La mosquée de Paris. Construire l’islam français et l’islam en France, 1926-1947 by Naomi Davidson

“…In metropolitan France, as I demonstrate, the mosque has been the symbol par excellence for defining the many different visions of Islam.…”
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Dystopia, surveillance and the spaces of social control in Jenni Fagan’s The Panopticon (2012) by Claire Wrobel

“…The dystopian space par excellence seems to be that delimited by the walls of the Panopticon, here an institution for young delinquents, which finds a counterpoint in the shape of an island utopia, a destination that becomes a symbol of harmony and freedom. However, panoptic space, contrary to what is asserted in the text, does not shelter the omnipresent and omniscient surveillance of which the Panopticon and Big Brother have become emblems. …”
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Multimodal Literasi dalam Pendidikan Seksual Bagi Anak Usia Dini by Avanti Vera Risti Pramudyani, Tiya Nurfitri Ningsih, Ega Asnatasia Maharani

“…Hasil penelitian menunjukan multimodal literasi yang digunakan berupa symbol, kata-kata, dan objek fisik.  Untuk simbol digunakan pada toilet laki-laki dan Perempuan; sedangkan kata-kata dengan penjelasan, nasehat, berdiskusi, isyarat. …”
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The Sacred and the Sensual by Swetha Vijayakumar

“…Drawing from Indian government’s advertisement strategies, marketing of erotic souvenirs, tourist surveys, and statistical data obtained from the ministry of Indian tourism, I identify three distinct ways in which eroticization occurs at Khajuraho: first, through a uniquely romanticized marketing by Indian tour operators who offer enticing honeymoon and holiday packages; second, through the abundance of erotic souvenirs sold on the streets as a symbol of Khajuraho; and third, through the creation of an “experience economy” supported by local prostitution. …”
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Empowered Resistance by Shandon C. Klein

“…The prophetic revolutionary fighter Aline Sitoë Diatta remains an inspirational symbol of resistance, not only for the Diola people of Senegal but also more broadly throughout West Africa. …”
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Leukocyte Telomere Length and Cognitive Function in Older Adults by Emily Frith, Paul D. Loprinzi

“…Average telomere length was recorded, with two to three assays performed to control for individual variability. The DSST (Digit Symbol Substitution Test) was used to assess participant executive cognitive functioning tasks of pairing and free recall. …”
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School Gardens in Poland – Rediscovered Places by Joanna Ziemkowska

“…A natural laboratory, which a garden in fact is, has become a symbol of the past. It remained only in few schools, performing rather an aesthetic function, less often didactic or educational one. …”
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Intervention and assessment of executive dysfunction in patients with stroke: A scoping review. by Katsuya Sakai, Yuichiro Hosoi, Junpei Tanabe

“…The assessments used were the Trail Making Test Part B (70.4%), Stroop Color and Word Test (44.4%), Digit Symbol Test, Frontal Assessment Battery, and Tower of London test (11.1%). …”
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Identification and Stylistic Analysis of the Artistic Expression on Opa, Yoruba Sculptural Verges by Michael Olaniyi Ajadi

“…Findings unveiled artists’ expression towards this symbol of superiority which exists within the hierarchical structure of chieftaincy and religious cults’ orientations of Yoruba gods. …”
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“In Honor, as in Limb, Unmarred”: Obsession with the “Whole” Body in Herman Melville’s Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War by Vanessa Meikle Schulman

“…Placing Melville’s poems within a larger conversation about medical intervention and the limits of the ‘disabled’ body as a symbol for national regeneration, in this article I show how Melville overtly engaged in ongoing debates about healing and nation-building in the aftermath of the Civil War.…”
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Pemeriksaan Tajam Penglihatan pada Anak dan Refraksi Siklopegik: Apa, Kenapa, Siapa? by Julita Julita

“…Sedangkan pemeriksaan tajam penglihatan pada anak usia verbal (lebih dari 2,5 tahun) yaitu dengan menggunakan optotype seperti Allen card, HOTV card, LEA symbol, E chart, dan Snellen chart. Refraksi siklopegik merupakan gold standard pemeriksaan refraksi pada anak karena dapat mencegah akomodasi sehingga dapat menghindari terjadinya kesalahan hasil pemeriksaan refraksi pada anak. …”
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Religious Construction in Decision ­Making of Indonesian Customers for Financial Transactions on Syariah Banks by Mustaqim Pabbajah, Ratri Nurina Widyanti, Dato' Sudin Harun, Muh Darwis, Widi Fajar Widyatmoko

“…This study aims to explain how Islamic concepts, symbols and values have implications for people. Especially when they must make decisions to make financial transactions in Islamic banking. …”
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THE AMBIVALENCE OF NOSTALGIA AS AN ETERNAL RETURN TO THE CITY OF CHILDHOOD: F.I. CHALIAPIN AND KAZAN by Elena L. Iakovleva

“…With the help of biographical and analytical research methods based on autobiographical prose and letters of Fyodor Ivanovich, memories of his loved ones, it was revealed that Kazan, as the city of birth and youth, played the role of a significant symbol for the singer. Fyodor Ivanovich was nostalgic for Kazan, especially after emigration. …”
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The Research on the Seismic Performance of Immersion Joints Under Cyclic Loading by Xinjun Cheng, Kunpeng Xu, Shiyuan Li, Liping Jing

“…The structural safety is an important symbol of urban sustainability and resilience. To investigate the failure modes and mechanical performances of immersion joints under the effects of spatially varying seismic ground motions, an eccentric cyclic loading method has been proposed in the study. …”
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Crisis and Security of Criticism by Maziar Mohaymeni

“…First, a formalist/structuralist period, centered by language and linguistic approaches, which is a negative reaction to the horrors of War and a symbol of desire to forget the History. In the second period, the revival of historical approaches makes that the Time is situated at the center of criticism, more or less simultaneously to the emergence of a “littérature de témoignage”, which is a direct or indirect witness of the "Catastrophe". …”
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Performance Analysis of Dimming Methods in Visible Light Communication Systems by Mehmet Sonmez, Süleyman Börekoğlu

“…In particular, a performance comparison has been given for both techniques with respect to Bit Error Rate by considering the same bit length consisted in a symbol. The investigated M-ary VPPM is modified by generating the signals of two power levels. …”
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Landschaftsgedächtnis und Geschlechterdiskurse in ausgewählten Werken von Elsa Bernstein und Maria Waser by Monika Mańczyk-Krygiel

“…This article analyzes the mutual interpenetrations of different types of cultural memory in literary texts, in particular landscape memory, myth memory, and memory of gender stereotypes. Symbolic drama by Elsa Bernstein (pseudonym Ernst Rosmer, 1866–1949) Mutter Maria Totengedicht in fünf Wandlungen (1900) deals with the subject of the supplanting of old folk beliefs by the Christian religion, as well as the violent clash of the male and female worlds, symbolized here by the figures of alpine mythology as literary topoi (hunter and mountain goddess). …”
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City, cholera, and COVID: A reading mediated by religiosity and science by Carlos E. Flores-Rodríguez, Luis Fajardo-Velázquez, Rosa María López-Nanco

“…Thus, the streets functioned and still do function as the neighborhood center, the symbolic site of this syncretism and the site for neighborhood tactics in the protective search for a sense of identity. …”
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Rhetorical Critique of Hedayatol Motealemin fi Teb (The first child letter about medicine) by Sayed Mahdi Rahimi, Sabaa Jalili Jashnabadi, Akbar Shayan seresht, Zeinab Norouzi

“…Rhetorical critique is one type of critique dealing with how the sender uses the language or any other symbol intentionally, the respondent and the location or context in which the communication is made. …”
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'Homo bulla': variations axiologiques sur l’éphémère by Jean-Alexandre Perras

“…Bubbles occupy a special place amongst the new ways of representing value that emerged in the early decades of the eighteenth century. As a symbol of both metaphysical meandering and scientific observation, the bubble becomes the image of ‘frivolous’ morality, whereby the wise are – in anticipation of Nietzsche – superficial ‘out of profundity’. …”
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