What the Seasons Tell Us. The Monthly Movement of Marriages, Economic Modernization, and Secularization in the Netherlands, 1810-1940 by Theo Engelen

“…The analysis is based on the LINKS dataset which currently includes almost 2 million marriages that were contracted in seven Dutch provinces: Groningen, Drenthe, Overijssel, Gelderland, Noord-Holland, Zeeland and Limburg. …”
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Croissance, inégalités et pauvreté au sein des pays émergents : le cas des BRICS by Laila Porras

“…According to the path taken the inequality trajectories are sometimes contrasting and widely dependent on national policies of transformation. …”
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« Soy feminista y me gusta el perreo » : les conflits de (re)signification dans les politiques sexuelles du reggaeton by Victor Santos Rodriguez

“…The article highlights the centrality of the dancing (perreo) body as a semiotic space where redefinitions of the heteropatriarchal gender/sexuality regime play out, thus making a contribution to the literature on popular music, which is struggling to embrace this epistemological turn. By contrasting the examples of reggaetoneras Ivy Queen and Chocolate Remix, the complexity of the politics of reception is explored. …”
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Motivators for using on-demand vehicle sharing services in Brazil by Fábio Violin

“…The five major regions of Brazil were considered in this research, totaling 2150 interviews, indicating the existence of fourteen motivators for use involving the economic, social, environmental, and technological dimensions, however, only six variables comprise the structuring nucleus of demand and are based on an element of economic order (Reduced Tariff), one of a socioeconomic nature (Expectation of Benefits) and four technological drivers (Technological Availability, Convenience of Time and Boarding in addition to Data Security), which figure as utilitarian indicators, corroborating the results of international studies and contrasting those that signal hedonistic elements as relevant. …”
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Frames and political choice in Scottish election campaigns by Éva Jakusné Harnos, Mátyás Gergi-Horgos

“…In the qualitative analysis phase, messages of the manifestos and of the posts were contrasted in order to answer our research question what kind of persuasive political discourse was used when options for the citizens were outlined. …”
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Common Sense Diagrams: The US Two-Party System in Magruder’s American Government, 1917–2023 by Janne Holmén

“…From 1939, the two-party system was considered a trait of English-speaking countries and was contrasted to the chaotic multiparty systems in Europe, which could end up in dictatorship. …”
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Séquence d’introduction de discours représenté : faire ou dire ? by Lotfi Abouda, Nina Rendulic

“…In this paper we study a particular use of the verb faire, i.e. as an approximate equivalent of dire introducing a reported speech in French, in a corpus of about one million words, extracted from ESLO (“Sociolinguistic Survey in Orleans”), which consists of samples of recordings carried out 40 years apart (ESLO1 and ESLO2). A first contrastive analysis of the occurrences of reported speech with faire from a micro-diachronic perspective reveals the recent emergence of this structure, mainly in informal interactional genres among young speakers. …”
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El marcaje de la plata en Castilla y Aragón. Primera parte: Castilla. by Aurelio A. Barrón García

“…Precisamos los cargos municipales que vigilaron la producción con metales preciosos y señalamos las diferentes funciones que tuvieron, afinadores, contrastes y marcadores. Estudiamos el triple sistema de marcar la plata que se adoptó en Burgos y Valladolid que fueron ciudades de referencia para el resto del territorio castellano. …”
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What the Seasons Tell Us. The Monthly Movement of Marriages, Economic Modernization, and Secularization in the Netherlands, 1810-1940 by Theo Engelen

“…The analysis is based on the LINKS dataset which currently includes almost 2 million marriages that were contracted in seven Dutch provinces: Groningen, Drenthe, Overijssel, Gelderland, Noord-Holland, Zeeland and Limburg. …”
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The Cyclicality of Loan Loss Provision in Brazilian Commercial Banks by Antônio Maria Henri Beyle de Araújo, Paulo Roberto Barbosa Lustosa, José Alves Dantas

“…The purpose of this paper is to analyze the relationship between banks’ provisioning for credit losses and business cycles in Brazil, in an attempt to confirm its nature, a condition capable of avoiding potentiating the effects of economic contraction or expansion. Using an econometric model with accounting and macroeconomic variables, the survey involved 91 commercial banks in the period from 2001 to 2012. …”
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Clerk, Chancellor, Castaway (1374–1419) by Tiago Viúla de Faria

“…On stepping down from office and Portugal’s royal court, he returned to his native country only to meet with Henry IV’s continued disapproval, which eventually led him to a terminus vitae in relative modesty and obscurity.This paper traces Adam Davenport’s professional trajectory of 45 years, from 1374 to 1419, across contrastive political regimes in two different countries, first as a local cleric, then as a senior administrator, and eventually as an unwaged outsider. …”
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Hadrien Saiag, Le trueque argentin au prisme de la dette : une socioéconomie des pratiques monétaires et financière by Hadrien Saiag

“…Therefore, money can participate to the reproduction of special organizations more or less centralized and to widely contrasted social relations (either violent or emancipating). …”
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Dry Needling with Fascial Winding in Nontraumatic Medial Tibial Shin Pain by Manoj Kumar Sharma, Sarika Chaudhary

“…A significant association has been discovered between shin pain with distance runners and proving the impact of the physical demands inherent in these physical activities. Contraction of the deep leg flexors during running leads to stress transfer to the tibial fascial attachment, i.e. deep crural fascia at the medial tibial crest which results in fascial dysfunction resulting in shin pain and discomfort. …”
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Applications of Matrices to a Matroidal Structure of Rough Sets by Jingqian Wang, William Zhu

“…Then some characteristics of the matroid are presented through the representable matrix mainly. Secondly, contraction and restriction operations are applied to the matroid through the representable matrix and approximation operators of rough sets. …”
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Du sol foncier au sol vivant by Atelier Georges, Thibault Barbier, Mathieu Delorme, Charles Rives

“…Starting from this theoretical framework, we conduct two case studies: a regional development project for which we provided assistance to the contracting authority and an urban planning project we were in charge of. …”
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Pantropical Jumping Spiders in Florida by Glavis B. Edwards, Jr.

“…Many are marked with contrasting colors or bands, especially the males who display this ornamentation while dancing before females to win acceptance for mating. …”
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A Report of Two Cases of Age-Related Changes in Cervical Morphology in Postmenopausal Women with Vaginal Adenosis by Marguerite B. Vigliani

“…Several decades of annual exams showed these stigmata of DES exposure gradually disappear as the upper vagina progressively contracted. After menopause the upper vagina in both cases transformed into what appeared to be a normal cervix with all adenosis involuted into a normal endocervical canal. …”
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Relational Premises in the Cooperation Between Farms with Conservative Breeds and Industry Organisations by Marta Domagalska-Grędys

“…Breeders contribute to the growth of biodiversity, while industry organisations are an important partner in their relationships as they support farms (they mediate in the contracting process, organise trainings, represent the interests of producers in Poland and abroad). …”
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Zu einigen Paradigmen musiktheoretischen Denkens der 1920er Jahre by Felix Wörner

“…The increasingly ideologically charged music theoretical discourse of the 1920s is characterized by polyphony and contrasting positions. On the one hand, influential views emerge in interaction with current compositional tendencies; on the other hand, the effort to redefine conventional music-theoretical categories in terms of content can be discerned. …”
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Transitivité de l’action et ses expressions en trumai (langue isolée du Haut Xingú, Brésil) by Aurore Monod Becquelin, Cédric Becquey

“…Composed of several transitive verb categories that contrastively pair agent-patient semantic roles and subject-object syntactic functions, the language is also characterised by the possible choice of one of two syntactico-semantic alignments within the limited framework of certain processes/scenarios, both involving agency.It is on the basis of the detailed study of a representative corpus of texts that we attempt to understand, from an agency viewpoint, what motivates the choice of one or another construction, and to show their main parameters. …”
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