"El batey": historia de un dispositivo colonial en perspectiva antropológica. El caso de la República Dominicana by Raúl Zecca Castel

“…This article analyzes the sociocultural, material, and symbolic transformations experienced by the Dominican bateyes in Hispaniola, place of the first landing of the European colonizers in America, as well as the center of the plantation system and the slave regime implemented on the island to sustain international sugar production and trade. …”
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"Prompte et sincere" - "Willing and sincere" / "Bereidwillig en opreg" by Victor E. d'Assonville, Dolf Britz

“… From text: Calvin’s emblem of an outstretched hand holding a heart is reasonably wellknown in South Africa — along with its symbolic meaning: “I offer my heart”. Less familiar, however, is the complete expression, which could be regarded as Calvin’s life motto: “COR MEUM TIBI OFFERO DOMINO PROMPTE ET SINCERE”1 — “Lord, I offer my heart to you, willing and sincere”. …”
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The Hyperspherical Functions of a Derivative by Nenad Cakic, Duško Letic, Branko Davidovic

“…By introducing two-dimensional degrees of freedom k and n (and the third, radius r), we develop the derivative functions for all three arguments and the possibilities of their use. The symbolical evolution, numerical experiment, and graphical presentation of functions are realized using the Mathcad Professional and Mathematica softwares.…”
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Exact Solution of (4+1)-Dimensional Boiti–Leon–Manna–Pempinelli Equation by Qili Hao

“…Based on the Hirota bilinear method, using the heuristic function method and mathematical symbolic computation system, various exact solutions of the (4+1)-dimensional Boiti–Leon–Manna–Pempinelli equation including the block kink wave solution, block soliton solution, periodic block solution, and new composite solution are obtained. …”
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Augusto Pinochet U. y la memoria heroica de la dictadura cívico-militar en Chile (1973-1989) by Paulina Pavez Verdugo

“…This paper examines some symbolic dimensions of “Pinochetismo” during the Chilean post-dictatorship period by analysing the social practices and representations built around the figure of Augusto Pinochet that have made possible for some sectors of the Chilean society to build and legitimize a heroic memory of the dictatorship. …”
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Theology and Conversion: Anthropocentric or Theocentric? by Matthew Levering

“…The tendency of such theology is o$en to ignore the importance of God’s action and to interpret the events connected to the resurrection of Christ in a symbolic way, as it is exemplified in the theology of Edward Schillebeeckx. …”
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DIONYSUS CULT AS A PROTOTYPE OF AUTONOMOUS GENDER by O. O. Poliakova, V. V. Asotskyi

“…The research is based on the analysis of the cult of Dionysus: the introspection of the irrational content of the "Dionysian states", in the symbolism of which an alternative scenario of gender relations is codified, based on autonomy and non-destructive interdependence. …”
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EDGE DETECTION TECHNIQUE BASED ON BILATERAL FILTERING AND ITERATIVE THRESHOLD SELECTION ALGORITHM AND TRANSFER LEARNING FOR TRAFFIC SIGN RECOGNITION by Milind PARSE, Dhanya PRAMOD

“…The TSIRS fails to recognize the traffic signs in challenging conditions such as skewed signboards, scratches on traffic symbols, discontinuous or damaged traffic symbols, etc. …”
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Die Macht der Folkmusik: City Branding, musikalische Imaginationen und tourismusinduziertes placemaking in Yulin, Chengdu (China) by Shuyue Chen

“…Diese Symbole verändern das Stadtbild und die Merkmale gewöhnlicher Stadtviertel. …”
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La folie de l’arc-en-ciel ou la longue errance de Bwila by Claudie Haxaire

“…The study of traditional pharmacopoeias, restored in the full scope of their organisation, provides a privileged empirical context to fully understand the meaning of ritual symbols whose different facets need to be deployed, according to Turner (1968). …”
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Une image vaut mille mots : la crise d’Oka de 1990 et sa représentation par une photographie by Émilie Guilbeault-Cayer

“…Très fortement médiatisée, la crise d’Oka deviendra dans les années qui suivent le symbole des revendications autochtones, ainsi que celui de l’incompréhension régissant leurs relations avec l’État. …”
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RESPONSE OF LOCAL ORANGE TRANSPLANTS TO BIO AND ORGANIC FERTILIZERS AND SPRAYING WITH MORINGA LEAVES EXTRACT by Fatima Saad Hameed AL-Marsoumi, Mustafa, E. A. AL-Hadethi

“… This experiment was carried out in 2023 season of spring and fall growth cycle in a private canopy in Al-Radwaniyah city, Baghdad Governorate, study included addition of bacterial biofertilizer at four treatments: no addition (A1),  addition of Stenotrophomonas maltophilia bacteria (A2) , addition of Azospirillum brasilense bacteria (A3) and addition of both types of bacteria (A4) and organic fertilizer (Decomposing buffalo manure) at three levels (0, 250 and 500 g.soil-1), which are symbolized by B0, B1, and B2, respectively Added once during the spring and fall growing cycle, and spray moringa extract at three levels (0, 20 and 40 g.L-1), which are symbolized M0, M1, and M2, respectively spray 5 times every 15 days. …”
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Visualization of the Book: Graphic Metaphors in Art Decoration of Ukrainian Church Editions of the Baroque Epoque by Olena Kurhanova

“…It claims that the book art of this period is marked by generous use of symbolic and allegoric visual images which play metaphorical role in general structure of the book. …”
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STEM in chemistry by Mokhzani Ibrahim, Nurul Atikah Mohd Badli

“…Despite its importance, many students face difficulties in connecting classroom learning to real-world contexts, a challenge that is particularly pronounced in chemistry due to the abstract nature of concepts such as the three levels of chemistry representation (macroscopic, microscopic, and symbolic). The integration of STEM principles into teaching approaches, such as the blended problem-based learning (BPBL) approach, which combines face-to-face and online learning, has shown promise in bridging this gap. …”
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Schoolscaping in a Multilingual Area: An Example of a Hungarian College in Western Ukraine by Váradi Krisztián, Hires-László Kornélia, Máté Réka

“…The study employed a qualitative approach to show the symbolic significance of the languages used in an educational setting. …”
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Forest Pedagogy towards the Problem of Polish Educational Monoculture: Projective Pilot Studies by Michał Paluch

“…What is particularly poignant, in the analysed drawings the forest was only a symbolic background. …”
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Abundant Interaction Solutions of Sine-Gordon Equation by DaZhao Lü, YanYing Cui, ChangHe Liu, ShangWen Wu

“…With the help of computer symbolic computation software (e.g., Maple), abundant interaction solutions of sine-Gordon equation are obtained by means of a constructed Wronskian form expansion method. …”
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La Chine au Maghreb : de l’esprit de Bandung à l’esprit du capitalisme by Thierry Pairault

“…Finally, it will conclude with a symbolic expression of this recantation which today manifests a near reversal of alliances and rationales for commercial reasons.…”
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O Cavalo na Idade Média Portuguesa by Afonso Soares de Sousa

“…The horse is treated here from a social, political, economic and daily perspective, considering its creation, its market value and symbolic value. It also addresses the political instrumentalization of this animal by the Portuguese monarchs.…”
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Le Carême et le Ramadan : recréer le corps. Un cas libanais by Aïda Kanafani-Zahar

“…They draw their legitimacy from a corpus of symbols based, for Lent, on the colour and taste of food, the desire for nature, voluntary privations, and for Ramadan, on the disruption on the food rhythm. …”
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