Contemporary reinventions of Chinese calligraphy. A semiotic exploration by Giacomo Festi, Weihuan Hou

“…Chinese calligraphy can be semiotically approached from its contemporary transformations, in an historical moment of cultural revival and media popularity. After an initial dialogue with recent contributions about the peculiarities of that long lasting tradition, where the sensori-motor dimension of the calligraphic practice will be considered, the contribution will delve into an analytical observation of four contemporary artists, all of them reinventing calligraphy in their own terms. …”
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« Rejoindre les civilisations », Victor Brauner et sa collection d’arts extra-européens by Noémie Fillon

“…There will also be an analysis of the various ways, both distinct and complementary, he regarded the works collected –formally, intellectually, “magically” and “fraternally” – to give an account of the plural nature of his relationship to extra-European art and of the dialogue between it and his own work.…”
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Die teologiese en morele regverdiging van apartheid en 'n status confessionis by P. J. Strauss

“…A further problem was that the WARC did not qualify the apartheid it was speaking out against. That complicated dialogue with the Dutch Reformed Church. Both organizations, however, showed clear indications of an awareness that they tried to consider the basic conditions for a status confessionis. …”
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Lectures patrimoniales du thermalisme : quand le patrimoine culturel immatériel et le patrimoine architectural et paysager se nourrissent réciproquement by Mathilde Lamothe

“…The challenge is to create a dialogue between these forms of heritage from a scientific but also digital point of view, using the databases developed by the Inventory and Intangible Cultural Heritage departments.…”
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Session topic mining for interactive text based on conversational content by Jie PENG, Yongge SHI, Shengbao GAO

“…Traditional theme mining model generally digs out the document theme from the interactive text only.In order to explore the session topic and improve the universality of mining model,a kind of interactive text session topic generation model based on the content of the dialogue was put forward.Firstly,by analyzing the characteristics of interactive text and based on the concept of topic tree,a dialog spanning tree was defined with a five-layer structure.Based on this and LDA,the model of session topic generation(ST-LDA)was built.At last,Gibbs sampling method was adopted to deduce the ST-LDA and obtaining session topic and its distribution probability.The results show that the ST-LDA model can dig out a session topic effectively from the interactive text.Besides,the results can reduce the complexity of the classification algorithm and can be back to the theme—participants association.It also has a good universality.…”
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Trabalho infantil e cultura camponesa: interpelações às políticas públicas by Thais Barbosa Reis, Maria Dione Carvalho de Moraes

“…However, public policies designed to eradicate child labor need to dialogue with the socio-cultural particularities of this world, so that they can be constructed having legitimacy and effectiveness.…”
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GIZC et élévation du niveau marin : vers une gestion innovante des littoraux vulnérables by Marie-Laure Lambert

“…It is interesting to note that the Madrid Protocol on Integrated Coastal Zone Management of 2008 had clearly identified the principles to guide a shared and sustainable management of coastline: long-term consideration of the sea level rise, anticipation of the phenomenon and implementation of process of dialogue between stakeholders. The event of the storm Xynthia in France, obliges today, not only to strengthen the legal existing tools, but also to imagine innovative additional ways to identify a new " littoral public domain " from the zones which will be gradually submerged, to rethink this littoral fringe as a space-plug protecting the back urban zones, and to develop methods to relocate the properties and activities.…”
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A post-colonial political theology of care and praxis in Ethiopia’s era of identity politics by N.A. Terefe

“…She proposes a post-colonial political theology of care and practice to reframe hegemonic and fragmented identities and create new in-between spaces for dialogue and cooperation. She contends that post-colonial discourse and the praxis of in between pastoral care can disrupt and challenge hegemonic definitions of culture, identity, home, and subjectivity. …”
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Henri Le Saux et le psychisme by Fabrice Blée

“…Henri Le Saux is one of the great Christian mystics of the twentieth century and a pioneer of dialogue with Hinduism. For the French Benedictine, co-founder of the first Catholic ashram, the grace of India lies in its message of interiority, which is Within. …”
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AL-QUR’AN DAN KEBENARAN ILMIAH: TEROPONG KAJIAN MODERN DALAM FILSAFAT DAN KEILMUAN by Muh. Mukmin Passa

“…Thus, this paper reflects the complexity of the relationship between science and religion, particularly within the context of Islam and the Quran, emphasizing the importance of dialogue between science and religion in comprehending the truths about human existence. …”
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Safety Issues Concerning the Medical Use of Cannabis and Cannabinoids by Mark A Ware, Vivianne L Tawfik

“…In the present article, the evidence behind major safety issues related to cannabis use is summarized, with the aim of promoting informed dialogue between physicians and patients in whom cannabinoid therapy is being considered. …”
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El discurso amoroso de Luz Acmé, alter ego de María Jesús Alvarado, y la búsqueda del marido ideal by Giovanna Pollarolo

“…The succession of the suitors, aspiring to be part of the founding couple, and the reasons why they are rejected – except for the last one – make up a discourse on love that I make dialogue, in the present work, with the Fragments of the love speech, by Roland Barthes. …”
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Réflexions autour de la notion de vraisemblance dans l’art du portrait royal à la Renaissance : l’exemple des représentations du souverain Henri IV by Juliette Souperbie

“…This article initiates a dialogue between the existing historiography on royal portraits and an analysis of portraits of Henry IV created between 1600 and 1610 in order to question the limits of authenticity in the study of this type of representation.…”
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When “Things Fall Apart”: Thinking Through Absurdity with Arendt and Aseyev by Cana Beverage

“…Hannah Arendt notably remarked that thinking, understood as the non-conclusive inner dialogue of “me” with “myself,” is most indispensable in those historical moments when “things fall apart.” …”
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Le paysagiste et l'écologue : comment obtenir une meilleure collaboration opérationnelle ? by Sylvain Morin, Sébastien Bonthoux, Philippe Clergeau

“…First, it is necessary to break down barriers of landscape designer and ecologist cultures and to construct a dialogue in the different educations. The knowledge from researchers should be synthesized and made more affordable for practitioners. …”
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The promise of attending to literary context for contextual biblical hermeneutics in Africa by D.W. Ellington

“…The heart of a combined inductive and contextual approach is inviting readers to a dialogue between text and context, asking questions that help them use literary context to observe the main aims, themes, and lines of thought of passages of Scripture, and that foster a deep identification between biblical texts and the readers’ context. …”
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Eight ‘truths’ about suicide by Rachel Gibbons

“…The intention is to assist open dialogue about the nature of suicide, to contribute to the understanding of the impact on those bereaved and to encourage open-hearted clinical engagement with those who are suicidal.…”
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Revisiting Estrogen: Efficacy and Safety for Postmenopausal Bone Health by Sandra M. Sacco, Wendy E. Ward

“…The aim of this paper is to continue the dialogue regarding the benefits and controversies of HT with the goal of encouraging the dissemination of-up-to date evidence that may influence how HT is viewed and prescribed.…”
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Quand l’anthropologie des mondes contemporains remonte le moral de l’anthropologie de la communication by Emmanuelle Lallement, Yves Winkin

“…Built as a dialogue between Emmanuelle Lallement, who introduced the study of the anthropology of contemporary worlds in France, and Yves Winkin, who founded communication anthropology, this article stresses various issues concerning the history, the strategies and the future of these closely related disciplines. …”
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La consommation d’animaux sauvages dans la Corne de l’Afrique (4e millénaire avant J.-C.-début du XXe siècle) by Thomas Guindeuil, Joséphine Lesur

“…This interdisciplinary dialogue sheds light on regional trends in the relationships between humans and the wild environment and their evolution through time.…”
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