Les mots maoris dans The Bone People de Keri Hulme : exotisme et intimisme by Alice Braun

“…This paper shows how the use of Maori words in the English text may be accused of participating in a strategy of “exoticisation” of the text, though they still have a strong symbolic meaning within the economy of the narrative. …”
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Travelling through a powder keg: War and Tourist Imaginary in Sarajevo by Patrick Naef

“…In this context, the places which have undergone the trauma of war or the sites which symbolize resistance are being exploited by local actors and included in the tourist landscape of the city and region little by little.…”
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SPACE AND PLACE OF THE BALKANS: A GEOCRITICAL PERSPECTIVE by Sanja Lazarevic Radak

“…Point out the places and passages where academic discourse on the Balkans separate physical and symbolic geography; 2. Highlight the political implications of this approach; 3. …”
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La mémoire de l’exil et de la résistance antifasciste comme ciment d’une identité supranationale by Mathias Delori

“…Cette autre histoire du rapprochement franco-allemand voit dans la participation d’Allemands à la Résistance en France le symbole possible d’une identité commune. L’article s’interroge sur le caractère éthique de cette mémoire et avance quelques arguments socio-historiques en faveur de sa reconnaissance.…”
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La montagne artificielle : une nouvelle forme artialisée de la nature ? by Claire Portal

“…Artificial mountains are artefacts, real or imaginary, whose identification is based on landscape models associated with natural mountains: whatever its origin, the mountain symbolizes duration and constitutes an unmovable and unchanging element. …”
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Life on board ship and cultural intimacy. Notes from the Central Mediterranean by Jasmine Iozzelli

“…Today, different “currents” – cultural, political, and symbolic – cross the Mediterranean. When they meet aboard seagoing vessels, these currents construct a highly diverse range of shared spaces.Exploring both the macro-structure and some of the micro-practices that constitute these spaces, I attempt to point up some of the contradictions – between humanitarian logic and activist demands, between efficiency and processes of dehumanization, between formal rationality and the unpredictability of events – that arise in the construction of a sense of belonging on board a large SAR ship.…”
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Joint reduction of peak-to-average power ratio and out-of-band power based on subcarrier weighting in OFDM systems by Qing LI, Han-ying HU

“…Considering the conflict of PAPR and OBP reductions in OFDM systems,a new method based on subcarrier weighting was proposed for the joint reduction.The symbols on subcarriers were multiplied by optimal weighting vector to reduce PAPR and OBP jointly,and an improved GA was used to calculate the optimal weighting vector for lower complexity.It was more effective in spectrum utility and did not need any transmission of side information.Furthermore,with trade-off parameter,it offered more flexibility to control the reduction by changing the relative weighting of the two optimization criteria.The simulation results indicate that,compared with a system that performs two separate optimization steps,the proposed method can significantly enhance the amount of PAPR and OBP reduction with lower computation complexity.It is simple to implement,which makes it very practical.…”
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Militanza e creatività nella pluralità dei borderscapes. Produzione estetica di frontiera tra il Mediterraneo e il nord del Messico by Andrea Buchetti

“…Is it possible to identify third spaces of creativity that share symbols and identity repertoires between the local and the global? …”
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L’appropriation culturelle dans le secteur de la mode by Clara Gavelli

“…The difficulties of extending this model to this type of creation, as well as the economic and cultural stakes underlying the notion of cultural appropriation, invite us to reconsider not only our symbolic representations, but also our legal relationships with things that surround us.…”
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HipHop und Postkolonialismus by David Chemeta

“…This article analyzes the use of foreign languages in German hip hop from the perspective of postcolonial theories, replacing the tensions between colonizers and colonized with symbolic power struggles between “dominant” and “dominated”. …”
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„…z polska — po rosyjsku”, czyli o tym, jak Polacy używają ruszczyzny by Michał Sarnowski

“…For the first image it is the usual instrumentality of communication (rossicum is an addition and an excess of information within a Polish text), for the second image the instrumentality acquires unambiguously pragmatic features and the rossicum becomes an instrument of effective action, and for the third picture the instrumentality of Russian elements sets in motion the symbolic-cognitive (creating a sense) function of Russian in Polish text.…”
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Deucalion et les os de la mère by Aline Magnien

“…This temporal and geographical vagrancy establishes thus filiations and similarities, highlighting the symbolic richness of the materials and the existence of these traditions of which we are not always aware. …”
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L’espace en poésie – poésie de l’espace : les Fireside Poets by Michel Barrucand

“…In the 19th Century, the geographic description took a new direction, symbolized by the westward movement of the frontier and the crossing of the Middle West, whose vast prairies were on the verge of being conquered and destroyed. …”
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Computation of the topological entropy in chaotic biophysical bursting models for excitable cells by Jorge Duarte, Luís Silva, J. Sousa Ramos

“…In the present paper, we study the dynamical behavior of two specific three-variable models from the literature that replicate chaotic bursting. With results from symbolic dynamics, we characterize the topological entropy of one-dimensional maps that describe the salient dynamics on the attractors. …”
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Near-Optimal Efficient MIMO Receiver for Miniature UAV-IoT Communications by Anas Saci, Arafat Al-Dweik, Shihab Jimaa

“…The proposed detection scheme is achieved by exploiting the frequency and/or temporal correlation among the transmitted signals to directly extract the information symbols from the received signals. The results obtained show that the proposed scheme offers a significant advantage of approximately 15 dB performance gain compared to conventional linear detection schemes, even when such schemes are using perfect CSI. …”
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Investigating wave solutions in coupled nonlinear Schrödinger equation: insights into bifurcation, chaos, and sensitivity by Adil Jhangeer, Abdallah M. Talafha, Ariana Abdul Rahimzai, Lubomír Říha

“…The accuracy of the derived solitons is validated through symbolic computations performed in Wolfram Mathematica, accompanied by graphical visualizations of the proposed solutions. …”
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Se baigner à nouveau dans la Seine : l’héritage promis par les Jeux olympiques et paralympiques de Paris 2024 by Julia Moutiez

“…Finally, the evolution of bidding models and their popularity leads committees to promise to provide intangible and symbolic legacies for the benefit of inhabitants and international actors and audiences alike.…”
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Unfinished buildings, a new point of departure. Designing difference for a sustainable future by Maria Luisa Germanà, Francesca Anania

“…Contemporary unfinished buildings, which represent a widespread sort of abandoned built environment around the globe, have only recently shaken off the taboo to which they have been relegated by their inescapable condition as symbols of failure. The theoretical connotations attributed to them often fluctuate between the mystifying poles of exaltation and demonization; without discussing these, and looking at trends that can be identified in certain works over the last decades, the article aims to contribute to defining an analytical and design-based approach. …”
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Designing Tangible User Interfaces for NFC Phones by Mikko Pyykkönen, Jukka Riekki, Ismo Alakärppä, Ivan Sanchez, Marta Cortes, Sonja Saukkonen

“…Only individual graphical symbols have been suggested when guidelines for advertising a rich variety of functionality are called for. …”
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Capital, Agency and Distinction in Dynamics of Conversion of Economic Functions of Cities: Lessons from Lafayette (US) by Anderson de Souza Sant\u2019Anna, Reed Elliot Nelson, Daniela Martins Diniz

“…According to Bourdieu's theoretical framework, it also reflects in this way the habitus of the different social groups, as well as the way in which different capitals - economic, social, cultural and symbolic - are mobilized, aiming at the domain of the field.…”
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