Socialização de conteúdo cultural no ciberespaço: a questão latino-americana by Carlos A. Tavares Jr

“…Com base na hipótese de Gerd Leonhard (2008), do controle do ciberespaço através da proibição unilateral da socialização de conteúdo: quando um material cultural passa a ser compartilhado pessoalmente, sem intuitos lucrativos e malvisto (como concorrência injusta ao comércio cultural estabelecido). …”
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Bilan des recherches récentes sur le Paléolithique de Casablanca (Maroc) by Jean-Paul Raynal, Fatima-Zohra Sbihi-Alaoui, Abderrahim Mohib

“…A thirty years co-operation in the fields of Quaternary studies have brought new evidences and allowed new interpretations about the stratigraphic sequence of Casablanca, the regional biostratigraphy of mammals and micro-mammals, the first settlements of Morocco, the successive Lower Palaeolithic material cultures and their transition to Middle Palaeolithic and the stratigraphic position and status of hominids remains discovered in Middle Pleistocene formations and preceeding Modern Humans in this part of Maghreb.…”
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Ethnographies de randonnées alpines et requalifications élémentaires by Stéphane Marpot, Clémence Perrin-Malterre, Laine Chanteloup

“…It will study the plurality of material cultures involved and the exposure to the elements they generate. …”
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L’agir respectueux de l’environnement comme but de la politique by Norbert Campagna

“…The major obstacles (epistemic, economic, material, cultural, moral) will be identified and we will then see which of these obstacles a democratic and liberal State, committed to the rule of law, may eliminate without violating its constitutive principles.…”
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Material Balance : A Design Equation / by Paoletti, Ingrid, editor 635921, Nastri, Massimiliano, editor 635922

“…The highly original book explores how the relation between design technology and material cultures can underpin and drive this change. It discusses the need for a new “material balance” to develop our design practice, not only from an energy and environmental perspective, but also from a physiological, cultural and semantic one, in order to re-balance the impact of material design on society…”

Magnetic properties of silicene nanoribbons: A DFT study by Wenhao Liu, Jiming Zheng, Puju Zhao, Shuguang Cheng, Chongfeng Guo

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Nomen Est Omen: Heritage – Baština or Nasleđe – A (Not Merely) Terminological Dilemma by Ljiljana Gavrilović

“…It offers an analysis of how, through the (re)introduction of the old/new term baština, patriarchy and essentialism – two elements of non-material cultural heritage that are ostensibly undesirable and not to be retained since they are contrary to international law – are being reinstated in the sphere of culture by bureaucratic means.…”
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Nomen Est Omen: Heritage – Baština or Nasleđe – A (Not Merely) Terminological Dilemma by Ljiljana Gavrilović

“…It offers an analysis of how, through the (re)introduction of the old/new term baština, patriarchy and essentialism – two elements of non-material cultural heritage that are ostensibly undesirable and not to be retained since they are contrary to international law – are being reinstated in the sphere of culture by bureaucratic means.…”
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Visualizing prehistoric artefacts (stone tools) that were used to process daily staple foods 40,000 years Ago by Ong, Gui Li

“…My role focus on the visualising of the research which will access the use of digital technologies in investigating artefacts preserved in museum collections which are valuable evidence of past material cultures as well as preserving our previously imperceptible heritage. …”
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The Rose playhouse in context by Mao, Y

“…Inspired by the current increasing awareness of the playing company as an organising unit in additional to the author-based perspectives for studying early modern English drama, this project undertakes the task of examining the Rose playhouse as a unit for theatrical production and a nexus where various strands of the material, cultural-geographical, political, financial, as well as literary forces converged and interacted with each other.…”

Elimination of Bimodal Size in InAs/GaAs Quantum Dots for Preparation of 1.3-μm Quantum Dot Lasers by Xiang-Bin Su, Ying Ding, Ben Ma, Ke-Lu Zhang, Ze-Sheng Chen, Jing-Lun Li, Xiao-Ran Cui, Ying-Qiang Xu, Hai-Qiao Ni, Zhi-Chuan Niu

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Cultural Landscape Change from Late Neolithic to Late Middle Ages in Northern Westphalia. Interplay between the Natural Environment and the Anthropogenic Archaeological Remains by Leo Klinke

“…New absolute dating has made it possible to synchronise the changes in the natural environment with changes in the anthropogenic material-cultural traces in the study area. Changes in biodiversity are no longer documented exclusively in the pollen data, but can now also be read from the anthropogenic archaeological relics.…”
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Entre tecnicidades e ritualidades: formas contemporâneas de performatização da notícia na televisão by Juliana Freire Gutmann

“…Between technicalities and ritual practices: contemporary forms of performance in television newscasts – Seeking to contribute to the methodological refinement of the analysis of television shows, this paper proposes an approach to newscasts that considers the communication dimension and favors the interpretation of their material, cultural, and symbolic forms. This study focuses on analyzing reporters’ performances that foster a virtual interaction with the viewer and generate subjective areas that contrast with the normative discourse on field practices. …”
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“A Black Man Replies”: Claude McKay’s Challenge to the British Left by Anne Donlon

“…Donlon’s archival discoveries weave together biography, material cultural analysis, and histories of trans-Atlantic activism, and, in the process, reveal the labor of building radical intersectional solidarity that came before and followed the moment of “A Black Man Replies.”…”
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Legal Protection of the Intangible Cultural Heritage by Samanta Kowalska

“…At the beginning of the 21st Century, in the face of deepening globalization, commercialization, consumerism, technological progress, and urbanization, there is a need to undertake, without undue delay, multifaceted, correlated and taking account of future circumstances’ actions for the protection of the non-material cultural heritage. This study presents genesis, legal regulations and mechanisms which have been developed under the aegis of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. …”
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Chronologie mochica : une nouvelle synthèse by Nino Del Solar, Rémy Chapoulie, Luis Jaime Castillo

“…The main objective in this context is the reconstruction of the cultural diachronic processes connected to the emergence, the evolution, and the vanishing of the material cultures connected to human societies in specific environments. …”
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Hermiticity-tunable beam reshaping: localization, recurrence and group velocity oscillation by Kaiwen Ji, Zhenjuan Liu, Yanan Dai, Yuanmei Gao, YiShan Wang, Jintao Bai, Guoquan Zhang, Xinyuan Qi

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IN CONVERSATION WITH DONATELLA BARBIERI by Nadia Saccardi, Fernanda Botter, Rosane Muniz

“…The text discusses the book Costume in Performance: Materiality Culture and the Body , published after six years of incubation, in 2017. …”
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Modes of betel leaf consumption in early India by Andrea Gutierrez

“…The literature I consider in my analysis of betel consumption ranges from the kāmaśāstra genre, influential works of tantra, texts detailing worship, and ascetic and renunciant guides. Material cultural studies aid my exploration of betel as a socio-religious identity marker and my development of three modes of betel consumption and one mode of non-consumption.…”
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In media res: cultura material y artefactos by Fernando BROCANO

“…Artifacts are parts of the complexes dubbed as “material cultures”: they are large contexts of artifacts in which the human possibilities of actions are instantiated.…”
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