Ludic Populism and Its Unpopular Subversion by Sascha Pöhlmann

“…Understanding the political as a way of imagining a community as a political actor through symbolic practices, either in the interest of creating the sovereign of democratic systems or an ethnicity, I argue that video games may employ a populist imagination in constructing ‘the people’ as a basically unified group (usually in implicitly or explicitly essentialist ways) as much as they may resist or subvert this populist fantasy of homogeneity. I am especially interested in games that dialectically combine both these aspects at the same time by way of dissonances between their representational elements and their gameplay. …”
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Controlling the Rejection of Protein During Membrane Filtration by Adding Poly-Vinyl Pyrrolidone (PVP) by Hizba Waheed, Amir Mukhtar

“…FTIR, contact angle and SEM were used to find out the surface morphology of membrane samples. SEM confirmed homogenous and significant mixing of PVP contents into pure CA matrix. …”
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An Analytical Seismic Response for Rigid Underground Rectangular Tunnel Subjected to Incident P Waves by Yang Liu, Chun Bai, Hexiang Li

“…The rectangular structure is assumed to be a movable rigid body embedded in a homogenous, isotropic, and linear elastic medium. One particular advantage of the model is that the effects of vital factors such as the rigid scattering, radiation scattering, as well as the two-dimensional scattering effect, and the wedge diffraction during movement are fully considered. …”
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La forme scolaire : analyse d’un concept clé pour comprendre la difficile prise en compte de l’hétérogénéité des élèves à l’école primaire française by Sylvie Jouan

“…This model is rooted in an ideal of class homogeneity, which, from the beginnings of the republican school to the present day, has had the effect of making it very difficult to accommodate the heterogeneity of the students’ abilities. …”
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Modeling of the Mapping Relationship Between Machine Tool Errors and Free-form Milling Machining Errors by Junhua Yao, Rongjing Hong

“…According to the gear meshing principle and spatial envelope milling theory， a homogeneous coordinate transformation matrix including machine tool error is established， and the corresponding gear end profile is solved. …”
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Fracture of elastic-brittle and elastic-plastic material in cantilever cyclic bending by Andrzej Kurek, Tadeusz Lagoda

“…Microstructural analysis revealed almost homogeneous fatigue cracks in the 16Mo3 steel samples which are practically elastic-plastic. …”
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Analysis of the impact of sports sponsorship by Banco Panamericano: an event study by Márcio Mellaci, Leandro Augusto Petrokas, Rubens Famá

“…After calculating the normal and abnormal returns, we tested the homogeneity of the variances and normality of the data before applying parametric t-tests. …”
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The Precarious Balance of Refugees: Rupture and Connectivity in Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West (2017) and Helon Habila’s Travelers (2019) by Vanessa Guignery

“…The multiplicity of stories as well as the shifts in focalization and narrative modes testify to the impossibility of inscribing refugees’ experiences within a single coherent and homogeneous pattern. However, Hamid and Habila also draw from the potentialities of the novelistic genre to devise formal ways of connecting apparently disparate story lines and thereby suggest possibilities for cross-cultural solidarity between refugees who share a common condition of vulnerability.…”
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Bagnards, « arabes » et porte-clefs en Guyane : Naissance et usages d’un rôle pénal et colonial (1869-1938) by Marine Coquet

“…Far from constituting a homogeneous category, the entity of the “convict” is fragmented according to administrative categorizations which organize social relations inside and outside camp walls. …”
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Variable Transmission Range Routing Protocol Based on Vehicle Density in VANET by Rong Cai, Guoan Zhang, Yuebo Wu

“…In order to solve the problem of unstable connectivity and high bit error rate,which are caused by rapid changes in the density of vehicles on the road,while the transmission radius remained unchanged,a variable transmission range routing protocols based on vehicle density in vehicular Ad-Hoc network was proposed.According to different vehicle density,node could adjust the farthest transmission distance and reduce the transmission latency of the message,which could ensure high connection probability of the network.Based on homogeneous poisson point process model,the change conditions of transmission range with different vehicle density were deduced,and its feasible was proved.Furthermore,mathematical calculate formula of average latency was obtained according to the theoretical analysis.At last,variable transmission range routing protocol based on vehicle density and fixed transmission range routing protocol were compared by simulation.The simulated results show that the proposed protocol can be applied in actual environments,and the message can be transmitted fast from source node to destination node under the condition of high connection probability.…”
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Free Plan versus Free Rooms by Xavier Van Rooyen

“…This article examines how the different design processes used by Office KGDVS, MVRDV, Sanaa, and Sou Fujimoto, among others, go beyond the unitary and homogeneous models of open architecture proposed in the 1960s in order to respond to a crucial desire of contemporary society: the need for singularity. …”
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Area-based Urban Creativity Systems in Italy: What They Are and How to Recognize Them by Luca Borriello, Silvia Scardapane

“…In such uncertain areas, networks of meaning have developed, i.e., homogeneous spaces which, simultaneously or diachronically, have begun to concentrate a plurality of works in relation to the territory to which they belong and the community. …”
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Free vibration and buckling analysis of axially functionally graded tapered Timoshenko beams using B-spline-based isogeometric analysis by Farzad Abdi, Aazam Ghasemi, Alireza Ariaei, S. Ali Eftekhari, Mehrdad Nasr, Mohamad Khaje Khabaz, Soheil Salahshour

“…In this attempt, the effect of material non-homogeneity parameters, mass density, Young's modulus, and taper ratio on the critical buckling loads and natural frequencies are considered for various boundary conditions. …”
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Influence of Nanolime and Curing Period on Unconfined Compressive Strength of Soil by Panbarasi Govindasamy, Mohd Raihan Taha, Jamal Alsharef, Kowstubaa Ramalingam

“…Therefore, a weak area in the form of voids is created, consequently the homogeneous hydrated microstructure cannot be formed, and finally the strength will decrease.…”
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Trend analysis of extreme rainfall in Cikapundung Watershed, West Java, Indonesia by Handoko Unggul, Fakhrudin Muh, Apip, Hidayat, Turmudi, Triwisesa Endra

“…The method used in this research is first to test the homogeneity of rainfall over 45 years. Next, the extreme rainfall indices and the trend of each wet extreme rainfall indices were calculated using the Mann-Kendall test. …”
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45 years of directional wave recorded data at the Acqua Alta oceanographic tower by Luigi Cavaleri, Angela Pomaro, Luciana Bertotti, Andrea Bonometto, Luca De Nat, Alvise Papa, Valerio Volpe

“…This has enabled the creation of a substantially improved, yet homogeneous, measured dataset, thereby enhancing the reliability of the related long-term scenario analysis.…”
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Laser Process for Selective Emitter Silicon Solar Cells by G. Poulain, D. Blanc, A. Focsa, B. Bazer-Bachi, M. Gauthier, B. Semmache, Y. Pellegrin, N. Le Quang, M. Lemiti

“…Preliminary solar cells results show a 0.5% improvement compared with a homogeneous emitter structure.…”
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Characterizing Opine Physiological and Genetic Diversity in Moroccan strains of Allorhizobium vitis, the Causal Agent of Grapevine Crown Gall by Khaoula Habbadi, Hajar Hamzaoui, Imane Hourmatallah, Hiba Yahyaoui, Faiçal Aoujil, Majida Hafidi, Aziz Aziz, Salma El Iraqui El Houssaini

“…These results suggest a homogeneity of octopine/vitopine tumour-inducing plasmids (pTi), which contribute to the uniformity of opine-related genes. …”
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Polyoxometallates as effective photocatalysts in water purification from pesticides by E. Gkika, P. Kormali, S. Antonaraki, D. Dimoticali, E. Papaconstantinou, A. Hiskia

“…., metal oxide clusters of mainly tungsten are effective homogeneous photocatalysts for the mineralization of organic pollutants. …”
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Crosslinking, Mechanical Properties, and Antimicrobial Activity of Photocurable Diacrylate Urethane/ZnO-Ag Nanocomposite Coating by Truc Vy Do, Minh Nguyet Ha, Tuan Anh Nguyen, Hoang Thu Ha, Thien Vuong Nguyen

“…These nanohybrids were then homogeneously dispersed into the diacrylate urethane/1,6-hexanediol diacrylate resin system at a content of 2 wt%. …”
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