Design and Experimental Assessment of a 2D Microwave Imaging System for Brain Stroke Monitoring by Jorge A. Tobon Vasquez, Rosa Scapaticci, Giovanna Turvani, Gennaro Bellizzi, Nadine Joachimowicz, Bernard Duchêne, Enrico Tedeschi, Mario R. Casu, Lorenzo Crocco, Francesca Vipiana

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Tunable Single-Longitudinal-Mode Thulium–Holmium Co-Doped Fiber Laser with an Ultra-Narrow Linewidth by Utilizing a Triple-Ring Passive Sub-Ring Resonator by Pengfei Wang, Fengping Yan, Qi Qin, Dandan Yang, Ting Feng, Peng Liu, Ting Li, Chenhao Yu, Xiangdong Wang, Hao Guo, Yuezhi Cai, Wenjie Ji, Youchao Jiang

“…The proposed fiber laser has a wide range of applications, including coherence optical communication, optical fiber sensing, and dense wavelength-division-multiplexing.…”
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Effect of Data Assimilation on Basin Evapotranspiration Simulation by YIN Jian, QIU Yuanhong, ZHANG Bin

“…In order to study the correction of hydrological process, especially evapotranspiration simulation by data assimilation, this paper constructs a deterministic ensemble Kalman filter assimilation system based on time variant gain model (TVGM) and remote-sensing evapotranspiration model, analyzes the simulation accuracy by the observation of watershed discharge and sub-basin evapotranspiration, and further studies the simulation accuracy, change process and assimilation calibration effect in terms of the spatial and temporal distribution of evapotranspiration. …”
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Ermenautica delle relazioni interspecifiche by Sergio Marchetti

“…I thus delineate a perspective that shifts from the macro planetary sea, seemingly devoid of human senses and relations, to the sea experienced in its even microscopic effects, the theatre of interspecific bonds and meanings (Helmreich 2010; Sahlins 2018; Haraway 2020).…”
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War, Trade and Desire: Urban Design and the Counter Public Spheres of Bangkok by Brian McGrath

“…In contrast, as the political base of protest in Thailand widened, the glittering shopping malls at Ratchaprasong became a new site of protest, fuelled by urban and rural working poor who sensed they could not afford to partake in Bangkok’s phantasmagorical splendours. …”
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Music Segmentation Algorithm Based on Self-Adaptive Update of Confidence Measure by Jianhua Li

“…According to the theory of compressed sensing, the music fragments are denoised, and thus the denoised signals are subjected to short-term correlation analysis. …”
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Hybrid genetic algorithm based optimization of pilotpattern by Hanbing ZHENG, Xiang YU, Weiwei WANG

“…In OFDM system,sparse channel estimation based on compressed sensing(CS)can make full use of the inherent sparse degree of the wireless channel,which can reduce the pilot overhead and improve the spectrum efficiency.Therefore,a new method based on hybrid genetic algorithm was investigated for the pilot design of CS channel estimation,which was based on the minimization of the matrix cross correlation in the CS theory.In this method,genetic algorithm was used to obtain the initial sub-optimal pilot sequence,and then combined with the pilot position and pilot power,each entry of pilot pattern could be sequentially updated and optimized to make the minimum correlation of measurement matrix.Simulation results show that the proposed method can ensure a better mean square error and bit error rate compared to the pseudo-random pilot design and the equal distance pilot design.…”
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River Contour Recognition and Extraction Algorithm Based on Kirsch Operator and Multi-level Threshold Segmentation by ZHOU Shaojun, SHE Hailong

“…The intelligent extraction accuracy of river contour from high-resolution remote sensing images under complex backgrounds is low.Thus,a method of combining the Kirsch operator with threshold segmentation is proposed to preprocess and pre-segment the gray images.Then,according to the morphological characteristics of the river,the image is morphologically processed to remove most of the background noise.Finally,the second threshold segmentation is conducted on the main area to realize accurate river contour recognition and extraction.The applicability of this method is proven by recognizing river samples in different terrain conditions.By employing objective evaluation indexes,the recognition accuracy of river area is verified to exceed 90%,which is much higher than the simple threshold segmentation method.This meets the needs of high-precision river channel extraction and provides references for intelligent and rapid extraction of river channel information.…”
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Vers une climatique du littoral. Une ethnographie sensible au milieu ambiant by Jean-Paul Thibaud

“…These questions put climate change to the test of ambiences and atmospheres, ways of living and ways of sensing the coastline territory. An original in situ investigation has been experimented, related to a sensory ethnography and studying the embodided and situated character of the relation of the inhabitants to their surroundings. …”
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Vers une qualité sonore des espaces publics by Élise Geisler

“…Could the sensitive approach of landscapers bring new opportunities of intervention on sound environment by opening the way to others senses rather than only focusing on perception ?…”
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“All shadow and silence in it” (3.1.247-48): Reticence in Measure for Measure by Denis Lagae-Devoldere

“…The bed-trick, one of the play’s central episodes – in both senses of its plot-related importance and its significant structural position – may be construed as a powerful marker of the interplay between silence and discourse, redeployed in specific stage terms. …”
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Enabling Dynamic Sensor Configuration and Cooperation in Opportunistic Activity Recognition Systems by Marc Kurz, Gerold Hölzl, Alois Ferscha

“…In contrast to “traditional” applications—where sensors, their modalities, locations, and working characteristics have to be defined at design time—opportunistic systems do not rely on an initially defined and fixed sensing infrastructure. Sensors have to be utilized upon their spontaneous availability and activity recognition capabilities and dynamic sensor ensembles have to be configured at runtime with respect to maximized recognition accuracy and minimized energy consumption. …”
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Eternity Descending into Time: Badiou and the Cinematic Temporality of Love by Lu Zeng

“…For Badiou, the temporality of love and any truth-procedure is one of eternity descending into time, which can roughly be understood as an affective experience of sensing the presence of eternity in fleeting moments. …”
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Can the ‘Other’ Frame Back in Tourism Studies? by Sarani Pitor Pakan

“…While the experiment itself might not be able to seriously challenge the Eurocentric knowledge production in tourism studies, I found it useful as a pedagogy of self-reflection through which non-Western tourism researcher, like me, can resituate her/his postcolonial being, thinking, and sensing and be an initial seed of future decolonial praxis.…”
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Processos espaciais e geografia cultural by Paul Claval

“…(iii) Culture is combined with other processes when it deals with matter or life, produces artefacts, deals with nature, is applied to the human body, analyses the role of senses and shapes the landscape. (iv) It contributes to transform social life into a show and its setting into a stage. …”
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Effective strategy for hybrid sensor networks in an unknown environment by ZHUANG Wei1, 2, SONG Guang-ming1

“…The coordination of two networks could enhance abilities in sensing, task executing, communication, etc. Meanwhile, simultaneous localization and naviga- tion acting as the important applications in hybrid sensor networks were illustrated in this paper. …”
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Processus spatiaux et géographie culturelle by Paul Claval

“…(iii) Culture is combined with other processes when it deals with matter or life, produces artefacts, deals with nature, is applied to the human body, analyses the role of senses and shapes the landscape. (iv) It contributes to transform social life into a show and its setting into a stage.In its present form, cultural geography completes by a socio-cultural approach the older…”
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Our Interplanetary Bodies by Marie Siguier

“…While the sublime Burkean modernist was an illusionist and attempted to distance the observer from a terrifying nature to have him feel terror, elevation or rapture, the installation encompasses the individual and sends him back to his own physical and cognitive experience, as well as to an renewed experience of space and senses through immersion in a “cosmos programme” that nevertheless produces a feeling of elevation faced with what Lyotard called “the unpresentable”: the absolutely great, the absolutely powerful.…”
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« A reality that almost amounts to illusion » by Martine Lambert-Charbonnier

“…Considering the painter as a rival of nature, Leonardo da Vinci creates beauty and life in his art, while Mona Lisa embodies the ideal of the Renaissance with its emphasis on experience and the senses which fin-de-siècle writers find so akin to the modern spirit. …”
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The Bioactivities of Phycocyanobilin from Spirulina by Yi Li

“…Phycocyanobilin (PCB) is a linear open-chain tetrapyrrole chromophore that captures and senses light and a variety of biological activities, such as anti-oxidation, anti-cancer, and anti-inflammatory. …”
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