Sacrul și profanul în modernitatea occidentală. Ocultism, vrăjitorie și mode culturale by Dragoș DRAGOMAN

“…On the one hand, the symbolic forms that populated the universe of the tradition still survive, although their form of manifestation are today hardly recognizable. …”
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Optimized Direct Padé and HPM for Solving Equation of Oxygen Diffusion in a Spherical Cell by M. A. Sandoval-Hernandez, H. Vazquez-Leal, A. Sarmiento-Reyes, U. Filobello-Nino, F. Castro-Gonzalez, A. L. Herrera-May, R. A. Callejas-Molina, R. Ruiz-Gomez

“…On one hand, the obtained HPM solution is fully symbolic in terms of the coefficients of the equation, allowing us to use the same solution for different values of the maximum reaction rate, the Michaelis constant, and the permeability of the cell membrane. …”
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Politik Representasi Identitas Perempuan dalam Media: Wacana Kritis Pemberitaan KDRT di suara.com by 'Ulya Nurul Makiyah, Luma’ul ‘Adilah Hayya, Dwi Sufa Nada Qisthina

“…Men's views tend to see women as sexual objects, sex symbols, objects that reinforce patriarchal patterns, and vulnerable to harassment and violence. …”
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Gender Based Violence Reporting System: A Case Study Kabale University Police Station. by Mbaine, Abert

“…Gender inequalities can be defined as culturally and socially created differences between men and women when both sexes do not have the same share in the decision-making and wealth of a society (Ridgeway, 2004). 2 We understand religion as an ideology that affects the socio-political practices of a society and as a complex cultural system of meanings, symbols, and behaviors in communities (Stump, 2008)…”
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Difficulties in mathematical language and representation among elementary school students when solving word problems by Agusfianuddin Agusfianuddin, Tatang Herman, Turmudi Turmudi

“…Students had difficulties in mathematical representation indicators, which were dominant in symbols. The factors that cause difficulty for high, middle, and lower ability students are unaccustomed to solving word problems and using problem-solving procedures, difficulty with concepts, difficulty with reasoning, difficulty understanding what is known and what is being asked, not being careful in reading the problem, and difficulty with long sentences. …”
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Proust’s Ruskin: From Illustration to Illumination by Emily Eells

“…These two figures are likened to ‘noble grotesques’ here, as they correspond to Ruskin’s definition of an allegorical figure conveying an inexpressible truth through symbolism. My argument here is that Proust appropriated those two illustrations and transformed them into illuminations, in the sense that Ruskin gave to that term in Modern Painters.…”
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Grodek (1914) – le testament poétique de Georg Trakl by Natalia Teuber-Terrones

“…How can we interpret a poem uniquely built on a muddle of images and figures with a heavy symbolic charge or, as some specialists say, codes? …”
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Etat et croyance(s) dans la Bolivie « plurinationale » d’Evo Morales by Christine Delfour

“…We will investigate, on the one hand, the relationship between the Church and the Republican State, and, on the other hand, we will analyse the place occupied by beliefs (rites and symbols) in the political context of the Bolivian « refounding » of the State and nation.…”
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Feminism and the Cold War in the U.S. Occupation of Japan, 1945 – 1952 by Mire Koikari

“…-Japan relations thus opened with richly gendered and racialized symbolism: the United State’s imposition of white masculine military authority over Japan, now a defeated and subjugated nation in the Far East.…”
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Expertise and community juridification: Defense of subsoil and communal lands in Oaxaca, Mexico by Salvador Aquino-Centeno

“…It is concluded that community legal arguments undermined the federal laws of access to the subsoil as the injunction became based on the domestication of multiple legal regimes and on concepts and symbols of legal representation, territory, communal property and the subsoil itself.…”
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Par-delà le sang et la guerre : les enjeux de la conceptualisation diplomatique de l’Alliance franco-écossaise au Moyen Âge by Clément GUÉZAIS

“…The Alliance proved to be a powerful tool of legitimacy for the kings of France and Scotland, as well as a political and highly symbolic apparatus aimed at mutually reinforcing the rightful stance of the allies against the cruel and ungodly claims of the English kings.…”
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« Queer », « transpédégouine », « torduEs », entre adaptation et réappropriation, les dynamiques de traduction au cœur des créations langagières de l’activisme féministe queer... by Marie-Émilie Lorenzi

“…If queer feminist activists have undoubtedly been able to take up in their own name the slogan “my body is a battleground”, they have also taken decisive steps to invest language itself as a symbolic battleground. Direct action on language and reclamation of hate speeches through distortion are as many counter-discursive strategies that actively contribute to the process of subjectivisation. …”
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A diferença como política de resistência e de ressignificação da subjetividade feminina em campos de saberes masculinos by Neiva Furlin, Marlene Tamanini

“…This situation indicates that the redefinition of sexual difference and gender subjectivity, in this context, functions positively, even if it remains marked by a symbolic, hierarchical, celibate and masculine structure in which difference frequently continues being driven, in a negatively meaningful way by the aforementioned essentializations, to lower levels of competence regarding women.…”
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A relação rural-urbano a partir das cidades ribeirinhas: o papel do comércio popular (feiras) na cidade de Afuá (PA) by Roni Mayer Lomba, Benedito Baliero Nobre-Júnior

“…In fact, its importance within the several movement networks, namely cultural, economical and symbolic, that supply the town, is demonstrated. Results show an intrinsic countryside-town and rural-urban relationship of the Amazon coastal towns. …”
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Metaphor and Metonymy in Ancient Dream Interpretation: The Case of Islamic-Iranian Culture by Rahman Veisi Hasar

“…The metaphorical dream is based either on a resemblance between the dream as the source domain and its interpretation as the target domain, or on some symbolic metaphors arising from cultural conventions. …”
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Ottoman Hunting Organization of Silistra Sanjak in The 16th Century by Mustafa ALKAN, Ferdi GÖKBUĞA

“…An organized hunting institution, regular hunting practices and the number of hunted animals had been perceived as the symbols of power of the ruler. Hunting organization was instrumental in identifying the situations of the country and people, inspecting government officials and listening to people’s problems. …”
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Des migrants « pas comme les autres ». Ambivalence des représentations sociales des migrants marocains et subsahariens aux îles Canaries by Andrea Gallinal Arias

“…The article puts forward the idea that the social representation of Moroccan migrants in Canarian society, which is more negative than that associated with sub-Saharan migrants, is informed by pre-existing symbolic realities in the archipelago linked to historical and diplomatic relations with Morocco. …”
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Modernisation énergétique et réorganisation régionale des Andes méridionales : les matérialités inattendues du Gazoduc Sud Péruvien by Nina Montes de Oca, Sébastien Velut

“…From an interpretive framework articulating the development imaginaries development with a critical approach of the materiality of energy modernization, this article builds its analysis on a variety of sources combining field work and the documents published on the project in order to map energy change in this region, and the values associated. While the symbolic object of the Southern Peruvian Gas pipeline is presented in discourses as the triumphant advent of energy modernization in which the state is the central actor, it has given rise to fragmented energy materialities, and a distorted energy change, moving away from its primary social objective.…”
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Les insectes vivants dans l’espace anthropisé. Incarnations de la dichotomie nature/culture en architecture by Delphine Lewandowski

“…The systematic and unanticipated presence of insects in buildings exemplifies a paradox in the very essence of architecture: to shelter the human body against the undesirable nature that these creatures symbolize. Living insects are part of an unthought field of nature in architecture, as they are often considered undesirable, but also because of scale, space, and time issues. …”
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Le Roman de Perceforest, la Sicambre et la guerre de Cent Ans by Levente Selaf

“…This explains the confused location of this country: in part symbolic (by its identification with Nubia), in part traditional (close to the Danube) and in part functional, to suit the rather limited geographical setting of the novel (close to the "North Sea"). …”
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