the idea of an enlargement of the political elite space allowing newcomers to cohabit with former political elites. This repositioning took place through multiple logics such as political sacrifice of several agents, networking solidarity and bargaining. …”
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Reclaimed Water Use in the Landscape: Constituents of Concern in Reclaimed Water by Gurpal S. Toor, Mary Lusk

“…Reclaimed water is former wastewater from households, schools, offices, hospitals, and commercial and industrial facilities that has been disinfected and treated to remove certain impurities such as nutrients and pathogens. …”
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Une balle blanche dans un roman noir by Sophie Vallas

“…The novel is also a “baseball novel”: its plot essentially deals with a baseball New York team and its former, fallen star, and the final resolution of the mystery intervenes thanks to a revelation brought by a baseball game in which a rather rare and spectacular maneuver (the double suicide squeeze) is used by one of the teams to turn the tables and win the game. …”
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Reclaimed Water Use in the Landscape: Managing Salinity, Sodicity, and Specific Ions in Sites Irrigated with Reclaimed Water by Gurpal S. Toor, Mary Lusk

“…Reclaimed water is former wastewater from households, schools, offices, hospitals, and commercial and industrial facilities that has been disinfected and treated to remove certain impurities such as nutrients and pathogens. …”
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Le cru de l’écrit ou les archives de la sauvagerie by Alice Delmotte-Halter

“…Cooking and sewing practices, the former closer to Cixous’ writing (that sizzles) than the latter, appear as writing’s conceptual metaphors, themes that are clearly visible in the manuscripts but which later re-writing tends to erase. …”
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