“Pre-wedding” photos and the coastline for young Chinese couples: the staging of an imagination from the Western world? by Meng Li

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‘Groaning wicked like a maddening dog’: Bestiality, Modernity and Irishness in J. M. Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World by Hélène Lecossois

“…Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World, anxieties brought about by Ireland’s colonial modernity are given an especially powerful expression through an extensive recourse to animal imageries. …”
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THE WEST AND NON-WEST: A NEW APPROACH TO THE OLD DICHOTOMY by D. A. Kuznetsov

Subjects: “…western world…”
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Excess mortality across countries in the Western World since the COVID-19 pandemic: ‘Our World in Data’ estimates of January 2020 to December 2022 by Gertjan Kaspers, Saskia Mostert, Marcel Hoogland, Minke Huibers

“…This study explores excess mortality in the Western World from 2020 until 2022.Methods All-cause mortality reports were abstracted for countries using the ‘Our World in Data’ database. …”
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Expression of concern: Excess mortality across countries in the western world since the COVID-19 pandemic: ‘Our World in Data’ estimates of January 2020 to December 2022

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Emigration of South Africans to the West: Sociological and missiological implications by Christopher Magezi

“…A huge number of South Africans, including Christians, are emigrating to the Western world, which is experiencing a serious regression in Christianity. …”
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Sculpture africaine. Blessures et altérité by Gaetano Speranza

“…Beyond the notion of « injury » for the object, the author dwells on cultural traumatisms resulting from the meeting between African sculpture and the western world. A particular example is the one of ethnographical musical instruments for which restoration is often tributary of western conceptions.…”
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Production Guide for Choy Sum—An Emerging Asian Vegetable in Florida by Yanlin Wang, Guodong Liu

“… Choy sum, also known as Chinese flowering cabbage, is a leafy vegetable that has been widely cultivated in southern China for more than 1,000 years, and is currently cultivated and consumed by a growing population in the western world. This new 5-page publication of the UF/IFAS Horticultural Sciences Department, written by Yanlin Wang and Guodong Liu, provides a brief overview of choy sum and its cultivation, as well as some suggestions for how to include it in a meal. https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/hs1380 …”
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Production Guide for Choy Sum—An Emerging Asian Vegetable in Florida by Yanlin Wang, Guodong Liu

“… Choy sum, also known as Chinese flowering cabbage, is a leafy vegetable that has been widely cultivated in southern China for more than 1,000 years, and is currently cultivated and consumed by a growing population in the western world. This new 5-page publication of the UF/IFAS Horticultural Sciences Department, written by Yanlin Wang and Guodong Liu, provides a brief overview of choy sum and its cultivation, as well as some suggestions for how to include it in a meal. https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/hs1380 …”
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Pour une autre lecture de la guerre de Gaza by Jean-François Legrain

“…This article is an interpretation of the Israeli way of managing the image of the Palestinian resistance movment in years, through the Muslim Brothers, FATHA, and now Hamas, as a danger for democracy and the western world. The figure of the trouble maker is used in order to justify a long term conflict which end Israel is the only country capable to put an end to.…”
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When Ethnic Identity is a Private Matter by Kjell Olsen

“…This change can be described as a result of socio-economic changes in the region, the populations’ firmer integration in a Norwegian culture and the ethno-political struggle of some Sámi that corresponded with a general development in the view on indigenous people in the Western world. Even if great changes have occurred there are still some resemblances with ethnic processes 50 years ago. …”
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Le jardin japonais en Europe by Ursula Wieser Benedetti

“…It appears as though these typologies may well have left a very profound imprint on the aesthetic representation of the Japanese Garden in the Western World.…”
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Role of Microglia in CNS Autoimmunity by Tobias Goldmann, Marco Prinz

“…Multiple sclerosis (MS) is the most common autoimmune disease of the central nervous system (CNS) in the Western world. The disease is characterized histologically by the infiltration of encephalitogenic TH1/TH17-polarized CD4+ T cells, B cells, and a plethora of myeloid cells, resulting in severe demyelination ultimately leading to a degeneration of neuronal structures. …”
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Human rights in a secularized society by Willem Jacobus Eijk

“…However, during the period in which the Church officially lent support to the doctrine of human rights, significant changes occurred in the Western world due largely to secularization. As a result, the way human rights were interpreted changed fundamentally. …”
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La Foule. Réflexions autour d’une abstraction by Vincent Rubio

“…When tracing back to Ancient Greece the history of the intellectual treatment of the crowd in the Western world, one realizes that the ‘crowd itself’ has always been envisaged as an abstraction. …”
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Suicide Behavior in Persons with Intellectual Disability by Joav Merrick, Efrat Merrick, Yona Lunsky, Isack Kandel

“…Suicide is today in the Western world one of the leading causes of death and most people have had suicidal ideation at some time during their life. …”
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DIE BETROKKENHEID VAN KERK EN STAAT BY DIE BEVESTIGING VAN HUWELIKE MET ’N PERSPEKTIEF OP DRIE GEREFORMEERDE KERKORDES by P Strauss

“… There are two main reasons why the church, in general, became involved in the solemnising of marriages: the history of the church and, with it, especially the involvement of the Roman Catholic Church in the Middle Ages as the church of the Western World in this regard and theologically based principles. …”
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Bush versus Bin Laden in Time by Johann de Wet

“…It was found that the cultural code translates into: the United States and the Western World are the beacons of democracy and freedom, while Islam (more specifically Muslim fundamentalists) represents authoritarianism, repression and bondage. …”
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Animals as Subjects of Rights: Brazil's Constitutional Blueprint by Marina Baptista-Rosa

“…Consequently, while the concept of animals as legal persons or rights holders remains an aspirational goal in much of the Western world, in Brazil, animals are already recognized as subjects of rights. …”
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