<i>Mosaicos de la Comunidad</i> (Mosaics of the Community): Community-Engaged Participatory Muraling with <i>Madres Emprendedoras</i> by Jesica Siham Fernández, Laura A. Nichols

“…Drawing from the <i>madres’</i> reflections and written testimonials, this paper describes the collective mural-making process; moving from research-based issues identified by the <i>madres</i> into the mural design stage, including the identification of symbols and their meanings, to the creation and painting, and the culmination with a mural-unveiling celebration. …”
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Largest-chunking and group formation: Two basic strategies for a cognitive model of linguistic processing by László Drienkó

“…LCh segmentation is concerned with cognitive text segmentation, i.e. with detecting word boundaries in a sequence of linguistic symbols. Previous cross-linguistic research on French, English, and Hungarian texts (Drienkó 2020b) demonstrated that LCh segmentation is not efficient when words are the basic segmentation units and utterances are the target sequences. …”
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South Africa: A Growing Embrace of Feminist Foreign Policy? by Jo-Ansie van Wyk

“…It has shown that South Africa’s growing embrace of elements associated with a feminist foreign policy includes memorialisation and symbolism (i.e. linking the liberation struggle and female stalwarts to foreign policy), positioning women in progressive internationalism, and integrating women in the definition of South Africa’s national interests. …”
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Abstract visual reasoning based on algebraic methods by Mingyang Zheng, Weibing Wan, Zhijun Fang

“…Abstract visual reasoning involves identifying abstract patterns embedded within composite images, considered a core competency of machine intelligence. Traditional neuro-symbolic methods often infer unknown objects through data fitting, without fully exploring the abstract patterns within composite images and the sequential sensitivity of visual sequences. …”
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Pond fishing in the Congolese cuvette: a story of fishermen, animals, and water spirits by Marion Comptour, Sophie Caillon, Doyle McKey

“…Like the technical dimensions of pond fishing, its social and symbolic dimensions are also little described in literature on the subject. …”
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Maze runners: monkeys show restricted Arabic numeral summation during computerized two-arm maze performance by Elizabeth L. Haseltine, Michael J. Beran

“…These results indicate that monkeys experience difficulties with inhibition toward single, high valence stimuli in tasks where those stimuli must be considered in relation to overall value when represented by symbolic stimuli such as numerals.…”
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Comparative analysis of spins-first and wave functions-first students’ understanding of expressions in quantum mechanics by William D. Riihiluoma, Zeynep Topdemir, John R. Thompson

“…Given the very different structures of these courses, particularly as it pertains to the notations and formalisms both emphasized and used, it begs the question as to whether and to what extent students in these different courses conceptualize symbolic expressions in Dirac and wave function notations differently. …”
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Effect of Luminance and Contrast Variation on Stereoacuity Measurements Using Smartphone Technology by Lu Liu, Lingxian Xu, Junyue Wang, Huang Wu

“…Seventeen young subjects with normal visual acuity and stereopsis were recruited. Two types of test symbols, contour-based and random-dot-based, were used in the experiment. …”
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Lossy Joint Source-Channel Coding Using Raptor Codes by O. Y. Bursalioglu, M. Fresia, G. Caire, H. V. Poor

“…The sequence of quantization indices is decomposed into bitplanes, and each bitplane is independently mapped onto a sequence of channel coded symbols. The coding rate of each bitplane is chosen according to the bitplane conditional entropy rate. …”
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The Limitless Zawiya and the Infinite Library. Rethinking the Epistemology of Contemporary Sufism and Digital Islamic Thought by Antonio de Diego González

“…This study will employ an interdisciplinary methodology that combines physical and digital collaborative ethnography, symbolic hermeneutics, and philosophy of religion. …”
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Carolina Maria de Jesus e a autorrepresentação literária da exclusão social na América Latina: olhares reversos aos de Eduardo Galeano e Octavio Paz by Larissa Paula Tirloni, Marcelo Marinho

“…The selected text corpus brings forth literary representations and symbolic images of the society segment that lives in an extreme marginal position, making themselves invisible to other social groups. …”
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The Portrait of heshuo Guo-qinwang Yunli as the Source for Weapons and Horse Equipment of Oirats and their Neighbors in the first half of the 18th Century by Leonid A. Bobrov

“…A comprehensive study of Qing pictorial sources can play an important role in the study of weapons, equipment, costume, military symbols and military affairs of the Oirats and their neighbors of the late 17th–18th centuries. …”
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A Comparison Study on Rule Extraction from Neural Network Ensembles, Boosted Shallow Trees, and SVMs by Guido Bologna, Yoichi Hayashi

“…One way to make the knowledge stored in an artificial neural network more intelligible is to extract symbolic rules. However, producing rules from Multilayer Perceptrons (MLPs) is an NP-hard problem. …”
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LABORATORY ELECTROCHEMISTRY “MYSTERY BOX”: FROM PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS’ OBSERVATIONS TO INFERENCES THROUGH PREDICT-OBSERVE-EXPLAIN STRATEGY by Carla Morais, Cidália André, Joana Alves, Gildo Girotto Jr.

“…Data also showed a connection between the macroscopic and symbolic domains, and pre-service teachers recognized concepts associated with the activity, such as solution conductivity and the potential difference in chemical reactions, interpreting the system with prior knowledge, like electron flow direction and concentration cell components. …”
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Visuals and text in pharmaceutical advertising: A multimodal analysis and ethical dilemmas by Svitlana Nasakina

“…To prove this hypothesis, I identified patterns of interaction between verbal and non-verbal components through the prism of words, images, signs, and symbols. In this research, a multimodal approach allowed to uncover both the intended meanings and the subtle manipulation tactics used in pharmaceutical advertising.…”
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De fil palatial en aiguille patrimoniale. La soierie du cabinet de repos du petit appartement de Napoléon Ier à Versailles. by Laureen Gressé-Denois

“…From its creation as part of Napoleon’s recovery plan, and its replacement after 1815 for reasons of economy, to its ornamentation, which conveys a symbolic message, the history of the silks was initially shaped by economic and political intentions. …”
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Excès et sacré dans la littérature victorienne et édouardienne by Annie Escuret

“…Even George Eliot creates characters that symbolize excess or chaos. Unlike her sisters, Emily Brontë stands, in her solitude, for some form of sacred violence and for the rejection of the identification of God with reason. …”
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« J’ai lu votre livre » by Marion Marx

“…We will be trying to retrace the journey of the writer, from the initial feeling of exclusion to the need to create, via the literary space, new motifs (the « woman-island ») and new places (another Lesbos) of symbolic reunion with these authors. Indeed, this long letter, written in French, adopts the form of a true poetic meditation, at least doubly addressed: to Natalie Clifford Barney and, secondly and implicitly, to Sappho. …”
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Kolekcje chrześcijaństwa w średniowieczu – próba odczytania znaczenia na podstawie wybranych przykładów by Dariusz Tabor

“…Skarbiec zawierał przedmioty służące sprawowaniu liturgii oraz regalia – symbole władzy królewskiej. Miały one symbolizować jedność regnum i sacerdotium, głównych rzeczywistości społecznych średniowiecza. …”
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A Damage Constitutive Model of Red Sandstone under Coupling of Wet-Dry Cycles and Impact Load by Bin Du, Haibo Bai

“…The deformation rule of rocks under the coupling effects is a symbolic mechanical property, which lays the foundation for the design and evaluation in the rock engineering. …”
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