European green capitals. Best practices for sustainable urban development by Andrea Iacomoni

“…With this work, it was intended to highlight how the European Union, in recent decades, has devoted increasing and considerable efforts in prefiguring sustainability objectives, fundamental to address the urban planning policies of individual cities, increasingly oriented to develop strategic plans that pursue a development intelligent and sustainable urban development.…”
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I racconti votivi contemporanei: pagine di un continuo liber miraculorum by Vincenzo Spera

“…The article is based on documentations collected in field research conducted in sanctuaries and places of worship in South and Central Italy, since the early Seventies of last century until the first decade of the present one. The article presents an interpretation of the ex voto like a kind of storytelling of the experience lived by the devotee who claims to have had contact with the powerful Otherness. …”
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Jean Aubouin et les chaînes de montagnes : des observations aux synthèses. L’itinéraire scientifique d’un géologue au rayonnement international by Ferrière, Jacky, Faure, Michel

“…Jean Aubouin’s scientific itinerary spans many decades since the 1950s. Several periods can be recognized in this research continuum, but the consistency of the approach to understand mountain ranges and orogenic processes is a striking feature. …”
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LTP after Stress: Up or Down? by Marian Joëls, Harm J. Krugers

“…This rise has consequences for behavioral performance, including memory formation. Over the past decades, it has become clear that a rise in corticosteroid level is also accompanied by a reduction in hippocampal long-term potentiation (LTP). …”
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Arranging Haulage for Florida's Produce by Richard Beilock

“…This report will examine the methods used to arrange produce haulage and changes over the past two decades. This is EDIS document, FE540, a publication of the Department of Food and Resource Economics, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. …”
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Big data mining and comparative analyses across lexica on the relationship between syllable complexity and word stress by Amanda Post da Silveira

“… For about four decades, phonological theories have claimed that word stress assignment depends on the word’s syllabic structure complexity in relation to syllabic position. …”
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The second life of polymyxins by Ageevets V.A.

“…Polymyxins are a well-known class of antimicrobial agents that have been used in clinical practice since the 1950s but lost their clinical significance for several decades. The rise of antibiotic resistance has led to the resurgence of polymyxins in practice and triggered an "explosive growth" in their use for treating hospital-acquired infections caused by carbapenem-resistant Gram-negative bacteria. …”
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Discours volontaristes et effets réels. La situation de l’occitan by Fabrice Bernissan

“…Its use will greatly reduce in the coming decades, even if actions are taken to revitalize this language. …”
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THE INFLUENCE OF STRATEGIC HR PRACTICES ON ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE IN MICRO COMPANIES by Emil Knezović

“… The research in human resource management (HRM) field has evolved in past couple decades. By observing human resources (HR) as one of the most important assets in the business, it is obvious that it represents a key to business success or failure. …”
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Energy and wood in the French Alps: strategies for an uncertain resource by Hélène Avocat*, Antoine Tabourdeau*, Christophe Chauvin, Marie-Hélène De Sede Marceau

“…During the last decade, fuelwood has developed in the alpine territories under voluntarist policies. …”
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Thank You, Akira Hayami! The Xavier Database of Historical Japan by Satomi Kurosu, Miyuki Takahashi, Hao Dong

“…We discuss the studies that flourished domestically and internationally using the data in the last two decades, followed by the discussion of current and promising development.…”
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Diagnosis and Treatment of Neurocysticercosis by Christina M. Coyle, Herbert B. Tanowitz

“…During the past three decades improved diagnostics, imaging, and treatment have led to more accurate diagnosis and improved prognosis for patients. …”
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Runoff of the Lena Basin Rivers in the Trans-Baikal Territory and its Relationship with Atmospheric Precipitation by Natalia V. Rakhmanova, Elena V. Noskova, Irina L. Vakhnina

“…Studying of the rivers’ water regime and determination of their water content cycles is especially relevant in view of extreme climate changes over the past decades and the necessity to elaborate a strategy of sustainable social/economic development of regions in contemporary conditions. …”

Hydrogen Peroxide in Inflammation: Messenger, Guide, and Assassin by C. Wittmann, P. Chockley, S. K. Singh, L. Pase, G. J. Lieschke, C. Grabher

“…Starting as a model for developmental genetics, embryology, and organogenesis, the zebrafish has become increasingly popular as a model organism for numerous areas of biology and biomedicine over the last decades. Within haematology, this includes studies on blood cell development and function and the intricate regulatory mechanisms within vertebrate immunity. …”
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La aristocracia altomedieval: legados historiográficos y tendencias de investigación by Mariel Pérez

“…This review will show that although the historiographical tradition inaugurated by Marc Bloch and Georges Duby actually inherited the topics and schemes from their predecessors –which led them to go deeply into the study of classical questions such as the transformations of its family structures–, in the last decades a number of new problems on medieval aristocracy emerged, as well as new frameworks of interpretation and methodological tools that are renewing and revitalizing these studies.…”
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Reward signals in the motor cortex: from biology to neurotechnology by Gerard Derosiere, Solaiman Shokur, Pierre Vassiliadis

“…Abstract Over the past decade, research has shown that the primary motor cortex (M1), the brain’s main output for movement, also responds to rewards. …”
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Has public policy-making become a fully-fledged function of public administration in the Republic of Serbia? by Atanasijević Jasna, Vučetić Dejan

“…By analyzing the normative framework and its application, the paper explores its historical development and advancement in recent decades. A set of regulations from 2018, including the Planning System Act and accompanying bylaws on the policy-making methodology, have laid the foundation for modern, evidence-based public policy in Serbia. …”
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Du discours dynastique au corps social. Retour sur la terminologie des groupes aristocratiques incas de Cuzco by Laurent Segalini

“…The existence in Cuzco of social groups supposedly uniting the descendants of the successive Inca sovereigns constitutes an essential datum for the various interpretative models of Inca dynastic history elaborated in the last decades, opposing those who defend an historical interpretation to those with a mythical conception of the narratives and their protagonists. …”
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Trends in Rice Production and Varieties in the Everglades Agricultural Area by Jehangir H. Bhadha, Luigi Trotta, Matthew VanWeelden

“… Rice production in the Everglades Agriculture Area (EAA) of Florida dates back nearly seven decades. For a brief period in the 1950s about 2,000 acres of rice was grown in the EAA. …”
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Advances in Meniscal Tissue Engineering by Umile Giuseppe Longo, Mattia Loppini, Francisco Forriol, Giovanni Romeo, Nicola Maffulli, Vincenzo Denaro

“…Meniscal tears are the most common knee injuries and have a poor ability of healing. In the last few decades, several techniques have been increasingly used to optimize meniscal healing. …”
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