A digitalização do território paulista: manifestações atuais e tendências que prevalecem by Mónica Arroyo

“…Infrastructures were built for material and immaterial flows, that are being updated in the first decades of the 21st century as the digitalization process advances and new connectivity requirements emerge. …”
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Advances in Molecular Imaging with Ultrasound by Ryan Gessner, Paul A. Dayton

“…Ultrasound imaging has long demonstrated utility in the study and measurement of anatomic features and noninvasive observation of blood flow. Within the last decade, advances in molecular biology and contrast agents have allowed researchers to use ultrasound to detect changes in the expression of molecular markers on the vascular endothelium and other intravascular targets. …”
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The legacy of one-room schoolhouses: A comparative study of the American Midwest and Norway by Leidulf Mydland

“…In the rural areas of the US Midwest and in Norway the one-room schoolhouse was the most common school in the second half of the nineteenth century and the first decades of the twentieth. Although the schoolhouses at first sight seem identical there are some interesting points of distinction in their educational history and how their legacy is interpreted, managed, preserved and promoted today. …”
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Melanoma: From Melanocyte to Genetic Alterations and Clinical Options by Corine Bertolotto

“…Metastatic melanoma remained for decades without any effective treatment and was thus considered as a paradigm of cancer resistance. …”
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Electricity and Static: Franklin and his British compatriots by Robert Mankin

“…Franklin’s discoveries in electricity have rewarded scholarly attention for many decades. This short essay is not about electricity in the strict sense, but about the context in which Franklin presented some of his work in science and in politics in 1751, and about the way that work was received in Britain. …”
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Overview of US Agricultural Trade with China by Xiuzhi Wang, Edward A. Evans, Fredy H. Ballen

“…One bright spot in the US–China trade deficit is the trade of agricultural products, which continues to reflect a trade surplus that has grown considerably within the last decade. This 11-page fact sheet provides an overview of US–China trade of agricultural products, with special focus on produce, specifically over the period 2000 to 2010, and to highlight the main factors driving the widening of the agricultural trade surplus. …”
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Koselleck, a história dos conceitos e as temporalidades by Jose D\u2019Assunçao

“…On the one hand, we will seek to delineate the History of Concepts as a historical field particularly important in recent decades. On the other hand, we will examine the considerations of Reinhart Koselleck, co-founder of the new field, concerning his studies around a specific concept: Time. …”
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About the History of Design through teaching and innovation by Alberto Caruso

“…This is in line with the technological progress that has characterised the field of industrial design over the last decades. This contribution intends to show that the employment of new technology for industrial design projects does not necessarily lead to the end of traditional professions. …”
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La clausura del pasado. Los conflictos del cono sur de América by Juan Rial

“…Latin American dictatorships all practiced some form of "dirty war", that entailed the disappearance of persons, murder and torture, to fight people engaged in armed propaganda or open insurrections taking place in the seventies. Two decades after the beginning of the democratic transition process in the region, closing the past remains a pending issue. …”
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Masonic Ritual and the Display of Empire in 19th-Century India and Beyond by Simon Deschamps

“…Masonic ritual, therefore, held centre stage in the dramaturgy of colonial power in India, and also played a leading role in fostering the cult of Empire, which emerged in the last decades of the 19th century. In that respect, Freemasonry offers a stimulating venue for articulating the local and the global, the material and the cultural, formal and informal Empire. …”
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Romanian Prime Minister Gheorghe Tătărescu in the Capitals of the Little Entente: Belgrade (1936) and Prague (1937) by Marusia Cîrstea

“…The present article presents certain aspects of the relations between Romania, the Czech Republic and Yugoslavia in the interwar period. The fourth decade of the last century in particular was extremely rich in political, diplomatic and military events. …”
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History of science, religion and the ‘big picture’ by Sarah Qidwai, James Poskett

“…The academic subfields of ‘science and religion’ and ‘Islamic sciences’ have witnessed significant developments in recent decades. Despite historians discrediting outdated narratives, persistent ideas within the public sphere prompt the need for a comprehensive ‘big picture’. …”
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Self-Discipline Makes Policy Advice Better by Gert G. Wagner

“…And both strands of the discussion are barely connected to the figure of the „public intellectual“ who has played an important role in the humanities and social sciences for decades. This is a role that, as discussed in this article, is now played digitally by many scholars with low barriers to entry. …”
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PSYCHEDELICS: CLINICAL EVIDENCE AND THERAPEUTIC MECHANISMS IN PSYCHIATRY by JANI KAJANOJA, OSKARI KANTONEN, JUUSO KÄHÖNEN

“…ABSTRACT Interest and academic research on psychedelics and psychedelic-assisted therapy in the treatment of psychiatric disorders has increased dramatically in the past two decades. In many ways, psychedelics represent a new therapeutic paradigm in the context of medicine. …”
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Chartres, d’Autrikon à Autricum, cité des Carnutes : prémices et essor de l’urbanisation by Dominique Joly, Stéphane Willerval, Pauline Denat

“…Excavations carried out in Chartres during the last decade, systematically sequenced and dated thanks to ceramic studies, provide a collection of reference points for establishing the main stages that marked the town’s evolution during the 1st c. …”
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Sémiotique de l’enterrement prématuré : le féminisme à l’ère du postféminisme by Mary Hawkesworth

“…This essay investigates the strange coincidence of the unprecedented growth of global feminism over the past four decades with recurrent proclamations of feminism’s death. …”
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« Bouter les anglicismes hors de France » by Léopold Julia

“…Wanting to answer this question in an objective and dispassionate way, my previous research led me to analyze the evolution of the rate of anglicisms among the new annual lexical entries in French dictionaries of use, over the last two decades. We will then try in this article, while keeping the prism of lexicometry, to propound a follow-up to this research by evaluating the effectiveness of the process meant for enriching the French language put in place by our institutions, in the deliberate aim of fighting precisely against these anglicisms. …”
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Les ambiances des hydrocarbures by Tobias Etienne-Greenwood

“…For a decade, the exploitation of the Vaca Muerta hydrocarbon formation in Argentina has brought its share of political and economic controversies as well as serious environmental damages. …”
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Biology of Gratiana boliviana, the First Biocontrol Agent Released to Control Tropical Soda Apple in the USA by Julio C. Medal, D. Gandolfo, James P. Cuda

“… Tropical soda apple (TSA), Solanum viarum Dunal (Solanaceae), is a perennial weed, native to South America, that has spreading throughout Florida at an alarming rate during the last decade. TSA was first reported in Glades County in 1988. …”
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A Universal Hurricane Frequency Function by Robert Ehrlich

“…Moreover, the rise in recent decades in the numbers of hurricanes in the Atlantic, but not the Pacific basin, is shown to have a simple explanation in terms of the specific form of H(z), which yields larger percentage increases when a fixed increase in sea surface temperature occurs at higher latitudes and lower temperatures.…”
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