Pilgrimage and Pilgrim Hierarchies in Vernacular Discourse: Comparative Notes from the Camino de Santiago and Glastonbury by Tiina Sepp

“…In this comparison between modern expressions of pilgrimage, I look into the power relationships that exist on the pilgrimage, describe how hierarchies of pilgrims are created and maintained, and reflect on the meaning of the words pilgrim and pilgrimage. …”
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Formas de sacralizar a la figura real entre los mayas by Daniel Salazar Lama

“…The present study aims to identify the various iconographic traits as well as the concepts generated around the figure of the ruler in Lowlands’ architecture-integrated sculpture during the early Classic – a sculptural format that is one of the most elaborate expressions of glorification and exaltation of the Maya rulers.…”
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Free Vibration Analysis of a Rectangular Plate with Kelvin Type Boundary Conditions by R. Kırışık, Ş. Yüksel

“…The completely free case of the plate is first studied. The expressions for the eigenfrequencies and eigenfunctions of the plate are obtained by utilizing the separation of variables. …”
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Reliability Analysis of Random Fuzzy Unrepairable Systems by Ying Liu, Xiaozhong Li, Jianbin Li

“…Then we establish the fundamental mathematical models of random fuzzy unrepairable systems, including series systems, parallel systems, series-parallel systems, parallel-series systems, and cold standby systems with absolutely reliable conversion switches. Furthermore, the expressions of reliability and mean time to failure (MTTF) are given for the above five random fuzzy unrepairable systems, respectively. …”
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SIN IS A PERSON: SOME ONTOLOGICAL METAPHORS IN THE BIBLE by C. Owiredu

“…It aims to explore the metaphorical conceptualisation of sin as a person, as suggested in the sin expressions. Lakoff and Johnson’s (1980) Conceptual Metaphor Theory is used in analysing the data. …”
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Parasomnias: Common sleep disorders in children suffering from obstructive sleep apnea syndrome by Alexander Torres Molina

“…The sleep disorders have a tendency to chronic evolution in approximately the 30% of children and adolescents, what constitute the main parasomnias clinical expressions of these phenomena. The Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome constitute a high prevailment ailment which affects the 2% of the childish population approximately it is considered an entity because of its cognitive and somatic resounding. …”
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Dilema da identidade: os rataplãs do Olodum, políticas de significado e o campo etnopopular no Brasil by Edson Farias

“…We discuss how, in this aesthetical presentations, policies of meaning were engaged with human rights and black cultural identities and expressions as well. Along the text, identity propositions of this cultural association are discussed in the light of the position Olodum has in the ethno-popular field, social realm in which properties of scarceness and affluence become accomplices.…”
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People Recognition: A Historical/Anthropological Perspective by A. Ardila

“…Visual information involved in people recognition is proposed to include not only the perception of faces, but also the perception of whole body and gait, clothes, emotional expressions, and individual marks.…”
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Quelques orientations méthodologiques pour étudier la gestuelle dans des corpus spontanés et semi-contrôlés by Marion Tellier

“…The focus will be placed on studies about co-speech gestures but considering the transfer of these methodological approaches to other modalities such as facial expressions, gaze or postures.…”
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AN ANALYSIS OF RESPONSES TO PERSONAL PROBLEMS ADOPTED BY FEMALE AND MALE STUDENTS OF ENGLISH STUDY PROGRAM OF FKIP UNIVERSITAS BENGKULU by Afriyani Susanti

“… The objectives of this study were two folds; first; to find out English expressions used by male and female students of the  English Study  Program in responding to personal problems; second; to identify whether male and female students responses to personal problems were similar or different.The subjects were English Study Program at the Faculty of Teacher Training and Education of Bengkulu  University.  …”
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A Universal Hurricane Frequency Function by Robert Ehrlich

“…Evidence is provided that the global distribution of tropical hurricanes is principally determined by a universal function H of a single variable z that in turn is expressible in terms of the local sea surface temperature and latitude. …”
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Traveling Wave Solutions of the Kadomtsev-Petviashvili-Benjamin-Bona-Mahony Equation by Zhengyong Ouyang

“…We obtain exact explicit expressions of bell-shaped solitary wave solutions involving more free parameters, and some existing results are corrected and improved. …”
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Harmonic and Intermodulation Performance of Nonlinear Electronic Circuits by Muhammad Taher Abuelma'atti

“…The mathematical model, basically a sine-series function, can easily yield closed-form series expressions for the amplitudes of the output components resulting from a multisinusoidal input signal to nonlinear electronic circuits. …”
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Cultural Crisis and the Phenomenological Concept of Sedimentation in E. Husserl’s Philosophy by Dalius Jonkus

“… Husserl names the dynamics of cultural objectifications with the term sedimentation, which includes the formulation of the discovered meaning in material sensory expressions and the reactivation of these passively existing meanings. …”
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Dimensions de la diversité des maïs indigènes au Mexique by Cecilio Mota Cruz

“…Maize constitutes the fundamental source of food for the population and a wide diversity of culinary uses and cultural expressions have been developed around it. Some aspects of this diversity in Mexico are discussed here.…”
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Intrusion et exclusion dans les romans politiques de Trollope by Laurent Bury

“…While Trollope multiplies the metaphors expressive of social exclusion, the narration itself seems to open itself to the reader so as to include the reader within the writer’s laboratory.…”
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Valency-Based Topological Properties of Linear Hexagonal Chain and Hammer-Like Benzenoid by Yi-Xia Li, Abdul Rauf, Muhammad Naeem, Muhammad Ahsan Binyamin, Adnan Aslam

“…In this paper, we give explicit expressions of two recently defined novel ev-degree- and ve-degree-based topological indices of two classes of benzenoid, namely, linear hexagonal chain and hammer-like benzenoid.…”
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Free convective flow of a stratified fluid through a porous medium bounded by a vertical plane by H. K. Mondal, T. K. Chaudhury

“…Steady two-dimensional free convection flow of a thermally stratified viscous fluid through a highly porous medium bounded by a vertical plane surface of varying temperature, is considered. Analytical expressions for the velocity, temperature and the rate of heat transfer are obtained by perturbation method. …”
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Tractional Electric Drive with Non-Sensing Element Vector Control System by O. F. Opeyko, A. I. Ptashnik, V. I. Khilmon

“…The paper presents a functional diagram of the electric drive with non-sensing element vector control system  operated by an asynchronous short-circuited electric motor.  Main expressions used for evaluation of variables of system conditions and parameters are cited in the paper. …”
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Problems solving in the integral calculus and the determination of the area under the curve by Juan E. N´apoles Vald´es, Maria Nubia Quevedo

“… In Integral Calculus the classic problem is the determination of the area under the curve, when said region is not expressible in terms of elementary figures. This translates into a multiplicity of problems and exercises that are presented to students in a Calculus course. …”
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