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The Connection between the Thought of Progress and Philosophical Thinking in the West Case Study: Descartes’ Thought System [PDF]

Metaphysics, 2015
Thought of progress has been considered as one of the presuppositions of the West modernity. Having accepted this idea, we should regard it as one of the bases and foundations of early modern philosophy, and consider Descartes, known as the father of ...
Seyed Mustafa Shahraeeni, nasrin firuoz
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Comparative Study on Modern Ceramic Art in China and the West Based on Cultural and Psychological Differences

Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Arts, Design and Contemporary Education (ICADCE 2020), 2021
No universal concept and connotation of modern ceramic art have formed among Chinese ceramic art circle. A glimpse of modern ceramic art in China and the West reveals contrast in ideas expressed, material, language and aesthetics, which can mostly be ...
Zibo Lin, Xiaodie Shi
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Houses in Malaysia: Fusion of the east and the west [PDF]

, 2005
A great number of architectural scholars in Malaysia learned about western architecture to be used as precedent studies in their design. Few realized that part of the origin of the modern western architecture was actually from the east.
Wan Ismail, Wan Hashimah
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The modern pollen-vegetation relationship of a tropical forest-savannah mosaic landscape, Ghana, West Africa [PDF]

, 2017
Transitions between forest and savannah vegetation types in fossil pollen records are often poorly understood due to over-production by taxa such as Poaceae and a lack of modern pollen-vegetation studies.
Adele C.M. Julier, Akwasi Duah-Gyamfi, Angela L. Coe, Barry H. Lomax, Bengo MD, Danquah E, Dupont LM, Gorel AP, Hawthorne W, Ibie BF, Jones CE, Juggins S., Julier A, Kennedy Owusu-Afriyie, Lewis SL, Marthews TR, Phillip E. Jardine, R Core Team, Riollet G, Sam Moore, Stephen Adu-Bredu, Stockmarr J., Valencia B., van Campo M., Wesley T. Fraser, White F, Wildlife Department, Accra, William D. Gosling, Yadvinder Malhi, Ybert J-P.   +29 more
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Shifts in Mycobacterial Populations and Emerging Drug-Resistance in West and Central Africa.

PLoS ONE, 2014
In this study, we retrospectively analysed a total of 605 clinical isolates from six West or Central African countries (Benin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Guinea-Conakry, Niger and Senegal). Besides spoligotyping to assign isolates to ancient and
Florian Gehre, Mebrat Ejo, Kristina Fissette, Pim de Rijk, Cécile Uwizeye, Elie Nduwamahoro, Odin Goovaerts, Dissou Affolabi, Martin Gninafon, Fanny M Lingoupou, Mamadou Dian Barry, Oumou Sow, Corinne Merle, Piero Olliaro, Fatoumata Ba, Marie Sarr, Alberto Piubello, Juergen Noeske, Martin Antonio, Leen Rigouts, Bouke C de Jong   +20 more
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THE PARROT, THE MONKEY AND THE MYTH OF EMULATION OR EXTINCTION IN IR

Revista Conjuntura Austral, 2015
This brief scenario analysis will argue that alternative ways of not only theorizing but also teaching, researching and publishing in IR (International Relations) need to be built on the foundations of the desacralization of the academic and intellectual
Sílvia Regina Ferabolli
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Copts, Islamists and Jews:Gender, minorities, hybridity (and its limits) in two novellas by Bahaa Abdelmegid [PDF]

, 2016
Bahaa Abdelmegid's novellas Saint Theresa and Sleeping with Strangers feature a range of intertwined relations: sexual, commercial, as neighbours, and as colleagues between Jews, Christians and Muslims in Egyptian society since 1967.
IRVING, SARAH
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Tea: From Historical Documents to Modern Technology

Molecules, 2023
Tea is among the most important beverages globally. The spread of tea from the East to West has not only affected lifestyles, but also promoted the exchange of exchange between the East and West.
Liang Zhang, Yongquan Xu, Zhonghua Liu
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Preoperative assessment of coronary stenosis through ordinary chest CT for patients scheduled total hip or knee arthroplasty

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
BackgroundCoronary artery calcium (CAC) is one of the main factors causing coronary stenosis and is often identified on ordinary chest computed tomography (CT).
Yi Li, Yang Wang, Ting Ma, Xin Duan, Haibo Si   +4 more
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Islamic Contributions to Science: Historical and Contemporary Issues [PDF]

, 2012
The normative practice in the history of science in the West is to start with the Greeks and then jump to the European Renaissance, both studied as a background for the emergence of modern science in the seventeenth century.
Iqbal, Muzaffar
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