Cotilleo y vanidad: maneras posibles de vislumbrar la idea de muerte en Los dos retratosde Norah Lange by Concolino, Mariana

Subjects: “…Mujer. Portraits. Retratos. Ties. Vínculos. Woman. | Muerte…”
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An evolutionary approach to air transport: market, technology and institutional co-evolution by Pere Suau-Sanchez, Montserrat Pallarès-Barberà

“…The stress is on those factors affecting network formation and tie selection. The results of this investigation add to the limited empirical research on the evolution of transport network systems. …”
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Legal initiative for Gestational Surrogacy in Portugal: an overview of the legal, regulatory, and ethical issues by Maria Patrão Neves

“…In 2016, Portugal launched a second political attempt to legalize gestational surrogacy, proposing it as: being altruistic; forbidding a biological tie between the surrogate and the child; requiring a biological relationship between one of the legal parents and the child; and demanding a legal contract between the surrogate and the legal parents. …”
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Being grateful to Georg Simmel. Emotions, gratitude, and the relational concern of sociology in the globalized society by Davide Ruggieri

“…A relation is a precise mode of being connected to others; it is a tie emerging from reciprocal action and acquires its consistency by generating causal effects on involved actors. …”
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Being grateful to Georg Simmel. Emotions, gratitude, and the relational concern of sociology in the globalized society by Davide Ruggieri

“…A relation is a precise mode of being connected to others; it is a tie emerging from reciprocal action and acquires its consistency by generating causal effects on involved actors. …”
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Peasant Servitude in Mediaeval Catalonia by Paul Freedman

“…The essay looks at the late-mediaeval serfs in Catalunya Vella who were known as remences, peasants tied to the land they occupied and to their lords by the necessity to “redeem” themselves from servitude in order to obtain the freedom to move away. …”
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Esquisses d'une topologie des transgressions spatio-temporelles dans quelques romans contemporains by Thierry Saint Arnoult

“…Thus, in Salman Rushdie's work, the characters appear to be tied up to time and to the story. Time flows as if accelerated. …”
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Social work in the face of new challenges: blended families by Laura Domínguez de la Rosa, Mario Millán-Franco

“…, “Challenges to the family configuration: normalisation strategies” and “New ways of understanding family ties”. The results suggest that these families are still built around the basic pillar of heteronormativity. …”
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L'espace identitaire dans le roman féminin : à propos de quelques romancières belges by Judyta Zbierska-Mościcka

“…Husband's house (Bourdouxhe), garden in family estate (Gevers), heroine's flat becoming a place of metamorphosis (harpman) and finally restaurant constituting the framework of the whole story on family ties – there are so many ways to present multilayer space in feminine literature, so many places and "non-places" characteristic for female characters.…”
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Les symptômes de l'histoire : l'intime et le collectif dans Des hommes de Laurent Mauvignier by Doris G. Eibl

“…How does literature proceed in order to link the intimate and individual to collective history, thereby signalling that the intimate is inextricably tied to the collective and vice versa? Laurent Mauvignier's novel shows that collective memory, which is always polyphonic, may be the best means to reactualise a complex past and that perhaps this is only possible in fiction.…”
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Red Alerts: A Reflective Assemblage by Lucy Bollington

“…Marshalling Tobias Menely and Margaret Rondas work on the cultural meanings tied to the colour red, and Brian Massumis reflections on the US Homeland Security Advisory System and contemporary power, politics, and affect, I discuss how the red alerts assembled in this article are each infused with stress, fear and uncertainty and subtended by exclusions and erosions of care.…”
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Da rugiada a ruggine. Poesia dialettale e ambiente: Pasolini, Zanzotto, De Vita by Paulina Malicka

“…The ecocritical method, which is applied in this study, enables one to signal the urgency to reflect upon the situation of contemporary poetry, in particular of Sicilian poetry, which has its roots in Nino De Vita’s poetic works, inextricably tied to the place, the natural and the cultural context of the island. …”
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Social contagion and homophily within romantic networks: A simulation analysis by Francisco Linares Martínez

“…The aim of this paper is to illustrate Raymond Boudon’s approach by means of an agent based simulation model, where agents represent teenagers who attempt to find a romantic relationship looking for a partner within their friendship ties. Partner choice is ruled by a homophilic principle which is, in the case of this artificial society, assumed to operate in a very simple way: agents look for someone who is similar to them in a given socio-cultural trait. …”
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El posicionamiento subjetivo del #selfie / Subjective Positioning #selfie by Mercè Galán Huertas

“…The implications that can have on our lives are different depending on the age of people, the roles they adopt and their social ties. The female artists who have been identified with the seizure of selfie and social networks where they circulate, experience with the problems that arise as the answers are hateful, moving to street actions and creating workshops. …”
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From Marginality to Mattering: Linguistic Practices, Pedagogies and Diversities at a Community-Serving Senior College by Hannah Göppert, Andrea Springirth

“…This paper provides insight into the challenges and merits at the intersection of linguistic and racial/ethnic diversification within CUNY’s Medgar Evers College. Historically tied to the Black Campus Movement, the college is committed to being an agent of social transformation for the surrounding community. …”
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La inquietud metafísica en la poesía de Sylvia Plath / Metaphysical Inflexions in the Poetry of Sylvia Plath by Viorica Patea Birk

“…ABSTRACT: This article contends that Sylvia Plath is essentially a visionary poet with strong ties to the Romantic and Surrealist tradition. Her contribution to the development of 20th century poetry cannot be fully understood without taking into consideration the mythical categories which underlie her oeuvre and which determine the cathartic effect of her visionary trances and transports. …”
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Identidad nacional: planteamiento y evaluación de un modelo estructural (National identity: proposal and evaluation of a structural model) by Moreno Ramos, Maria Teresa, Vicente Canela, Antonio Luis

“…Of way more concrete have centered us in the training of the national identity, understood like the identification with the been nation, and the relation of this feeling regarding other forms of identity that have as it base other territorial fields and upper politician, or inferior; like this as with the use of one or another tongue in the home or other forms of identity tied to cultural fields or communities different as it can be the family, being these last forms of proper identity of some values post modern.…”
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La inquietud metafísica en la poesía de Sylvia Plath / Metaphysical Inflexions in the Poetry of Sylvia Plath by Viorica Patea Birk

“…ABSTRACT This article contends that Sylvia Plath is essentially a visionary poet with strong ties to the Romantic and Surrealist tradition. Her contribution to the development of 20th century poetry cannot be fully understood without taking into consideration the mythical categories which underlie her oeuvre and which determine the cathartic effect of her visionary trances and transports. …”
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Analysis of determinants influencing the level of intelectual capital disclosure: The case of FTSE 100 entities by Martin Kucera, Dana Dvorakova

“…From the point of view of size measured as total assets, there exists a statistically significant relationship for relational capital, which is generally tied to the company's relationships with customers, vendors, suppliers, and other significant constituents. …”
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La Fornarina y el origen de la Canción Española / La Fornarina and the origins of the song in Spain by Javier Barreiro

“…ABSTRACT The melodramatic biography of La Fornarina raises a large number of the burning issues of the first fifteen years of the 20th century: the establishment of a new musical genre -the so-called one-person song- the social ascent of women, together with their di"cu1ties in establishing sexual freedom, the extreme poverty of the lower levels of Spanish society, the various faces of prostitution, the changes in social life that would give rice to new forms of entertainment and shows in urban settings and would result in vaudeville ... …”
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