Stretching the Frontiers of Communication and Media Studies by Nico Carpentier, David Grondin

“…Through this particular case, he is also interested in showing the links between the material and the symbolic per the study of representations, cultures and materialities—which results are presented in the article Cyprus and its Conflicts: Representations, Materialities, and Cultures (co-directed with Vaia Doudaki, 2018).…”
Get full text

Interactions of Foundation Pit on the Underlying Adjacent Existing Underground Structures by Wanzhong Xu, Baohua Liu, Jingshuo Liu, Chun Guo

“…It is found that with the increase of distance between foundation pit and tunnel, the axial force of anchor rod at the top of tunnel under the foundation pit entirely symbolizes a trend of increases first and then decreases, the axial force of the leftmost anchor rod changes from pressure to tension, then decreases gradually. …”
Get full text

African Literature in Translation: Towards Adopting a Minor Translation Theory by Bethlehem Attfield

“…Building on a comparative literary analysis of two translated African short stories, this article examines whether culture-specific metaphors and symbolisms effectively enrich the texture of a translated text or detract the reader from following the narration. …”
Get full text

This is Not a Nest by Jean-Pierre Chupin

“…Our analytical grid characterizes analogical matrices to identify levels of symbolic operations through the differentiation of formal, structural and conceptual analogies. …”
Get full text

Marvel, Star Wars and the Risk of Being a Hero: Social Responsibilities for Transmedia Storytellers in the Age of Collective Journey by Webster Luke

“…Such stories have increased capacity to improve the civic imagination and provide symbols that individuals can draw from to manifest meaningful change. …”
Get full text

Commerce and Sentiment in Tales of Barbary Encounter: Cathcart, Barlow, Markoe, Tyler, and Rowson by Andrew S. Gross

“…In all three texts, Jews are excluded from the vision of common sentiment and made to symbolize what was cruel about commerce; it is my argument that they served as scapegoats for the American discomfort with its own failures of sentiment, evidenced most obviously by chattel slavery and the slave trade.  …”
Get full text

A Look at the Reproduction Strategies of Costa Rican Households, 1990 – 2015 by Natalia Carballo Murillo

“…This article examines the reproduction strategies Costa Rican households, focusing on fertility, marriage, education, economy, social aspects, and symbolism, from 1990 to 2015, categorized by income quintile, and viewed from the perspective of family life trajectories. …”
Get full text

Virginia Woolf’s “Modernist Renaissance” in “Anon”: A Singular Counter-History by Anne Besnault

“…The aim of this article is to examine the symbolic murder that Woolf stages in her essay, that of Anon, the anonymous female or male poet, by the invention of the printing press, while reading in context Woolf’s counter-narrative grounded in a singular, historiographical cycle of life and death.…”
Get full text

Novel Fuzzy Neural Nonsingular Terminal Sliding Mode Control of MEMS Gyroscope by Zhe Wang, Juntao Fei

“…For suppressing the chattering, the symbolic function in the ideal sliding mode is replaced by the saturation function. …”
Get full text

Cannabis mythology: the process of shaping from experience in Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand by Fareeda Jeh-oh, Attanan Tachopisalwong

“…This transition highlights the function of cultural institutions in both mythologizing and demythologizing societal symbols.…”
Get full text

Doubly-selective channel estimation for generalized frequency division multiplexing systems based on deep learning by Ying WANG, Jun REN, Ke SHI, Bin LIN

“…There exist intrinsic inter-carrier interference and inter-subsymbol interference in generalized frequency division multiplexing (GFDM) systems.Under condition of time-frequency doubly selective channels, severe effects of pilot contamination would occur and lead to significant performance degradation for the pilot-based channel estimations.To this end, a channel estimation framework for GFDM systems based on deep learning was proposed, which took the low-resolution image constructed with the least squares estimated channel gains of the pilot symbols as input.Consequently, a high-resolution image about the channel time-frequency response was recovered through a deep residual network, and the channel estimation was achieved for GFDM systems.A simulation system for the proposed GFDM time-frequency doubly selective channel estimation algorithm based on deep residual network was developed, and the optimal parameters of the deep residual network were determined through an offline training process.Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm can achieve better performance near to minimum mean square error (MMSE) estimation in terms of estimation error and bit error rate (BER), and has robust Doppler frequency shift generalization capability.…”
Get full text

Shall we kill again? Violence and intimacy among the “awajun “new leaders” in the northeastern Peruvian frontier by Silvia Romio

“…Using the tools which ethno history and the anthropology of affectivity provide, and paying particular attention to the topic of the building of the “heroic body”, the present text focuses on how Awajun society suffered significant changes regarding the of the use of force and of the symbolic management of violence, leading to the assimilation of new styles of indigenous leadership. …”
Get full text

“Somebody do Something!”: Lynching Photographs, Historical Memory, and the Possibility of Sympathetic Spectatorship by Amy Louise Wood

“…These photographs, like many historical photographs, tend to detach past events from historical specificity and, subsequently, render the past into symbolic form, which allows new meanings to be imposed on them through the text and context that surround them. …”
Get full text

„Není Rusko bez cara.“ Romanovské jubileum v roce 1913 by Zbyněk Vydra

“…The celebration of the Romanov dynasty had a great symbolic importance. Mikhail Fyodorovich Romanov was elected Tsar in 1613 and with his coronation the same year, the Time of Troubles (smuta) was put to an end. …”
Get full text

« Ascénir » le space opera : de Joël Maillard à Bruno Latour by Danielle Chaperon

“…In an artistic context marked by the debates around the anthropocene,Joël Maillard attacks the "cosmos of the moderns" by diverting certain imaginations from the science fiction of the 1960s and 1970s and, following the example of Bruno Latour, by making the stage cage the symbolic stake of a "War of the Worlds".…”
Get full text

Social Mobility of The Bugis Female Hajj Pilgrims by Hilmi Muhammadiyah, Siti Sara binti Haji Ahmad

“…This journey redefines women’s positions within religious rituals, fosters cultural cohesion through the symbolic attributes worn during the Hajj, and generates both direct and indirect impacts on society through the pilgrims’ contributions.…”
Get full text

Estonian sheet pendants from the 11th to the 13th century: chronological aspects by Andres Tvauri

“…Sheet pendants are Christian­symbolic metal plate pendants that were wide spread in Estonia from the 11th to the 17th century, with at least 1115 items found. …”
Get full text

Do território à territorialidade: construção do espaço do Assentamento do MST Lagoa do Junco em Tapes, RS by Naiara Machado da Silva, Aline Reis Calvo Hernandez

“…Accordingly, a territoriality that emphasizes subjective and symbolic aspects is evidenced. Cooperation is revealed as a fundamental dimension which establishes itself as a combat force, identity and work, on the part of the settlers. …”
Get full text

Aestheticising the Blackfoot Valley (Montana, USA), or How to Reconcile the Mining Frontier and the Eco-Frontier by Sylvain Guyot, Gabrielle Saumon

“…This article presents a Rocky Mountain valley in the state of Montana (USA), a central symbolic space of the American West that is heavily marked by the identity-charged notions of “wilderness” and “frontier”. …”
Get full text

Oke-Ibadan Festival and the Ethnography of Aboke people of Ibadan by Oludele Mayowa Solaja, Adesina Abass Olayiwola

“…Two sociological perspectives which include structural-functionalism and symbolic interactionism were used to provide a theoretical context for the study. …”
Get full text