Legal status of national minorities on the Ukrainian territory in the 19th century by S. Yu. Ivanov

“…Particular attention has been paid to such legislative documents of various levels as the Regulations on the settlement of Jews, the Regulations on Jews, the Instruction of the Office of Guardianship of Novorossiysk foreign settlers, the Statute on foreign colonies in the empire, the Laws “On the lease of landed property to foreigners for up to 36 years”, “On restricting the right of Catholic peasants to acquire land property in nine Western provinces”, “On the analysis of the gentry in the Western provinces and on the arrangement of this kind of people”, Regulations on the Main Department of Colonists of the Southern Territory, etc. …”
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Lithuanian, Russian, Polish istoriography with respect to the Poland - Lithuania union by Mečislovas Jučas

“…Russian historiography appropriated the Lithuanian state and called the Grand Duchy of Lithuania the West Russian state, the continuation of the Kiev state in the territory of Western Russia. According to this historiography, the biggest part of the territory and population belonged to the Russian ethnos. …”
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Political Vector of Northern Sea Route Development by A. A. Fomichev

“…Recent events of this year demonstrate two important forces which have an impact on the exploitation of NSR. …”
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Russia and the West: Clash of energy interests through the lens of realist and liberal approaches by Yu. V. Borovsky

“…By the beginning of the 2010s, the powerful positive impetus inherent to the Russia-Western relations in the energy sector has waned. …”
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From Sensationalism to Sensation: Brian Evenson’s Affecting Texts by Nawelle Lechevalier-Bekadar

“…Brian Evenson’s work forcefully resists literary categorization, playfully mixing then deconstructing genres such as the Gothic, the western, post-apocalyptic fiction, magic realism to name but a few. …”
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Islamic Radicalism in North-West Pakistan by O. P. Tchekrizova

“…Since 2001 the north-western Pakistan has gained prominence. It witnessed accumulating of various extremist forces opposing the international coalition in Afghanistan. …”
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Systematic review and meta‑analysis of factors predicting postoperative lung function after lung cancer resection by Hongling Wang, Lihong He, Xiaoyun Hu, Gongxue Xian

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Différenciations territoriales et insertion dans la mondialisation : le cas de l’énergie en Inde by Nicolas Mazzucchi

“…As a consequence India is forced to enter the global competition by developing the national oil companies’ international deployment as well as in using foreign – mostly Western and Chinese – energy technologies (nuclear, renewables, etc.). …”
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Changes of Narrative: Osvald Sirén’s Photographic Modeling of Modern Research on Chinese Garden by Jiuwen GU, Yuanfeng SHI, Shan JIA

“…The combination of this influence and western spatial research has formed a very common paradigm for garden research. …”
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Exosome‐derived long non‐coding RNA AC010789.1 modified by FTO and hnRNPA2B1 accelerates growth of hair follicle stem cells against androgen alopecia by activating S100A8/Wnt/β‐cat... by Shaojun Chu, Lingling Jia, Yulong Li, Jiachao Xiong, Yulin Sun, Qin Zhou, Dexiang Du, Zihan Li, Xin Huang, Hua Jiang, Baojin Wu, Yufei Li

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Epistemic Roots, Universal Routes and Ontological Roofs of African “Ritual Archives”: Disciplinary Formations in African Thought by Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju

“…I reproduce and identify a number of these artistic forms and briefly elaborate on their aesthetic force and ideational power, clarifying the theoretical formations in which they are embedded and exploring the insights they could contribute to theory beyond their originating cultures. …”
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The Soviet Factor in the US-China Military-Technical Cooperation during the Cold War by Yinan Li

“…The first and the last of these phases (from 1949 to 1961, and from 1992 till present) received wide attention in both Chinese and Western academic literature, whereas the second one — from 1978 to 1989 —when the PRC actively purchased weapons and technologies from the Western countries remains somewhat understudied. …”
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Muslim Bank as a Historical Category: Creating Credit Institutions for Muslims In the First Half of the 20 ^th Century by R. I. Bekkin

“…These regions are brought together by the fact that Muslims who lived there were forced to compete with representatives of other ethno-confessional groups and communities living in the same territory. …”
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Determination of the response of a class of nonlinear time invariant systems by Sudhangshu B. Karmakar

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Samogitia and Lithuania in 13-18th Centuries: the Splendour and the Poverty of Regional (Provincial) Self-Goveming by Eugenijus Saviščevas

“…All this hindered the rise of more forceful regional trends of separatism.   …”
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A modernidade vista desde o Sul Global: três contribuições teóricas recentes by Marcos de Jesus Oliveira

“…Together, the authors reveal new ways to think a cartography about modernity, i.e., the diagrams of forces involved in its rhetoric.…”
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LA FRUSTRATION IDENTITAIRE. QUELQUES IDÉES DE MIHAI MITREA-CELARIANU SUR L’ÉCOLE ROUMAINE DE COMPOSITION by Luana STAN

“…Born in Bucarest in 1935, after the arrival of the communist regime, he was forced to leave the country and he installed himself in Paris, where he died in 2003. …”
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Checks and Balances: The Concept and Its Implications for Corruption by Luciano Da Ros, Matthew M. Taylor

“…We suggest that the apparent correlation between checks and balances and control of corruption is driven by a variety of conditions antecedent to both. Using examples from Western democracies, we demonstrate that the concept of checks and balances is by itself an empty vessel, made effective only by “hard” factors such as the balance of political forces and “soft” factors such as the adherence of elites to particular behavioral norms. …”
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The Impact of Assimilating Atmospheric Infrared Sounder Observation on the Forecast of Typhoon Tracks by Chien-Ben Chou, Huei-Ping Huang

“…Outside this range, notably when the decorrelation scale of the background error is set to a large value, forcing the assimilation of AIRS data leads to degradation of the forecast. …”
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Renewable Energy Driven by Le Chatelier's Principle, Enzyme Function, and Non-Additive Contributions to Ion Fluctuations: A Hypothesis in Biomechanical and Nanotechnology Energy Th... by Sergio Manzetti

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