Introduction: Views from the Shoreline: Community, Trade and Religion in Coastal Yorubaland and the Western Niger Delta by Insa Nolte, Olukoya Ogen

“…It emphasizes both the high mobility and heterogeneity of coastal communities and illustrates the diverse ways in which local leaders have mobilized a range of resources – including Islam, traditional practice, and especially Christianity – to ensure individual wellbeing and to affirm or re-shape local boundaries and hierarchies. …”
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Diy-City and internet of things. A research hypothesis around interactive urban design by Marco Trisciuoglio

“…In order to do this, the research hypothesis illustrated prefigures a sort of Turing machine of urban design, capable of transforming data (voluntarily and involuntarily provided by citizens) into actions aimed at designing the space of the city.…”
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Analiza uczniowskich błędów – narzędzie polityki edukacyjnej kraju? by Mirosław Dąbrowski

“…It seems to be essential because the most important tools used in our educational policy – core curriculum and external exams – are likely to reinforce some categories of pupils’ errors and so become misleading in the difficult process of school mathematical education. The above will be illustrated with some examples taken from pupils’ mathematics skills examining carried out within the last few years. …”
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Towards formal evaluation of collaborative work by R. Baeza-Yates, J.A. Pino

“…</b> An application - collaborative retrieval - is formalized to illustrate the model. For this application, a specific heuristic is proposed to the case when many people search for the same information, thereby increasing the recall and precision of the answer. …”
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Évolution des modèles d’implantation de la villégiature sur le littoral tunisois by Sondès Zaier, Hichem Rejeb, Pierre Donadieu

“…This enthusiasm was illustrated in Tunisia by the construction of many recreational palaces and summer residences. …”
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"The personal is political": faith and religion in a public university by Isabel Apawo Phiri, Sarojini Nadar

“… In this article, the authors argue that faith and religion can and must be exposed to academic scrutiny, and that the best place for such scrutiny is the public university. They illustrate how the great rallying cry of the early feminist movement to make the personal political can help in ensuring that religion does not become a “private” matter. …”
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Sunn Hemp—A Promising Cover Crop in Florida by Qingren Wang, Yuncong C. Li, Waldemar Klassen, Edward A. Hanlon

“…  SL-306 (formerly SS-AGR-96), a 4-page illustrated fact sheet by Yuncong Li, Qingren Wang, Waldemar Klassen, Edward A. …”
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Neutrophil-derived Oxidants and Proteinases as Immunomodulatory Mediators in Inflammation by V. Witko-Sarsat, B. Descamps-Latscha

“…Over the past years, the concept has emerged that both ROI and proteinases can be viewed as mediators able to modulate neutrophil responses as well as the whole inflammatory process. This is well illustrated by the oxidative regulation of proteinase activity showing that oxidants and proteinases acts is concert to optimize the microbicidal activity and to damage host tissues. …”
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A male-female mathematical model of human papillomavirus (HPV) in African American population by Najat Ziyadi

“…Sensitivity analysis is used to illustrate the impact of each model parameter on the basic reproduction number.…”
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Servir le roi autour de 1300 by Philippe Josserand

“…The article, of course, does not claim to fill such a gap. Yet, it illustrates the possibility of a biographical seizure, the interest which would be that of such a research, and, beyond the myth, by linking the action of Guillaume de Nogaret in the French South and to the Capetian court, it reveals the main lines of an existence entirely dedicated to royal service and carried, to the point of brutality, by the obsession with the interest of the realm erected, in deeds and in thought, into a mystic then completely new, opening the way to the absolutism.…”
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伊東豊雄　技術と社会 by Xavier Guillot グザビエ・ギヨ

“…Two actions carried out in the Tōhoku region and in the Seto Inland Sea which bear witness to this are analyzed in this article: one concerns the construction of a community house, the other concerns the regeneration of an island community: Omishima. These actions illustrate a singular "social and technical approach" in project management: one based on the sharing of skills with the inhabitants and local actors in the design process, and the other resorting to an economy of means in the implementation of the project. …”
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La tente dans la ville, la mine dans la tente, le marketing dans le désert by Sofia Smyej

“…Engaging with the theory of extraversion (Bayart, 1999), the article demonstrates how Sahrawi elites leverage relationships with external actors to strengthen their local power while maintaining complex connections with state structures. The article illustrates the complexity of transgenerational positionalities within a family belonging to the local elite, navigating between the transmission of the northwestern Saharan nomadic heritage and adaptation to neoliberal and rentier dynamics, which transforms power relations.…”
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Le « brouilloscope », un nuancier pour éclairer les troubles de la perception by Helma Korzybska

“…In this contribution, I present the “bluroscope”, a research tool I developed with illustrator Marianne Tricot in the context of my work on the perceptual learning of people who have lost their sight or hearing, and have been respectively fit with retinal and cochlear implants. …”
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Markov Regime Switching of Stochastic Volatility Lévy Model on Approximation Mode by Arthit Intarasit

“…Finally, some empirical results are illustrated via applications to the Bangkok Stock Exchange of Thailand index.…”
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Andinos y buenos cristianos. La inversión en lo sagrado en los trámites legales de dos caciques en el virreinato del Perú (siglo xvi) by Elfie Guyau

“…Contrasting the different procedures sheds light on the implicit norms used to represent the caciques’ Christian lives. It also illustrates what is at stake behind their identification as “exemplary Christians” by the colonial authorities. …”
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Three case studies in virtual preservation. Applying virtual reality to Cultural Heritage by Kai Reaver

“…The article concludes on illustrating the limitations and strengths of the study and foreseeing that Virtual Preservation can help experts to establish guidelines integrating virtual reality into traditional practice.…”
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An Extrapolated Iterative Algorithm for Multiple-Set Split Feasibility Problem by Yazheng Dang, Yan Gao

“…The convergence of the method is investigated, and numerical experiments are provided to illustrate the benefits of the extrapolation.…”
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Applications on Bipolar Vague Soft Sets by Hanan H. Sakr, Abdisalam Hassan Muse, Mohamed S. Mohamed, Saieed F. Ateya

“…Finally, an applied problem is introduced with a comparative analysis to illustrate how the proposed algorithm works more successfully than the previous models for problems that contain uncertain ambiguous data.…”
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A Novel Inertial-Aided Star Pattern Matching Method for Distributed Multiple FoVs by Rong Wang, Yuxuan Cao, Jianye Liu, Zhi Xiong

“…First, the observation and fusion principles of distributed multiple FoVs are illustrated. Then, an inertial-aided star pattern matching scheme is designed based on the space-time distribution of the line-of sight (LoS) vector and inertial measurement information. …”
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Urachal Mucinous Cystic Tumor of Low Malignant Potential with Concurrent Sigmoid Colon Adenocarcinoma by Kelly Brennan, Paul Johnson, Heather Curtis, Thomas Arnason

“…We believe that this case illustrates a potential diagnostic pitfall which could have prognostic and therapeutic implications. …”
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