Updates on Palliative Medicine in the COVID-19 Era by Giustino Varrassi, Martina Rekatsina

“…The advances in knowledge in the field of pain medicine in the last half century have recently been reported from both the scientific and the social points of view [...]…”
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Four surprises of electronic music by Miller Puckette

“…The evolution of electronic music practice over the past half century has not gone precisely as we expected.  …”
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A History of Jordan / by Robins, Philip, author 531656

“…Philip Robins' survey of Jordan's political history begins in the early 1920s, continues through the years of the British Mandate, and traces events over the next half century to the present day. Throughout the period, the country's fortunes were closely identified with its head of state, King Hussein, until his death in 1999. …”

Onychophorology, the study of velvet worms, historical trends, landmarks, and researchers from 1826 to 2020 (a literature review) by Julián Monge-Nájera

“…This is the first general history of Onychophorology, which has been divided into half-century periods. The beginning, 1826-1879, was characterized by studies from former students of famous naturalists like Cuvier and von Baer. …”
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The Language of Implant-based Breast Reconstruction: Can We Do Better? by Shamit S. Prabhu, MD, Ramon Llull, MD, PhD, Adam J. Katz, MD

“…The management of breast cancer has experienced tremendous changes in the last half-century. In today’s multimodal approach to breast cancer, patients have the prospect of achieving a sense of normalcy after mastectomy thanks to advancements in oncology and breast reconstruction. …”
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The Transformative Influence of La Varenne's Le Cuisinier Francois (1651) on French Culinary Practice by Leon G. Fine

“…However, when there was a historical absence of cookbooks for a half-century, as there was in France in the first half of the seventeenth century, it is argued herein that the advent of a single cookbook in 1651, Le Cuisinier Francois by La Varenne, could have had a transformational influence on culinary practice over the ensuing half-century. …”
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A student’s pilgrimage by G.L.S. SHACKLE

“…Shackle traces the evolution of his thoughts over the half-century since his first publication, recounting a brief story of ideas rather than personal events.   …”
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Um longo degelo: a guerra colonial e a descolonização nos ecrãs portugueses (1974-1994) by Carlos Maurício

“…In the last half-century, the construction of collective representations and images increasingly depends on cinema and television. …”
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GOLUB’S FIRST FRUITS IN THE CONTEXT OF HIS POETIC OPUS by Mario Kolar

“…By comparing these early Golub’s poems with his later poetic work it was possible to establish that his poetic exhibits a half-century long ideational, stylistic, thematic and formal continuity.…”
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Simbólica y política del diablo pentecostal. by Manuela Cantón

“…The ethnographic context of observation there distributes between(among) diverse congregations Christian - pentecostales of the west of Guatemala, which religious field has seen drastically transformed into last half century due to the entry of Protestant organizations for the most part related to the charismatic pentecostalismo.…”
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Ombres et lumières sur la Bretagne antique by Patrick Galliou

“…The archeological findings during the last half-century in Britain have shown that the actual « romanisation » of the island brought about by the Claudian conquest of 43 A.D. had been preceded by a phase of commercial and political contacts over the last century before our era. …”
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Democracy, Governance and Decentralization by Allan ROSENBAUM

“…<p>In the half century that has followed the conclusion of World War II there has been increasing concern about issues of democratization and good governance. …”
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A lifetime with models, or toils and thrills of number crunching by Nikolai A. Tsyganenko 

“…This article is a brief overview of the author’s half-century-long efforts in building Earth’s magnetosphere models, with some feats, setbacks, and lessons learned.…”
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Fifty Years of the History of American Sculpture by Roberta K. Tarbell

“…During the last half century, the history of American sculpture has been transformed dramatically. …”
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Medio siglo de publicaciones botánicas en la Revista de Biología Tropical by Jorge León

“…<abstract language="eng">Over its first half century the Revista de Biología Tropical published many papers and supplements dealing with the botany. …”
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Some Reflections on Academic Publishing in Italy Today by Edoardo Roberto Barbieri

“…The essay analyses the complex system of academic publishing, particularly focusing on the situation of northern Italy in the past half century, in order to highlight critical issues and possible lines of development. …”
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Paradoxes and prospects of the glocal by Петр Капустин

“…Surmounting the crisis that has taken the past half century cannot be considered complete yet. At present, one can see the problems and prospects of new syntheses of the universal and the local, without which it is impossible to imagine the comprehensive future of the planet.…”
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Annexation in right-wing Israeli discourse—The case of Ribonut by Ian S. Lustick

“…The one-state reality has dramatically changed the discursive landscape of the movement of Israeli settlers and their supporters who have waged a half century campaign to prevent territorial compromise as a basis for Israeli-Palestinian peace. …”
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Lincoln’s Image in the American Schoolbook by David Goldfield

“…Following Lincoln's assassination in 1865, textbooks for the next half century portrayed him as a martyr for a mostly evangelical Protestant nation and as a role model for African Americans. …”
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La historiografía contemporánea sobre la independencia en Centroamérica by Coralia Gutiérrez Álvarez

“…When considering the development of Central American historiography over the past half century, it is evident that the creole, liberal and positivist paradigms have been ceding ground to new ways of historical research on the independences, heavily influenced by the idea of modernity. …”
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