Les livres des gens à Damas vers 1700 by Colette Establet, Jean-Paul Pascual

“…This judge's role consisted of apportioning out the legal share of successions (mukhallafa, tarika) for civilians, both men and women, amongst their diverse heirs or, on the other hand, attributing their entire inheritance to the state's treasury which was, indeed, the case in several instances studied. The documents are drawn up according to a relatively homogenous pattern : the preambule gives the deceased's name and tides as well as sometimes noting his profession (which can often be guessed in relation to the types of properties that he possessed) and his place of residence and work. …”
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Aspiration numérique et mise à distance du corps by Renaud Hétier

“…As the borderline is not experienced (by destruction, by experiencing vulnerability), the necessity of an agreement virtualizing violence may not be felt. Indeed, not everything can be virtualized, and the body-to-body experiment needs to be anticipated to learn how to live together. …”
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Newell Ann Van Auken: Spring and Autumn Historiography: Form and Hierarchy in Ancient Chinese Annals by Edward L. Shaughnessy

“…Van Auken has read the text itself very carefully indeed, so carefully that she has been able to discern formal properties that have escaped even the finest traditional Chinese readers. …”
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Cellular cross-talk drives mesenchymal transdifferentiation in diabetic kidney disease by Arunita Chatterjee, Jacqueline Tumarin, Sharma Prabhakar

“…While changes in glomerular function and structure may herald diabetic kidney disease (DKD), many studies have underscored the significance of tubule-interstitial changes in the progression of DKD. Indeed, tubule-interstitial fibrosis may be the most important determinant of progression of DKD as in many forms of chronic glomerulopathies. …”
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Is musical ability related to second-language acquisition? A meta-analysis by Rachel M. Thompson, Lauren K. Salig, L. Robert Slevc

“…The available evidence suggests that musical ability is indeed positively related to second-language learning, even after factoring in publication bias revealed by the meta-analysis. …”
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Novel Immunotherapeutic Approaches for Neuroblastoma and Malignant Melanoma by Fabio Morandi, Francesco Frassoni, Mirco Ponzoni, Chiara Brignole

“…In the last two decades, a strong effort has been spent in the field of translational research of immunotherapy which led to satisfactory results. Indeed, several immunotherapeutic clinical trials have been performed and some of them also resulted beneficial. …”
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Freedom of Expression in South Sudanese Judicial Struggle: Bought or Fought For? With Special Reference to India by Varun Chhachhar, Wol Deng Akech

“…The paper seeks to reckon the concerned institutions in South Sudan to the ongoing liberal jurisprudences on the right to freedom of speech and expression on one hand and on the other hand informs the concerned institutions for a serious litigation and enforcement of Bill of Rights in South Sudan. Indeed, the paper has invoked progressive interpretations of fundamental rights from the U.K, India, and the U.S to help in justifying the grounds as to why South Sudanese litigants and courts should scarcely claim and upheld freedom of expression as fundamental and foundational tenet of a democratic society. …”
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Inositols in Insulin Signaling and Glucose Metabolism by Arturo Bevilacqua, Mariano Bizzarri

“…Furthermore, inositol, via its major isomers myo-inositol and D-chiro-inositol, and probably some of its phosphate intermediate metabolites and correlated enzymes (like inositol hexakisphosphate kinase) participate in both insulin signaling and glucose metabolism by influencing distinct pathways. Indeed, clinical data support the beneficial effects exerted by inositol by reducing glycaemia levels and hyperinsulinemia and buffering negative effects of sustained insulin stimulation upon the adipose tissue and the endocrine system. …”
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Labiodentals /r/ here to stay: Deep learning shows us why by Hannah King, Emmanuel Ferragne

“…Measurements of the lip area acquired using an artificial neural network suggest that /r/ indeed has a labiodental-like lip posture, thus providing a phonetic account for labiodentalisation. …”
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Autoimmune Diseases and Their Manifestations on Oral Cavity: Diagnosis and Clinical Management by Matteo Saccucci, Gabriele Di Carlo, Maurizio Bossù, Francesca Giovarruscio, Alessandro Salucci, Antonella Polimeni

“…For this reason, dentists play an important role in the detection of emerging autoimmune pathologies. Indeed, an early diagnosis can play a decisive role in improving the quality of treatment strategies as well as quality of life. …”
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Machine learning in the prediction of human wellbeing by Ekaterina Oparina, Caspar Kaiser, Niccolò Gentile, Alexandre Tkatchenko, Andrew E. Clark, Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, Conchita D’Ambrosio

“…First, we show that ML algorithms can indeed yield better predictive performance than standard approaches, and establish an upper bound on the predictability of wellbeing scores with survey data. …”
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Les Enjeux ekphrastiques de la montagne à l’époque romantique by Michel Morel

“…A paradigmatic change in values occurs at the time, the sense of discrepancy of which allows one to become aware of what is inevitably hidden by the common run of things. Indeed, a unified thematic prevails, clearly evinced in four extracts selected from contemporary works: a) The Prelude (Wordsworth); b) The Mysteries of Udolpho (Mrs Radcliffe); c) Waverley (Scott); d) Frankenstein (Mary Shelley). …”
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Another(’s) perspective on subjectivity in causal connectives: a usage-based analysis of volitional causal relations by Ninke Stukker, Ted Sanders

“…Under a linguistic categorization hypothesis causal connectives are taken as categorization devices. Indeed, corpus studies suggest that connectives strongly specialize in one specific causality category, but also that their use is not restricted to the causality categories they are prototypically associated with. …”
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Introduction: Urban-Rural Differences in Historical Demography by Christa Matthys, Jan Kok, Richard Paping

“…The outcomes show that the places of residence indeed influenced demographic behavior to a considerable extent, although they do not reflect a simple and strict division between cities and rural areas. …”
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The American Landscape: from an Ideological to an Ecological Object in Oxbow Archive by Joel Sternfeld by Helena Lamouliatte

“…Sternfeld obviously resorts to intericonicity, but he has chosen to reverse the perspective completely, both from a visual and ideological viewpoint. Indeed, Sternfeld’s images are no longer about the visual domination and appropriation of landscape in order to praise the conquest of the American territory; they put forward a new conception of the wilderness, based on aesthetic, political and ecological grounds. …”
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On the role of knowledge graphs in AI-based scientific discovery by Mathieu d’Aquin

“…Research and the scientific activity are widely seen as an area where the current trends in AI, namely the development of deep learning models (including large language models), are having an increasing impact. Indeed, the ability of such models to extrapolate from data, seemingly finding unknown patterns relating implicit features of the objects under study to their properties can, at the very least, help accelerate and scale up those studies as demonstrated in fields such as molecular biology and chemistry. …”
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Arbitration in Administrative Affairs: The Enlargement Scope of Ratione Materiae in Portugal by Marta Portocarrero

“…Although the use of arbitration in conflicts where public entities intervene in private relationships is usually allowed, European legislatures commonly consider administrative disputes as a type of controversy excluded from arbitration. It is indeed easy to raise strong arguments against alternative dispute resolution when public administration is implicated. …”
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PRELIMINARY IDENTIFICATION OF ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE STYLES IN THE PROCESS OF STRATEGIC PLANNING: EMPLOYEE PERCEPTION IN THE TURKISH PUBLIC HIGHER EDUCATION by Ali Osman Öztürk, Elif Genç Tetik

“…Comprehending organizational culture is a prerequisite to examine the public sector thoroughly because it forms the essence of all the actions, processes and outcomes in the organizations. Indeed, the vast majority of the previous studies emphasise that the concept has become much relevant with the strategy-making process in the public organizations, which mainly needs to be consistent with the culture types of organization. …”
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THE IMPACT OF TOURISM ON THE ECONOMIC GROWTH IN THE MEDITERRANEAN COUNTRIES: EVIDENCES FROM HIDDEN PANEL COINTEGRATION TEST by Süleyman Bolat, Abdulnasser Hatemi-j, Murat Belke

“…Our empirical investigations indicate that there are indeed asymmetric impacts within our panel system. …”
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Provocation: Journal experiments in overlay, data and provisionality by Tim Boon

“…It follows that, for much research – whether our own, or that of partners, or indeed for all publications on congenial subjects produced beyond our own practice – SMGJ is a good place to publish. …”
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