Dickens’s Global Art: Cultural and Ecological Legacy in Pictures from Italy by Juliet JOHN

“…His travels to Italy made clear the difficulty of producing art which travelled across space and time—particularly in an era when new technical and political impulses seemed to reshape the world, disrupting organic conceptions of nature, culture and society. While American Notes (1842) focuses on the potential threat of mass culture, Pictures from Italy (1846) is particularly preoccupied with intertwined concerns about cultural and ecological legacy—about whether the changed relationship between culture and nature opened up newly fertile aesthetic and geographical worlds, or whether this narrative of progress carried with it, in its seeming schism with past ways of being, the inevitability of decline and catastrophe. …”
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Present Uncertainty and Looking to the Past: The Ambiguous Literary Nationalism of Putnam’s Monthly by Mark NIEMEYER

“…Besides its high quality, what made the New York-based magazine stand out was its commitment to publishing American writers and focusing on American themes at a time when, with no reliable international copyright protection in place, many periodicals in the United States were in the habit of reprinting the works of foreign (primarily British) authors, sometimes without payment. …”
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Exhibiting the West at the Paris Exposition of 1867: Towards a New American Aesthetic Identity? by François Brunet, Jessica Talley

“…In the context of this Exposition western photography, natural specimens and material culture of the post-Civil War era contributed to renovating the French and European view of America—substituting specific objects and pictures for an abstract idea and creating, for the first time perhaps, a strong aesthetic appeal for American pictures that were no longer the clichés understood by the phrase “American images.”…”
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"Josef K von 1963...": Orson Welles' ‘Americanized’ Version of The Trial and the changing functions of the Kafkaesque in Postwar West Germany by Anne-Marie Scholz

“…In 1963, in the midst of spectacular court cases and “trials” that began to highlight the widespread complicity of Germans in National Socialist war crimes, the theme of “active resistance” to tyranny that Welles’ version of The Trial offered did not fit the picture. It was, as one critic suggested, a distorted, “Americanized” fantasy. …”
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The South between Two Frontiers: Confederate Cowboys and Savage Rednecks by Hervé Mayer

“…If The Birth of a Nation was the first and last film in which Blacks were pictured as predatory beasts in Hollywood, this internal frontier reappears with the cultural crisis of the 1960s, when the South became home to savages of a new kind, degenerate rednecks, who embody the failure of the national myth in the Western, serving as scapegoats for an American savagery revealed by the My Lai massacre and the Manson murders. …”
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Being at home: Global citizenship in Norwegian schools. A study of children’s poems by Susan Erdmann, Barbara Gawronska

“…To achieve at least a preliminary picture of the children’s self-perception, the authors have analysed poems on two topics: Me and Home, written by pupils of an international school and a Norwegian school, both informant groups aged 11-13. …”
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Survey on Knowledge, Use, and Diagnostic Applicability of Special Tests for Rotator Cuff Involvement in Clinical Practice by Steven W. Forbush, William D. Bandy, Gabrielle L. Back-Kremers, Mollie Renfroe, Haley F. Downey

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Une histoire oubliée : la genèse française du terme « film noir » dans les années 1930 et ses implications transnationales by Thomas Pillard

“…Since then, the term has been exclusively associated with Hollywood pictures and “film noir” has been considered a specifically American form. …”
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Vaping illusions: The hidden risks of E-cigarette use among young Filipinos and adolescents in Latin America by John Patrick C. Toledo

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THE USA AND JAPAN IN WORLD POLITICS by S. V. Volkov

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Military security in the Arctic: New threats to Russia by V. N. Konyshev, A. A. Sergunin

“…As such, it reflects the American elites’ awareness of the growing decline in the U.S. influence and the erosion of the ‘rules-based order’. …”
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The New York Times on The NATO bombing of FR Yugoslavia in 1999 by Savić Aleksandra

“…An identical discourse appears in the German, British, and American media.…”
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RISK FACTORS OF LIFE QUALITY REDUCTION IN PATIENTS WITH SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS by Vitalii Dubas

“…Abbreviations: ACR - American College of Rheumatology AIDS - acquired immunodeficiency syndrome ANFH - avascular necrosis of femoral head CF - Cyclophosphamide EULAR - The European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology GC - glucocorticoids MMF - Mycophenolate mofetil SLE - systemic lupus erythematosus SLICC - The Systemic Lupus Erythematosus International Collaborating Clinics QoL - Quality of life…”
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Leptomeningeal Enhancement due to Neurosarcoidosis Mimicking Malignancy by Sahara N. Saltijeral, Horiana B. Grosu, Henriette De La Garza, Barbara O’Brien, Gloria Iliescu

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Atypical Endobronchial Carcinoid with Postobstructive Pneumonia Obscuring the Diagnosis of Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis by Robert Ali, Candice Baldeo, Jesse Onyenekwe, Roshan Lala, Cristian Landa, Anwer Siddiqi

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Diplomatic History of the Great Patriotic War and the New World Order by A. Y. Borisov

“…It was largely due to the US desire to realize their material advantages to the detriment of the Soviet Union after the war and build a system that would be a one-sided expression of the interests of Washington. Americans, especially after the death of President Roosevelt, and during his successor Truman understood international cooperation as an assertion of its global leadership while ignoring the interests of the Soviet Union, which bore the brunt of the war.…”
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