Bound for the 2-Page Fixed Linear Crossing Number of Hypercube Graph via SDP Relaxation by A. Suebsriwichai, T. Mouktonglang

“…The crossing number of graph G is the minimum number of edges crossing in any drawing of G in a plane. In this paper we describe a method of finding the bound of 2-page fixed linear crossing number of G. …”
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Du simulacre à la simulation : la vérité de l’artifice dans Galatea 2.2 de Richard Powers by Jean-Yves Pellegrin

“…This interactive feed-back loop, which simulates our sense of being caught in the ecosystem of the world, is not only the subject matter of the novel, it is also the active principle of the text. Drawing the reader into its simulation, the text prompts him to interact with it and to feel caught in its web. …”
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Folk Religion in Discourse and Practice by James Alexander Kapaló

“…Firstly, I explore the discursive nature of the construction of ‘folk religion’ as a category of analysis and how its semantic loading functions to ‘pick up’ distinctive practices from the religious field. Secondly, drawing on the work of Bourdieu and Riesebrodt, I characterise the ‘folk religious field of practice’ as relational, a shifting site of competing agencies. …”
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L’interdisciplinarité en pratique dans les sciences de l’environnement : des enjeux épistémologiques aux défis de la publication scientifique by Gabrielle Bouleau, Rémy Petitimbert, Thibault Boughedada

“…This interview with Gabrielle Bouleau is part of a series of exchanges conducted as part of the anniversary issue of the journal Développement durable & territoires. by drawing up her scientific trajectory and the epistemological challenges of her major contributions to DD&T, Gabrielle Bouleau underlines the pivotal role that the journal has played in structuring a research path which is anchored in interdisciplinarity and in constant iteration with the territories. …”
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La relation éducative : limites et « bonne distance » pour un bien-être partagé dans la classe by Stéphanie Frigout

“…The analysis of clinical research interviews conducted with teachers on this term shows that the issue of real, symbolic or psychological boundaries within the relationship with pupils and their parents arises repeatedly. Drawing on material from these interviews, this article, which follows a psychoanalytically-oriented clinical approach in education sciences, aims to demonstrate the relevance of questioning boundaries in order to reflect on educational relationships before offering group settings that could enable a peaceful and constructive relationship with pupils while respecting "the right distance".…”
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L’écologisation, mise à l’épreuve ou nouveau registre de légitimation de l’ordre territorial ? by Vincent Banos, Anne Gassiat, Sabine Girard, Baptiste Hautdidier, Marie Houdart, Sophie Le Floch, Françoise Vernier

“…Our aim is to contribute to a debate, initially framed in the french context, on how dominant principles of « territorialization » may be undergoing an ecological turn. Drawing on a critical review of the literature, we propose first an analytical framework built around three major nodes of the debate : materialities, narratives, organizations. …”
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House and Mobility: Portuguese Hindus and Brazilians in Lisbon in face of housing constraints by Rita Ávila Cachado, Simone Frangella

“…This paper explores analytically the relation between experiences of vulnerability, regarding housing processes for people in different kinds of mobility in urban settings. Drawing reflections from two ethnographic contexts in which we have been working, the Hindu-Gujarati and the Brazilian populations in Lisbon, we reflect upon the contours of their experiences, recounting their migration process, and different ways of being under housing vulnerability, as well as their responses to excluding urban politics. …”
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Le langage de la diversité by Sara Ahmed

“…This article asks the question, “what does diversity do?” by drawing on interviews with diversity practitioners based in higher education in the United Kingdom and Australia. …”
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Tourism and the Accumulation of Capital: A Perspective on the Reserve of the Biosfera Sian Ka’an by Alejandra Rojas Correa, Alejandro Palafox-Muñoz

“…This process is studied drawing from a theoretical proposal of three dynamics of accumulation of capital in protected natural areas: penetration, subsumption, and enclosure.…”
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Illustrating Victorian Poetry: The Dynamics of Photographic Tableaux Vivants by Gwendoline Koudinoff

“…Traditional arts such as painting, engraving and drawing attempted to illustrate the poems but the interdisciplinary nature of 19th-century photographic tableaux vivants enabled artists to associate real-based imagery with the metaphorical language of poetry. …”
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Complications of Macular Peeling by Mónica Asencio-Duran, Beatriz Manzano-Muñoz, José Luis Vallejo-García, Jesús García-Martínez

“…Here, we describe the main milestones of macular peeling, drawing attention to its associated complications.…”
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Making Faces by Helen Chittock, Andrew Jones

“…We will hone in particularly on the imagery of Neolithic Britain and Ireland and the imagery of the European Iron Age, drawing on examples from existing research to establish new questions, and focusing especially on the affective potentials of faces and other bodily elements in later prehistoric imagery. …”
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Reflection on the theology of Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI) by J. Corkery

“…Following a brief look at the background to my own interest in Ratzinger, I present some important features of his theology, shedding light on it particularly through drawing attention to those theological figures in the Christian tradition, Augustine and Bonaventure, who have influenced him the most. …”
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Improved Estimation of the Initial Number of Susceptible Individuals in the General Stochastic Epidemic Model Using Penalized Likelihood by Changhyuck Oh

“…The initial size of a completely susceptible population in a group of individuals plays a key role in drawing inferences for epidemic models. However, this can be difficult to obtain in practice because, in any population, there might be individuals who may not transmit the disease during the epidemic. …”
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Tales Of Possession And Dispossession by Elsa Charléty

“…I show how the interwoven stories within the text form a narrative economy where people trade memories and emotions amongst themselves in order to cope with the void left by the departed. Drawing on Edwidge Danticat’s writings, as well as anthropological research in Haiti and theories of loss and grief in literary criticism, I show that Edwidge Danticat’s prose, while constantly negotiating the space between the collective and the individual, creates a language of exchange around the notion of absence. …”
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Photography and Archive Fever in Richard Kalinoski’s Beast on the Moon (1995) by Laurence Petit

“…Drawing from critics such as Jacques Derrida, Janine Altounian, and Melanie Klein, this essay examines the close links between photography, family, and traumatic suffering in their relation with the notions of “archive”, “survivance” (as opposed to “survival”), “reparation”, and “re-membrance”. …”
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Così lontane, così vicine. Famiglie migranti, ruoli familiari e nuove configurazioni di genitorialità by Francesca Crivellaro

“…Migrant families’ practices are often constructed in public discourse as a threat to the social cohesion of the receiving countries, as they are deemed incompatible with “Western modernity”. Drawing on ethnographic research carried out in Ravenna (Italy), the paper addresses the issue of evolving gender and care roles in migrant families. …”
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Metodyka jako praktyka kulturowa (archetypowa). Ku źródłom zmiany w dydaktyce by Jolanta Kruk

“…Two approaches to methodology are proposed: as a socially collective praxis, often unconsciously drawing on cultural practices, and as a so-called expert methodology – a collection of patterns of proper execution, which are a manifestation of the power/knowledge relation in the fi eld of education. …”
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Analytical Dimensions for Identifying Social Innovations: Evidence from Collective Enterprises by Ângela Maria Maurer, Tânia Nunes da Silva

“…Based on analytical dimensions of social innovations, this study sought to assess to what extent the emergence of collective enterprises in the Brazilian handicraft sector is consistent with the dimensions postulated in the literature. Drawing on a multiple case study, the results showed that the analytical dimensions of social innovation identified the main elements involved in developing solutions with a significant number of actors, which indicates they are appropriate for understanding the formation of collective enterprises in the handicraft sector. …”
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Navigating Civic Agency and Civic Space Amid Authoritarian Realities in Myanmar: Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Concept of Divine Mandate as Public Theology by Lap Yan Kung

“…In recent years, civic space has been deteriorating in many countries in Southeast Asia, and there is an urgent need for a more proactive and mindful civic agency to foster a humane society. Drawing inspiration from Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s concept of divine mandate, this paper proposes a public theology within an authoritarian regime, namely Myanmar. …”
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