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Niklas Luhmann’s system theory: A critical analysis

open access: yesRUDN journal of Sociology, 2019
This article considers the nature of the theoretical legacy - the system theory - of the German sociologist Niklas Luhmann. The author focuses on three topics: first, he briefly describes Luhmann’s ideas in the context of the contemporary sociological ...
J Šubrt
doaj   +1 more source

Valuing Behavioral By‐Products: Evolutionary Significance of Neutrally Drifting and Exaptive Cultures in Primates

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Primatology, Volume 88, Issue 7, July 2026.
Structural, functional, and evolutionary links between two behavioral by‐products (i.e., stone play and female‐to‐female mounting—FFM) and their putative corresponding behavioral adaptations (i.e., stone tool use and female‐to‐male mounting—FMM) in Balinese long‐tailed macaques and Japanese macaques.
Jean‐Baptiste Leca   +3 more
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A Service-Learning proposal for Architecture, Building and Urbanism Students: getting involved in Education Tours in Madrid

open access: yesAdvances in Building Education
A Service-Learning methodology has been employed by professors and students at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid to design and conduct two educational tours: "Spanish Enlightenment and the discovery of three chemical elements" and "The ‘altos del ...
Gabriel Pinto   +7 more
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TROPICAL FRENCH THEORY: Henri Lefebvre and the Reinvention of Urban Planning in Havana, Cuba (1968–1971)

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 50, Issue 4, Page 1003-1019, July 2026.
Abstract Contributing to global urban history, planning theory and the geography of ideas, this article discusses the travels of Henri Lefebvre’s The Right to the City in the wake of May 1968, in France. That year, under the direction of Mario González and Max Baquero, a small team including the Italian architect Vittorio Garatti, French planner Jean ...
William Kutz
wiley   +1 more source

A experiência da integração europeia e seu potencial para a integração regional The experience of european integration and its potential for regional integration

open access: yesLua Nova: Revista de Cultura e Política, 2010
O artigo mostra que o processo de constituição da União Europeia representa um caminho significativo para o reforço do regionalismo. Assim, pode tornar-se modelo para outras tentativas políticas de integração regional.
Philippe C. Schmitter
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Twenty Years of the Sejm and the Senate in the European Union. Analysis From the Point of View of Universalist and Particularist Approaches

open access: yesStudia Europejskie
The activities of the two chambers of the Polish parliament – the Sejm and the Senate – during the twenty years of Poland’s membership in the European Union can be analysed by taking two research approaches, the first of which is universalism, which ...
Zbigniew Czachór
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The Conservative Physiology of the Immune System. A Non-Metaphoric Approach to Immunological Activity

open access: yesClinical and Developmental Immunology, 2006
Historically, immunology emerged as a biomedical science, concerned with host defense and production of anti-infectious vaccines. In the late 50s, selective theories were proposed and from then on, immunology has been based in a close association with ...
Nelson M. Vaz   +3 more
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Political Economy and the Constitution of Europe's Polity: Pathways for the common currency beyond ordo-liberal and neo-functionalist models [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The Eurozone crisis has been variously described in financial or in fiscal terms, caused either by an over-leveraged banking system or by unsustainable budget deficits and national debt – or indeed both at once.
Pabst, Adrian, Quadrio Curzio, Alberto
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Uneven Integration and Blocked Spillovers: Why Environmental Governance in Northeast Asia does not Converged to the EU Model?

open access: yesProblemy Ekorozwoju, 2015
The EU environmental governance is recognized as an effective path to the management of regional environment. This model is based on rules, directives, top-bottom coordination and also in the characteristics of multi-level governance, which has become ...
Liang Dong
doaj  

Developing Conceptualizations of Europeanization and European Integration: Mixing Methodologies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
In its most explicit form Europeanization is conceptualized as the process of downloading European Union (EU) directives, regulations and institutional structures to the domestic level. However, this conceptualization of Europeanization has been extended
Howell, Kerry.
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