Rôle joué par l’économie informelle dans l’appropriation des TIC en milieu urbain en Afrique de l’Ouest by Annie Cheneau-Loquay

“…Having explained briefly what we understand by “informal” according to various disciplinary approaches, we shall show how the insertion and the appropriation of the ICTs in the African cities gives place to a proliferation of new activities of service which are embedded in the urban fabric, adapt themselves to the low level of income of the populations and generate more or less qualified jobs which recover totally or partially from informal practices. …”
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Production et usage des ressources urbaines en migration : les ateliers de confection à São Paulo by Sylvain Souchaud

“…We will see how, in a metropolitan context where international migrants face difficulties entering the labor market and access to housing, workshops are organized by re-using urban fabric elements, namely certain frame configurations, and produce their own supply of housing to labor, to guarantee its cheapness and productivity. …”
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Metabolic cities of the future. Between Agriculture and Architecture by Leonardo Zaffi, Michele D'Ostuni

“…In this context, theorists and promoters of urban farming have seen in this industry a powerful tool to find spaces suitable for cultivation within the urban fabric, while promoting a new green development of the city. …”
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Project modules – Prospects for ancient heritage towards ecological transition by Luca Velo, Alberto Cervesato

“…The aim is to employ an architectural module capable of adapting, either as a single unit or when aggregated, by disassembling the urban fabric and reassembling it into new forms, designed to mediate between public and private space, thereby becoming the embodiment of a renewed compositional archetype. …”
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Renaturation urbaine : enjeux de biodiversité d’une métropole réémergente by Nguyen Thuy An Pham

“…The question of biodiversity within the urban fabric of Ho Chi Minh City has become a central issue for urban planners and stakeholders. …”
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Agência humana e estrutura a partir da Teoria da Estruturação by Flavia Galindo

“…In its conception, ordinary life has a special importance as the vital fabric on social’s life, making it especially important for (re)thinking social praxis with the proposition of new concepts for agency and structure. …”
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Changement urbain et imaginaires aménageurs : une approche par l’exploration spatio-temporelle des sources d’histoire urbaine dans un SIG 4D by Clémentine Périnaud

“…Their integration to a dynamic mapping helps to interrogate the construction of the urban fabric in relation to an evolving spatial planning.…”
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L’orpaillage au Burkina Faso : une aubaine économique pour les populations, aux conséquences sociales et environnementales mal maîtrisées by Joseph Bohbot

“…However, the gold mining results in the destructuring of the social fabric and the degradation of the environment. The discovery of a gold lode generates massive migrations to mining sites and the creation of makeshift camps. …”
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«Pasa la vida»: Cartografías Urbanas de Madrid en la Post-Transición (1982-1994) by Vicente Rodríguez Ortega

“…From the late 1980s to the mid 1990s, filmmakers tackle a social fabric characterized by a «presentism» that leaves behind a productive commitment to recent Spanish history and the capacity of the citizenry to decisively intervene within the constitutive pillars of social reality. …”
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Technology for Good? Tencent’s Corporate Social Responsibility, Institutional Chameleon, and the Future of Platform Economies by Luzhou Li, Zhian Zhang

“…However, while Tencent’s enhanced CSR initiatives have certainly yielded some social benefits, the SSV initiatives are increasingly emerging as a new business frontier for the company, leveraging its vast infrastructural capacities to capitalize on the very social fabric it purports to support. This underscores the complexities and contradictions inherent in its CSR practices and the significance of the intrinsic logic of digital platforms as a modern business.…”
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The Hybridity of Popular Culture in The Winter’s Tale by François Laroque

“…The sting of jealousy encourages the Sicilian king to resort to popular phrases and folk traditions, so that the “fabric of his folly” (1.2.424) comes close to the wild absurdities of Autolycus’ ballads. …”
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Exploiting Body and Place in Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Catherine Lanone

“…Tess’s plight may be exceptional, but the exception is part of a wider meditation on instability and seasonal flux, as mutations tear the rural social fabric. Far from being merely pastoral and nostalgic, the novel breaks new ground by engaging with gendered and technological strategies that distort the biotope of Wessex.…”
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Rethinking Bodily Expression in Human-Robot Communication: Insights from Sculpture. by Belinda J Dunstan, Guy Hoffman

“…We illustrate the third principle via a robot design that uses a flexible fabric skin stretched over rigid and elastic actuation elements. …”
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Knowledge of the earthquake in architecture and its impact on the organization of the geography of habitation by Ali Asgharzadeh, Seyed Gholamreza Islami, Iraj Etessam

“…Earthquake and its related phenomenon are often considered as the causes of instability and disorder in engineering and architecture, and have resulted in the destruction of many buildings and urban fabric. Despite this, by changing our attitude to earthquake: by redefining it from problem to potential and from chaos to complex organization, a different layer of this phenomenon can become evident. …”
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WORKING WITH VISUALLY-IMPAIRED PERFORMERS IN PIANO CLASS by Julia P. Antonova, Vitaliy V. Kalitskiy

“…The article focuses on the question of repertoire choice, the features of using braille music code, the role of listening to the recordings together with a teacher, the various imaginative associations for the purpose of forming a holistic image the textural and timbre components of musical fabric, the sufficiency of stage rehearsals. The authors make a conclusion that the specifics of professional training of visually-impaired musicians refers only to methods and means needed to achieve the main goal, which is an ultimate expression of an idea of a composition.…”
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Event Forecasting in Organizational Networks: A Discrete Dynamical System Approach by Piotr Śliwa

“…Both inter- and intraorganizational networks draw the attention of researchers and practitioners from various disciplines who view them as the fabric of the socioeconomic world. The network perspective is believed to successfully model most of the socioeconomic phenomena, which, in combination with the prospects of continuously advancing tools for automated data mining and machine learning, gives a tempting promise to effectively forecast socioeconomic events occurring in our societies and businesses. …”
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Astrotheology: A proactive contextualization of novelty within space exploration by A.C. Pieterse

“…Astrotheology underlines certain attributes in nature, embedded within the fabric of space and time, that could magnify and frame our understanding of empirical observations. …”
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Removal of Organic Impurities from Water Using a Reactor with Photoactive Refill by Joanna Grzechulska-Damszel

“…Titanium dioxide (Chemical Factory “Police” Poland) was immobilized on the base material as a thin layer from the alcoholic suspension followed by thermal stabilization. The glass fabric was applied as a support for the titania coating. …”
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Higher Efficiency of Turbine Qil Purification by E. V. Toropov, I. F. Pshenisnov, A. I. Pshenisnov, Ya. I. Pshenisnov

“…The filter has been modernized and the required normative oil purity in the system of bearing lubrication and turbine-driven set regulation has been obtained.It has been shown that sieve fabric of polyamide monofilaments ensures effective filtration of contaminated oil in the system of bearing lubrication and steam turbines.Particle-size analysis of turbine oil impurities in various points of oil supply system can be used for technical diagnostics of turbine-driven set bearings.…”
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Analytic Solutions to Reflection-Transmission Problem of Interface in Anisotropic Ice Sheet by Bangbing Wang, Honkuan Wong

“…This analytic solution reveals the functional relationship between the macroradar reflection and the microphysical properties of ice crystals, which provides a feasibility of ice fabric identification by polarimetric radar detection.…”
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