Héros malgré lui : le bureau de la signature du traité de Versailles by Claire Bonnotte Khelil

“…Exhibited for many years in the Salon du Conseil, part of the Grands Appartements circuit, it is now on display in the chateau’s new history gallery, which opened in September 2023. A symbol of the First World War, and viewed through this single prism since 1919, the desk has followed a trajectory comparable to that of a film actor: a total unknown, propelled for a few hours into the diplomatic limelight, who achieved international fame, still present 100 years after the First World War.…”
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TEMPLE AND SURYA IN OC EO CULTURE IN SOUTHERN VIETNAM by Đặng Văn Thắng, Nguyễn Hữu Lý

“…The article discusses the introduction, chronology, and developmental process of the symbol of the Surya in Oc Eo culture. Additional materials for the study of Oc Eo culture are found in Phu Nam in Southern Vietnam.…”
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‘An unbidden guest at your table’: Purity, danger and the house-fly in the middle-class home, c. 1870-1910 by Neil Davie

“…The house-fly was an inescapable part of everyday life in Victorian England, and its presence in the home was an unwelcome reminder to middle-class Victorians that for all their efforts to construct the domestic space as a pristine refuge from the external forces of disorder, pollution and dirt, there was no escaping this atavistic symbol of filth and disease. Despite improvements in public health in the second half of the nineteenth century, the preoccupation with flies in late-Victorian England intensified rather than eased. …”
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Control entropy: A complexity measure for nonstationary signals by Erik M. Bollt, Joseph D. Skufca, Stephen J . McGregor

“…Based on correlation entropy, the method uses symbol dynamics and analysis of increments to achieve sufficient recurrence in a short time series to enable entropy measurements on small data sets. …”
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Analysis and Design of an Optimal Noise Estimation and Cancellation Filter in Wireline Communication by Mohammad Emami Meybodi, Hossein Shakiba, Ali Sheikholeslami

“…Feedforward and feedback architectures are compared, and it is found that while feedforward architecture can reduce total noise power, it fails to reduce symbol error rate (SER) due to unreliable noise estimation. …”
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Iterative Signal Processing for Mitigation of Analog-to-Digital Converter Clipping Distortion in Multiband OFDMA Receivers by Markus Allén, Toni Levanen, Jaakko Marttila, Mikko Valkama

“…The proposed method iteratively mitigates the clipping distortion by exploiting the symbol decisions. The performance of the proposed method is illustrated with various computer simulations and also verified by concrete laboratory measurements with commercially available analog-to-digital hardware. …”
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The Short Dramatic Form in the Works of Kostas Ostrauskas and Juozas Erlickas by Neringa Klišienė

“… Short dramatic forms have become theatrical objects that are not easily identifiable. They act as a symbol of questioning the foundations of the conventional drama and a reflection on the dramatic genre in general. …”
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Fenomen Matki Teresy z Kalkuty – uznanie misjonarki na arenie międzynarodowej by Wiktoria Noskiewicz

“…The missionary is not only a symbol of benevolence but also an inspiration to many people worldwide. …”
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Adébáyọ̀ Fálétí, Icon on Screen by Toluwanimi Ibikunle

“…In many films therefore, the appearance of Adébayọ́ ̀ Fáleti in any role, instantly and inevitably transforms that filmic ́ character into a symbol of Yorùbá cultural authenticity, depth and authority. …”
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SUSTAINING LIFE WITH TREES: ECOCRITICISM PERSPECTIVE IN SELECTED PICTURE BOOKS by Christy Tisnawijaya, Geni Kurniati

“…Hence, this study aims to analyze how the picture books successfully capture the idea that trees are the symbol of Mother Earth per se. The selected picture books to be discussed are: A Tree is Nice by Janice May Udry (1984), The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein (1992), Red Knit Cap Girl and The Reading Tree by Naoko Stoop (2014), Seasons Come, Seasons Go: Tree by Patricia Hegarty (2015) and The Tree by Neil Layton (2016). …”
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The Relevance of the Practice of Ifá Divination in Ola Rotimi’s The Gods are not to Blame by Olusegun Olu-Osayomi, Babatunde Adebua

“…This is purposely to attain a greater and more profound awareness of its role as a symbol of communal and cultural identicalness. Using The God Are Not to Blame (1975) as an illustration, the paper contends, in a poignant manner, that the elements of Yorùbá Ifá divination, through oracular devices, well manifested in the structuring principles of Rotimi’s work. …”
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Prague, the Victorious May of 1945 by S. V. Kudryashov

“…Heavy battles for Prague did not happen, but the entry of Soviet tanks into the Czech capital and the subsequent jubilation of local residents became a symbol of the end of the war in Europe. The author concludes that the demolition of monuments to Soviet soldiers and commanders is a manifestation of internal political struggle in the countries where it occurs, and the Czech Republic is only one of these examples.…”
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On the Error Rate Analysis of Dual-Hop Amplify-and-Forward Relaying in Generalized-K Fading Channels by George P. Efthymoglou, Nikolaos Bissias, Valentine A. Aalo

“…Lower bounds for the symbol and bit error rates for a variety of digital modulations can then be evaluated using the MGF-based approach. …”
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Investigating lower secondary school students’ geometric argumentation structure using Toulmin model by M. Rizky Ramandani, Yusuf Hartono, Cecil Hiltrimartin, Nyimas Aisyah

“…Errors made by students include symbol writing errors, calculation errors, and others.…”
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Design of Semantic Matching Model of Folk Music in Occupational Therapy Based on Audio Emotion Analysis by Wensi Ouyang

“…The main semantic symbol systems for people to express their emotions include natural language and music. …”
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Silent Protesters or Acceptors? The Reaction of the Russian-speakers to the Removal of the Soviet Monuments in Latvia and Estonia after Russia’s Full-scale Invasion of Ukraine* by Aleksandra Kuczyńska-Zonik

“…It is argued here that the reconstruction of the public space by shifting the most visual symbol of the victory of the Red Army in the WWII has not induced hot feelings among the Russian-speaking society, and thus, it has not motivated community to take part in the open protest against the removal. …”
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Parodies de dandies : travestissement et transgression des genres au music-hall by Catherine Rovera

“…Why did some Victorian and Edwardian music-hall acts, namely the swell song and male impersonations, choose the dandy, of all cultural icons, to debunk it as a symbol of decadence, and what was the part played by female artists in this exposure ? …”
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Production Techniques of Mosaics in Pamphylia, Cilicia and Northern Syria from the Hellenistic Period to the end of the IVth Century A.D. by Yağmur TOPALOĞLU

“…In ancient sources, it is mentioned that mosaics are actually a status symbol. Beside this, there is information about the production process and techniques of mosaics. …”
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A new formulation of the law of octic reciprocity for primes ≡±3(mod8) and its consequences by Richard H. Hudson, Kenneth S. Williams

“…Western into three distinct parts involving two polynomials and a Legendre symbol; the latter condition restricts the validity of the method presented in section 2 to primes q≡3(mod8) and significant modification is needed to obtain similar results for q≡±1(mod8). …”
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Diglossie et standardisation dans l'Angleterre du xie au xve siècle. Regard croisé avec la Bretagne by Gary Manchec German

“…A similar situation existed in Brittany throughout the Middle Breton period.In this article, I trace the way in which the English language, by the middle of the 14th century, progressively served as a symbol of a new national identity that was at once religious, popular, and ethnic. …”
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