De Hyōgo à Sendai, la résilience comme impératif d’adaptation aux risques de catastrophe : nouvelle valeur universelle ou gouvernement par la catastrophe ? by Béatrice Quenault

“…The growing discursive reference to resilience, placed at the core of the Sendai Framework for Action 2015-2030 for DRR, tends to promote this concept as a new normative political injunction of international organisations and States leading to a renewal of the adaptation problematic and to focus DRR actions on emergency preparedness. …”
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“We can and we must”: The scientificity of trade-union history-writing in the Soviet Union in the 1920s by Roman Gilmintinov

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Ethnography and Religious Anthropology of Cuba: Historical and Bibliographical Landmarks by Emma Gobin, Géraldine Morel

“…Whether produced in Europe, the United-States or Cuba itself, these works often attest to distinct orientations which this introduction broadly touches upon before delving into the main features of the ‘Afro-Cuban’ religious field and the research themes emerging from this collection, which also reflect some important approaches of contemporary anthropology of religion.…”
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Relationship between social media use and disordered eating behavior among female university students in Qatar by Yara Qutteina, Catherine Nasrallah, Linda Kimmel, Salma M. Khaled

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Editorial by Ann-Kristin Kölln, Antony Mason, Maria Lenk, Jörg Tremmel, Markus Rutsche

“… Among the many headlines that followed the 2018 midterm elections in the United States, one stood out as very good news for political representation: the election of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. …”
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Experiences and Challenges Implementing Uganda's Revised English Literature Curriculum: Problematization of Colonization. by Ocan, Johnson

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Experiences and challenges Implementing Uganda's Revised English Literature Curriculum: Problematization of Colonization. by Johnson, Ocan

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WHAT DRIVES THE CHANGES IN THE GULF OIL MONARCHIES? by N. Kjurchiski

“…Located in a troubled and unstable region of the Middle East with the oil prices declining after the events of the “Arab spring” and election of Donald Trump as president of theUnited States, Gulf oil monarchies are under pressure from inside and outside to undergo significant changes. …”
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European Uunion Energy Security and Russia by N. A. Simonia, A. V. Torkunov

“…In conclusion the authors claim that what they say in their article not only does substantially reinforce the arguments set forth by Professor Giuseppe Guarino, who argues about the negative consequences caused by the dictatorship of the Brussels's bureaucracy within the EU, but also inflicts another blow on the Maastricht Treaty and the Treaty of Lisbon in terms of external policy and trade, since the both Treaties were designed to convert the EU in a real competitor of the United States in the then forming multipolar World. …”
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Fresh-Cut Mango Best Management Practices Manual by Jeffrey K. Brecht, Anne Plotto, Anna Marín-Gozalbo, Renee Goodrich

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USA AND WESTERN EUROPEAN SANCTIONS POLICY WITH RESPECT TO RUSSIA by I. Aksenov

“…The implementation of the sanctions policy of the United States and Western Europe in relation to the Russian Federation has been analyzed. …”
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“RAIN was planting the seeds”: An Interview with Tom Bender, co-editor of RAIN: Journal of Appropriate Technology by Meredith Gaglio

“…From 1974 through 1980, RAIN: Journal of Appropriate Technology was the foremost “print tool” of the Appropriate Technology, or AT, Movement in the United States. During that period, the Rainmakers, led by Steve Johnson, Lee Johnson, Land de Moll, and Tom Bender, constructed a visionary ecotopia on the pages of their journal, supplying readers with the philosophical grounding, real-world advice, and political conviction to pursue AT projects within their own communities. …”
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Crisis of the Neoliberal Model; Towards Regional Planning - a Polanyian Contribution by Paula Valderrama Saud

“…Current neoliberalism, which favors the limitation of democracy in favor of the self-regulating global market, is a system that contains inherent contradictions on financial and socio-political levels. These contradictions are the cause of the current crisis in the United States and the European Union, a crisis that favors the begin- ning of a new era characterized by greater regional planning and a plurality of development paths.…”
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Improving Public Policy for Children: A Vote for Each Child by Robert H. Pantell, Maureen T. Shannon

“…Changes in social policy in the United States (US) over the past four decades have provided health insurance for 100 percent of persons over age 65 and decreased poverty for this group while the number of children in poverty has risen and ten million are uninsured. …”
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La crise de l’urbain et la condition moderne dans les romans de Saul Bellow by Timea Lönhardt

“…This paper proposes to study the correspondence that Saul Bellow’s novels establish between the urban crisis and the human condition in the United States of the second half of the twentieth century, which will eventually entail a discussion of the writer’s conception of the modern world in its social, political and intellectual aspects. …”
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Os movimentos sociais na crise financeira global: questões e polêmicas by Leonardo de Araújo e Mota

“…After the financial crisis of 2008 in the United States, other social movements of resistance to capitalism began to protest in the streets of the U.S. and Europe, among which are the Indignados (Spain), Occupy Wall Street (USA) and Geração à Rasca (Portugal). …”
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Legal and Ethical Challenges of the Use of Nuclear Technologies in Space: Risks and Opportunities by Larysa Soroka, Anna Danylenko, Maksym Sokiran

“…The example of Israel demonstrates how the presence of a potential nuclear arsenal and the geopolitical importance of the region contribute to increased military and political support from the United States and other countries. …”
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Navigating Privacy: A Global Comparative Analysis of Data Protection Laws by Sungjin Lim, Junhyoung Oh

“…This study fills this gap by conducting a comparative analysis of privacy information protection acts in five major regions: the European Union (EU), the United States (focusing on California), China, Japan, and South Korea. …”
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Toward the Development of Large-Scale Word Embedding for Low-Resourced Language by Shahzad Nazir, Muhammad Asif, Shahbaz Ahmad Sahi, Shahbaz Ahmad, Yazeed Yasin Ghadi, Muhammad Haris Aziz

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Agencies of transition: why German coal workers are not accepting an energy transition despite social provisions by Nicole Kleinheisterkamp-González

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