As Spirits Speak: Interaction in Wauja Exoteric Ritual by Christopher Ball

“…I examine a Wauja (Xingu Arawak) ritual session of « bringing spirits », wherein a sick person is aided by a conversation he has with the spirit-monsters that are afflicting him, whom he hopes by virtue of this very conversation to turn from pathogenic to guardian spirits. …”
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Philip Massinger et le théâtre historique : trouver la bonne distance by Gilles Bertheau

“…If this historical drama may be interpreted as political drama, it is because it stages the mechanics of power, where sole virtue is not enough to overcome evil, rather than because it can be read analogically.…”
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Ekphrastic Moral Mirrors in New Spain: Sor Juana’s Neptuno Alegórico and Sigüenza’s Theatro de Virtudes Políticas by Sergio Armando Gallegos-Ordorica

“…I also argue that, insofar as the Neptuno and the Theatro create different audiences that are mutually aware of each other in virtue of systematically relying on ekphrasis deployed in a public setting, they are potentially more effective for moral instruction than other traditional mirrors of princes.…”
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Graphic Mimesis. Representation of the Landscape in Dimitris Pikionis’ Xenia Hotel and Alberto Ponis’ Casa Hartley by Ana Muñoz-López, Lara Redondo González

“…Notwithstanding the aforementioned general tendency, the figures of Dimitris Pikionis (Athens, 1887-1968) and Alberto Ponis (Genoa, 1933-) stand out as two architects who have distanced themselves from these conventional tendencies of representation by virtue of their faithful definition of the landscape. …”
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A Novel System for Measuring Optical Properties in Arterial Blood of Man by A. Castañeda-Miranda, L. D. L. Vizcaya

“…These techniques have the virtue of being nondestructive; in addition they have the advantage of remote direction by using an in situ technique, with sensitivity capable of studying the properties of the blood through electromagnetic excitation. …”
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El trabajo con sentido y el florecimiento humano de los docentes: claves para la calidad en el proceso educativo by Pau Xipell Font, Alfonso Méndiz Noguero

“…Human flourishing is defined through domains such as happiness and life satisfaction, mental and physical health, meaning and purpose, character and virtue, and close social relationships. An analysis of 227 questionnaire responses indicates that teachers who view their work as a calling or a higher calling experience greater flourishing, whereas those who perceive their work merely as a job face greater challenges in achieving it. …”
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« L’enfant philosophe ? » by Jean-Marc Lamarre

“…According to the author, the discussions “with philosophical aim”, as they are called, prepare children for philosophy but, strictly speaking, they are not philosophical ; connected with interpretative debates and classmates life debates, they contribute to the development of the person and of the citizen by virtue of exercising the deliberate thinking. Children think but any awakening of the deliberate thinking can not be called “philosophy”. …”
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Naître vers la fin : circularités dans Alumbramiento de Víctor Erice by Miguel Rodrigo

“…In a filmography where the narrative is often greatly weakened in favour of a direct representation of time, Alumbramiento is an exception : here the narrative, acting like a veritable explosion engine, by virtue of its force relegates time to its classic status as a measure of movement. …”
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Prawa i godność człowieka we współczesnej bioetyce by Wojciech Bołoz

“…In addition, it has one more outstanding virtue; in the contemporary world, it is the most widespread and understandable ethical code. …”
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Nonautonomous Motion Study on Accelerated and Decelerated Lump Waves for a (3 + 1)-Dimensional Generalized Shallow Water Wave Equation with Variable Coefficients by Wei-Qin Chen, Qing-Feng Guan, Chao-Fan Jiang, Fei-Fan Zhang, Lei Wang

“…The exact lump solutions of this equation are presented by virtue of its bilinear form and symbolic computation. …”
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Privacy-preserving real-time road conditions monitoring scheme based on intelligent traffic by Jiayin LI, Wenzhong GUO, Xiaoyan LI, Ximeng LIU

“…To alleviate the traffic pressure on roads,reduce the appearance of road congestion,and avoid the occurrence of traffic accidents,a privacy-preserving intelligent monitoring (PPIM) scheme based on intelligent traffic was proposed in combination with the safe and k-nearest neighbor (KNN) algorithm.To ensure the security of traffic data,the data content was randomly divided into independent parts via the secure multi-party computing strategy,and the data components were stored and encrypted separately by non-colluding multi-servers.To improve the accuracy of road condition monitoring,an improved KNN traffic monitoring algorithm was proposed.By virtue of the similarity calculation of data,the correlation value to measure the degree of traffic condition relationship between roads was obtained.And it was integrated with the KNN as the weight coefficient.To speed up the processing of dense data,a series of data security computing protocols were designed,and the data security processing was realized.In addition,real traffic data were used to verify the algorithm.The results show that the improved KNN algorithm is helpful to improve the accuracy of traffic monitoring.The analysis shows that the algorithm can not only guarantee the safety of data but improve the accuracy of traffic monitoring.…”
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Carboxylic Acid Bioisosteres in Medicinal Chemistry: Synthesis and Properties by Kato Bredael, Silke Geurs, Dorien Clarisse, Karolien De Bosscher, Matthias D’hooghe

“…In this way, the positive aspects of this moiety, such as its activity, for example, by virtue of its capacity to form hydrogen bonds, can be maintained or even improved. …”
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Islam and Scholarship Tradition: Historical Trajectories and Future Challenges of Modernity by Mohammad Fadel

“…Through a critical reading of contemporary studies on religion and modernity and an analysis of Islamic scholarship and legal tradition, this paper argues that Islamic traditional scholarships provide Muslims with reliable tools to address challenges of modernity through the spirit of epistemic responsibility, Islamic virtues which includes honesty, respect for evidence, and acting for the benefit of others, civic virtue, and critical thinking skills.…”
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The Discreet Charm of Higgsino Dark Matter: A Pocket Review by Kamila Kowalska, Enrico Maria Sessolo

“…In the first part we argue, after performing a survey of all potential dark matter particles in the MSSM, that the (nearly) pure higgsino is the only candidate emerging virtually unscathed from the wealth of observational data of recent years. In doing so by virtue of its gauge quantum numbers and electroweak symmetry breaking only, it maintains at the same time a relatively high degree of model-independence. …”
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Backward Anticipated Social Optima: Input Constraints and Partial Information by Shujun Wang

“…As a result, the related social cost is represented by a recursive functional in which the <i>initial</i> state is involved. By virtue of the so-called <i>anticipated person-by-person optimality principle</i>, a decentralized strategy can be derived. …”
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The User Participation Incentive Mechanism of Mobile Crowdsensing Network Based on User Threshold by Hua Su, Qianqian Wu, Xuemei Sun, Ning Zhang

“…Mobile crowdsensing (MCS) network means completing large-scale and complex sensing tasks in virtue of the mobile devices of ordinary users. Therefore, sufficient user participation plays a basic role in MCS. …”
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Distributed SLAM Using Improved Particle Filter for Mobile Robot Localization by Fujun Pei, Mei Wu, Simin Zhang

“…The experiment results show that the proposed algorithm improved the virtue of the DPF-SLAM system in isolate faults and enabled the system to have a better tolerance and robustness.…”
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Cheshm ‘eye’ Expressions in Persian: A Different Perspective by Muhammad Salehi

“…Given that this shortage makes a lot of misunderstandings among non-native speakers, the present exploration is done as a kind of a qualitative research which is based on a library-oriented study as well as general and theoretical scholarship that aims to bridge the gap by categorizing the conceptualization of the word Cheshm ‘eye’ under the classification of desire and ambition, vice versus virtue, hope and expectation, affection versus aversion as well as vision and outlook. …”
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Sulla (ri)articolazione della “marocchinità” nel Marocco contemporaneo, tra festivalizzazione del dissenso giovanile e revival sufi by Michela Buonvino

“…The monarchy's discursive strategies required and still require the elaboration of public representations of virtue, particularly of the principle of democratic citizenship, central in the transitional discourses of today's Moroccan state, performed within the framework of national and international festivals. …”
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Klatskin tumor (<i>Review of literature</i>) by I. V. Mayev, D. T. Dicheva, D. N. Andreyev, T. V. Penkina

“…Difficulties of diagnosis and verification of Klatskin tumor determine a broad field for differential diagnostics. By virtue of low frequency disease represents a serious problem in assessment of cholestatic syndrome origin.…”
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