Turismo, patrimônio e políticas públicas na Amazônia Maranhense by Linda Maria Rodrigues

“…In this sense, nature, the tourism sector's greatest appeal, forwards in Maranhão, the first steps of a period of investments, entitled Plano Maior, whose objective was to “transform Maranhão into one of the biggest ecotourism destinations in the country”. …”
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X-Men : la puissance de la défaillance, entre infirmité et post-humanité by Adrien Cascarino

“…Based on the success of popular figures of mutated bodies, such as those elaborated in the X-men series, this article shows that the appeal of these bodies lies mostly in their plasticity, the superpowered body always revealing itself as a deficient body. …”
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Kitsch as Experience of the World by Darío Hernández Guerra

“…This allure belongs to a rarefied nature that brings to light the pleasures and delight of purely aesthetic appeal. Its apparent lack of value is thus mitigated by its promotion of a radically relativistic attitude that establishes a conciliatory balance between attractiveness and horridness. …”
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Maintaining the Free Flow of Information. A Manifesto-like Intervention for Practice-Based Research in Academic Training Programs for Multimedia Journalism by Evelyn Echle

“…As an interventionist appeal, it argues in favour of practice-based research and new training methods. …”
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Du tableau à la scène : la couleur dans le jardin paysager en France by Ilona Woronow

“…Theorists of the XVIIIth-century French landscape garden readily appeal to painting as a model for their art. The garden-architect is obliged to explore divers pictorial means, one of which is colour. …”
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Significance of and Comparative Trends in Procedural Regulation of Right to Information by Polonca Kovač

“…The comparative analysis of selected countries (USA, Ireland, Sweden, Austria, Germany, Slovenia, Croatia) included herein proves that selected procedural institutions, such as time limits and an appeal to an independent body or judicial review, contribute to a significantly higher level of implementation of the RTI in practice as also indicated by several international studies. …”
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L’instituteur du Code Soleil : la vocation d’un prophète missionnaire by André Pachod

“…The teacher is seen as a trainer who is symmetrical with an initial and continued vocation which turns around three basic paradigms: the appeal, the mission, the state of life. Through his word, his life and his work, he becomes the missionary prophet of the School of the Republic to love and to make loved. …”
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The Polish Superheroes Have Arrived!: On the Popularity of Superhero Stories and Adaptations by Emma Oki

“…Although essentially a product of the American comic book industry of the twentieth century, superhero characters continue to have a universal appeal and, as Alex S. Romagnoli and ‎Gian S. Pagnucci write, “have become entrenched in the collective consciousness” (2). …”
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Invalid Permutation Tests by Mikel Aickin

“…Permutation tests are often presented in a rather casual manner, in both introductory and advanced statistics textbooks. The appeal of the cleverness of the procedure seems to replace the need for a rigorous argument that it produces valid hypothesis tests. …”
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Antecedents of Instapoetry: Considering the Commercial Short Form Aphorism Before and Beyond the Social Media Sphere by James Mackay, Polina Mackay

“…Instapoetry’s lack of metrical control or linguistic complexity can be attributed to consumer preferences for short-form commercial aphorisms that can appeal to a wide audience. We suggest that broader consideration should be given to previous iterations of commercial short-form aphorisms, such as those found in postcards, greetings cards and novelty items like motivational posters, to better understand the cultural significance of Instapoetry.…”
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Re-performing African Literature: A Review of Owonibi’s Translation of three Yoruba Literary works into English – Chief Gaa, Delusion of Grandeur and The Tight Game by Titilope Oluwaseun Oriola

“…The translation of these works from the indigenous Yoruba language to the English language, in no small measure increases its appeal yet preserving its contextual essence and values. …”
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La séduction et l’idéologie : sémantique, syntaxe, argumentation by Jean SZLAMOWICZ

“…The seductive discourse is about making a stylistic effort that disguises the argument and makes it poetically appealing. Such is the basis of discursive seduction, connecting desire through the euphoria of words.The ‘desire’ of discourse is what comes into play when convincing becomes seducing: making a case cannot become effective if the words (their value, their connotations) don’t appeal to the desire to be convinced. …”
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Fractal Tilings Based on Successive Adjacent Substitution Rule by Peichang Ouyang, Xiaosong Tang, Kwokwai Chung, Tao Yu

“…A fractal tiling or f-tiling is a tiling which possesses self-similarity and the boundary of which is a fractal. f-tilings have complicated structures and strong visual appeal. However, so far, the discovered f-tilings are very limited since constructing such f-tilings needs special talent. …”
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Return to the 1960s: the Role of ‘68 in Paul Auster’s Life and Work by Jesper Præst Nielsen

“…The essay concludes that Moon Palace can be read as an appeal for the depolarization of the American political past.…”
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Research Supervisor: Between the Challenges of Time and the Realities of Higher Education by V. V. Zyryanov

“…In the context of research competencies formation, the article substantiates the relevance of the appeal to the figure of a research supervisor. In this regard, it is shown that research guidance is a determining element of science education. …”
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Percepções de justiça e competências políticas em Nova Iguaçu (RJ) by Jussara Freire

“…Thus, the article analyzes in detail how these groups appeal to emotions at the moment of expressing their public claims. …”
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Die Gegenwärtigkeit des Picaros am Beispiel von Thomas Brussigs Wie es leuchtet by Miriam Llamas Ubieto

“…This study will first investigate aspects of the picaresque that maintain their appeal in the contemporary world and modifications which seek to modernize it; and secondly, the personal liminality of the rogue himself, a border figure, caught in an in-between space (East and West) and at a time of transition (the GDR [German Democratic Republic] and the German reunification following the fall of the Wall) in a world of change. …”
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Des incidences de l’écriture dans la transmission d’une expérience clinique, un appel au jeu des mouvements identificatoires chez le lecteur by Patrick Geffard, Claudine Blanchard-Laville

“…We suggest the possibility that the author’s appeal to an enunciation with many voices conversing with each other tends to induce some displacements in the reader’s psychical movements that contribute to a subjective form of transmission of a clinical experience.…”
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“Go West Young Joan!” Mark Twain’s Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc (1896) by Jennifer Kilgore-Caradec

“…The artifices that Mark Twain used to publish his novel Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc by Sieur Louis de Conte in 1895-6 mystified his readers no less than the appeal of the heroine for an avowed atheist. Twain’s earliest encounter with Joan, when he was 15 years old, while working as a printer, would influence his decision to become a writer, but it was only near the end of his life that she was to become a visible preoccupation. …”
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Berkeley’s Best System: An Alternative Approach to Laws of Nature by Walter Ott

“…Some of these solutions are available in the contemporary context, without any appeal to God. Berkeley’s account deserves to be taken seriously in its own right.…”
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