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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Advancing feminist understandings of woman abuse: the value of old wine in new bottles by Walter S. DeKeesredy

“…Despite making some of the most important advances in the social scientific study of woman abuse, feminist sociological research and theorizing that prioritize the concept of patriarchy have leveled off or declined in the last 15 years due, in large part, to the current hegemony of mainstream criminologists fundamentally opposed to a rich gendered understanding of one of the world's most compelling social problems. Drawing on nearly 50 years of research done by an international cadre of highly experienced scholars, this article demonstrates the importance of revisiting some major feminist conceptual, empirical, and theoretical contributions from the past. …”
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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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Le Tigre, le Louvre et l’échange de connaissances archéologiques visuelles entre la France et la Grande-Bretagne aux alentours de 1850 by Mirjam Brusius

“…When in the mid 1850s Assyrian sculptures excavated by a French delegation got lost in the river Tigris all what remained was a set of drawings that the London artist William Boutcher had made during a British expedition in Mesopotamia. …”
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Contesting digital leisure time: Parental struggles in relation to young children's play with tablets at home by Lundtofte Thomas Enemark

“…Young children's practices with tablet computers has been a topic in parenting discourses for several years, drawing on earlier debates over technologies and media in children's lives. …”
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History of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) test guidelines for non-animal test methods in Japan by Hajime Kojima

“…This review describes trends in the OECD and Japan that mainly focus on international standardizations of non-animal test methods for human health. Drawing from this experience, I hope Japan will advance new approach methodologies for detecting systemic toxicity, which are in global demand.…”
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Comprehensive review of myocardial injury after noncardiac surgery: prevention, intervention, and long-term management strategies by Moiud Mohyeldin, Sarah J. Norman, Ayzia Carney, Courtney Odza

“…We discuss the role of aspirin, statins, anticoagulation, and Dual Antiplatelet Therapy (DAPT) within the context of MINS, drawing on evidence from notable clinical trials as well as observational studies. …”
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Quand le jardin révèle un imaginaire du paysage méditerranéen : les Colombières de Ferdinand Bac by Agnès du Vachat

“…Drawing inspiration from art, literature, and his travel experiences, he recreated in his garden landscape scenes evoking Ancient Greece, the Roman Empire, Spain under the Arabian and Catholic influences, and Renaissance Italy. …”
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Assessing the Effectiveness of International Climate Agreements in Mitigating Global Warming by Anna Mravcová

“…Drawing on empirical data, it assesses how well these agreements have performed in real life as regards limiting the global warming. …”
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Mutations récentes, dynamiques actuelles et perspectives de transition des territoires ruraux périurbains en Tunisie by Nasser Rebaï, Johan Desbonnet, Hédi Rebei

“…While the country must promote another agricultural model to respond to popular aspirations in terms of rural employment and food production, this article assesses the prospects for transition of peri-urban rural areas, where the economic integration of family farmers and the organization of food supply networks in Tunisia’s major cities are particularly at stake. To do so, it draws on the results of a fieldwork carried out in Mahrès, on the outskirts of Sfax, second largest Tunisian city, where interviews were conducted with the agricultural services and farmers. …”
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Vestiges de collections by Margaux Dumas

“…The Nazis’ vast undertaking of artistic predation was thus a major moment in the movement and loss of objects in Europe, particularly from private collections. …”
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PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION: MODERNIZING THE CURRENT MODEL OF STATE MANAGEMENT by E. V. Ohotskii

“…Current models and theoretical concepts of public administration, especially the "new public administration", which became scientific basis for administrative reforms implemented in many countries, are the particular subject of scientific analysis. The author draws attention to major comprehensive characteristics of modern state public administration: making it impossible to absolutize principles of traditional hierarchy system of forced administration; globalization - gradual destruction of boundaries between national and international levels of administration, the growing role of supranational subjects of administration relations; informatization - increasing importance of information and communication technologies and of political networks: development of civil society, especially political parties and non-governmental organizations, growing public involvement in discussion and adoption of the most important administrative decisions; making the state policy more pluralistic and which will result in the formation of nonlinear - humanistic social consciousness as the intellectual basis of modern social governance. …”
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Monuments of early East Slav-Serbian literary relations as sources for studying Serbian identity by Jelesijević Snežana V.

“…The author looks at the importance of Saint Sava's Žiča Sermon on the True Faith, and the Synodicon of Orthodoxy, while drawing attention to the necessity of studying Serbian transcripts of the Pandects of Nikon of the Black Mountain.…”
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Acceptability of improved cook stoves-a scoping review of the literature. by Bipin Adhikari, Sophie Suh Young Kang, Aaryan Dahal, Salum Mshamu, Jacqueline Deen, Christopher Pell, Lorenz von Seidlein, Jakob Knudsen, Thomas Chevalier Bøjstrup

“…All articles identified in three major databases that included Pubmed/Medline, Scopus and Web of Science underwent screening followed by content analysis to generate major and minor themes using a structured social level analysis. …”
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Images de l’étrange : Punch ou la re-présentation du paradigme bourgeois by Françoise Baillet

“…However, while many Victorians feared a major crisis of the family, the focus was mainly on the private sphere and the drawings played a significant role in the tackling of feminine emancipation. …”
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Hesitations and reconfigurations in the management of visitor flows in outstanding natural areas by Vincent Vles

“…The analysis of perceptions and representations contributes to the knowledge of the methods of optimizing nature and establishes concerted intervention with visitors as a major factor in local development.…”
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The Transition from Yorùbá Metaphysics to Islamic Aesthetics in Ọláńrewájú Adépọ̀jù’s Poetry by Stephen Toyin Ogundipe

“… This paper explores the poetry of Ọlánrewájú Ade ́ ṕ ọ̀jù, a major contemporary Yorùbá poet, based in Ibadan, southwestern Nigeria. …”
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De sol, d’air, d’eau sous photons by Catherine Mosbach, Agnès Daval

“…These fundamental notions are illustrated here through the examples of major projects such as the archaeological park of Solutré, the botanical gardens of Bordeaux, the museum of Louvre-Lens and the Phase Shifts Park of Taichung in Taiwan currently being built. …”
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Community Media 2.0: A Report from the ‘Co-Creative Communities’ Forum by Edmond Maura

“…Participatory digital culture presents major challenges to all traditional media outlets, but it presents very direct challenges to the community broadcast sector, which was established from the outset as local, community-driven and participatory. …”
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Correctional officers and the ongoing health implications of prison work by William J. Schultz, Rosemary Ricciardeli

“…However, the portrait this scholarship draws is concerning. Research focusing on the physical, mental, and social wellbeing of prison staff consistently paints a picture of a deeply unhealthy group of people, with above-average levels of physical health concerns. …”
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