Artificial Mosaic Generation with Gradient Vector Flow and Tile Cutting by Sebastiano Battiato, Alfredo Milone, Giovanni Puglisi

“…The effectiveness of the proposed approach has been confirmed by a series of tests and comparisons with state-of-the-art techniques.…”
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Point(s) d’écart chez E. E. Cummings by Penelope Sacks-Galey

“…Cummings’s work, his poempictures, it shows that the liberties he takes with language stem as much from a thorough working knowledge of its grammar as from a formal research into art form dynamics. While remaining within the convention of the readable, the poet’s idiolect leads to a unique form of creation, one of a Heideggerian order : nature trembles on the page in tune with the poet’s sensibility.…”
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Hacia una ontología del escuchar. Fundamento del diálogo intercultural by Patricia Gueijman

“… Desde una mirada metafísica perspectivista y raciovitalista se pretende hacer un análisis del “escuchar” extrayendo de ello consecuencias aplicables al diálogo y a las prácticas interculturales, con el objetivo de realizar un aporte teórico sobre el arte de escuchar para que se efectúe un cambio liberador en el diálogo humano y un rescate de actitudes y características positivas de escuchas entre diversas sabidurías, tendiente a superar el eurocentrismo filosófico – teológico occidental hegemónico …”
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BASA: An improved hybrid bees algorithm for the single machine scheduling with early/tardy jobs by Ahmed Adnane Abdessemed, Leila Hayet Mouss, Khaled Benaggoune

“…The resulted hybrid bees algorithm (BASA) is used to solve the Single Machine Scheduling Problem with Early/Tardy jobs, where the generated outcomes are compared against the Basic Bees Algorithm (BA), and against some stat-of-the-art meta-heuristics. Computational results reveal that our proposed framework outperforms the Basic Bees Algorithm, and demonstrates a competitive performance compared with some algorithms extracted from the literature.…”
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SPELLBOUND BY SOUNDTRACKS. AN INTERVIEW WITH FILM SCORE COMPOSER AARON FAZAKAS by Adél FEKETE

“…We sat down with composer Aaron Fazakas to talk about inspiration, film score composing, the relationship between the audio and visual realms of a movie, and the meaning of art in his view. As the PhD student of Ede Terényi, one of the great contemporary Transylvanian composers, Aaron Fazakas revealed his own artistic creed, the reasons for which he composes and the relationship he has with his audience, while also discussing his work as a teacher, molding the minds of future generations of artists. …”
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Towards a Tektology of Tektology by Tompsett Fabian

“…Using a diffractive methodology derived from Karen Barad, these two thinkers are brought into relationship through their impact upon the German Figurative Constructivists, a political-art movement which emerged from the Council Communist current grouped around the Berlin review Die Aktion. …”
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Die Masken aus der Nekropole von Lipari by Tommaso Ismaelli

“…It is one of the most important classes of coroplastic art from Magna Graecia and Sicily because of not only its quality and variety but also its fundamental contribution to our knowledge of local ritual practices, funerary customs, and religious beliefs in the 4th and 3rd centuries BCE.…”
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Design of Round-Nozzle Inertial Impactors Review with Updated Design Parameters by Francisco J. Romay, Estíbaliz García-Ruiz

“…With this information, it is now possible to design a cascade impactor with near-ideal particle separation performance, and with stage cutpoints that can be predicted with excellent accuracy and verified experimentally using state-of-the-art calibration techniques.…”
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Experimental Porcine Toxoplasma gondii Infection as a Representative Model for Human Toxoplasmosis by Julia Nau, Silvia Kathrin Eller, Johannes Wenning, Katrin Henrike Spekker-Bosker, Horst Schroten, Christian Schwerk, Andrea Hotop, Uwe Groß, Walter Däubener

“…Porcine infections are currently not the state-of-the-art model to study human diseases. Nevertheless, the course of human and porcine toxoplasmosis is much more comparable than that of human and murine toxoplasmosis. …”
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Language engineering for the Semantic Web: a digital library for endangered languages. Endangered languages, Ontology, Digital library, Multimedia, EMELD, Intelligent querying and... by Lu Shiyong, Liu Dapeng

“…In this paper, we describe the effort undertaken at Wayne State University to preserve endangered languages using the state-of-the-art information technologies. In particular, we discuss the issues involved in such an effort, and present the architecture of a distributed digital library for endangered languages which will contain various data of endangered languages in the forms of text, image, video, audio and include advanced tools for intelligent cataloguing, indexing, searching and browsing information on languages and language analysis. …”
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Onomatopoeia Found in Tintin Comics by Giyatmi Giyatmi, Sihindun Arumi, Ratih Wijayava

“…The data sources for this research are 3 Tintin comics, namely Tintin in the Tibet, Tintin and the Alph-Art, and Tintin and Picaros. To collect the data, the writers use documentation (Tintin comic) and content analysis. …”
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A novel group tour trip recommender model for personalized travel systems by Mohammed Alatiyyah

“…Experimental results show that GTTRM significantly improves satisfaction levels for individual group members, outperforming state-of-the-art models in terms of both subgroup management and optimization efficiency.…”
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Horticultural Therapy by Eva C. Worden, Theodora M. Frohne, Jessica Sullivan

“… Horticulture is the art and science of growing plants. Horticultural therapy is the practice of engaging people in horticultural activities to improve their bodies, minds, and spirits. …”
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An Efficient Algorithm for Recognition of Human Actions by Yaser Daanial Khan, Nabeel Sabir Khan, Shoaib Farooq, Adnan Abid, Sher Afzal Khan, Farooq Ahmad, M. Khalid Mahmood

“…Some of the current state-of-the-art solutions are either inaccurate or computationally intensive while others require human intervention. …”
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Computational aerodynamics of insect flight using volume penalization by Engels, Thomas, Truong, Hung, Farge, Marie, Kolomenskiy, Dmitry, Schneider, Kai

“…The state-of-the-art of insect flight research using advanced computational fluid dynamics techniques on supercomputers is reviewed, focusing mostly on the work of the present authors. …”
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UMA TOPO-ONTOLOGIA DE HEIDEGGER E BACHELARD* by GABRIEL KAFURE DA ROCHA

“…The latter are greater than the former in the possible in-between spaces, mainly regarding the views on art, but not that many with respect to the language used by each one. …”
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Études des peintures murales médiévales soudanaises de 1963 à nos jours – Essai d’historiographie by Magdalena M. Wozniak

“…This study presents an overview of Nubian art historiography, with a focus on the different approaches adopted by researchers to apprehend these paintings.…”
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MR-Guided Adaptive Radiotherapy in Localized Prostate Cancer by Andrea Gaetano Allegra MD, Luca Nicosia MD, Michele Rigo MD, Nicola Bianchi BS, Riccardo Filippo Borgese BS, Antonio De Simone BS, Niccolò Giaj-Levra PhD, Davide Gurrera BS, Stefania Naccarato BS, Edoardo Pastorello MD, Francesco Ricchetti MD, Gianluisa Sicignano BS, Ruggero Ruggieri BS, Filippo Alongi MD

“…The focus of this review is to describe the current state of the art and clinical results of MRgRT in the treatment of PC. …”
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INTELLIGENT LOW-POWER SMART HOME ARCHITECTURE by CORNEL POPESCU, GEORGE CULEA

“…First, is presented the context and a state-of-the-art for such of applications. Second, is made a description for the architecture hardware and software of a smart home application like custom. …”
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Introduction. Toussaint en Italie, l’Italie chez Toussaint by Margareth Amatulli, Christophe Meurée

“…Among contemporary French-speaking authors, Toussaint is undoubtedly the one who has explored the Italian peninsula most extensively: his familiarity with the country's landscapes, culture, and even language is evident in every aspect of his multi-modal work (narratives, films, photography, art installations, performances). This special issue represents a step that will perhaps lead our author to explore Italy in a different way, constantly reinventing it and adding new facets to it.…”
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