Contentious Territorial Alliances: Coalition Politics and Struggles over Urban Development in Pikine, Senegal by Nicole C. List

“…Contentious territorial struggles over how to manage and develop city spaces figure centrally in research on urban governance in the global South. Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork in Pikine, a rapidly urbanizing city in Senegal’s Dakar Region, this article examines how Dakar's political geography is being transformed by the configuration of multiple, overlapping territorial strategies for the development of urban farmland in one of the region’s few remaining pockets of green spaces. …”
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Saisir les opportunités de ses vulnérabilités ? Trajectoire territoriale d’une station de moyenne montagne, Céüze 2000 by Anouk Bonnemains, Cécilia Claeys

“…This article analyses the territorial trajectory of Céüze 2000, one of the oldest ski resorts in the Hautes-Alpes, in an attempt to respond to the following question: to what extent do yesterday’s socio-economic vulnerabilities, worsened by today’s climate change, make Céüze 2000 a territory capable of serving as a laboratory for transition? Drawing on archival data, qualitative and quantitative field surveys, and a chrono-systemic timeline, the article underscores that yesterday’s development in Céüze 2000 may well become assets in today’s changing climate. …”
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The Problem of Hybridity by Speculative Space

“…So: How do we work together? Drawing from a range of different disciplines and hybrid forms of research, including artistic research, design, philosophy, and various types of embodied practice, the team members of Spec Space, the Laboratory for Speculative Design Research at Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (HAW), attempted to perform this inter- and trans-disciplinarity on the stage of the Performance Philosophy conference in Helsinki. …”
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Invisible Theatre: militarized space and the staging of affective atmospheres by Leah Lovett

“…This paper revisits the circumstances surrounding Brazilian theatre director, Augusto Boal’s first recorded experiment with Invisible Theatre in a restaurant in Buenos Aires (1972) in light of Anderson’s (2014) theory of affective atmospheres in their capacity to mediate structures of feeling. Drawing on original archival and performance-based research, I advance a critical account of Restaurant Theatre: The Law through a narrative reimagining of the performance and key evidence concerning the law in question that fundamentally challenges Boal’s claims for the technique as a means of social liberation from forces of oppression. …”
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A process for conducting mixed methods data analysis by John W. Creswell, Machiko Inoue

“…Our approach involves identifying a research problem, collecting diverse data, selecting a mixed methods design, integrating the data within the design, using joint displays for analysis, and drawing metainferences. We illustrate our methods with a Japanese empirical research study from family medicine. …”
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Plant Functions in Wetland and Aquatic Systems: Influence of Intensity and Capacity of Soil Reduction by R.D. DeLaune, S.R. Pezeshki

“…This review emphasizes soil-plant interactions in wetlands, drawing attention to the importance of quantifying the intensity and capacity of reduction and/or oxygen demand in wetland soils to allow proper evaluation of wetland plant responses to such conditions.…”
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Is this not colonization?: Framing Sino-South African relations in South Africa’s mainstream press by Allen Munoriyarwa, Albert Chibuwe

“… Drawing on a media-centric framing theory, and utilising qualitative framing analysis, we examine how selected mainstream newspapers in South Africa framed Sino- South Africa relationships. …”
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L’Humpur en BD : de fabuleuses frontières by Florence Plet-Nicolas

“…A former novel has been yet converted in strips by another artists (Les Guerriers du silence) ; but here, Bordage practises a new job, graphic novelist ; for this medium crosses text and drawing, involving a collective work with the drawer and the colourists. …”
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Migration and the Feminization of Power by Elizabeth Olayiwola

“…In a diasporic milieu, Bamiloye's cultural-religious imagination of womanhood is contested. Drawing on three transnational Mount Zion films (The Return, Prodigal Ones, and The Finest Wine), this article uses content analysis methods to study the selected films and to explore the conflict and dynamism generated by the emergence of newly profiled migrant women. …”
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THE DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF AN AUTOMATED CNC TYPEWRITER by George-Cristian Ene, Gabriela Bucur

“…Finally, the testing and operation of this CNC is detailed, from the design of the drawing to its actual realization, with the help of the designed and implemented assembly. …”
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Nomination Violence in Uganda's National Resistance Movement by Anne, Mette Kjaer, Mesharch, W. Katusiimeh

“…This article theorizes nomination violence in dominant-party systems in sub-Saharan Africa. Drawing on political settlement theory, it examines the nature of nomination violence in Uganda’s October 2015 National Resistance Movement (NRM) primaries. …”
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Editorial by Ann-Kristin Kölln, Antony Mason, Maria Lenk, Jörg Tremmel, Markus Rutsche

“…According to Braam, the book’s interdisciplinary approach – drawing on economic, ecological, political and social aspects of climate change – is convincing, and the book’s argument is credible, especially regarding the rich countries. …”
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A Relationships-based Algorithm for Detecting the Communities in Social Networks by Sevda Fotovvat, Habib Izadkhah, Javad Hajipour

“…With the developing reputation of social media, community detection is drawing the attention of researchers. The purpose of community detection is to divide social networks into groups. …”
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Understanding Construction Contractors’ Intention to Undertake Consummate Performance Behaviors in Construction Projects by Ling Yan, Liang Guo, Yan Ning

“…However, few studies have investigated why contractors would undertake CPB. Drawing on the theory of planned behavior (TPB), this study aims to examine which factors influence the intention of CPB. …”
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Presence and Absence in Margaret Atwood’s Dearly by Pilar Sánchez-Calle

“…Other poems in this volume deal with writing and poetry, examining their capacity to offer consolation in the face of death, a key aspect of elegy. Drawing on critical studies of elegy in contemporary English-language poetry and on the role of elegy in Atwood’s poetry, this essay analyses the elegiac dimension of Dearly (2020), Atwood’s most recent poetry collection. …”
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Experiencing caste in higher education: Everyday pedagogic contexts and silenced conflicts by Karan, Gunjan Sharma

“…This study engages with the experiences of Dalit-Bahujan (oppressed social castes) students at a higher education institution in India. Drawing from interview-based data, it explores the students’ narratives to map their educational experiences, taking the medium of instruction as a case in point. …”
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Proust’s Ruskin: From Illustration to Illumination by Emily Eells

“…Although his translations did not reproduce the original illustrations, his two-part article on Ruskin in the Gazette des Beaux Arts (April and August 1900) included reproductions of Giotto’s ‘Charity’ and Ruskin’s drawing of the sculpted figure from the façade of Rouen cathedral. …”
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Research progress and trends of deep learning based wireless communication receiving method by Panpan LI, Zhengxia XIE, Guangxue YUE, Xin LIU

“…With the continues expansion of the application boundary for wireless communications, the application environment of wireless communications is becoming increasingly complex and diverse, which faces negative impacts such as radio frequency (RF) damage, channel fading, interference and noise.It brings difficulties to recover the original information at the receiver.Drawing from the research results of deep learning methods in computer vision, pattern recognition, natural language processing and other fields, wireless communication reception technology based on deep learning has received wide attentions from both academia and industry.Firstly, the current research status of wireless communication reception technology based on deep learning at home and abroad was described.Secondly, the current technical challenges of wireless communication reception in the context of signal big data were outlined, and a reference architecture of intelligent wireless communication reception based on deep neural network was proposed.Finally, the development trend of intelligent wireless communication reception method in the context of signal big data was discussed.It is expected to provide reference for the research and development of wireless communication technology based on deep learning.…”
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