Descent among the Wayú. Concepts and social meanings by Alessandro Mancuso

“…Using new ethnographical data, special attention is paid to indigenous concepts and to the way matrilineal descent articulates with other principles of social classification. By virtue of the role that matrilineal descent plays in defining territoriality and in feuds, the Wayú offer a very interesting case for rethinking the theoretical and comparative debate about the indigenous societies of Lowland South America and for reflecting on the complexity of the interactions between structure and history in this area.…”
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Existence and Uniqueness Results for Two-Term Nonlinear Fractional Differential Equations via a Fixed Point Technique by H. R. Marasi, H. Aydi

“…The work addressed in this paper is to ensure the existence and uniqueness of positive solutions for initial value problems for nonlinear fractional differential equations with two terms of fractional orders. By virtue of recent fixed point theorems on mixed monotone operators, we get some new straightforward results with a wide range of applications.…”
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Similarity Solution for Fractional Diffusion Equation by Jun-Sheng Duan, Ai-Ping Guo, Wen-Zai Yun

“…Through the invariants of the group of scaling transformations we derived the integro-ordinary differential equation for the similarity variable. Then by virtue of Mellin transform, the probability density function p(r,t), which is just the fundamental solution of the fractional diffusion equation, was expressed in terms of Fox functions.…”
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Female Authority during the Knights’ Quest ? Recluses in the Queste del Saint Graal by Anastasija Ropa

“…The recluses are female, yet they instruct knights on matters of chivalric and Christian virtue in an assured, authoritative manner.…”
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Research on Semantic Based NGN Converged Service Composition Algorithm by Rongqun Peng, Lianjun Zhang, Zhengkun Mi

“…Analyzing the disadvantage of the two existing propylene-based service composition algorithms used in the converged process between telecommunication services and web services, a novel semantic-based double-chaining automatic composition algorithm was presented. Also, a distinct virtue in less time cost and higher composition success rate of the proposed algorithm than that of these existing related algorithms was proved by discussing its performance in detail. …”
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Methodological reasoning of the computer literacy standard for students by Valentina Dagienė

“…The main attention is paid to discuss the virtue attitude of using the information and communication technology as well as to general capabilities related to computer literacy. …”
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Qualité de vie et consommation soutenable : une perspective pratique by Patrick Mardellat

“…The existence of an appropriate virtue for the economy, a place and an institution of the consumption welcomed in a constellation of possible political regimes clearly appear as the keystones of the practical conception of sustainable consumption.…”
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From Performance to Participation: The Origins of the Fit Nation by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela

“…Though only one-fifth of Americans do the recommended amount of daily physical exercise and most measures point to an extraordinary lack of fitness in the United States, the pursuit of regular exercise is widely celebrated not only as physically salutary, but as a sign of discipline, affluence, and virtue. Using popular press, institutional records, advice literature, advertisement, and memoir, this article explains how this was not always so. …”
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A Nonlocal Cauchy Problem for Fractional Integrodifferential Equations by Fang Li, Jin Liang, Tzon-Tzer Lu, Huan Zhu

“…We establish an existence theorem for mild solutions to the nonlocal Cauchy problem, by virtue of measure of noncompactness and the fixed point theorem for condensing maps. …”
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“An atheistic American is a contradiction in terms”: Religion, Civic Belonging and Collective Identity in the United States by Amandine Barb

“…It further demonstrates that the historical “otherness” of the atheist tends to indicate that religion has functioned as one of the “moral boundaries” of a certain American “imagined community”, perceived as an essential warranty of both individual virtue and “good citizenship” and as a basic attribute of the American “self”.I. …”
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The Smoothness of Fractal Interpolation Functions on ℝ and on p-Series Local Fields by Jing Li, Weiyi Su

“…A fractal interpolation function on a p-series local field Kp is defined, and its p-type smoothness is shown by virtue of the equivalent relationship between the Hölder type space CσKp and the Lipschitz class Lipσ,Kp. …”
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Application of big data and cloud computing in power industry by Ruchu LI, Minglong SHEN, Haitang PENG

“…With the rapid development of information technology,the amount of information among all walks of life has shown an explosive growth trend.China’s power industry also entered the era of big data immediately.Simultaneously,in view of the wide range of management involved in China’s power industry and the total amount of power data’s rapidly expanding,management and data server was put forward,big data technology and cloud computing technology have been widely used by virtue of its own advantages in the power industry.Therefore,based on elaborating on big data and cloud computing,the application of big data and cloud computing in power industry was analyzed systematically and the scope of application of big data and cloud computing in electric power industry in the future was further expanded.…”
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Performance analysis and testing of personal influence algorithm in online social networks by Yong QUAN, Yan JIA, Liang ZHANG, Zheng ZHU, Bin ZHOU, Binxing FANG

“…Social influence is the key factor to drive information propagation in online social networks and can be modeled and analyzed with social networking data.As a kind of classical personal influence algorithm,two parallel implementation versions of a PageRank based method were introduced.Furthermore,extensive experiments were conducted on a large-scale real dataset to test the performance of these parallel methods in a distributed environment.The results demonstrate that the computational efficiency of the personal influence algorithm can be improved significantly in massive data sets by virtue of existing big data processing framework,and provide an empirical reference for the future research and optimization of the algorithm as well.…”
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Stochastic Delay Logistic Model under Regime Switching by Zheng Wu, Hao Huang, Lianglong Wang

“…Also, the relationships between the stochastic permanence and extinction as well as asymptotic estimations of solutions are investigated by virtue of V-function technique, M-matrix method, and Chebyshev's inequality. …”
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From Heroic Retribution to Civilized Violence: Victorian Images of War and the Making of General Gordon by Michael Anton Budd

“…Gordon’s example demonstrates the role of technology in relation to the heroic in three ways: by the atavistic desire for the pure categories of the past, which seemed to have been swept aside by capital and new industry; by virtue of the role of print, image and communication technologies to spread the knowledge of the new hero’s exploits, and by the fact that the hero, in military and other contexts, was increasingly a technologist. …”
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A Brief Analysis of the Status of a Transgender Beneficiary for Purposes of an Islamic Will Within the South African Context by Muneer Abduroaf

“… A Muslim within the South African context can ensure that his or her compulsory estate devolves in terms of the Islamic law of compulsory succession by virtue of executing a will, that includes a clause to this degree. …”
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Symmetry Groups, Similarity Reductions, and Conservation Laws of the Time-Fractional Fujimoto–Watanabe Equation Using Lie Symmetry Analysis Method by Baoyong Guo, Huanhe Dong, Yong Fang

“…Symmetry groups and similarity reductions are obtained by virtue of the Lie symmetry analysis approach. Meanwhile, the time-fractional Fujimoto–Watanabe equation is transformed into three kinds of reduced equations and the third of which is based on Erdélyi–Kober fractional integro-differential operators. …”
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A business realization of VR panoramic video in smart home by Chuanfei LUO, Dehui KONG, Xiangkai LIU, Ke XU, Hao YANG

“…As a new video format,panoramic video has greatly changed the way people watch videos,and can enhance the user experience of the smart home in the video field.Good decoding ability and excellent network support advantages held by IPTV play an active role in the application and promotion of panoramic video.Combined with virtual reality technology,the main characteristics of panoramic video was analyzed.Further more,an IPTV-based service realization scheme was presented in virtue of four key technologies including FOV view adaptive framework,MCTS encoding and multi-resolution,multiple tile video distribution formula and partially decoded tile technique with viewport change in terminal.…”
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Truth and Error of Conscience According to the Magisterium of the Church by Josef Spindelböck

“…A focus is laid on the dimension of virtue education since this helps the persons involved not only to grasp the truth of relevant moral values but also to realise morally good acts with the help of Divine grace. …”
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Histoires, identités et frontières : Indiens et Africains dans l’Amazonie coloniale by Patricia Alves-Melo

“…The story of João da Silva and his comrade in arms Fernando de Rojas, has the virtue of gathering the diversity of actors who composed the history of border regions and also allows to discover other characters that made these same regions even richer by sheding light upon their relations, connections, choices, agreements as well as disagreements.…”
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