« The glittering game » : le jeu des choses dans A Lost Lady et My Mortal Enemy de Willa Cather by Céline Manresa

“…From the details of costumes to the decoration of houses, material possessions play an essential part in the reciprocal shaping of dwellers and dwellings, and in the dramatization of a bygone splendor. …”
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Obrazy války v italských městech v kázáních observanta a v cestovním deníku řeholníka z první poloviny 15. století by Jan Stejskal

“…The fresco depicting an allegory of good and bad government, which decorates the Siena town hall, unambiguously associates war and the related devastation with bad government. …”
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Side Information Generation for Distributed Video Coding Using Spatiotemporal Joint Bilinear Upsampling by Wenhui Liu, Krishna Rao Vijayanagar, Joohee Kim

“…The rate-distortion performance of distributed video coding is highly dependent on the quality of side information generated at the decoder and various techniques have been proposed to improve the side information quality in block-based and frame-based distributed video coding architectures. …”
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Les jardins alpino-japonais, histoire d’une possible utopie paysagère by Romain Billon

“…The aim of this article is to give an initial overview of the Japanese Alpine gardens created in France and Belgium by offering a historical study of the circumstances that led to their creation at the beginning of the 20th century, ranging from the interest in Japanese gardens which were discovered at the Universal Exhibitions at the end of the 19th century, to the interest in Alpine gardens inspired by English gardens and their decorative rockeries. By highlighting this style of gardening, now forgotten in the history of horticulture, we seek to understand why only a small number of amateurs—such as Albert Kahn and Ernest Van den Broeck—and professionals—such as Eugène Laumonnier and Charles Weiss—attempted to combine the two main styles of Japanese and Alpine gardens. …”
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A Color-Image Encryption Scheme Using a 2D Chaotic System and DNA Coding by Haidar Raad Shakir

“…Finally, the matrices of the DNA sequences are decoded, and the R, G, and B channels are recombined to form an encrypted color image. …”
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Female role portrayal in South African magazine advertisements by Juanne Lauer

“…The research, using content analysis, found that female models were predominantly portrayed as consumers and as the decorative focal points in advertisements advertising apparel, accessories and personal care products. …”
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Fabric-based patchwork on shoes through ultrasonic welding by Rahima Hussain, Muhammad Anwaar Nazeer

“…There has been a surge in textile and shoe product design innovation, introducing new products that merge design and technology in various domains. Decorative or functional patches on shoes are typically attached using stitching or adhesives, both of which present challenges: stitches often fail due to wear and tear, while adhesives involve toxic materials that are environmentally harmful. …”
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Curriculum as unquestioned hegemony: Trends that reveal the exclusion of Ethiopian primary school curriculum content from researchers’ critical look by Meskerem Lechissa Debele

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Vie en montagne : Mobilités, manière de vivre et identités des nouveaux habitants d’une station de ski suisse by Andrea Friedli

“…La tendance à la revalorisation des espaces ruraux et la gentrification qui en découle a été étudiée sous le concept de "migration d’agrément" dans différents contextes géographiques. …”
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Orkney snork nie! by Stephan Bouwer

“…Two diagrammes (the nar ratological prose model and the "6 phase" communication model) are used as illustration to elucidate on encoding/decoding, with special emphasis on the contribution of the various sender collaborators and on author Esterhuizen as primary source of signification. …”
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Pulsions et significations de la douceur. A partir de « Puissance de la douceur », d’Anne Dufourmantelle by Nicolas Couégnas

“…Cette rencontre, autour de la douceur, nous conduit à introduire dans le dispositif d’analyse sémiotique, outre une formule tensive de la douceur et les conséquences figurales qui en découlent, une part de pulsionnalité, seule capable d’expliquer la force perlocutoire de la douceur. …”
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Curriculum as unquestioned hegemony: Trends that reveal the exclusion of Ethiopian primary school curriculum content from researchers’ critical look by Meskerem Lechissa Debele

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Łaska w ikonach by Monika Wąchocka

“…They play an assistant role in the liturgy and a decorative one in the architecture of temples.…”
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Imaging, Histopathologic, and Treatment Nuances of Pulmonary Carcinosarcoma by Tyler Gleason, Michael Haas, Brian H. Le

“…Primary lung carcinosarcoma is a rare tumour that can demonstrate an especially aggressive clinical course; diagnosis is often nuanced by limited sampling at initial presentation, especially in a setting of advanced disease and debility that precludes consideration for upfront resection or more extensive, invasive sampling.…”
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Identificación en el campo de los síntomas de cancro de los cítricos y los procedimientos de descontaminación by Mongi Zekri, Megan Dewdney, Jamie Burrow, Pamela Roberts

“…Una infección severa puede causar defoliación, una muerte regresiva de la rama, una decadencia general del árbol, una caída prematura de la fruta, y manchas en la misma. …”
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Convolutional neural network (CNN) configuration using a learning automaton model for neonatal brain image segmentation. by Iran Sarafraz, Hamed Agahi, Azar Mahmoodzadeh

“…In this article, an adaptive method for CNN automatic configuration for neonatal brain image segmentation is presented based on the encoder-decoder structure, in which the hyperparameters of this network, i.e., size, length, and width of the filter in each layer along with the type of pooling functions with a reinforcement learning approach and an LA model are determined. …”
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OCC-ID: New Broadcasting Service-Based Cloud Model and Image Sensor Communications by Thithanhnhan Le, Nam-Tuan Le, Yeong Min Jang

“…This standard was one of the first for this technology. The decoded operation from emitting light at the receiver in IEEE 802.15.7 is mainly based on the photodetector. …”
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Identificación en el campo de los síntomas de cancro de los cítricos y los procedimientos de descontaminación by Mongi Zekri, Megan Dewdney, Jamie Burrow, Pamela Roberts

“…Una infección severa puede causar defoliación, una muerte regresiva de la rama, una decadencia general del árbol, una caída prematura de la fruta, y manchas en la misma. …”
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Cassia leptophylla, Gold Medallion Tree by Michael G. Andreu, Melissa H. Friedman, Robert J. Northrop

“…The gold medallion tree is planted primarily as a shade tree or as a decorative specimen for the yard or street. Many people like this tree because of its fast growth rate and showy, bright yellow clusters of flowers that bloom in the summer months. …”
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Cassia leptophylla, Gold Medallion Tree by Michael G. Andreu, Melissa H. Friedman, Robert J. Northrop

“…The gold medallion tree is planted primarily as a shade tree or as a decorative specimen for the yard or street. Many people like this tree because of its fast growth rate and showy, bright yellow clusters of flowers that bloom in the summer months. …”
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