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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Controversies in Archaeology by Alice Beck Kehoe by Stephen C. Jett

“…It tells much more than what is or has been controversial; it gives extended glimpses of many general changes that have occurred in anthropology's subfield of archaeology over the past half-century or more. Numerous case studies are provided. …”
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The efficacy of today's American political culture in closing the achievement gap by Omar S. López

“…More than a half century ago, Daniel Elazar advanced a typology of three types of American political culture by linking historical migrations and religious preferences of people to distinctive locations in the United States. …”
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A comparison between fuel cells and other alternatives for marine electric power generation by Yousri M.A. Welaya, M. Morsy El Gohary, Nader R. Ammar

“…Global energy consumption in the last half-century has increased very rapidly and is expected to continue to grow over the next 50 years. …”
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Précis of The Concept of Argument. A Philosophical Foundation by Harald Wohlrapp

“…The theoretical labor carried out over the past half-century in the field of argumentation theory has become so rich, heterogenous, and controversial by now that there is an urgent need for a philosophically reflected foundation. …”
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Behavioural controversy concerning homo economicus: a Humean perspective by Khandakar Elahi

“…The paper concludes that Hume’s theory convincingly explains the reason why the HE controversy is continuing for over half century- a fact that both the mainstream and behavioural economists are ignoring.…”
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Honoring the Lion: A Festschrift for Jan de Leeuw by Patrick Mair, Katharine Mullen

“…The contributions to this special volume look back at some of his research interests and accomplishments during the half-century that he has been active in psychometrics and statistics. …”
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Teaching evolution in Chile. History of a conflict documented in textbooks of secondary education by Manuel Tamayo Hurtado, Francisco González García

“…The text of Bernardino Quijada marked a landmark and polarized to those in favor and detractors during half century. The evolutionary subject was reduced in second half of century XX, partly by the development of other biological fields, but also by ideological pressures of preservative religious sectors. …”
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From Ying Nakhon Sopheni to Sao Borikan: Banality and Originality in the Development of Prostitution in Thailand by Jean Baffie

“…However, in present-day Thailand, and, at least for the last half-century, money is just like the true god (ngoen khue prachao) and the prospect to obtain more money tolerates any behavior and any corruption. …”
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Valvular heart disease is changing – a challenge for Africa by David A. Tibbutt, DM, FRCP

“…There are implications for Africa as healthcare improves and people live longer. Over the last half century in Western countries there has been a change in the incidence of valvular heart disease from a rheumatic cause to one of degeneration. …”
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Changing fashions in the conservation and restoration of gardens in Great-Britain by Brent Elliott

“…Various conflicts have revealed themselves in the last half century, as standards of knowledge and historic accuracy have become progressively more demanding.…”
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Journeys through Calabria between 19th and 20th century. Three case studies about transition from “Grand Tour” to modern tourism: Cesare Malpica, Luigi Vittorio Bertarelli e Bernar... by Vittorio Cappelli

“…First time in 1908 and, after almost an half century, the second time in 1955.…”
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Transition Types of Population Trends of Vojvodina from 1961. to 2011. by Vanja Javor

“…Objective work is just a general overview of the transition types of population trends in the past half century, and intertwining transitional trends in the natural renewal and migration of the population in Vojvodina, based on which is formed the total population potentials in the period from 1961. to 2011.…”
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Le régionalisme sécuritaire maritime des petits et micro-Etats de la grande région caraïbe : entre vulnérabilités, autonomisation, et dépendances by Sylvain Domergue

“…The changes of the last half-century have considerably increased the dependence of States, economies and societies on maritime spaces. …”
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Contemporary Art and Sufi Aesthetics in European Contexts by Sara Kuehn

“…Drawing upon recent methodological tendencies inspired by the “aesthetic turn”, this study explores post- and decolonial ways of thinking about Sufi-inspired artworks, and the development of a transcultural Sufi-inspired aesthetic within the context of migration and displacement over the last half-century.…”
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Self-Enactment or Self-Disclosure: A Search for Autobiographical References in the Lyrics of Bob Dylan by Daniela Doboș

“…The paper sets out to identify autobiographical influences in Dylan’s lyrics, which span five decades, down to the current “mix of inscrutability, flashed teeth, existential angst and deep sorrow, deadpan humour and dead-on breakdowns”, as a perfectly satisfactory coda to a remarkable half-century of music making. …”
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Comment rester vigilant face à l’oubli ? Le musée de la fonderie à Rosières by Guillaume Etienne

“…This museum indeed appears to function as a microcosm of a social life that no longer exists, and that was strongly connected to the factory life and the industrial plant as well as industrial paternalism that ruled the workers’ lives during almost one and a half century.…”
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Glycobiology of Reproductive Processes in Marine Animals: The State of the Art by Maria Costantini, Alessandra Gallo

“…Glycobiology is the study of complex carbohydrates in biological systems and represents a developing field of science that has made huge advances in the last half century. In fact, it combines all branches of biomedical research, revealing the vast and diverse forms of carbohydrate structures that exist in nature. …”
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On the possibilities and impossibilities of cross-cultural communication by Martina Ožbot

“…At the same time, the burgeoning growth of translation studies is to be explained within the context of the expansion of the discipline of linguistics over the past half-century , an important part of which is the development of various text-oriented branches in which attention has been given to previously largely unstudied phenomena of the functioning of language in real communicative situations. …”
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Four-quark matter—a new era of spectroscopy by Zhiqing Liu

“…These new hadron states are called exotic hadrons, and have been searched for over the past half century. In this review, I will introduce you the discovery of a new particle called Z c (3900), which is considered as the first convincing four-quark particle. …”
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