Río Bec. Des grandes maisons et des récoltes by Marie-Charlotte Arnauld, Dominique Michelet, Chloé Andrieu, Alfonso Lacadena, Éva Lemonnier, Boris Vannière, Philippe Nondédéo, Julie Patrois

“…In the Río Bec region, archaeological, iconographic and epigraphic data indicate that kingship has been weakly articulated from AD 550 to 950. Sub-royal elites were active, creating highly visible houses with land domains that served factional strategies and, late in time, diffused architectural ideas over a wide area. …”
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Les jardins paysagers des seigneurs domaniaux de l’époque d’Edo et les manuels relatifs à la composition des jardins by Nicolas Fiévé

“…The pre-modern period (1573-1867) marks the start of a new development of gardens in many areas, and the state lords – the new elite coming from the warriors class – enjoy having vast landscape parks built; these parks often spread over ten hectares, which is a new phenomenon. …”
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Age- and sex-related differences in social competence and emotion labeling in pre-adolescence by Elizabeth E.L. Buimer, Pascal Pas, Carlijn van den Boomen, Mathijs Raemaekers, Rachel M. Brouwer, Hilleke E. Hulshoff Pol

“…During fMRI, happy faces elicited more activity than neutral or fearful faces. …”
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La Défense / Zone B (1953-91): Light and Shadows of the French Welfare State by Pierre Chabard

“…Planned as early as 1958 by the Etablissement Public d’Aménagement de La Défense (EPAD, the first such agency in France), the business district of La Défense is a typical urban result of the French version of the welfare state: centralism, modernism, alliance between public and private elites. But with its vertical skyline, this district – called Zone A – constitutes only a small part of the operational sector of the EPAD; the other part, Zone B, coincides with the northern part of the city of Nanterre. …”
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CONVENTIONAL AND SUSTAINABLE BUILDINGS: A COMPARATIVE BENEFIT AND COST ANALYSIS by Abimbola WINDAPO, Mayibongwe MACHAKA

“…The study adopted a quantitative research approach using semi-structured questionnaires involving a combination of both open and close-ended questions, in eliciting objective and subjective benefit and cost information on sustainable and conventional buildings from purposively selected construction industry stakeholders in South Africa. …”
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Violence et conflits dans l’armée de la Monarchie Hispanique en Castille : quelques propositions de recherche et de méthodologie by Antonio Jiménez Estrella

“…In this case, the situation was still further complicated by the fact that most of those soldiers were living in the main cities of the kingdom, that they were members of the elites and local power networks, and often used military jurisdiction to protect themselves from civil courts. …”
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Les relations centre-périphérie et la fragmentation socio-spatiale dans les villes moyennes brésiliennes : Mossoró/RN et Ribeirão Preto/SP by Cláudio Smalley Soares Pereira, Vanessa Moura de Lacerda Teixeira, Cleiton Ferreira da Silva

“…The cities of Mossoró, in Rio Grande do Norte, and Ribeirão Preto, in São Paulo, highlight this phenomenon and they represent the process of socio-spatial fragmentation in Brazil, based on transformations in the urban structure and the constitution of a new social division of space. New housing developments for the elite and for residents of state-funded low-cost have been built on the periphery. …”
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The Use of Multi-Probe Modulated Laser Radiation for the Identification of Substances' Clots in the Fluid Flow by V. A. Alekseev, S. I. Yuran, V. P. Usoltsev, D. N. Shulmin

“…Modern tools of water supply systems monitoring at enterprises or in the housing sector use laser liquid sensing systems. In this case, as a rule, laboratory analyses of the obtained liquid samples are used, as well as spectral analysis methods when scanning the liquid with light for different wavelengths. …”
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Friendship, admiration, or hatred? The image of the united provinces in the travel diaries of the Czech nobility (1650-1750) by Jiří Kubeš

“…The author comes to the conclusion that the nobility from the Czech lands were not looking for friendship in the United Provinces in the second half of the 17th and the first half of the 18th century, as there were not many people there they could make friendly contact with. The local elite were predominantly made up of rich merchants and traders from the town establishment. …”
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Découverte d’une tuile estampillée de la fin du ier s. av. J.-C. à Bibracte (mont Beuvray, Saône-et-Loire) by Florent Delencre, Quentin Verriez, Chiara Martini-Picot

“…It was discovered in the specific context of the remodelling of a domus, a typical example of luxurious Italian-style houses that flourished in Bibracte after Caesar’s conquest. …”
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Black Boarding Academies as a Prudential Reparation by Roy Brooks

“…One of the most effective instructional models in the country for leadership-oriented teaching can be found in elite New England Prep Schools. They have been doing this for centuries. …”
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Black Boarding Academies as a Prudential Reparation by Roy Brooks

“…One of the most effective instructional models in the country for leadership-oriented teaching can be found in elite New England Prep Schools. They have been doing this for centuries. …”
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D’une rive à l’autre de la Méditerranée : mobilités, recompositions et adaptations des groupes juifs aux XIVe et XVe siècles by Jennifer Vanz

“…Because many of them belonged to the intellectual and commercial elite, they had the resources to negotiate their position with the sultans, who granted them tax privileges and distinguished them from their co-religionists. …”
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