Murder and Aesthetics in Patricia Highsmith’s Deep Water by Robert Lance Snyder

“…Writing against the grain of post-World War II conformism, Highsmith proleptically addresses issues of maladaptation in her portrait of a repressed sociopath who attempts to mask his inner rage via the sublimation of aesthetic pursuits.…”
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La migration singulière des adoptés dans l’espace euro-américain depuis 1945 by Yves Denéchère

“…International adoption is a singular type of migration that entails a change of country and often of cultural milieu for the children. Since the end of World War II, the trans-Atlantic space has witnessed adoptive movements involving transnational mobility between Europe, North America and Latin America. …”
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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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DETERRING AND THREATENING IN THE RUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN WAR: A GAME THEORY PERSPECTIVE by Adelina Andrei

“…Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 marked a significant turning point in the post-World War II history of Europe, with the realist and idealist views on international relations offering contrasting interpretations of its underlying sources. …”
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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 Contract for the Construction of Ocean Liners MS “Piłsudski” and MS “Batory” of 29 November 1933 by Jarosław Drozd

“…After the outbreak of World War II, they were requisitioned by the British. …”
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Felix Aderca – scriitorul sub vremuri by Mihaela Iancu

“…His creative effort proved to be unceasing throughout his fifty-year-long career, despite the unfavourable historical times in which he lived: being a Jew, he had to pass through a period of antisemitic policy immediately before and during World War II and he also experienced probably the most aggressive years of the communist regime in Romania under the rule of Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej. …”
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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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The Pyramid and the Mosaic. Otto Neurath’s encyclopedism as a critical model by Andrea Alberto Dutto

“…In the field of architecture, a similar encyclopedic endeavor was undertaken in Italy by Mario Ridolfi who, together with other leading exponents of architectural culture, conceived the Manuale dell’Architetto at the end of World War II. This construction handbook provided  support to engineers  during the intense period of post-war reconstruction. …”
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The WHO’s 75th anniversary: WHO at a pivotal moment in history by Lawrence O Gostin, Roojin Habibi, Benjamin Mason Meier, Helen Clark, K Srinath Reddy, Jemilah Mahmood, Danwood Mzikenge Chirwa, Björn Kümmel, Winnie Mpanju-Shumbusho, Attiya Waris, Miriam K Were

“…Establishing health governance under the United Nations (UN), WHO was seen as the preeminent leader in public health, promoting a healthier world following the destruction of World War II and ensuring global solidarity to prevent disease and promote health. …”
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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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Al-Ḥudayyda sous occupation ottomane (1849-1918) by Patrice Chevalier

“…Having just a little hundred inhabitants originally, al- Ḥudayyda’s population grows to 42 000 people on the eve of World War I.Is the cohabitation under the Ottoman administration going to generate exchanges or borrowings between the various communities or not? …”
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Toward a Methodology of Spatial Neighborhood Evaluation to Uncover the “Invisible Spaces” in Neighborhoods Built Through State Initiatives Between 1945 and 1980 by Hadas Shadar, Dalit Shach-Pinsly

“…This article examines the ideological and spatial characteristics of neighborhoods built through the initiative of various states, particularly in Europe, in the post-World War II years, from 1945 to 1980. We argue that despite these neighborhoods being older and subject to economic, professional, and ideological criticism, they feature beneficial physical spaces that came to light, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. …”
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Methodology for identifying the socio-economic genome on the commodity market for sugar production by D. Yu. Zhmurko

“…A cyclical drift in world sugar production is revealed: after the end of World War II it shifted from the usual 9.49 years for the XIX century – the middle of the XX century to the current value of 7.12 years.…”
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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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The West and the Rest of Us? by Masilo Lepuru

“…Their project of African Independence as undergirded by Pan-Africanism sought to challenge the West as the embodiment of slavery and colonialism (Chinweizu 1975) not only on the continent where it created colonies but the post-World War II dispensation. Many of them propagated socialist sentiments and objectives. …”
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Gréckokatolícki mučeníci z obdobia neslobody 1939–1989 by Peter Borza

“…Among the presented figures are the bearers of the title Righteous Among the Nations, award-winning in Israel for unconditional aid to Jews during World War II, as they were risking the loss of his life and lives of family members for saving the racially and religiously persecuted. …”
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Review of the Translation of the Book of Criminal Law in European Council by Alireza Taghipour

“…One of these is human rights and the other is the international criminal law. After World War II, numerous international and regional documents were adopted in the field of human rights. …”
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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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