Démolition controversée, entre revendication et droit d’auteur. L’histoire d’un ensemble de logements sociaux à Bollate (Milan) by Chiara Merlini

“…A debate that is particularly influenced by stigmatizing images and on which symbolic investments are particularly high, both for residents and for public institutions. …”
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Tecnica e libertà fra Praga e Santiago by Andrea Cerroni

“…(2) Can one, moreover, delineate a kind of symbolic universe that would extend from the (then prospective) artificial intelligence to the paradigms later established in many disciplines?…”
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La cuestión religiosa como factor de conflictividad política durante la Segunda República by Miguel Ángel Giménez Martínez

“…In this way, the religious problem served as a symbolic agent of affirmation and consolidation of the different political organizations. …”
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Patrimoine naturel et médiations visuelles : les solutions du paysage by Catherine Saouter

“…This article questions the notion of natural heritage from the perspective of one of its symbolic representations : the landscape. Since heritage and landscape are not ontological objects but rather cultural constructs, the study focuses on the semiotic and historic processes which preside over their invention and their interrelation, in order to identify the tensions and contradictions at work in the process of considering nature as heritage. …”
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Plain Beasts: The Social Dimension and Animalistic Presence of Dogs in Fontane’s Frau Jenny Treibel and Effi Briest by Amir Zelinger

“…The combination between social realism and unassuming animalness as exemplified by Fontane’s doggish creatures, as the article concludes, could then also provide us with a more solid understanding of the place of the social in animal-based posthumanist symbolism.…”
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Sol LeWitt. The Conceptuality of Drawing by Paolo Belardi

“…In the first fax, dated March 22, 1995, LeWitt (at the time residing for long periods in Spoleto) tells his friend Bruno Corà (then professor of Art History in the Academy) about the delivery of the maquette of a work created specifically for Perugia [1]: an ‘open cube’ (the solid form most loved by LeWitt [2]) which, as an element of the exhibition project City and Art, aimed at injecting viral works into extra moenia urban areas of symbolic interest, was to be exhibited in the portico of the large public building built in those same years by Aldo Rossi and located on the western side of the Piazza Nuova in Fontivegge [3]. …”
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La 17e nuit d’at-Tawḥīdī by Guillaume de Vaulx d’Arcy

“…Then, the 17th night must be reinterpreted as the rebuttal of the Brethren in Purity’s views in a very structured manner employing different characters : the minister Ibn Saʿdān, al-Bukhārī, Zayd b. al-Rifāʿa, al-Maqdīsī, an-Nīsābūrī and al-Balkhī, in order to represent the different degrees of initiation and symbolize progression of the heresy.…”
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La memoria y el mito gaullista : usos políticos del pasado en la Francia de la V República (1958-1990) by Lizandra Carvajal García

“…In French history, more than one symbolic character has been canonized by national memory during the country’s most crucial times. …”
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Vision et visibilité : la rhétorique visuelle des suffragistes et des suffragettes britanniques de 1907 à 1914 by Myriam Boussahba-Bravard

“…Representation thus conveyed the vital necessity of “votes for women” along three major lines:● Locating the Cause on the Edwardian political stage,● Reporting on suffragist activism and activists,● Arguing symbolically that women deserved the vote (immediate effect) and that their imminent enfranchisement would signal further emancipation (delayed effect).…”
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Improved and efficient EM channel estimation algorithm for MIMO-OFDM systems by XU Peng1, WANG Jin-kuan1, QI Feng2

“…For multiple-input multiple-output with orthogonal frequency division multiplexing（MIMO-OFDM） systems,the error floor（EF） phenomenon at high signal noise rate（SNR） was induced by the expectation maximum（EM） channel estimation algorithm.In addition,the data transmission efficiency was declined obviously with the increasing number of transmit antennas.According to these problems,an improved and efficient EM channel estimation algorithm was pro-posed.Firstly,an accurate and equivalent signal model was introduced to derive a modified EM algorithm,which im-proved the estimation performance at high SNR.Next,to enhance the data transmission efficiency and further the esti-mate performance of the proposed algorithm,phase orthogonal pilots sequences and joint estimation were carried out over multiple OFDM symbols respectively.Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm has better estimation performance and higher data transmission efficiency.…”
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Asymptotic quadratic price game mechanism for video stream extensible feedback unloading by Qianqian GE

“…A progressive quadratic price game mechanism with scalable feedback offloading of video streams was proposed.Firstly,the congestion of cellular network could be alleviated by effectively uninstalling some video traffic from all video streaming services to Wi-Fi network,thus providing seamless video streaming services.Several physi-cal paths were integrated in an economical and efficient way.The fountain coded symbols of compressed video data were transmitted simultaneously through LTE and Wi-Fi network to flexibly control the viewing through Wi-Fi net-work and reduce the video quality degradation caused by wireless channel errors.Secondly,a progressive secondary price auction mechanism was used to allocate limited LTE resources to multiple user devices to maximize social wel-fare and achieve Nash equilibrium.The scalability and convergence of the system were verified theoretically.Finally,the performance advantages of the proposed algorithm in video streaming transmission quality and energy consump-tion were verified by experimental simulation.…”
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Quand Le Caire se révèle copte… by Anne-Sophie Vivier

“…This is also true as regards the great religious edifices of the last decades, which are strongly marking the Coptic presence, operating in the same time a symbolic appropriation of Cairo’s territory. This is indicative of the Revival’s historical continuity with a long tradition that had already inseminated Cairo with an important number of Christian sites.…”
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Les protestations populaires à l’assaut des régimes autoritaires : une « révolution » pour les sciences sociales ? by Vincent Geisser

“…Beyond the actual visible weakening of the men in power, the central issue in revolutionary processes remains the legitimacy and symbolic effectiveness of systems: why don’t identical circumstances lead to changes in regimes everywhere?…”
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Study on the Parametric of Polynomial Motion Law of the Symmetrical Cam Follower Lifting Profile by Wang Huining, Xu Fang, Zhou Zhigang

“…Aiming at the problem of the largest quasi- velocity and quasi- acceleration of the polynomial motion law of only considering the boundary conditions,the lift profile of the cam follower is divided into two single convex spline curve,the sensitive parameters that affects the acceleration curve and the control point that can control the acceleration curve in the spline boundary point are found by studying the quasi- displacement curve,the one mapping quasi- velocity graph and the quadratic mapping quasi- acceleration graph. The method of symbolic- graphic combination are used to establish the parametric model of polynomial motion law of the lift profile of the symmetrical cam follower and the optimal standard displacement equation are obtained in different conditions by this model. …”
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Vertical farm. New architectures and cities from the forms of agriculture by Sara Basso, Adriano Venudo, Thomas Bisiani, Pierluigi Martorana

“…The issue is articulated through four areas: the origin of the tall building as a symbolic expression and its contemporary evolution; above-ground agriculture in relation to classical macroeconomic categories since the 1700s; and three case studies of experimental vertical farms (Skyfarm, Farmscraper and Farmhouse), interpreted as possible origins of new architectural types. …”
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The implied expression of "hafez" (an investigation about rethorical methods of implied expression of "hafez") by Mitra Golchin, Abbas Karimi

“…In this domain, he derived the benefit from covert simile, metaphor, irony of widening type, irony of description, symbolism and an unknown kind of artistic innovation. …”
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“His cramped and claustrophobic brain”: Confinement and Freedom in John Wray’s Lowboy by Pascale Antolin

“…This article shows that ambivalence is a major symbolic pattern in John Wray’s 2009 neuronovel Lowboy, and it affects the major aspects of the novel, including the characters’ identities and the narrative structure of the book. …”
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L’humain et l’écran, à l’écran : The Cat, the Reverend and the Slave d’Alain Della Negra et Kaori Kinoshita (2010) by Anaïs Guilet

“…In the film, the cinema screen opens on the connected screen in a staging symbolizing this interface. The screen is the place where users of Second Life and spectators alike can observe how interactions with the technical device (the avatar) but also with others, materialize. …”
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Jules Lavirotte (1864-1929) ou l’Art nouveau symboliste by Bruno Montamat

“…Its inscription in a late-century symbolism opens up promising new fields of research by taking into account the sacred in private architecture and by the emancipatory role played by female artist. …”
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Medieval Naturalia by Chantal Stein

“…It additionally considers symbolic connotations and occult properties deriving from allegorization of matter to study the role played by the ornamentation of naturalia. …”
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