The Power of Folk Music: City Branding, Musical Imaginaries, and Tourism-induced Placemaking in Yulin, Chengdu (China) by Shuyue Chen

“…As intercity competition increases, cities search for distinctive meanings and create identifiable symbols for places to increase their attractiveness. …”
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Anthropological Interpretation of the Meaning of Ritual Objects in the Contemporary Urban Wedding in Bulgaria by Rozaliya Guigova

“…This paper discusses the changing symbolic potential of items in the Bulgarian contemporary urban wedding. …”
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Implicit Pilots for an Efficient Channel Estimation in Simplified Massive MIMO Schemes with Precoding by Mário Marques da Silva, Rui Dinis, João Guerreiro

“…The channel estimates are usually obtained with the help of pilot symbols and/or training sequences multiplexed with data symbols. …”
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Unveiling hydrosocial dynamics: discourse and power in Peña Blanca by Viola Di Tullio, Lorenzo Zannini

“…Water is not just a material element but a socio-natural object of knowledge whose conceptualisation, policing and management carry symbolic and material implications. This issue becomes especially evident in territories where water scarcity and drought pose heightened social and environmental challenges, not least in the face of climate change. …”
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Propriétés stylistiques de l’auto-sociobiographie : l’exemplification par l’écriture d’Annie Ernaux by Bérengère Moricheau-Airaud

“…As they fall social matters within and through the style, Annie Ernaux’s texts differentiate themselves from the thought of relationship between sociology and literature by falling under a straight transparency between a text and its context: they shape, even symbolize, exemplify the combination of both sociocritics and sociodiscursives dimensions. …”
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Du surveillant général cerné par les murs au conseiller principal d’éducation, passeur de frontières by Christine Focquenoy

“…They reveal a daily life confined by architectural, symbolical and hierarchal walls. The wall metaphorically reflects the educational relationship. …”
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De l’Esthétisation à l’anti-symbolisme : les évolutions du corps chez William Carlos Williams by Samantha Lemeunier

“…However, from the 1920s onwards, his anatomical descriptions gradually lose their symbolism. After the end of the 1930s, the body is finally represented in all its nakedness without being ornamented. …”
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Performance Comparison of Doppler Scale Estimation Methods for Underwater Acoustic OFDM by Lei Wan, Zhaohui Wang, Shengli Zhou, T. C. Yang, Zhijie Shi

“…In addition, a pilot-aided method and a decision-aided method are applicable based on cross-correlation with templates constructed from symbols on pilot subcarriers only and from symbols on all subcarriers after data decoding, respectively. …”
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The application of expert system to exploration of the robot motion by Olegas Ramašauskas, Artūras Bielskis

“… This article expands robot motion dynamics solutions in the symbolic form and analyses the results with simple newly designed expert system (XPS). …”
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Dépôts et pratiques symboliques dans l’établissement aristocratique gaulois de Varennes-sur-Seine, la Justice (Seine-et-Marne) by Jean-Marc Séguier, Ginette Auxiette, Fabien Pilon

“…The study of sanctuaries, funerary ensembles and the re-examination of written sources provide a rich corpus for documenting the symbolic universe of Late Iron Age communities. Located at the crossroads of ideological discourse, the socio-economic sphere and the religious universe, a commensal meal, preceded by sacrifice, constitutes one of the most complex, deliberate and complete manifestations of the symbolic. …”
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„Pieśń duchowa” św. Jana od Krzyża – przekład,aluzje biblijne i symbolika by Krzysztof Bardski

“…In the introduction, we presented earlier Polish translations of the work, and in footnotes, we emphasized the issues related to symbolism and biblical allusions. …”
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Teaming up with termites—Appraising termites’ contributions to earth technologies in West Africa by Jan Jansen, James R. Fairhead

“…It proposes an integrated understanding of a wide range of hitherto symbolically or metaphorically understood practices related to the mining of iron and gold, iron production, agriculture, health, wood carving and pottery, as well as to creation myths and the Sunjata epic.…”
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KULTŪRINIO IR SIMBOLINIO KAPITALO GAMYBA: "DISNEY" FENOMENAS by Gintautas Mažeikis

“…PRODUCTION OF CULTURAL AND SYMBOLICAL CAPITAL: DISNEY'S PHENOMENON Gintautas Mažeikis Summary The  classical  conception  of  capital  constructed  by Marx and notions of cultural and symbolical capital suggested by P. …”
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Le temps des nouveaux guerriers : le héros culturel, figure de la reconquête identitaire et territoriale by Crystel Pinçonnat

“…Through the analysis of Ceremony, Wolfsong and Zia Summer, this article studies how Leslie Marmon Silko, Louis Owens and Rudolfo Anaya — writers who claim their Native American or chicana identities — represent, in what could be qualified as “identity narratives”, the symbolical reappropriation by a cultural hero of the ancestral territory, historically conquered.…”
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Exact Solutions for the Wick-Type Stochastic Schamel-Korteweg-de Vries Equation by Xueqin Wang, Yadong Shang, Huahui Di

“…We consider the Wick-type stochastic Schamel-Korteweg-de Vries equation with variable coefficients in this paper. With the aid of symbolic computation and Hermite transformation, by employing the (G′/G,1/G)-expansion method, we derive the new exact travelling wave solutions, which include hyperbolic and trigonometric solutions for the considered equations.…”
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New Interaction Solutions for a (2 + 1)-Dimensional Vakhnenko Equation by Qing Meng, Bin He

“…By using Hirota’s transformation combined with the three-wave method and with symbolic computation, some interaction solutions which include interaction solutions between exponential and trigonometric functions and interaction solutions between exponential and trigonometric and hyperbolic functions are presented.…”
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Le nationalisme catalan comme populisme : une approche des discours d’Artur Mas en 2014 by Jordi Canal

“…The present Catalan nationalism, which predominantly embraced the independence solution, is populism. The real or symbolic confrontation or antagonism between two supposedly homogeneous entities, a "people", the Catalan people, and the "other", its enemy, the Spanish State or Madrid, lie at the foundations of Catalan nationalism. …”
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Exploring students' understanding based on Bruner's theory regarding the concept of profit and loss by Wasilatul Murtafiah, Maya Puji Lestari Rahayu, Sardulo Gembong, Dwi Rosita Sari, Faridah Hanim Yahya

“…The findings revealed that subjects with high and medium learning interest categories can meet the stages of Bruner's theory (enactive, iconic, and symbolic). However, subjects with medium learning interests do not need help understanding what happens in the problem—the subject with low learning interest can only reach iconic and symbolic stages in Bruner's theory. …”
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Iranian Migrants’ Perceptions of Turkish and Iranian Culture: A Comparative Analysis with ZMET Technique by Berfin Varışlı, Fatemeh Sarvari Kohnehshahri, Mikail Batu

“…Consequently, it was observed that Iranian migrants associated Iranian culture with the Nowruz festival, family, Iranian dishes and desserts, historical symbols, and religious symbols and they described Turkish culture through Atatürk, the Turkish flag, family, city, and the social life. …”
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Mediatization of Islam in Kashmir: A Critical Content Analysis of Contemporary Islamic Socio-Religious Magazines by Dr John Koyye Babu, Muntaha Mehraj Hafiz

“…It explores various aspects of these publications, including thematic prevalence, framing techniques, symbolic representation, tone, and the portrayal of religion and faith. …”
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