The Visible Aspect of Things: Towards a Synchronic Reading of Donald Barthelme by Surya Bowyer

“…I analyze such apparently unremarkable textual aspects as dashes, hyphens, and lists, showing that they are used by Barthelme in a way that demands a visual mode of reading. …”
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L’expérience des Tribunaux de Conscience contre les Violences Sexuelles au Guatemala : Vers une Récupération de la Justice par les Femmes Autochtones by Laura Cahier

“…Nevertheless, hopes for transitional justice have been dashed by the persistence of a continuum of violence, particularly against Mayan, Garífuna and Xinka women. …”
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Tourists' perceptions of beach quality improvement during the off-peak season: a segmentation approach by Goda Lukoseviciute, Luís Nobre Pereira

“…Recently coastal tourism has increased dashingly, however, it has negatively affected environmental, social and cultural sustainability. …”
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Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry: A poetic deconstruction of Psalms 23, 51 and 137 by Mlamli Diko, Adelheid Bechtold Celliers

“…The hideous imagery of dashing infants against rocks mirrors the profundity of their suffering and the complex interplay between memory, loss and the pursuit of justice. …”
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Arabic Sign Language Recognition System for Alphabets Using Machine Learning Techniques by Gamal Tharwat, Abdelmoty M. Ahmed, Belgacem Bouallegue

“…In recent years, the role of pattern recognition in systems based on human computer interaction (HCI) has spread in terms of computer vision applications and machine learning, and one of the most important of these applications is to recognize the hand gestures used in dealing with deaf people, in particular to recognize the dashed letters in surahs of the Quran. In this paper, we suggest an Arabic Alphabet Sign Language Recognition System (AArSLRS) using the vision-based approach. …”
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A Meta-Synthesis of the Integrated Model of Customer Value co-Destruction and Value co-Creation by Zohreh Dehdashti Shahrokh, Vahid Nasehifar, Mohammad Reza Karimi Alavijeh, Yazdan Rahmatabadi

“…The variable "Customer Perceived Value", which is the only variable appearing at the customer level, is shown in the figure with a dashed line. It should be noted that all the variables appear in both levels, but they show the greatest impact in the mentioned levels.ConclusionIt is very important to keep in mind that the categories of both value creation and destruction have a semantic contradiction, but it is necessary to pay attention to the fact that the creation of customer value co-destruction is unavoidable and the processes tend to increase entropy and disorder. …”
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