Legislation on direct democracy in modern Vietnam by T. T. Thoa

“…However, it must be acknowledged that, for a country that has not had a long history of implementing democracy, especially direct democracy, the Vietnamese legal system that regulates this field still has many limitations. …”
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The Philosophy of Technology and Engineering by Durmuş Günay

“…Secondly, we will look at the history of engineering in the contexts of the technological development. …”
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Coda: The Open by Michael Palmer

“…The notion of the open has a long history in poetry. This article also looks into its present and sketches its future, along a patient, open-ended recollection and reassembly of Robert Duncan and his poetic world. …”
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Dans la solitude des autres : pour une histoire sociale et politique du concept de solitudo au Moyen Âge by Gabriel Castanho

“…Finally, two major conclusions will be imperative : 1) the medieval solitude aims at balancing, between utopia and ideology, the antisocial tensions around the religious desire of abandonment of the world ; 2) the importance of the concept of solitude for the political history itself.…”
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The Piesberg: A NW-German site of international importance for the Pennsylvanian (Late Carboniferous) by Angelika Leipner, Tobias Fischer, Patrick Chellouche

“…The Piesberg is of further importance for correlation between the deep underground of northwestern Germany and the Ruhr basin coal field, as well as the Pennsylvanian coal areas in North America, and for investigations of Upper Carboniferous tight gas fields. …”
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MARTIN HEIDEGGER’S METAPHYSICAL QUESTION 1935-1937: GENESIS AND CONSEQUENCES. PART ONE by Юрій МАРИНЧУК

“…The first plan of the stated metaphysics is considered in the fourfold geometric intersection of the essential-artistic space – the square (Gefirt) of the world, earth, mortals and immortals. The result of the semantic field of landscape from our memory of native lands is a history of the meanings of thinking, and things are pre-thought states. …”
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Sung-Wook Moon, Rutebeuf ou une écriture du « divers » by Sung-Wook Moon

“…Examining the existing scientific achievements, as in the literary and philological field as in terms of historiography, and confronting new questions stimulated by poetry more subtle than has often been believed, this study has ambition to restitute to the medieval writer a writing conscious of its powers and its weaknesses, writing elaborated in contact and dealing with history and current affairs, reflecting on the relationship between his ineluctably fabulous language and the reality of the world he lives, not without drawing some audacious claims about the merits specific to his labour. …”
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Traditional Language with a Flair for Innovation: Hans Florian Zimmer’s Compositional Process by Gabriele

“… Hans Florian Zimmer is one of the best known and most prolific film composers in the world nowadays. His work defines the characteristics of present-day film music and is regarded as one of the most efficient practices in the field. …”
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Phylogenomics and a new classification of the tropical genus Heliconia L. (Monocots, Zingiberales, Heliconiaceae) by W. John Kress, Tomáš Fér, Mónica M. Carlsen

“…Many of these same species have also been cultivated as ornamentals around the world for hundreds of years because of their extraordinary colors and forms. …”
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The Small Wars Doctrine of the US Marine Corps and Colonial Experience of the European Powers by S. G. Malkin

“…And since the United States plays a central role in this transformation, the history of the Pax Americana, its formation and development, both at the level of the idea and in the field of real politics is of particular relevance. …”
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Dynamic changes and influencing factors of quality of life of empty nest elderly in cadre ward by Chao Ding, Guangjin Qu

“…[Conclusion] The quality of life of empty nest elderly in cadre ward mainly occurs in the psychological field and the reduction of social relations which monthly income, sleep status, self-care ability, history of chronic diseases and filial piety of children should be paid attention to in these two fields.…”
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De frontier até pós-frontier: regiões pioneiras no Brasil dentro do processo de transformação espaço-temporal e sócio-ecológico by Martin Coy, Michael Klingler, Gerd Kohlhepp

“…If there exists a world region, where the frontier constitutes one of the large socio-temporal narratives and hence also an important field of inquiry in history, social sciences and particularly geography, then it is the Americas. …”
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The School of Energy Policy and Diplomacy of MGIMO by V. I. Salygin

“…Nowadays when aspects of global energy security advanced to the forefront and Russia is going to reinforce its leading role in the world energy community, International institute of energy policy and diplomacy (MIEP) organized for the first time in Russia the training of world class experts in the field of energy diplomacy and geopolitics, economics, law, management and public relations, all focused on international energy cooperation. …”
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Book Review of Public Sociology in Practice by Asghar Izadi-Jeiran

“…The book shows internal professional dynamics and external dynamics in relation to the political field.…”
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Basic principles of Russian foreign policy under Vladimir Putin by Sadeghi Elham Mir Mohammad, Ahmad Vakhshitekh

“…The study uses materials from publications of both Russian and foreign authors, experts in the field of political science, history and international relations, as well as documents regulating the foreign policy activities of the highest state authorities. …”
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Rendre compte de l'insaisissable by Youssoupha Tall, Jeanne Riaux, Benjamin Sultan

“…We demonstrate the Saltigui’s role as intermediary between the spirit world, the living world and the nature. Through their Xooy, the Saltigui convey and share a local knowledge, linked to a specific territory and stemming from a set of beliefs and practices rooted in history. …”
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Studying the Functional Role of Social Cultural Dimensions of Contemporary Art from the Perspective of Sociology of Art by Sara Jahangiri, Mohammadreza Sharifzadeh, MohammadKazem Hassanvand

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Aging, Elderly and Quality of Life: Success or Difficulty? by Teresita de Jesús Martínez Pérez, Caridad María González Aragón, Gisela Castellón León, Belkis González Aguiar

“…In this century, life is something that many have called a “unique moment” because for the first time in history various generations coexist. This demographic dynamics in the world and in Cuba in particular, is an achievement and at the same time a challenge. …”
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Cognitive mechanisms and emergent grammatical features in Internet memes by Elke Diedrichsen

“…Their frequency of usage and the immediacy of their broad reach around the world make them an interesting field of investigation for linguistic studies. …”
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Rompendo o labirinto do esquecimento: redes de poder e emancipação feminina em Tia Dodô da Portela by Angélica Ferrarez de Almeida

“…A good example is in the Tia Dodô da Portela flag-bearer, and it is through it that we will analyze deep militancy strategies developed by black women in the field of knowledge, spaces and memory.…”
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