Exploring the Impact of Gender-Based Violence in South Africa by Corné Davis

“…Koustuv Dalal of Mid Sweden University was cited with reference to the cost estimations he had done during a study in KwaZulu-Natal in 2011. …”
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Rasch Rating Scale Model: Bias Detection and Validation Test of Indonesian-Adolescent Life Satisfaction Scale by Yonathan Natanael, Rahmaditya Salsabilla, Denisa Aulia, Dwi Khoirunnisa, Husna Nursaid Munawar, Nada Salsabila Hidayat, Romi Faizal Firdaus

“…The modern construct-oriented scale construction method was selected as a guide in developing the instrument, and the participants were 474 adolescents from various cities in Indonesia. At the initial screening stage using the Rasch model analysis, 54 participants were detected as outliers, hence further analysis was only conducted on 420. …”
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Handbook of Florida Water Regulation: Hazardous Waste Management by Michael T. Olexa, Luke D'Isernia, Laura Minton, Dulcy Miller, Sarah Corbett

“…However, the reader should be aware that because the laws, administrative rulings, and court decisions on which this handbook is based are subject to constant revision, portions of this publication could become outdated at anytime. Several details of cited laws are also left out due to space limitations. …”
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THE AMUR RIVER WATER DURING THE WINTER LOW WATER PERIOD: THE MANY-YEAR DYNAMICS OF THE SULFATES CONTENT AND RUNOFF by Vladimir P. Shesterkin, Nina M. Shesterkina

“…Therefore, the purpose of the research is to study the long-term dynamics of the content and runoff of sulfates in the Amur River in the winter low-water, based on the materials of Roshydromet for 1943-1976 and the author’s data for 1999-2019.Significant variations in the main areas were found due to both the diversity of natural conditions and anthropogenic influence in the areas of large cities and localities. The impact of the construction of hydroelectric power plants, significant economic changes in the Chinese part of the Amur basin, as well as the closure of pulp and paper and microbiological industries in the Russian part of the Amur basin on the long-term dynamics of the content and flow of sulfates is estimated. …”

Analysis of the Indentation Size Effect in the Microhardness Measurements in B6O by Ronald Machaka, Trevor E. Derry, Iakovos Sigalas, Mathias Herrmann

“…The best correlation between literature-cited load-independent Vickers microhardness values, the measured values, and applied models was achieved in the case of the MPSR and the MFSL models.…”
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Handbook of Florida Water Regulation: Water Wells by Michael T. Olexa, Luke D'Isernia, Laura Minton, Dulcy Miller, Sarah Corbett

“…However, the reader should be aware that because the laws, administrative rulings, and court decisions on which this handbook is based are subject to constant revision, portions of this publication could become outdated at anytime. Several details of cited laws are also left out due to space limitations. …”
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La programmation cinématographique parisienne au cours de la saison 1929/1930 : vers une appréhension des habitudes spectatorielles by Valentin Stimpfl

“…It allows us to observe trends that may be compared with those resulting from future investigations including the movie theatre programme from other major European cities.…”
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Les images paysagères autour du thé et de la Chine dans la publicité : quels simulacres de paysage ? by Yun Zhang

“…Based on documentary work and a survey of two areas around the cities of Fujian Province (Wuyi Mountains and Fuzhou), the article considers the genesis of the tea-growing landscape and its image. …”
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No Sinecure Acting as Public Intellectual in Education by Siebren Miedema

“…To realize a change, it is, according the author, necessary to stop with too much focus on highly cited publications in academic journals, and on individual researchers instead of on research groups working collectively together in joint research programs and with societal partners. …”
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Préservation du patrimoine bâti et développement durable : une tautologie ? Les cas de Nantes et Angers by Isabelle Garat, Maria Gravari-Barbas, Vincent Veschambre

“…A cross study of Angers and Nantes, cities confronted with important construction pressure in a context of important population growth, tends to show that the convergence of heritage and sustainable development agendas is not obvious. …”
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野生动物作为宠物带来的问题及执法思考 by 周用武

“…野生动物保护执法部门在此类野生动物的保护执法时存在一些立案定性问题,主要是关于非CITES附录中的走私物种、人工繁育物种和孵化中卵(蛋)方面的问题,文章对这些问题相应地提出了建议。…”
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Studying Cyberspace and Culture: A Review on the Book Cyberspace, Society and Culture by Seyyed Ahmad Askari, Ehsan Shahghasemi

“…On the surface, the book lacks a complete content list and a final conclusion section; works cited are dated, and there are some word usages. …”
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Des “hermaphrodites de nationalité” ? Colonisation maritime en Algérie et naturalisation des marins-pêcheurs italiens de Bône (Annaba) des années 1860 à 1914 by Hugo Vermeren

“…Instrumental for the military conquest of Algeria, the Italian fishermen were considered essential not only for the fishing industry in this area but also for peopling port cities such as Bône. From the 1860s onwards, the official policy of pairing French sovereignty on land with the privilege of fishing in territorial waters aimed at naturalizing and settling these fishermen, but, in fact, it encouraged the trafficking of identity papers that would help them bypass rules that became more and more stringent. …”
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Handbook of Florida Water Regulation: Hazardous Waste Management by Michael T. Olexa, Luke D'Isernia, Laura Minton, Dulcy Miller, Sarah Corbett

“…However, the reader should be aware that because the laws, administrative rulings, and court decisions on which this handbook is based are subject to constant revision, portions of this publication could become outdated at anytime. Several details of cited laws are also left out due to space limitations. …”
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Le paysagisme : source et ressource pour l’urbanisme ? by Benoît Romeyer

“…It successively identifies and defines the urban design practises predominantly influenced by the “plant” component, and which involve the notions of the embellishment, re-enchantment and "re-naturing" of open spaces, and the practises that specifically concern the landscape component of the parks, “green and blue” infrastructures, and “extra-urban” spaces of different neighbourhoods, suburbs and garden cities. Whether analysed separately or together, these elements constitute resources that may be reconsidered and re-used in order to establish more balanced relationships with the elements surrounding us in our contemporary urban construct.…”
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Handbook of Florida Water Regulation: Solid Waste Management by Michael T. Olexa, Luke D'Isernia, Laura Minton, Dulcy Miller, Sarah Corbett

“…However, the reader should be aware that because the laws, administrative rulings, and court decisions on which this handbook is based are subject to constant revision, portions of this publication could become outdated at anytime. Several details of cited laws are also left out due to space limitations. …”
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La topographie légendaire des itinéraires de la navette by Xavière Lanéelle

“…The commuter, the train and the route have been the object of a myth to serve a commercial policy as well as a development of the served cities.But the legend settled down only because it is one of the anthropological foundations and because the myth allows to combine incompatible elements, here the combination of the requirements of contemporary modernity and a more traditional life of provincial rooting.One of the aspects of the myth is that the TGV is a sterile environment and the countryside it goes through, a "black hole". …”
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Ré-enchanter les sols pour les rendre visibles : le regard des enfants en question by Aurélie Javelle, Pascale Scheromm, Béryl Muller

“…Beacause of the current urgent need to change our relationship to the soil given the issues relating to it, especially in cities, there is a crucial need to make the soil visible again and to reflect on its management. …”
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Design and digital transition. New design-driven challenges for techno-social innovation by Salvatore Di Dio, Benedetto Inzerillo, Francesco Monterosso, Dario Russo

“…Starting from theoretical reflections and multidisciplinary contributions, this paper focuses on the strategic importance of techno-social innovation, critically illustrating some significant design-driven experiences that outline innovative lines of development in the field of design research: WASP’s experimental activity (3D printing), Manzini’s reflections on hybrid local communities and cities in chaotic mutation, the projects of hacktivists Persico and Iaconesi on open source artificial intelligence, the experiences of frugal technological innovation with high social impact in the Planet’s most challenging economic, environmental and social contexts, and, finally, the bold projections on the food of the future with the related problematic experiments on production systems and lifestyles. …”
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How the Slovaks Helped Count Dracula: Stereotypes of the Late 19th Century by Martin Kasarda

“…It is clear that when Bram Stoker was creating the character of count Dracula, he used the information he had from the Hungarian orientalist Ármin Vambéry, who was a native of the multicultural Hungarian (now Slovak) town of Svätý Jur and studied in the other Slovak cities — Dunajská Streda and Bratislava. The study deals mainly with this Slovak, Slavic and Hungarian footprint in Stoker’s work.…”
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