Le continuum Gibson : le Cyberespace et les récits du Mervyn Kihn de Gibson by Thomas A. Bredehoft

“…Ultimately, rather than presenting cyberspace as a liberatory, utopian space, as some postmodern theorists would have it, Gibson’s treatment of hallucinatory and futuristic iconographies suggests that cyberspace functions as the embodiment of past "Dreams" of the future, dreams which, Gibson hints, are at least partially responsible for the "near dystopia" of the present.…”
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Imitation Modeling of Production Processes in FlexSim Environment by E. V. Lapteva, Yu. S. Lekareva, S. S. Umansky

“…The article studies imitation modeling use in agricultural machine-building. Brief description of FlexSim software is provided. Functional features of the system of imitation modeling allow users to identify bottlenecks, analyze statistic data, plot diagrams, etc. …”
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Caracterización Tecnológica y Funcional de los Sistemas Expertos. by Diana Carolina Candia Herrera, Yesid Diaz Gutiérrez

“…This article provides a detailed description of expert systems, looking at their technologies and functionality. …”
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Research of application of DFT-modulated filter bank in systems with significant spectral component amplification by N. S. Sanko, M. I. Vashkevich

“…The article provides expressions for the distortion and the aliasing functions, allowing to estimate the distortion value, which appears in analysis / synthesis system of DFT-modulated filter bank. …”
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Uniform Title in Theory and in Slovenian and Croatian Cataloguing Practice by Marija Petek

“…Methodology/approach:  Theoretical apects of the uniform title are treated: for the first time by Panizzi, then in the Paris Principles being the basis for the Verona's cataloguing code; in the latest International Cataloguing Principles including conceptual models Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) and Functional Requirements for Authority Data (FRAD); and last but not least in the international cataloguing code Resource Description and Access (RDA). …”
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Principles of Arranging Independent Appraisal of Competences and Professional Development of Employees in Organization by K. V. Ekimova, S. M. Nechaeva, I. A. Kalinina

“…Professional standards are selected in accordance with the current work of employees and job descriptions. The number of professional standards to devise management model depends on division functions for independent appraisal. …”
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Tai chi for health benefits in patients with multiple sclerosis: A systematic review. by Liye Zou, Huiru Wang, ZhongJun Xiao, Qun Fang, Mark Zhang, Ting Li, Geng Du, Yang Liu

“…Although the findings demonstrate beneficial effects on improving outcome measures, especially for functional balance and QOL improvements, a conclusive claim should be made carefully for reasons such as methodological flaws, small sample size, lack of specific-disease instruments, unclear description of Tai chi protocol, unreported safety of Tai chi, and insufficient follow-up as documented by the existing literature. …”
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Literary Characters as a Source Domain of Precedent Names in the UK Media by E. V. Budaev

“…Thus, the analysis showed that the functioning of PN depends not only on cognitive and cultural, but also on discursive factors.…”
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Textual Manifestation of the Phraseological Scheme “N1-6 + so + N1-6” in Publicistic and Artistic Discourses by L. A. Zolotareva, N. T. Okatova

“…Various approaches to the description of phraseological schemes of the Russian language are commented, but the authors propose to consider the combination of structural-semantic and functional-communicative approaches as the main one for this study. …”
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Neosemantization of Word NISHCHEBROD in Modern Russian Speech by N. G. Babenko, N. E. Likhina

“…The functional-semantic specificity of a word nishchebrod in its original and modern meaning and usage is considered. …”
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Discourse-organising lexical bundles in academic law textbooks: a corpus-based analysis by Abdullah Alasmary

“…Other less frequently occurring sub-functions are also identified. By utilising corpus analysis and linguistic descriptions of patterns, this list will help international students and early-career legal practitioners meet the lexical demands of law study and training in English-medium institutions.…”
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Semi-empirical predictive calculation of the thermal-physical properties of potassium-sodium melts based on their component data by Sergey V. Terekhov

“…This approach creates a number of difficulties in developing a unified methodology for calculating not only the thermal functions of metals, but also for predicting the behavior of their melts and alloys. …”
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Common neural recruitment across diverse sustained attention tasks. by Jessica A Grahn, Tom Manly

“…Despite this, there is paucity of well-controlled human functional imaging evidence about regions commonly recruited during diverse sustained attention tasks. …”
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The Contemporary System of German Economic Diplomacy by R. O. Raynkhardt

“…The article deals with the description and analysis of functioning of the German national system of economic diplomacy. …”
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Cerebral systems in the pathogenesis of endogenous psychoses by Aníbal Silveira

“…Mental processes imply a harmonious functioning of psychic systems, assembled into larger units, psychic spheres (Table I). …”
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Software for Graph Analysis and Visualization by M. I. Kolomeychenko, A. A. Zolotyh, I. V. Polyakov, A. M. Chepovskiy

“…The developed algorithm for finding communities and implemented algorithms of autolayouts of graphs are the main functionality of the product. The main advantage of the developed software is high speed processing of large size networks (up to millions of nodes and links). …”
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Identity in typical. The past, present and future of the system of houses and palaces of culture in Russia as an occasion for socio-cultural design. Review by Larisa E. Petrova

“…The genesis of the development and functioning of this type of cultural institutions (from 1890 to the present day) indicates not only the uniqueness of the phenomenon of Russian and Soviet houses of culture in the world, but also on the need to rethink the heritage, transform spaces into more modern ones in form and content. …”
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Design and Research of Four-leg Recon Robot by Gui Jiaqing, Wang Guoqing, Chen Weizhen, Zhai Jiaxing, He Cao

“…Then,the design and description of its leg support,transmission,shock absorption and joint-driving functions are carried out. …”
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TEI4LdoD: Textual Encoding and Social Editing in Web 2.0 Environments by António Rito Silva, Manuel Portela

“…With our software architecture proposal for processing TEI markup, the Collaborative Digital Archive of the Book of Disquiet will be able to instantiate the cooperative and social editing functionalities of Web 2.0 environments.…”
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Reconstruction of the nasal columella using bilateral nasolabial flaps: case report by Marcelo Rosseto, Luana Graziela Batista, Franco da Silva Martinez, João Paulo Sousa da Silva Condurú, Carolina Maria Startari Sacco, Daniel Nunes

“…Conclusion: The technique proved effective for correcting the complex defect after BCC resection, with technical ease for resolution and good aesthetic and functional results.…”
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