A Strategic Partnership EU-AU. A joint vision for a common security by Luís Manuel Brás Bernardino

“…Although the EU-Africa or EU-AU summits seek to contribute to strengthening strategic cooperation between organisations, it has not been very successful. …”
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Evolution of the European Political Community in Times of the EU’s ‘Geopolitical Awakening’ by Sylwia Katarzyna Mazur

“…Additionally, with the lack of even a simple written communiqué released after the summits, questions regarding its institutionalisation remain open.…”
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Xyris serrana (Xyridaceae), a new species endemic to the Campos de Cima da Serra, southern Brazil by Eduardo Damasceno Lozano, Maria das Graças Lapa Wanderley, Paulo Takeo Sano

“…The new species is known from few samples from the summits of Serra Geral, in Santa Catarina State. According IUCN criteria, the conservation status of the species is evaluated as Data Deficient. …”
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Six Years of ʼ16+1ʼFramework of Cooperation – in Between EU, Expectations and Limitations by DRAGANA MITROVIC

“…After five years, several prime ministers’ summits and different ways of cooperation being introduced, it left most, if not all its European participants with mixed impressions about the very experience and the prospect for the future development of the platform. …”
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Linguistic Aspects of [Ninna-Nanna di Madonna] Part of the Calabrian Dialect Poem la Notte di Natale by Fr. Vincenzo Padula (1819-1893) by Artur Katolo

“…Padula, to carry the Acrian dialect a such high summits of lyricism and piety. The Acrian dialect served him to know and testify the Calabrian society and culture. …”
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International Development Innovation Network (IDIN) Program Impact Data 2014-2017 by Budzyna, Laura

“…The program consisted of five components: design workshops and summits, innovation project funding, local innovation centers, research, and MIT student engagement.…”
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Incredulity towards global-warming crisis: ecocriticism in Ian McEwan’s Solar by Habibi, Seyed Javad, Karbalaei, Sara Soleimani

“…Incredulity towards the metanarrative emerged from discourses conducted during various international summits on global warming is one of the themes that can be underlined in the light of ecocriticism in Ian McEwan’s Solar. …”
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The erosional and angular unconformity between the Chapada Diamantina and Bambuí (Una) groups at the Mirangaba sheet - Bahia by Ginaldo Ademar da Cruz Campanha, Reginaldo Alves dos Santos, Benjamim Bley de Brito Neves

“…The lower pediplan then formed (today with summits ≥ 500 m) was completelycovered by the limestones (Salitre Fm.), where calcilutites are predominating, presenting many algalic edifications. …”
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International Legal Aspects of Energy Security by A. A. Kovalev, N. L. Shilova

“…The article covers essential legal aspects of international (global) energy security, based on the analysis of Energy Charter Treaty (1994) and G-8 summits documents. The balance between producers and consumers of energy and transit countries, energy efficiency and ecological aspects are the key issues for international energy security today. …”
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Alianza Pacífico Intervention Mechanism to Promote Free Competition in the Mobile Telephone Market by Yeny Carolina Lozada-Ballesteros, Francisco Javier Rueda-Galvis, Sandra Helena Rodríguez-Meléndez

“…The main results express a proposal focused on the consolidation of an inter-parliamentary commission for commercial monitoring that gives greater recognition to the integration agreements of the presidential summits, through sector studies and democratic participation protocols that benefit all the players in the mobile phone market.…”
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The US Rebalance Policy and the Management of Power Politics in Asia Pacific by Anak Agung Banyu Perwita, Denisa Rizkiya

“…The U.S. presence and involvement in most essential regional meetings and summits can also be seen as an effort to seek opportunities, politically, economically, as well as security. …”
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Asean, a fragmented integration in a changing world by Olivier Dupont

“…But other mechanisms have gradually come into play and some group dynamics have emerged over time through the summits and treaties. Several aspects of this process should be highlighted: - the achievement of independence among countries in the area and the consolidation of this independence; - a willingness to resist the rise of communism in the region; the easing of tension and the stabilising role in the region played by the Association; - the common desire to promote growth and the efforts to create a sense of identity; - the growing role played by the Association and its member states in a multilateral framework and especially in relation to the People’s Republic of China (PRC).…”
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Security Culture and its Self-Assessment as Supplementary Tools for Nuclear Security Training by Igor Khripunov, Sara Z. Kutchesfahani, Khairul Khairul

“…In fact, many International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) publications and the Nuclear Security Summits have highlighted the vital role of nuclear security culture and raised its status to the same level as physical protection and material accountancy. …”
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India’s climate and energy goals after COP21: contradictory or complementary? by Sen, A

“…There was, however, a visible shift in India's stance at COP21 in comparison with previous climate summits. Arguably, this shift began in 2010 in Cancun, when India pledged its first climate target (to reduce the emissions intensity of GDP by 20–25 per cent by 2020 from 2005 levels, soon after China announced its emissions intensity target), and it was further defined at COP21.…”

SOX4 and RELA Function as Transcriptional Partners to Regulate the Expression of TNF- Responsive Genes in Fibroblast-Like Synoviocytes by Kyle Jones, Kyle Jones, Sergio Ramirez-Perez, Sergio Ramirez-Perez, Sean Niu, Sean Niu, Umesh Gangishetti, Umesh Gangishetti, Hicham Drissi, Hicham Drissi, Hicham Drissi, Pallavi Bhattaram, Pallavi Bhattaram

“…Interestingly, ChIP-seq assays revealed that 70.4% of SOX4 peak summits were within 50bp of the RELA peak summits suggesting that both proteins bind in close-proximity on regulatory sequences, enabling them to co-operatively regulate gene expression. …”
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Welcome back Kotter–Developing a National Allergy strategy for Australia by Sandra L. Vale, BSc, Maria Said, RN, Jill Smith, BSc, Preeti Joshi, PhD, Richard KS. Loh, FRACP

“…Unrestricted education grants were sought to fund engagement with stakeholder organizations for both development and implementation summits. Several stages of advocacy were undertaken. …”
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Changes in biothermal conditions in the Sudetes Mountains and their foreland in relation to the circulation conditions by Miszuk Bartłomiej, Furdak Agnieszka

“…The research indicated a positive tendency of UTCI values for the majority of circulation types, which consequently contributed to a decrease in the frequency of cold stress categories. In the summits, a decline in the number of days with extreme cold stress was the most characteristic feature, especially under anticyclonic and northern circulation. …”
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“Eternal Bodies”: images of archangels in the upper parts of Nubian buildings by Magdalena Łaptaś

“…Therefore, their sanctuaries were located on hill summits, in the upper chapels, on structural elements of ecclesiastical buildings, etc. …”
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Des paysages agroforestiers à l’interface entre ressource, production et conservation (Uttarakhand, Inde) by Sylvie Guillerme

“…This is particularly the case in Uttarakhand, a mountain State in North-East India which offers a wide diversity of forestry and agroforestry landscapes in an area stretching from the fertile Ganges Plain to the snow-covered summits of the Himalayas. In such a context, and faced with an environmental and protectionist forestry policy inherited from the British colonial period, village communities are blamed for the degradation of the forests in spite of their ancestral use of these forests in association with agroforestry farming practices in the cultivated areas. …”
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Economy and Climate Change The Paris Conference - December 2015 by Viorel Pop

“…This paper, other than being a brief listing of Summits dealing with climate changeissues also describes the evolution of the CO2 atmosphere percentage as well as theconsumption of carbon based fuels - the reason for the highly increasing raise in theconcentration of the most nominated greenhouse effect gas that causes the rise oftemperature on our planet.…”
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