Megaciudades, globalización y viabilidad urbana by Boris Graizbord

“…It is expected that three out of four from the 4 000 million new inhabitants in the world will settle in Asia, Africa and Latin America in the next half century.In this paper a description of the world distribution of these cities is presented. …”
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Closure and Continuity by Imelda Maher, Joelle Grogan

“…In fact, we argue that closure and continuity are necessary for the relations between both states and their relationship with the EU now and in the next half century.</p> …”
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The Rhetoric of the Rearguard? Sincerity in Innovative American Poetics by Nicholas Manning

“…How did the criterion of poetic sincerity transform, in the space of a half-century, from a fundamental tenet of radical modernism to an incarnation of lyrical and expressive orthodoxy? …”
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Translation without borders: international perspectives on changing practices in translation theory and pedagogy by Elizabeth Lowe

“…Translation Studies is a relatively new discipline, formerly at the margins of traditional academic departments, that has not only expanded but has been reinstated into the center of the humanities. In the past half-century the field has become a dynamic inter-discipline, transforming research and teaching in a number of fields, including language studies, linguistics, cultural studies, and social sciences. …”
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Currency board or central bank? Lessons from the Irish pound’s link with sterling, 1928-79 by P. HONOHAN

“…The authors evaluate the institutional arrangements which underpinned the Irish pound for a half-century. While the regime did have a credibility which led to low interest rates and a degree of price stability, its resilience was partly due to the large additional foreign reserves held by the private banking system and to the fact that the sterling proved not to be a very strong currency. …”
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Introduction to the Special Issue on Learning Analytics by Karen Swan

“…One consequence of this move is the information overload envisioned by Vannevar Bush over a half century ago. The growth of data often seems to threaten the ability of organizations to make sense of it. …”
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Technological advances in cardiac pacing and defibrillation by Sok-Sithikun Bun, Fabien Squara, Didier Scarlatti, Guillaume Theodore, Decebal Gabriel Latcu, Karim Hasni, Fatima Azzahrae Benaich, Emna Allouche, Nadir Saoudi, Emile Ferrari

“…Since more than a half century, cardiac pacing and defibrillation represent a field in constant evolution, and they have shown some great technological advances from its conception to its methods of insertion. …”
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Translation without borders: international perspectives on changing practices in translation theory and pedagogy by Elizabeth Lowe

“…Translation Studies is a relatively new discipline, formerly at the margins of traditional academic departments, that has not only expanded but has been reinstated into the center of the humanities.  In the past half-century the field has become a dynamic inter-discipline, transforming research and teaching in a number of fields, including language studies, linguistics, cultural studies, and social sciences. …”
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Fiscal Policy Trends: The Long-Term Consequences of Fiscal Responses to Resource Revenue Fluctuations by Ergete Ferede

“…Over the last half-century, the Alberta government has been heavily reliant on non-renewable resource revenues, which have averaged about 30 per cent of the provincial government’s total revenue. …”
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On causal roles and selected effects: our genome is mostly junk by W. Ford Doolittle, Tyler D. P. Brunet

“…Comparisons to vertebrates with much larger and smaller genomes (the lungfish and the pufferfish) strongly align with such a conclusion, as they have done for the last half-century.…”
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Encounters and impressions during more than half a century.¹ by A. H. Ernst

“…My life experiences of more than a half-century have taught me the absolute need for the European, with his higher culture and way of life, to live incomplete separation or “apartheid” from the natives of Asiatic and African countries; not because they are black or brown or yellow, but because the environment in which they have grown up has produced types of a lower standard of morality and culture.…”
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Mass Violence, Transitional Justice, Politics of Memory: Theoretical Perspectives and Conceptual Nodes by Luca Scuccimarra

“…Over the past half-century, the «politics of memory» have emerged theoretically and practically as a key dimension of that constellation of non-punitive instruments of «redemption» from past atrocities that we are accustomed to approximate through the notions of «reparative» or «restorative justice». …”
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An important anniversary in linguistics by Bugarski Ranko

“…In 1957 two ground-breaking books were published in the field of linguistics Chomsky's Syntactic Structures and Lado's Linguistics Across Cultures, which have strongly influenced the development of theoretical and applied linguistics respectively over the past half-century. This paper briefly compares their widely different approaches, noting also certain points of contact that subsequent research has revealed. …”
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Hermeneutiese vertrekpunte vir gereformeerde eksegese by G.J.C. Jordaan, Fika J. van Rensburg, Douw G. Breed

“…This article attempts this by way of establishing the state of the art of the hermeneutic premises of reformed exegesis and developing and edifying it, utilising results of the past half century’s new insights in hermeneutics.…”
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Methodological and scientific properties of School Effectiveness Research: exploring the underpinnings, evolution and future directions of the field by Sammons, P, Davis, S, Gray, J

“…This chapter examines the origins, methodological properties, and evolution of school effectiveness research (SER), and the broader and more recent focus of educational effectiveness research (EER), over the last half century. It provides a brief overview of the main disciplinary roots and examines the essential features that underpin the two fields. …”

Biodiesel: History of an innovation to keep the world moving by Narayanaganesh Balasubramanian, Katherine F Steward

“…The history of biodiesel dates back to mid-19th century when transesterification of vegetable oils was discovered. It took another half century for the world to realize its potential as fuel. …”
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‘Cultural encounters: Western scholarship and Fang statuary from Equatorial Africa’ [Inaugural address, delivered on the acceptance of an extraordinary professorship at Tilburg Uni... by Wilfried van Damme

“…In this inaugural address, delivered on the acceptance of an extraordinary professorship at Tilburg University, Netherlands, in 2011, Wilfried van Damme examines three approaches that have been characteristically applied within the Western anthropology of art during the last half century. Illustrating these approaches with reference to the study of Fang statuary from equatorial Africa, he discusses a stylistic approach, focusing on anatomical details and proportions of Fang anthropomorphic sculptures; a culturalist approach, highlighting the local meaning and values these sculptures express; and a postcolonial approach, dealing with the Western appropriation and commodification of Fang statues.…”
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DO FATS OR CARBOHYDRATES SHORTEN OUR LIVES? WHAT DOES THE PURE STUDY REVEAL? by A. E. Demkina, S. A. Boytsov

“…However, during more than a half century of observation, the influence of fatty acids on CVD development is still debated. …”
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The collapse of the state industry in Romania: between political and economic drivers by Cătălin Deacu

“…Deindustrialisation is one of the most complex and dynamic processes that have shaped the global economy over the past half century. This article aims to highlight the factors behind this process and their implications in the national state industry. …”
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THE SILENT PARTNER: MARY MEHAGAN HILL AND THE GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY by Christiane Taylor

“…At a time when large corporations were just becoming commonplace and the term “corporate wife” was more than a half-century from entering the vernacular, Mary Mehagan Hill, spouse of Great Northern Railway founding partner and president James J. …”
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