FPGA Techniques Based New Hybrid Modulation Strategies for Voltage Source Inverters by L. U. Sudha, J. Baskaran, S. A. Elankurisil

“…The proposed method is formulated using fundamental switching and carrier based pulse width modulation methods. The main tale of this proposed method is to optimize a specific performance criterion, such as minimization of the total harmonic distortion (THD), lower order harmonics, switching losses, and heat losses. …”
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La maison hantée ou le miroir du territoire à conquérir dans « Dolph Heyliger » de Washington Irving by Françoise Buisson

“…The haunted house is first and foremost a narrative construct that gives the author the opportunity to play with gothic clichés; the ghost story can thus be read as a tall tale, the fallaciousness of which is obliquely denounced. …”
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Struttura e Progetto: Sperimentazioni in Bambù by Francesca Giglio, Adolfo Santini

“…Il paper descrive il percorso di ricerca affrontato per sperimentare un nodo costruttivo in bambù, verificandolo strutturalmente, lasciando aperti diversi scenari futuri su possibili implicazioni e impatti che tale innovazione potrebbe determinare.…”
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The Last and Latest Dickens by Clotilde De Stasio

“…The central theme is opium and drug addiction—a contemporary obsession: it is an interesting coincidence that an essay by Robert Tracy focusing on this aspect (‘Opium Is the True Hero of the Tale’) was published in the same year as The Last Dickens. …”
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‘Dolls in Agony’: Vernon Lee in Southern Spain by Leire Barrera-Medrano

“…Lee’s open repulsion to the Catholic country and especially to the Spanish representations of the Virgin Mary would prompt her to write ‘The Virgin of the Seven Daggers’, the most consciously Decadent of all her works: a sacrilegious tale in which Catholic and Moorish Spain are intertwined to explore notions of spiritual and moral perversity. …”
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Modelli e specchi, mode e tendenze. Esercizi di decostruzione e ricostruzione per l’antropologia italiana by Francesco Faeta

“…A partire da una serrata analisi intorno alla legittimità contemporanea della nozione di antropologia italiana, l’autore esplora alcune delle caratteristiche ricorrenti di tale tradizione di studio, evidenziandone limiti e carenze, per delineare poi nuclei tematici caratterizzanti la specifica riflessione nazionale e indicare alcuni dei percorsi per uscire dalla crisi di credibilità complessiva da cui la disciplina sembra essere, al giorno d’oggi, afflitta. …”
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Le concept de less good idea face aux patrimoines controversés by Monica Heintz

“…On that occasion, based on ten photographs, I wrote and directed a children’s tale, to be performed by three South African artists and a Beninese musician with the help of a Pepper’s ghost setup. …”
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Material Turns of the Screw: The Collier’s Weekly Serialization of The Turn of the Screw (1898) by Kirsten MacLeod

“…Finally, how might readers of Collier’s have understood the tale, taking into account their understanding of the contemporary literary and periodical scene, James’s place in it, and the manner in which the story was presented in Collier’s? …”
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Le tiret de fin de phrase dans Un cœur simple — un stylème flaubertien ? by Sabine Pétillon, André Petitjean

“…The dash that we study in the context of Flaubert’s tale is a marker of both fracture and continuity. …”
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‘The silent Arachnes that weave unrestingly in our Imagination’: The Industrial Metaphoric Web in Thomas Carlyle’s Sartor Resartus by Marie Laniel

“…In Book I, chapter 10 of Sartor Resartus (1833–34), Thomas Carlyle revisits the myth of Arachne and adapts Ovid’s tale to the industrial context: ‘Shall we tremble before clothwebs and cobwebs, whether woven in Arkwright looms, or by the silent Arachnes that weave unrestingly in our Imagination?’ …”
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Intersemiotic Translation: From Medieval Poetry to Modern Movie by Leila Nik Nasab

“…The director has made an effort to ensure that the appeal of the screenplay, the audience's engagement, and the success of the movie are indebted to the elements borrowed from the tale of Sheikh San'an.…”
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‘Queer Reverence’: Aubrey Beardsley’s Venus and Tannhäuser by Nicole Fluhr

“…This radical cropping of the tale has the effect of not merely revising but reversing the Tannhäuser legend’s moral in its preference of pagan values over Christian. …”
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Travels, Translations and Limitations: Ambasciatrice Caroline Crane Marsh by Etta Madden

“…Two volumes she translated into English, The Hallig or, the Sheepfold in the Waters: a Tale of Humble Life on the Coast of Schleswig (1856), and The Wolfe of the Knoll, and other Poems (1859), considered alongside her poetry, letters and journals, provide windows to the values of translation as a venue of negotiation and cultural exchange. …”
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Nie tylko pies. Świat zwierzęcy w powieści i serialu „Czterej pancerni i pies” by Paweł Kaczyński

“…Both their behaviour in performing various tasks and the way they are talked about indicate that even a creature as brilliant as Szarik, whose uncanny intellect would have him easily fit in a fairy tale, is ultimately treated as subservient to man (or perhaps him especially, seeing that, as his master’s magical assistant, it is ultimately his calling). …”
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"The Horse on which Words Ride": Proverbial Narrative in Toyin Falola's A Mouth Sweeter than Salt by Felicia Ohwovoriole

“…Through the use of proverbial narration, Fa­Iola presents a tale replete with magic, religion, divination, spirituality and various folklore elements. …”
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La araldica nell'iconografia dei santi by Vittoria Camelliti

“…Il santo (la cui immagine, di per sé, è spesso assunta a segno araldico), può essere qualificato araldicamente da attributi che gli sono propri e che lo identificano in quanto tale (come nel caso del vessillo crociato di san Giorgio o del piviale gigliato del santo angioino Ludovico da Tolosa); oppure da attributi ‘esterni’ che lo riqualificano in senso identitario, come accade per i santi patroni cittadini cosiddetti vessilliferi. …”
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“Where Does My Hope Come From?”: P. D. James’s The Children of Men (1992) as a Christian Dystopia in the Context of the Late 20th Century Demographic Crisis by Suzanne Bray

“…James’s The Children of Men (1992) has been compared with other demodystopias like The Handmaid’s Tale (1986) and Zoe Fairburns’ Benefits (1979) and described as a feminist work, it is far more of a Christian fable and contains echoes of Christian writers from Dostoevsky to T.S. …”
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De Masaccio à Stalker: pour une esthétique du seuil et de son franchissement  by Sylvie Castets

“…The spectator’s vision facing the canvas crosses the barrier of the artwork so as to invade a topic tale brought forth by the illusion of depth. The painting is also the place where the artist reveals to the spectator facing the canvas, through plastic stratagems the conditions of its making. …”
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Producing the Popular: John Monk Foster and the ‘Industrial Romance’ by Michael Sanders

“…Next, it argues that the narrative structure of A Pit-Brow Lassie displays an uneven and, at times, uneasy combination of elements derived from a variety of genres, as well as demonstrating many features of the folk tale. The article traces the ways in which these structural elements reduce the interpretative work required of the novel’s readers and also considers the novel’s defence of popular fiction. …”
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“Like ou não like”: a escuta, a participação, a negociação e a anuência das crianças da escola comunitária de educação infantil do lixão by Vanessa Silva Bernardes, Eduardo Rangel Ingrassia, Leandro Forell

“…Os achados mostram a emergência de refletir sobre os modos de participação e escuta das crianças, sobretudo trazendo para o TALE e para os textos das pesquisas suas contribuições. …”
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