Jazz Between the Lines: Sound Notation, Dances, and Stereotypes in Hergé’s Early Tintin Comics by Lukas Etter

“…It departs from the observation that somebody like Hergé, with an oft-reported affinity for jazz, would shy away from making allusion to thriving dancefloors and the presence of African American musicians so central in the “white” Western European discourses of these decades. The essay sheds light on whether this is closely linked to or, conversely, contrasted from colonialist attitudes Hergé propagates especially in his earliest albums—and on how allusions to the jazz age and American music may be read between the panel lines in some Tintin albums all the same.…”
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Interdependence and asymmetries: Latin American ADRs and developed markets by Ana Carolina Costa Correa, Tabajara Pimenta, Luiz Eduardo Gaio

“…The ADRs market presented great growing importance in the last decades, specially for companies based on developing countries, such as those of Latin America. …”
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Nutritional Composition and Marketable Shelf-Life of Blood Ark Clams and Ponderous Ark Clams by Leslie N. Sturmer, Kimberly L. Morgan, Robert L. Degner

“… The rapid growth of Florida's hard clam industry over the past decade has motivated aquaculturists to explore alternative molluscan species, which could reduce exposure to production risks and simultaneously promote market expansion. …”
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Origens da segregação racial no Brasil by Reinaldo José de  Oliveira, Regina Marques de Souza Oliveira

“…The approach follows the historic route of the years 1890 to 1930, marked by major changes in the Brazilian and Latin American scene: in 1888, the abolition of slavery, the following year the proclamation of the Republic and more precisely in the first decades of the twentieth century, the metamorphosis of industrial urban society, focusing in Salvador, Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. …”
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BASIC SOCIAL STEREOTYPES IN TEACHING MARKETING by Lyubov’ M. Naumova

“…In the last decade the number of students enrolled on the first course of Russian universities, almost equal to the number of high school graduates. …”
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Inequalities in mining and oil regions of Andean countries by Arellano-Yanguas, J.

“…The difficulties of translating mineral richness into tangible development outcomes have been widely covered in academic research in the last decade. However, only very recently has the issue of inequalities in the context of extraction received attention. …”
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App Fiction and ‘Postdigital Culture’ by Bartosz Lutostański

“…These features will subsequently be used to argue that app fiction displays a postdigital dimension that corresponds to more general cultural phenomena within the digital domain in the second decade of the 21st century.…”
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Data Collecting and Research of Folk Medicine in Estonia During the Soviet Era by Ave Tupits

“…Focused interest of folklorists in this topic grew significantly in the 1970s and 1980s, the last decades of the Soviet era, when official access to folk healers was allowed and New Age phenomena spread. …”
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The WArP Experiment: A Double-Phase Argon Detector for Dark Matter Searches by Andrea Zani

“…Cryogenic noble liquids emerged in the previous decade as one of the best media to perform WIMP dark matter searches, in particular due to the possibility to scale detector volumes to multiton sizes. …”
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Florina Ilis by Cristina Balinte

“…The Romanian Literature published after the year 2000 is especially characterized by the emergence of a new generation of writers, most of them born and educated during the last decades of communism. As a consequence of cultural openness manifested in the 90’s, a fruitful period of takeovers of world literature thought a large amount of translations, they managed to win the international literary market by adopting the writing style of influence and success in the West, and – a very important detail – by adapting the content of their daily literary readings at the local realities. …”
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Global and Russian M&A markets analysis: trends, drivers, deal success by M. Yu. Katalkina

“…Key M&A trends were analyzed: shift from scale deals to scope deals, complex corporate ecosystems occurring, time to close an M&A deal has risen in the last decade etc. As an illustration a few famous M&A failures were presented with results summary. …”
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Saliamonas Antanaitis (1894–1973) and his research into the old mathematics by Juozas Banionis

“… Antanaitis is one of the 20th century Lithuanian professional mathematicians, who trained pedagogues at Teachers' Colleges in the 3–4th decades. After World War II S. Antanaitis worked in the Gymnasium of the 16th of February in Western Germany. …”
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Indigenous autonomous zones, original nations and the local political system. The case of the Kirkyawi ayllu (Bolivia) by Nelson Antequera

“… The general aim of this work is to contribute to understand the political transformations of theindigenous communities of the Andean region of Bolivia since the state reforms implemented in the decade of1990 and in a perspective that focuses in how the indigenous community, in our case the ayllu Kirkyawi, havepolitically reshaped in the new legal, institutional and political frame. …”
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Unpacking the Socio-Political Background of the Evolution of Boko Haram in Northern Nigeria: A Social Movement Theory Approach by Kingsley E. Amaechi, Rendani Tshifhumulo

“… In the last decade, Boko Haram (BH) has become notorious across the world, because of its militancy and ultra-fundamentalist activities. …”
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Methylation Markers for Urine-Based Detection of Bladder Cancer: The Next Generation of Urinary Markers for Diagnosis and Surveillance of Bladder Cancer by Thomas Reinert

“…The journey towards a noninvasive test for diagnosing bladder cancer, in order to replace or extend time between cystoscopy, has been ongoing for more than a decade. However, only a handful of tests that aid in clinical decision making are commercially available. …”
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Honeymoon Tourism as Romantic Consumption in China by Weiqi Yan, Junmin Liu, Yujie Zhu

“…By examining the sociocultural changes associated with honeymoon tourism across the past four decades, this study explores the motivations behind this tourism and its implications for Chinese society. …”
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4 3 2 1: A Listening by Priyanka Deshmukh

“…Scholarly studies dedicated to Paul Auster’s works over the past decade have tended to focus on his storytelling, addressing, for the most part, thematic and formal concerns. …”
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L’autonomie journalistique et ses limites : enquête pancanadienne auprès d’anciens praticiens by Simon Thibault, Colette Brin, Virginie Hébert, Frédérick Bastien, Tania Gosselin

“…However, the work of researchers has, for decades, exposed the multiple pressures that could affect this autonomy. …”
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Some Developments in the Field of Homological Algebra by Defining New Class of Modules over Nonassociative Rings by Asima Razzaque, Inayatur Rehman

“…Because of peculiar characteristics of LA-ring and its inception into noncommutative and nonassociative theory, drew the attention of many researchers over the last decade. In this study, the ideas of projective and injective LA-modules, LA-vector space, as well as examples and findings, are discussed. …”
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Le modèle centre-périphérie à l’épreuve : historicité et ancrage de la production artistique à Istanbul by Ilker Birkan, Jérémie Molho

“…The excitement for the vibrant art scene of Istanbul, where, in the last decade, numerous museums, fairs and galleries have emerged, tends to hide the historicity of artistic practices in Turkey. …”
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