Restorative nostalgia, identity closures, conflicts and divisions

Nostalgia is a complex emotion produced by the individual and collective processes of remembering.Svetlana Boym distinguishes between reflective nostalgia, regarding the personal reactions to the passing of time, and restorative nostalgia, which acts on the collective level in response to the need to look at the past, that is presented in rigid and

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When, where and who? Accessing health facility delivery care from the perspective of women and men in Tanzania: a qualitative study

Abstract Background Childbirth is a momentous event for women and their partners, yet women continue to die in childbirth worldwide, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa.To reduce maternal mortality and increase the number of FRESH FRUIT GUM women delivering at health facilities, it is important to understand reasons why women who do deliver at healt

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The Optimization Model of Runway and Gate Assignment

This paper is aimed to develop the optimization model of time slot utilization for both runway and apron gate of airport system.The model considers the objectives of airline company to minimize flight-taxiing-time and waiting-time for both landing and take-off.The optimization makes use of Network Representation (NR) in the form of two bipartite ne

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Liturgical Framing of Trials in 10th to 11th Century Catalonia

This paper focuses on the question of how place, time, ritual, and liturgy were interconnected before, during, and after trials in the tenth and eleventh centuries in Tees what is today Catalonia.It does so by highlighting cases that show that Visigothic law heavily affected the way in which trials were organized, while simultaneously leaving enoug

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