Processus spatiaux et géographie culturelle by Paul Claval

“…They stress more or less know-hows and knowledge (i.e. intelligence) and emotivity and imagination (i.e. imaginaries). (ii) Culture is equally shaped by the debates and opinions it induces, the genesis of identities, the dynamics of imitation or distinction and the process and conflicts of civilization or decline they initiate. …”
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Cooked Air by Elizabeth Galvez

“…Through an examination of ASHRAE Standard 62.2, this essay asks why is it that, as ventilation processes become increasingly measurable, there is an equal tendency to reverse awareness in relation to the human sensation, when the standard itself underlines the reality of both phenomenal and intellectual knowledge towards air quality assessment. …”
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The effects of aflatoxin and gluconıannan on some hematological parameters in rabbits by Nurcan Dönmez, Banu Atalay, Deniz Fedai

“…In the study, 40 New Zelland rabbits were used and the rabbits were seperated equally to four groups as control (K), glucomannan (G), glucomannan+ aflatoksin (AF) and aflatoxin (A). …”
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Lossless Join Decomposition for Extended Possibility-Based Fuzzy Relational Databases by Julie Yu-Chih Liu

“…To resolve the problem, this study defined fuzzy functional dependency based on a notion of approximate equality for extended possibility-based fuzzy relational databases. …”
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A Darker Shade of Pale: Webster’s Winter Whiteness by Annaliese CONNOLLY, Lisa HOPKINS

“…On the face of it, we are offered a clear and absolute opposition between black and white in which black, predictably, is bad, and white, equally predictably, is good. We argue, however, that it is actually white which is represented as the more sinister of the two colours, for reasons connected to the plays’ interest in the bodies and behaviour of rulers, specifically James I’s scheme for the annexation of Russia and his reburial of his mother, Mary, Queen of Scots.Reading the plays in relation to these two contemporary events, we argue that in his two great tragedies Webster prises open the instability of the term “white” to lay bare a tension between the spiritual and the material which reveals the darker side of whiteness.…”
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Quality analysis method of Web browsing based on big data by Weihua CHENG, Xiaorong HE

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Design and Construction of Hybrid Music Recommendation System Integrating Music Gene by Xuelin Zhao

“…In addition, while adopting the optimal individual retention strategy, this study makes the eigenvalues of the input matrix IX all fall within the unit circle or unit circumference and makes the maximum fitness value of the individuals in the population equal to the global optimal fitness value. Finally, this study constructs an intelligent system. …”
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Research of the Effect of Profile Deviation on Contact Characteristic of Helical Gear by Luo Tao, Qin Xunpeng, Huang Jinjing

“…In order to study the influence of profile deviations on the contact characteristic of the helical gear,the involutes equation containing the profile form deviation and profile slope deviation is deduced.On the meanwhile,a finite element model containing tooth profile deviations is established.Based on this finite element model,the effect law of the profile form deviation and profile slope deviation on the maximum contact stress,bending stress and load distribution is obtained.The result suggests that the contact strength and bending strength of gears is reduced by the profile form deviation and profile slope deviation and the load distribution status is changed.When the profile form deviation is larger than 5μm or the profile slope deviation equals to ±0.5°,the gearwill gradually change tooth meshing number from three to two,then two to one,which brings certain impact on the carrying capacity of gear.…”
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Channel estimation of UFMC system in multipath channel by Xiang YU, Yanni GAO, Sirui DUAN

“…As a candidate waveform of 5G,universal filter multi-carrier (UFMC) technology could inhibit out-of-band radiation,achieve loose synchronization and well support the short bursts of things in the transmission.However,in the UFMC transmission without cyclic prefix (CP),inter-symbol interference (ISI) and subcarrier interference (ICI) are generated in the multipath fading channel,which will affect the estimation accuracy in channel estimation.The interference of the UFMC system in multipath channel was firstly analyzed.After using the feedback equalization suppression ISI,the self-elimination algorithm was used to suppress the ICI according to the similarity between adjacent carriers,and the pilot coefficients were designed according to the UFMC system.Finally,the simulation results show that the proposed method applied to the UFMC can suppress the interference,improve the accuracy and reduce the bit error rate.…”
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Design of IIR Digital Filters with Arbitrary Flatness Using Iterative Quadratic Programming by Yasunori Sugita

“…In the design of inverse-Chebyshev-type filters, the flatness condition in the passband is added to the constraint of the QP problem as the linear matrix equality, and an equiripple characteristic in the stopband is realized by iteratively solving the QP problem. …”
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Provable Data Recoverability and Hide-Able Access Pattern Based ORAM by Hongwei Li, Feiyue Ye, Dan Chen

“…The customer file was composed by data blocks of equal-sized, and each data block had two backups in the cloud storage, and they were randomly stored in different cloud files in order to ensure data integrity. …”
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Lightning Damage to Landscape Palms by Stephen H. Brown, Douglas Caldwell, Ralph Mitchell

“…Coconut palms, royal palms, and Washington palms are particularly vulnerable due to their great heights, but other tall palms may be equally susceptible. This new 6-page publication of the UF/IFAS Environmental Horticulture Department describes and includes many helpful photos of symptoms of lightning damage as well as lightning protection systems. …”
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Vibration Analysis of Annular Sector Plates under Different Boundary Conditions by Dongyan Shi, Xianjie Shi, Wen L. Li, Qingshan Wang, Jiashan Han

“…This work allows a capability of modeling annular sector plates under a variety of boundary conditions and changing the boundary conditions as easily as modifying the material properties or dimensions of the plates. Of equal importance, the proposed approach is universally applicable to annular sector plates of any inclusion angles up to 2π. …”
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Rate Adaptive Selective Segment Assignment for Reliable Wireless Video Transmission by Sajid Nazir, Dejan Vukobratović, Vladimir Stanković, Ivan Andonović

“…Simulation results show competitiveness of the proposed scheme compared to optimized unequal and equal error protection solutions. The simulation results also demonstrate that a high visual quality video transmission can be maintained despite the adverse effect of varying channel conditions and the number of decoding failures can be reduced.…”
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Fixed Point Theory and the Liouville–Caputo Integro-Differential FBVP with Multiple Nonlinear Terms by Shahram Rezapour, Ali Boulfoul, Brahim Tellab, Mohammad Esmael Samei, Sina Etemad, Reny George

“…This fractional model and its boundary value conditions (BVCs) involve different simple BVPs, in which the second BVC as a linear combination of two Caputo derivatives of the unknown function equals a nonzero constant. The Banach principle gives a unique solution for this Liouville–Caputo BVP. …”
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Oscillatory and Steady Flows in the Annular Fluid Layer inside a Rotating Cylinder by Veronika Dyakova, Denis Polezhaev

“…In the rotating frame, the force of gravity induces azimuthal fluid oscillations at a frequency equal to the velocity of the cylinder’s rotation. …”
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Vibrational Modal Frequencies and Shapes of Two-Span Continuous Timber Flooring Systems by Binsheng Zhang, Tony Kilpatrick

“…Based on classic vibrational bending theory on beams, this paper provides comprehensive analytical formulae for dynamic characteristics of two equal span continuous timber flooring systems, including frequency equations, modal frequencies, and modal shapes. …”
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Silencing Mechanisms in Academia: Towards Collaborative Innovation to Support Critical Social Science by Mustafa F. Özbilgin, Cihat Erbil

“…Theorising collaborative innovation, we offer multilevel and inclusive design and solidarity as possible venues for resistance against the ongoing purge of CSS, which undermines autonomy, freedom of speech, and equality in academia.…”
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Improved Sampled-Data Consensus Control for Multi-Agent Systems via Delay-Incorporating Looped-Functional by Khanh Hieu Nguyen, Sung Hyun Kim

“…In addition, this paper introduces two additional zero equalities to derive less conservative stability and stabilization conditions. …”
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Productivity enhancement of stepped solar still integrated MEMS light sensors for solar tracker by Ali. F. Muftah

“…The results obtained indicate that the use of MEMS light sensors for solar tracking are used to makes a solar still to be predictable and it equally increases its efficiency in terms of distillate yield and overall performance. …”
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