"[T]he rising silhouette of the city" : une poétique des choses urbaines dans "Coming, Aphrodite !" et "The Diamond Mine" de Willa Cather by Céline Manresa

“…She establishes a subtle compromise between realist and modernist approaches. Indeed, avoiding any panoramic view of the setting, Cather succeeds in conveying an elusive and fragmentary evocation of New York City. …”
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Multichannel preamble sampling MAC protocol for wireless sensor networks by Hanan Alahmadi, Fatma Bouabdallah

“…However, data transmission takes place in a dedicated data channel. Indeed, MCPS allocates to every pair of sensor nodes a unique data channel that aims at being 2-hop conflict free. …”
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The Contribution of α-Synuclein Spreading to Parkinson’s Disease Synaptopathy by Francesca Longhena, Gaia Faustini, Cristina Missale, Marina Pizzi, PierFranco Spano, Arianna Bellucci

“…In sporadic PD, the most common age-related neurodegenerative movement disorder, nigrostriatal dopaminergic deficits are responsible for the onset of motor symptoms that have been related to α-synuclein deposition at synaptic sites. Indeed, α-synuclein accumulation can impair synaptic dopamine release and induces the death of nigrostriatal neurons. …”
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Some sociolinguistic evaluations of performances of the California Vowel Shift: a matched-guise study by Pierre Habasque

“…The use of a given allophone can indeed inform about the age, gender, or social class of a speaker. …”
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Le domaine, un territoire de la communauté ? by Fanny Cosandey

“…In this article, we tackle differently the relationships between individual, family and community, by resorting to texts about the Crown Estate. Indeed, these texts provide us with much information about what is really common property and its links to the community. …”
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Flaubert et ses classiques : leçon de maintien by Chantal Wionet

“…The combination of the two educates the author’s taste, but from an angle that goes beyond the historical or patrimonial frame. Indeed, it is in terms of morality that the classics’ style is considered here. …”
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Comparison of qPCR protocols for quantification of "Candidatus Saccharibacteria", belonging to the Candidate Phyla Radiation, suggests that 23S rRNA is a better target than 16S rRN... by Stella Papaleo, Riccardo Nodari, Lodovico Sterzi, Enza D'Auria, Camilla Cattaneo, Giorgia Bettoni, Clara Bonaiti, Ella Pagliarini, Gianvincenzo Zuccotti, Simona Panelli, Francesco Comandatore

“…Among CPR, "Candidatus Saccharibacteria" is one of the most clinically relevant phyla. Indeed, it is enriched in the oral microbiota of subjects suffering from immune-mediated disorders and it has been found to have immunomodulatory activities. …”
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The ‘envers du décor’ of Suffragette Imagery: Anti-Suffrage Caricature by Abby Franchitti

“…Editors of popular postcards, quite in vogue at the time, also added their contribution to anti-suffrage propaganda. Indeed what could be funnier than to mock a man doing ‘woman’s work,’ while the wife and mother of the house was attending a political meeting? …”
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L’utilisation de pesticides fait-elle partie des stratégies d’adaptation au changement climatique ? Analyse exploratoire dans le Fossé rhénan (France-Allemagne) by Gaël Bohnert, Brice Martin

“…These stakes are particularly significant in the Rhine Valley. Indeed, in this space where the consequences of climate change could be intense, traditional models with high pesticide use (intensive crop cultivation and reputed wine growing) cohabit with organic and biodynamic farming productions, mostly in wine growing. …”
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Cultures of Display: The Mirror of Imperialism by John M. MacKenzie

“…Bernard Porter famously argued that the British were indeed ‘absent-minded imperialists’ because they took very little interest in empire, with the imperial influence on British culture being essentially minimal. …”
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‘O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness: let the whole earth tremble before him’ (Psalm 96:9)

“…My view is that the liberal theology which dominated the 1950s and 1960s has given way to more conservative and indeed near fundamentalist views in both Protestant and Catholic Theology. …”
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Occupational Asthma -- The Last 50 Years by Moira Chan-yeung

“…It was indeed a great honour for me to be this year's Christie Memorial Lecturer. …”
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Métamérisme by Gaëlle Leclercq

“…This research suggests an alternative to this problem. Indeed, it is possible to find some current pigments which have a similar spectral composition to traditional pigments usually used by the ancient painters and so, this option would reduce the risk of creating a metamerism.…”
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L’Église, les fidèles et la mort, à travers des miracles de saint Dominique (Rouen, 1261-1271) by Mathilde Cordonnier

“…The former are particularly interesting when it comes to studying the connection between writing and the dead in the Middle Ages, both for their content and their use. Indeed, the ubiquity of death in these Miracula emphasises the strong grip of the Church, whether it be through sacraments, religious brotherhoods, the cult of saints or preaching.…”
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Accrocher les potentiels décrocheurs by Sonia Lefeuvre, Gabriela Valente

“…In addition, we analyse the reasons for their investment, which is not without repercussions on the transformation of the university today. Indeed, the acceptance of this system by the universities could give the illusion of working for social equality and student success, even though they participate in a mechanism of depoliticization of the question of inequality in higher education.…”
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Le Procès des poètes : Flaubert contre « l’écume du cœur » by Aurélie Loiseleur

“…In Flaubert’s correspondence poets are rarely his principal addressees, yet they are his main target. Indeed, his letters, specially those written to the poet Louise Colet, give him the opportunity to re-examine his esthetical-sentimental creed and specify his own position as a prose poet in an open war against those who represent “the poetry of the heart”.…”
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El Estado chileno y la región de la Frontera a fines del siglo XIX by Arauco Chihuailaf

“…Araucania or border was conquered but still controlled territory indeed. The State will gradually be consolidated thanks to the construction of the railway, the land, colonization, the foundation of cities. …”
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Analyse du point de cristallisation dans la chronogenèse du processus de raccrochage by Anne Philipson, Pascal Dupont

“…Our study examines the impact of various temporalities - past, present, future - in the process of re-entry. Indeed, from the process to the realization of a professional project, temporality is at the heart of re-entry. …”
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L’autonomie à l’école maternelle : un nouvel idéal pédagogique ? by Christophe Joigneaux

“…But the diversity of practices in the classrooms of this new form of government, in Foucault’s sense, leads to the conclusion that it is a socio-educational inequality generator. Indeed, it seems that it can be both normalizing for some students and emancipation for others, depending on their predisposition to use the cognitive powers of writing.…”
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Une vie en trompe-l’œil : l’artiste bagnard Francis Lagrange (1901-1964) by Émile Blanc, David Carita, Denis Lamaison

“…This figure spent a lot of time indeed reinventing his life. The purpose of this article is to detect truth from false in the life of this man condemned to the penal colony in French Guiana in 1927. …”
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