Art, Performance, and Outsourcing in Corporate Art Commissioning: An American Scenario by Charlotte Gould

“…And since performance management is largely the result of the export of American business models to Western Europe since World War II, it makes sense to look for the roots of this phenomenon on that side of the Atlantic.…”
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Experts on the defensive: The Tsiganologue versus Romani activism (1959-1973) by Begoña Barrera López

“… This article discusses the figure of the Tsiganalogue, the expert on the “Tsigane question,” in post-World War II France. Specifically, it analyses the role played by one of these experts in the police persecution of Roma ethnic activism during the 1960s and early 1970s. …”
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Lecture de Sébastien Farré, La Suisse et l’Espagne de Franco. De la guerre civile à la mort du dictateur (1936-1975) by Rose Duroux

“…The question of exile during the civil war and world war II is also tackled, as the important migratory movement in the sixties.…”
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Peníze, nebo prestiž? Soudní spor o autorství Vančurových Obrazů z dějin národa českého by Bohumil Jiroušek

“…Vančura was executed during World War II but his collaborators became important representatives of the official Marxist-Leninist historiography after 1948. …”
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Gastroenterology, notes on its beginnings in the Central Region of Cuba by Ignacio Morales Martínez, Nancy Andreu Gómez

“…Introduction: Gastroenterology was not officially considered an independent specialty until after World War II. The creation, in 1932, of the Gastroenterology and Proctology section of the American Medical Association laid the foundations in this direction. …”
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Jòrgi Reboul, un parcours singulier vers l’occitanisme à travers l’histoire du XXe siècle by François Courtray

“…He became involved in politics with the Parti Prouvençau for the elections of 1936, promoted teaching Provencal at school, founded and ran a youth hostel, assisted both in strengthening ties with the Catalans and in supporting them during the Spanish war. After World War II, he broke with the Félibrige to rally the Occitan wave and the IEO whilst continuing his actions in favour of teaching the Oc language, Catalans and the great fights of the 1960s- 1970. …”
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Great Green Transition and Finance by Claudia Kemfert, Dorothea Schäfer, Willi Semmler

“…The transformation from a climate-distorting to a climate-protecting economy opens up investment opportunities and points to financing needs comparable with those necessary for the rebuilding of the European economy after World War II. The great green transition is a unique chance to pursue policies for a new and sustainable growth regime.…”
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Status of the Saker Falcon in Hungary between 1980 and 2022 by Janos Bagyura, Tamas Szitta, Laszlo Haraszthy, Matyas Prommer, Marton Horvath

“…The population decreased significantly through the 20th century falling to fewer than 50 pairs after World War II. The main reasons for the population decrease were DDT and widespread persecution (poisoning and shooting) of raptors by hunters. …”
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The Critique of the Book of the Modest State, the Modern State, Strategies for Another Change About the Modest Leviathan by Hamid Reza Malek Mohammadi

“…Meanwhile, Michel Crozier, a writer sociologist and critic of state behaviors and bureaucracy, examining the post-World War II French states, finds them to have self-knowledgeable ideas and self-powerful imagination, but he believes that the developments of the era along with the failures of these states in achieving social and economic goals, especially in areas such as education and health, reveals the necessity of a fundamental rethinking of the state nature; a nature that  must be reflected in modesty of state. …”
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Literatura exilului by Nicoleta Sălcudeanu

“…Then it focuses on the specificities of the Romanian exile after the World War II: the long duration of it, the loss of hope for returning to the natal country, the multiple reasons for (self)-exile, grouping around polarity centers such as radios, magazines, literary circles, etc., the small number of dissidents and the fact that the Romanian exile did not promoted Romanian literature for the foreign countries, but limited itself to address exclusively to Romanians for a political purpose. …”
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Aux origines de l’immigration marocaine en Midi-Pyrénées by Arthur Baylac

“…After World War II, immigrants to nowadays’ Midi-Pyrénées region mainly came from European countries, mostly Italy and Spain. …”
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Fatigue failure of welded connections at orthotropic bridges by Z.H. Qian, D. Abruzzese

“…Orthotropic decks were applied to the long span bridges after World War II due to several advantages, such as light weight, high strength, few deck joints, durability, rapid construction, life-cycle economy. …”
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Fatigue failure of welded connections at orthotropic bridges by D. Abruzzese, Z.H. Qian

“…Orthotropic decks were applied to the long span bridges after World War II due to several advantages, such as light weight, high strength, few deck joints, durability, rapid construction, life-cycle economy. …”
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The life and activity of Vaclovas Biržiška in 1940 - 1945 by Silvija Stakulienė

“…The plan and teaching program were prepared, but World War II interrupted all his projects. After the Germans occupied Lithuania, V. …”
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Feminism and the Cold War in the U.S. Occupation of Japan, 1945 – 1952 by Mire Koikari

“…On August 15, 1945, World War II came to an end with Japan's unconditional surrender. …”
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L’évolution de la philanthropie juive française à l’époque contemporaine (1791-1939) : un essai de synthèse by Laura Hobson Faure

“…This topic is essential for our understanding of Jewish relief efforts during World War II.…”
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Innenentwicklung in ländlichen Räumen zwischen Planungsideal und Akteurinteressen: Der Einfluss von sozialen Aspekten by Jennifer Gerend, Marina Beck

“…The results of a survey were assigned to four spatially coded settlement types: historic town centres, post-World-War II settlement types, settlements from the 1980s and 1990s, and new developments after 2000. …”
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Reappraisal and neotypification of Phyllachora feijoae by L.C. Costa, D.M. Macedo, R.W. Barreto

“…The type specimen was most probably deposited in the Botanisches Garten und Museum Berlin-Dahlem (B) and lost or destroyed during World War II, and could not be located. The recent recollection of abundant material of this fungus in the vicinity of Pelotas (Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) allowed its re-examination and neotypification. …”
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Proiecții (inter) textuale în opera lui Mircea Eliade by Grațiela Benga

“…We were interested both in Eliade’s literature (written after the World War II) and in the articles he published in magazines during his French and American exile. …”
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Hollywood sur la Lune : les « Scientifilms », les Pulps et l’imaginaire science-fictionnel by Jay P. Telotte

“…This essay examines how the movies, the movie industry, and a movie consciousness filtered into the pulp magazines during sf’s formative, pre-World War II era. It measures that early film/literature relationship by surveying the primary pulp magazines associated with the beginnings of sf publishing in the United States and framing them in the context that Francesco Casetti applies to early cinema when he suggests that the movies, as a pre-eminent modernist form, provided a kind of “script for reading the modern experience,” one that “not only proposed a reading of that experience, but at times imposed a pattern for its expression and communication” (5). …”
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