Material Point Method-Based Simulation of Run-Out Characteristics for a Soil–Rock Mixed Landslide Induced by Surcharge by Yi Zhang, Fan Zhang, Qingbo Yi, Guanzhu Jiang, Juncheng Xie

“…Surcharge loading on slopes is a prevalent engineering practice that can precipitate landslides, posing significant risks to construction integrity and safety. This study elucidates the impact of surcharge loading on mixed soil–rock slopes and benchmarks their response against that of pure soil slopes under analogous loading conditions. …”
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La lucha por Guayaquil by Felipe Burbano de Lara

“…The article examines the concepts of autonomy and globalization that were central to Nebot's discourse and contrasts them with the autonomous model put forward by the government.…”
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El papel de las TIC en el desarrollo: una mirada desde la construcción social de la tecnología en el caso Ecuatoriano by Javier Andrés Jiménez Becerra

“…Dicho enfoque nos puede ayudar a pensar los elementos centrales que deben tomarse en cuenta a la hora de reflexionar e investigar sobre las autodenominadas redes de TIC para el desarrollo en el caso Ecuatoriano.This article proposes to begin with what are known as science, technology and society studies (STS) as a way to problematize information and communication technologies (ICTs), their vision of progress and their association with the development discourse. In these studies, technology is understood as a social construction. …”
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Des identités (dé)politisées ? Les enjeux de catégorisation des Nubien.ne.s en Égypte by Mérième Ihsan

“…In line with works that study the way the state manages its cultural groups, this article aims to account for the complexity of the process of category construction on which the narratives and representations of several actors are intertwined. …”
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Mémoires et patrimonialisation d’un passé antéislamique : Mubârak al-Mîlî et l’ethnogenèse du peuple algérien by Aomar Hannouz

“…Thanks to James McDougall’s work, History and Culture of Nationalism in Algeria, the foundational work on national construction by Tawfiq al-Madanî (d. 1983) is well documented. …”
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Questioning Agency Through Intergenerational Dialogue: The Adult Ghosts and the Forgetting Children in Rudyard Kipling’s Puck of Pook’s Hill by Hera Kim

“…To construct the questioning narrative, Kipling employs the children as engaging collaborators, but he also restrains them, through the device of the magical amnesia, from being fully grown agents. …”
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Dans les marges de l’orientalisme britannique : le cas d’Isabella Bird et de Journeys to Persia and Kurdestan (1891) by Laurence Chamlou

“…Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan reflects the ambiguities of a woman’s gaze, which mixed politics with adventure, and whose discourse was at once concerned with imperialist power and the search for a status under construction.…”
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South African English newspapers' depiction of learner-on-teacher violence by Corene De Wet

“…An important and recurring discourse in the newspapers’ construction of teachers as disempowered, humiliated and vulnerable individuals is that learners’ rights in South Africa supersede teachers’ rights. …”
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A bibliometric analysis of metonymy in SSCI-indexed research (2000–2023): retrospect and prospect by Yi Sun, Mocheng Lin

“…The findings highlight promising areas for future exploration, namely, its integration into digital communication and its impact on cultural identity construction. The methodological approach offers a robust framework for analyzing and predicting research trends, paving the way for innovative contributions to the field.…”
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Autarky and Material Contingencies in Italian Architectural Debate (1936-1954) by Pep Avilés

“…National and autochthonous values came to the fore, promoting local materials like wood or stone for construction as well as artificial and newly created ones. …”
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Habiter en écovillage, une [éco]utopie du xxie siècle ? by Sylvia Amar

“…In the face of growing discourse on ecological issues, their concrete actions are particularly relevant to observe, especially in the context following the COVID-19 global health crisis. …”
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Dickens and the American Millennium: The Uniformitarian Argument of Martin Chuzzlewit by Nancy Aycock Metz

“…He depicts human beings as small and vulnerable against ancient earthscapes of ocean, plain, forest, and wilderness, and exposes as myopic the narcissism of the vaunting, needy ego, with its self-centered construction of the world. Dickens makes these ideas part of a nationalist argument in deconstructing the American historical narrative. …”
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Didactic strategy to contribute to the development of communicative competence in Health Psychology students by Ana María Molina Gómez, Angelina Roméu Escobar, Miriam Gutiérrez Escobar, María Elinor Dulzaides Iglesias

“…<strong>Background:</strong> the cognitive, socio-cultural and communicative language teaching approach reveals the importance of syntactic speech closely related to semantic and pragmatic dimensions and aimed at understanding, analysis and construction of discourse. <strong>Objective:</strong> to design a didactic strategy that contributes to the development of communicative competence. …”
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IN REGARDS TO CONSTANT AND INTERPRETATIVE CRITERIA OF CONCEPT IN A LANGUAGE by M. N. Fedulova

“…Along with this the scientists focused on and are still focusing on non-contradictory construction of concept logic in a language discourse. …”
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Transition of farmland use system towards urban-rural integration: From localization to de-localization by FENG Dedong, LONG Hualou

“…[Objective] Farmland use transition runs through the entire process of the evolution of urban-rural relations in China, and is mutually reinforcing and complementary with the integrated development of urban and rural areas. The construction of the conceptual concept system and theoretical framework for the transition of farmland use system oriented towards urban-rural integration is of great significance for improving the discourse system of land system science research in China. …”
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INTERPASSIVITY AS A SUBJECTIVE EFFECT OF MODERN MEDIA-CULTURE: TO THE STATEMENT OF PROBLEM by Olena V. Khodus

“…Proposed research optics suggests that the person remains - the world-making being, who actively constructs their personal reality, however, when this reality is mediated by media representations, life world turns into a ready code, respectively, the active construction becomes superfluous. …”
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CENTRAL ASIA IN SEARCH FOR ITS OWN WAY OF INTEGRATION by E. V. Makhmutova

“…The existing experience of integration in the region is perceived as an important factor. Currently the discourse of regional integration is gaining ground in Central Asia. …”
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INTERPASSIVITY AS A SUBJECTIVE EFFECT OF MODERN MEDIA-CULTURE: TO THE STATEMENT OF PROBLEM by Olena V. Khodus

“…Proposed research optics suggests that the person remains - the world-making being, who actively constructs their personal reality, however, when this reality is mediated by media representations, life world turns into a ready code, respectively, the active construction becomes superfluous. …”
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Ecología del capital, educación ambiental moderna y transición eco-geo-histórica desde/con los territorios del Abya Yala by Cristian Abad Restrepo

“…From this perspective, an analysis of the discourse of the philosophical assumptions contained in the Public Policy of Environmental Education of the Department of Antioquia is proposed. …”
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The Abode of the Other (Museums in German Concentration Camps 1933-1945) by Božidar Jezernik

“…In autumn 1940, when the SS began with the construction of a railway between KZ Gusen I and St Georgen railway station, a grave-yard from the Bronze-Age was found. …”
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