Porosité des frontières spatiales, ambiguïté des frontières identitaires : le cas des cités-États swahili de l’archipel de Lamu (vers 1600-1800) by Thomas Vernet

“…Surely the Swahili towns were not conceived as open spatial units, yet they kept close relationships of interdependence with the mainland and worked like integrative bodies of great efficiency. Thus, beyond the legitimating discourse spread by the urban elites, it is shown that the porosity and fluidity of the territory of the coastal city-states mirrored the ambiguities of Swahili identity, which permeable and shifting nature should be admitted.…”
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Transalpine Freight Transport by Sandra Lange, Flavio V. Ruffini

“…Freight transport in the Alpine space is an ambivalent issue: on the one hand it brings great benefits for individuals and economies on the other hand it brings many negative side effects on quality of life and health. …”
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A Primer on Exporting to Barbados by Christina D. Storz, Timothy G. Taylor, Gary F. Fairchild

“…These guides provide a great deal of information useful to individuals interested in developing exports markets either through direct exports or through direct foreign investment. …”
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A survey of deep learning based modulation recognition by Shujun SUN, Shengliang PENG, Yudong YAO, Xi YANG

“…Modulation recognition is one of the fundamental tasks for communications systems, which can be widely applied in various fields, such as cognitive radio, intelligent communications, radio surveillance, electronic warfare, etc.In recent years, deep learning (DL) based modulation recognition has attracted great attention due to its superiority in feature extraction and recognition performance.The techniques of DL based modulation recognition were systematically summarized.Firstly, some knowledge relevant to DL based modulation recognition was introduced.Then, the system architecture, data pre-processing methods, deep neural network structures, prevalent datasets and performance metrics of DL based modulation recognition were illustrated.Finally, the future directions of DL based modulation recognition were also discussed.…”
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Low-complexity optimal MPSK detection for spatial modulation by Hong-zhi MEN, Ming-lu JIN

“…The low-complexity optimal SM detection algorithm for MQAM signal detection had been proposed,but no similar method was found for MPSK signal.The problem of low-complexity detection for MPSK signal was considered in SM systems.Utilizing 2-D vector quantization of ML demodulation and the property of MPSK constellation,a low-complexity optimal detection which is independent to modulation order was developed.Since the approach avoids the exhaustive searching on signal constellation space,the computational complexity can be significantly reduced.The proposed detection algorithm can provide the identical performance with ML-optimum detector and has lower computational complexity.Therefore,it has both theoretical and practical significance.The proposed algorithm is of great significance in the large antenna and green communication technology.…”
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Scalability Optimization of Virtualization Based Botnet Emulation Platform by Li Ruan, Bo Lin, Limin Xiao

“…Botnet emulation,a new technology to investigate Botnet characteristics,gains increasing focus.The practical virtualization based Botnet emulation platform is few and lacks support of rapid deployment,multiple virtualization,specific features of the Botnet like Botnets' circadian random shutdown and starting,and high scalability which will greatly influence the Botnet propagation emulation effect.A Botnet emulation system and its scalability improvement technologies were introduced.Experiments show that the memory performance optimization and CPU performance optimization reduce more than 77% of host memory per virtual machine,the maximum virtual machines one physical machine can starts up increase from 15 to 43; the host CPU utility is deduced from 100% to 20% when the vCPU's performance is restricted to 100 000.…”
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A Primer on Exporting to Chile by Christina D. Storz, Timothy G. Taylor, Gary F. Fairchild

“…These guides provide a great deal of information useful to individuals interested in developing export markets either through direct exports or through direct foreign investment. …”
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A Primer on Exporting to Paraguay by Christina D. Storz, Timothy G. Taylor, Gary F. Fairchild

“…These guides provide a great deal of information useful to individuals interested in developing export markets either through direct exports or through direct foreign investment. …”
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Le Yémen au xviie siècle : territoire et identités by Tomislav Klarić

“…Generally, for the learned elite of the time, belonging to an ethnic group or a land was only of minor importance while they attached great importance to religious affiliations. Ḥaḍrami people subscribed to Shâfi‘ism when the scholars from Highlands subscribed to Zaydism. …”
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Congestion-Aware Signaling Aggregation and Barring Scheme for LTE Based Machine-to-Machine Network by Fangmin Xu, Chao Qiu, Pengbiao Wang, Xiaokai Liu

“…Theoretical analysis and experimental simulations show that this scheme can improve the system efficiency and greatly alleviate the signaling congestion, especially for the bursty M2M service.…”
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Prendre soin du détenu, surveiller l’enfermement. Les Compagnies de la Miséricorde dans l’espace belge de l’Ancien Régime aux Révolutions (1600-1830) by Xavier Rousseaux

“…Born out of concern for the accompaniment of the dying during the great epidemic of the Black Death, some specialised in accompanying prisoners to the final torture. …”
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70 anos da guerreira: a mestiçagem brasileira na tradução musical de Clara Nunes by Expedito Leandro Silva

“…Among the songs that best represent the artist portrayal are “Canto das Três Raças” and “Brasil Mestiço Santuário da Fé”, sang by her in the 1980s, the lyrics and interpretation showed the social Brazilian ethnological context in great detail. However, the cries of the people and the musical manifestation reproduced in the songs present an ideology of nationhood whose identity is the Brazilian miscegenation which means the cultures of the native Indians, the white and the black people.…”
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Underwater acoustic communication physical layer key generation scheme by Jingmei LIU, Zhiwei SHEN, Qingqing HAN, Jingwei LIU

“…To ensure the communication safety of unmanned underwater vehicle,a physical layer key generation scheme of underwater acoustic channel based on orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system was proposed.First,a local pilot assistance channel sounding protocol was proposed to solve the reciprocity impaired caused by the great propagation delay in the underwater acoustic channel,ensure high key randomness and enhance the defenses against nearby eavesdroppers.Secondly,double-layer compensation centralized combined with adaptive guard interval quantization method was proposed to improve key agreement rate and key generation rate.Simulation results show that the scheme effectively overcomes the problems of impaired reciprocity and ensures high key generation rate and high randomness on the premise that the key agreement is superior to the existing schemes.…”
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A Primer on Exporting to Argentina by Christina D. Storz, Timothy G. Taylor, Gary F. Fairchild

“…These guides provide a great deal of information useful to individuals interested in developing export markets either through direct exports or direct foreign investment. …”
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Moving target defense against network eavesdropping attack using POF by Duohe MA, Qiong LI, Dongdai LIN

“…Eavesdropping attack hereby was the major attack for traditional network communication.As this kind of attacks was stealthy and untraceable,it was barely detectable for those feature detection or static configuration based passive defense approaches.Since existing encryption or dynamic address methods could only confuse part of fields of network protocols,they couldn’t form a comprehensive protection.Therefore a moving target defense method by utilizing the protocol customization ability of protocol-oblivious forwarding (POF) was proposed,through private protocol packet randomization strategy and randomly drop deception-packets on dynamic paths strategy.It could greatly increase the difficulty of implementing network eavesdropping attack and protect the privacy of the network communication process.Experiments and compare studies show its efficiency.…”
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Dedifferentiated Leiomyosarcoma of the Auricle with Heterologous Osteosarcoma Component: Case Report and Literature Review by Andrea Dekanić, Nives Jonjić, Anita Savić Vuković

“…Thus, the treatment of choice is a total auriculectomy and great attention should be paid to appropriate margins.…”
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Coreid Bug, Leaf-footed Bug, Euthochtha galeator (Fabricius) (Insecta: Hemiptera: Coreidae) by Frank W. Mead

“… The coreid bug, Euthochtha galeator (Fabricius), is common throughout the eastern United States west to the Great Plains (Slater and Baranowski 1978). The Florida State Collection of Arthropods (FSCA) contains numerous specimens and reports ranging from the northwestern tip of Florida to Key West. …”
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Islamistes et rebelles touaregs maliens : alliances, rivalités et ruptures by Emmanuel Grégoire

“…Lastly, he wonders why the Tuareg from Niger did not take up arms while the Malian and Nigeria Tuareg rebels show great similarities…”
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La sociedad civil en la Polonia de los primeros años ochenta como factor de descomposición del régimen comunista by Ricardo Martín de la Guardia, José Luis Orella

“…While the standard of living of Poles had deteriorated due to the institutional and economic deadlock in Poland in the mid-1980s, the only solution for many was to support an opposition movement that was finally channelled through Solidarity, a trade union that from the beginning of the decade - in contrast to the other Eastern countries - had achieved great notoriety and enormous social support. Thus, at the beginning of the transition to democracy, the strength of a society with widely dispersed interests, but which Solidarity was able to unite at the most difficult moment, when it had to openly confront the state, was to play a key role.…”
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Le Congrès des américanistes de Nancy en 1875 : entre succès et désillusions by Étienne Logie, Pascal Riviale

“…The congress was a tremendous success and opened up a great tradition. However, little remains of the ambitious concerning American studies which were planned for Nancy : a few scattered museum pieces, asking many unanswered questions, and some distant memories recovered during the celebration of centenary of the first Nancy congress.…”
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