Valores e circunstâncias do pensamento geográfico francês (parte dois) : a “Nouvelle Géographie” segundo o testemunho de Joël Charre by Dante F. C. Reis Junior

“…In this second part, we present the testimony of Joël Charre, which was very enlightening. …”
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Tourism and writers’ houses, in between places and literature by Aurore Bonniot-Mirloup

“…In particular, the writer’s house, this meaningful place of memory, already invested by the history and literature specialists, also resonates with local authorities, which consider it as a heritage to be promoted, and a way to reinforce their territory’s attractiveness.As a testimony to the past, as a renowned as well as private house, the writer’s house merges times and spaces, imaginaries and private memories. …”
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La Madonna della Clemenza, l’incidence de la réintégration picturale sur le maintien des fonctions portées par l’œuvre restaurée by Stéphanie Ricordeau

“…This painting, still an object of worship and devotion, has emerged as a major work of the Christian Occident, both by its beautiful realization and  by the historical testimony that it represents. The restoration, done at the Istituto Centrale di Restauro directed at the time by Cesare Brandi, confronted the restorers to intervention options that appear as fundamental methodological problems.Among the many questions which emerged, the choice of pictorial reintegration of this highly lacunar work occupies a special place. …”
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La inmigración latinoamericana en  Bélgica: la experiencia de Riches Claires en Bruselas by William E. Plata Quezada

“…The article is a life testimony from a community that has found in its faith and its religious practices an instrument for constructing a new identity in exile. …”
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« Absence, ténèbres, silence et poussière ». La scénographie d’outre-tombe dans les Mémoires d’Alexandre de Tilly by Katrien Horemans

“…Hence, the approach taken in this article is pragmatic rather than essentialist and aims to examine to what extent (early) modern autobiography is the result of a process of constant interaction and negotiation with the social, historical and discursive context in which it appears in order to circumvent the sentiment of transgressive unveiling that was entangled with private testimony.…”
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New research findings on 11th-early 13th-century polychrome wood sculpture at the Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage, Brussels by Emmanuelle Mercier

“…11th- to early 13th-century medieval polychrome sculptures can be considered as ancestral testimony of knowledge, practices, and the exchange of carving and painting techniques in the Middle Ages. …”
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Die Seele als ‚Zwischen‘ by Martina Bengert

“…Her Cahiers (18 notebooks of roughly 2000 pages) are not only a testimony of her work as a translator but more particularly of her attempt – inspired by various mystical experiences – at discovering the underlying relations between Christianity, Hinduism and the texts of Plato whom she considers to be a mystic and the founder of Early Christianity. …”
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M. Kogălniceanu în corespondenţă (V) Scrisori din timpul studiilor la Lunéville şi Berlin (1834–1838) by Andrei Nestorescu

“…Encompassing a period of over fifty-seven years, this correspondence brings testimony about the western realities of those times, contrasted to the Moldavian ones. …”
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New Orleans Sketches et la Nouvelle-Orléans de Faulkner : promenades littéraires et premiers pas dans la fiction by Frédérique SPILL

“…The texts, which were eventually put together and published by Carvel Collins in 1958 under the title New Orleans Sketches, constitute a late testimony of Faulkner’s first steps in fiction. But because of their formal imperfections and incompleteness, commentators have often disregarded them. …”
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Astrotheology: The natural interface between hyperspace and the Trinity by A.C. Pieterse

“…The author believes that the biblical confession about the resurrected Christ could be beneficial to science and theology in this respect. Biblical testimony provides insight into the apparent natural and effortless movement of Christ between the different dimensions in nature. …”
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« La souris ne peut pas jouer avec le chat ». Marc Christin, un écrivain à l’asile (Cery, vers 1900) by Marco Cicchini

“…The account is intended to be a faithful testimony of the experiences of this madhouse in French-speaking Switzerland. …”
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Récits de femmes, récits de guerre : un genre problématique by Karen Meschia

“…After examining in general terms the epistemological and methodological difficulties involved in using oral sources, personal testimony and individual life-histories, the specific problems raised in using women’s narratives are discussed: their traditionally “muted” voice and fragmented sense of selfhood require that new modes of listening and interpretation be brought into play.To bring into focus the practical implications of this theoretical inquiry, the article concludes by looking more closely at how two feminist researchers have made use of women’s accounts of their lives in order to assess the extent to which their experiences during World War II brought about a modification in their status, notably in the articulation between professional and family life.…”
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"He told me to hold my tongue" : de la violence physique à la subjectivation politique dans The History of Mary Prince by Frédéric Regard

“…The implicit polyphony of the History is its democratic signature; it also turns a simple testimony of inhuman treatment into a major literary artifact.…”
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Destruction  du patrimoine et figure du soldat allemand dans les cartes postales de la Grande Guerre by Emmanuelle Danchin

“…On either side of the western front, the French and the German have used these views of destruction as a testimony of the barbaric character of the enemy, thus contributing to the mobilization of the war population. …”
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Gouvernance et acteurs privés : le cas de la lutte contre les discriminations au travail by Romain Huët, Morgane Cantrelle

“…The fact that the question of discrimination has been appropriated by private players is a testimony to their increasing participation in political decision-making, and thus illustrates a way of working which is codified from the point of view of a negotiated standard, and partly characterised by the tools and procedures of governance. …”
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Tu infinita memoria: el largo camino de la militancia por la vida by Carla  Peñaloza Palma

“…The defense of human rights and the end of the dictatorship. From his testimony, with the methodology and concepts of oral history - we will reconstruct the path that many women of his generation shared, in the search for truth and justice for an entire country.…”
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An Orthogonal Wavelet Transform-Based K-Nearest Neighbor Algorithm to Detect Faults in Bearings by Weipeng Li, Yan Cao, Lijuan Li, Siyu Hou

“…In addition, it achieves an overall recognition rate exceeding 95%, Comparing OWT, EMD, and VMD feature extraction methods, both the OWTKNN and k-center point clustering algorithm do not exceed 80% (KCA), also bearing testimony of the effectiveness of this method.…”
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Adapter et commenter le Livre des Rois (Shâhnâmeh) en Allemagne au XIXe siècle by Christine Maillard

“…Our paper will analyse for the first time this important paratext, as a testimony of the link between translation, interpretation of history and seeking for national identity, in the context of developing contemporary myth theories.…”
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La prison de Guingamp, de l’ombre à la lumière by Emmanuel Laot

“…Born of European and American influences, at the heart of the French prison reform that imposed the solitary confinement regime in France, the prison of Guingamp is a unique architectural testimony of French and European penitentiary history. …”
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Ancient Hawaiian house lots and their flora: a review of Great Māhele plant claims with a special focus on Pritchardia (loulu) palms by Brien A. Meilleur

“…A review of Foreign Testimony records of the Native Register from the mid-19th century Hawaiian land division program known as the Great Māhele (~1846-1854) has led to a better understanding of ancient Hawaiian house lot plantings. …”
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