Christiane Rochefort et Le Repos du guerrier : le scandale de la jouissance féminine by Willem Hardouin-Zanardi

“…If, in 1958, this novel could appear shocking, it was not so much because of its vocabulary, as critics tried to make believe, but above all because of how words are used: Rochefort is specifically interested in female pleasure. …”
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A retrospective look at global recessions and modern trends in the world economic growth by E. N. Smirnov

“…It is shown, that in recent decades global crises have become cascading and have a greater impact on the volatility of world markets, making inflationary shocks sharper, and the monetary policy of countries and global financial conditions tougher.…”
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“To us the war is a spectacle”: Domestic Consumption of the Crimean War in Victorian Britain by Alison Fletcher

“…The administrative shortcomings and the suffering of wounded soldiers shocked the British public and raised concerns about the effectiveness of the army. …”
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THE SIGNIFICANCE AND ROLE OF USING INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES IN MODERN AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION by Mladen Petrović, Irina Marina, Marko Jeločnik

“…In order to succeed to feed the global population in upcoming period, additionally pressed by climate change, or economic shocks and environmental issues, agriculture is forced to be based on innovation and improved technologies. …”
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A ironia como projeto: movimentos da narrativa de Cora Coralina no campo literário brasileiro by Clovis Carvalho Britto, Maria Eugênia Curado

“…Her style, strategies of creation and themes were unique, not usual, with emphasis on the use of irony. Cora Coralina "shocked" the literary field and she still can be heard asa representativeof the Brazilian's female literature, field where she represents one of the "lines of force".…”
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Economic Resilience Index and Studying Its Effects on Iran’s Economic Growth by Mansour Zaranezhad, Ebrahim Anvari, HamidReza Halafi

“…The implementation of various scenarios showed that after the occurrence of shocks, the simulated economic growth had a consistent and upward trend. …”
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Digital transformation and corporate resilience: Evidence from China during the COVID-19 pandemic by AiMin Yan, Hao Ma, Dandan Zhu, Julan Xie

“…To investigate the relationship between digital transformation and corporate resilience in the face of external shocks, we empirically analyzed the relationship between digital transformation and corporate resilience in the context of COVID-19 by dividing corporate resilience into two dimensions: Resistance and recovery. …”
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The Impact of the Covid Pandemic on UK Economic Policy and Its Legacy by Nicholas Sowels

“…This article examines the economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the UK in comparison to previous shocks since 1980. It details the economic measures taken by the public authorities to deal with the crisis, including massive public spending to support household incomes and powerful monetary policy measures. …”
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Mormonisme et migration : la religion comme “amortisseur” des processus migratoires transatlantiques by Eliott Mourier

“…First, because those religious movements have historically taken, and will indeed take advantage of those migratory flows in order to maintain their vitality, and then, because it is clear that those transnational religions can provide their members with a “ security net ” that will cushion the shocks recurrent all along the different steps of the migratory process.…”
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Extrusion Hole Test for Improving Fatigue Strength of the Chain Plate of Bucket Lift by Diao Zhonghua, Liu Feng, Tang Chuanchang

“…Under the alternating load, the chain of high-speed heavy-duty bucket hoist passes through hundreds of thousands or more shocks, and the final failure mode is mainly chain plate fatigue fracture. …”
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Wage-setting Behavior in France: Additional Evidence from an Ad-hoc Survey by Jérémi Montornès, Jacques-Bernard Sauner-Leroy

“…iv) When companies are faced with adverse shocks, the latter are partially transmitted into prices. …”
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Dłonie i motywy związane z rękami w kreatywnej reklamie wizualnej by Brygida Pawłowska-Jądrzyk

“…The author summarizes typical ways of using the motif of hands in advertising, then focuses on examples of creative advertising, i.e. a form of marketing that, as a rule, aims to attract attention by breaking the presentation schemes, surprising, and often also shocking the recipient. The following types of advertisements can be distinguished within this category: (1) advertisements based on transsemiotic delexicalization of phrases or expressions related to hands or activities performed with them; (2) advertisements ascribing to hands some extraordinary features or properties that conflict with common knowledge about the world and as such require a non-literal interpretation; (3) advertisements relying on the animalization or reification of hands; (4) advertisements featuring hand/palm/finger themes in unusual, drastic, or obscene situational contexts; (5) advertisements in which motifs related to hands are an element of intertextual play of meanings.…”
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« Suspect Device » : punk et violence dans l’Irlande du Nord des « Troubles » by Timothy A. Heron

“…In 1976, punk took the United Kingdom by surprise, and for one brief moment, challenged some of the cultural and social assumptions of British society, shocking public opinion and causing an outbreak of moral panic in its wake. …”
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Influence of the urban vegetation on thermal dissipation and gaseous pollutants by Teresa Milagros Defilippi Shinzato, Alexis Dueñas, Julián Ccasani, Vanessa García, Gianinna Morales

“…In the urban environment, resilience is a result of the shocks caused by pollution, noise and changes in land usage, through the process of ‘artificialization’, typical of the process of building a city. …”
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Economic Policy Uncertainty and Stock Returns of Africa: A Wavelet Coherence Analysis by Emmanuel Asafo-Adjei, Daniel Agyapong, Samuel Kwaku Agyei, Siaw Frimpong, Reginald Djimatey, Anokye M. Adam

“…This study explores how global economic policy uncertainty (EPU) shocks comove with stock returns (SR) of eight African countries—Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Morocco, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, and Zambia. …”
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A posteriori Variational Multiscale Methods for the 1D convection-diffusion equations by Chacón Rebollo, Tomás, Domínguez-Delgado, Antonio, Gómez Marmol, Macarena

“…We present an extension of this technique to nonlinear convection-diffusion equations (a traffic model), providing an efficient method for the resolution of shocks from just the Galerkin solution at targeted times. …”
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Investor sentiment networks: mapping connectedness in DJIA stocks by Kingstone Nyakurukwa, Yudhvir Seetharam

“…Frequency connectedness dissects connectedness into short-, medium-, and long-term investing horizons, while asymmetric connectedness focuses on the transmission of positive and negative sentiment shocks on news and social media platforms. Our results reveal interesting patterns in which both news and social media sentiments demonstrate consistency in connectedness across the short-, medium-, and long-term. …”
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Partially Overlapping Ownership and Contagion in Financial Networks by Micah Pollak, Yuanying Guan

“…Our results show that trends in capital buffers and the distribution and type of assets have a significant effect on the predictions of financial network contagion models and that the rising trend in ownership of banks by banks amplifies shocks to the financial system.…”
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Resistant Ventricular Arrhythmia and the Role of Overdrive Pacing in the Suppression of the Electrical Storm by Mohamed Magdi, Mahmood Mubasher, Hakam Alzaeem, Tahir Hamid

“…Afterwards, he developed frequent life-threatening ventricular arrhythmias that required multiple shocks and antiarrhythmic medications. Despite all these interventions, it was very difficult to control the electrical instability, but after overdrive ventricular pacing, the storm subsided and within a few days the case was stabilized. …”
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A Network-Based Dynamic Analysis in an Equity Stock Market by Juan Eberhard, Jaime F. Lavin, Alejandro Montecinos-Pearce

“…In addition, changes in the brokers’ transaction network structure are associated with a greater probability of positive shocks of more than two standard deviations in the stock exchange index return and total traded stock volume. …”
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