The Death of a Child in a Noble Family: Prince Walter Prosper (1839–1841) and the Funeral Ritual of the House of Schwarzenberg in the Nineteenth Century by Jan Bouška

“…The article describes not only the ceremonies and rituals which took place during Prince Walter’s funeral, but also uses them to explain the general course of Schwarzenberg burials. …”
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Object Shape Recognition Using Wavelet Descriptors by Adnan Abou Nabout

“…Thus, it is used to recognize objects according to their contour shape by deriving a number of WD and comparing them with the WD of stored contour patterns. For our method, we use a periodical angle function derived from an extracted object contour. …”
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Tentes et rails. Les « jeunes » du Sud tunisien entre chômage, attente et protestation by Stefano Pontiggia

“…The article tells some of their stories, and analyses the reasons that drove them to act as they did. …”
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A Consumer’s Guide to Eggs by Jeanine Beatty, Karla Shelnutt, Gail P. A. Kauwell

“…The first domesticated birds to reach the Americas arrived in 1493 on Christopher Columbus' second voyage to the New World. Most food stores in the United States offer many varieties of chicken eggs to choose from — white, brown, organic, cage free, vegetarian, omega-3 fatty acid enriched, and more. …”
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Optimal Design of FPGA Switch Matrix with Ion Mobility Based Nonvolatile ReRAM by Peng Hai-yun, Zhou Wen-gang

“…The device has extreme short erasing time and the stored charge cannot be destroyed after power-off. …”
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Matter that remembers, protects, works, feels, and mediates. Some remarks on the third edition of “The Lost and Found” symposium (Riga 2024) by Agnieszka Patała

“…The text provides a brief summary of “The Lost and Found: Revising Art Stories in Search of Potential Changes” symposium’s third edition, held in Riga on 6–7 June 2024, organised in collaboration with Latvijas Mākslas Akadēmija, the University of Wrocław, and Universidade Nova de Lisboa. …”
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The Other California by Neeraj Bhatia

“…‘Containers’ are architectural shells of enclosure often sited between the formats of surfaces and conduits – for storing, refining, or distributing a particular good. …”
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A Multilevel Inverter Bridge Control Structure with Energy Storage Using Model Predictive Control for Flat Systems by Paolo Mercorelli

“…The paper presents a novel technique to control the current of an electromagnetic linear actuator fed by a multilevel IGBT voltage inverter with dynamic energy storage. The technique uses a “cascade model predictive control (MPC),” which consists of two MPCs. …”
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Doing Justice to the Future: A global index of intergenerational solidarity derived from national statistics by Jamie McQuilkin

“…This returns a comparative index score of intergenerational solidarity for 120 countries covering 92% of the world’s population. …”
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The Heritage-scape: Origins, Theoretical Interventions, and Critical Reception of a Model for Understanding UNESCO’s World Heritage Program by Michael A. Di Giovine

“…Including personal background stories that paint a picture of the intellectual origins and inspirations for the term, the article discusses the theory behind the heritage-scape, the concept’s contribution to the literature, and its reception by tourism and heritage theorists. …”
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Microfinance for change: how financial innovation enables structural transformation by Shankar Ghimire, Bharat Singh Thapa, Rong Zheng

“…The results show that the number of households involved in agriculture significantly decreased, with the majority switching to businesses and convenience stores, indicating a shift to the manufacturing and service sectors. …”
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EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF COOLING FLUID VARIATION ON THE THERMOELECTRIC HOT SIDE ON THERMOELECTRIC VACCINE COOLER BOX PERFORMANCE by Novreza Pratama, Imron Rosyadi, Hadi Wahyudi, M. Haykal Fasya

“…Vaccination is a critical component of global health. Vaccines must be stored at a constant temperature of 2-8℃, to maintain the viability of the vaccine cold chain. …”
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Natural Teleology in Hume's "Sceptical Solution" by Jonathan Cottrell

“…Inductive reasoning is a product of "custom", which has the natural function of reliably stocking our minds with true beliefs about the objects of "common life and practice". …”
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Embodying scenes of moral disorder: Bodily gestures as a site of signification in feminist TikTok activism by Sigurdardottir Heba, Rautajoki Hanna

“…In this article, we examine a group of activists on TikTok who topicalise gender-based violence and gender inequality through multimodal means of communication in short videos. …”
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Local System Matrix Compression for Efficient Reconstruction in Magnetic Particle Imaging by T. Knopp, A. Weber

“…By thresholding the resulting matrix and storing the remaining entries in compressed row storage format, only a fraction of the data has to be processed when reconstructing the particle distribution. …”
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New Values of Cultural Heritage and the Need for a New Paradigm Regarding its Care by Iwona Szmelter

“…The complex care of cultural heritage in the field of visual arts involves a set of new values, stories, ideas, traditions, symbols, attitudes, and accomplishments. …”
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Joint Quality Investment and Inventory Decisions for Perishable Items with Reference Quality Effect under the O2O Environment by Yuan Li, Yumei Hou

“…A joint dynamic quality investment and inventory replenishment problem for perishable items with consideration of reference quality effect is investigated, where the retailer sells its products using a combination of the offline and online stores, and the sales function is sensitive to products’ quality and consumers’ reference quality. …”
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Seismic Performance of Lightweight Concrete Structures by Swamy Nadh Vandanapu, Muthumani Krishnamurthy

“…This paper attempts to predict the seismic response of a six-storied reinforced concrete frame with the use of lightweight concrete. …”
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Del papel en blanco y negro al Do it yourself digital. La evolución de la prensa graffitera en Madrid by Celeste Martín-Juan

“…This scene of muralism in Madrid, linked to Hip Hop culture as its branch of aesthetic expression, serves as a case study to observe the evolution of the Spanish specialized press: from the beginnings of the photocopied fanzine; going through the press of specialized stores; until the moment it hits the newsstands; and, finally, the impact of new digital formats.…”
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Corporate storytelling and the idea of Latin America by Mariana I. Paludi, Jean Helms Mills, Albert J. Mills

“…Based on the three themes of politics, economics, and culture, we present three grand narratives, or official stories, that we argue summaries PAA storytelling about Latin America between 1927 and 1960. …”
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