Le corps en Asie vu par Marco Polo by Dominique Boutet

“…Finally, we study the “techniques of the body” (Marcel Mauss), the social practices which are the translation of the beliefs and the philosophy of life that Marco Polo also tries to report. We demonstrate this way that Marco Polo most often has a real ethnological look and that he tries to understand even more than to judge. …”
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Metastatic Uterine Leiomyosarcoma in the Upper Buccal Gingiva Misdiagnosed as an Epulis by Andrea Cassoni, Valentina Terenzi, Davina Bartoli, Oriana Rajabtork Zadeh, Andrea Battisti, Mario Pagnoni, Davide Conte, Alessandro Lembo, Sandro Bosco, Francesco Alesini, Valentino Valentini

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Signs of the Times: Medieval Punctuation, Diplomatic Encoding and Rendition by Elisa Cugliana, Gioele Barabucci

“…This paper describes how we dealt with the encoding and transformation of the punctuation in the Early New High German edition of Marco Polo’s travel account. Technically, we implemented a set of general rules (as XSLT templates) plus various exceptions (as descriptive instructions in XML attributes), and applied them in an automated fashion (using XProc pipelines). …”
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Nogai the Khanmaker: A Historiographical Problem by Wilson J.

“…Research materials: Briefly noting the portrayal of Nogai’s role in the relevant primary sources – the Rus’ chronicles, Mamluk historians, Rashīd al-Dīn and Marco Polo – then notes the contrast in the most prominent secondary literature on the Golden Horde of the last century, including d’Ohsson, Veselovskij, Vernadsky, Spuler through to Vásáry and Favereau. …”
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„Gdy nie można zawrócić, trzeba iść do przodu”. Drogi życia i myśli krytycznych o polskim szkolnictwie Mikołaja Kozakiewicza by Marek Białokur, Dorota Gajda-Szczegielniak

“…W artykule przedstawiono również jego działalność polityczną, zwłaszcza w kontekście przemian związanych z Okrągłym Stołem i Sejmem kontraktowym. Cytując słowa Marco Polo, Kozakiewicz podkreślał konieczność postępu i dążenia do poprawy, mimo trudnych okoliczności. …”
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On Indexicality, Direction of Arrival of Sound Sources, and Human-Robot Interaction by Ivan Meza, Caleb Rascon, Gibran Fuentes, Luis A. Pineda

“…Based on these behaviours, we have implemented four tasks which heavily rely on them: following a person, taking attendance of a class, playing Marco-Polo, and acting as a waiter in a restaurant.…”
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The Golden Horde through the eyes of Contemporaries and Eyewitnesses by Ivanov V.A.

“…Those few authors who had the opportunity to observe the life of the Golden Horde with their own eyes and from the inside – Plano Carpini, Guillaume (Willem) Rubruk, Marco Polo, Ibn Battuta – recorded approximately the same things in their notes, namely that “Tatars” were nomads who fed on the products of cattle breeding and hunting, were unpretentious in everyday life, unpretentious in clothing, formally Muslims but in fact dual-religionists since they preserved pagan remnant traditions of nomads. …”
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