« A reality that almost amounts to illusion » by Martine Lambert-Charbonnier

“…Considering the painter as a rival of nature, Leonardo da Vinci creates beauty and life in his art, while Mona Lisa embodies the ideal of the Renaissance with its emphasis on experience and the senses which fin-de-siècle writers find so akin to the modern spirit. …”
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Du centre à la droite radicale : concurrence politique, tergiversations programmatiques et repositionnement idéologique du Parti colorado en Uruguay (1950-2015) by Damien Larrouqué

“…However, apart from the electoral strengthening of its historical and conservative rival (the National Party), the Colorado Party has been seriously challenged by the left since the foundation of the Broad Front in 1971. …”
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La collection Campana au musée Napoléon III et la question de l’appropriation des modèles pour les musées d’art industriel by Isaline Deléderray-Oguey

“…In 1861 France purchased part of the Campana collection with a view to founding a museum for the decorative and industrial arts capable of rivalling similar institutions in Europe. The collection was presented to the public in an ephemeral “Musée Napoléon III” for a few months in 1862. …”
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Des sportives respectables. La fabrique à championnes noires de l’université d’État du Tennessee à l’ère de la guerre froide by François-René Julliard

“…We will also consider the context of the Cold War, which fostered competition between rival models of femininity.…”
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Tecnica e libertà fra Praga e Santiago by Andrea Cerroni

“…Later, as neoliberalism spread, cybernetics faded in favor of a rival approach to information science, so-called Artificial Intelligence. …”
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The authenticity of the letter of ‘Abd Allâh b. Ibâḍ to ‘Abd al-Malik by Wilferd Madelung

“…Ibn Ibâḍ was not the founder of the Ibâḍiyya sect, but rather a contemporary and rival of Abû ‘Ubayda Muslim b. Abî Karîma.…”
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FFS et RCD : partis nationaux ou partis kabyles ? by Ouali Ilikoud

“…The article examines the identification strategies deployed by these two rival groups. They compete with public authorities and position themselves in the national political arena all the while appealing to community and ethnic roots and employing indigenous arguments. …”
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Mongol History rewritten and relived by Beatrice Forbes Manz

“…In their public actions Temür and his Jöchid rival Tokhtamish referred back to both the career of Chinggis Khan and the earlier rivalries between the Ilkhans and the Golden Horde. …”
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Fondements du discours propagandiste arabe de la Grande-Bretagne au Maghreb pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale (1939-1943) by Fayçal Cherif

“…Apart from the military war, a second war including more horrible and complex elements than weapons had been declared by the different rival camps: the propaganda in the Arabic language initiated at the beginning by Germany and Italy and soon developed by Great Britain too (from 1939). …”
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Between France and Germany: René Schickele and “Geistiges Elsässertum” by Áine McGillicuddy

“…As an astute observer of contemporaneous European political events, he believed Alsace had a crucial role to play as the ideal cultural mediator between its rival neighbours to ensure harmonious Franco-German relations and peace in Europe. …”
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Entre neikos e philia: notas sobre o complexo fraterno no caso Aimée by Maria Filomena Pinheiro Dias

“…No intuito de dar conta desse propósito, iremos retomar, em Freud, esse outro - esse rival - que amplia com o seu nascimento o complexo de Édipo ao complexo familiar, sendo de fundamental importância para um melhor entendimento da referida concepção lacaniana. …”
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Les premières années de la diplomatie états-unienne : l’influence décisive de Benjamin Franklin à Paris (1776-1778) by Christian Lerat

“…His main asset certainly lay in his being able to capitalize on what the other American emissaries were so cruelly deprived of, to the point of becoming the latter’s rival. Blending personal charm with an inborn talent for communication and… manipulation, Franklin easily managed recognition as the main negotiating partner of a Court whose understandable reticence he knew how to overcome, eventually making France the ally of a young republic—a landmark the importance of which was to prove decisive.…”
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Fallibilism and Givenness in Marx's Critique of Stirner by Lawrence Dallman

“…He holds that no commitment is immune to revision under pressure of rational scrutiny. His criticisms of rival thinkers often turn not just on their getting things wrong, but on their being too little observant of this precept. …”
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Une alliance de circonstance : l’Italie et les musulmans d’Albanie (1912-1920) by Renaud Dorlhiac, Fabrice Jesné

“…The present study tries to emphasize the means and skills mobilized by Italy to cope its rival challenges, and try to carry out its goals in an environment mainly pertaining to the Islamic faith and torn between competing national dynamics. …”
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The battle of the Zé Gotinhas: The schismogenesis of images and political audiences on Brazilian social media by Kelly Cristiane da Silva, Fábio de Oliveira Martins

“…Abstract: Centring on a dispute between different versions of an icon of public health and immunization policies in Brazil, we explore the analytic potential of the rival images and their embedding in a dynamic structure of long-term schismogenesis fed by former president Jair Bolsonaro, his political allies and publics. …”
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Properties and Applications of the Modified Kies–Lomax Distribution with Estimation Methods by Abdelaziz Alsubie

“…The three-parameter MKL model outperforms some four-parameter and five-parameter rival models.…”
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A True Friend Stabs You in the Front: Astell’s Admonisher Conception of a Friend by Jen Nguyen

“…So anyone who admonishes us in this sense—be they Mother Teresa, the sinner sitting in confession, or our professional rival—is a friend to us. Put simply, an Astellian friend is an admonisher. …”
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Impact of Data Centers on Climate Change: A Review of Energy Efficient Strategies by Daniel Raphael Ejike Ewim, Nwakamma Ninduwezuor-Ehiobu, Ochuko Felix Orikpete, Blessed Afeyokalo Egbokhaebho, Akeeb Adepoju Fawole, Chiemela Onunka

“…Key findings indicate that without intervention, data centre emissions could rival those of major global industries. Fortunately, innovations in cooling technologies, architectural design, renewable energy sourcing, and hardware efficiency have shown potential in reducing energy consumption. …”
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From Poison to Promotor: Spatially Isolated Metal Sites in Supported Rhodium Sulfides as Hydroformylation Catalysts by Arjun Neyyathala, Edvin Fako, Sandip De, Daria Gashnikova, Florian Maurer, Jan‐Dierk Grunwaldt, Stephan A. Schunk, Schirin Hanf

“…This allows for the substrate affinity to be modulated, in particular for Rh17S15, with adsorption energies rivalling those of pristine Rh and improved spatial resolution.…”
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