Le silence et le cri : Salomé, d’Oscar­­ Wilde à Richard Strauss by Pascal Aquien

“…The two works are however radically different. Unlike Wilde whose écriture is based on unlikely metaphors and a Maeterlinck-like art of the implicit, Strauss’s music and voices violently express what is more mildly suggested by the play, the primacy of the body over aesthetic constructions. …”
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TEACHING LOAD IN THE LIGHT OF INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE by Dmitriy Yu. Raychuk

“…An excessive auditorium workload of lecturers hampering the development of universities in the above mentioned areas can be radically reduced by means of the assimilation by Russian universities of the global practice oriented towards students' self learning managed and controlled by professors. …”
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Le numérique et le dictionnaire : l’impact de l’artéfact numérique sur la lexicographie (1970-2010) by Marie-Hélène Lay

“…However, the traditional approach to lexicographical work remains in place, with human experts building and compiling resources. Things changed radically in the years 2000-2010, particularly with the spread of Web 2.0: from a secondary artifact, the dictionary became a tertiary artifact, moving from the “regime of technique” to the “regime of technology”.…”
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Evolved Programmable Network by Greg Smith, Greg Nehib

“…The communications industry has undergone radical change over the past 30 years, moving from a business model that was largely built around offering bandwidth at fixed locations to one delivering seamless internet and application access anywhere. …”
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Los fundamentos éticos de las cosmologías indígenas by Stefano Varese

“…This article proposes to analyze the ethical and rational foundations of the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas’ relations with nature-world. The premise is the radical critique of Western anthropocentric reason including the neo-liberal and neo-colonial vicissitudes of the socio-ideological complex of modernity-colonialism-capitalism. …”
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La Pensée technocritique de Gaston Bardet by Antoine Perron

“…This article aims to explore the “technocriticism” developed by Bardet, highlighting its main ideological roots, its implications for architecture and its genuinely ecological dimension. Between radicality and irrationality, Gaston Bardet’s “dark green” ecology might provide a better understanding of certain dead-ends in our struggle against global disruption.…”
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Comme une bitch ? Exploration des variations d’usage et de sens entre « bitch » et « chienne » en tant qu’insultes sexistes by Aure Espilondo

“…Could “chienne” undergo a similar process in metropolitan France despite its radically different characteristics? This possibility is assessed through a case study on the usage of “chienne” and “bitch” by three French female singers and rappers: Aya Nakamura, Tracy de Sá, and Liza Monet. …”
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Structure of weakly periodic rings with potent extended commutators by Adil Yaqub

“…It is shown that a weakly periodic ring R in which certain extended commutators are potent must have a nil commutator ideal and, moreover, the set N of nilpotents forms an ideal which, in fact, coincides with the Jacobson radical of R.…”
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Vanini : un poème oublié de Hölderlin by Jacky C.-J. Paul

“…Indeed, an in-depth reading shows that in this ode and in the conception of nature outlined here—closely related to that of the “despiser of God”—a major and recurring key-theme is emerging which identifies Hölderlin as a militant poet, as an advocate of a “natural philosophy” that requires a radical reassessment of values and contains a message harmful to both the church and the state. …”
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Antioxidant Properties of 5-ASA: Potential Mechanism for Its Anti-Inflammatory Activity by T Yamada, C Volkmer, MB Grisham

“…The authors' laboratory and others have demonstrated that 5-aminosalicylic acid (5-ASA) possesses potent antioxidant activity, including free radical scavenging properties and the ability to decompose neutrophilic oxidants (eg, hypochlorous acid) and detoxify hemoprotein-associated oxidizing agents. 5-ASA has the additional property of being able to chelate iron and render it poorly redox active. …”
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Precarity as Resistance and Cultural Solidarity by Abdul Aziz Hafiz

“… This discursive paper uses the work of Freire and others to propose a critical pedagogy for precarity which is grounded in forms of radical (post)politics. A critical pedagogy for precarity is proposed that calls for a replacement of, or synthesis with, the UK government’s employability in HE agenda. …”
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François Morellet et la scène géométrique française des années 1950 : du formalisme à la formativité. by Roxane Ilias

“…In the early 1950s, François Morellet embarked on a radical quest. He sought new working methods, ones that were no longer subject to the artist’s whims but to external constraints. …”
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Un regard hétérodoxe sur le Nouveau Monde : la géographie d’Élisée Reclus et l’extermination des Amérindiens (1861-1905) by Federico Ferretti

“…The genocide was blamed radically by the geographer, who nevertheless was an admirer of the scientific and technical progress of his time. …”
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The Counter Feats of Elaine Sturtevant (1924-2014) by Richard PHELAN

“…From Duchamp to Stella to Gonzalez-Torres, Sturtevant’s choice of targets will be examined. Offering a radical case for intericonographic studies, Sturtevant displaces their focus towards the agency of the image and forces us to reconsider the practice of the copy, whose exacerbated status in our culture she anticipated.…”
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Menace II Society? Urban Poverty and Underclass Narratives in American Movies by Thomas Halper and Douglas Muzzio

“…During the silent and Depression eras, movies featured the urban poor prominently, but afterwards their role drastically shrunk and did not regain its place until the black underclass films of the 1990s, which, in a softened version of ‘60s radical critiques, redefined the deserving poor as rejecting the dominant socioeconomic system in favor of an often hedonistic rebellion. …”
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Jeremiah 31:31-34: A prospect of true transformation by M.D. Terblanche

“…It is argued that these allusions demonstrate that the new covenant passage attained a distinct identity by the promise of a radical transformation. In addition, the application of utopian literary theory suggests that Jeremiah’s utopian vision enflamed possibility and awakened emotional yearning for a better world. …”
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“Speaking Out of the Most Passionate Love” – James Baldwin and Pragmatism by Ulf Schulenberg

“…The final part demonstrates that while it would be pointless to claim that Baldwin is a radically postmetaphysical author and thus an ideal member of a literary culture, his politicized version of self-creation makes it seem legitimate to advance the argument that he is part of a left-liberal tradition of worldly pragmatism that sees the work of the strong poet or creative redescriber as contributing to political and social change.…”
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Ecological challenges to ethics by Władysław Zuziak

“…It argues in favour of anthropocentrism, but rejects its radical version. In the last part of the paper there is a proposal to create a new ethics, appropriate for us and the world, which would be an extension and refinement of Christian ethics in dialogue with contemporary secular trends.…”
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Creative Universities : Reimagining Education for Global Challenges and Alternative Futures (2021) by Anne-Marie Smith

“… The book ‘Creative Universities’ by Anke Schwittay (2021) is unlike any other academic text I have read about teaching; the pages buzz with hope, creative vision and radical possibilities, and it left me wanting to do my teaching differently, to shake up our learning spaces, and to keep asking questions. …”
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The Bioactivities of Phycocyanobilin from Spirulina by Yi Li

“…PCB can resist oxidation by scavenging free radicals, inhibiting the activity of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADPH) oxidase, and delaying the activity of antioxidant enzymes. …”
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