Novel joint iterative channel estimation and space-frequency decoding algorithm for SFBC-OFDM systems by ZHOU Peng, ZHAO Chun-ming, YANG Yi-jin, XU Wei

“…A novel joint iterative channel estimation and space-frequency decoding algorithm was proposed for SFBC-OFDM systems.At first,a new channel estimation algorithm based on time-frequency transforms（TFT） was de-veloped to improve the performance of the initial channel estimator,and then,by exploiting the channel estimated values and the decoded symbols,the joint iterative channel estimation and space-frequency decoding algorithm was advanced.Analyses and simulation results show that the novel joint iterative algorithm improves performance remarkably for the quasi-static,fast time-varying and correlated channels.…”
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Simenon, un auteur et ses lecteurs : une économie de la grandeur by Véronique Rohrbach

“…In seeking to outline principal features of the writer/readers relationship, this article also pays attention to the tensions between symbolic and economic values borne together by an author present at the same time on the commercial, media and literary scenes. …”
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L’instrumentalisation de l’espace by Gatien Elie, Elisabeth Foscolo

“…In Paris and in the rest of France, tents were located in touristic areas or in symbolic places to gain visibility. The invisibles claimed their right to city againt urbanism policies wich drive the poor outside downtown since the XIXth century. …”
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DEVELOPMENT OF UNIVERSITY AS A COMPETITIVE EDUCATIONAL ORGANIZATION by Ekaterina E. Shishlova, Anzhelika M. Mirzoeva

“…The use of the term "university as an educational organization" symbolizes the transition to a new paradigm of organization and management of university development, which allows it to be competitive in the new environment.…”
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Dlaczego w czasach jagiellońskich zanika w Polsce pieczęć majestatyczna? by Michał Knapik

“…In researching this issue, the author places the symbolic meaning of the majestic seal and its use against the background of the political changes in the Poland of the Late Middle Ages and the visual representation of the kings of Poland and the royal rituals at the turn of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern era. …”
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“THE EMPTIED AUTHORITY”: AFRICAN NEO-PENTECOSTALISM, MODERNISATION OF SACRED AUTHORITY, AND GENDERED AND SEXUALISED CONSTRUCTIONS OF VIOLENCE by C.J. Kaunda

“…The article proposes emptied sacred authority as life-affirming and the recovery of holistic imaginations, whereby the pastor becomes a symbolic instrument of a kenotic life. …”
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De l’après-ski à l’après-tourisme, une figure de transition pour les Alpes ? by Philippe Bourdeau

“…Winter sports occupy a prominent place in European tourism, not only because of their economic importance in mountainous areas but also due to their major symbolic significance in the "leisure civilisation". …”
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Interioryzacja misterium paschalnego Chrystusa w celebracji Eucharystii by Stanisław T. Zarzycki

“…At the same time, he takes into account signs and symbols and their functions in the interiorization of this mystery. …”
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Nupcialidad, compadrazgo y endogamia en las Yungas de Jujuy (Noroeste de Argentina) durante la primera mitad del siglo XIX by Juan Pablo Ferreiro, Federico Fernández

“…This paper explores and analyzes the particular relationship that occurred historically among the main recruitment devices parental-real and symbolic, bridal and godfatherood habitus in a marginal and relatively isolated area characterized by strong inbreeding, in the region of Valle Grande (Jujuy Province, Argentina) during the first half of the nineteenth century. …”
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Un « peuple » au féminin ? Étude de deux journaux féminins communistes de Tunisie (1945-1946) by Élise Abassade

“…This paper examines the representations and the symbolizations made of “women” in the magazines published by two women’s organizations linked to the Communist Party of Tunisia. …”
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Les tombeaux des rois Zāgwē, Yemreḥanna Krestos et Lālibalā (XIIe-XVIe siècle), et leurs évolutions symboliques by Marie-Laure Derat

“…The chronology of these texts and their production are presented; and the eras identified when new symbols emerged for authenticating the sepultures of saint-kings or modifying the perception of them. …”
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Символы и мифы мемуаристики: „Мой лунный друг” Зинаиды Гиппиус by Ludmiła Łucewicz

“…Ludmila Lutsevich’s article “The Symbols and Myths of the Discipline that Studies Memoirs: My Moon Friend by Zinaida Gippius” mentions the characteristic feature of the Russian emigrational discipline that studies memoirs. …”
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The Dickens Universe: Gazing at the Heavens by Dominic RAINSFORD

“…He took an interest in contemporary discoveries and theories in astronomy, but also uses cosmic phenomena in religiously inspired and symbolic ways. This network of references, from the farcical depiction of an astronomer in The Lamplighter and the self-aggrandising cosmic references of Mr. …”
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« Somnambulisme », ou l’après-coup de la métaphore by Marc Amfreville

“…This essay aims to show that “Somnambulism,” a short story by Charles Brockden Brown published in 1799 foreshadows several Freudian tenets that allow, in turn, to fully measure the symbolic purport of this fiction. Reading thus becomes bidirectional, obeying the very principle of Nachträglichkeit (deferment or belatedness). …”
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Les jardins flottants du lac Inlé (Birmanie), ou la construction d’un paysage agricole et touristique original by Martin Michalon

“…On the contrary, they present the floating gardens as symbols of timeless Burmese “tradition” and “authenticity”.…”
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The Unresolved History and Genealogy of Forced Displacement in Mexico by Carolina Robledo Silvestre

“…This article reconstructs symbolic elements and practices that underline the recent dispute over the characterization and nature of “forced displacement” in Mexico. …”
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La evolución de la memoria de la Guerra Civil en el espacio urbano de Bilbao: una mirada comparativa by Jesús Alonso Carballés

“…These case studies also include references to the evolution of this memory in the symbolic villages of Burgos and Valence, in order to offer a comparative view of three key capitals of the 1936 conflict.…”
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La construction symbolique du territoire by Séverine Steenhuyse

“…Which method could be implemented, in order to have access to a subtle understanding of the symbolical phenomenon that occurred ? And, upon which values can the building of a popular collective landscape be carried out ? …”
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The tourist imaginary in Costa Rica: from a “way of seeing” to “making a territory” by Linda Boukhris

“…If this tourist imaginary is repsonsible for the creation of tourist sites, it is also involved in the construction of the territorial identity of Costa Rica by creating territorial symbols from which the national collective identification has taken shape. …”
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From après-ski to après-tourism: the Alps in transition? by Philippe Bourdeau

“…Winter sports occupy a prominent place in European tourism, not only because of their economic importance in mountainous areas but also due to their major symbolic significance in the "leisure civilisation". …”
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