The Hybridity of Popular Culture in The Winter’s Tale by François Laroque

“…The sting of jealousy encourages the Sicilian king to resort to popular phrases and folk traditions, so that the “fabric of his folly” (1.2.424) comes close to the wild absurdities of Autolycus’ ballads. Popular and elite cultures thus appear to be combined and to echo each other in the two apparently antithetical halves of the play.…”
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Orientalism and the British Picture Postcard Industry: Popularizing the Empire in Victorian and Edwardian Homes by Gilles Teulié

“…And yet suffice it to say that only the elite had access to these visual representations, either by becoming owners of paintings or by admiring them in art galleries, the prerogative of the educated and the wealthy. …”
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THE PLACE OF RELIGION IN PEACE BUILDING: FOCUS ON PLATEAU STATE NIGERIA by TANKO SHAWULU PAUL, LEMON BLESSINGS EBENEZER, KAJAN EMMANUEL MINDAT

“…The research used secondary data.  political feud/elite conspiracy theory was adopted. …”
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Spatial Characteristics of Art Trade in Hungary by Ibolya Várnai

“…Century-long traditons of art trade in Hungary are strongly connected to the capital, famous, elite auction houses and galleries are concentrated in the downtown area of Budapest. …”
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Los mayas y los otros: integración y distinción cultural en el paisaje urbano y rural de Copán by Felix Kupprat

“…At this site on the periphery of the Maya world, the sociopolitical authorities developed a cultural identity based on the elite culture of 5th-century Tikal, which was instrumentalized in order to integrate a multi-ethnic population under a hegemonic ideological model.…”
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Les jardins paysagers des seigneurs domaniaux de l’époque d’Edo et les manuels relatifs à la composition des jardins by Nicolas Fiévé

“…The pre-modern period (1573-1867) marks the start of a new development of gardens in many areas, and the state lords – the new elite coming from the warriors class – enjoy having vast landscape parks built; these parks often spread over ten hectares, which is a new phenomenon. …”
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El platero Vicente Gargallo y Alexandre (1742-1808): novedades biográficas y su trabajo en la catedral de Sevilla by Antonio Joaquín Santos Márquez

“…Y seguidamente, se atiende a su faceta como platero catedralicio y a sus trabajos más relevantes, en los que comprobamos el debate existente en este periodo de transición, entre la tradición rococó practicada por el orfebre y su forzada adecuación a las novedades del Neoclasicismo impuestas por la élite del cabildo catedralicio. …”
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Post-Colonial Macau: hope and despair in a World Centre of Tourism and Leisure by Michael O’Regan

“…The paper argues that the miraculous swiftness of GDP per capital, employment and budget surplus growth, was a result of a new post-colonial elite looking backwards into its colonial past. The paper argues that while the “World Centre of Tourism and Leisure” is a political construct and key hegemonic project to keep citizens in a hyper-real world of simulacra and control, it is at the cost of everyday gossip, caution, self-censorship and demoralization.…”
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"Profanando las sagradas fiestas con ritos y ceremonias gentilicias”. Cofradías, poder y religiosidades. Salta, 1750-1810 by Víctor Enrique Quinteros

“…Nuestra finalidad es aproximarnos a las manifestaciones religiosas de estos agentes sociales, sus preferencias devocionales, sus formas de integración asociativa y a las relaciones que desde allí forjaron con la elite y con las autoridades civiles y eclesiásticas locales.…”
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O ensino de sociologia e a escola democrática by Marcelo Cigales

“…A hipótese do debate é que os princípios epistemológicos do ensino de sociologia quando concretizados na prática pedagógica impulsionam a construção de uma escola democrática, porém, também encontra barreiras macroestruturais de uma elite econômica e política que não aceita um Estado de bem estar social coletivo. …”
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An Informal Approach to Interest-based Negotiations – Paul Anton Esterhazy and the “Cottage Coterie” by Katalin Schrek

“… Paul Anton Esterhazy was a prominent figure of the Hungarian aristocracy and a leading AustroHungarian politician, as well as a highly qualified and internationally recognised diplomat, with an extensive network of personal relations within the British elite. Esterhazy was an ambassador of Austria to London from 1815 to 1842 and represented the interests of the Central European state. …”
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Self-Organized Temporal Criticality: Bottom-Up Resilience versus Top-Down Vulnerability by Korosh Mahmoodi, Bruce J. West, Paolo Grigolini

“…We show that when the spontaneous bottom-up emergence of altruism is replaced by a top-down process, mimicking the leadership of an elite, the crucial events favoring the system’s resilience are turned into collapses, corresponding to the falls of the leading elites. …”
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SELF-IMAGE OF THE FIRST-YEAR STUDENTS OF TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY by A. Avdeeva, Yu. Safonova

“…This article describes the current issues of studying self-image of students of elite technical university. The first-year students have been involved in the study. …”
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Pionieri in paradiso by Simonetta Grilli, Fabio Mugnaini

“…The stories of these «protogentrifiers » in many ways anticipate the arrival of an elite group (comprising prominent figures from politics, culture, entertainment, and finance) who, starting in the late 1990s, will invest significant funds to purchase and renovate farmhouses, transforming them into aesthetically valuable house that represent high social status, thus leading to a radical process of gentrification in the area. …”
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Lugares de reunión, boni homines y presbíteros en Valdevimbre y Ardón en la Alta Edad Media by Fernando Luis Corral

“….-11th. centuries shows us the opportunity to know some of the local elite members, if we pay attention to repeated mentions of boni homines (good men) and local priests who appear on these charters. …”
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Multiobjective Multidepot Capacitated Arc Routing Optimization Based on Hybrid Algorithm by Liang Wu

“…After completing the system clustering, the Dijkstra algorithm is used to adjust the boundary arc locally and merge it to a reasonable depot, while in the genetic algorithm, the structure of the chromosome is reset to use the path as the way of real coding, and the elite selection is used to decode to obtain the optimal path optimization scheme. …”
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Representaciones sociales de los sectores populares en la ciudad de Pasto, 1800-1821 by Karol Viviana Luna Zarama

“…Para este fin, el documento analiza a los denominados “sectores populares” en su conformación, la representación que tenían de la ciudad, las formas de control que ejercía la elite sobre estas agrupaciones; además, esta investigación determina su papel en la dinámica de la ciudad, la cual configuraron a través de sus formas de organización religiosa, social y económica. …”
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Pouvoir et opposition en Algérie : vers une transition prolongée ? by Louisa Dris-Aït Hamadouche, Yahia H. Zoubir

“…Radical Islamism and the eruption of terrorist violence have offered the governing elite an opportunity to renege on the progress that had been made. …”
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Les inégalités d’accès dans l’enseignement supérieur français depuis 1998 : beaucoup de réformes pour des résultats mitigés. by Magali Jaoul-Grammare

“…The French higher education system is characterized by a dual system -universities and “elite schools”- which is at the root of many inequalities that politics try to fight against. …”
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Les tourismes, matrices méconnues des relations franco-espagnoles de la dictature à l’intégration européenne, 1959-1979 by Pablo Martin-Pañeda 

“…Mass tourism and elite tourism are to be explored in international relations. …”
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