Les langues kanak, une histoire très politique by Françoise Roche

“…After sixty years of a very unbalanced postcolonial status quo, the Kanak people rebelled in the 1980’s to put an end to their exclusion from social, economic, and professional equal opportunities and to the loss of their ancestral land. …”
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Generalized dissipativeness in a Banach space by David R. Gurney

“…For k a real number, a subset B of X×X will be called k-dissipative if for each pair of elements (x1,y1), (x2,y2) in B, there existsh∈{f∈X*:[x,f]=|x|2=|f|2}such thatRe[y1−y2,h]≤k|x1−x2|2.This definition extends a notion of dissipativeness which is equivalent to having k equal zero here. A number of definitions and theorems related to this original dissipative notion are generalized in the present paper to fit the k-dissipative situation, and proofs are given for the new theorems.…”
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Global Dynamics of Discrete Competitive Models with Large Intrinsic Growth Rates by Chunqing Wu, Jing-an Cui

“…Earlier works have shown that the unique positive equilibrium is globally attractive under the assumption that the intrinsic growth rates of the two competitive species are less than 1+ln 2, and further the unique positive equilibrium is globally asymptotically stable under the stronger condition that the intrinsic growth rates of the two competitive species are less than or equal to 1. We prove that the system can also be globally asymptotically stable when the intrinsic growth rates of the two competitive species are greater than 1 and globally attractive when the intrinsic growth rates of the two competitive species are greater than 1 + ln 2.…”
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Depuis les podiums des reines de beauté : se produire comme femme trans en Bolivie by Pascale Absi

“…Nevertheless, the desire to be recognized as equal in beauty and femininity to a Miss limits the possibility of questioning the hegemonic man/woman binary. …”
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Égalité, complémentarité, concurrence. La violence entre les “sexes” au Sénégal à l’épreuve du “genre” by Giovanna Cavatorta

“…This article questions the dynamics of representation and transformation of the power relations between genders in Senegal, by accounting for how they articulate with its political agenda on gender equality. Firstly, it shows the ambivalence and ambiguities of the way in which the experts interpret it. …”
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Le paradoxe de l’autonomie en contexte scolaire by Raphaëlle Raab

“…If all the purposes and the practices aren't equal, how to identify? And how to make choices of action in the service of learner empowerment? …”
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Does Black theology have a role to play in the democratic South Africa? by R. T. H. Dolamo

“…Yet two decades into our democracy, poverty, racism, gender injustice, patriarchy, xenophobia, bad governance, environmental degradation, and so on need to be prophetically addressed with equal seriousness and simultaneously, for none of these issues can be left for some time in the future. …”
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Professionnalisation des enseignants et démocratisation scolaire : une formation initiale pensée à l’aune de la réduction des inégalités scolaires ? by Claire Benveniste

“…Despite orders to implement "good practices", considered "effective", or even democratizing, primary school teachers ultimately have few resources to act on the conditions of equal access for all to school knowledge.…”
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Le récit plantigrade (sur Madame Bovary) by Guy Larroux

“…The order of the portrait is equally altered by it, as though Flaubert interpreted literally and in his own way the expression “de pied en cap” (from foot to head, that English reverses: “from head to foot”). …”
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On Omega Index and Average Degree of Graphs by Sadik Delen, Musa Demirci, Ahmet Sinan Cevik, Ismail Naci Cangul

“…Average degree of a graph is defined to be a graph invariant equal to the arithmetic mean of all vertex degrees and has many applications, especially in determining the irregularity degrees of networks and social sciences. …”
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Toward an Architecture of Dissensus: Participatory Urbanism in South-East Asia by Camillo Boano, Emily Kelling

“…Adopting Rancière’s principles of equality, his concepts of aesthetics and le partage du sensible as an intellectual toolbox, this paper examines how practices of participation in informal settlement development might encourage one to think differently about the relationship between politics, design and the city – contributing thus to the debate about participatory urbanism. …”
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Rousseau i nowożytne spotkanie z Innym by Sylwester Zielka

“…., the “primitive” people living in the state of nature as free and equal, without concerns and inconveniences of civilization, is contrasted with an opposite project of a “degenerate savage” of Thomas Hobbes, who used it as a justification for absolute monarchy in European countries and of European societies over non-Western ones. …”
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Quantum Radiation Properties of General Nonstationary Black Hole by T. Ibungochouba Singh

“…We also observe that the chemical potential derived from scalar particles is equal to the highest energy of the negative-energy state of the scalar particle in the nonthermal radiation in general nonstationary black hole. …”
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Cooked Air by Elizabeth Galvez

“…Through an examination of ASHRAE Standard 62.2, this essay asks why is it that, as ventilation processes become increasingly measurable, there is an equal tendency to reverse awareness in relation to the human sensation, when the standard itself underlines the reality of both phenomenal and intellectual knowledge towards air quality assessment. …”
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Lossless Join Decomposition for Extended Possibility-Based Fuzzy Relational Databases by Julie Yu-Chih Liu

“…To resolve the problem, this study defined fuzzy functional dependency based on a notion of approximate equality for extended possibility-based fuzzy relational databases. …”
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Design and Construction of Hybrid Music Recommendation System Integrating Music Gene by Xuelin Zhao

“…In addition, while adopting the optimal individual retention strategy, this study makes the eigenvalues of the input matrix IX all fall within the unit circle or unit circumference and makes the maximum fitness value of the individuals in the population equal to the global optimal fitness value. Finally, this study constructs an intelligent system. …”
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Design of IIR Digital Filters with Arbitrary Flatness Using Iterative Quadratic Programming by Yasunori Sugita

“…In the design of inverse-Chebyshev-type filters, the flatness condition in the passband is added to the constraint of the QP problem as the linear matrix equality, and an equiripple characteristic in the stopband is realized by iteratively solving the QP problem. …”
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Lightning Damage to Landscape Palms by Stephen H. Brown, Douglas Caldwell, Ralph Mitchell

“…Coconut palms, royal palms, and Washington palms are particularly vulnerable due to their great heights, but other tall palms may be equally susceptible. This new 6-page publication of the UF/IFAS Environmental Horticulture Department describes and includes many helpful photos of symptoms of lightning damage as well as lightning protection systems. …”
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Vibration Analysis of Annular Sector Plates under Different Boundary Conditions by Dongyan Shi, Xianjie Shi, Wen L. Li, Qingshan Wang, Jiashan Han

“…This work allows a capability of modeling annular sector plates under a variety of boundary conditions and changing the boundary conditions as easily as modifying the material properties or dimensions of the plates. Of equal importance, the proposed approach is universally applicable to annular sector plates of any inclusion angles up to 2π. …”
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Rate Adaptive Selective Segment Assignment for Reliable Wireless Video Transmission by Sajid Nazir, Dejan Vukobratović, Vladimir Stanković, Ivan Andonović

“…Simulation results show competitiveness of the proposed scheme compared to optimized unequal and equal error protection solutions. The simulation results also demonstrate that a high visual quality video transmission can be maintained despite the adverse effect of varying channel conditions and the number of decoding failures can be reduced.…”
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