Actual Issues of Marriage Registration: Engagement and Digitalization by I. I. Krasnov, N. V. Yushchenko

“…At the end of the work, the prospects for the use of information technologies for the effective implementation of the proposed innovations are assessed, a description of digitalization and its place in the marriage procedure is given, potential corruption and other risks associated with its implementation are highlighted, the traditional nature of marital relations and the innovative nature of digitalization are compared.The authors comes to the conclusion that modern technologies should only perform an auxiliary function in marriage.This conclusion is based both on the symbolic and historical significance of marriage and on the general principles of family law. …”
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Indigenization of Pakistani English in Kanza Javed’s Ashes, Wine and Dust by Maryam Arshad, Humaira Irfan Irfan, Rashid Hussain, Nurah Saleh Alfares

“…These include words related to food, living styles, clothing, forms of address and titles, religious terms, Indo-Pak history, traditional wedding events, ethnic identity, languages representing cultural identity, and places symbolizing cultural heritage. Each of these categories reflects the rich cultural and historical context of Pakistan. …”
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Tianjin’s Italian-Style town: the conundrum between conservation practices and heritage value by Jingting Wang, Maurizio Marinelli

“…Abstract The former Italian concession in Tianjin (1901–1945) has assumed symbolic significance for the modern urban redevelopment of this municipality through experimentation with distinctive practices of conservation management. …”
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<i>Mosaicos de la Comunidad</i> (Mosaics of the Community): Community-Engaged Participatory Muraling with <i>Madres Emprendedoras</i> by Jesica Siham Fernández, Laura A. Nichols

“…Drawing from the <i>madres’</i> reflections and written testimonials, this paper describes the collective mural-making process; moving from research-based issues identified by the <i>madres</i> into the mural design stage, including the identification of symbols and their meanings, to the creation and painting, and the culmination with a mural-unveiling celebration. …”
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Largest-chunking and group formation: Two basic strategies for a cognitive model of linguistic processing by László Drienkó

“…LCh segmentation is concerned with cognitive text segmentation, i.e. with detecting word boundaries in a sequence of linguistic symbols. Previous cross-linguistic research on French, English, and Hungarian texts (Drienkó 2020b) demonstrated that LCh segmentation is not efficient when words are the basic segmentation units and utterances are the target sequences. …”
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South Africa: A Growing Embrace of Feminist Foreign Policy? by Jo-Ansie van Wyk

“…It has shown that South Africa’s growing embrace of elements associated with a feminist foreign policy includes memorialisation and symbolism (i.e. linking the liberation struggle and female stalwarts to foreign policy), positioning women in progressive internationalism, and integrating women in the definition of South Africa’s national interests. …”
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Une nouvelle génération féministe au sein de l’islam traditionaliste : Une exception indonésienne ? by Andrée Feillard, Pieternella van Doorn-Harder

“…Aiming at nation-wide introduction of the Shari’a law, Islamists’ discourses target women’s morality, bodies, and public positions. Symbols of these political and ideological battles are, among others, a recent law against pornography that regulates the interpretation of decency at a national level, and national campaigns promoting polygamy, a practice which the majority of Indonesian Muslims consider to be undesirable.To support their advocacy for women’s basic human and religious rights, these Muslim feminists have created counter discourses based on vigorous Qur’an interpretations. …”
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Influence of Partnership Relationships on Long-Term Neurological Rehabilitation in Germany: Protocol for a Qualitative Retrospective Study by Alexa von Bosse, Peter König, Eva Jansen

“…The results will then be integrated into a model based on the theory of symbolic interactionism and Baxter’s Relational Dialectics Theory. …”
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Abstract visual reasoning based on algebraic methods by Mingyang Zheng, Weibing Wan, Zhijun Fang

“…Abstract visual reasoning involves identifying abstract patterns embedded within composite images, considered a core competency of machine intelligence. Traditional neuro-symbolic methods often infer unknown objects through data fitting, without fully exploring the abstract patterns within composite images and the sequential sensitivity of visual sequences. …”
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Pond fishing in the Congolese cuvette: a story of fishermen, animals, and water spirits by Marion Comptour, Sophie Caillon, Doyle McKey

“…Like the technical dimensions of pond fishing, its social and symbolic dimensions are also little described in literature on the subject. …”
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Initiation Ceremony in Primitive Tribes and Some Religions by Necati Sümer

“…The initiation ceremony in advanced societies’ religious traditions is however different and the rituals are contain more symbolic meanings. The principal of physical suffering during initiation ceremonies in primitive society is the form of spiritual readiness in civilized societies. …”
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Maze runners: monkeys show restricted Arabic numeral summation during computerized two-arm maze performance by Elizabeth L. Haseltine, Michael J. Beran

“…These results indicate that monkeys experience difficulties with inhibition toward single, high valence stimuli in tasks where those stimuli must be considered in relation to overall value when represented by symbolic stimuli such as numerals.…”
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Comparative analysis of spins-first and wave functions-first students’ understanding of expressions in quantum mechanics by William D. Riihiluoma, Zeynep Topdemir, John R. Thompson

“…Given the very different structures of these courses, particularly as it pertains to the notations and formalisms both emphasized and used, it begs the question as to whether and to what extent students in these different courses conceptualize symbolic expressions in Dirac and wave function notations differently. …”
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Effect of Luminance and Contrast Variation on Stereoacuity Measurements Using Smartphone Technology by Lu Liu, Lingxian Xu, Junyue Wang, Huang Wu

“…Seventeen young subjects with normal visual acuity and stereopsis were recruited. Two types of test symbols, contour-based and random-dot-based, were used in the experiment. …”
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Lossy Joint Source-Channel Coding Using Raptor Codes by O. Y. Bursalioglu, M. Fresia, G. Caire, H. V. Poor

“…The sequence of quantization indices is decomposed into bitplanes, and each bitplane is independently mapped onto a sequence of channel coded symbols. The coding rate of each bitplane is chosen according to the bitplane conditional entropy rate. …”
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Investigation of the new optical soliton solutions to the (2+1)-dimensional calogero-bogoyavlenskii schiff model by Sajawal Abbas Baloch, Muhammad Abbas, Muhammad Kashif Iqbal, Asnake Birhanu, M. R. Alharthi

“…Abstract In this work, we use the ansatz transformation functions to investigate different analytical rational solutions by symbolic computation. For the (2+1)-dimensional Calogero-Bogoyavlenskii Schiff (CBS) model, we derive a variety of rational solutions, such as homoclinic breather solutions (HBs), M-shaped rational solutions (MSRs), periodic cross-rationals (PCRs), multi-wave solutions (MWs), and kink cross-rational solutions (KCRs). …”
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The Limitless Zawiya and the Infinite Library. Rethinking the Epistemology of Contemporary Sufism and Digital Islamic Thought by Antonio de Diego González

“…This study will employ an interdisciplinary methodology that combines physical and digital collaborative ethnography, symbolic hermeneutics, and philosophy of religion. …”
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Carolina Maria de Jesus e a autorrepresentação literária da exclusão social na América Latina: olhares reversos aos de Eduardo Galeano e Octavio Paz by Larissa Paula Tirloni, Marcelo Marinho

“…The selected text corpus brings forth literary representations and symbolic images of the society segment that lives in an extreme marginal position, making themselves invisible to other social groups. …”
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Jacob Lawrence’s Migration series: a pictorial memory of black America by Eliane Elmaleh

“…Ses mises en scène visuelles, sous forme de séries de peintures aux thématiques variées vont d’événements historiques comme la Grande Migration des Noirs dans les années 1920-1930 à l’étude de personnages héroïques, symboles mythiques de la lutte pour l’émancipation et l’égalité. …”
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The Portrait of heshuo Guo-qinwang Yunli as the Source for Weapons and Horse Equipment of Oirats and their Neighbors in the first half of the 18th Century by Leonid A. Bobrov

“…A comprehensive study of Qing pictorial sources can play an important role in the study of weapons, equipment, costume, military symbols and military affairs of the Oirats and their neighbors of the late 17th–18th centuries. …”
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