When Ancient Lithuanian State Became an Empire and Ceased to Be It? An Answer to Lithuanian Question Using an Estonian Method by Zenonas Norkus

“… The article introduces a Lithuanian reader into the ideas of distinguished American-Estonian political scientist Rein Taagepera on comparative cliometrics of empires and uses them to detect main thresholds in the imperial history of ancient Lithuania. For this goal, its size-time integral (called in the paper Taagepera integral) was measured. …”
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O casamento de Leonor e Frederico III (1451-1452) e as relações entre Portugal e o Sacro Império nos finais da Idade Média by António Martins Costa

“…With the marriage of the princess Leonor and Frederick III, arranged between 1451 and 1452, king Afonso V played not only with a process of affirmation of his Crown but also with the legitimation of his lineage, granting the Rex Romanorum the right bride to establish the Habsburg House on the imperial throne. The development of the historiography of medieval international relations in the last decades has given the pretext to observe the political approximation of those two kingdoms, geographically distant, based on an important royal marriage that has given us a considerable set of primary sources (chronicles, documents and iconography). …”
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Pouvoir et prière dans les images byzantines de don by Tania Kambourova

“…Nous analyserons les occurrences textuelles et figuratives du don impérial/princier et/ou du don surnaturel destiné au souverain dans quatre manuscrits de la même famille : le ms. gr. 74 (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France), le add. ms. 39627 (Londres, British Library), le suc. 23 et le suc. 24 (Sucevita, Roumanie), pour terminer par une interrogation plus globale sur le sens du don.…”
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Gandhi: A Man for our Times? by Judith Brown

“…Gandhi, particularly the way he addressed the nature of India and its problems as British imperial rule ended. It also focuses on Gandhi’s critique of Hindu tradition as a powerful buttress of profound social inequality particularly relating to caste and gender; his response to violence in the name of religion and community; and finally his underlying belief that true religion was the individual’s search for the divine and that all religious traditions by contrast have very partial visions of truth. …”
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Mechanisms for introduction of pseudo ductility in fiber reinforced polymer composites- a review by Vinayak S. Uppin, P. S. Shivakumar Gouda, I. Sridhar Research Center, Department of Mechanical Engineering, SDM College of Engineering and Technology, Dharwad, Visvesvaraya Technological University, Karnataka, India.

“…The present High-Performance Ductile Composite Technology (HiPerDuCT) program is jointly between the University of Bristol U.K and Imperial College London working to address this challenge by developing newer materials. …”
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Promiscuous, diseased and unfit: Discourses and embodiments of Indian indentured women across the British Empire, c. 1840–1920 by Morag Flora Wright

“…For the plantation colonies, women represented the social reproduction of the workforce, through their domestic and reproductive labour. I chart three imperial discourses which attempted to embody indentured women in markedly different ways: as promiscuous wives, as diseased and as possessors of unfit wombs. …”
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Living in the Making of History! Two Victorian Female Travellers’ Representations of the 1879 Anglo-Zulu War by Ludmila Ommundsen

“…Set in exotic places and recounting terrifying adventures with strange peoples, travel books enjoyed great popularity in the Victorian era and contributed to the culture of the imperial years. In 1877 the Zulu kingdom remained a major obstacle to Lord Carnarvon’s scheme to federate Natal and the Cape Colony with the Boer Republics. …”
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Postcolonial analysis of educational language policies of Ireland, Singapore, and Malaysia by Zuzanna Grala

“…Ethnic and linguistic discrimination favouring English speakers in Ireland, Singapore, and Malaysia, originates in similar, imperial linguistic ideologies, which are still reflected in the current language policies of countries of colonial past. …”
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Russian and Turkic Worlds in Eurasia by N. E. Demeshko, G. L. Muradov, A. A. Irkhin, O. A. Moskalenko

“…This analysis traces these phenomena from historical imperial contexts to contemporary interstate relations.Furthermore, the article underscores the significant impact of individual leadership in shaping the concept of the Turkic world, with a particular focus on the current President of the Turkish Republic, R.T. …”
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RUBBER DAM PLACEMENT: WHY MAJORITY OF SENIOR DENTISTSPRACTICING IN HA’IL, SAUDI ARABIA IGNORES IT? by Asaad Javaid Mirza et al

“…This study has been planned to fill the gap by assessing the dentists’ attitude towards the use of this imperial isolation technique. A meticulously prepared and prepiloted questionnaire was used as survey tool. …”
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GGCX promotes Eurasian avian-like H1N1 swine influenza virus adaption to interspecies receptor binding by Jiahui Zou, Meijun Jiang, Rong Xiao, Huimin Sun, Hailong Liu, Thomas Peacock, Shaoyu Tu, Tong Chen, Jinli Guo, Yaxin Zhao, Wendy Barclay, Shengsong Xie, Hongbo Zhou

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Clinical relevance of macromolecular complexes involving integrins, potassium and sodium ion channels and the sodium/proton antiporter in human breast cancer by Elena Lastraioli, Jessica Iorio, Francesco Piazza, Chiara Capitani, Michele Santillo, Claudia Duranti, Simonetta Bianchi, Icro Meattini, Scott P. Fraser, Mustafa B. A. Djamgoz, Andrea Becchetti, Annarosa Arcangeli

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Le site antique de la clinique des Dames Blanches à Tours (Indre-et-Loire) : aménagements d’un embarcadère romain sur la Loire et évolution du trait de rive by Nicolas Fouillet, Philippe Gardère

“…During the Late Roman Imperial period a slowing down of the sedimentartion provided a usable space on the flood plain. …”
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Measurement, determinants and outcomes of maternal care satisfaction in Nigeria: a systematic review by Jane E Hirst, Robyn Norton, Margaret Peden, Edward Mullins, Beatrice Wuraola Ope, Tavleen Wasan

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Indígenas cristianos en el teatro del Siglo de Oro: «El nuevo mundo descubierto por Cristóbal Colón» y su lectura novohispana by Beatriz Aracil Varón

“…Por otro lado, es una de sus tres comedias conocidas con asunto americano; en este caso, centrado en la hazaña colombina como proyecto imperial de evangelización del nuevo continente. La copia de un breve monólogo de esta comedia por parte del anónimo autor del Coloquio de los cuatro reyes de Tlaxcala (1619) invita a reflexionar sobre el modo en que Lope plasmó en su obra la conversión del indígena a la fe cristiana, y también sobre los matices que pudieron adquirir los versos del dramaturgo español en ese nuevo contexto novohispano. …”
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Religious Complexity in Postcolonial South Africa: Contending with the Indigenous by Federico Settler

“…Recent approaches to religious diversity have been challenged for reproducing imperial hierarchies of religion—assuming an accommodationist approach to Indigenous religions while also rendering invisible the internal diversity, fluidity, and adaptive orientations within Indigenous religions. …”
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Insurrection and Integration: The Indian “Mutiny” of 1857 and the Theatrical Renegotiation of Ethnic Alterities by Marty Gould

“…Set loose upon the theatrical stage, the sharp juxtaposition of these collapsed racial and cultural identifications helped to transform an imperial crisis into a metropolitan project of nationalist reconstruction.…”
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Investigation on Seismic Behavior of Historical Tokatlı Bridge under Near-Fault Earthquakes by Memduh Karalar, Mustafa Yeşil

“…These earthquakes can be listed as follows: Cape Mend (1992), Kobe (1995), Superstition Hills (1987), Northridge (1994), Imperial Valley (1979), and Chi-Chi (1999). The behavior of the single-span historical bridge is obtained under these ground motions, and the results are compared with each other using contour diagrams using ANSYS. …”
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Synthesis, Characterization, and Evaluation of Antimicrobial and Antifertility Efficacy of Heterobimetallic Complexes of Copper (II) by Ashu Chaudhary, Anshul Singh

“…The treatment has shown substantial decline in the sperm motility and density signifying the imperious antifertility activity.…”
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Exil pénal et circulations forcées dans l’Empire colonial français by Linda Amiri

“…The purpose of this article is to revisit the political and social context of the Algerian period in the French Guiana penal colony (1867-1887), to record these as part of the geography of «trans-imperial» forced transports, tracing the contours of the first generation of Algerian convicts. …”
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