Interpretation of Historical Facts in Modern Italian Literature by the Example of Umberto Eco’s Novel “Baudolino” by O. Yu. Mushtanova

“…Emphasizing the connection between history and modernity, Eco proposes to revise the stereotypes associated with the mentioned historical period. The portraits of historical figures are borrowed from the chronicles, however in the novel they get more emotional in the perception of the protagonist, typical cliches are replaced by individuality. …”
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LINGUISTIC AND ACOUSTIC RESOURCES OF THE COMPUTER-BASED SYSTEM FOR ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION OF SPEECH INTONATION by Yu. A. Zdaranok

“…Bryzgunova, BM Lobanov created the universal melodic portraits (UMP), which can be normalized in time in accordance with the position of its pre-nuclear, nuclear and bender parts. …”
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Negative Ion Beam Emittance Calculations by M. Turek, P. Węgierek

“…Ion beam phase space portraits were also presented to enrich the discussion.Growth of ion (electron) beam emittance was observed both with the increasing radius of the extraction opening and the inclination of its bevelled surfaces. …”
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Beyond Chaos in Fractional-Order Systems: Keen Insight in the Dynamic Effects by José Luis Echenausía-Monroy, Luis Alberto Quezada-Tellez, Hector Eduardo Gilardi-Velázquez, Omar Fernando Ruíz-Martínez, María del Carmen Heras-Sánchez, Jose E. Lozano-Rizk, José Ricardo Cuesta-García, Luis Alejandro Márquez-Martínez, Raúl Rivera-Rodríguez, Jonatan Pena Ramirez, Joaquín Álvarez

“…By quantifying the convex envelope generated by the 2D projection of the system into all its phase portraits, the changes in the area of the system, as well as the volume of the attractor, are characterized. …”
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Les Intellectuels américains et l’idéal démocratique by Daniel Geary

“…Daniel Geary examine, à travers quatre figures marquantes, la manière dont les intellectuels américains ont interrogé, éprouvé et participé à la construction de la démocratie depuis la fin du xixe siècle, s’engageant sur le terrain public pour porter une critique sociale et culturelle centrée sur l’idéal démocratique. Quatre portraits successifs déploient les parcours singuliers, les prises de position politiques et les ambiguïtés du positionnement social et de l’engagement d’« intellectuels » parvenus à imposer leurs voix dans le débat public : William James (1842-1910), figure majeure d’une philosophie pragmatiste fondée sur la recherche empirique et collective de la vérité, devenu défenseur du pluralisme religieux et du libre-arbitre ; W. …”
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Self-organized criticality and urban development by Michael Batty, Yichun Xie

“…We measure the emergence and growth of the city using urban density functions from which measures of fractal dimension are used to construct growth paths of the way the city has grown to fill its region. These phase portraits suggest the existence of transitions between the frontier, the settled agricultural region, the centralized industrial city and the decentralized postindustrial city, and our analysis reveals that Buffalo has maintained itself at a critical threshold since the emergence of the automobile city some 70 years ago. …”
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Construction of an Intelligent Analysis Model for Website Information Based on Big Data and Cloud Computing Technology by Ronghua Chen, Bei Yang

“…The main functions in the following aspects are realized: first, we built the website back-end delivery subsystem and data collection and analysis subsystem to realize the control of website delivery and data collection; second, we designed and developed a process management subsystem for booking, management, and delivery of website resources and developed the contract management and order management subsystems to realize the accurate placement of user portraits on the website; then, the placement data monitoring and effect feedback subsystems, and the data inventory subsystem of the website system were designed and developed. …”
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Estimating the impact of the Mongol expansion upon the gene pool of Tuvans by L. D. Damba, Е. V. Balanovskaya, M. K. Zhabagin, Y. М. Yusupov, Y. V. Bogunov, Z. M. Sabitov, A. T. Agdzhoyan, N. A. Korotkova, M. B. Lavryashina, B. B. Mongush, U. N. Kavai-ool, O. P. Balanovsky

“…All the results derived – “genetic portraits”, the matrix of genetic distances, the dendrogram and the multidimensional scaling plot, which mirror the genetic connections between Tuvinian clans and populations of South Siberia and East Asia, demonstrated the prominent similarity of the Tuvinian gene pools with populations from and Khakassia and Altai. …”
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The U.S. Withdrawal from UNESCO under the Reagan Administration: A Multilevel Analysis by B. A. Avdeev

“…The third section outlines the motivation and politicalpsychological portraits of individual politicians who were personally interested in pulling USA out of UNESCO. …”
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ANTHROPOLOGY OF VISUAL SELF-OBJECTIFICATION OF THE PAINTER (BASED ON WORKS BY ARTEMISIA GENTILESCHI) by O. M. Goncharova

“…The biographical method was used when working with data on the painter’s life, iconographic and figurative stylistic (techniques of composition, narrative, color characteristics) – when analyzing the art visuals: self-portraits, allegories and narrative paintings. The analytical work was carried out in stages as transition from an iconographic interpretation of paintings with gradual elimination of art and style characteristics as extra-anthropological cultural constants with subsequent anthropological reduction of cultural image. …”
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Research on Operation Characteristics and Safety Risk Forecast of Bus Driven by Multisource Forewarning Data by Shejun Deng, Hongru Yu, Caoye Lu

“…To prevent and control public transport safety accidents in advance and guide the safety management and decision-making optimization of public transport vehicles, based on the forewarning and other multisource data of public transport vehicles in Zhenjiang, holographic portraits of public transport safety operation characteristics are constructed from the perspectives of time, space, and driver factors, and a prediction model of fatigue driving and driving risk of bus drivers based on BP neural network is constructed. …”
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Une statue de togatus découverte dans l’agglomération antique de Briord (Ain) by Thomas Le Saint Quinio, Maria-Pia Darblade-Audoin

“…The short fringe is paired with small and even locks, which are arranged similarly to hairstyles visible in some portraits of Tiberius and Caligula, during the reign of Tiberius to that of Claudius.The toga depicted by the sculpture presents a number of noteworthy characteristics, including: the hanging strip of cloth, formed by the material flowing from the left shoulder to the right hand. …”
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Dramatic and Cinematic Potentials of the Fifth Dome in Nizami's Haft Peykar by Heydar Ali Dahmarde, Hojat Raeisi

“…The narrative unfolds with Bahram falling in love with these princesses upon seeing their portraits. After his ascent to the throne, he ambitiously pursues their affections, eventually succeeding in marrying each one. …”
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Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871 – 1918 by Arzu Melek Ozgumus

“…The fourth chapter, Wilhelm’s Reich, serves as the second major segment of the book following Bismarck’s Reich. Hoyer portraits Wilhelm II as a young, ambitious, brave and visionary Emperor, unlike his grandfather’s, more modest and humbler demeanor. …”
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