Thinking Mythologically: Black Hawk Down, the “Platoon Movie,” and the War of Choice in Iraq by Richard Slotkin

“…This entailed a sharpening of racialist interpretations of international conflict, and tension between the multicultural symbolism of the “platoon” and the idealization of Whites as “real Americans.”…”
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Joint user activity and signal detection for massive multiple-input multiple-output by Xiaoqun SONG, Ming JIN, Zhongjie JIA

“…In uplink grant-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) systems, the performance of available methods for joint user activity and signal detection deteriorates when the correlation of receiving antennas or the number of active devices increases.Moreover, the available methods require the knowledge of noise power, which is often practically unknown.To address the above issues, combining approximate message passing with unitary transformation and expectation maximization algorithm to jointly implement user activity and signal detection was proposed.Different from the conventional approximate message passing algorithm, the proposed one assumes that the noise power was unknown.Firstly, by exploiting the approximate message passing algorithm with unitary transform, the distribution of transmitted symbols together with the distribution of noise power was obtained.Secondly, expectation maximization algorithm was applied to estimate the user activity.Finally, the signal detection was implemented by deriving the posterior distribution of the decoupled signal belongs.Simulation results show that the proposed method is better than the traditional method in joint user activity and signal detection.…”
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Myth-making and History: The Visual Transformation of Boadicea in Eighteenth-Century History Books by Isabelle Baudino

“…Moreover, Boadicea’s portrayal as an eloquent orator aligned with the classicizing of her appearance, contributing to her symbolic status as defender of British liberty. While originally depicted as a barbarian, Boadicea ultimately became emblematic of imperial ideology, an allegory of Britain’s civilizing mission and a protector of British institutions, exemplifying how historical figures can be reinterpreted and demonstrating the essential part played by visual culture in such shifts.…”
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The Impact of “China-Central and Eastern Europe Cooperation” and “Belt and Road Initiative” on Sino-Albanian Relations by Rahman NURDUN

“…Bilateral relations remained stable since and entered into a new phase symbolized by Chinese business engagement with the launch of China-Central and Eastern Europe Cooperation (China-CEEC) and “Belt and Road Initiative” (BRI). …”
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The common motifs of spring festivals in the slavic and turkic worlds: maslenitsa and nevruz by MEHTAP, TUĞBA

“…Maslenitsa, celebrated as a seasonal festival among the Slavic people, and Nevruz, celebrated among the Turkic people, are festivals symbolizing the end of winter and the transition to spring. …”
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Gender Stereotypes in Cinderella (ATU 510A) and The Princess on the Glass Mountain (ATU 530) by Kärri Toomeos-Orglaan

“…According to Bengt Holbek, fairy tales as symbolic texts are closely connected to the real world as they refer to the latter through fantastic phenomena and events. …”
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Spatial Complexity of a Predator-Prey Model with Holling-Type Response by Lei Zhang, Zhibin Li

“…By a brief stability and bifurcation analysis, we arrive at the Hopf and Turing bifurcation surface and derive the symbolic conditions for Hopf and Turing bifurcation on the spatial domain. …”
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Empresários e intelectuais: agentes culturais e valorização de um grupo étnico by Maria Clara Mocellin

“…In order to explain this process of valuing the local culture, which is here called valuing italianity, the research project focuses on two groups, viz. intellectuals and entrepreneurs, since they are considered important social actors in the production of ethnical symbols. The research data showed close relations between entrepreneurs and intellectuals, established as they got together to implement strategies for regional development and to promote the local culture. …”
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Cultural Formation and Transference Processes of Ancient Greek Theatre by Haluk EMİR, R. Eser KORTANOĞLU

“…Although the collective consciousness and ritual practices observed in the Paleolithic, Neolithic and Bronze Ages predate the emergence of Hellenic thought, they played a crucial role in the birth of theatre as a mental concept. The symbolic imagery, and ritual practices encountered in the Paleolithic, Neolithic, and Bronze Ages, although predating Hellenic thought and the emergence of tragedy, serve a determinative function in the genesis of theatre as a mental concept. …”
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New Values of Cultural Heritage and the Need for a New Paradigm Regarding its Care by Iwona Szmelter

“…The complex care of cultural heritage in the field of visual arts involves a set of new values, stories, ideas, traditions, symbols, attitudes, and accomplishments. The new role of the conservator-restorer acting as an “advocate” of the intrinsic values and well-being of a given object in tangible and/or intangible heritage is affirmed as that of an “orchestrator” of conservation process. …”
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Ethnozoology of bushmeat by Romain Duda, Sandrine Gallois, Victoria Reyes-García

“…It analyses the place of the animal in the Baka daily life through its contribution in dietary, symbolic and economic terms. The paper combines a qualitative ethnography with individual-level data on food diversity intake and meat selling, and describes different aspects related to meat sharing and consumption.…”
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Guide méthodologique pour l'analyse spatiale du covid-19 dans les zones urbaines non métropolitaines du Brésil by João Pedro Pereira Caetano de Lima, Raul Borges Guimarães

“…Point implementation, including proportional symbols and distribution in points; II. Zonal implementation with choropleth maps with some examples of epidemiological rates and bivariate choropleth maps; III. …”
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Korczaka i współczesnych pedagogów ulicy koncepcja uwspólniania świata jako inspiracja podejść partycypacyjno-rozwojowych w pracy z dziećmi ulicy by Jolanta Sokołowska

“…They try to get to know the child’s living conditions and by understanding its habitus they aim to take actions appropriate to child’s abilities, avoiding elements of symbolic violence. …”
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‘The Kindly Fruits of the Earth’: The Materiality of the Cornhill Magazine (1860) by Simon Cooke

“…The analysis considers several key issues: the transmission of value systems through the medium of the symbolic cover; the significance of advertisements; the journal’s physical dimensions; the mode of industrialized production; and the role of the two-fold issue, which differentiated between male and female audiences. …”
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‘The silent Arachnes that weave unrestingly in our Imagination’: The Industrial Metaphoric Web in Thomas Carlyle’s Sartor Resartus by Marie Laniel

“…However, because they connect the realm of matter and the realm of poetry, Carlyle’s Arachnes also epitomize the workings of imagination, the transformative power of poetic language in the face of change and the capacity of ‘symbolic systems’ to ‘make’ and ‘remake’ the world—to quote Paul Ricœur’s The Rule of Metaphor. …”
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Ludic Populism and Its Unpopular Subversion by Sascha Pöhlmann

“…Understanding the political as a way of imagining a community as a political actor through symbolic practices, either in the interest of creating the sovereign of democratic systems or an ethnicity, I argue that video games may employ a populist imagination in constructing ‘the people’ as a basically unified group (usually in implicitly or explicitly essentialist ways) as much as they may resist or subvert this populist fantasy of homogeneity. …”
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During the Soviet era and following the collapse of the USSR. How post-Soviet states are (re)building their tourism sector. The examples of Ukraine and Georgia by Nataliia Moroz

“…Ukraine and Georgia are two such symbolic examples through their quest to ‘de-Sovietise’ their tourism dynamics by changes in political discourses leading, on the one hand, to a war of monuments and remembrance, but also, on the other hand, to a ‘mythologisation’ and a ‘folklorisation’ of their tourist areas.…”
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Les centralités spécialisées des sports de nature : hauts lieux et modestes pôles touristiques by Valérian Geffroy

“…This paper is based on field research carried out in major hotspots of outdoor sport tourism, and is illustrated in particular with the case of the Haute-Durance basin.The different dimensions of specialised centralities are outlined: material qualities, symbolic values and community co-presence. Examples of particularly isolated specialised centralities are presented in order to emphasise their modest dimensions in terms of territorialisation and economic activity. …”
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La Corroirie de la Chartreuse du Liget à Chemillé-sur-Indrois (Indre-et-Loire). Étude historique et architecturale by Bruno Dufaÿ

“…A lordship seat, it has the symbolic and functional attributes of a place of power, including a prison, a rare example of a building of this type in a monastic environment.…”
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Cinquante nuances de rouge. Les marxismes face à la pluralisation du conflit social by Alexis Piat

“…Any conflict therefore appears anchored in the material conditions of production and the symbolic modalities through which it is articulated. …”
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