Le maïs et la mémoire bioculturelle de Mésoamérique by Víctor M. Toledo, Narciso Barrera-Bassols

“…This extensive territory where maize – which today constitutes the staple food in Mexican and Central American kitchens – finds its origin has become a symbolic point of reference, forming the core nucleus of a cosmic matrix. …”
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Race, transformation and education as contradictions in a neoliberal South Africa by Isha Dilraj

“…In this article, I focus on race as a construct and its deep-rooted significance in South African society, by dissecting conceptualisations of race as a signifier and symbolic, as a structure of division and marker of exclusion, and as a construct of power. …”
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La Gouvernance, entre innovation et impuissance by Jacques Theys

“…Le terme de « gouvernance » s’est imposé au cours des années 90 comme le symbole d’une nouvelle modernité dans les modes d’action publique et est devenu, en quelques années, un des lieux communs du vocabulaire de l’aménagement du territoire. …”
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From occupation to independence: contemporary East Timorese history and identity in Portuguese picturebooks by Ana Margarida Ramos

“…The text and images are combined in order to promote symbolic readings, suggesting a magical/mystical environment that impresses readers. …”
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SOCIALINĖ KULTŪROS KRITIKA VERSUS POPKULTŪROS TYRIMAI by Gintautas Mažeikis

“…Evolution of subcultures from symbolism of resistance to pure games of styles and contradictory, polysemantic flux of modern subculture are discussed in the article. …”
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«Karavella» Pioneers Detachment – a Look in Half a Century Light by L. A. Krapivina

“…The system of psychological support developed during the decades and concerning both children and adults is reviewed, as well as the life arrangement forms combining the romantic, heroic, patriotic and symbolic aspects; educational and social growth; carrier development system with its hierarchy of ranks and titles; collective rules and regulations, and joint management; program methods and methodological provision; teaching staff training etc. …”
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Reverent Induction: Epistemology and the Romantic Education of the Child Reader in Charles Kingsley’s The Water-Babies (1863) by Laura H. Clarke

“…While the conversation with the young reader operates in the realm of logic and reason, the narrator’s fairy tale symbolically represents the Romantic imagination and the transcendent leap of faith that makes reverent induction possible.…”
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alchimia dall’inferno al paradiso nella divina commedia. l’influsso su dante dell’opera alchemica aurora consurgens, parzialmente attribuita a san tommaso d’aquino by Marino Alberto Balducci

“…The symbolic vision of a terrible epidemic, affecting the deep infernal zones, appears in the Divine Comedy associated with the wrong, fraudulent, and arrogant use of alchemical science (Inf. …”
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Transimperial Sociology: A Peripheral Dictatorship at the Centre of Late Colonial Social-Scientific Cooperation Between Empires by Ágoas Frederico

“…In terms of the latter, this approach also highlights some of the material and symbolic determinants behind the rise of sociology and social anthropology in Africa, adding a transimperial layer to studies that have explored their colonial origins.…”
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Politics of Counter-Memory in Turkey: Docudramatizing the Past as a Panacea for Official Discourses? by Nuran E. Işik

“…The first part of the paper deals with the historical background whereby Turkish historiography employed symbolic forms of legitimation as modes of power and domination. …”
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Charles Sanders Peirce's semiotic analysis of human values in the film sound of freedom by Frans Fandy Palinoan, I Made Markus Suma, Patrio Tandiangga, Arwin Dama

“…Researchers took Peirce's formula regarding objects which are classified into three, in the form of icons, indexes and symbols which are applied to each scene of the film Sound of Freedom. …”
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Zwischen dem Gedenken und der Ideologisierung der Kämpfe der Legionen in den Ostkarpaten in der polnischen Literatur der Zwischenkriegszeit by Jagoda Wierzejska

“…They also served to bring the Hutsuls closer to the Polish nation and to distinguish them from the Ukrainian nation, as well as to symbolically appropriate the Hutsul region to the needs of the Second Polish Republic. …”
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IMAGE OF RUSSIA AND RUSSIANS IN POLISH HISTORICAL FILMS (ON MATERIALS OF EXPERT INTERVIEWS) by S. I. Belov

“…For the formation of appropriate images, manipulative practices based on appealing to the sphere of emotions and using symbols with archetypal implication were used. The films of the period before 1939 and the post-Soviet era are related not only to the content, but also the technological side: in both cases, the creators used strategies to create images of someone else’s and phantom enemies, demonization and dehumanization. …”
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Genera Mixta in Herbert George Wells’s Industrial Romance ‘The Cone’ (1895): Realism, the Uncanny Fantastic, the Industrial Sublime and the Tragic by Françoise Dupeyron-Lafay

“…‘The Cone’ could be called an ‘industrial romance’, a category subsuming its genera mixta status: its convincing, realistic substratum (the industrial world of the 1890s in the Newcastle area), its love (and revenge) plot within an industrial context, the presence of dark Biblical symbolism within the realistic mode, and an approach to the human psyche inspired from contemporary psychological research and formulated through the uncanny. …”
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Fractal Dimension versus Process Complexity by Joost J. Joosten, Fernando Soler-Toscano, Hector Zenil

“…We look at small Turing machines (TMs) that work with just two colors (alphabet symbols) and either two or three states. For any particular such machine τ and any particular input x, we consider what we call the space-time diagram which is basically the collection of consecutive tape configurations of the computation τ(x). …”
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Enhancing Place Identity Through Food Customization and Customer Delight: Evidence from Healthy Food Restaurants by Abdullah Abdulaziz Alhumud, Sally Mohamed Amer, Eman AbdelHameed Hasnin, Maha Ali Alsahely

“… Nowadays, customization allows customers to become co-designers of a product by add- ing symbolic and emotional values to the product. Thus, customers' lives are shaped by the customiz- ing process and the decisions they must make. …”
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Information-Theoretic Analysis of Underwater Acoustic OFDM Systems in Highly Dispersive Channels by Francois-Xavier Socheleau, Milica Stojanovic, Christophe Laot, Jean-Michel Passerieux

“…Expressions for these rates take into account the “cross-channels” established by the ISI/ICI and are based on lower bounds on mutual information that assume independent and identically distributed input data symbols. In agreement with recent statistical analyses of experimental shallow-water data, the channel is modeled as a multivariate Rician fading process with a slowly time-varying mean and with potentially correlated scatterers, which is more general than the common wide-sense stationary uncorrelated scattering model. …”
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SQL Injection Detection Based on Lightweight Multi-Head Self-Attention by Rui-Teng Lo, Wen-Jyi Hwang, Tsung-Ming Tai

“…Only SQL keywords and symbols are considered as tokens for removing noisy information from input queries. …”
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The Iceberg Model of Change: A taxonomy differentiating approaches to change by Christian A. Mahringer, Laura Schmiedle, Lisa Albicker, Simone Mayer

“…The objectification approach treats processes of change as things with symbolic properties, which can be used to steer societal and political discourse, reveal thematic relationships across studies, and emphasize the significance of work. …”
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FEMININE DEATH AS SACRIFICE IN THE LITTLE MATCH GIRL, DEAD MEN’S PATH, AND THE STORY OF AN HOUR by Wanda Andres Saputra, Asmanadia Izzatul Karimah, Alya Nur Halizah, Dinda Ayu Fitriani, Tera Sella Isyfiani, Muhammad Rizal

“…The theory of feminine death from Elizabeth Bronfen (2017) is used to reveal the extremity and sacrifice of a woman, and the theory of philosophical death and female finitude from Linnell Secomb (1999) is used to reveal the mode and symbols of feminine death. Based on Spradley's theory and analysis, we argue that the three short stories all have extremity and sacrifice; in the short story by Hans Christian Andersen, there is a mode or form of death called "being-towards-death." …”
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