The (Draft) European Charter of the Commons – Between Opportunities and Challenges by Anna Simonati

“…In Italy, there are no systemic rules about the commons, but some procedures to involve the interested local communities in the strategic choices have been experimented, which can serve as an illustration also for other EU countries. …”
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Ambiguous Territory by Kathy Velikov, Cathryn Dwyre, Chris Perry, David Salomon

“…Such a scenario describes certain addictions. An illustration of such an addiction on a planetary scale is exemplified by the neologism agrilogistics. …”
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The Relevance of the Practice of Ifá Divination in Ola Rotimi’s The Gods are not to Blame by Olusegun Olu-Osayomi, Babatunde Adebua

“…Using The God Are Not to Blame (1975) as an illustration, the paper contends, in a poignant manner, that the elements of Yorùbá Ifá divination, through oracular devices, well manifested in the structuring principles of Rotimi’s work. …”
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Bayesian Estimation for the Doubly Censored Topp Leone Distribution using Approximate Methods and Fuzzy Type of Priors by Navid Feroze, Ali Al-Alwan, Muhammad Noor-ul-Amin, Shajib Ali, R. Alshenawy

“…In addition, a real dataset has been analyzed for the illustration of the applicability of the results obtained in the study. …”
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Long-Term Strength of Porous Geomaterials by a Micromechanical Model considering Alternate Wetting and Drying Condition by Jin Zhang, Shirong Fu, Tao Ni, Bei Han, Chong Shi

“…The reduction of the long-term strength due to inner water pressure is observed by the illustration of obtained macroscopic criteria with respect to various load parameters. …”
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Les projets éducatifs territoriaux au coeur de l’animation en Guyane et aux Antilles françaises by Christian Cécile

“…Marie-Galante, île dépendance de l’archipel guadeloupéen, sert d’illustration.…”
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« Pour le remède des âmes » : la chapelle du cimetière de l’hôpital Saint-Jacques de Cuiseaux et son décor peint by Denise Borlée

“…Modest Saint Jacques chapel, for the decoration of which some rich citizens of Cuiseaux seem to have joined, so offers a beautiful illustration of a close link between the arts at the beginning of the XVth century.…”
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Science et développement : l’action de François Gros au COPED by Auger, Pierre, Delseny, Michel

“…The diversity of these concerns is a good illustration of the range of areas in which François Gros saw a possible impact of science in the service of development.…”
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Algorithm for alerting the unmanned aerial vehicle operator based on the image potential obstacle borders detection on the flight trajectory using the OPEN CV library by V. Yu. Stepanov, E. A. Hvitko

“…First, we give an illustration of the problems on the example of the relief image on topographic maps and the essence of the relief image by horizontal contours. …”
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Chaos in Ecology: The Topological Entropy of a Tritrophic Food Chain Model by Jorge Duarte, Cristina Januário, Nuno Martins

“…This work is still another illustration of the role that the theory of dynamical systems can play in the study of chaotic dynamics in life sciences.…”
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La frontière comme espace liminal by Marie-Christine Fourny

“…L’analyse du projet d’élaboration d’une stratégie macro-régionale pour les Alpes en donne une illustration. Ce projet vise en effet à unir un espace « Alpes » autour d’objectifs communs. …”
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Stochastic Modeling of Rainfall in Peninsular Malaysia Using Bartlett Lewis Rectangular Pulses Models by Ibrahim Suliman Hanaish, Kamarulzaman Ibrahim, Abdul Aziz Jemain

“…For the purpose of comparison of the performance of the three different models, the results found for the months of July and November are used for illustration. This performance is assessed based on the goodness of fit of the models. …”
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Analytical Solutions of Fractional Walter’s B Fluid with Applications by Qasem Al-Mdallal, Kashif Ali Abro, Ilyas Khan

“…These solutions have combined effects of heat and mass transfer; this is due to free convections differences between mass concentration and temperature distribution. Graphical illustration is depicted in order to bring out the effects of various physical parameters on flow. …”
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Artificial Intelligence to Enhance Qualitative Research: Methodological Reflections on a Pilot Study by Maria Luongo, Michela Ponticorvo, Maria Beatrice Ligorio, Pietro Crescenzo, Giuseppe Ritella

“…Moreover, the present article discusses the relevance and significance of this approach as well as its ethical and methodological challenges by means of an empirical illustration taken from a study on teachers’ sensemaking regarding a range of different educational activities.…”
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Long-Run Savings and Investment Strategy Optimization by Russell Gerrard, Montserrat Guillén, Jens Perch Nielsen, Ana M. Pérez-Marín

“…Performance comparisons are based on downside risk-adjusted equivalence that is used in our illustration.…”
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Assurer la maitrise du ruissellement grâce aux zones humides au voisinage des infrastructures de transport dans une perspective de conservation de la biodiversité by Camille Fressignac, Pascal Breil, Yannick Matillon, Andréa Nullans, Blandine Chazelle, Benoît Sarrazin, Dominique Vallod

“…It then introduces the approach of the success factors which are: (1) convince the designer and the operator of the appropriateness of a redesigned management of storm water and (2) to benefit from operational space methods for the detection and evaluation of favorable hydrological and ecological contexts within landscapes. An illustration of these aspects is presented in a section of the TGV Méditerranée processed using a GIS tool under development at Irstea and SNCF.The tested indicators still need to be improved to achieve a tool able to assist the decision facing the variety of storm water management situations on the land transport system. …”
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Towards a Digital Transformation Hyper-Framework: The Essential Design Principles and Components of the Initial Prototype by Ana Perisic, Branko Perisic

“…The applicability aspects of the formulated hypothesis are verified throughout the architecture, meta-configuration, and handling of information resources as the essential segments of the initial version of the proposed evolution prototype. The detailed illustration of the horizontal and vertical interoperability of the proposed framework is illustrated by the Life Cycle Modeling component framework that creatively integrates the System, Software, and Operation Engineering aspects of the proposed hyper-framework. …”
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Resource Placement for Rate and Fidelity Maximization in Quantum Networks by Shahrooz Pouryousef, Hassan Shapourian, Alireza Shabani, Ramana Kompella, Don Towsley

“…We apply our framework to several cases including a preliminary illustration of a dumbbell network topology and real-world cases of the SURFnet and ESnet. …”
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Policy Considerations on the Interplay Between State Aid Control and Competition Law by Maria João Melícias

“… Under the broad topic of the interplay between state aid and competition law, this article addresses the following related lines of discussion: (i) the goals and some of the political rationales of state aid control; (ii) a brief illustration of some of the harm caused by state aid, including a distinction between its anticompetitive and distortive effects; (iii) a description of the Portuguese legal and institutional framework on domestic state aid, including the underlying rationale for this institutional design; (iv) an assessment of the policy concerns that a scenario whereby the AdC would hold full-fledged enforcement powers against state aid might raise, and, finally (v) the competition advocacy role played by the AdC in relation to state-induced competition distortions, such as state aid or subsidies. …”
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Critical Design Considerations on Continuous Frequency Modulation Localization Systems by Belal Al-Qudsi, Mohammed El-Shennawy, Niko Joram, Marco Gunia, Frank Ellinger

“…It presents an intuitive illustration of the measurement’s expected accuracy by indicating a larger intersection area for relaxed design conditions and vice versa. …”
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