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"Comparant les modalités et les logiques de distinction élitiste à l'échelle planétaire et à travers les âges, cet ouvrage constitue une somme absolument inédite. Celle-ci repose sur des décennies d'observation dans de nombreux pays, ainsi que sur la consultation de milliers d'études relevant d'une douzaine de disciplines. Au fil de chapitres thématiques, relatifs aussi bien aux attitudes corporelles révélatrices qu'à la distinction par l'intermédiaire des animaux, se voit souligné à quel point la symbolique de l'éminence peut revêtir des formes variées et parfois même diamétralement opposées. Après avoir publié deux ouvrages théoriques qui ont été salués comme renouvelant profondément l'analyse du sujet, Jean-Pascal Daloz nous offre ici une fascinante synthèse empirique, attachant toute l'importance qu'ils méritent aux clivages culturels entre les sociétés."

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We investigate a nonlinear viscoelastic equation with interior time-varying delay and nonlinear dissipative boundary feedback. Under suitable assumptions on the relaxation function and time-varying delay effect together with nonlinear dissipative boundary feedback, we prove the global existence of weak solutions and asymptotic behavior of the energy by using the Faedo-Galerkin method and the perturbed energy method, respectively. This result improves earlier ones in the literature, such as Kirane and Said-Houari (2011) and Ammari et al. (2010). Moreover, we give an positive answer to the open problem given by Kirane and Said-Houari (2011).

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“Kremlin kids” is a term describing the younger generation of the Russian elite’s close family and other relatives. Owing to their families’ influence, “Kremlin kids” enjoy a privileged position within Russia, running strategic state-owned companies, affording studies, acquiring property across the world and winning lucrative state contracts for their own companies. Not all children of the Russian elite are “Kremlin kids,” yet almost every member of the elite has a “Kremlin kid” in their family. Within Russia, the “Kremlin kids”—the elite’s most trustworthy associates—help their parents and families control strategic Russian companies (in oil, gas, energy, banking, etc.). Those who run their own businesses can count on a substantial flow of money from the state budget (less often, they personally work in the government). Such influence and experience make the “Kremlin kids” the most likely successors of the current ruling Russian elite.

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