Pastoralité in eastern Turkey by Michaël Thevenin

“…Pastoral practices in eastern Turkey are characterised, like high mountains (pasture) shelters, by a great diversity due to geographical, historical and social contexts, but also to the recent establishment of the Turkish nation-state and Kurdish nationalism, the most striking trait of which is the persistence of tribal allegiance. …”
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A Dynamic Task Scheduling Algorithm for Airborne Device Clouds by Bao Deng, Zhengjun Zhai

“…Mobile terminal devices have greatly expanded the service capacity of mobile terminals by migrating complex computing tasks to run in the cloud. …”
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Deep Learning Method for Handwriting Recognition by Abdullah Erdal Tümer, Ayşe Ayvacı Erdoğan

“…The relocation of these written documents to digital environment is therefore of great significance. In this view, this study aims to explore methodologies of digitizing handwritten documents. …”
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Two-Stage Fault Diagnosis Method Based on the Extension Theory for PV Power Systems by Meng-Hui Wang, Mu-Jia Chen

“…The time and energy of manually locating the fault module can be greatly saved. Finally, the methods as proposed in this paper have been compared with other existing methods, by which to verify its superiority and usability.…”
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A construção social da qualidade na produção agroalimentar: o caso do arroz "Amigo do Taim"1 by Flávio Sacco dos Anjos, Gisela Loureiro Duarte

“…The case in point is inserted, from the theoretical point of view, in the great debate about the risks of conventional organic production.…”
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Warring Claims: Victorian Poetry and Conflict by Matthew Bevis

“…Victorian war poetry has frequently been belittled or ignored by critics, usually by way of dismissive references to Tennyson serving as prelude to discussion of the poets of the Great War. Even Malvern Van Wyk Smith, in what remains the only book-length study of the subject, confines himself to the Anglo-Boer War and closes with the assertion that “after the Boer War, war poetry could no longer be merely a sub-department of patriotic verse.” …”
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The hypothalamus as the central regulator of energy balance and its impact on current and future obesity treatments by Bruna Bombassaro, Eliana P. Araujo, Licio A. Velloso

“…During the last 30 years, since the identification of leptin in 1994, there has been a great advance in the unveiling of the hypothalamic and extra-hypothalamic neuronal networks that control energy balance. …”
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Naître vers la fin : circularités dans Alumbramiento de Víctor Erice by Miguel Rodrigo

“…In a filmography where the narrative is often greatly weakened in favour of a direct representation of time, Alumbramiento is an exception : here the narrative, acting like a veritable explosion engine, by virtue of its force relegates time to its classic status as a measure of movement. …”
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Reliability modeling and planning of energy harvesting based on uncertainty theory by Zhe WANG, Taoshen LI, Jin YE, Zhihui GE, Min WU

“…Energy harvesting network is a new form of computer networks.It can convert the environmental energy into usable electric energy,and supply the electrical energy as a primary or secondary power source to the electronic device for network communication.However,the energy harvesting process has great volatility and uncertainty,the traditional analytical method based on probability distribution function to describe the energy collection process can not accurately simulate the actual situation,resulting in higher depletion probability of nodes,then the reliability cannot be guaranteed as a result.For this,the energy harvesting reliability of energy harvesting nodes was defined,represented with the degree of normal operation,respectively set up the node reliability models with no battery and infinite battery.As an example for maximum node achievable rate,the uncertain multilevel programming model based on node reliability was put forward,then the network efficiency was improved under the premise of ensuring node reliability.An energy average allocation (EAA) algorithm was proposed and the upper bound of competitive ratio of the algorithm was proved theoretically.Finally,the actual wind power data was taken as an example to verify the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed model and method.…”
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A Hierarchy of Architectural Design Elements for Energy Saving of Tower Buildings in Korea Using Green BIM Simulation by Kweonhyoung Lee, Seungyeon Choo

“…There is a great interest in building information modeling (BIM) and energy saving worldwide. …”
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ENTITIES PERFORMING SELF-GOVERNMENT PUBLIC TASKS - SPECIFICITY OF ACTING AND FUNDING by Anna Milewska

“…Following the experience of Great Britain, it can be concluded that one of the rational possibilities for carrying out projects is through a Public-Private Partnership. …”
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Analysis of Characteristics, Causes and Countermeasures of the Heavy MetalPollution in the Middle and Upper Reaches of the Diaojiang River Basin by LI Donglin, PENG Bin, LIANG Mei, LU Shangxu, WEI Hailing

“…The results show that the Tomlinson pollution load index evaluation modelmodified by introducing the corresponding water flow Q could fully reveal the coupled pollutionseverity of the heavy metal pollution under the condition of a low concentration and a high flow,which has great theoretical and practical significance for the accurate identification andscientific prevention & control of the heavy metal pollution in the Diaojiang River Basin.…”
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Implementation of Static Line Voltage Stability Indices for Improved Static Voltage Stability Margin by Natakorn Thasnas, Apirat Siritaratiwat

“…Therefore, the operation and control of power system to improve the system stability has been receiving a great deal of attention. This paper presents an approach for enhancing the static voltage stability margin and reducing the power losses of the system with voltage security-constrained optimal power flow (VSC-OPF) that is based on static line voltage stability indices. …”
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Non-orthogonal multiple-access system SC-FDMA-IDMA with iterative block equalization by De-liang LIU, Qiang HUANG, Da-zhuan XU

“…Simulation results show that comparing with the sin-gle-user SC-FDMA system with high-order modulation, the multiuser SC-FDMA-IDMA system with low-order modula-tion has great performance improvement after adopting the IB-DFE algorithm on condition that these two systems have the same transmission efficiency.…”
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Passional Atheism, Passional Agnosticism and ‘The Will to Believe’ by Daniel Molto

“…In addition to outright, passionally motivated, atheistic belief, there is also the possibility of arriving at theistic non-belief (henceforth ‘agnosticism’) when the passional reasons for adopting theism (even where that option is “live”) are overcome by the passional reasons for not adopting theism. James takes great pains to argue against the claim that we must prefer passional non-belief over passional belief, but he does not argue that we must prefer passional belief over passional non-belief and, in fact, he explicitly denies this, or so I shall argue. …”
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Indoor positioning and orientating system based on visible light communication by Guowei YANG, Zhaobiao HUANG, Bing FAN, Xuefang ZHOU, Meihua BI

“…For the insufficient research on the simultaneously positioning and orientating system, a VLC positioning and orientating algorithm based on combining particle swarm optimization (PSO) and beetle antennae search (BAS) was proposed.The PSO algorithm was used to explore the optimal direction of the receiver and meanwhile the BAS algorithm was used to search the best three-dimensional coordinates of each particle in the current direction.Firstly, the indoor space of 3 m×3 m×5 m and the SNR of 40 dB were assumed in the simulation, the proposed VLC indoor positioning and orientating system could achieve the average positioning error of 4.82 cm and average orientating error of 2.24°.Then, in the laboratory space of 0.9 m×0.9 m×1.5 m, the experimental demonstration was accomplished for the first time, and the average positioning and orientating errors of this experimental system were 5.32 cm and 5.99°, respectively.Compared with the traditional VLC indoor positioning schemes, the proposed VLC positioning and orientating system does not need the prior knowledge of the height and direction of the receiver, which greatly reduces the system complexity and is applicable to a wider range of applications.…”
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Construction and Application of Music Audio Database Based on Collaborative Filtering Algorithm by Jianfei Zheng

“…This research uses Big Data and collaborative filtering algorithm technology to establish a new multilevel music audio database with discrete dynamic modeling characteristics of complex systems, which can greatly improve the data structure of each level of the database, so as to improve the efficiency and accuracy of retrieving various types of music and audio files in the database.…”
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Group C Neisseria meningitidis as a Cause of Septic Arthritis in a Native Shoulder Joint: A Case Report by Amy J. Garner, Freda Sundram, Kathryn Harris

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Resource scheduling strategy based on simulated annealing algorithm in hybrid D2D cellular networks by Xiang YU, Haibo ZHANG, Lu YANG

“…D2D communication is a short distance communication mode in the future 5G network.In the process of communication,the information is transmitted from the sender to the receiver directly,without the need to transmit through the base station.The introduction of D2D communication in the traditional cellular network can greatly improve the total throughput of the system,increase the utilization of spectrum resources and reduce the power consumption of the transmitter.A resource allocation method which was used in hybrid D2D cellular network was mainly introduced,spectrum resources was distributed by Lagrange multiplier method combined with simulated annealing algorithm,a consideration of channel capacity and energy consumption of the resource scheduling strategy based on simulated annealing algorithm was put forward.This algorithm was simulated by the simulation platform in Vienna,compared to the traditional greedy optimization algorithm,it can significantly increase the total system throughput and bandwidth utilization and reduce the power consumption.In addition,the distributed algorithm was adopted,that D2D users searched for a suitable target channel and calculated their transmit power according to the algorithm steps,which reduced the signaling overhead of the base station.…”
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Computer assisted language learning in English language classrooms in Bosnia and Herzegovina by Džanić Nihada Delibegović, Hasanspahić Amila

“…While adults, as digital immigrants, might not use modern information technology excessively, children and teens are true digital natives, who have grown up with the latest technologies and use them with great pleasure in all aspects of their lives adapting them to their needs (Prensky, 2001). …”
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