Consideration of Digital Divide in Societies of Globalised Control (Extension of Social Contract) by Hüseyin Tolu

“…What the current reality is that we cannot escape from a global prison even if we do know we are in one, in this sense, this paper is interested in arguing how the definition of DD leads technocratic reasoning in which societies of globalised control cannot be separated from speculation, accumulation and circulation of technological commodities that actually lead an unspecific but an extension of social contract in any developed or developing nations throughout technological education.…”
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Initiations in the Burmese Ritual Landscape by Bénédicte Brac de la Perrière

“…By doing so, I aim to give a sense of the real diversity of the Burmese ritual landscape, which until recently was rarely taken into account, and to contribute to the on-going debate in the field of Buddhist studies on what could be encapsulated as the question of Buddhism and spirit cults in Southeast Asian Theravada.…”
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Sleep Paralysis and Hallucinosis by Gregory Stores

“…Methods and results: These points are illustrated by the case of a young man with a severe bipolar affective disorder who independently developed terrifying visual, auditory and somatic hallucinatory episodes at sleep onset, associated with a sense of evil influence and presence. The episodes were not obviously related to his psychiatric disorder. …”
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Flow between caoxial rotating disks: with and without externally applied magnetic field by R. K. Bhatnagar

“…The three cases discussed are: (I) one disks is held at rest while other rotates with a constant angular velocity, (ii) one disk rorates faster than the other but in the same sense and (iii) the disks rotate in opposite senses and with different angular velocities. …”
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Bounds of the Spectral Radius and the Nordhaus-Gaddum Type of the Graphs by Tianfei Wang, Liping Jia, Feng Sun

“…Then, we give some numerical examples which indicate that the results are better than the mentioned upper bounds in some sense. Finally, an upper bound of the Nordhaus-Gaddum type is obtained for the sum of Laplacian spectral radius of a connected graph and its complement. …”
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The New Solitary Solutions to the Time-Fractional Coupled Jaulent–Miodek Equation by Guiping Shen, Jalil Manafian, Syed Maqsood Zia, Dinh Tran Ngoc Huy, Trung-Hieu Le

“…Plentiful exact traveling wave solutions containing unknown values are constructed in the sense of trigonometric, hyperbolic, exponential, and rational functions. …”
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Choquet Integral of Fuzzy-Number-Valued Functions: The Differentiability of the Primitive with respect to Fuzzy Measures and Choquet Integral Equations by Zengtai Gong, Li Chen, Gang Duan

“…In addition, in order to solve Choquet integral equations of fuzzy-number-valued functions, a concept of the Laplace transformation for the fuzzy-number-valued functions in the sense of Choquet integral is introduced. For distorted Lebesgue measures, it is shown that Choquet integral equations of fuzzy-number-valued functions can be solved by the Laplace transformation. …”
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A Performance and Usability Aware Secure Two-Factor User Authentication Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks by Sang Guun Yoo, Hyukjun Lee, Juho Kim

“…On the other hand, they also present a usability constraint, in a sense that they do not consider the use case when sensor nodes cannot communicate with gateway node. …”
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Mapping Nonsquare and Unevenly Spaced 2-D SLDV Data of an Aircraft Fuselage by Using Spatial DFT-IDFT Techniques by William Xinzuo Li, Larry D. Mitchell, Min-Fu Lu, Michael L. Neumann

“…The scanning laser Doppler vibrometry (SLDV) technique provides velocities of a structure at 2-dimensional (2-D) angularly evenly spaced (in the laser scanning sense) data points. This causes an unevenly spaced data point distribution on the surface of the test structure. …”
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Die funksie van mannekragbestuur in effektiewe kommunikasie binne die organisasie by J. L. COETZEE

“… For purpose of this paper the term Personnel Management will be used in its widest generic sense so as to include all the behavioral functions within the organisation.  …”
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A Tsunami Ball Approach to Storm Surge and Inundation: Application to Hurricane Katrina, 2005 by Steven N. Ward

“…(b) The procedure is meshless in the finite-difference/finite-element sense. (c) Tsunami balls care little if they find themselves in the ocean or inundating land. …”
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Circulation d’un modèle urbain "alternatif" ? by Nicolas Douay, Maryvonne Prévot

“…At first glance it calls into question the central role of public institutions in the regulation and control of the public space and amenities. In this sense, the societal conditions of the emergence of these new initiatives of citizen ownership of public spaces, abandoned or not, must be analyzed. …”
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Electroconvulsive treatment of a patient with Parkinson’s disease and moderate depression by John Erik Berg

“…Before and after a series of ECT he filled out the Beck Depression Inventory and the Antonovsky Sense of Coherence test. The scores before ECT were 20 and 2.69, respectively, and after 12 treatments 14 and 3.38. …”
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Between the Violence and the Citizenship: A Glance on the Youth Mortality by Thaís Juliana Medeiros, Ana Paula Serrata Malfitano

“…In terms of methodology, it is applied the discussion about the database, based on the citizenship concept. In this sense, official data about local mortality were collected in the Centro de Informações sobre a Saúde (CIS), São Carlos, limited to young people deaths from ages between 15 to 29 years old and between 2000 to 2010 years, identifying gender, race and social class. …”
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Critica scientifica, popolarizzazione dell’etnografia ed etica dell’antropologo: sulla “controversia yanomami”, per esempio by Alessandro Mancuso

“…In particular, I try to reconstruct the way in which the image of the Yanomami as the “last primitive society” was initially consolidated, inside and outside anthropology, and, in this sense, I compare the ethnographies of Chagnon and Lizot. …”
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Framing the Land: Canadian Landscapes Revisited in Jin-me Yoon and Lorraine Gilbert’s Photography by Gwendolyne Cressman

“…The representation of landscapes through survey photography in the mid to late 1800s largely contributed to document Canadian and American expansionist endeavors, to ascertain the documentary and scientific role that photography would play in that expansion and to foster a sense of national belonging and of Anglo-Saxon supremacy which would also find its expression in landscape painting. …”
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The Social Construction of Transgenic Corn: Relevant Social Actors in Chihuahua by Marco Antonio Fernández Nava

“…This work takes as it point of departure the Social Construction of Technology Focus (SCOT). In this sense, transgenic corn is an unfinished object that is affected by an onslaught of struggles, opinions, agreements, disagreements, designs and redefinitions of the relevant social actors. …”
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Les insectes vivants dans l’espace anthropisé. Incarnations de la dichotomie nature/culture en architecture by Delphine Lewandowski

“…This article proposes to question the different places that humans grant insects inhabiting the anthropized space, and to measure the impact of different forms of human/insect cohabitation on spatial production in a broad sense: using the architectural scale to examine its integration into urban spaces with territorial interventions. …”
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Using information technology to support knowledge conversion processes

“…The potential of each category of solutions to support the transfer of tacit and/or explicit knowledge and to facilitate the knowledge conversion spiral in the sense of Nonaka and Takeuchi (1995) is discussed.…”
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Sensual Environmental Robots: Entanglements of Speculative Realist Ideas with Design Theory and Practice by Santer Steven C.

“…Speculative Realist ideas provide reasoning for design approaches to metaphorise sensed environmental data into multi-sensorial performances that the devices embody. …”
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