Censo 2020 – novas Macrorregiões, 50 anos depois by José Donizete Cazzolato

“…Territorial non-conformities in the current regional design are brought to light, and the advantages of the author’s proposal are demonstrated with the aid of maps—namely, assignment of Maranhão to the North Region and creation of a novel unit: the Northwest Region. The report concludes addressing points of legal controversy involving the Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE) and the legal competencies required for implementing the proposed changes.…”
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Is All Discourse Official? On the Poetics of Gifting and Gossiping by Pierre-Héli Monot

“…This essay discusses gift-giving and gossiping in a canonical American novel (John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, 1939) by way of the two texts which sealed the fate of dominant literary scholarship after WWII: Marcel Mauss’s essay The Gift and Claude Lévi-Strauss’s Introduction to the Work of Marcel Mauss. …”
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Cinematic Ekphrasis of Lost Films in Fiction: From Representation to Transmediation by Anna Klishevich

“…The argumentation proceeds with the analysis of Jonathan Coe’s novel The House of Sleep (2014), focusing on the ways the cinematic ekphrasis of lost films operates. …”
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Research on Q-learning based rate control approach for HTTP adaptive streaming by Li-rong XIONG, Jing-zhi LEI, Xin JIN

“…HTTP adaptive streaming (HAS) has become the standard for adaptive video streaming service.In changing network environments,current hardcoded-based rate adaptation algorithm was less flexible,and it is insufficient to consider the quality of experience (QoE).To optimize the QoE of users,a rate control approach based on Q-learning strategy was proposed.the client environments of HTTP adaptive video streaming was modeled and the state transition rule was defined.Three parameters related to QoE were quantified and a novel reward function was constructed.The experiments were employed by the Q-learning rate control approach in two typical HAS algorithms.The experiments show the rate control approach can enhance the stability of rate switching in HAS clients.…”
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Review: Saskia Stucki, One Rights: Human and Animal Rights in the Anthropocene by Eva Bernet Kempers

“…Saskia Stucki’s recent book ‘One Rights: Human and Animal Rights in the Anthropocene’ aims to put animal law in its contemporary context by framing animal rights as a new generation of human rights, proposing a novel paradigm of ‘One Rights’ for the Anthropocene. …”
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Géologie, théologie et inquiétudes eschatologiques : William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) et les débats suscités par la thermodynamique à l’époque victorienne by Jean-Michel Yvard

“…G. Wells in his famous novel The Time Machine.…”
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User role analysis method based on directed topological potential by Song-qing DUAN, Xing-long YU, Bin WU, Bai WANG

“…The majority of real-world networks are directed,weighted and dynamic.Aiming at the problem of node role analysis in directed weighted network,a novel node role analysis method based on directed topological potential is pro-posed,which can divide nodes into four roles based on their behavior pattern and local influence.Then,a node role-based dynamic networks evolution analysis method is introduced,which can model the dynamics of behavioral roles represent-ing the main connectivity patterns over time and detect the significant event.The experiment results indicate that pro-posed approaches can effectively estimate the node role and detect the dynamics of network evolution.…”
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Research on Radio Network Intelligent Frequency Selection Technology Based on an Adaptive Genetic Algorithm by Wenjun Wang

“…In order to solve the problem of selecting frequency more and more difficultly for radio network,an intelligent frequency selection technology based on an adaptive genetic algorithm was proposed.Frequencies were selected for whole radio network from the perspective of intelligent optimization.On the basis of the standard genetic algorithm,this novel method improved genetic operators,and the preservation of the optimal individual algorithm to ensure the diversity of the population was introduced.Therefore,the arithmetic which did well in avoiding some deficiencies of the traditional frequency selection algorithm prevented local optimization and ran into overall optimization ultimately.Theoretical analysis and simulation results show that the new algorithm in solving the problem of frequency selection for large-scale network has higher efficiency and precision than the traditional algorithm,and stability is significantly enhanced.…”
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Decoding Higgs Boson Branching Ratios from event shapes by Reichelt Daniel

“…This contribution will discuss a novel strategy for the simultaneous measurements of Higgs boson branching ratios into gluons and light quarks at a future lepton collider, operating in the Higgs-factory mode. …”
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An exceptional cluster algebra for Higgs plus jet production by Rigers Aliaj, Georgios Papathanasiou

“…Abstract A recent evaluation of three-loop nonplanar Feynman integrals contributing to Higgs plus jet production has established their dependence on two novel symbol letters. We show that the resulting alphabet is described by a G 2 cluster algebra, enlarging the C 2 cluster algebra found to cover all previously known integrals relevant for this process. …”
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Hans Paasche (1881-1920) et le féminin by Camille Auboin

“…In the third letter of Hans Paasche’s (1881-1920) epistolary novel Die Forschungsreise des Afrikaners Lukanga Mukara ins innerste Deutschland (1912) the detour through the narrative prism of the African conveys a sharp criticism of the European norms and practices of the feminine and invites to rethink them. …”
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Amalgamating inverse semigroups over ample semigroups by Nasir Sohail

“…A rudimentary analysis of the novel classes of rich ample semigroups is also provided.…”
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“Making Noise” with Comics: An Interview with Argentine Author, Artist, Singer, and Song Writer, Isol by Jennifer Nagtegaal

“…The interview focuses on the so-called “discomic” Novela gráfica (Graphic Novel), released in 2014 by the Buenos Aires-based band SIMA, for which Isol served as lead vocalist, but also touches on some of the Argentine artist’s more recent collaborative and interdisciplinary art projects and performances. …”
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Aux sources du sensationnel : Wilkie Collins lecteur de l’abbé Prévost ? by Shelly Charles

“…This study offers a new hypothesis about the « fact » upon which Wilkie Collins’s Basil is supposed to be founded and reads this first sensational novel not as an alleged biography but as a meticulous rewriting of an 18th-century newspaper anecdote : « Histoire du désespéré », published by Prévost in his journal Le Pour et contre. …”
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Passivity-Sliding Mode Control of Uncertain Chaotic Systems with Stochastic Disturbances by Zhumu Fu, Leipo Liu, Xiaohong Wang

“…This paper is concerned with the stabilization problem of uncertain chaotic systems with stochastic disturbances. A novel sliding function is designed, and then a sliding mode controller is established such that the trajectory of the system converges to the sliding surface in a finite time. …”
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Movement-assisted data delivery for delay tolerant mobile sensor networks by Hui-jie LI, Jian PENG, Tang LIU

“…A novel data delivery method named movement-assisted adaptive data delivery (MAD) was proposed.The data cache nodes were deployed in the buffer and the base station moves in the buffer regularly.The data was forwarded to the nodes which likely moved to the buffer and had the higher remaining energy,and the base station collects data in the moving process.MAD contains two parts,data forwarding and queue management.The former makes the decision by the movement trend and the residual energy.The latter was based on the size of the survival time and the replication.Simulation results show that MAD had relatively higher delivery ratio and longer network lifetime.…”
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Nanocrystalline SEM image restoration based on fractional-order TV and nuclear norm by Ruini Zhao

“…To obtain high-quality nanocrystalline scanning electron microscopy (SEM) images, this paper proposed a Poisson denoising model that combined the fractional-order total variation (TV) and nuclear norm regularizers. The developed novel model integrated the superiorities of fractional-order TV and nuclear norm constraints, which contributed to significantly improving the accuracy of image restoration while preventing the staircase effect and preserving edge details. …”
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Cognition, Relevance and Ideology Formation through Travel Documentaries: A Longitudinal Approach to Audiences by Castaldi Jacopo

“…The paper proposes a novel longitudinal approach to the study of the rhetorical effects of media by combining Audience Research (e.g. …”
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Application of Constrained Robust Independent Component Analysis in the Fault Diagnosis of Rolling Element Bearing by Liao Qiang, Li Xunbo, Huang Bo

“…The method of independent component analysis is widely used in mechanical equipment fault diagnosis domain.A novel method named as constrained robust independent component analysis（ cRobust ICA）based on Robust ICA algorithm is proposed which utilized prior information about the fault characteristic frequency.Firstly,how to create the reference signal is discussed.Then,the measurement function between reference signal and desired independent component（ IC） is defined.At last,an enhanced contrast function is acquired by modifying a generally used kurtosis contrast function with closeness measurement.A contrastive study on the conventional Fast ICA is adopted to demonstrate the effectiveness and accuracy of the cRobust ICA by numerical simulations and experiments.…”
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Theory of hypernumbers and extrafunctions: Functional spaces and differentiation by Mark Burgin

“…The theory of hypernumbers and extrafunctions is a novel approach in functional analysis aimed at problems of mathematical and computational physics. …”
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