Routing algorithm for supporting data-differentiated service in hybrid wireless mesh networks in underground mines by Haifeng Jiang, Liansheng Lu, Guangzhi Han, He Wang, Shanshan Ma, Renke Sun

“…The residual energy of nodes is converted into penalty factor to symbolize the used buffer spaces of nodes, which is used to construct resource potential field to support different types of data. …”
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Comment faire Peuple ? Le cas des protestations publiques au Maghreb by Smaïn Laarcher, Cédric Terzi

“…Their use is primarily part of restraining national frameworks that give them form, consistency and symbolic meaning. While there is a link between cyberactivist militancy and popular protests in the three Maghreb countries, it is no less true that the connection between these worlds of organized protests unfolds differently depending on their national histories, balance of powers and extent of claims. …”
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ORGANIC FOOD POSITIONING: HOW DO COMPANIES WANT THEIR BRAND TO BE PERCEIVED BY CONSUMERS? by Mihai STOICA

“…The results of the research showed the focus of the companies on highlighting the attributes related to the product characteristics and the personal green benefits, at the expense of environmental, emotional, and symbolic benefits. Positioning bases related to consumption occasions, brand values, and association with fictional characters or celebrities play a secondary role in supporting the brand position. …”

Advanced Presentation of BETHSY 6.2TC Test Results Calculated by RELAP5 and TRACE by Andrej Prošek, Ovidiu-Adrian Berar

“…The graphical user interface is called Symbolic Nuclear Analysis Package (SNAP). The purpose of the present study was to assess the TRACE computer code and to assess the SNAP capabilities for input deck preparation and advanced presentation of the results. …”
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Russia`s Cultural Diplomacy in the Current Geopolitical Context by Alina STOICA, Ana ORJUHOVSCHI

“…In the context of geopolitical tensions at the eastern border of the European Union, cultural diplomacy is becoming a symbolic battleground for regional influence, with significant implications for security and stability in the region. …”
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Impurity, Moral Substantiality, and Social Control: A Gender Perspective by Alice Van den Bogaert

“…I propose this concept to designate an ontology in which everything is a substance (bodily fluids and food, but also glances, words, and thoughts) and at the same time a moral value, without distinguishing between materiality and symbolism, a proposal inspired by McKim Marriott’s substance-codes (1976). …”
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Le tiers foncierNouvelle catégorie d’appréhension de l’envers de la planification by Marion Serre

“…The model of tiers foncier, conceived as a thinking and analysis tool, characterizes each of the components of land (form, status of ownership, uses) and informs the social, political, economic and symbolic factors to which they are subordinated. We will see in particular how this model helps to identify the morphological, legal and/or use singularities of land (tiers foncier) and to draw up a form of "identity card".…”
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Comparative Simulation Study on Synchronous Generators Sudden Short Circuits by Lucian Lupşa-Tătaru

“…The time consuming matrix numerical inversion at each step of integration, usually performed when selecting currents as state variables, is eliminated by advancing the process models in a convenient split matrix form that allows the symbolic processing. Also, the computational efficiency is being increased by introducing a set of auxiliary variables common to different state equations. …”
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Time and The Diary in Captivity, a Case Study: The Diary of Fela Szeps (1942-1944) by Batsheva Ben-Amos

“…Daily objective time is not bestowed as such with a symbolic meaning but is taken for granted as a point of reference.   …”
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Challenges in sharing information effectively: examples from command and control by Diane H. Sonnenwald

“…</b> Unsuspected breakdowns in information sharing emerged when: differences in implementations of shared symbols were not recognized; implications of relevant information were not shared; differences in the role and expression of emotions when sharing information was not understood; and, the need to re-establish trust was not recognized. …”
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"Recalling-ls-Greatest": Personal Memory and Lyricism in Toyin Falola's A Mouth Sweeter than Salt and Counting the Tiger's Teeth by Felicia Ohwovoriole

“…He uses the lyrics to also investigate the symbolic meaning of words used in the past and reiter­ates the prevalence of songs in Yoruba culture. …”
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‘Traditional Authorities’ and Community Rights in Contemporary Mozambique: between Activism and Incorporation by Giovanni Battista Martino

“…By choosing to retreat within the domain of spirituality and to cede much of their statutory prerogatives to more dynamic and bet-ter resourced actors, ‘traditional authorities’ end up accepting their ‘incorporation’ into the institutional structure of the state as merely symbolic objects and sources of inter-nal as well as international legitimacy, thus obliterating their role as natural repre-sentatives of their communities. …”
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The Ecstasy of Communication. Critical remarks on Jean Baudrillard by Pieter Duvenage

“… The socio-cultural criticism of Jean Baudrillard (born 1929), spans from the political turmoil of France in the late-1960s, to the mediatised world of the 1990s and early 21st century.1 In this process his provocative work on the socio-political role of signs, symbolic exchange, simulation, and hyperreality has important implications for communication studies – and more specifically communication theory. …”
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Les élites sociales et le choix de l’enseignement français en Tunisie : Entre consumérisme scolaire et socialisation laïque by Émilie Pontanier

“…They also involve their children in an institution that will bring in symbolic and material benefits, either on the national or international level, as the French educational system produces highly valued resources, which is a way to ensure social reproduction. …”
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Why Can’t Saint Victorinus of Poetovio Be the Author of the Homily “On the Ten Virgins”? by Nikolay A. Khandoga

“…Important points in the answer to the question in the title in the article, becomes сhristology, eschatology and symbolic arrhythmology, since there is not a single one of the original works of Victorinus of Poetovio in which they are not given appropriate attention. …”
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The benefits of being between (many) fields: Mapping the high-dimensional space of AI research by Glen Berman, Kate Williams, Eliel Cohen

“…As such, for researchers working across the resource-constrained science system, their relationship to the field is significant; legitimisation as an AI researcher can bring material and symbolic rewards. Through interviews (n = 90) with academics affiliated with AI-branded research organisations in the US, UK, and Australia, the article develops an empirical account of the construction of AI research as a high-dimensional field – a field that moves between multiple disciplinary and sectoral boundaries across national and international hierarchies. …”
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Tat[o]ueur : pouvoirs du tatouage dans Little Tulip, de Jerome Charyn et François Boucq by Sophie Vallas

“…Drawing and tatooing are at the heart of the narrative, both Charyn and Boucq attempting to probe their powers: when Pavel/Paul becomes an artist in the Gulag, he learns to adorn captive bodies with insignia that reflect the strict hierarchy of the camp or with codified symbols that tell the stories of the criminals’ lives, but he also learns to penetrate those savage men’s personalities and thus to save his own skin by beautifully inking the skins of others. …”
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As múltiplas faces da comodificação e a constituição da crítica acerca das práticas de consumo contemporâneas by Ceres Grehs Beck, Luis Henrique Hermínio Cunha

“…The examples involve tangible goods and symbolic aspects of daily life that become alienable, revealing how the culture, music, food, natural resources, places, violence, body parts, sex, traditions, education, religion and even emotions begin to have value in the market arena. …”
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Théorie de la régulation : la perspective oubliée du développement by Noureddine El Aoufi

“…By performing the economical and merchant functioning onto developing economies, the symbolic activity, even in its archaic form, is reflexively linked to the rational component of the center- dominant capitalist dynamics.Eventually, the article pleads for a theoretical (especially as for Amartya Sen) and empirical re-equipment of the theory of regulation extended to the under-development process.This orientation could aim, not only an improvement of the analysis and a criticism of the theory of regulation, but the institution of a normative consistency upon pragmatic reforms that combine human development and regulation inside developing countries.…”
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Mercados culturais no Brasil: a expansão dos shoppings centers e das livrarias megastores by Carlos Alexsandro de Carvalho Souza

“…It should be noted that the reflections are included on what part of the specialized literature in the social sciences categorizes as creative economy, specially due to the management of the agents involved, of the new aesthetic and symbolic justifications that start to develop a panorama which, based on the general growth of the Brazilian economy in the period considered, indicates the robustness of what can be described as contemporary cultural capitalism. …”
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